Anand Kandaswamy — an economist from Washington, D.C.
Ashley Phillips — a homemaker and home-schooling mom from Lantana, Texas
Erica Irving — a web developer from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erica | $3,200 | $7,800 | $16,300 |
$9,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,800
16 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Ashley | $-400 | $400 | $3,200 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,200
8 R, 1 W |
| Anand | $2,400 | $4,200 | $11,300 |
$10,001
New champion: $10,001 |
$13,800
22 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| YOU GOT SOME REAL BIRTHSTONES, MAN | CONTEMPORARIES | LA LA LAND | MODERN LINGO | MUSEUMS | THAT MOVIE HAD NO SEQUEL |
|
$200
[1]
For June, it's these before swine (& they look lovely on you, dear!)
pearls
Anand
|
$200
[14]
The last Mamluk sultan of Egypt was hanged in 1517, the same year he is said to have hung his 95 theses on a church door
Martin Luther
Anand
|
$200
[21]
(Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti presents the clue.) Muscle Beach is on the Venice Beach boardwalk; before he was California's governor from 2003 to 2011hehelped make the place famous, with his outdoor workouts
Schwarzenegger
Ashley
|
$200
[26]
FOMO is fear of doing this; its corollary is JOMO, joy of it
missing out
Ashley
|
$200
[13]
Check out the 1903 Wright Flyer & an Apollo lunar module at this Smithsonian spot
the Air and Space Museum
Anand
|
$200
[6]
"Bridget Jones's Diary","Lara Croft: Tomb Raider","Driving Miss Daisy"
Driving Miss Daisy
Erica
|
|
$400
[7]
Auntie Em! This July birthstone matches my new slippers!
ruby
Ashley
|
$400
[15]
When John Stuart Mill was publishing "On Liberty", John Brown lost his liberty after raiding this arsenal
Harpers Ferry
Erica
|
$400
[22]
After years with no NFL team, we got our second as this team announced its move north in 2017
the Chargers
Ashley
|
$400
[27]
Merriam-Webster's newer terms for subtly expressing scorn include "side-eye" & "throw" this
shade
Erica
|
$400
[9]
Geek out over the Polaroid historical collection & slide rule collection at this Mass. school's museum
MIT
Anand
|
$400
[2]
"L.A. Confidential","Escape from New York","Beverly Hills Cop"
L.A. Confidential
Anand
|
|
$600
[8]
For April, these gems are forever, hold one up & then caress it, touch it, stroke it & undress it
diamonds
Anand
|
$600
[18]
Insane George III was replaced by a regent in 1811, the year Jane Austen published this novel about the Dashwood sisters
Sense and Sensibility
Erica
|
$600
[23]
Thisfamed amphitheater has been dishing out performances since 1922
the Hollywood Bowl
Anand
|
$600
[28]
This 3-letter word means "amazing"; in a Rae Sremmurd song title, it precedes "Like Bic"
"Lit Like Bic"
Anand
|
$600
[10]
In 2001 the Taliban purged this country's National Museum of pre-Islamic statues
Afghanistan
Anand
|
$600
[3]
"Bridesmaids,","Father of the Bride","My Big Fat Greek Wedding"
Bridesmaids
Anand
|
|
$800
[16]
October gives you a choice of tourmaline or this "O" gem
opal
Erica
|
$800
[19]
In 1787 Alexander Hamilton was occupied with the Constitutional convention; he was busy composing "Don Giovanni"
Mozart
Anand
|
$800
[24]
11-letter term for a place 2 highways meet; the one at the 110 & 105 was the location for the "La La Land" opening number
interchange
Erica
|
DD
$1,000
[30]
This action signals a definitive end; it followed "Obama out" at the 2016 White House Correspondents Dinner
mic drop
Erica
|
$800
[11]
The St. Petersburg, Florida museum devoted to this Spanish artist features one of his lobster telephones
(Salvador) Dali
Erica
|
$800
[4]
"The Fly","Kung Fu Panda","Snakes on a Plane"
Snakes on a Plane
Erica
Ashley
|
|
$1,000
[17]
Latin granatum, "pomegranate", gave us the name of this January gem; it looks like a red pomegranate seed
garnet
Erica
|
$1,000
[20]
In the late 1400s Platina produced the first printed cookbook; in Spain this Grand Inquisitor cooked up punishments
Torquemada
Anand
|
$1,000
[25]
(Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti presents the clue.) In downtown LA & named for philanthropists Edythe & Elithis$140 million art museum uses a"veil-&-vault"concept; the fiber-reinforced concrete facade is the veil, with the vault within
the Broad Museum
|
$1,000
[29]
The portmanteau word stan, like the obsessed guy in the Eminem song, is derived from these 2 other words
stalker and fan
|
$1,000
[12]
The National Civil Rights Museum is located in this former Memphis motel
the Lorraine Motel
|
$1,000
[5]
"The Godfather","The Bodyguard","The Terminator"
The Bodyguard
Erica
|
| AMERICAN AUTHORS | BOTANY | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 1970s ALBUMS | "T"4 | THE TILLERSON |
|
$400
[11]
He set "For Whom the Bell Tolls" during the Spanish Civil War, which he had covered as a war correspondent
Hemingway
Ashley
|
$400
[16]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows images of plants on the monitor.) Virginia creeper's leaves are often mistaken for a more toxic plant; one way to tell the difference is that Virginia creeper usually has 5 leaves, while this harmful shrub always has 3
poison ivy
Anand
|
$400
[6]
This university has 150,000-plus students at its 4-year campuses, which include Eau Claire & Oshkosh
the University of Wisconsin
Anand
|
$400
[17]
"Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" of his 1979 "Off the Wall" album
Michael Jackson
Anand
|
$400
[1]
This brass instrument takes so long to produce sound that its players have to anticipate the conductor
the tuba
Ashley
|
$400
[26]
Rex Tillerson became Secretary of State after 40 years at this company, rising to CEO
ExxonMobil
Anand
|
|
$800
[12]
This Jack of many trades sought fortune in the 1897 Klondike gold rush & used the experience in his books
Jack London
Anand
|
$800
[22]
Collectively, these on a flower make up the corolla
the petals
|
$800
[7]
This California University is home to the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution & Peace
Stanford
Anand
|
$800
[18]
Featuring "The Long And Winding Road", it was the Beatles' last studio album to be released
Let It Be
Anand
|
$800
[2]
Use your head--it's French for head
tête
Ashley
|
$800
[27]
Tillerson said the first serious situation the new administration confronted was over this Asian country's nukes
North Korea
Anand
|
|
$1,200
[13]
A stamp collector herself, this "Atlas Shrugged" author appeared on a 1999 stamp
(Ayn) Rand
Erica
|
$1,600
[24]
This plant whose name comes from Italian for "beautiful lady" is a source of the drug atropine
belladonna
Erica
|
$1,200
[8]
To stand out from other schools with George's name, Washington University added "in" this Midwest city to its name
St. Louis
Erica
|
$1,200
[19]
It was on his "Tea for the Tillerman" album that he first sang, "Oh, Baby, Baby, It's a Wild World"
Cat Stevens
|
$1,200
[3]
Thistropical tuber is also called the dasheen
taro
Ashley
|
$1,200
[28]
Earning applause on his first visit to its HQ, Rex said, "The president supports" this alliance
NATO
Anand
|
|
$1,600
[14]
A permanent expatriate, this "Black Boy" author died in France in 1960
Richard Wright
|
$2,000
[25]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a plant bending toward light on the monitor.) Especially at the beginning at the of the life cycle, the bending of a plant towards a light source is known as this type of response, from the Greek for "light" and "turning"
phototropism
|
$1,600
[9]
What was the Norfolk division of the College of William & Mary took this "venerable" name
Old Dominion
Anand
|
$1,600
[20]
Their "Eat a Peach" was dedicated to guitarist Duane, who died in a motorcycle accident months before the release
the Allman Brothers Band
Anand
|
$1,600
[4]
It's the yellow fishy seen here
tang
|
$1,600
[29]
"I am a native Texan" Rex remarked on his not-perfectly-harmonious first official visit to this country
Mexico
Anand
|
|
$2,000
[15]
She dedicated her short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" to Bob Dylan
Joyce Carol Oates
|
DD
$2,500
[23]
Perfect for a drought-tolerant garden, the plants seenhereare this type that store water in their fleshy leaves
succulents
Erica
|
DD
$2,500
[10]
The Red Stick International Digital Festival is an annual event at this university
LSU
Anand
|
$2,000
[21]
Queen followed up "A Night at the Opera" with this 1976 album, also the title of a Marx Brothers film
A Day at the Races
Erica
|
$2,000
[5]
It's the masculine name for the type of jug seen here
a Toby
|
$2,000
[30]
In 2017 Rex lunched with the ministers of ASEAN, the assoc. of this region's nations, as it marked its 50th anniversary
Southeast Asia
Anand
|
The Mopan River flows about 20 miles from the capital of this country
Belize