William Baldwin — a law student from New Haven, Connecticut
Nathan Flynn — an English teacher from Royal Oak, Michigan
Brandon Randall — a student from Provo, Utah (whose 2-day cash winnings total $42,002)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon | $800 | $2,200 | $9,000 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,000
14 R, 2 W |
| Nathan | $1,800 | $3,200 | $14,600 |
$18,001
New champion: $18,001 |
$12,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| William | $4,200 | $9,400 | $23,200 |
$17,199
2nd place: $2,000 |
$19,200
24 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| PORTUGUESE HISTORY | BAGELS | MOOD MUSIC | 5 OF 7 DEADLY SINS, IN SOME FORM | PAINTINGS | SURPRISE! |
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$200
[4]
The Treaty of Tordesillas signed by Portugal & Spain dealt with discoveries by this man not born in either country
Columbus
Brandon
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$200
[7]
Dunkin' Donuts also sells bagels, including sesame & this other kind named for seeds
poppyseed
William
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$200
[1]
One-word title of a 2014 Pharrell Williams No. 1 hit
"Happy"
Nathan
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$200
[21]
It's the Hulk-triggering sin
rage (or anger)
Nathan
|
$200
[28]
In the Caravaggiopainting, this Biblical youth is about to be sacrificed
Isaac
Brandon
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$200
[16]
A striking disclosure, or the final book of the New Testament; it should come as a...
revelation
Nathan
|
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$600
[9]
The Visigoths were kicked out of the Iberian Peninsula by the Umayyads, one of the first great dynasties of this religion
Islam
William
|
$400
[12]
February 9 is the official day to put this cured orange delicacy on a bagel
lox (or smoked salmon)
Brandon
William
|
$400
[2]
Kind of "Symphony" in the title of a 1998 hit by The Verve
bittersweet
Nathan
|
$400
[22]
Jealousy's cousin, this sin is often associated with the color green
envy
Brandon
|
$400
[24]
The centerpiece of the Rijksmuseum is this painting misnamed after varnish & years of dirt darkened the piece
The Night Watch
Nathan
|
$400
[17]
We've found it! It being this exclamation of finding something, perhaps its namesake California city
Eureka
William
|
|
$800
[10]
In the Protocol of Lisbon, China recognized Portugal's sovereignty over this territory--for a while
Macau
William
|
$600
[13]
After the dough is made & shaped, this happens to the bagels before they are baked, unusual among bread products
boiling
Nathan
William
|
$600
[3]
In 1982 The Pointer Sisters were fired up:"I'm So ____"
excited
William
|
$600
[23]
Jimmy Carter said, "I've looked on a lot of women with" this 4-letter sin
lust
William
|
$600
[25]
His Wheatfield with Crowswas painted in 1890, the last year of his life
Van Gogh
William
|
$600
[18]
Proverbially, this type of pitch mastered by Bert Blyleven is a deceptive trick
a curveball
Nathan
|
|
DD
$1,000
[8]
Threatened by Napoleon, the Portuguese royal family fled to this colonial capital & stayed there for 13 years
Rio de Janeiro
William
|
$800
[14]
This brand sold the first packaged bagels in a supermarket; it also gave us the first frozen bagels
Lender's
|
$800
[5]
The Clash were full of ennui:"I'm So ____ With The U.S.A."
bored
Nathan
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$800
[29]
Let's see...I'll have 10 lobsters, 22 bottles of wine, 13 funnel cakes & a huge bill on my card because of this deadly sin
gluttony
William
|
$800
[26]
In this 1942 painting Edward Hopper modeled the face of the redhead at the counter after his wife
the Nighthawks
William
|
$800
[19]
It can mean a sudden burst of electricity & it rhymes with an electrical unit of measure
a jolt
Brandon
|
|
$1,000
[11]
In 1437 this Portuguese prince navigated his way over to Tangier to take it over, but things didn't work out
Henry the Navigator
|
$1,000
[15]
The cream cheese practically spreads itself if it's this, from the Yiddish for "grease"
schmear
Nathan
|
$1,000
[6]
In 2013 Lana Del Rey suffered from seasonal affective disorder with "Summertime" this feeling
sadness
Brandon
|
$1,000
[30]
Proverbially, it "goeth before a fall" & currently, it goeth in your response
pride
William
|
$1,000
[27]
An art magazine once offered $10 to the first reader who could find the lady in his "Nude Descending a Staircase"
(Marcel) Duchamp
William
|
$1,000
[20]
It can be an experience resulting in a sudden realization & also an early A.M. drink of liquor
an eye-opener
|
| HE PLAYED CHURCHILL | BAD-WORLD BOOKSHELF | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES | AFRICAN AMERICANS | BODIES OF WATER | "X" NOUNS |
|
$400
[1]
John Lithgow played Winston in this Netflix series
The Crown
Brandon
|
$400
[21]
Astronauts land on another world where humans are savages & chimps are civilized
Planet of the Apes
Brandon
|
$400
[26]
Mayors have declared Chicago & S.F. to be these, which won't help the feds enforce immigration law
sanctuary cities
William
|
$400
[12]
In 1964 he embraced Sunni Islam & changed his name (again) to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Malcolm X
Brandon
|
$400
[8]
At more than 300,000 square miles, this body of water is one of the largest named for a real person
Hudson's Bay
William
|
$400
[4]
This video game console was released in 2001
the Xbox
Brandon
|
|
$800
[2]
In "The King's Speech" Timothy Spall was Churchill to his George VI
Colin Firth
Brandon
|
$800
[22]
In the far-distant future, the Morlocks prey upon the Eloi
The Time Machine
William
|
$800
[27]
Singing this folk & summer camp tune has become a sarcastic phrase for a veneer of brotherhood & co-operation
"Kumbaya"
William
|
$800
[13]
(I'm D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser.) On January 2, 1975 Walter Washington became D.C.'s first elected mayor in a century as he was sworn in by this fellow Howard University alumnus
Thurgood Marshall
Nathan
|
$800
[9]
It rises near Moscow & flows 2,300 miles south
the Volga
William
|
$800
[7]
"Managing an anxiety disorder can be difficult", says the website for this drug from Pfizer
Xanax
William
|
|
$1,200
[3]
The Time Lord on this series encountered Ian McNeice as Churchill
Doctor Who
Nathan
|
$1,200
[23]
A city is hit by an epidemic of sight loss & the afflicted are confined to an empty hospital
Blindness
Nathan
|
$1,200
[28]
In 2007 Nathan Rabin coined this phrase, MPDG for short, to describe Kirsten Dunst in "Elizabethtown"
manic pixie dream girl
William
|
$1,600
[19]
(I'm Melissa Harris-Perry.) My book "Barbershops, Bibles & BET" won a 2005 National Conference of Black Political Scientist Award named for this sociologist who helped create the NAACP in 1909
(W.E.B.) Du Bois
Nathan
|
$1,200
[10]
The 100-mile-wide Yucatan Channel connects the Caribbean Sea to this body of water to the northwest
the Gulf of Mexico
Brandon
|
$1,200
[11]
This great guy titled himself "King of Persia & Media"
Xerxes
Brandon
|
|
$1,600
[5]
He was married to Liz Taylor twice & he played Churchill twice
Richard Burton
Brandon
|
$1,600
[24]
Only women survive a mysterious plague except for Yorick Brown & his monkey Ampersand
Y: The Last Man
|
$1,600
[29]
Coined in 1970 but big in the 20-teens, "micro" this refers to casual remarks that make minority folks feel bad
microaggressions
Brandon
Nathan
|
$2,000
[20]
This trumpeter's classic albums include "Kind of Blue" & "Sketches of Spain"
Miles Davis
Nathan
|
$2,000
[18]
A spot on this river whose name is Spanish for "arms" is remembered as the birthplace of the Texas Republic
Brazos
Brandon
|
$1,600
[15]
It's the second word of Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan"
Xanadu
William
|
|
$2,000
[6]
Rod Taylor was Winnie in this Tarantino film
Inglorious Basterds
Nathan
|
$2,000
[25]
The maximum age is 21 & don't try to get away
Logan's Run
|
$2,000
[30]
2 body parts are joined in this expression & gesture meaning "oh no!"
facepalming
Nathan
|
DD
$3,000
[14]
Serving under George W. Bush, this soldier was the first person of Jamaican descent in the Cabinet
(Colin) Powell
Nathan
|
DD
$5,000
[17]
This Turkish strait that separates Europe from Asia takes its name from the ancient Greek for "cattle passage"
the Bosporous
William
|
$2,000
[16]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows three jars of flowers.) Put a white flower in water that has dye in it to see how minerals and water travel up from the roots to the petals, via this vascular tissue
xylem
William
|
In the 1960s M.T. Lott was one of the fictitious names he used to buy 27,000 acres in Florida
Walt Disney