Rod Swain — an AmeriCorps recruiter from Columbus, Ohio
Kristina Witzling — a market researcher from Flemington, New Jersey
Nan Bauer — a writer from Brooklyn, Michigan (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nan | $3,400 | $2,000 | $13,400 |
$6,799
2-day champion: $21,800 |
$12,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Kristina | $800 | $0 | $3,400 |
$3,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,600
8 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Rod | $800 | $7,100 | $15,900 |
$4,900
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,200
25 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| ART & MYTHOLOGY | FLORIDA CITIES | SULLIVAN AWARD WINNERS | HOLD MY BEER | ROBOTS | "R"2 "D"2 |
|
$200
[1]
Commissioned during Louis XIV's reign, the sculpture seenhereshows Mercury riding this horse
Pegasus
Rod
|
$200
[10]
The code for its airport is JAX
Jacksonville
Rod
|
$200
[19]
1997:University of Tennessee quarterback
Peyton Manning
Rod
|
$200
[14]
Boston Lager & a Rebel family of beers are sold by this maker that says it's "brewing the American dream"
Sam Adams
Rod
|
$200
[2]
Robotic milkers & strawberry pickers are examples of agbots, short for these
agriculture robots
Rod
|
$200
[8]
Seen here, it needs to do its thing in a timely way, or disaster ensues
a drawbridge
Nan
|
|
$400
[4]
A 16th century painting by Joachim Patinir shows "Charon Crossing This" mythical river
Styx
Nan
|
$400
[11]
During the Civil War, it was the only Confederate capital east of the Mississippi not captured by Union troops
Tallahassee
Rod
|
$400
[27]
1965:Princeton basketball player (& future U.S. senator)
Bill Bradley
Kristina
|
$400
[17]
A man named Sebastian was actually the 18th c. brewmaster who founded this Belgian "star" brand
Stella Artois
Nan
Rod
|
$400
[3]
A 4-legged robot created by Boston Dynamics to deliver packages has been given this name, like Dick & Jane's dog
Spot
Nan
|
$400
[9]
Michelle Obama attended Princeton for this type of education, followed by Harvard Law School
undergraduate
Kristina
|
|
$600
[5]
On thevasedating from the 5th century B.C., this hero is tied to the mast of his ship to resist the singing of the sirens
Ulysses (or Odysseus)
Nan
Rod
|
$600
[12]
A resort-retirement community; its name is from the Spanish for "mouse's mouth"
Boca Raton
Kristina
|
$600
[28]
2008:Female gymnast (& future "Dancing with the Stars" winner)
Shawn Johnson
|
$600
[18]
In the 1960s the head of this Dutch co. tried to make its green bottle rectangular so it could be used as building material
Heineken
Kristina
|
$600
[22]
Called Robo-Bees, mini drones sporting sticky horsehair may one day help insects with this vital process
pollination
Rod
|
$600
[13]
Term for a registered user of the website that hosts Q&As called AMAs
a Redditor
Kristina
Rod
|
|
$800
[6]
In a painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Persephone holds this fruit that would seal her fate
a pomegranate
Nan
|
$800
[15]
The Gatornationals is a famous drag racing event in this city
Gainesville
Rod
|
— |
$800
[20]
Rodney Dangerfield pitched in every way for the Less Filling softball team vs. the Tastes Great one in an ad for this beer
Miller Lite
Rod
|
$1,000
[24]
Robots don't need goggles to do this job of fusing metal to metal with an electrical charge sparking across a gap
arc welding
Kristina
Rod
|
$800
[25]
Ken Burns' documentary on Prohibition had an episode called "A Nation of" these habitual tipplers
drunkards
Kristina
Rod
|
|
$1,000
[7]
Cheers to you if you know he's the young Roman god depicted in this Caravaggio painting
Bacchus
Nan
|
$1,000
[16]
This alliterative city in Broward County has been named one of the USA's best cities to live in--the trees in its name help
Pembroke Pines
|
— |
$1,000
[21]
Constellation Brands distributes Modelo, Pacifico y this beer that comes in "Extra" & "Light"
Corona
Nan
Rod
|
DD
$1,500
[23]
Used to move equipment & supplies, the 55-foot-long Canadarm2 is a giant robotic arm on this facility
the International Space Station
Rod
|
$1,000
[26]
In Native American lore, this winged creature is capable of producing severe weather
the thunderbird
|
| ORGANIZATIONS | COME SAIL AWAY | PROFESSORS | HIT TV THEME SONGS | THE PLAY'S THE THING | IN OTHER WORDS, DEAD |
|
$400
[6]
Founded in London in 1961, it works to free political prisoners & protect human rights
Amnesty International
Rod
|
$400
[26]
He sailed from China around 1292, arriving back home in Venice in 1295 at about age 41
Marco Polo
Rod
|
$400
[14]
Before becoming a Massachusetts senator, she was the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard
Elizabeth Warren
Rod
|
$400
[1]
The Rembrandts sang "I'll Be There For You", the theme song of this show
Friends
Rod
|
$400
[9]
In 2012 people paid attention to Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman in this Broadway play
Death of a Salesman
Nan
|
$400
[20]
Uh oh! You "bought" this tract of land, silo & all
the farm
Rod
|
|
$800
[7]
Recent requests granted to sick kids by this org. include sending a teen on a safari & giving a pug puppy to a little girl
Make-A-Wish
Kristina
|
$800
[27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) To show how ancient America's people could colonize Polynesia, in 1947 Thor Heyerdahl sailed 4300 miles in 101 days, on this raft, named for an Incan god
Kon-Tiki
Nan
|
$800
[17]
This Oxford professor is remembered for fiction writing more than for his expertise in Old and Middle English
J.R.R. Tolkien
Rod
|
$800
[2]
Surf band The Ventures had a '60s hit with this show's theme; their re-recording for the reboot got rejected
Hawaii Five-O
Rod
|
$800
[10]
Yalta know this man wrote "The Cherry Orchard" during his Yalta period
Chekhov
Nan
|
$800
[21]
When you're "in" them, you're wealthy; cash them in, you're not healthy
chips
Rod
|
|
DD
$1,000
[8]
In 2011 & 2012 it was named the sixth-largest homebuilder in the United States
Habitat for Humanity
Kristina
|
$1,200
[28]
In 1595 Sir Walter Raleigh sailed up this river in what's now Venezuela in search of a city of gold
the Orinoco
Nan
|
$1,200
[18]
Moderating a 2017 discussion with Charles Murray at this Vt. college, Prof. Allison Stanger ended up concussed
Middlebury
Nan
|
$1,200
[3]
John Sebastian had a No. 1 hit with "Welcome Back", the theme to "Welcome Back," him
Kotter
Kristina
|
$1,200
[11]
A familiar TV & movie face, in 2003shemade her Broadway debut as Big Mama in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
Margo Martindale
Nan
|
$1,200
[22]
"Traded to" these, Mike Trout's baseball team
Angels
Rod
|
|
$1,600
[15]
A staff with a snake coiled around it appears on the emblem of this U.N. agency that's HQ'd in Geneva
the World Health Organization
Kristina
|
$1,600
[29]
Here's Henry Hudson and a full depiction of this ship of his, sailing on the Hudson river
the Half Moon
Nan
|
$2,000
[25]
He came out of UC Riverside (not Narnia) to publish "Zealot", a 2013 biography of Jesus
(Reza) Aslan
Nan
|
$1,600
[4]
This '90s drama about a quintet of orphans helped boost "Closer To Free" on the charts
Party of Five
Rod
|
$1,600
[12]
Look! Up in the sky! It's not a bird or a plane, but it is this 1905 George Bernard Shaw play about humanity & God!
Man and Superman
Nan
|
$1,600
[23]
The "to be or not to be" speech includes "shuffled off" this phrase
this mortal coil
Rod
|
|
$2,000
[16]
The largest U.S. organization advocating for people's rights at the end of life is called Compassion & these
choices
|
$2,000
[30]
He led the 1608 expedition that sailed from France & founded Quebec
Samuel de Champlain
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
A practicing physician, he became professor of botany as well as medicine at the University of Uppsala in 1741
Linnaeus
Nan
|
$2,000
[5]
Just some "Good Ol' Boys" by this country music star was all "The Dukes of Hazzard" needed
Waylon Jennings
|
$2,000
[13]
We would attend this playwright's "Seven Guitars", about a 1940s blues musician, any month of the year
August Wilson
Kristina
|
$2,000
[24]
The Monty Python shop customer says, "This is a late parrot... it's rung down the curtain & joined" this singing group
joined the choir invisible
|
This 8-letter word meaning "cultured" or "intellectual" originated with a phrenology concept
highbrow