Rand Wise — a math teacher from Decatur, Georgia
Kerry Benn — a legal news editor from Springfield, New Jersey
Jon Groubert — a former attorney from Denver, Colorado (whose 3-day cash winnings total $76,191)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jon | $1,400 | $3,000 | $18,000 |
$9,999
3rd place: $1,000 |
$15,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Kerry | $1,600 | $3,600 | $13,000 |
$14,000
New champion: $14,000 |
$13,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Rand | $3,400 | $4,600 | $11,000 |
$11,900
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,000
14 R, 1 W |
| OCCUPATIONS IN NEWS | BEHIND THE BIBLICAL NAME | OTHER BRITISH ISLES | THE 1910s | FROM THE FRENCH | WINNING THROUGH ALLITERATION |
|
$200
[17]
David Muir is one of these heavies, the principal personality on a TV news broadcast
an anchorman
Jon
|
$200
[26]
As you might guess, this king's name is derived from the Hebrew word for "peace"
Solomon
Kerry
Rand
|
$200
[11]
South Georgia Island is a dependency of this group that lies off the Argentine coast
the Falkland Islands
Kerry
|
$200
[6]
The oldest major league baseball park, it hosted its first game in 1912
Fenway
Kerry
Rand
|
$200
[1]
The name of this vehicle is from the French for "walking hospital"
an ambulance
Kerry
|
$200
[16]
The 1933 film about this big ape won no Oscars, but both remakes did for their effects
King Kong
Jon
|
|
$400
[18]
You need fast fingers to produce "closed" these, which Congress requires for TV shows like news broadcasts
closed captions
Kerry
|
$400
[27]
Call me this name & "God will hear"
Ishmael
Kerry
|
$400
[12]
George Town is the capital of these Caribbean British isles whose name comes from a word for a type of crocodile
the Cayman Islands
Jon
Rand
|
$400
[7]
Title shared by a popular 1911 poem by Ricardo Guiraldes & the ballroomdancespreading to the U.S. & Europe then
the tango
Jon
|
$400
[2]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the National World War I Museum.) With a two-man crew and a top speed of just 5 miles per hour, the Renault FT-17 revolutionized tank design with its ability to point its gun in any direction, thanks to this rotating top section, from the French for "tower"
a turret
Kerry
|
$400
[22]
President Bartlet won a different election as this show was Emmy's top drama series for 2003
The West Wing
Jon
|
|
$600
[19]
Like Bob Woodward, at the Washington Post Debbie Cenziper is this type of reporter, from the Latin for "to track"
investigative
Kerry
|
$800
[29]
Sound the trumpets! Both Isaiah & this Old Testament name mean "the Lord is salvation"
Joshua
Jon
|
$600
[13]
A daily ferry will take you across the narrows from the USA's St. Thomas Island to Tortola in this group
the British Virgin Islands
Jon
|
$600
[8]
Adopted in 1913, this industrialist's first conveyor-belt assembly line was less than 300 feet long
(Henry) Ford
Rand
|
$600
[3]
This deep red is paired with clover in a 1960s song title
crimson
Rand
|
$600
[23]
Wide receiverwho won "Dancing with the Stars" in 2012
Donald Driver
|
|
$800
[20]
Managing & these editors, the "air-traffic controllers of the newsroom", tell which reporters to chase what story
assignment editors
|
$1,000
[30]
One of the Kennedy sisters had this New Testament name that means "good victory"
Eunice
Rand
|
$800
[14]
Darwin found abundant rats on this Atlantic island named for the day Jesus was taken into heaven
Ascension
Rand
|
$800
[9]
A new viral strain to which few had immunity caused the 1918-1919 pandemic of the "Spanish" type of this disease
the flu
Jon
|
$800
[4]
It can mean ability or the entire staff of a school
faculty
Rand
|
$800
[24]
In his youth this Oscar-winning documentarian started a radical newspaper, The Flint Voice
Michael Moore
Kerry
|
|
$1,000
[21]
A 2014 award from the GTC, the Guild of Television these "men", went to a BBC newsman for dramatic footage of Syrian children
cameramen
Kerry
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
A character on "Friends" & a woman mentioned in Romans share this name meaning "pure" & "bright"
Phoebe
Kerry
|
$1,000
[15]
Tourist attractions on this island due east of Charleston include Devil's Hole, a natural aquarium in a cave
Bermuda
Kerry
|
$1,000
[10]
A month into WWI, the first battle of this French river introduced the horrors of trench warfare
the Marne
Rand
|
$1,000
[5]
Utterly senseless; in the 1950s & '60s there was a "theater of" it
absurd
Rand
|
$1,000
[25]
This racehorse won the 1977 Triple Crown
Seattle Slew
Kerry
|
| OCCUPATIONS IN THE NEWS | THE PLAYS OF NEIL SIMON | THE "I"s HAVE IT | SEOUL MAN & WOMAN | NUCLEAR PHYSICS | LYRICAL SPELLING BEE |
|
$400
[17]
The 1989 death of reformer Hu Yaobang sparked a 6-week occupation of this square
Tiananmen
Jon
|
$400
[8]
This title Neil Simon twosome is Felix Ungar & Oscar Madison
The Odd Couple
Kerry
|
$400
[12]
It's the condition of being unable to read or write
illiterate
Kerry
|
$400
[26]
Ordained in 1973 & promoted to his metropolitan see in 2012, Andrew Yeom Soo-Jong is Seoul's this
archbishop
Kerry
|
$400
[1]
These 3 primary types of nuclear radiation are identified by Greek letters
alpha, beta and gamma
Jon
|
$400
[6]
ABBA sang, "Nothing else can save me" then this distress signal
S.O.S.
Kerry
|
|
$1,200
[19]
In 1969 the National Guard was unleashed on occupiers of this California university city's People's Park
Berkeley
Jon
|
$800
[22]
Neil's play "The Good Doctor" was based on short stories by this Russian playwright
Chekhov
Rand
|
$800
[13]
Latin for "to drink" gives us this verb meaning to do just that, especially booze
imbibe
Jon
|
$800
[27]
Nam June Paik, called the inventor of this type of art, used a thousand-TV-set display at the 1988 Olympics
video art
Jon
|
$800
[2]
A moderator of neutrons in nuclear power plants, deuterium oxide is also known by this "weighty" term
heavy water
Rand
|
$800
[7]
Gwen Stefani spells "bananas" while singing about this girl
"Hollaback Girl"
Jon
|
|
$1,600
[20]
In October 2016 a jury acquitted 7 people who had occupied this state's Malheur Wildlife Refuge
Oregon
Rand
|
$1,200
[23]
Willie Clark & Al Lewis are 2 grumpy old former vaudeville partners in this Neil Simon comedy
The Sunshine Boys
Jon
|
$1,200
[14]
The first ship sunk by a remotely detonated explosive, theU.S.S. Cairowas this kind of vessel, named for its armor
an ironclad
Jon
|
$1,200
[28]
Sunja from Seoul has a popular brand of this fermented dish served at every Korean meal
kimchi
Kerry
|
$1,200
[3]
In 1940 this Italian-born physicist began his efforts to set up a nuclear reactor at Columbia University
(Enrico) Fermi
Rand
|
$1,200
[9]
Tammy Wynette spelled out this title word that she doesn't want her 4-year-old "to understand"
divorce ("D-I-V-O-R-C-E")
|
|
$2,000
[21]
In 1932 this "Army" moved into shacks & tents near the U.S. Capitol & demanded payment for World War I services
the Bonus Army
Jon
|
$1,600
[24]
"Chapter Two" is Neil's semi-autobiographical play about his life with this actress he married in 1973
Marsha Mason
Jon
|
$1,600
[15]
This term means the roads, bridges & public works required for an industrial economy to function
infrastructure
Kerry
|
$2,000
[30]
Chung Ju Yung founded this Seoul-based transportation group, once Korea's largest corporation
Hyundai
|
$1,600
[4]
This type of reactor gets its name from producing more fissionable material than it consumes
a breeder reactor
Jon
|
$1,600
[10]
When this Canadian punk-popper spells her first name in "The Best Damn Thing", "A" means "always give me what I want"
Avril Lavigne
|
|
DD
$3,000
[18]
In September 2011 lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park became Ground Zero for this movement
Occupy Wall Street
Jon
|
$2,000
[25]
Neil's days as a writer for the show hosted by this giant of '50s TV comedy inspired "Laughter on the 23rd Floor"
Sid Caesar
|
$2,000
[16]
To select a jury from the pool of folks on jury duty
impanel
Kerry
|
DD
$3,000
[29]
In 1971 Seoul-born Kyongwon Ahn founded the UTA, the United this Korean martial art Association
taekwondo
Kerry
|
$2,000
[5]
Developed in the early 1900s, this enclosure is used to study the paths of particles as vapor condenses around them
a cloud chamber
Rand
|
$2,000
[11]
This duo started their '80s hit "Method Of Modern Love" by spelling everything but the "Modern"
Hall & Oates
|
The USA's largest state school in 1861, by 1862 its enrollment had dropped by 90%
the University of Virginia