Neil Uspal — a pediatric emergency medicine physician from Seattle, Washington
Rachel Bauman — a graduate student from Bethesda, Maryland
John Avila — an attorney from Arlington, Virginia (whose 3-day cash winnings total $40,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John | $4,000 | $6,000 | $7,600 |
$8,201
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,200
12 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Rachel | $2,600 | $5,400 | $8,200 |
$8,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,200
15 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Neil | $2,800 | $4,000 | $18,400 |
$19,400
New champion: $19,400 |
$18,000
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| IT DOESN'T GROW ON TREES | ADJECTIVAL DESCRIPTION | BODY WORKS | SONG OF "MYSELF" | THE NEW TESTAMENT | STRAIGHT OUTTA... |
|
$200
[17]
A football term, or the type of box in which you'd keep your lures & floats
tackle
Rachel
|
$200
[19]
6-letter word that means referring to or looking like a horse
equine
John
|
$200
[5]
By definition, if you're undergoing dermabrasion, you're having this removed
skin
John
|
$200
[7]
Back in the '80s Billy Idol was doing this on the floors of Tokyo & down in London town to go-go
"Dancing With Myself"
Neil
|
$200
[1]
Jesus told him, "Thou shalt be called Cephas", an Aramaic name that meant "rock" or "stone"
Peter
Rachel
|
$200
[22]
This New England college town: George W. Bush
New Haven
Neil
|
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$400
[27]
Groovy, man! It's the alliteratively named item seen here, ooh
a lava lamp
Neil
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$400
[16]
We'll go to the dogs & say this adjective means given to prying, Charlie Brown!
snoopy
John
|
$400
[8]
A common injury among baseball pitchers affects the rotator cuff, the 4 muscles & tendons in this body part
the shoulder
Neil
|
$400
[12]
In 2004 Beyonce gave us this song about a really personal trinity
"Me, Myself and I"
Rachel
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$400
[2]
After the Magi left, an angel appeared to Joseph saying, "Take the young child and his mother, and flee unto" this country
Egypt
John
|
$400
[23]
Inglewood, California: this model who hosted "America's Next Top Model"
Tyra Banks
Neil
|
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$600
[28]
For men this track & field object weighs about the same as a bowling ball but is half the size
a shot put
Neil
|
$600
[18]
It's this adjective regarding earth, water, air & fire, dear Watson
elementary
John
|
$600
[9]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a myelin sheath on the monitor.) Myelin sheaths insulate nerve fibers and promote speedy impulse transmission, but in multiple sclerosis, it appears that these, also known as leukocytes, attack the sheath, causing nerve impulses to short out
white blood cells
Neil
|
$600
[13]
Eric Carmen & Celine Dion had Top 10 hits with this lonely tune
"All By Myself"
John
|
$800
[4]
The first Beatitude says, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is" this place, also the title of a Crusades movie
the kingdom of heaven
Neil
|
$600
[24]
This South American capital: Pope Francis
Buenos Aires
Neil
|
|
$800
[29]
Money for sure doesn't grow on trees, including this foreign currency
rupees
Rachel
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$800
[20]
Unconventional; it's also what the clapping person is here; yipes
offbeat
John
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$800
[10]
Be careful with your Achilles tendon--it connects your calf to this other 4-letter body part
the heel
Neil
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$800
[14]
Joan Jett hit No. 8 in '88 with this song of self-loathing
"I Hate Myself For Loving You"
John
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
He told his fellow disciples, "Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails...I will not believe" in the resurrection
Thomas
John
|
$800
[25]
Syracuse, New York: this Fox News host of her own "File"
(Megyn) Kelly
Rachel
|
|
$1,000
[30]
The name of this type of cement comes from an English isle, not a Pacific Northwest city
Portland cement
|
$1,000
[21]
Ambiguous, or the adjective regarding...(the 3 dots above)
elliptical
|
$1,000
[11]
This adjective used of your vermiform appendix means that it's useless evolutionally but still around
vestigial
Rachel
|
$1,000
[15]
In a '50s hit Billy Williams was "Gonna Sit Right Down And" take this epistolary action
"Write Myself A Letter"
Rachel
|
$1,000
[6]
In a parable in Luke, dogs came & licked the sores of this beggar
Lazarus
John
|
$1,000
[26]
Western Springs, Illinois: this author of "The Corrections" & 2015's "Purity"
(Jonathan) Franzen
Rachel
Neil
|
| IT GROWS ON TREES | AUTHORS' OTHER JOBS | IF THEY MARRIED | ON THE LAOS | SILENT "O" | A DATE FOR THE INAUGURAL BALL |
|
$400
[26]
Dates & coconuts are the most common fruits that grow on this type of tree
a palm tree
John
|
$400
[10]
Mark Twain got the idea for his pen name from his time in this job
a steamboat pilot
Neil
|
$400
[1]
If Blondie's lead singer wed "Bruce Almighty" star Jim & hyphenated her name, she'd be this suicide blonde
(Debbie) Harry-Carrey
Neil
|
$400
[7]
For most of the 19th century, Laos was dominated by this Western neighbor
Thailand
John
Rachel
Neil
|
$400
[25]
The Fifth Amendment prohibits double this, a second prosecution for the same crime
jeopardy
Neil
|
$400
[6]
Year of Abe's second, depicted here
1865
Neil
|
|
$800
[15]
Since it spends most of its time up in the branches, you could say that this mammal slowly grows on trees
a sloth
Rachel
|
$800
[11]
He designed pencils at his father's factory, then used them to write "Walden"
Thoreau
Neil
|
$800
[2]
If Swedish actress Ekberg married the German author of "Death in Venice", she might still be lonely & say...
Anita Mann
|
$800
[8]
Each July 19, Laos celebrates its 1949 independence from this country
France
Rachel
|
$800
[19]
This court order commands one to appear in court on a particular date to give testimony
a subpoena
Rachel
|
$800
[21]
Barack Obama attended 10 of them on this date in 2009
January 20
Rachel
Neil
|
|
$1,200
[16]
Found growing on the bark of some trees, it's part fungi, part algae
lichen
Rachel
|
$1,200
[12]
Aristotle & Casanova both held this job AKA a bibliothecary
a librarian
Rachel
|
$1,200
[3]
The union of 2 Smiths, the Colts lineman & the "On Beauty" novelist, would get this Yiddish pair of grandparents
Bubba & Zadie
|
DD
$2,000
[9]
Most of the navigable waterways of Laos are along this river
the Mekong
Rachel
|
$1,200
[18]
The antelope is a favorite food of this cat
a leopard
Rachel
Neil
|
$1,200
[22]
It's the year of the photo seen here
1977
Neil
|
|
$1,600
[17]
The vine that ate the South, itgrows on trees and shrubs, smothering and killing them
kudzu
Neil
|
$1,600
[13]
This job didn't bug William S. Burroughs; he wrote a story about it in which a boss eats the arsenic for fun
an exterminator
Rachel
|
$1,600
[4]
If longtime Architectural Digest editor Rense had wed Ted of CNN fame, she'd be this type of fast-reading book
a Paige Turner
John
|
$2,000
[29]
Gen. Vang Pao & his fellow soldiers of this ethnic group helped the U.S. fight a secret war in Laos
Hmong
|
$1,600
[20]
Robert Howard (a military hero) & Tom Parker (not) often had this before their names
colonel
Neil
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
James Madison held the first official inaugural ball in this year; 3 years later came war with Great Britain
1809
Neil
|
|
$2,000
[28]
If you watch Food Network, you may recognize the fruit of this Asian tree, said to be the smelliest in the world
durian
|
$2,000
[14]
Hegot to know tangled bureaucracy working for the Bohemian government's Worker's Comp Bureau
(Franz) Kafka
Neil
|
$2,000
[5]
NPR's Melissa weds "Bridget Jones" co-star Hugh & her 2-part last name is this chunk of money given by Uncle Sam
a Block Grant
|
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$2,000
[27]
A passage in Proverbs states, "Where there is no vision", they "perish"
the people
|
$2,000
[24]
Contrary to thepicture, dancers kept their coats on at Grant's second, held on a freezing spring evening in this month, 1873
March
Neil
|
A 1910 magazine article asked this groundbreaking artist if he used models; he grinned & said, "Where would I get them?"
(Pablo) Picasso