Dave Daniel — a retired security manager from Shelley, Idaho
Jamie Rosler — an event host from Brooklyn, New York
Brandon Brooks — an HR manager from Chicago, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon | $800 | $1,800 | $8,600 |
$16,600
2-day champion: $27,401 |
$8,600
13 R, 4 W |
| Jamie | $1,000 | $600 | $6,000 |
$10,001
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Dave | $3,800 | $5,800 | $9,800 |
$2,001
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,800
15 R, 2 W |
| NOT CLOSE ENOUGH FOR JAZZ | LET THERE BE LIGHTING! | HANDY ADVICE | WORDS MADE UP OF ROMAN NUMERALS | THE SPANISH INQUISITION | 2.0 |
|
$200
[21]
Not quite--this pianist's name isn't Felonious Funk
Thelonious Monk
Dave
|
$200
[11]
A resistor called a rheostat was used in the first of these switches that adjust illumination gradually
a dimmer switch
Dave
|
$200
[6]
Mix 5 pounds of malt extract with 5 gallons of water, add hops & yeast, let ferment, bottle & in about 3 weeks you've got this
beer
Dave
|
$200
[1]
Vigor's proverbial partner
vim
Jamie
|
$200
[26]
The Inquisition was formed in Spain to combat this 6-letter type of thought at odds with orthodox doctrine
heresy
|
$200
[16]
This company says its 7th generation Core i7 processors speed up your computer with turbo boost technology 2.0
Intel
Brandon
|
|
$400
[22]
Brother of Branford, this trumpet legend doesn't go by Clinton, but by this name
Wynton Marsalis
Brandon
Jamie
|
$400
[12]
Far out, man! It's the groovy name for the special ultraviolet lamp in use here
a blacklight
Jamie
|
$400
[7]
In 1914 Popular Mechanics suggested affixing a V-shaped guide to the door to find this when coming home at night
the keyhole
Brandon
|
$400
[2]
A paper factory
a mill
Brandon
|
$400
[27]
In 1478 Sixtus IV named inquisitors to deal with Marranos, people who were formerly of this faith
Jewish
Jamie
|
$400
[17]
In 2016, its new president, Gianni Infantinounveiled a plan called this troubled sporting organization 2.0
FIFA
Brandon
|
|
$600
[23]
It's not Stan Lee or Stan Musial, it's this cool school sax man
Stan Getz
Dave
|
$600
[13]
The phenyl oxalate ester helps provide the gleam in this item you wave at a rave
a glowstick
Jamie
|
$600
[8]
Use a torque wrench & tighten in an alternating pattern when reinstalling these after changing a tire
lug nuts
Dave
|
$600
[3]
To imitate playfully
mimic
Jamie
|
DD
$600
[28]
When people fled the Inquisition, sometimes they were found guilty in absentia & burned this way
burned in effigy
Jamie
|
$600
[18]
This 1987 rollout was the first bundled with Word & Excel, making it tough on competing apps
Microsoft Windows 2.0
Jamie
Dave
|
|
$800
[24]
Close, but despite the sweetness of his guitar, this Belgian-born Gypsy wasn't known as Mango Seinfeld
Django Reinhardt
Dave
|
$800
[14]
The first electric street lights were Yablochkov candles, a type of this 3-letter lamp
an arc lamp
Jamie
Dave
|
$800
[9]
Paraffin wax on the hinges
how do you fix a squeaky door
|
$800
[4]
Doing this type of "duty" includes basic stuff like paying taxes & voting
your civic duty
Brandon
|
— |
$800
[19]
In 2016 the Healthy this city 2.0 initiative was launched--in the home of stuffed pizza & chicken Vesuvio
Chicago
Brandon
|
|
$1,000
[25]
So close--Benny Goodman'spercussive princewasn't Dean Cooper but rather this
Gene Krupa
Dave
|
$1,000
[15]
Neon, glowing red, isn't the only noble gas used in discharge tubes: xenon glows blue & this grade "A" gas, violet
argon
Brandon
|
$1,000
[10]
This device that zaps away paint or rust can be filled with a non-silica type of the main material to avert silicosis
a sand blaster
Dave
|
$1,000
[5]
Absolutely furious!
livid
Brandon
Dave
|
— |
$1,000
[20]
In 2017 this Uber CEO took a leave of absence so he could work on "Travis 2.0"
Travis Kalanick
|
| NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS | THERMODYNAMICS | WOMEN'S FIRSTS | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS | BRITISH AUTHORS | THAT'S OXYMORONIC |
|
$400
[26]
South Africa's coat of arms has a club called a knobkierie & this pointed weapon, shown peacefully lying down
a spear
Brandon
Jamie
|
$400
[7]
Thermodynamics originated around 1800 when it was noticed that work done generates a proportionate amount of this
heat
Jamie
|
$400
[11]
In the 1930s, Regina Jonasbecame the first woman officially ordained this & was a chaplain in Berlin's Jewish hospital
a rabbi
Jamie
|
$400
[1]
"Rainbow Tour" &"Buenos Aires"
Evita
Jamie
|
$400
[21]
Hugh Lofting's letters to his kids from the WWI front evolved into the tales of this physician who talks to animals
Dr. Dolittle
Jamie
|
$400
[6]
Type of internal conflict that consumed England in the 1640s
a civil war
Dave
|
|
$800
[30]
(Alex presents the clue from the Canadian embassy in Washington, D.C.) Adopted in 1921, Canada's coat of arms bears the symbols of 4 of its founding nations: 3 lions for England, 1 lion for Scotland, the fleur-de-lis for France & theharp of Tarafor this country
Ireland
Brandon
|
$800
[8]
A common example used in teaching thermodynamics is a cylinder containing gas & this engine part
a piston
Dave
|
$800
[12]
Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot & later command one of these
a space shuttle
Dave
|
$800
[2]
"Dawn (Go Away)" &"December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)"
Jersey Boys
Brandon
|
DD
$1,000
[20]
Following World War II, he built an estate in Jamaica called Goldeneye
Ian Fleming
Jamie
|
$800
[25]
A teller might set off one of these to alert authorities but not the bank robber
a silent alarm
Brandon
|
|
$1,600
[28]
The double white cross on its coat of arms represents Stephen I, the country's first king
Hungary
|
$1,200
[9]
Classical thermodynamics focuses on this state of balance & on changes from one such state to another
equilibrium
Brandon
|
$1,200
[13]
In 2013 at Daytona she became the first woman to win a pole position in a Sprint Cup event
(Danica) Patrick
Brandon
|
$1,200
[3]
"Ease On Down The Road" &"If You Believe"
The Wiz
Brandon
|
$1,200
[19]
"About a Boy" & "Fever Pitch" are among his books that have been made into movies
Nick Hornby
Jamie
|
$1,200
[24]
Like my love affair with Vanna, it's a supposedly hidden fact that everyone really knows about
an open secret
Brandon
|
|
DD
$2,000
[29]
This animal adorns the coat of arms of the Ivory Coast
elephant
Jamie
|
$1,600
[10]
There's a law that comes before the First Law of Thermodynamics; physicist Ralph Fowler gave it this 6-letter name
zeroth
|
$1,600
[16]
In 2014, shebegan her tenure as the first female chair of the Federal Reserve system
Janet Yellen
Jamie
|
$1,600
[4]
"It Only Takes A Moment" &"Before The Parade Passes By"
Hello, Dolly!
|
$1,600
[17]
His first literary success, "Eye of the Needle" was originally published as "Storm Island"
Ken Follett
|
$1,600
[23]
Nonviolent activism for political change, it's AKA civil disobedience
passive resistance
Jamie
|
|
$2,000
[27]
The shield on Zambia's coat of arms features black & white stripes representing this natural wonder
Victoria Falls
Jamie
Dave
|
$2,000
[14]
Some physicists are real bringdown artists & explain the universe is running down to a lifeless state of "maximum" this
entropy
Dave
|
$2,000
[15]
It was the field of Maria Mitchell, the first woman member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
astronomy
|
$2,000
[5]
"What's Inside" &"What Baking Can Do"
Waitress
|
$2,000
[18]
Banned upon publication, this author's "The Rainbow" was described by one magistrate as "utter filth"
D.H. Lawrence
Jamie
|
$2,000
[22]
Stonewall Jackson is one of the best-known victims of this alliterative event
friendly fire
Dave
|
He became an ex-president while flying over a point 13 miles southwest of Jefferson City, Missouri
Richard Nixon