Katie Carter — an attorney from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Gavin Mulligan — a software engineer from Parker, Colorado
Mukund Marathe — a music teacher and singer from Montclair, New Jersey (whose 2-day cash winnings total $31,799)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mukund | $2,800 | $3,800 | $7,800 |
$10,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,800
12 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Gavin | $4,000 | $3,600 | $16,800 |
$15,800
New champion: $15,800 |
$16,800
21 R, 1 W |
| Katie | $1,400 | $4,600 | $6,200 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,800
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| GEOGRAPHIC FOOD & DRINK | A PEEK AT THE PARANORMAL | SOCIAL STUDIES | THIS IS "WAR"! | NFL QUARTERBACKS | HISTORIC AMERICAN QUOTES |
|
$200
[14]
You might find bubbly people in this region
Champagne
Katie
|
$200
[9]
These events, hearing from the beyond, were popular in Victorian days, when the one seenheretook place
séances
Katie
|
$200
[17]
This group is composed of those of your same age or social position; in a courtroom, you might face a jury of them
peers
Katie
|
$200
[1]
The lord of the lockup, the potentate of the pen
a warden
Gavin
|
$400
[7]
(Mike & Mike from ESPN present the clue.) "The greatest Super Bowl had to be the 1969 game when Joe Namath led the Jets over the heavily favored Colts..." "That's not bad, but not up to the game when this guy marched the 49ers down the field in 1989 in a game-winning drive"
Joe Montana
Gavin
|
$800
[22]
In 1953, in a final letter to their sons, they wrote, "Always remember that we were innocent"
the Rosenbergs
Katie
|
|
$400
[15]
Maybe you've been to this city
Lima
Mukund
Gavin
|
$400
[10]
Popular since the 19th century, spirit talking board were sold in 1966 in a Parker Brothers game version under this name
Ouija boards
Katie
|
$400
[18]
The top, crispy 1% of the bread, or the very richest part of a society
the upper crust
Katie
|
$400
[2]
This strip of dirt lets an outfield know he's approaching the wall
the warning track
Mukund
|
$600
[6]
In the '70s this Cowboys quarterback was called "Captain Comeback" & "Roger the Dodger"
Roger Staubach
Gavin
|
$1,000
[23]
After he splashed down in the Atlantic on May 5, 1961, he said, "Boy, what a ride!"--& he hadn't even orbited
Alan Shepard
Mukund
Gavin
|
|
$600
[24]
We have some meaty matters todiscuss here
Bologna
Gavin
|
$600
[11]
Be careful when you come across one of these, a "double-goer" in German--some can be evil & dangerous
doppelganger
Katie
|
$800
[20]
This social science focuses on the characteristics of human populations such as size, growth & distribution
demography
|
$600
[3]
Phrase meaning "with flaws included"
warts and all
Gavin
|
$800
[16]
NFL quarterback Archie Manning never reached the Super Bowl, but these 2 sons have each won a Super Bowl MVP award
Eli and Peyton Manning
Katie
|
— |
|
$800
[25]
It's thefavoritecountyof some of our writers
Bourbon County
|
$800
[12]
Also called an O.B.E., it's the sensation that one's self is in a different location from one's physical form
an out-of-body experience
Mukund
|
$1,000
[21]
Max Weber, a founder of modern sociology, wrote of this religious "Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"
the Protestant ethic
Katie
|
$800
[4]
A singer, or a songbird such as the yellow-breasted chat
a warbler
Gavin
|
$1,000
[8]
This Vikings quarterback co-hosted "That's Incredible!" & spoke at the 2016 Republican convention
Fran Tarkenton
Mukund
|
— |
|
$1,000
[26]
A pungent pepper bears the name of this port
Cayenne
|
$1,000
[13]
From the Greek for "outer" & "form", this supernatural substance is said to exude from a medium & be used by a spirit to manifest
ectoplasm
Mukund
|
DD
$2,000
[19]
Bernie Sanders spent much of 2016 urging change to this 2-word Latin term for the existing state of affairs
the status quo
Katie
|
$1,000
[5]
An area where rabbits live in burrows
a warren
Gavin
|
— | — |
| COMPANY "B" | FLAGS OF THE AMERICAS | TOM & GERUND | A GENRE CATEGORY | COMPLETE THE BOOK TITLE | STAR TALK WITH NEIL deGRASSE TYSON |
|
$400
[6]
It's been flame grilling your patties since 1954
Burger King
Gavin
|
$400
[27]
On Chile'sflag, the red is for the blood of the patriots, the blue is sky & the white is the snow of these mountains
the Andes
Gavin
|
$400
[11]
Tom set up an account with wordpress.com so he could start doing this, writing about himself on the web
blogging
Gavin
|
$400
[16]
Sitcom is short for this
a situation comedy
Gavin
|
$400
[21]
By Amy Schumer:"The Girl with the Lower Back ____"
Tattoo
Katie
|
$400
[1]
(Neil de Grasse Tyson shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) Our GPS satellites experience less gravity than we do here on Earth's surface so their clocks tick a bit faster... but engineers pre-correct the GPS time for Einstein's general theory of this
relativity
Mukund
|
|
$800
[7]
It brings people together with its "United Colors"
Benetton
Mukund
|
$800
[28]
Peru's flag was inspired by a flock of these wading birds, though it's red & white, not pink & white
flamingoes
Gavin
|
$800
[12]
Tom keeps getting fired from one job & landing a better one, a path called doing this upward
falling (or failing)
Gavin
|
$800
[17]
Mecha is a genre of anime typically featuring giant these resembling people
robots
Gavin
|
$800
[22]
About the Titanic:"A Night to ____"
Remember
Katie
|
$800
[2]
(Neil de Grasse Tyson shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) This planet is in the sun's habitable zone, but thick clouds of carbon dioxide trap solar radiation making it the hottest in our solar system
Venus
Gavin
|
|
DD
$1,000
[8]
Blue Shirt Nation was a social network for this retailer's employees
Best Buy
Mukund
|
$1,200
[26]
The flag of this country, formerly known as British Honduras, is the only national flag depicting humans in its design
Belize
Mukund
|
$1,200
[13]
The umpire penalized Tom for faking a throw to first base without stepping off the rubber, called this
balking
Mukund
|
$1,200
[18]
Some people describe a sentimental film as a "three-" this accessory picture
a tissue (or handkerchief)
Mukund
Gavin
|
$1,200
[23]
A 2012 bestseller:"The Light Between ____"
Oceans
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
(Neil de Grasse Tyson demonstrates by bending a piece of paper.) Involving the folding or warping of both space & time, future space travel could be aided by theoretical shortcuts called Einstein-Rosen bridges, AKA these
wormholes
Mukund
|
|
$1,600
[9]
The company named for him began by selling computer terminals to Wall Street
(Michael) Bloomberg
Gavin
|
$1,600
[29]
The stripes on the flags of Venezuela & Ecuador resembled those of this neighbor of which they were once a part
Colombia
|
$1,600
[14]
In history class, Tom learned that a 1965 "Rights Act" outlawed discrimination in this process
voting
Mukund
Katie
|
$1,600
[19]
This 2000 film is the most recent Best Picture Oscar winner in the sword-&-sandal genre
Gladiator
Gavin
|
$1,600
[24]
Jane Smiley redoes "King Lear" in Iowa:"A Thousand ____"
Acres
|
$1,200
[3]
(Neil de Grasse Tyson shows some astronomical imagery on the monitor.) More than 90% of the atoms in the cosmos are of this element &, as part of Jupiter's core, it be have s like a metal, giving the planet its immense magnetic field
hydrogen
Mukund
|
|
$2,000
[10]
The seeds of its success include 1877's Surehead cabbage
Burpee
Mukund
|
— |
$2,000
[15]
Tom has a new product & he's doing this--not whipping it but publicizing it
flogging
Mukund
|
$2,000
[20]
Video games with wide-open worlds & roles are named for this playground spot
a sandbox
Gavin
|
$2,000
[25]
About microbes & quoting Whitman:"I Contain ____"
Multitudes
Katie
|
$2,000
[5]
(Neil de Grasse Tyson shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) I once co-signed an open letter to congress about the danger of NEOs, short for these, & their potential for harming life on Earth
near Earth objects
Gavin
|
Between 1920 & 1939 its presidents included Leon Bourgeois, Tevfik Aras & Carlos Saavedra Lamas
the League of Nations