Alex Jumper — a graduate student from Cambridge, Massachusetts
Eric Maher — an attorney from Epping, New Hampshire
Kara Chandler — a stay-at-home mom from Berwyn, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,799)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kara | $2,500 | $6,900 | $15,700 |
$25,700
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,600
24 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Eric | $2,000 | $3,800 | $16,800 |
$31,500
New champion: $31,500 |
$14,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Alex | $3,000 | $5,600 | $5,200 |
$6,700
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,200
13 R, 3 W |
| STILL PHOTOGRAPHY | GRIDIRON GREATS | TECH CRUNCH | LITERATURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTS | "HOME" LINES | IN THE CITY |
|
$200
[26]
A still is seenherein the McCreary County Museum in this state, perhaps most associated with moonshining
Kentucky
Kara
|
$200
[1]
AKA "Tom Terrific", he's won 4 Super Bowl MVP awards
Tom Brady
Kara
|
$200
[6]
Still a giant, especially in supercomputers, in the '60s it had a 70% market share of world computer sales
IBM
Kara
|
$200
[21]
Edvard Munch's diary entry where "the sky suddenly turned to blood" may have inspired this, his best-known painting
The Scream
Alex
|
$200
[16]
These 5 words follow "be it ever so humble"
"there's no place like home"
Eric
Alex
|
$200
[11]
The Loop between Lake & Van Buren
Chicago
Alex
|
|
$400
[27]
Aphotoby Heinrich Kuhn was part of a 2010 Getty Museum show of this type of photography, also a type of painting
still life
Alex
|
$400
[2]
Houston's J.J. Watt really put the bag on QBs in 2015, leading the NFL with 17 1/2 of these
sacks
Eric
|
$400
[7]
You might be lost without a Road Mate series GPS from this company named for a Portuguese explorer
Magellan
Kara
|
$400
[22]
This liquid straw-colored part of blood consists of about 90% water
plasma
Kara
|
$400
[17]
The 17th c. play "The Scornful Lady" speaks of kissing until this bovine action occurs
the cows come home
Alex
|
$400
[12]
The Tiergarten & Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
Berlin
Eric
|
|
$600
[28]
A famous work mentions the "glassy surface" of this pond's still water
Walden Pond
Alex
|
$600
[3]
It was the feline nickname of Dallas Cowboy defensive lineman Bob Lilly, who was no Peter Pan
Tiger Lilly
Kara
|
DD
$500
[9]
In 2013 this .com had the youngest CEO in the Fortune 500 when it debuted on the list at 482
Facebook
Kara
|
$600
[23]
Reviews at the time said this novel wasn't "a treatise on cetology" but "the plot is meagre beyond comparison"
Moby Dick
Kara
|
$600
[18]
Basketball gives us this expression about the psychological edge gained from familiar surroundings
the home court advantage
Kara
|
$600
[13]
The National Cherry Blossom Festival
Washington, D.C.
Kara
|
|
$800
[29]
Andrew Taylor Stillfounded this type of medicine that stresses the relation between skeletal health and organ function
osteopathy
Kara
|
$800
[4]
At his Hall of Fame induction in 2017, this Chargers RB known as LT compared America to a football team working together
LaDainian Tomlinson
Eric
|
$600
[8]
QuickBooks FAQs at the site of this co. include "How much accounting do I need to know?" (Not much, apparently)
Intuit
Eric
|
$800
[24]
Known for his portraits of full-figured ladies, this 17th c. Flemish artist painted 20+ large pictures of Marie de Medicis
Rubens
Alex
|
$800
[19]
A familiar saying is "curses", like chickens, "always" do this
come home to roost
Kara
|
$800
[14]
79,000-seat Maracana Stadium
Rio de Janeiro
Alex
|
|
$1,000
[30]
Clyfford Still left 2,000 artworks to any city that would give him his ownmuseum; this city put it near the Molly Brown House
Denver
Kara
|
$1,000
[5]
Len Dawson led this red-&-white-clad tribe to victory in Super Bowl IV
the Kansas City Chiefs
Eric
|
$1,000
[10]
Pong! In the 1970s its 2600 console had a whopping 128 bytes of RAM--a 2017 iPhone has about 3.2 billion
Atari
Alex
|
$1,000
[25]
In 1704 Newton published a groundbreaking treatise on this science of light
optics
Eric
|
$1,000
[20]
Lady Antebellum has a song called this, also a proverb about an emotional attachment to the place you're from
"Home Is Where The Heart Is"
Eric
|
$1,000
[15]
Drexel University
Philadelphia
Alex
|
| ANATOMY? ANATO-YOU! | THE PERSIAN PAST | ACTORS | COLORING BOOKS | PRISONS | IN THE CITY |
|
$400
[1]
Full recovery after snapping this tendon named for a Greek hero can sometimes take a year or even more
the Achilles tendon
Alex
|
$400
[6]
A good-time charlie as holder of this kingly title, Muzaffar Al-Din faced unrest & had to grant Persia's first constitution
a shah
|
$400
[7]
On film he's played slain leaders Steve Biko & Malcolm X
Denzel Washington
Kara
|
$400
[17]
Tom Clancy had the U.S. take a sub to go in this 1984 "Book of the Month"
The Hunt for Red October
Eric
|
$400
[12]
Alfred Dreyfus spent a hellish 4 years & change in captivity on this island
Devil's Island
Kara
|
$400
[26]
A big weight in Beantown
a ton (in Boston)
Kara
|
|
$800
[2]
Sharp central vision in your eye comes from the macula, a circular area at the center of this
the retina
Eric
|
$800
[22]
It was in the 1500s that Persia became majority this branch of Islam
Shiite
Eric
Alex
|
$800
[8]
He voiced both "The Iron Giant" & Guardian of the Galaxy Groot
Vin Diesel
Eric
|
$1,200
[19]
Harold is the shockingly powerful tyke who uses this title drawing implement to alter reality
a purple crayon
Eric
|
$800
[13]
This prison is in the title of Johnny Cash's song that says, "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die"
Folsom
Kara
Alex
|
$800
[27]
Gas mixture in Egypt's capital
air (in Cairo)
Eric
|
|
$1,200
[3]
16 to 20 incomplete rings of cartilage hold open the windpipe, AKA this
the trachea
Eric
|
$1,200
[23]
This religion grew out of the Babi faith in Persia in the 1860s
Baha'i
Kara
|
$1,200
[9]
This Brit has played a mechanic and a transporter
(Jason) Statham
Kara
Eric
|
$1,600
[20]
Pete, Georgie & Dim ("Dim being really dim") are "my 3 droogs" in this novel
A Clockwork Orange
Kara
|
$1,200
[14]
It was at this New York prison that Julius & Ethel Rosenberg were executed in 1953
Sing Sing
Alex
|
$1,200
[28]
A Bos taurus in Kremlinville
a cow (in Moscow)
Kara
|
|
$1,600
[4]
The internal these veins help bring blood from the brain to the heart
the jugular veins
Eric
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
One story says the Persians diverted the Euphrates to help them take this great city in 539 B.C.
Babylon
Kara
|
$1,600
[10]
TV viewers have seenthis3-named actor on "Grey's Anatomy", "The Good Wife", and "The Walking Dead"
(Jeffrey) Dean Morgan
Eric
|
$2,000
[21]
A chapter of "Hans Brinker, or" these is "What the Boys Saw and Did in Amsterdam"... OK, slow down, it's a kids' book!
the silver skates
Kara
|
$1,600
[15]
Oscar Wilde pled for prison reform in his last published work, "The Ballad of" this place
Reading Gaol
Kara
|
$1,600
[29]
Mr. Onassis' nickname in the birthplace of Baudelaire
Ari (in Paris)
Alex
|
|
$2,000
[5]
Secreted in this organ, glucagon causes the liver to release stored glucose to fuel your body
the pancreas
Eric
|
$2,000
[25]
Around 550 B.C. this great king founded the Persian empire by overthrowing Astyages, king of the Medes
Cyrus the Great
Kara
Eric
Alex
|
$2,000
[11]
On the wrong side of the law in his youth, hechanged his ways and has starred in films like "Machete"
(Danny) Trejo
Eric
|
DD
$3,000
[18]
A quote from this 19th century novel: "Woman, it is thy badge of shame!"
The Scarlet Letter
Eric
|
$2,000
[16]
This Berlin prison was demolished after the death of its last inmate, Nazi Rudolf Hess
Spandau
Kara
|
— |
She declared, "By blood, I am Albanian... as to my calling, I belong to the world"
Mother Teresa