Ryan Fenster game 3.
Elizabeth Connor — an art director from Brooklyn, New York
Nate Pochomis — an airline pilot from West Grove, Pennsylvania
Ryan Fenster — a banker from SeaTac, Washington (whose 2-day cash winnings total $41,999)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan | $1,200 | $3,400 | $14,400 |
$25,400
3-day champion: $67,399 |
$10,600
19 R (including 2 DDs), 10 W |
| Nate | $2,000 | $4,200 | $10,200 |
$8,399
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,200
19 R, 2 W |
| Elizabeth | $3,400 | $3,400 | $5,800 |
$11,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,800
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| A STASH OF MUSTACHES | NICKNAMES FOR NATIVES | ON STAGE | THE HUNGARY GAMES | CATCHING "FIRE" | MOCKING JAY |
|
$200
[2]
The secret word is this guy, born Julius in New York City in 1890
Groucho Marx
Elizabeth
|
$200
[17]
Sheik, rattle & roll with an Emirian, someone from this Mideast nation
United Arab Emirates
Nate
|
$200
[5]
Recently on Broadway as "the present", "Platonov" is a play by this other -ov
(Anton) Chekhov
Nate
|
$200
[29]
He made his first prototype of his hand-held game in Budapest using 27 wooden blocks
Ernő Rubik
Ryan
|
$200
[6]
A loud, premature explosion in your engine's intake manifold
backfire
Nate
|
$200
[13]
This "Tonight Show" host mockingly said President Obama promised me if I liked my current job, I could keep it
Jay Leno
Ryan
Nate
|
|
$400
[3]
The 1912 story "The Zayat Kiss" introduced this sinister criminalportrayed in many movies since
Fu Manchu
Elizabeth
|
$400
[19]
It's not just a national anthem, it's a female resident of a city on the Gulf of Lion
Marseillaise
Ryan
Elizabeth
|
$600
[25]
Based on Lorraine Hansberry's play, this musical omits the prepositional phrase & keeps just the dried fruit for a title
Raisin
Nate
|
$400
[1]
Oseink irasa is a picture-based game that helps you learn the 44 characters in this
the alphabet
Nate
|
$400
[10]
Sailors thought this luminous atmospheric phenomenon was good luck
St. Elmo's fire
Ryan
|
$400
[14]
Rhea Perlman fell for NHLer Jay Thomas on this show's mockingly titled "Never Love a Goalie" episode
Cheers
Elizabeth
|
|
$600
[4]
This great decade for mustachesfeatured Mark Spitz, Frank Zappa & yours truly
the 1970s
Nate
|
$600
[20]
This nickname for residents of N.C. may derive from a Civil War regiment that stubbornly held their position as if glued down
Tar Heels
Ryan
|
$800
[26]
In 2014 at age 88 Angela Lansbury returned to London's West End to star in this playwright's "Blithe Spirit"
Noël Coward
Ryan
|
$600
[22]
In Hungary this chess piece is called the kiraly; the chess notation for it is the same as in English
king
Ryan
Nate
|
$600
[8]
Hepioneered the manufacture of tires for the Model T
(Harvey) Firestone
Ryan
|
$600
[15]
"You said fewer clients, you put it all down on paper", said Jay Mohr to this title Tom Cruise character
Jerry Maguire
Elizabeth
|
|
$800
[12]
This directorgrew his mustache at 24, already five films into his career of shocking & engaging audiences
John Waters
Elizabeth
|
$800
[18]
If you're a Hibernian, you're from this country
Ireland
Elizabeth
|
$1,000
[27]
Let's go to this Lillian Hellman show whose "small" title comes from creatures in the Bible "that spoil the vines"
The Little Foxes
|
$800
[23]
In Hungary this sidewalk game can have kids jumping on a design that looks like a snail
hopscotch
Elizabeth
|
$800
[7]
It's nicknamed "New York's Key West"
Fire Island
Nate
|
$800
[16]
"Only you, Farva, can make a dark man blush", says Jay Chandrasekharin this 2001 cult cop comedy
Super Troopers
Nate
|
|
$1,000
[11]
Missionary doctor whose bristles are seen here
Schweitzer
Ryan
|
$1,000
[21]
A Hatter is a resident of this Alberta city
Medicine Hat
Ryan
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
Some of the buccaneers in this Gilbert & Sullivan show may do double duty as policemen
The Pirates of Penzance
Elizabeth
|
$1,000
[30]
Goalkeeper Viktor Nagy made a splash in this sport in which Hungary has won 9 Olympic gold medals
water polo
Ryan
|
$1,000
[9]
"Light the fire within" is the motto of this youth organization that began accepting boys in 1975
Campfire
Ryan
Elizabeth
|
$1,000
[28]
Stephen A. Smith said of this former "SNL" star's impression of him: "My style is a little bit more pristine"
Jay Pharoah
|
| PUERTO RICO STRONG | 2-WORD SONG TITLES | THE PHARAOHS | GANGSTERS | EUROPEAN ART | LOSER! |
|
$400
[6]
Want to donate? Orgs. like UNICEF, save the children & Hispanic federation aided P.R. after the devastation of this 2017 hurricane
Maria
Ryan
|
$400
[1]
In a 2016 No. 1 Justin Bieber told an ex to go & do this
"Love Yourself"
Ryan
Nate
|
$400
[24]
At 9 he was the youngest pharaoh in history & his sarcophagus from the 1300s B.C. is a classic symbol of Ancient Egypt
King Tut
Nate
|
$400
[11]
Dion O'Banion ran his gang empire out of a Chicago flower shop... until 3 of this rival's men came by for "flowers" in 1924
Capone
Nate
|
$400
[17]
Deemed indecent, his "Naked Maja" painting caused him to be called before the Inquisition
(Francisco) Goya
Ryan
Nate
|
$400
[12]
At the Miss America pageant, the person who finishes second is the "first" this
runner-up
Elizabeth
|
|
$800
[7]
The San Jose church dates to 1532 in this capital named for another saint
San Juan
Nate
|
$800
[2]
It was Sixpence None the Richer's request "beneath the milky twilight"
"Kiss Me"
Nate
|
$800
[25]
The pharaoh Khufu had this pointy marvel built during the last decades of his rule, around 2500 B.C.
the Great Pyramid
Ryan
|
$800
[18]
Hesurvived a 1929 one-way ride in which he was stabbed multiple times; no wonder he was called "Lucky"
Luciano
Elizabeth
|
$800
[19]
This painting depicting a militia company had to be cut down to a mere 12 by 14 feet to fit in Amsterdam's Town Hall
The Night Watch
Ryan
|
$800
[13]
Half of a plastic beach shoe, it's also used of a film that's a loser at the box office
flop
Nate
|
|
$1,200
[8]
A HOFer in every way, this P.R.-born Pittsburgh Pirate died in a plane crash trying to aid Nicaraguan earthquake victims
(Roberto) Clemente
Nate
|
$1,200
[3]
It's the title & shout-along chorus of a 2012 hit by The Lumineers
"Ho Hey"
Ryan
|
$1,200
[28]
The second of his name, heruled Egypt for more than six decades & built a number of memorable temples
Ramesses
Ryan
|
$1,600
[29]
Salvatore Maranzano's efforts to make himself "Capo di Tutti Capi", this, did not end well for Sal
Boss of All Bosses
Ryan
|
$1,200
[23]
At St. Peter's Basilica, you can see this Michelangelo masterpiececarved froma single block of marble
the Pietà
Nate
|
$1,200
[14]
Michael Jackson sang, "Beat it, beat it, no one wants to be" this
defeated
Elizabeth
|
|
$1,600
[9]
Around 1508 he founded the first European settlement on Puerto Rico; the Fountain of Youth? Not as easy to find
Ponce de León
Ryan
|
$1,600
[4]
In 2013 Katy Perry was "coming atcha like a" this, perhaps James K. Polk
"Dark Horse"
Ryan
|
$1,600
[27]
Menes was the first pharaoh after the unification of these 2 parts of Egypt into one monarchy
upper and lower
Ryan
|
$2,000
[20]
Though he most likely didn't file with the state, Louis Lepke founded the hitman organization known as this
Murder, Inc.
Ryan
Nate
|
$1,600
[22]
This medieval embroidery that depicts the Norman Conquest was hung in a French cathedral on special occasions
Bayeux Tapestry
Ryan
|
$1,600
[15]
Laws that ban a primary election loser from running as an independent in the general are named after this type of loser
a sore loser
Nate
|
|
$2,000
[10]
Written to protect ships from German U-boats, this 1920 act dealing with shipping was said to be hurting P.R.'s economy in 2017
Jones Act
Ryan
Elizabeth
|
$2,000
[5]
This Earth, Wind & Fire hit reminds you "what your life can truly be"
"Shining Star"
|
DD
$3,000
[26]
Akhenaten tried to switch the empire to worship of this, symbolized by the last 4 letters of his name
the sun
Ryan
|
DD
$4,000
[30]
While Bugsy Siegel was being shot in B. H., Meyer Lansky's goons were walking into a hotel in this city & taking over
Las Vegas
Ryan
|
$2,000
[21]
Like Toulouse-Lautrec, Maurice Utrillo was fond of painting this district of Paris famous for itswindmills
Montmartre
Ryan
|
$2,000
[16]
Longfellow titled a poem "Victor and" this "V" word for "loser"
Vanquished
Elizabeth
|
Seen here is the location of the first plant of this company
Ore-Ida