Diana Ascher — a finance system manager from Englewood, New Jersey
Emmett Robinson — an attorney from Greenwich, Ohio
Jamie Newland — a loan coordinator from Chicago, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $29,899)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jamie | $3,800 | $6,800 | $8,800 |
$800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,800
18 R, 3 W |
| Emmett | $2,200 | $5,000 | $9,800 |
$17,601
New champion: $17,601 |
$8,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| Diana | $2,000 | $3,200 | $13,200 |
$6,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,600
14 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| SOCIETY | SAME FIRST, MIDDLE & LAST LETTER | POTLUCK | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE | REAL-LIFE PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS | 1930s AMERICA |
|
$200
[23]
It's a society led by women in which descent is traced through the female line
a matriarchy
Emmett
|
$200
[6]
A type of kids' picture book, or a short fly ball
a pop-up
Jamie
|
$200
[11]
Shades of this color include fawn, russet & burnt umber
brown
Jamie
|
$200
[1]
The moose never stood a chance on "Weekend Update" when this "Sisters" star did a hard-core gangsta rap about Sarah Palin
Amy Poehler
Jamie
|
$400
[18]
Owen Glendower bedeviled Henry IV on stage & in real life as a leader of rebel forces in this U.K. country
Wales
Jamie
Emmett
|
$400
[20]
Strikes by this union got it recognized as a bargaining agent by big companies, starting with General Motors
United Auto Workers (UAW)
Emmett
|
|
$400
[24]
4-letter word for a relatively small religious group operating outside standard cultural norms
a sect (or a cult)
Diana
|
$400
[7]
A drug made from hemp
hashish
Jamie
Emmett
|
$400
[12]
Scientists consider time to be this number dimension
the fourth
Jamie
|
$400
[2]
This "Saturday Night Live" regular is seenhereshowing George W. Bush how to imitate his dad, George H.W.
Dana Carvey
Diana
|
$600
[17]
In the play "Julius Caesar" & in real life, this man & Brutus led the assassination conspiracy
Cassius
Diana
|
$600
[19]
In 1938 Kate Smith gave the first public performance of this Irving Berlin song written 20 years earlier
"God Bless America"
Diana
|
|
$600
[25]
This word for the established conventions of polite social interaction is from Old French for "label"
etiquette
Emmett
|
$600
[8]
An outline for a film's story, or the medical plan to fight a disease
treatment
|
$600
[13]
This Canadian province's flag depicts a yellow lion plus a large oak tree & 3 saplings on a small isle
Prince Edward Island
Emmett
|
$600
[3]
We enjoy this recurring sketch with categories like "BYE, FELICIA!" & "THEY OUT HERE SAYING"
"Black Jeopardy!"
Jamie
|
$800
[27]
Sir James Tyrrell was a henchman of Richard III; in the play, he arranges the deaths of the 2 princes imprisoned here
the Tower of London
Jamie
|
$800
[16]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a picture and a map on the monitor.) In July 1938, the aviator seenherewas supposed tofly west from New York to California, but somehow ended uplanding in Dublin, earning him this famous nickname
"Wrong Way" Corrigan
Diana
|
|
$800
[26]
Some might need to flaunt a "symbol" of this, the position that a person occupies in a particular social setting
a status symbol
Jamie
|
$800
[9]
A Little Rascal or a pasture & hay crop
Alfalfa
Diana
|
$800
[14]
At the Golden Globes in 2017, she said attendees were the most vilified of society: Hollywood, foreigners & press
Meryl Streep
Diana
|
$800
[4]
Played by Chris Farley, Matt Foley was a motivational speaker who lived "in a van" at this location
down by the river
Jamie
|
$1,000
[28]
Dear friends, this king's army won a decisive battle in France in 1415
Henry V
Emmett
|
DD
$2,200
[21]
In 1933 Albert Einstein renounced his German citizenship & relocated to 2 Library Place in this U.S. city
Princeton
Emmett
|
|
$1,000
[22]
It's the small group at the top; C. Wright Mills said a "power" one really runs things in America
the elite
Jamie
|
$1,000
[10]
French term for an informal understanding between nations; there was a famous "triple" one
entente
Emmett
|
$1,000
[15]
The Lincoln Memorial Garden in Springfield contains plant species native to 3 states: Illinois, Indiana & this one
Kentucky
Emmett
|
$1,000
[5]
Alliterative name of Rachel Dratch's eternally negative "SNL" character
Debbie Downer
Jamie
|
— | — |
| 3-NAMED AUTHORS | NUMBER, PLEASE | THAT'S SHOW BIZ, "BOY" | THE COMMONWEALTH | OF PENCIL MANIA | FISH |
|
$400
[11]
Following the success of "Little Women", she wrote in her journal, "Paid up all the debts... thank the Lord!"
(Louisa May) Alcott
Jamie
|
$400
[6]
Events in the heptathlon
seven
Emmett
Diana
|
$400
[5]
In 1986 this Culture Club singer played himself on an episode of "The A-Team", because that's how crazy the '80s were
Boy George
Jamie
|
$400
[26]
Nations in the Commonwealth maintain friendship & cooperation & acknowledge this person as the symbolic head
Queen Elizabeth II
Emmett
|
$400
[24]
In the 1930s Koh-I-Noor began offering a pocket one of these that had 2 blades
a pencil sharpener
Diana
|
$1,200
[28]
Tagging has shown many of the Pacific type of this fish, genus Oncorhynchus, return to the river where they hatched
salmon
Jamie
|
|
$800
[8]
Tarzana, in California's San Fernando Valley, is named for this resident's most famous creation
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Diana
|
$800
[7]
Chambers in a cow's stomach
four
Diana
|
$800
[4]
Fred Savage's brother Ben played Cory for 7 years on this '90s ABC sitcom
Boy Meets World
Emmett
|
$800
[27]
2.2 billion people reside in 52 member countries, alphabetically from Antigua & Barbuda to this African nation
Zambia
Jamie
Emmett
|
$800
[23]
Early ads for pencils appeared in his Pennsylvania Gazette; a 1737 one read, "Cyphering Slates and Pencils" sold by the printer
Benjamin Franklin
Jamie
|
$1,600
[22]
This popular food fish is the largest of the flatfish, with some species approaching 500 pounds
halibut
Jamie
Emmett
Diana
|
|
$1,600
[12]
His "The General in His Labyrinth" is a historical novel about Simon Bolivar's last days
Gabriel García Marquez
|
$1,200
[14]
Acts in "Coriolanus"
five
Diana
|
$1,200
[3]
Hugh Grant claims to have a 2-year-old son & joins S.P.A.T., "Single Parents Alone Together" in this 2002 film
About a Boy
Jamie
|
$1,200
[20]
Held every four years, the Commonwealth Games feature exciting sports like this type of bowls seen here
lawn bowls
Diana
|
$1,600
[13]
After the 1917 revolution, this head of Occidental Petroleum controlled the USSR's pencil market
Armand Hammer
|
$2,000
[21]
Keeping their mouths open so they can strain meal, tilapia & herring are alliteratively termed this
filter feeders
Jamie
|
|
$2,000
[15]
"Here I Am"--that's the 2016 novel by this "Everything Is Illuminated" author, &herehe is
(Jonathan Safran) Foer
Diana
|
$1,600
[16]
Yards in a mile
1,760
Emmett
|
$1,600
[1]
Since the '70s when this John Denver hit came out, the Baltimore Orioles have played it in the seventh inning stretch
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy"
Jamie
Emmett
|
$1,600
[19]
Before the CW, some former U.K. colonies were known as these self-governing entities, from the Latin for "Lord"
dominions
Emmett
|
$2,000
[25]
Smooth & durable, wood from the incense species of this tree is used in making pencils
cedar
|
— |
|
DD
$3,000
[9]
In a 1902 novel he wrote, "They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"
(Sir Arthur Conan) Doyle
Diana
|
$2,000
[17]
Vertices of a cube
eight
Emmett
|
$2,000
[2]
"Turn Me Loose"! In the '80s this rock group was "Working For The Weekend"
Loverboy
Diana
|
$2,000
[18]
A member since 1966, it's the only South American mainland country to be a member
Guyana
Emmett
|
DD
$3,000
[10]
In 1873 Joseph Dixon purchased the American Graphite Company located in this New York town
Ticonderoga
Diana
|
— |
By barring holding positions at competing firms, 1914's Clayton Act plugged gaps in this law
the Sherman Anti-Trust Act