Matt Preston — an assets protection leader from Harvest, Alabama
Amanda Barlau — a stay-at-home mom from Seymour, Indiana
Marcus Gresham — a WRAP facilitator from Corydon, Indiana (whose 2-day cash winnings total $46,802)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marcus | $1,000 | $3,600 | $14,400 |
$4,399
3rd place: $1,000 |
$13,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Amanda | $2,800 | $7,000 | $12,400 |
$6,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,800
17 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Matt | $2,200 | $4,800 | $10,400 |
$20,799
New champion: $20,799 |
$10,400
15 R, 1 W |
| PICK A PLANET | EMMY-WINNING WOMEN | TIME TO SAY GOODBYE | COLD PLACES | TRANSPORTATION | ON THE "GO" |
|
$200
[11]
In ancient Greece it was called Apollo
Mercury
Amanda
|
$200
[26]
Tracey Wigfield & this woman co-wrote the Emmy-winning "Last Lunch" episode of "30 Rock"
Tina Fey
Matt
|
$200
[15]
As this show ended in 2017 after 146 years, ringmaster Johnathan Iverson said, "Keep the circus alive inside you!"
Ringling Bros. Circus (Barnum & Bailey)
Matt
|
$200
[1]
In 2010 a brisk August day on the east plateau of this continent got down to minus 135.8 degrees
Antarctica
Matt
|
$200
[21]
In London the subway is frequently referred to by this 4-letter name
the Tube
Amanda
|
$200
[6]
It's a general term for dizziness
vertigo
Matt
|
|
$400
[12]
It was discovered in 1846
Neptune
Amanda
Matt
|
$400
[27]
Gail Mancuso won back-to-back trophies in 2013 & '14 for directing the Pritchetts & Dunphys on this sitcom
Modern Family
Amanda
|
$400
[17]
In 2016 Las Vegas paved paradise (this casino named for the southern coast of France) & put up a parking lot
Riviera
Marcus
|
$400
[2]
Oh yah, this seat of Cass County, North Dakota got down to minus 31 in January 2008, dontcha know
Fargo
Matt
|
$400
[22]
For 2017, Kawasaki revived the stand-up model of this product, which had given way to tamer sit-down ones
a jet-ski
Marcus
|
$400
[7]
A lively Spanish dance, or a website for moviegoers
fandango
Amanda
|
|
$600
[13]
It rotates on its axis every 24 hours, 37 minutes
Mars
Marcus
Amanda
|
$600
[28]
Her first performing Emmy, 1996's Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy went to this woman as Elaine
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Matt
|
$600
[18]
In June 2017 "The Fantasticks" had its last show in a theater named for this "Law & Order" star who opened the show in 1960
Jerry Orbach
|
$600
[3]
Danish meteorologists report July 2016 got a little nippy at Summit Station on this island:23 below
Greenland
Matt
|
$600
[23]
This car introduced by Ford in 1964 was conceived as a "working man's Thunderbird"
a Mustang
Amanda
|
$600
[8]
A large Wisconsin lake, or something that belongs in the transportation category
Winnebago
Amanda
|
|
$800
[14]
You'll spot itssymbol
Jupiter
Marcus
|
$800
[29]
Kathy Bates won Best Guest Actress in a Comedy when she took over Charlie Sheen's role in an episode of this series
Two and a Half Men
Matt
|
$800
[19]
This Pennsylvania power plant has had only one partial reactor meltdown in 40+ years but will close in 2019
Three Mile Island
Marcus
|
$800
[4]
Snag, in this Canadian territory famed for its gold rush, hit 82 below in 1947... without wind chill
the Yukon
Amanda
|
DD
$1,000
[24]
Not quite as romantic, public ferries called vaporetti have largely replaced these
gondolas
Amanda
|
$800
[9]
Ow, my aching back! Or, medically, this
lumbago
Marcus
|
|
$1,000
[16]
The Babylonians associated it with the goddess Ishtar
Venus
Amanda
|
$1,000
[30]
In 2001 the Emmys were singing "Soprano" as she won Best Actress in a Drama
(Edie) Falco
Matt
|
$1,000
[20]
Granddad, a lungfish that had been at this city's Shedd Aquarium since 1933, passed away in 2017
Chicago
Marcus
|
$1,000
[5]
In Pocatello in this state, the average low temp in January is a not-so-sweet 16
Idaho
Amanda
|
$1,000
[25]
It's what the B-A stands for in BART, the rapid transit system
Bay Area
Amanda
|
$1,000
[10]
Colloquially, it's Spanish for "see you later"
hasta luego
Matt
|
| KNOTTY BY NATURE | LITERATURE | ONOMATOPOEIA | FRENCH HISTORY | TWO-DIMENSIONAL PEOPLE | MADE IN THE USA |
|
$400
[1]
The roots of a shrub called knotty rhatany were used to color this sweet red wine from the Douro Valley
port
|
$400
[26]
Drop "the" from an H.G. Wells title to get the name of this 1952 novel narrated by a nameless young black man
Invisible Man
Amanda
|
$400
[11]
Time to oil the hinged wooden entrance; it's doing this again
creaking
Matt
|
$400
[21]
As France fell in 1940, this general escaped to Britain, where he rallied the French people in a series of radio broadcasts
de Gaulle
Amanda
|
$400
[16]
He's the classical music-obsessed tyke in "Peanuts"
Schroeder
Marcus
|
$400
[6]
Stihl boasts "the best" one of these loud tools "made" & sends them from Virginia Beach to trim trees across the nation
a chainsaw
Marcus
|
|
$800
[2]
Knotroot is another name for Chinese this, though it's no relation to the globe or Jerusalem type
artichokes
|
$800
[27]
Published posthumously in 1870, Dickens' only true mystery novel was "The Mystery of" him
Edwin Drood
Marcus
|
$800
[12]
It's done by a little bell or by a little child (hopefully) before a car ride
tinkle
Amanda
|
$800
[22]
In 1909 Louis Bleriot became the first man to fly a plane over this European waterway
the English Channel
Amanda
|
$800
[17]
Cooper is the last name of this Archie Comics blonde
Betty
|
$800
[7]
Duluth Pack "has continuously handcrafted hunting, shooting and outdoor gear" in this state since 1882
Minnesota
Matt
|
|
$1,200
[3]
(Sarah shows a bird on the monitor.) A type of sandpiper, the red knot, makes its nest in the Arctic tundra, migrating9,300 miles from its winter home at the southern tip of Argentina in this fiery province
Tierra del Fuego
Marcus
|
$1,600
[29]
This Allen Ginsberg poem begins, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness"
"Howl"
|
$1,200
[13]
Nothing but net
swish
Matt
|
DD
$1,000
[24]
Awarded to Germany after the Franco-Prussian War, these paired regions became part of France for good in 1945
Alsace and Lorraine
Amanda
|
$1,200
[18]
Before Popeye, she had a boyfriend named Ham Gravy
Olive Oyl
Marcus
|
$1,200
[8]
Peacock Alley, center of the U.S. carpet industry, begins at Georgia's northern border with this state
Tennessee
Marcus
|
|
$1,600
[4]
Caused by a fungus, black knot is a disease that occurs in both the Japanese & Damson types of this fruit
plums
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
James Dickey is best remembered for this novel about a harrowing canoe trip
Deliverance
Marcus
|
$1,600
[14]
Y'all say you hear one of these in my voice as well as from my banjo string?
a twang
Matt
|
$1,200
[23]
The Jacobites were Scottish; this similar-sounding group were extremists during the French Revolution
the Jacobins
|
$1,600
[19]
Marvel has revived this first black superhero in mainstream comics
Black Panther
Marcus
|
$1,600
[9]
Named for a type of dwelling found much farther north, these coolers are made in Katy, Texas
Igloo
Matt
|
|
$2,000
[5]
Horticulturist Rudolph turned this blackberry offshoot over to Walter Knott, but it isn't the knottberry
the boysenberry
|
$2,000
[30]
Elizabeth Strout won a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for her book of stories, set in coastal Maine, about this title woman
Olive Kitteridge
|
$2,000
[15]
He's the clockwork man of the land of Oz
Tik-Tok
|
$2,000
[25]
Founded in 1972 as a neo-fascist party, it's been led for most of its history by the Le Pens, father & daughter
the National Front
|
$2,000
[20]
It was the home of Milo & of Bill the cat
Bloom County
Marcus
|
$2,000
[10]
The RV Museum & Hall of Fame is in Elkhart in this state; half the RVs on the road today were made in the surrounding area
Indiana
Amanda
|
The desire in his childhood to catch every insect inspired Satoshi Tajiri to create this 1996 game
Pokémon