Billy Wong — an adjunct professor from Hacienda Heights, California
Abigail Myers — an education administrator from Brooklyn, New York
Eric Vernon — a retired government relations specialist from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (whose 2-day cash winnings total $50,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric | $2,400 | $3,200 | $-800 |
$-800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,800
14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Abigail | $3,000 | $9,200 | $22,000 |
$29,000
New champion: $29,000 |
$21,600
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Billy | $3,000 | $3,200 | $5,600 |
$11,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,000
9 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| TIME SPANS | THE ROCK & ROLL QUINTET | "O" BROTHER | WHERE ART THOU? | NEW WAYS TO SAY CORRECT | KING ME |
|
$200
[11]
The Mesolithic Period is part of the Stone this
the Stone Age
Billy
|
$200
[8]
At a 2016 show by this band, Eddie Vedder paid tribute to terminally ill singer Gord Downie of The Tragically Hip
Pearl Jam
Abigail
|
$200
[1]
Luke & Andrew are famous brothers of this man seen here
Owen Wilson
Abigail
|
$200
[6]
In Murphy, N.C., climbing a hillside where these Old Testament injunctions are written in 4'-by-5' letters
the Ten Commandments
Abigail
|
$400
[21]
How about this first name of Maris or Ebert?
Roger
Billy
|
$600
[24]
In a standard international deck of cards, this sword-wielding king is the only one with no mustache
the king of hearts
Abigail
|
|
$400
[12]
Number of days in half a fortnight
seven
Abigail
|
$400
[15]
This Dave Grohl band, in 2016: "For the millionth time, we're not breaking up. And nobody's going (bleeping) solo!"
The Foo Fighters
Eric
|
$400
[2]
Born in 1810, Bernhard von Bismarck sank in 1893, 5 years before this younger brother did
Otto
Eric
|
$400
[7]
At therock with this 5-letter name in Joshua Tree National Park--centuries of rain hollowed out the eye sockets
Skull
Eric
|
$600
[27]
I'll put together 2 4-letter words & add the English accent for this Austin Powers catchphrase
"Yeah, baby"
Abigail
|
$800
[23]
In a competition in 1815, this 4-letter cheese was crowned le roi des from ages, "the king of cheeses"
brie
Abigail
|
|
$600
[14]
In ancient Greece this was the 4-year span between athletic games
the Olympiad
Eric
|
$600
[16]
"If you try sometimes, you just might find" this Stones song that played after many of Donald Trump's speeches
"You Can't Always Get What You Want"
Abigail
|
$600
[3]
Aubrey Nash was this poet's brother / of which there were 2, & Ted was the other
Ogden
Eric
|
$600
[9]
At Bladensbug, Md.'s "dark and bloody grounds", where dozens of D.C. gents once came to settle scores via this
by duel
Billy
|
$800
[26]
On "The Big Bang Theory", Sheldon uses it to indicate a joke; I think it'll work for me to mean "correct"
bazinga
Abigail
|
$1,000
[22]
This ineffectual 15th century king still got his name on not 1, not 2, but 3 Shakespeare plays
Henry VI
Abigail
Billy
|
|
$800
[18]
It sounds like a heroic poem; Paleocene is one
epoch
Eric
|
$800
[17]
In 1979 500,000 people in Central Park decided this Ric Ocasek band was "Just What I Needed"
The Cars
Billy
|
$800
[4]
On the morning of December 17, 1903, he flew 120 feet in 12 seconds
Orville Wright
Billy
|
$1,000
[13]
At Austin, Minnesota's Museum of this Hormel product, featuring a wall of more than 3,000 cans
Spam
Abigail
|
$1,000
[25]
"This is how we roll!", claims this Milton Bradley dice game, & using it to say you're right could be how I roll
Yahtzee
Abigail
|
— |
|
$1,000
[20]
A period of about 30 years, whether it's "the greatest" one or not
generation
Abigail
|
$1,000
[19]
This quintet became a temporary quartet on "MTV Unplugged" in 1996 when singer Liam Gallagher had laryngitis
Oasis
Abigail
|
$1,000
[5]
On his brother Magnus' death in 1069, the III Haraldsson of this name became the sole king of Norway
Olaf
Abigail
|
DD
$1,400
[10]
In Queenston, Ontario, at the 185-foot monument to Isaac Brock, who repelled a U.S. invasion during this war
the War of 1812
Billy
|
— | — |
| ON THE LISZT | CONSTELLATIONS | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS | PHOTOGRAPHY | KILLER CARS | AT THE "END" |
|
$400
[1]
In 1870 if you wanted to visit Franz Liszt, you could drop by 20 Palatine Street in this city across from Buda
Pest
Eric
|
$400
[23]
The "arrow" about to be launched by this constellation points to the center of the Milky Way
Sagittarius
Eric
|
$400
[10]
This "White Fang" author's "The Mutiny of the Elsinore" was based in part on his 1912 voyage around Cape Horn
Jack London
Eric
|
$400
[12]
Eadweard Muybridge's 1878 photos proved that when this animal runs, all 4 feet are off the ground at 1 point
a horse
Billy
|
$400
[26]
In a 1979 George Miller film, this title road warrior uses his V8 Interceptor to run down some bad bikers
Mad Max
Eric
|
$400
[16]
Money paid to a shareholder
a dividend
Abigail
|
|
$800
[2]
Liszt, the 19th c. equivalent of a rock star, was played by this frontman of The Who in the movie "Lisztomania"
(Roger) Daltrey
Eric
Abigail
|
$800
[6]
Capella is the brightest star in Auriga, the driver of a horse-drawn one of these vehicles
chariot
Abigail
|
$800
[9]
In old age Colette wrote this 1944 novella of a girl raised to be a courtesan, adapted as a movie musical
Gigi
|
$800
[13]
Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" is an iconic photo of Florence Thompson from this period in U.S. history
the Dust Bowl
Billy
|
$800
[27]
The end of this 1978 comedy saw a car named the "Deathmobile" emerge from a giant cake that said "Eat me"
National Lampoon's Animal House
|
$800
[17]
To understand, or to take into police custody
apprehend
Eric
|
|
$1,200
[3]
Liszt wrote books, too, on subjects like "Tannhauser", Chopin & the music of these itinerant peoples of Europe
the Romany (or the Gypsy)
Abigail
|
$1,200
[24]
Vela, once part of the constellation Argo Navis, represents these, which kept the Argo moving
the sails
|
$1,200
[4]
In 1867 he took a 5-month cruise to the Mediterranean; his newspaper articles sent back home became "The Innocents Abroad"
Mark Twain
Billy
|
$1,200
[14]
Lewis Hine's 1932 book "Men at Work" documented in photographs the construction of this NYC building in 1930
the Empire State Building
Abigail
|
$1,200
[28]
In this movie, Clark Griswold must explain to an officer why there is a dogless leash tied to the back of the family car
National Lampoon's Vacation
Eric
|
$1,200
[18]
After Kanye West signed him, singer & pianist John Stephens adopted this last name
Legend
Abigail
|
|
$1,600
[11]
To get the title of this Liszt waltz, take the first 3 syllables of a "Faust" character
"Mephisto"
Abigail
|
$1,600
[5]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents an astronomical diagram on the monitor.) Though it reaches into the zodiac, the constellation Ophiuchus is not one of the traditional zodiac signs; with a name meaning "serpent holder", it represents this son of Apollo, the Greek god of medicine, who is often depicted holding a serpent
Asclepius
Abigail
|
$1,600
[7]
The curator of the Lahore Museum in the first chapter of "Kim" is based on this author's father, who once held the position
Kipling
Abigail
|
DD
$2,000
[15]
In 1927 this photographer published his first portfolio, "Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras"
Ansel Adams
Abigail
|
— |
$1,600
[19]
The official form of address for an archbishop is "most" this
reverend
Eric
|
|
$2,000
[21]
Marie, Countess d'Agoult bore Franz 3 illegitimate children: Daniel, Blandine & this one named for St. Cosmas
Cosima
|
DD
$9,600
[25]
Zeus placed Callisto in the night sky as one of these animals; her son Arcturus was her "keeper" in the stars
a bear
Eric
|
$2,000
[8]
W. Somerset Maugham's childhood was material for the life of orphan Philip Carey in this 1915 novel
Of Human Bondage
|
$2,000
[22]
A 2016 film about this controversial photographer who died of AIDS in 1989 is subtitled "Look at the Pictures"
Mapplethorpe
Abigail
|
— |
$2,000
[20]
To haughtily deign to do something
condescend
Eric
|
In 1947 these 2 nations became the first new members of the British Commonwealth since the original group in 1931
India and Pakistan