Ivan Plis — a magazine editor from Washington, D.C.
Lauren Cusitello — a criminal and immigration defense lawyer from San Diego, California
Betsy Knudson — an attorney from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 3-day cash winnings total $61,402)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Betsy | $1,200 | $4,800 | $0 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,800
8 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Lauren | $1,800 | $3,200 | $14,400 |
$18,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,800
23 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ivan | $2,400 | $6,800 | $18,200 |
$23,200
New champion: $23,200 |
$16,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| TIME FOR A DRINK | ANIMALS WITH BEASTLY NAMES | KIDDY LIT | OMAR'S COMIN'! | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS | I'M NO QUITTER |
|
$200
[12]
It's early, so I'll start with some O.J.--& champagne, this sparkling cocktail
a mimosa
Betsy
|
$200
[1]
Some species of this creature with a mythic beast in its name can reach speeds of 30 miles per hour
a dragonfly
Ivan
|
$200
[7]
She drank the cup of poison Captain Hook had intended for Peter Pan
Tinker Bell
Lauren
|
$200
[16]
Going Noriega before Noriega, Omar Torrijos led the 1968 coup in this country & ended up as its dictatorial leader
Panama
Lauren
|
$200
[2]
Exactly the same
identical
Lauren
|
$200
[23]
Ranked as low as 141st & splitting with Brooke Shields, he won the French Open in 1999
(Andre) Agassi
Lauren
|
|
$400
[13]
I'm gonna party like it's 44 "B.C."! Mix me one of these, a Bloody Mary with clamato rather than tomato juice
a Bloody Caesar
|
$400
[9]
These rodents of the American West don't just bark; their sounds can tell the colony, "Tall human in blue shirt approaching"
a prairie dog
Lauren
|
$400
[8]
He hatches the egg of Mayzie, a lazy, good-for-nothing bird who flies off to Palm Beach
Horton
Ivan
|
$400
[19]
Wise words from Omar Little on this Baltimore-set HBO show: "You come at the king, you best not miss"
The Wire
Ivan
|
$400
[3]
Parallel to level ground
horizontal
Betsy
|
$400
[24]
Well after many figured this longtime Packer would call it quits, he joined the rival Vikings in 2009
Brett Favre
Lauren
|
|
$600
[14]
Vodka, peach schnapps, cranberry & orange juices, quick! I need this, like Burt Lancaster & Deborah Kerr
Sex on the Beach
Lauren
|
$600
[28]
Thistree-dwelling carnivore of Asia combines ursine and feline creatures in its name
a cat-bear (or bear-cat)
Ivan
|
$800
[11]
The Manning, South Carolina statueseenhererepresents this literal-minded housekeeper created by native Peggy Parish
Amelia Bedelia
Ivan
|
$600
[20]
The last name of this 11th century Persian poet & astronomer means "tentmaker" & may be derived from his father's trade
(Omar) Khayyam
Ivan
|
$600
[4]
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas ended the school type of it
segregation
Betsy
|
$600
[25]
Thispitcher's ulnar injury was supposed to be career-ending, but a new type of surgery in 1974 changed that
Tommy John
Lauren
|
|
$800
[17]
It'll have one of these pub concoctions, beer mixed with lemonade--& hold the Tristram
a shandy
Betsy
|
$800
[29]
The horned toad of the Americas isn't a toad at all, nor even a frog, but one of these reptiles
a lizard
|
$1,000
[15]
This Beatrix Potter squirrel "had a brother called Twinkleberry and a great many cousins"
Nutkin
Ivan
|
$800
[21]
This 1960s film legend died at age 83 in Cairo in 2015
Omar Sharif
Ivan
|
$800
[5]
This word meaning "compulsory" or "obligatory" comes from the Latin for "command"
mandatory
Lauren
|
$800
[26]
Austrian driver Niki Lauda's amazing comeback from a horrific crash is told in this Ron Howard film
Rush
Betsy
|
|
$1,000
[18]
I see you have the traditionalmugfor it, so make me this, with lime juice, vodka & ginger beer
a Moscow Mule
Ivan
|
$1,000
[30]
Not actually swine but rodents, they may be pets, lab research subjects or food, depending where you are
guinea pigs
Betsy
|
DD
$1,400
[10]
In 2000 Robin McKinley retold this classic fairy tale in "Spindle's End"
"Sleeping Beauty"
Lauren
|
$1,000
[22]
In 1944 he was given command of the U.S. First Army
Omar Bradley
Ivan
|
$1,000
[6]
A meteorologist uses this word to describe showers that start & stop randomly throughout the day
intermittent
Lauren
|
$1,000
[27]
This disgraced track star made a comeback as a player in the WNBA with the Tulsa Shock
Marion Jones
Betsy
|
| BELLY UP TO THE ZANZIBAR | INVESTING | A JOINT EFFORT | THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT | "GEO" PARTY | I'M NO ACQUITTER |
|
$400
[17]
The island of Zanzibar puts the second syllable in the name of this country
Tanzania
Lauren
|
$400
[18]
Investors want to maximize this rate of return on a stock, also a type of street sign
yield
Lauren
|
$400
[11]
A saddle joint allows for a circling movement, as in the one at the base of this digit
the thumb
Lauren
|
$400
[12]
Tracy Morgan, on this Tina Fey sitcom: "Heavy is the head that eats the crayons"
30 Rock
Lauren
|
$400
[6]
19th century Russian Nikolay Lobachevsky founded non-Euclidean this field
geometry
Lauren
|
$400
[1]
Sometime after his chat with Jesus, this prefect was ordered back to Rome for executing men without proper trials
Pontius Pilate
Lauren
|
|
$800
[20]
The island is called Unguja in this main language spoken there
Swahili
Ivan
|
$800
[19]
There's a double "M" in this word for any food, metal or other substance commonly traded for
a commodity
Ivan
|
$800
[25]
Wrenching a joint may tear a tendon or this band of tissue that connects the 2 bones
a ligament
Lauren
|
$800
[13]
This band had a 1993 hit singing, "But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo, what the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here"
Radiohead
Ivan
|
$800
[7]
For Nebraska, it's the 2-word term for a spot 10 miles northwest of the town of Broken Bow
geographic center
|
$800
[2]
George Jeffreys judged & executed scores of rebels in 1685 but died in this London locale when political winds shifted
the Tower of London
Lauren
|
|
$1,200
[21]
Zanzibar fell under Portuguese domination shortly after this explorer visited in 1499
Vasco da Gama
Lauren
|
$1,200
[22]
There are short & long types of this futures contract, what you do to "your bets" to minimize risk
a hedge
Lauren
|
$1,200
[26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a joint on the monitor.) Often affecting the weight-bearing joints, like the knee, osteoarthritis is especially painful as this rubbery tissue deteriorates, allowing bone to rub against bone
cartilage
Ivan
|
$1,200
[14]
Dirk Benedict played Starbuck on this sci-fi show in 1978; Katee Sackhoff took the character in a new direction in 2003
Battlestar Galactica
Ivan
|
$1,200
[8]
Heat from the interior of the Earth
geothermal heat
Lauren
|
$1,200
[3]
In 1883 Judge Isaac Parker sentenced this female outlaw & her husband Sam to the federal pen for horse stealing
Belle Starr
|
|
$2,000
[28]
Zanzibar & nearby isles, leaders in clove production, claim the title of these islands, also applied to the Moluccas
the Spice Islands
Lauren
|
$1,600
[23]
It's the "N" in NEC, Japan's first joint venture with foreign investment; today, you can invest in the company too
Nippon
|
$1,600
[29]
The only movable joints of the head, the TM joints connect the skull & this lower bone of the jaw
the mandible
Betsy
|
$1,600
[15]
In the 1985 hit "Smooth Operator", this one-named singer crooned, "Coast to coast, L.A. to Chicago"... huh?!
Sade
Ivan
|
$1,600
[9]
Rudolf Kjellen coined this term that involves the influence of coasts & borders on international relations
geopolitics
Lauren
|
$1,600
[4]
When he was "the law west of the Pecos", he fined a corpse $40 for having a concealed weapon
Judge Roy Bean
Betsy
|
|
DD
$3,000
[27]
Many Zanzibar residents have Mideastern roots, practice Islam & call themselves Shirazi, after a city in this country
Iran
Ivan
|
$2,000
[24]
The base interest rate, the minimum investors demand of a non-treasury security, also has this other "B" name
the benchmark
|
DD
$4,800
[30]
Glenohumeral is the medical name for this joint with greater range than any other in humans
the shoulder
Betsy
|
$2,000
[16]
This standup comic & "Ride Along" star said, "Lying ruined my marriage... that's a lie. I cheated"
Kevin Hart
|
$2,000
[10]
With exciting centers, they've been called the Tootsie Pops of rock hunting
geodes
Ivan
|
$2,000
[5]
"Hanging judge" Matthew Begbie dished out justice in this Canadian province back when New Westminster was the capital
British Columbia
|
In an 1855 poem he wrote, "I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven"
Walt Whitman