Meghan Whalen — a marketing specialist from Chicago, Illinois
Sean Sullivan — a financial adviser from Verona, New Jersey
Steph Bundy — a summer camp director from Oak Park, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steph | $1,800 | $1,100 | $7,000 |
$4,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Sean | $2,600 | $5,000 | $18,800 |
$15,000
New champion: $15,000 |
$17,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Meghan | $1,400 | $600 | $3,000 |
$6,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$3,000
8 R, 4 W |
| AROUND THE SOUTH | AT THE YARD SALE | PAINT MISS, BEHAVING | CLICHES MADE FANCY | HELP! TV POLICE! | FAUX PAS |
|
$200
[20]
Mardi Gras is not only celebrated in Louisiana but is an official holiday in this state's Baldwin & Mobile Counties as well
Alabama
Steph
|
$200
[13]
In 1832 Eugene Lami designed a prototype of this for female dancers & at the 2017 yard sale, a used one is yours for a buck
a tutu
|
$200
[21]
After painting good ol' Mom in 1871, he soon rendered "Miss Cicely Alexander: Harmony in Grey and Green"
Whistler
Sean
|
$200
[1]
"Vigorous like one violin"
fit as a fiddle
Steph
|
$200
[4]
In 1991 S. Epatha Merkerson guested as Mrs. Winters on this NBC show; from 1993 to 2010, she starred as Anita Van Buren
Law & Order
Meghan
|
$200
[8]
Time magazine published a 2009 article about why it's uncouth to wear white after this holiday
Labor Day
Steph
|
|
$400
[26]
In 2016 this Memphis home welcomed its 20 millionth visitor
Graceland
Steph
Sean
|
$400
[14]
Great, a Bjorksnas table originally from this store--& already assembled!
IKEA
Steph
|
$400
[22]
The semi-smiling woman in this portrait begun in 1503 may be the wife of a wealthy silk merchant in Florence
the Mona Lisa
Steph
|
$400
[2]
"Upon being presented with astringent citrus fruits, prepare a sweetened drink"
when life gives you lemons, make lemonade
Steph
|
$400
[5]
This police chief--"Mrs. Simpson... your husband was found D.O.A....oh wait, I mean D.W.I.! I always get those 2 mixed up!"
Chief (Clancy) Wiggum
Meghan
|
$400
[9]
An actress from Texas sued imdb.com for revealing this bit of information; social faux pas, imdb
her age
Steph
|
| — |
$600
[16]
Say! It's the original cast album of this Broadway hit, including the songs "The Wizard & I" & "March Of The Witch Hunters"
Wicked
Steph
|
$600
[23]
Rembrandt liked to depict his wife as this goddess of blooming plants--note thegarland
Flora
|
$600
[3]
"One equine unconventional in hue"
a horse of a different color
Meghan
|
$600
[6]
Cheers! As Marty Hart on "True Detective", this actor had to make some sense of Matthew McConaughey
Woody Harrelson
Steph
Meghan
|
$600
[10]
Church etiquette isn't hard & fast, but you probably shouldn't chew gum or wear your Oakley or Persol these there
sunglasses
Meghan
|
| — |
$800
[18]
Ah! A copy of this book that Jonathan Swift published "to vex the world rather than to divert it"
Gulliver's Travels
Sean
Meghan
|
$1,000
[25]
Just after Botticelli in art dictionaries comes this French Rococo master who also paintedgoddesses
Francois Boucher
|
$800
[15]
"Insufficient space for twirling one expired feline"
not enough room to swing a (dead) cat
Sean
|
$800
[7]
As Frank on "Police Squad", he said to a grieving widow, "We would've come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then"
Leslie Nielsen
Sean
|
$800
[11]
When the bride & groom blindly toss these 2 items over their shoulders, aggression in trying to catch them is frowned on
the bouquet and the garter
Steph
|
| — |
$1,000
[19]
That can't be Thor's hammer, known as this, can it? Let's see if it can resurrect dead goats, like in myth!
Mjolnir
Sean
|
DD
$1,500
[24]
1929's "The Woman and the Roses" has one of the floating females of this Belorussian-born painter who settled in France
Marc Chagall
Steph
|
$1,000
[17]
"One ziggurat as an incarnation of brawn"
a tower of strength
|
— |
$1,000
[12]
Avoid giving this when unsolicited, like George W. Bush did to Angela Merkel at a conference in 2006
a shoulder massage
Sean
Meghan
|
| THE MEH DECADE | SCIENCE STUFF | IN THE DICTIONARY | "B" MOVIES | GOVERNMENT AROUND THE WORLD | FOE PA |
|
$400
[6]
This decade that gave us Wally Cleaver & Pizza Hut is seen as just a prelude to the upheavals of the next one
the '50s
Sean
|
$400
[22]
Lepidoptera is the order of insects that includes skippers & these 2 familiar groups
moths and butterflies
Steph
|
$400
[12]
In this concept, from the Sanskrit for "fate", the effects of your actions determine your destiny
karma
Sean
|
$400
[1]
Kristen Wiig is Maya Rudolph's maid of honor
Bridesmaids
Steph
|
$400
[13]
This name for a legislature comes from a word meaning discussion & was first used for after-dinner talks of monks
parliament
Steph
Sean
|
$400
[7]
In "Wuthering Heights" Heathcliff makes his son Linton marry a girl with this first name, just like the girl he loved
Catherine
Meghan
|
|
$800
[23]
Though some, like Michael Crichton, raised fears of its economic might, the 1990s were stagnant in this Asian country
Japan
Sean
Meghan
|
$800
[26]
Superman should know that this element, atomic no. 36, is one of the rarest gases in the Earth's atmosphere
krypton
Steph
|
$800
[15]
Helen & Gregory, or the inexpert method demonstrated here
hunt and peck
Sean
|
$800
[2]
From 1984--a Motor City policeman comes to the 90210
Beverly Hills Cop
Sean
|
$800
[14]
General secretary is considered China's most powerful post since this title held by Mao was abolished in 1982
chairman
Steph
|
$800
[8]
In "A Storm of Swords", this bad dad is impaled by son Tyrion with a crossbow bolt while on the privy
Tywin Lannister
Steph
|
|
$1,200
[24]
AKA the Edwardian era, according to Virginia Woolf it was the last decade before a basic change in human character
the 1900s
Steph
Sean
Meghan
|
$1,200
[27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a solar flare on the monitor.) Solar flares are often followed by immense bursts of plasma being hurled into space known as CMEs, mass ejections from this outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere
the corona
Sean
|
$1,200
[19]
Tarantism, once attributed to a tarantula bite, is a disorder characterized by an uncontrollable urge to do this
dance
Sean
|
$1,200
[3]
A washed-up superhero actor plots a stage comeback in this 2014 film
Birdman
Sean
|
$1,200
[16]
In Germany the 2 houses of government are the Bundesrat & this similarly named lower chamber
the Bundestag
|
$1,200
[9]
Fighter pilot Bull Meecham gets this title nickname in a Pat Conroy novel; his 4 kids might pick another moniker
the Great Santini
|
|
DD
$3,000
[25]
The 1710s in the American colonies must have been sleepy, because in 1720 came the religious revival called this
the Great Awakening
Sean
|
$1,600
[28]
Gravity became its own force during the rather brief grand unification era, from 10-43to 10-35seconds after this
the Big Bang
Sean
|
$1,600
[20]
Anguilliform means resembling one of these aquatic creatures
eels
|
$1,600
[4]
Someone sinister is creating clones of Hitler
The Boys from Brazil
Sean
|
$1,600
[17]
PAEC is Pakistan this government Commission; it was founded in 1956, 10 years after the American AEC
Atomic Energy Commission
Sean
|
$2,000
[11]
In this Roald Dahl book, Mr. Wormwood calls his daughter "a cheat and a liar"
Matilda
Steph
|
| — | — |
$2,000
[21]
Thistype of amulet gets its name from the late Greek for "perform a rite"
a talisman
|
$2,000
[5]
In the 41st century, Jane Fonda fondly seeks out Durand Durand & his positronic ray
Barbarella
Meghan
|
$2,000
[18]
The government of this African country was established by the terms of its 2011 transitional constitution
South Sudan
Meghan
|
DD
$2,300
[10]
In this Emma Donoghue book, "Old Nick" is the father to young Jack, who thinks the title domicile is the whole world
Room
Steph
|
When it was introduced in 1953, this car model's emblem had a checkered flag & a red flag with a fleur-de-lis
a Chevrolet Corvette