Kirstin Cutts — a graduate student from Austin, Texas
Carl Falstrom — an immigration attorney from New Orleans, Louisiana
Jody Jabbora — a retired postal clerk from Las Vegas, Nevada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jody | $1,800 | $3,000 | $9,400 |
$6,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,400
15 R, 1 W |
| Carl | $1,000 | $6,200 | $12,800 |
$3,999
3rd place: $1,000 |
$15,000
23 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Kirstin | $3,600 | $2,400 | $10,800 |
$11,001
New champion: $11,001 |
$10,600
12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| IT'S DEBATABLE | THE BOOK OF PROVERBS | HISTORIC AUTOMOBILES | NBA GREATS | ABBREVIATED K | DROPPIN' MAD BEETS |
|
$200
[14]
(I'm Anderson Cooper.) I was a moderator of several 2016 presidential debates; one of the hot topics at the Kennedy-Nixon debates in 1960 was the global threat of this political ideology
Communism
Jody
|
$200
[9]
Chapter 1 tells you you're reading "the proverbs of" this man, "king of Israel"
Solomon
Jody
Carl
|
$200
[22]
The 1897 Panhard Levassor was one of the first autos to put the engine in the "French style" here on the car
the front
Jody
Kirstin
|
$200
[21]
Alphabetically first on the NBA's list of its 50 greatest players is this Bucks, Lakers & Celebrity "Jeopardy!" star
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Jody
Kirstin
|
$200
[1]
As a unit of computer memory
a kilobyte
Carl
|
$200
[4]
A good source of iron, beets are said to improve this condition, a deficiency of hemoglobin
anemia
Jody
|
|
$400
[15]
When asked if at the age of 73 he was too old to be pres., he quipped he wouldn't exploit Mondale's youth & inexperience
Reagan
Jody
|
$400
[10]
"Go to" this hardworking insect, "thou sluggard; consider her ways"
an ant
Jody
|
$400
[23]
This 1960s TV superhero vehicle was a modified version of a concept car called the Lincoln Futura
the Batmobile
Carl
|
$400
[24]
(Dan Patrick delivers the clue.) In the 1998-99 season, this center led the Knicks as the team became the first ever to reach the finals as an 8th seed
Patrick Ewing
Carl
|
$400
[2]
In the NFL, K is a position; in MLB, it's this stat
a strikeout
Carl
|
$400
[5]
Like turnips & parsnips, beets are this hearty type of vegetable named for a botanical part
root vegetables
Jody
|
|
$600
[16]
Beforehewas a presence in the 2016 GOP debates, he was a star debater for Princeton in the '90s
(Ted) Cruz
Carl
|
$600
[11]
Proverbs 13 warns that "He that spareth" this "hateth his son"
the rod
Kirstin
|
$600
[28]
In the 1977 movie "Smokey & the Bandit", Burt Reynolds drove a classic Trans Am from this brand
Pontiac
Carl
|
$600
[25]
OKC fans were thunderstruck in 2016 when this star announced he was leaving for Golden State
Kevin Durant
Carl
|
$600
[3]
On the periodic table, it's elementary, my dear chemist
potassium
Kirstin
|
$600
[6]
Because of the concentric rings of red & white, the beets seen here also have this alliterative name
candy cane beets
Carl
Kirstin
|
|
$800
[19]
In 1993 Al Gore & Ross Perot appeared on Larry King's show to debate this pact
NAFTA
Carl
|
DD
$1,000
[12]
The house of wisdom, says the 9th chapter, hath this many pillars
seven
Kirstin
|
— |
$800
[26]
At the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese called this Laker Xiao Fei Xia or Peter Pan, due to his "flying" ability
Kobe Bryant
Carl
Kirstin
|
$800
[17]
A Michigan food company on the New York Stock Exchange
Kellogg's
Jody
|
$800
[7]
This classic Russian beet soup can be served hot or cold; top it with a dollop of sour cream
borscht
Kirstin
|
|
$1,000
[20]
In a 1976 presidential debate, he said, "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe"
Ford
Carl
|
$1,000
[13]
"The fruit of the righteous is" this, which also grows in the garden of Eden
the Tree of Life
|
— |
$1,000
[27]
This Houston "Dream" added an "H" to his first name midway through his pro career
(Hakeem) Olajuwon
Carl
|
$1,000
[18]
In a catalog of Mozart's works
Kochel
Carl
|
$1,000
[8]
This specific sugar is the most prevalent in sugar beets, making up about 20% of their weight
sucrose
|
| AND SO IT BEGINS... | AN "F" IN GEOGRAPHY | 19th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN | TV MOVIES | WOMEN AUTHORS | FINE FEATHERED IDIOMS |
|
$400
[20]
"John, by the grace of God, king of England... to the archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, barons..."
the Magna Carta
Kirstin
|
$400
[3]
The New England Patriots are based in this Massachusetts town
Foxborough
Carl
|
$400
[12]
In 1873 this Prussian-American founded a brewery on the banks of Clear Creek in Colorado
Coors
Carl
|
$400
[26]
Lifetime's movie with the same title as this feature film had Julie Benz, not Liam Neeson, tracking down a daughter
Taken
Kirstin
|
$400
[2]
Sink your teeth into this author's other novels like "The Witching Hour" & "The Vampire Armand"
Anne Rice
Carl
|
$400
[11]
Someone who likes to stay up late
a night owl
Carl
|
|
$800
[22]
"Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt"
the book of Exodus
Carl
|
$800
[4]
It left the Union 16 years after joining it
Florida
Carl
|
$800
[13]
He incorporated his San Francisco company in 1890, the same year his XX waist overalls were given the lot number 501
Levi Strauss
Carl
|
$800
[27]
This Oscar-winning actor brought the man & the music to life as Liberace in "Behind the Candelabra"
Michael Douglas
Jody
|
$800
[1]
In "Little Women", Louisa May Alcott portrayed herself as this second-oldest March girl, who naturally becomes a writer
Jo
Jody
|
$800
[17]
The world of hunting gave us this term for a ridiculously easy target
a sitting duck
Kirstin
|
|
$1,200
[23]
"An act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of federal old-age benefits..."
the Social Security Act
Jody
|
$1,600
[6]
Take U.S. Hwy 50 to find the path to this Colorado county named for an explorer who mapped the area in 1843
Fremont
Jody
|
$1,200
[14]
This banker preferred to be called by his middle name, Pierpont, which was his mother's maiden name
J.P. Morgan
Carl
|
$1,200
[28]
The 2000 presidential election was the basis for this HBO TV movie with Kevin Spacey
Recount
|
$1,200
[8]
Thisbest-selling author's works, in part, explore mother-daughter relationships and the immigrant experience
Amy Tan
Carl
|
$1,200
[18]
A final performance before retirement
a swan song
Kirstin
|
|
$1,600
[24]
"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed..."
the 8th Amendment
|
$2,000
[7]
Vanua Levu is its second-largest island
Fiji
Jody
|
$2,000
[16]
When cigarette makers formed the American Tobacco Company in 1890, this North Carolinian became its first president
James Buchanan Duke
Jody
|
$1,600
[29]
This 1937 novel by Zora Neale Hurston was turned into a TV movie starring Halle Berry
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Kirstin
|
$1,600
[9]
Much of this Maeve Binchy novel covers the teen years of Irish gal pals Benny Hogan & Eve Malone
Circle of Friends
|
$1,600
[19]
A fast, risky detox method
cold turkey
Carl
|
|
$2,000
[25]
"Homage to thee, Osiris, lord of eternity, king of the gods..."
the Egyptian Book of the Dead
Kirstin
|
DD
$3,000
[5]
Now a region in Belgium, it once referred to an are a in France and the Netherlands, too
Flanders
Carl
|
DD
$4,000
[15]
After selling his fur business in 1834, he devoted himself to real estate, building the world's biggest hotel in NYC
John Jacob Astor
Carl
|
$2,000
[30]
In "The Deliberate Stranger", Mark Harmon eerily played this handsome serial killer executed in 1989
Ted Bundy
Jody
|
$2,000
[10]
This 18th century feminist author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" died after giving birth to Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft
Kirstin
|
$2,000
[21]
Dr. Dre said watching "Straight Outta Compton" gave his skin this reaction
goosebumps
Carl
|
In her memoirs Queen Liliuokalani tells us that before Hawaii had its own national anthem, it used this one
"God Save The Queen"