Farhad Mahmoudi — a client services director from Encinitas, California
Betsy Knudson — an attorney from Salt Lake City, Utah
Angela Ward — a family assessment writer from Longview, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angela | $800 | $1,200 | $8,400 |
$15,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,400
12 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Betsy | $3,000 | $8,600 | $21,200 |
$29,200
New champion: $29,200 |
$19,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Farhad | $2,800 | $3,600 | $15,400 |
$21,201
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| MEN IN HATS | RIGHT ON Q | SONNETS | BRAND NAME MEANINGS | SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOWS | DITLOIDS |
|
$200
[6]
People spent a lot of time onhiscouch
Freud
Angela
|
$200
[16]
He's the older of the acting Quaid brothers
Randy
Angela
Betsy
|
$200
[11]
Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning begins with this question
"How do I love thee?"
Angela
|
$200
[1]
The name of this fresh fruit brand is Spanish for "little girl"
Chiquita
Farhad
|
$200
[26]
With Radio City Music Hall producing the show in 1988, it's no surprise that it featured these dancers
the Rockettes
Angela
|
$200
[21]
The end of an at-bat:3 S & Y O
three strikes and you're out
Farhad
|
|
$400
[7]
He's the cat in the top hat
Winston Churchill
Farhad
|
$400
[17]
A quiche made with bacon is named for this area of northeast France
Lorraine
Betsy
|
$400
[12]
The first part of a sonnet can pose a problem in an 8-line stanza called this, also a musical term
an octet (or octave)
Betsy
|
$400
[2]
This music app is named for the mythological woman to whom Apollo gave the gift of music
Pandora
Farhad
|
$400
[27]
In 1998 Smokey Robinson & The Temptations took part in the 40th anniversary salute to this record label
Motown
Angela
|
$400
[22]
These hit the pharaoh hard in Exodus:10 P of E
the ten plagues of Egypt
Betsy
|
|
$600
[8]
This British admiral and naval hero looked quite dashing in his uniform
Lord Nelson
Betsy
|
$600
[18]
Born Dana Owens, on her road to royal rap stardom, she put in time as the human beat box for "Ladies Fresh"
Queen Latifah
Farhad
|
$600
[13]
Shakespeare wrote, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like" this heavenly body
the sun
|
$600
[3]
The name of this shampoo brand means "smoothly agreeable"
Suave
Angela
|
$600
[28]
She lit up the halftime show in 2015 with a "Firework" finale as she shot across the sky
Katy Perry
Betsy
|
$600
[23]
A jolly good film:4 W & a F
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Betsy
|
|
$800
[9]
Oh, tell us the name of this Italian operatic composer
(Giuseppe) Verdi
Farhad
|
$800
[19]
Quincy, Massachusetts was once part of this smart-sounding town
Braintree
Betsy
|
$800
[14]
John Donne grappled with mortality in his Holy Sonnet 10, which starts with these 4 words
"Death be not proud"
Angela
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
This gas brand gets its name from a badge used in heraldry
Chevron
Angela
|
$800
[29]
They started the halftime show in 2006 with "Start Me Up"
The Rolling Stones
Betsy
|
$800
[24]
Where Remus & his brother got started:7 H of R
the seven hills of Rome
Betsy
|
|
$1,000
[10]
He's the Dubliner seen here
(James) Joyce
Farhad
|
$1,000
[20]
It may ring a bell that this Italian with a "Q" name won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959
Salvatore Quasimodo
|
$1,000
[15]
This 14th century Italian poet mastered the art of the sonnet writing about his love for Laura
Petrarch
Betsy
|
$1,000
[5]
Latin for "snow" gives us the name of this snow white skin cream
Nivea
Betsy
|
$1,000
[30]
Many of the early shows including the first one featured this Louisiana school's famous marching band
Grambling
|
$1,000
[25]
Geometry fact:180 D in a T
180 degrees in a triangle
Betsy
|
| THE REVOLUTION | IT'S A WIRED WORLD | ORCHESTRA | FISHY CINEMA | TRANSYLVANIA | "VEL"COME |
|
$400
[13]
In 2011 the spirit of revolt in the Arab world came to visit Muammar al-Qaddafi, in power in this country since 1969
Libya
Farhad
|
$400
[23]
In 2017 Brazil removed the tax on these hyphenated items, so bibliophiles from Rio to Recife can Kindle away
an e-book
Farhad
|
$400
[26]
The Liverpool Philharmonic is this country's oldest continuing professional symphony orchestra
England (or United Kingdom)
Farhad
|
$400
[1]
Joe Alves designed the shark for this 1975 film
Jaws
Farhad
|
$400
[2]
Transylvania is a historical region located in what is today the central part of this nation
Romania
Betsy
|
$400
[7]
It is expressed in distance & time, such as miles per hour or meters per second
velocity
Angela
|
|
$800
[14]
England's "Glorious Revolution" of 1688 chased James II out & these 2 monarchs in
William and Mary
Farhad
|
$800
[24]
In 2017 hackers hijacked Dutch Twitter accounts & posted in support of this country's President Erdogan
Turkey
Betsy
|
$800
[30]
"The Art of" playing this reed instrument says the designation "clown of the orchestra" is an insult
the bassoon
|
$800
[12]
Flounder the fish & Sebastian the crab are Ariel's sidekicks in this animated favorite
The Little Mermaid
Farhad
|
$800
[3]
Count Dracula was inspired in part by a 15th century Transylvanian ruler, the III of this name
Vlad
Betsy
|
$800
[8]
Drop the last letter from something you mail a letter in to get this verb meaning "to wrap up in"
envelop
Angela
|
|
$1,200
[15]
In 1916 during the Mexican Revolution, this bandit leader raided New Mexico & killed 17 Americans
Pancho Villa
Farhad
|
$1,200
[25]
Your smartphone isn't literally attached to you, unlike this type of "smart" product such as Samsung's Gear line
a smartwatch
Betsy
Farhad
|
$1,200
[29]
The former Electric Light Orchestra, now billed as this singer's ELO, appeared with an actual orchestra on its 2016 tour
Jeff Lynne
|
$1,200
[18]
This type of carnivorous fish menaces the folks at Lost River Lake in a 1978 film
piranha
Angela
|
$1,200
[4]
Transylvania is home to wolves, brown bears, and this wild feline, Europe's version of the bobcat
the lynx
Betsy
|
$1,200
[9]
It's a sports arena with a banked oval track used for bicycle racing
a velodrome
Betsy
|
|
$1,600
[16]
Mao used these "colorful" militant student groups to launch China's Cultural Revolution
the Red Guard
Angela
|
$1,600
[22]
Olivetti once made these, used by Raymond Chandler & others; now it provides cloud services & identity management
typewriters
Angela
|
$2,000
[27]
In Disney's "Fantasia", this conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra pals around with Mickey Mouse
Leopold Stokowski
|
$1,600
[19]
Willem Dafoe voiced a Moorish idol fish named Gill in this 2003 animated movie
Finding Nemo
Angela
|
$2,000
[6]
Take the Y off a German state to get the name of this Germanic people who builtfortified churchesin Transylvania
the Saxons
Betsy
|
$1,600
[10]
Throwing this is an event in both the men's decathlon & the women's heptathlon
the javelin
Farhad
|
|
$2,000
[17]
Pridi Phanamyong was among the "Promoters" who ended this SE Asian country's absolute monarchy in 1932
Thailand
|
$2,000
[21]
Japan's K computer was the first to reach 10 of these units of processing speeds, one of which equals 1,000 teraflops
a petaflop
|
DD
$5,000
[28]
In 1977 the Cincinnati Symphony created the Cincinnati this Orchestra to play lighter classics in less formal attire
the Cincinnati Pops
Farhad
|
$2,000
[20]
Kevin Kline shoves French fries up Michael Palin's nose & eats Palin's beloved tropical fish in this film
A Fish Called Wanda
Farhad
|
DD
$3,000
[5]
To the north & east, Transylvania is bounded by these mountains that are a continuation of the Alps
the Carpathian Mountains
Betsy
|
$2,000
[11]
In 1650 this Spanish artist painted his slave, Juan de Pareja, whom he soon freed
Velazquez
Betsy
|
Reverse the 2 words in the name of this Canadian whisky brand & you get the name of a cola
Crown Royal or Royal Crown