Tanner Hesse — a grad student and Navy Reserve officer from San Diego, California
Eli Nehus — an electrical engineer from Fayetteville, Arkansas
Cheryl Guy — a high school principal from Columbia, South Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheryl | $2,400 | $4,200 | $11,600 |
$4,100
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Eli | $2,800 | $3,800 | $9,400 |
$6,227
New champion: $6,227 |
$9,400
15 R, 3 W |
| Tanner | $1,400 | $4,200 | $2,000 |
$2,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,200
15 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| STATES BY CITY TRASH-TALKING | THE 1860s | BIBLICAL BIG SCREEN | UP ON MT. LUSHMORE | RUNNING A HOTEL | BR-EXIT |
|
$200
[9]
"Truth or Consequences isn't a choice! & Los Alamos may be the bomb, but it's Roswell that ends well!"
New Mexico
Eli
|
$200
[4]
It became a united, independent country for the first time under King Victor Emmanuel
Italy
Cheryl
|
$200
[1]
Yul Brynner played this vain pharaoh in 1956's "The Ten Commandments"
Ramses
Eli
|
$200
[21]
Wyatt Earp said that this dentist sometimes drank 3 quarts of whiskey in a day
Doc Holliday
Eli
|
$200
[27]
It's the Spanish word we use for a small room next to a pool or beach
a cabana
Eli
Tanner
|
$200
[16]
A sibling loses its "BR" & becomes this word meaning "additional" or "different"
other
Tanner
|
|
$400
[12]
"Sure, Ogden & Orem are nice, but I prefer Brigham City--gee, I've really got to work on my trash-talking"
Utah
Tanner
|
$400
[5]
On Jan. 21, 1861 this Southerner pleaded for peace as he quit the U.S. Senate
Jefferson Davis
|
$400
[2]
Hollywood hotties Hedy Lamarr & Victor Mature were this lusty biblical couple in a 1949 epic
Samson and Delilah
Cheryl
|
$400
[22]
Drunk for his 1865 inaugural as VP, he said, "I kiss this book in the face of my nation of the United States" & smooched a Bible
(Andrew) Johnson
Cheryl
|
$400
[28]
In 1963 D.C.'s Madison Hotel pioneered this room feature with convenient drinks, snacks & 300% price markups
a mini-bar
Tanner
|
$400
[17]
Riding trousers get too big for "BR", making these annoying sensations
itches
Tanner
|
|
$600
[13]
"I get no kick from Champaign! I'm not Havana a good time! I only play in Peoria!"
Illinois
Eli
|
$600
[6]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a ship and a map on the monitor.) In 1869, the end of the glamorous tea clipper era was at hand; steamships could economically bring tea from China because they needed less coal with the opening of this waterway
the Suez Canal
Tanner
|
$600
[3]
As King Herod in this musical film, Josh Mostel challenged Jesus to "walk across my swimming pool"
Jesus Christ Superstar
Tanner
|
$600
[23]
One legend about this Who drummer says that to slow their intake, he & Oliver Reed used a tortoise to pass the bottle
(Keith) Moon
Tanner
|
$600
[29]
Tom Hiddleston plays this title hotel functionary in the 2016 miniseries based on John le Carre's novel
The Night Manager
|
$600
[18]
Dropping "BR" from a horse's harness gets this state of inactivity
idle
Cheryl
|
|
$800
[14]
"I'm not Spokane for, & I ain't putting on the Ritzville! Everybody loves Raymond!"
Washington
Eli
|
$1,000
[8]
Transcontinental telegraphy began on Oct. 24, 1861; this other service officially closed 2 days later
the Pony Express
Tanner
|
$800
[10]
Rita Hayworth was the wicked title character trying to get a head in this 1953 Bible pic
Salome
Cheryl
|
$800
[24]
Bill Clinton said this blotto Russian president tried to hail a cab on a D.C. street clad only in underwear; he wanted pizza
Boris Yeltsin
|
$1,000
[26]
Westin, Sheraton & St. Regis hotels are all part of this "stellar" company
Starwood Hotels
|
$800
[19]
The "BR" strolls away from a word for any prickly shrub to walk along as this easy gait
amble
Cheryl
|
|
$1,000
[15]
"Stick Three Forks in it, it's done! & kiss our Butte, Bozeman!"
Montana
Cheryl
|
DD
$1,200
[7]
In 1867 this microbiologist was appointed professor of chemistry at the Sorbonne
Louis Pasteur
Tanner
|
$1,000
[11]
In 2014 Anthony Hopkins was Methuselah, grandfather of this title man chosen by God for a big job
Noah
Eli
|
$1,000
[25]
In a 1935 letter from Key West he wrote, "I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure"
Hemingway
Tanner
|
— |
$1,000
[20]
A word for the edge of a steep place jettisons its "BR" & becomes this slang word for publicity
ink
Eli
|
| CASTLES | SHORT & SWEET | BOOKS | ON TV NOW | COMPOSERS | KNOW YOUR SCALES |
|
$400
[23]
This city's Rosenborg Castle houses the Danish crown jewels & has one of the finest collections of Venetian glass
Copenhagen
Cheryl
|
$400
[11]
A donut addition, or something your eyes can do "over" in a lifeless way
glaze
Cheryl
|
$400
[6]
In this 2005 novel Bella tells Edward, "I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars"
Twilight
Tanner
|
$400
[5]
Jordan Rodgers won Jojo's heart on this reality show in 2016
The Bachelorette
Eli
|
$400
[13]
Alberto Ginastera composed much of his music in what has been called the gauchesco tradition of this, his native country
Argentina
Cheryl
|
$400
[17]
It was developed in 1935 to measure earthquake magnitude
the Richter scale
Tanner
|
|
$800
[24]
Bram Stoker is said to have based the castle of Dracula on Bran Castle in this region of Romania
Transylvania
Cheryl
|
$800
[12]
Sounding like a Voltaire work, this word is found before "yams" & "walnuts"
candied
Eli
|
$800
[7]
Book 24 in Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone series has just this letter as its title
X
Tanner
|
$800
[4]
President Obama is among those who have gone "Running Wild" with this British adventurer
Bear Grylls
Eli
|
$800
[14]
After his death, his unfinished "Turandot" was finished by Franco Alfano under the supervision of Toscanini
Puccini
Eli
|
$800
[18]
In map scale 1:63360 means 1 inch to 1 this
a mile
Cheryl
|
|
$1,200
[27]
The Crimea's Swallow's Nest Castle, seen here, has been hanging precariously over this sea since a 1927 earthquake
the Black Sea
Tanner
|
$1,600
[29]
Add an "E" to the end of this sweet stuff & you get a word meaning cloyingly sweet
saccharin
|
$1,600
[9]
Among Amazon's 20 bestselling books of 2015 were, for the first time, 2 of these books that aren't meant to be read
coloring books
Cheryl
|
$1,200
[3]
Miley Cyrus & this "Girl On Fire" joined "The Voice" as coaches in 2016
Alicia Keys
Eli
|
$1,200
[15]
The Beethoven-Haus, the composer's birthplace, is a museum in this city
Bonn
|
$1,600
[20]
On this scale of mineral hardness, quartz is 7
the Mohs scale
Tanner
|
|
$1,600
[26]
Most weekends when she hasn't an official engagement, Queen Elizabeth II leaves London for this castle
Windsor Castle
|
$2,000
[28]
This 4-letter French word declaring sweetness could describe your Veuve Clicquot
doux
|
$2,000
[10]
"Petals on the Wind" was the first sequel to this V.C. Andrews novel
Flowers in the Attic
Cheryl
|
$1,600
[2]
The title of this Will Forte sitcom turns out to be a lie
The Last Man on Earth
Eli
|
$1,600
[16]
This Viennese composer's "Gretchen At The Spinning Wheel" marks the rise of the German Lied, or art song
Schubert
Tanner
|
$2,000
[21]
It's the "P" in MMPI-2, a test that has scales to find degrees of naivete & brooding
personality
Eli
|
|
$2,000
[25]
Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria was built by King Ludwig to honor this composer whom he greatly admired
Wagner
Eli
|
— |
DD
$3,000
[8]
Oscar-nominated, a 2015 film was based on this bestseller about Eilis, a young Irish immigrant in NYC in the 1950s
Brooklyn
Tanner
|
$2,000
[1]
Corey Stoll plays a CDC doc trying to stop a viral outbreak on this FX series
The Strain
Eli
|
$2,000
[22]
He began his "Leningrad Symphony" in that besieged city in late 1941
Dmitri Shostakovich
Cheryl
Eli
Tanner
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
Conair makes a bathroom scale bearing the name of this group founded by Jean Nidetch
Weight Watchers
Cheryl
|
Once the center of an empire, it didn't exist as an independent nation from 1938 to 1955
Austria