Claudia Hochstein — an environmental program administrator from Saint Paul, Minnesota
Brandon Brooks — an HR manager from Chicago, Illinois
Sean Sullivan — a financial adviser from Verona, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sean | $1,200 | $5,400 | $14,600 |
$10,100
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,200
12 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Brandon | $2,400 | $3,800 | $9,500 |
$10,801
New champion: $10,801 |
$11,000
19 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Claudia | $2,600 | $3,800 | $5,400 |
$3,797
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,400
11 R, 3 W |
| FEAR FACTOR | NHL LOGOS | TAKE ME "DOWN" | TO THE SALT LAKE CITY | WHERE THE GRASS IS GREEN | AND THE GIRLS ARE PRETTY |
|
$200
[2]
A new & growing condition is nomophobia, the fear of losing access to this--is there a charger nearby?
a mobile phone
Sean
Brandon
|
$200
[1]
A webbed foot forms the "D" in this team's name on their logo
the Mighty Ducks (or the Anaheim Ducks)
Brandon
|
$200
[13]
15,406... 15,405... 15,404... man, this is going to take a while
a countdown
Brandon
|
$200
[11]
Like the lake it was named for, Salt Lake City originally had this adjective at the front of its name
great
Brandon
|
$200
[7]
"Wild" this grain isn't this grain at all but the seed of an aquatic grass
wild rice
Claudia
|
$200
[26]
"It was glamorous to look sickly" Susan Sontag wrote of the 19th c. cult of thinness through this lung disease
tuberculosis
Claudia
|
|
$400
[3]
Women who suffer from tokophobia, fear of this, are more likely to want C-sections
giving birth
Brandon
|
$400
[16]
In 2010 they brought back crossed swords to their bison logo
the Buffalo Sabres
Claudia
|
$400
[14]
To put in a lower gear
downshift
Brandon
|
$400
[21]
In 1982 the Univ. of Utah Hospital was where the first permanent artificial this organ was implanted
heart
Sean
|
$400
[8]
Bison grass from the Bialowiez region of Poland is used to flavor Zubrowka, a type of this spirit
vodka
Brandon
|
$1,000
[27]
19th c. Brits praised the beauty of the women in this disputed area of northern India & northeastern Pakistan
Kashmir
Claudia
|
|
$600
[4]
No way you are getting someone with pediophobia, fear of these, to watch the movie "Child's Play" or "Annabelle"
baby dolls
Claudia
|
$600
[17]
A sea creature is depicted chomping on a hockey stick on the logo of this San Jose team
the Sharks
Claudia
|
$600
[15]
A blackmail scheme, or a Grateful Dead "Street"
shakedown
Sean
|
$600
[22]
One of the 2 basketball stars from the 1990s to have statues outside the Utah Jazz' home arena
Malone (or John Stockton)
Brandon
|
$600
[9]
This tallest grass "shoots" over 30% more oxygen into the atmosphere than an equivalent mass of trees
bamboo
Brandon
|
— |
|
$800
[5]
Sometimes I accuse the writers of ergophobia, or fear of this--but it is a serious anxiety condition
fear of work
Sean
Brandon
|
$800
[18]
A musical note outlined in yellow & navy has served as their logo since 1998
the (St. Louis) Blues
Brandon
|
$800
[19]
Term for when a spacecraft lands successfully in the sea
splashdown
Sean
|
$800
[24]
Recalling a great moment in state history, bronze seagullsperch on a monument in this square named for a building
Temple Square
|
$800
[10]
Thetipof a leaf resembles a boat in this popular long grass with a state in its name
Kentucky bluegrass
Claudia
|
— |
|
$1,000
[6]
The grouping of holes on theseed podof this sacred water plant, can break out those with trypophobia, the fear of holes
the lotus
Claudia
|
$1,000
[20]
This team's flying wheel logo is the oldest unchanged logo in the NHL, created in 1948
the Detroit Red Wings
Claudia
|
$1,000
[23]
A native of Maine
a Down Easter
Sean
|
DD
$2,000
[25]
Just like the one in the Middle East, this Salt Lake City river empties into a very saline lake
the Jordan River
Sean
|
$1,000
[12]
Widely used on football fields, this grass named for a British dependency is native to the African savannas
Bermuda grass
Brandon
|
— |
| BOOKS & AUTHORITIES | PORTMANTEAU WORDS | NIKOLA TESLA | AM I BLUE? | -ISMS & -OLOGIES | THEY NAMED A SHIP FOR ME |
|
$400
[16]
Poor grammar was one reason the Concord, Mass. library banned this Twain novel 1 month after it was published in 1885
Huckleberry Finn
Sean
Brandon
|
$400
[11]
The Oakland A's won the World Series in 1972, '73 & '74, completing what we now call this
a threepeat
Brandon
|
$400
[20]
Tesla emigrated to the US. in 1884 & soon began a contentious job working for this inventor
Edison
Brandon
|
$400
[1]
CCH Pounder & Zoe Saldana both appeared as blue Na'vi in this 2009 mega-hit
Avatar
Brandon
|
$400
[6]
Listen up! Otology is the study of this body part & its diseases
the ear
Brandon
|
$1,600
[27]
A ship is named for this shipbuilder & health insurance pioneer who had a factor in Permanente, California
Kaiser
Brandon
|
|
$800
[17]
"Madame Bovary" provoked so much outrage it was banned & this author faced immorality charges
Gustave Flaubert
|
$800
[12]
One installment of an internet TV show like "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee"
a webisode
Brandon
|
$800
[21]
Several of Tesla's product designs were used to harness this natural landmark to power Buffalo, New York
Niagara Falls
Sean
|
$800
[2]
Played by Karen Gillan & Michael Rooker, respectively, Nebula & Yondu in this Marvel series have a bluish tinge
Guardians of the Galaxy
Claudia
|
$800
[7]
Extreme partiality to one's own country, gender or race, it may come from the name of a character in an 1830s play
chauvinism
Sean
|
$2,000
[26]
The first Vietnam war vet in the House, this long-serving Pennsylvanian had a ship christened in his name in 2015
John Murtha
|
|
$1,200
[18]
Ayatollah Khomeini laid down a fatwa on Salman Rushdie for this novel
The Satanic Verses
Brandon
|
$1,200
[13]
The Labradoodle was originally a cross between these 2 canines
a Labrador and a poodle
Claudia
|
$1,200
[22]
Tesla once claimed he'd been contacted by aliens & in 1940 declared he had developed one of these rays
a death ray
Sean
|
$1,200
[3]
Jamie Foxx seemed to get a charge out of playing this Peter Parker foe in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2"
Electro
Brandon
|
$1,200
[8]
Steve Reich is a leader in this music style marked by simple & austere compositions
minimalism
|
— |
|
DD
$1,500
[19]
Violent sexuality in this man's life & works before & during the French Revolution led to him being jailed for many years
the Marquis de Sade
Brandon
|
$1,600
[14]
It's an approximate prediction without solid facts or figures
a guesstimate
Claudia
|
$1,600
[23]
In 1891 Tesla invented this induction device that can transmit electric power without wires
an induction coil (or the Tesla coil)
Claudia
|
$1,600
[4]
Patrick Warburton went blue as this hero on TV--then Amazon gave Peter Serafinowicz a shot
the Tick
Brandon
|
$2,000
[10]
In April 2017 the G20 nations said they think this, intervention to defend a domestic industry, is damaging
protectionism
Sean
|
— |
|
$2,000
[25]
For openly dealing with apartheid, some of this woman's novels were banned in her native South Africa
Nadine Gordimer
Claudia
|
$2,000
[15]
Want to swap yuan for yen? You're in the forex market, forex from these 2 words
foreign exchange
Brandon
|
$2,000
[24]
These 2 Balkan nationalities claim the great inventor; in a 1936 telegram he said he was proud of both
Serbia and Croatia
|
$2,000
[5]
Movie audiences saw a lot of blue as Billy Crudup played Dr. Manhattan in this 2009 film
Watchmen
|
DD
$4,000
[9]
19th c. English physician John Snow's knowledge of chloroform & ether made him a master of this -ology
anesthesiology
Sean
|
— |
In 1946, MLJ Mags. changed its name to this "Comics", incorporating the first name of its popular teenage hero
Archie Comics