Matt Brannagan — a high school history teacher from Bowie, Maryland
Lindsay Resnick — an archivist from Atlanta, Georgia
Brandon Brooks — an HR manager from Chicago, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $27,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon | $1,000 | $4,000 | $9,600 |
$5,199
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Lindsay | $2,600 | $3,400 | $7,000 |
$10,001
New champion: $10,001 |
$9,000
10 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Matt | $3,000 | $2,200 | $2,600 |
$5,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$2,600
15 R, 6 W |
| WHAT "A" COUNTRY? | SHOES | TOTALLY '80s WORDS! | POP CULTURE VILLAINS | BUGS MEANIE | LAX LUTHER |
|
$200
[7]
It's subject to violent windstorms called pamperos
Argentina
Matt
|
$200
[6]
This word for an Irish accent is also the name of an oxford-style shoe
a brogue
Matt
|
$200
[1]
In 1986 Run-DMC & the Beastie Boys were using this sick adjective as a verb for "to be have badly"
ill
Brandon
|
$200
[13]
This movie Austin-tagonist says at age 18 he went to "evil medical school" & at age 25 "took up tap dancing"
Dr. Evil
Matt
|
$200
[18]
It's not hooray for hollow wood! A pest control co. says this insect causes $5 billion in damages & repair costs annually
a termite
Brandon
|
$800
[27]
Luther mocked a friend who could only drink down to the top ring in a special wine mug, representing this, AKA the Decalogue
the Ten Commandments
|
|
$400
[8]
It became independent of France in 1962
Algeria
Brandon
|
$400
[9]
This last name of Signor Salvatore, a theatrical-shoe repairman, has long been on dance shoes
Capezio
Brandon
Lindsay
Matt
|
$400
[2]
Whether to the max or not, this word for disgusting comes from "grotesque"
grody
Brandon
Lindsay
|
$400
[14]
Played by Rachel McAdams, Regina George was the leader of "the Plastics" in this 2004 movie
Mean Girls
Matt
|
$600
[20]
This tick-borne disease named for a Connecticut town can include M.S.-like symptoms & terrible arthritis
Lyme disease
Brandon
|
$1,000
[23]
Luther wanted the Bible to be for all, not just the hoity-toity, so he translated it into this 10-letter "native" style
the vernacular
Lindsay
|
|
$600
[10]
It borders Macedonia & Montenegro
Albania
Matt
|
$600
[26]
L.L. Bean sells these webbed-looking waterproof boots with an avian name
duck boots
Lindsay
|
$600
[3]
If someone wanted you to relax, they might have asked you to take this rhyming medication
a chill pill
Brandon
|
$600
[15]
When this TV drama premiered in 2011, Regina was innocent, but Rumplestiltskin helped turn her into the evil queen
Once Upon a Time
Brandon
|
$800
[21]
This double-talk fly carries parasites that can cause nagana, a disease fatal to horses & cattle
a tsetse fly
Matt
|
— |
|
$800
[11]
Its capital is Luanda, formerly São Paulo de Luanda
Angola
Matt
|
$800
[25]
This shoe brand that expanded into handbags & other accessories was named for its original address on 57th St. in NYC
Nine West
Matt
|
$800
[4]
This Biblical word for morally good had a strong decade; Ferris Bueller was described as that kind of "dude"
a righteous dude
Lindsay
|
$800
[16]
Calvin Candie in this movie was the first villain Quentin Tarantino said he'd written that he hated
Django Unchained
Lindsay
Matt
|
$1,000
[22]
The book of Joel says, "That which" this bug left "hath the cankerworm eaten" & what was still left, hath the caterpillar eaten
the locust
|
— |
|
$1,000
[12]
Its provinces include Aragatsotn & Ararat
Armenia
Matt
|
$1,000
[24]
He apprenticed at the Folies Bergere before enriching his signature line of shoes with red lacquer soles
Louboutin
Brandon
|
$1,000
[5]
This word for "fantastic" describes a hollow cresting wave
tubular
Lindsay
|
$1,000
[17]
As Victor Kiriakis on "Days of Our Lives", this father of a TV star has put in 30-plus years of all kinds of villainy
John Aniston
|
DD
$1,200
[19]
If an Africanized colony of these is disturbed & in a bad mood, you may meet 10,000 of them in 15 seconds
(killer) bees
Brandon
|
— |
| A BOUNTY OF BAHNEN | THE DONALD | MUSICAL GUEST PERFORMERS | A BIT OF LIT | IOWA HISTORY | WHAT IN TARNATION? |
|
$400
[24]
Drive fast with a free conscience--Hitler did not create this road system; he merely added "reichs" to its name
the Autobahn
Matt
|
$400
[1]
In 2014 Donald Sterling, owner of this California team, was banned from the NBA for life
the Clippers
Matt
|
$400
[3]
Despite rumors of a feud, Eminem joined Drake onstage when Drake's tour hit this city
Detroit
Lindsay
|
$400
[22]
The name of the island in the title of this Dumas novel came from a speck in the ocean off the island of Elba
The Count of Monte Cristo
Matt
|
$400
[5]
Since 1972 these Iowa candidate selection events have been a key first contest in the race for the White House
the Iowa caucuses
Matt
|
$400
[14]
It's Scarlett O'Hara's beloved plantation
Tara
Brandon
|
|
$800
[25]
Wuppertal's Schwebebahnis from the word "schweben", meaning to do this in the air, like a balloon, perhaps
float (or hover)
Matt
|
$800
[2]
Before his first stint as Secretary of Defense, he was White House Chief of Staff
Rumsfeld
Brandon
|
$800
[13]
This tennis star with 20+ Grand Slam singles titles was onstage in Oct. 2016, twerking to Beyonce singing "Sorry"
Serena Williams
Brandon
|
$800
[23]
Featuring sisters Elinor & Marianne, it was Jane Austen's first published novel
Sense and Sensibility
Brandon
|
$800
[21]
In 1873 near Adair, Iowa, this outlaw & his gang hit the Rock Island line in the "first train robbery in the West"
Jesse James
Matt
|
$800
[15]
"Nessun Dorma" from "Turandot" is a famous one
an aria
Matt
|
|
$1,200
[26]
U-Bahn stations in this city include Neue Donau, Stephansplatz & Schönbrunn
Vienna
Matt
|
$1,200
[4]
Remember the BUGS MEANIE category? Bugs bullied this supersmart boy detective created by Donald Sobol
Encyclopedia Brown
|
$1,200
[12]
Taylor Swift brought Lisa Kudrow onstage to sing "Smelly Cat" as this "Friends" character
Phoebe
Brandon
|
— |
$1,200
[8]
In 2011 Iowa got its first whitewater rafting park, naturally on this river with well-known rapids
the Cedar River
Brandon
|
$1,200
[17]
Legally speaking, it's a wrongdoing for which someone may take civil action
a tort
Brandon
|
|
$1,600
[9]
The "O" in Adelaide's track-guidedO-Bahn Buswaycame from this word
omnibus
Matt
|
$1,600
[6]
In "Singin' in the Rain", this song-&-dance man made us laugh with "Make 'Em Laugh"
Donald O'Connor
Matt
|
$1,600
[10]
At Coachella in 2017, Thundercat did a version of "What A Fool Believes" with this Doobie brother
(Michael) McDonald
Brandon
|
— |
$1,600
[19]
To help the war effort, in 1943 Iowa farmers grew 40,000 acres of this 4-letter crop, genus Cannabis
hemp
Lindsay
|
$1,600
[18]
This stringy material from the stems of certain palms is used to make mats, ropes, baskets & other items
rattan
Lindsay
|
|
$2,000
[27]
Depending on the city, the "S" in S-Bahn can stand for Stadt ("city") or for this German word for "fast"
schnell
|
$2,000
[7]
With college friend Walter Becker, he founded Steely Dan
Donald Fagen
|
$2,000
[11]
Guests of this group whose name is a colorful cocktail include the von Trapps, Carol Channing & Mamie Van Doren
Pink Martini
|
— |
$2,000
[16]
In 1869 Arabella Mansfield became the USA's first woman admitted to this profession, & later taught at DePauw
law
Lindsay
|
DD
$2,000
[20]
Named for a son of Poseidon, it's Neptune's largest moon
Triton
Lindsay
|
Letters written by this Roman recount the events of a natural disaster, like the death of his uncle, a famous scholar
Pliny the Younger