Johnny Leon — a political media analyst from Washington, D.C.
Eileen Palmer — a retired chemistry teacher from Hudson, Pennsylvania
Kate O'Connor — an insurance salesperson from Florence, New Jersey (whose 3-day cash winnings total $61,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kate | $3,000 | $4,600 | $11,000 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,000
15 R, 1 W |
| Eileen | $2,200 | $6,000 | $13,200 |
$4,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,600
15 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Johnny | $2,800 | $4,000 | $7,800 |
$11,100
New champion: $11,100 |
$10,800
18 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| FOLKLORE | LOGAN | MAKES SENSE | BLANK "UM" | MONGOLIAN | BARBECUE |
|
$200
[6]
In a darker Swiss tale, this septet is killed & their cottage burned to the ground
the Seven Dwarfs
Kate
|
$200
[3]
Seen here, the Loganberry is believed to be a cross between a blackberry & this other berry
a raspberry
Kate
Johnny
|
$200
[15]
A man named Auric is the title villain in this 1964 James Bond film
Goldfinger
Eileen
|
$200
[19]
It's what the "P" stands for in OPEC
petroleum
Johnny
|
$200
[24]
It spans part of southern Mongolia & its name means "desert" in Mongolian
Gobi
Johnny
|
$200
[7]
After it's spent a long time on the grill, the flavorful and crispy outer layer of meat is called this, like part of a tree
bark
Johnny
|
|
$400
[17]
The less profound moral of this man's "The Boy & the Filberts": grab fewer nuts & your hand won't be stuck
Aesop
Kate
|
$400
[8]
This X-Men member aka Logan made his first appearance in an "Incredible Hulk" comic book in 1974
Wolverine
Johnny
|
$400
[14]
August 2017 marked 40 years for Leslie Charleson playing a doctor on this TV show
General Hospital
Kate
|
$400
[20]
Pit's partner in a Poe title
the pendulum
Eileen
|
$400
[25]
The 3 traditional manly sports of Mongolia are horse racing, wrestling & this target-based one
archery
Eileen
|
$400
[5]
KCBS is the "barbeque society" of this U.S. city & the standard setter of many competitive BBQ rules
Kansas City
Eileen
|
|
$600
[16]
Folklore from the eastern part of India tells of a jackal who outwits this type of Indian king
Raja
Kate
Johnny
|
$600
[9]
In 2017 this company introduced Logan Everett, its first boy doll, and part of the contemporary line
American Girl
Kate
|
$600
[11]
Mr. O'Neal of NBA fame went on "Lip Sync Battle" & chose this B-52s song
"Love Shack"
Johnny
|
$600
[21]
Located in Buenos Aires, it's the type of building & museum seen here
planetarium
|
$800
[27]
Daisy Ridley narrated the feel-good Mongolia movie of 2016, about a girl learning to hunt using this bird
golden eagle
Johnny
|
$600
[1]
GBD should be the goal every time you BBQ, meaning the meat is this shade "& delicious"
golden brown
Kate
|
|
$800
[29]
Wicked ones are a staple of folktales; even Japan has them, like the one in "The Mirror of Matsuyama"
stepmothers
Kate
|
$800
[10]
Joshua Logan shared a Pulitzer with Rodgers & Hammerstein for this musical set on an island during World War II
South Pacific
Eileen
|
$800
[12]
Director Chris Columbus' production company is named for this year
1492
Johnny
|
$800
[22]
The ancient city of Troy was also known by this Latin name, similar to a Homer title
Ilium
Eileen
|
$1,000
[28]
The traditional life of pastoral these wanderers herding flocks is losing out as thousands move to cities
nomads
Kate
|
$800
[2]
This shrub produces an aromatic wood used in Texas barbeque, like in the Dallas suburb of the same name
Mesquite
Eileen
|
| — |
$1,000
[18]
Located on the Continental Divide, Logan Pass is a real high point of this state's Glacier National Park
Montana
Eileen
|
$1,000
[13]
A meme asked what concert cost 45 cents? the one with this rapper aka Curtis Jackson & this "Breathe" Canadian band
50 Cent & Nickelback
Johnny
|
$1,000
[23]
In the classification of organisms, it comes between "class" and "kingdom"
phylum
Johnny
|
DD
$1,200
[26]
Dedicated in 2008, the 130-foot statue seenherejust east of the capital depicts this great leader, a national hero
Genghis Khan
Eileen
|
$1,000
[4]
Also a supervisor in a casino, it's the 2-word person presiding over the coals & grill to give you BBQ perfection
pit boss
Kate
|
| LITERARY TITLE BEFORE & AFTER | DOCUMENTS | SONGS FROM MUSICAL TV EPISODES | REGULAR WORD & ACRONYM | MEDICAL HISTORY | "CHRIS"TENING |
|
$400
[26]
A shipwrecked clan from a neutral country meets up with a shipwrecked 18th century character
The Swiss Family Robinson Crusoe
Eileen
|
$400
[6]
Collective name for the essays published in New York newspapers in 1787-88 supporting ratification of the Constitution
the Federalist Papers
Johnny
|
$400
[20]
On this drama, Seattle Grace staffers sang tunes like "How We Operate" & "How to Save a Life"
Grey's Anatomy
Johnny
|
$400
[21]
Regular: slang for nothing; acronym: postal locator code
ZIP
Kate
|
$400
[12]
These worms used for almost any ailment by doctors of old are today used for restoring blood flow to damaged veins
leeches
Kate
|
$400
[1]
To 6.7 million Twitter followers, it comes between @ & Teigen
Chrissy
Johnny
|
|
$1,600
[27]
Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel meets another harsh situation with Max Brooks' tale of a zombie apocalypse
Brave New World War Z
Johnny
|
$800
[7]
All about lumber, the Aroostook War between New Brunswick & this state was settled by 1842's Webster-Ashburton treaty
Maine
Eileen
|
$800
[19]
Neil Patrick Harris musically chose suits over female companionship during an episode of this sitcom
How I Met Your Mother
Johnny
|
$800
[25]
Regular: an athlete who cost his team a win; acronym: an athlete who will be forever honored
GOAT
Johnny
|
$800
[11]
Using less current than in the bad old days, it can be effective in treating severe depression
electroshock therapy
Eileen
|
$800
[2]
Ms. Amanpour reporting
Christiane
Kate
Johnny
|
|
DD
$3,000
[28]
E.B. White's diminutive rodent visits Dickens' friend William in Marshalsea Prison
Stuart Little Dorrit
Johnny
|
$1,200
[13]
1965's "Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World" came out of the second of these church gatherings
an ecumenical council
Eileen
|
$1,200
[18]
A variety show on this HBO prison series found one inmate covering "I Wanna Be Free" by the Monkees
Oz
Kate
Eileen
|
$1,200
[24]
Regular: a waterproof protector sheet; acronym: a subprime fiasco protector program
TARP
|
$1,600
[9]
Now heart disease & cancer are the most common ways to die; in 1900 it was pneumonia or this malady ending in "A"
influenza
Johnny
|
$1,200
[3]
J.R.R. Tolkien had 3 sons: John, Michael, him
Christopher
Johnny
|
| — |
$1,600
[14]
One of the less earthshaking parts of this 13th c. document calls for the removal of fish weirs from the Thames
the Magna Carta
Kate
|
$1,600
[16]
On a special episode of this show, Tara sang "Under your Spell" & Spike did "Rest in Peace"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
|
$1,600
[22]
Regular: a thing you might put in a dress you're altering; acronym: a thing you use at an ATM
PIN
Johnny
|
$2,000
[8]
Here's Dr. Oz with the clue:This compound has had many uses, like starting engines & as a popular drink among Catholics when the Church frowned on alcohol, medically it was used as an anesthetic starting in the 1840s & is still used in places where up-to-date equipment isn't available
ether
Eileen
|
$1,600
[4]
In 1935 Mr. & Mrs. Javacheff of Bulgaria named their little future artist this
Christo
|
| — |
$2,000
[15]
313's edict of this Italian city granted religious freedom to Christians throughout the Roman Empire
Milan
|
$2,000
[17]
Grant Gustin & Melissa Benoist sang "Super Friend" when these 2 heroes met in a 2017 TV episode
Supergirl & the Flash
Kate
|
$2,000
[23]
Regular: an obnoxious person; acronym: hired Nixon's "plumbers"
CREEP
Johnny
|
DD
$3,200
[10]
In the 20th century hygiene in hospitals helped lower this, the IMR, from about 100 to 7 per thousand births
infant mortality rate
Eileen
|
$2,000
[5]
IMF head Lagarde
Christine
|
This brand was looking for a Hemingway type when it hired Jonathan Goldsmith for its commercials
Dos Equis