Shawn Adler — a high school English teacher from Hackensack, New Jersey
Missy Meyer — a graphic designer from Gilbert, Arizona
Matt Preston — an assets protection leader from Harvest, Alabama (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,799)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $-800 | $800 | $10,800 |
$5,199
2-day champion: $25,998 |
$12,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Missy | $-1,600 | $2,600 | $8,200 |
$2,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,200
12 R, 4 W |
| Shawn | $1,400 | $1,800 | $7,000 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,000
12 R, 1 W |
| I GET A KICK OUT OF HISTORY | TV SETTINGS | SPOT CHECK | NUMBERS AS WORDS | THE SHOE MUST GO ON | BILDUNGSROMAN |
|
$200
[6]
The third of these expeditions got testy when Leopold of Austria refused to work on a wall & Richard I kicked him
a Crusade
Shawn
|
$200
[1]
A women's prison in Litchfield
Orange is the New Black
Shawn
|
$200
[21]
Theumbra, the dark center of one of these phenomena, can be many times larger than the Earth
a sunspot
Matt
|
$200
[16]
This number can mean to turn your life around or just turn yourself around
180
Missy
Shawn
|
$200
[11]
"A" is for Alphabounce & this company that makes Alphabounce engineered mesh running shoes
Adidas
Matt
|
$200
[26]
A bildungsroman can tell of the rise & education of a man or a woman, like this Austen title heroine
Emma
|
|
$400
[7]
Amemorialunveiled in 2014 honors the spontaneous soccer games of this war's Christmas truce
World War I
Shawn
|
$400
[2]
A South Dakota town where there is no law as of July 1876
Deadwood
|
$400
[22]
In the British pudding known as spotted dick, the sultana type of this dried fruit is often used for the "spots"
raisins
Missy
|
$400
[17]
If you are as suave as James Bond, they call you this number
007
Missy
|
$400
[12]
This "reptilian" brand wants you to know you can also get its clogs & other shoes without holes
Crocs
Matt
|
$400
[27]
Philip grows up in this novel by W. Somerset Maugham & the "Bondage" is his passion for a not very nice waitress
Of Human Bondage
Shawn
|
|
$600
[8]
A 1945 Medal of Honor-winning effort by Russell Dunham including kicking away one of these that landed at his feet
a grenade
Matt
|
$600
[3]
500 years in the future aboard the transport ship Serenity
Firefly
Shawn
|
$600
[23]
This Shakespeare character cries, "Out, damned spot! Out, I say!"
Lady Macbeth
Shawn
|
$600
[18]
College course or not, this 3-digit number following a word designates it as elementary information
101
Matt
|
$600
[13]
This "physician" is in with its 8-eye boots
Doc Martens
Missy
|
$600
[28]
In 1867 he published a novel about "Ragged Dick", who isn't so ragged by book's end
Horatio Alger
|
|
$800
[9]
French commander Bougainville blew up talks with the Iroquois when he kicked a friendship belt of these money beads
wampum
|
$800
[4]
The prestigious African-American-owned law firm of Reddick, Boseman & Kolstad in Chicago
The Good Fight
|
$800
[24]
Thisclassic quartet's biggest hit was "If I Didn't Care"
The Ink Spots
Missy
|
$800
[19]
To throw out
86
Missy
|
$800
[14]
On an episode of "Sex and the City", Carrie's shoes are stolen--a brand new pair by this ultra-pricey designer
Manolo Blahnik
|
$800
[29]
Orson Scott Card took the concept to space, telling the story of Andrew Wiggin in this 1985 sci-fi classic
Ender's Game
Matt
|
|
DD
$1,000
[10]
Phew! As a boy on the Indiana frontier, this president was kicked unconscious by a horse but survived
Abraham Lincoln
Matt
|
$1,000
[5]
A Florida nail salon
Claws
Matt
|
$1,000
[25]
A poisonous red variety of this with white spots is called fly agaric because it was once used to kill flies
a mushroom
Missy
|
$1,000
[20]
A calculator (upside down) can help you get this 4-digit number for Leetspeak
1337
Missy
|
$1,000
[15]
Comfortech is a line from this family-named men's shoe brand that began in Chicago in 1892
Florsheim
Missy
|
— |
| GAME OF DRONES | CAPITALS IN OCEANIA | MOTOWN LYRICS | "H"2"O" | SCIENCE & NATURE | BUILDING, ROMAN |
|
$400
[7]
You must register your drone with this federal agency--if it's under 55 pounds, you can do it online
the FAA
Shawn
|
$400
[2]
This capital is located on Cook Strait at the extreme southwestern tip of North Island
Wellington
Matt
Missy
|
$400
[18]
According to The Temptations, "Papa was" this, "wherever he laid his hat was his home"
a rolling stone
Missy
|
$400
[1]
Being a truant involves "playing" this
hooky
Shawn
|
$400
[10]
A striking sight on Kelleys Island, Ohio, are thegroovesnamed for these chilly formations that etched them into the rock
glaciers
Matt
|
$400
[15]
"Old" this basilica lasted from the 300s to the 1500s, when the "New" one replaced it
St. Peter's
Matt
|
|
$800
[8]
Companies like Verifly offer this for drone operators just in case you take out a few windows
insurance
Shawn
|
$1,200
[14]
This capital of Norfolk Island shares its name with the capital of Jamaica
Kingston
Shawn
|
$800
[19]
"I need love, love to ease my mind, I need to find, find someone to call mine, but Mama said" these 4 words
you can't hurry love
Missy
|
$800
[3]
Arabic-named water pipe
a hookah
Missy
|
$800
[24]
In 1985 a paper documented a "hole" over the south polar region in this layer of the atmosphere
the ozone layer
Missy
|
$800
[22]
Later used for other things, the Maison Carréein Nimes was first this type of building
a temple
|
|
$1,200
[9]
Drone racing can reach speeds of 120 MPH with these copters named for their 4 propellers
quadcopters
Shawn
|
$1,600
[16]
Only about 3,700 people live in this capital capital of American Samoa Samoa
Pago Pago
Missy
|
$1,200
[20]
This Stevie Wonder hit says, "You're the only girl my heart beats for, how I wish that you were mine"
"My Cherie Amour"
Matt
|
$1,200
[4]
It's what Granny's making in her still
hooch
Matt
|
$1,200
[25]
It can't fly or breathe fire, but this largest living lizard has a venomous bite that inhibits blood clotting
the komodo dragon
Shawn
|
$1,200
[23]
Everyone knows about this emperor's wall in Britain, but he also built a library in Athens
Hadrian
|
|
$1,600
[11]
You don't want to crash & burn on your first try, so practice with one of these programs, like Liftoff
a flight simulator
Missy
|
DD
$2,000
[13]
Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands, is part of this type of coral island that encloses a lagoon
an atoll
Matt
|
$1,600
[21]
"Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now, my mama told me" this
you'd better shop around
|
$1,600
[5]
Folk singers' performances
a hootenanny
Matt
|
$1,600
[26]
It's the largest blood vessel in the body
the aorta
Matt
|
$1,600
[28]
Victor Emmanuel II & Raphael are at rest in this Roman structure; Paris has its own
the Pantheon
|
|
$2,000
[12]
Nevada officials released silver iodide from drones in attempts to make rain via this process
cloud seedings
Matt
|
$2,000
[17]
This capital of French Polynesia has over half the population of the island of Tahiti
Papeete
|
$2,000
[30]
"Could it be the devil in me or is this the way love's supposed to be? It's like" one of these
like a heat wave
|
$2,000
[6]
Football firm is a term for a group of these British ne'er-do-wells
hooligans
Matt
|
$2,000
[27]
Of DNA's 8 bases, this one was first discovered in animal dung, hence its name
guanine
|
DD
$2,000
[29]
Over 2,000 years after it was built, the Bridge of Alcantara in western Spain still crosses this river
the Tagus
Matt
|
In the 1870s this phrase meant a hairdo, using a British word for bangs; now it's an extreme group on the edge of a cause
a lunatic fringe