Asim Modi — an attorney from San Francisco, California
Kylie Carrithers — an intensive English instructor from Terre Haute, Indiana
Justin Bender — a technical engineer from Boulder, Colorado (whose 4-day cash winnings total $62,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justin | $1,200 | $4,800 | $9,600 |
$8,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,600
19 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Kylie | $1,800 | $2,600 | $-1,400 |
$-1,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$-1,400
10 R, 7 W |
| Asim | $400 | $-1,400 | $5,200 |
$10,399
New champion: $10,399 |
$5,600
14 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W |
| U.S. CITY NICKNAMES | CRIMINAL CHOICES | SHAKESPEAREAN SHORTIES | THE TV BUSINESS | CROSSWORD CLUES "G" | THE AGE OF WHALING |
|
$200
[3]
"Motown"
Detroit
Justin
|
$200
[26]
In 2013 a Mass. wallet snatcher dropped this natal document at the crime scene--not from the wallet, his own
a birth certificate
Justin
|
$200
[10]
First things first in this play: "Enter three witches"
Macbeth
Kylie
|
$200
[11]
That big mansion on "Dallas" was paid for by an oil company with this family name on it
Ewing
Asim
|
$200
[1]
Starry system(6)
galaxy
Asim
|
$200
[23]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Mystic Seaport, Connecticut.) From the hoops high above, lookouts would keep watch, and when they spotted a whale's spout, they commonly yelled this familiar 3-word phrase
thar she blows
Asim
|
|
$400
[7]
"Lost Wages"
Las Vegas
Justin
|
$400
[6]
In 2015 teen thieves in Missouri thought the box they'd stolen held this drug but nope! It was Grandpa's ashes
cocaine
Justin
|
$400
[16]
Completes Hamlet's line, "Frailty, thy name is..."
woman
Kylie
Asim
|
$400
[15]
Luther Corp was a fictional company on this super TV show
Smallville
Justin
|
$400
[2]
Bless you!, German style(10)
Gesundheit
Kylie
|
$400
[27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Mystic Seaport, Connecticut.) In the seventeen and eighteen-hundreds, whale oil was in high demand for use in lamps and candles and to lubricate machinery parts; after a whale was killed, chunks of this thick layer of fat would be boiled in tri-pots like these to produce the oil
blubber
Kylie
|
|
$600
[8]
"The Gateway to the South" & "Derby Town"
Louisville
Kylie
|
$600
[14]
An L.A. carjacker should not have targeted a minivan of club members in this 4-letter martial art
judo
Kylie
|
$600
[20]
Puck makes an ass of Nick Bottom in this comedy
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Kylie
Asim
|
$600
[17]
The business was pleasure at this club on "The Sopranos", actually The Satin Doll on Route 17
the Bada Bing
Kylie
|
$600
[4]
Nonsense talk(9)
gibberish
Justin
|
$600
[28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Mystic Seaport, Connecticut.) After a whale was spotted, the crew pursued it in a boat like this; in 1820, sailors spent 3 harrowing months on their boats after the Essex was sunk by an 85-foot whale, inspiring this classic 1851 novel
Moby Dick
Kylie
|
|
$800
[12]
"Georgia's First City"
Savannah
Justin
Kylie
Asim
|
$800
[24]
In 2015 a Virginian was visited in jail by his current wife & also, his other current wife, which got him an extra 1 1/2 years for this
bigamy
Justin
|
$800
[21]
The characters of "The Tempest" include this "savage and deformed slave"
Caliban
Asim
|
$800
[18]
Cogswell Cogs was the main competition to Spacely Space Sprockets on this cartoon
The Jetsons
Justin
|
$800
[5]
The study of handwriting(10)
graphology
Kylie
|
$800
[29]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Mystic Seaport, Connecticut.) At the recreated 19th century seafaring village, see how these craftsmen made casks to store whale oil at sea
coopers
Justin
|
|
DD
$800
[13]
"The Fountain of Youth" city
St. Augustine
Asim
|
$1,000
[25]
Want it in 20s? In 2008 a Texas man was charged with this fraudulent act after trying to cash a check for $360 billion
forgery
Kylie
Asim
|
$1,000
[22]
Think fast! Shakespeare's "Henry IV" plays boast a hostess called Mistress this
Mistress Quickly
|
$1,000
[19]
To the intrepid hackers of this TV show, the "E" of E-Corp stands for evil
Mr. Robot
Justin
|
$1,000
[9]
Pygmalion's statuesque bride(7)
Galatea
|
— |
| BUILDING BIG | WE'VE GOT CHEMISTRY | JOEL | "ROCK" IT TO ME | WAR! | ALMOST BEFORE & AFTER |
|
$400
[21]
The mortar used to bind the stones of this 5,500-mile-long structure was made with rice flour
the Great Wall of China
Justin
|
$400
[24]
"Dead or alive", these are the 2 main divisions of chemistry
organic and inorganic
Kylie
|
$400
[6]
It's been more than 30 years since his 2-album "Greatest Hits", featuring "Big Shot"
Billy Joel
Asim
|
$400
[11]
This Bill Haley classic topped the charts in 1955 & hit the Top 40 again in 1974
"Rock Around The Clock"
Asim
|
$400
[1]
1870-71:a coalition of German states vs. this country
France
Asim
|
$400
[16]
A bad kid's Christmas stocking will contain the object that composed "I've Got You Under My Skin"
a lump of Cole Porter
Kylie
Asim
|
|
$800
[22]
In 2011 Cornell researchers concluded that this NYC building is the most photographed in the world
the Empire State Building
Justin
|
$800
[25]
Pneumatic chemistry deals with elements in this state of matter
gas
Justin
Kylie
|
$800
[7]
In "Become a Better You", this popular TV pastor offers "7 keys to improving your life every day"
Joel Osteen
Justin
|
$800
[12]
In the title of a 1989 hit, the Rolling Stones were stuck between these 2 unpleasant things
a rock and a hard place
Justin
|
$800
[2]
June 5-10, 1967:this war
the Six-Day War
Asim
|
$800
[17]
Gerry & the Pacemakers river song invoked when one team is winning by a huge margin
"Ferry Cross The Mersey" rule
|
|
$1,200
[23]
Going from Virginia Beach to Wilmington, Delawareis 95 milesshorterviathis17.6 mile bridge tunnel
the Chesapeake Bay Bridge
|
$1,200
[26]
In 1773 Carl Scheele discovered this element first, but Joseph Priestley beat him into print & inhaled the credit
oxygen
Justin
Asim
|
$1,600
[9]
From 2002 to 2010 he was chancellor of New York City's public school system, the nation's biggest
(Joel) Klein
Asim
|
$1,200
[13]
In this song the B-52's suggest, "Put on your noseguard, put on the lifeguard"
"Rock Lobster"
Justin
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
1904-05:Russia vs. this country
Japan
Asim
|
$1,200
[18]
Chicken & noodle dish from L.A.'s Chao Krung restaurant served when a tennis set goes to 6-all
pad Thai-breaker
|
|
$1,600
[27]
This home of the Toronto Blue Jays has an 11,000-ton roof that can fully retract in less than 20 minutes
the Rogers Centre
Justin
|
$1,600
[29]
Though it's much more common in the Earth's crust than lead, say, cerium is known as this type of "earth" element
rare earth
Justin
|
DD
$2,000
[8]
From 1913 until his death in 1939, Joel Elias Spingarn was a prominent administrator of this organization
NAACP
Justin
|
$1,600
[14]
"Everybody just have a good time, and we gonna make you lose your mind", says this tune by LMFAO
"Party Rock Anthem"
Justin
Kylie
|
$1,600
[4]
1932-35:the Chaco War, between Paraguay & this northern neighbor
Bolivia
Justin
Kylie
Asim
|
$1,600
[19]
A Lexington college hoops squad joins Hans & Fritz in the comics; their goal--confounding der Captain
the Wild Katzenjammer Kids
|
|
$2,000
[28]
The floor plan of each of these towers in Kuala Lumpur forms an 8-pointed star inspired by Islamic patterns
the Petronas Towers
Asim
|
— |
$2,000
[10]
In 1794 when this man was imprisoned in Paris, his friend poet Joel Barlow helped publish his work "The Age of Reason"
Thomas Paine
|
$2,000
[15]
The Righteous Brothers hit No. 3 in 1974 with this tune about a place with "a hell of a band" including Jimi, Janis & Otis
"Rock And Roll Heaven"
|
$2,000
[5]
1969:the Soccer War between El Salvador & this northern neighbor
Honduras
|
$2,000
[20]
Part of NYC's Waldorf where Barack Obama stayed while singing a Guns N' Roses No. 1 ballad
the Presidential "Sweet Child O' Mine"
|
In the early 1700s in Dresden, King Augustus locked up a chemist until he found how to make this product dubbed "white gold"
porcelain