Hugh Dinteman — an architect from Atlanta, Georgia
Stephanie Cornelison — a graduate student in library science from Asheboro, North Carolina
Loren Lee Chen — a basketball podcaster from West Newton, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,899)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loren | $2,200 | $6,800 | $15,400 |
$16,139
2-day champion: $36,038 |
$14,200
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Stephanie | $0 | $1,400 | $2,200 |
$2,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$2,200
7 R, 2 W |
| Hugh | $600 | $800 | $-800 |
$-800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$-800
8 R, 4 W |
| U.S. ISLANDS | THE YELLOW HORNET | SPORTS ABBREV. | BUSINESSES | SAILOR TALK | THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND |
|
$200
[3]
Long Island has 4 counties: Nassau, Suffolk, Kings & this
Queens
Hugh
|
$200
[22]
Most hornets are a subfamily of these other insects; they differ in the direction their wings fold while at rest
wasps
Loren
Hugh
|
$200
[7]
It happens following another score:PAT
a point after touchdown
Stephanie
|
$200
[1]
Beginning in 1904 chubby cartoon kids called Roly-Polys advertised this soup brand
Campbell's Soup
Hugh
|
$200
[4]
7-letter term for the fixed weight carried in the bottom of a ship to make it more stable
ballast
Hugh
|
$200
[2]
You could be this briny word usually reserved for cucumbers & the sort
pickled
Loren
|
|
$400
[6]
East Sand Island in this river near Chinook, Wash. is home to a vast nesting colony of Caspian terns
the Columbia
Stephanie
|
$400
[23]
How green! The yellow band on the Oriental hornet's midsection allows it to trap this type of energy
sunlight
Stephanie
|
$400
[8]
In skiing it's all down hill, with obstacles:GS
giant slalom
Loren
|
$400
[9]
This company's 1st product was wood picture frames; doll furniture made from wood scraps changed its emphasis to toys
Mattel
|
$400
[16]
Watch your head when the crew lowers this, also an item used on a movie set
the boom
Loren
|
$400
[5]
After that last glass of Chablis, I'm this, what the smith just did at the anvil
hammered
Loren
|
|
$600
[11]
This island shaped like a pork chop is to the east of Martha's Vineyard across Muskeget Channel
Nantucket
Loren
|
$600
[24]
Though they're often confused with them, these Georgia Tech mascots aren't true hornets
yellow jackets
Loren
|
$600
[13]
A group for pugilists:WBC
World Boxing Council
Loren
Stephanie
|
$600
[15]
In 1903 William Ellis Corey became the second president of this iron-strong company
U.S. Steel
Loren
|
$600
[19]
This process of removing a ship from active service can be emotional for the crew
decommission
|
$600
[10]
This 4-word rhyming term for one who has been overserved includes the name of a black & white mammal
drunk as a skunk
|
|
$800
[26]
The Karluk River on this largest Alaskan island is famous for its red salmon, but you'll have to fight the bears for them
Kodiak
Loren
|
— |
$800
[12]
Bad designation for a NASCAR driver:DNF
did not finish
Loren
|
$1,000
[27]
Last name of Henry David, whose Kansas company started making dungarees in 1911
Lee
Hugh
|
$800
[20]
The direction a boat is heading can be referred to by this "pointy" term
tack
Hugh
|
$800
[17]
I'm this, like a wall that's had wet gypsum applied
plastered
Hugh
|
|
$1,000
[28]
For 3 decades, this California island's Avalon Ballroom has been home to the Jazz Trax music festival
Catalina
Hugh
|
— |
$1,000
[14]
Successes in basketball as well as football:FGM
field goal made
Loren
|
DD
$3,000
[25]
In 1915 Thomas Lyle Williams began selling mascara under this brand name that honored his sister
Maybelline
Loren
|
$1,000
[21]
It sounds a bit like the boss of the boat, but it means the type of rope-winding apparatus seen here
capstan
|
$1,000
[18]
This is bad if you're hoping for sober, but good if it describes your abs or an '80s jeans style
ripped
Stephanie
|
| THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON | MOVIE MUSICAL ROLES | THE WORLD AT WAR | FAR OUT! | WE HAVE "U" SURROUNDED! | OVER HILL, OVER DALE |
|
$400
[22]
Seen here is an illustration from this novel
Treasure Island
Loren
|
$400
[2]
Kenny Wormald & Julianne Hough starred in this remake in which rock music & dancing are banned in a small town
Footloose
Loren
|
$400
[5]
In October 1940 Italy launched an invasion of this country only to get routed by the gyros of General Papagos
Greece
Hugh
|
$400
[1]
During its 1910 appearance, this comet was photographed for the first time
Halley's comet
Loren
|
$400
[3]
Victory, or an insult comic dog
Triumph
Stephanie
|
$400
[12]
This NASCAR driver entered 676 Winston Cup races, won 76 of them & earned more than $40 million in prize money
Dale Earnhardt
Stephanie
|
|
$800
[25]
These 2 characters finish the title of Stevenson's novel that begins "The Strange Case of"...
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Loren
|
$800
[4]
Meryl Streep landed a record 19th Oscar nomination for her role as the Witch in this musical
Into the Woods
Loren
|
$800
[6]
On Dec. 2, 1941 German troops who wished they'd packed heavier got to the suburbs of this capital but no further
Moscow
Loren
|
$800
[10]
One theory for why dust covers our moon: rocks are pulverized by rapid cooling during this, partial or total
eclipse
Loren
|
$800
[7]
The science of soil cultivation
agriculture
|
$800
[13]
In 2016, 25 years aftershemade national news, she was portrayed by Kerry Washington in "Confirmation"
Anita Hill
Loren
|
|
$1,200
[26]
Stevenson's short novel "The Ebb-Tide" follows 3 beggars operating in the port of Papeete on this Pacific island
Tahiti
|
$1,200
[16]
At the time Madonna said of this 1996 role, it was the most challenging of her career but one she was born to play
Evita
Hugh
|
DD
$1,000
[9]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated map on the monitor.) In July 1943, this U.S. general's Seventh Army swept through western Sicily, then turned east to help Montgomery's British Eighth
Patton
Loren
|
$1,200
[14]
The 5th-brightest star in the nighttime sky, Vega is often called the harp star because it's in this harp constellation
Lyra
|
$1,200
[8]
Done without volition, be it muscles or manslaughter
involuntary
Loren
|
$1,200
[15]
He compiled "Little Known Facts About Well Known People" 2 years before telling us how to influence people (in general)
(Dale) Carnegie
Loren
|
| — |
$1,600
[18]
Peter O'Toole dreamed "The Impossible Dream" when he played Don Quixote in this film
Man of La Mancha
Hugh
|
$1,600
[20]
On Oct. 20, 1944 Douglas MacArthur fulfilled this 3-word promise he'd made to the Philippine people in 1942
"I shall return"
Stephanie
Hugh
|
$1,600
[24]
This mount's observatory was built in 1904 near Pasadena because the air above it is the steadiest in North America
Mount Wilson
|
$1,600
[11]
To attest to someone's character
vouch
|
$1,600
[17]
Oliver Hill argued in lawsuits against segregated public schools, leading to this landmark 1954 Supreme Court case
Brown v. Board of Education
Stephanie
|
| — |
$2,000
[19]
She played Coco & sang the title tune form "Fame"--she was gonna live forever... do you remember her name?
Irene Cara
|
$2,000
[21]
This Japanese admiral planned and led the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor
Admiral Yamamoto
|
$2,000
[27]
This largest moon of Jupiter has a thin oxygen atmosphere & is the solar system's only moon to have a magnetosphere
Ganymede
Loren
|
— |
$2,000
[23]
Clint Hill, an agent with this part of the government from 1958 to 1975, leaped to fame in November 1963
Secret Service
|
Their name comes from the Greek word for "Egyptian"
the Copts (or Coptics)