Brendon Stanton — an investigator from Binghamton, New York
Elisabeth Lancaster — a stay-at-home mom from Winter Park, Florida
Grant McSheffrey — a software developer from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grant | $3,800 | $7,200 | $23,200 |
$30,000
2-day champion: $53,400 |
$20,800
24 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Elisabeth | $1,600 | $2,800 | $3,300 |
$6,600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,800
12 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Brendon | $2,600 | $2,800 | $6,900 |
$6,601
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| PRO TEAMS ARE FOR THE BIRDS | BASIC GEOGRAPHY | THICK AS A BRICK | WE'VE GOT COMPANY | WALK, THIS WAY | "B"OOK REPLACEMENTS |
|
$200
[1]
This city is bird-brained, boasting the Falcons & the Hawks (the Thrashers flew off to Winnipeg)
Atlanta
Grant
|
$200
[6]
This northeast African river flows for more than 4,100 miles
the Nile
Grant
|
$200
[21]
Spanish for "brick", it's sun-dried brick made of clay & straw but you don't have to update that today
adobe
Grant
|
$200
[16]
Today the official supplier of tires to NASCAR, this company was founded in Ohio in 1898
Goodyear
Brendon
|
$200
[11]
To trudge; Charlie Chaplin was "The Little" one
tramp
Grant
|
$600
[26]
"B is for Grafton"
B is for Burglar
Elisabeth
|
|
$400
[2]
Jose Bautista went north to become Joey Bats, author of an iconic 2016 bat flip for this team
the Toronto Blue Jays
Grant
|
$400
[7]
Fromherein southern California, do you know the way to this Central American capital city? We'll show you
San Jose
Grant
|
$400
[22]
This 3-word phrase is often used to differentiate physical stores from online-only businesses
brick and mortar
Brendon
|
$400
[17]
In 1980 69-year-old IBM had this 5-year-old software company create the operating system to run its PCs
Microsoft
Grant
Brendon
|
$400
[12]
Go away--that's right, take a this, which can be done to prices or to your shorts
a hike
Brendon
|
$800
[25]
"The Red and the Stendhal"
The Red and the Black
Elisabeth
|
|
$600
[3]
Go, Pinocchios! Nope...yay, Bambis! No...as far as we can tell, it's the only NHL team that got its name from a Disney film
the (Anaheim) Ducks
Grant
|
$600
[8]
It's the capital of Montana; also, it's illegal to annoy passersby on sidewalks with a revolving water sprinkler there
Helena
Brendon
|
$600
[27]
As Dorothy & her friends walked this byway, it "began to be rough" & some of the items it was named for were missing
the Yellow Brick Road
Grant
|
$800
[19]
Les Paul designed the solid-body guitar this company introduced in 1952
Gibson
Grant
|
$600
[13]
"Ain't nothin' gonna break my" this, long steps walked with vitality, "Nobody gonna slow me down, oh no"
stride
Brendon
|
$1,000
[24]
"A Naipaul in the River"
Bend in the River
|
|
$800
[4]
In 2005 Larry Fitzgerald caught 103 passes, including 10 TDs, for this team
the Arizona Cardinals
Grant
|
$800
[9]
You may get lightheaded in Gar, a town about 15,000 feet above sea level, in this autonomous region of China
Tibet
Elisabeth
|
$1,000
[23]
Suetonius wrote that this emperor said he "found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble"
Augustus Caesar
|
$1,000
[20]
This companySTOPsent its last telegramSTOPon Jan. 27, 2006FULL STOP
Western Union
Elisabeth
|
$800
[14]
These 2 walking words rhyme; the first also means to talk aimlessly & the second, to stroll or saunter
ramble and amble
Elisabeth
|
— |
|
$1,000
[5]
Until 2010 this Metropolitan Division team played its NHL home games in an arena known as the Igloo
the Pittsburgh Penguins
Brendon
|
$1,000
[10]
Canada's easternmost province is Newfoundland & this
Labrador
Grant
|
— |
DD
$3,000
[18]
Reese's & Kit Kat are brand names owned by this company
Hershey
Grant
|
$1,000
[15]
Now do this move with your square dance partner, do-si-do, like guests into a ballroom for a formal event
promenade
|
— |
| ART | THE 1940s | MOVIE TITLE PLACES | "P" SOUP | SHE BLINDED ME | WITH SCIENCE |
|
$400
[1]
She was already a centenarian in 1961 when she painted "Making Horseshoes", seen here
Grandma Moses
Grant
|
$400
[2]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1948, Harry Truman began his 30,000-mile whistle-stop tour on a train called the "Ferdinand Magellan" and was aboard in St. Louis when the famousphotoof the president holding up a paper saying this man "Defeats Truman" was snapped
(Thomas) Dewey
Elisabeth
|
$400
[7]
Catherine Zeta-Jones sang "I Can't Do It Alone" in this 2002 musical
Chicago
Elisabeth
|
$400
[12]
It's from the Greek for "falsely named"
pseudonym
Elisabeth
|
$400
[17]
In Judges 16 she sets the Philistines on the shorn Samson; they blind him
Delilah
Grant
|
$400
[22]
From the Latin for "sun stoppage" comes this type of event that happens twice a year
a solstice
Brendon
|
|
$800
[27]
"Der Schrei der Natur" was the original German title that Edvard Munch gave to this painting
The Scream
Brendon
|
$800
[3]
On July 4, 1946 the U.S. granted independence to this Asian country we had controlled since 1898
the Philippines
Brendon
|
$800
[8]
Here are a few stars of this 2001 WWII flick: Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale & Jennifer Garner
Pearl Harbor
Grant
|
$800
[13]
Bone china is one type of this material
porcelain
Brendon
|
$800
[18]
It's Marge's fault she goes blind on a "Simpsons" episode, as she looked at one of these without a viewer
an eclipse
Brendon
|
$800
[23]
Molecular motion doesn't stop at zero Kelvin, AKA this temperature; quantum mechanical motion remains
absolute zero
Grant
|
|
$1,200
[28]
Art imitates life in Andy Warhol's boxes of this brand of steel wool pads
Brillo
Elisabeth
|
$1,200
[4]
This Shakespeare-sourced Cole Porter classic won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1949
Kiss Me, Kate
|
$1,200
[9]
The title establishment of this Wes Anderson film isn't in Hungary but in the fictional Zubrowka
Grand Budapest Hotel
Elisabeth
|
$1,200
[14]
Willie Stargell for 21 seasons, or any freebooter
a Pirate
Grant
|
$1,200
[19]
Alison, played by Courtney Thorne-Smith, went blind at this TV title residence after Kimberly tried to blow it up
Melrose Place
Elisabeth
|
$1,200
[24]
These "tides" form the building blocks of RNA & have nothing to do with the rise & fall of the ocean
nucleotides
Grant
|
|
DD
$7,500
[29]
The name of this nihilistic art style of Marcel Duchamp was picked at random from a French-German dictionary
Dadaism
Elisabeth
|
$2,000
[6]
In 1949 this U.N. diplomat & future Nobel Peace Prize winner was awarded the NAACP's Spingarn Medal
Ralph Bunche
Brendon
|
$1,600
[10]
Snake Plissken hits the Big Apple--& by that I mean he really beats the bejeezus out of it--in this 1981 action pic
Escape from New York
Grant
|
$1,600
[15]
Life is hell for this unwilling mythological miss, at least for a portion of every year
Persephone
Elisabeth
|
$1,600
[20]
After her husband gouges out Gloucester's eye in this play, Regan says to do the other one too, for balance
King Lear
Elisabeth
|
$1,600
[25]
(Neil de Grasse Tyson presents the clue.) We astrophysicists talk of the CMB, or "cosmic" this "background", referencing the nearly 14-billion-year-old-phtons that have cooled to their current wavelength
microwave
Grant
|
| — |
DD
$2,500
[5]
U.S. Army general Lucius D. Clay directed the 1948-49 airlift to resupply this blockaded city
Berlin
Brendon
|
$2,000
[11]
Benicio Del Toro played Dr. Gonzo & Tobey Maguire a hitchhiker in this 1998 film based on a Hunter S. Thompson book
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Grant
|
$2,000
[16]
A group that met in the Kremlin, it can still mean a high decision-making body even post-USSR
the Politburo
Grant
|
$2,000
[21]
In "Eyes of the Gorgon", Wonder Woman blinds herself to defeat the deadly gaze of this mythic she-creature
Medusa
Grant
|
$2,000
[26]
The 15 metallic elements at the bottom of the periodic table are "L"abeled these
the lanthanides
Grant
|
This city's international airport is named for Antonio Carlos Jobim, who co-wrote a 1964 hit song
Rio de Janeiro