First regular-play game to end in a Tiebreaker Round.
Sarah Norris — a technical writer and manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Scott Krzywonos — an editor from Levittown, Pennsylvania
Laura McLean — a data analyst from Nashville, Tennessee (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,799)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laura | $1,800 | $3,000 | $15,000 |
$6,799
2-day champion: $19,598 |
$15,000
18 R, 3 W |
| Scott | $800 | $1,600 | $4,000 |
$5
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,000
11 R, 5 W (including 3 DDs) |
| Sarah | $2,400 | $5,200 | $11,600 |
$6,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,600
19 R, 3 W |
| THAT'S ABOUT THE SIZE OF IT | FOOD FRANCHISES | HISTORIC TRIOS | MAILING IT IN | ERIN | GO "BRA" |
|
$200
[21]
Thissmallest U.S. state can fit inside the Big Island of Hawaii
Rhode Island
Scott
|
$200
[7]
"America runs on" baked goods & coffee from this alliterative chain that began franchising in 1955
Dunkin' Donuts
Sarah
|
$200
[1]
Crassus, Pompey & this guy made up the first Roman triumvirate
Caesar
Scott
Sarah
|
$200
[16]
If a friend is building a wall or a whole house, mail him this basic piece of material, standard size 3 5/8 & 2 1/4 x 8 inches
a brick
Sarah
|
$200
[30]
Erin Murphy was Tabitha, the nose-twitching daughter witch on this 1960s sitcom
Bewitched
Sarah
|
$200
[12]
A multi-branched ornamental lighting item
a candelabra
Sarah
|
|
$400
[22]
Think there are a lot of people in the eastern United States? Compare this country and there's clearly room for a billion
India
Scott
|
$400
[2]
In 1989 Auntie Anne's began selling lemonade & these from its first store location
pretzels
Laura
|
$400
[3]
In World War II, Germany, Italy & Japan made up this trio of "powers"
the Axis
Scott
|
$400
[17]
Your buddy needs to play ultimate, so Wham-O! Send an All Sport or Dyn-O-Glo one of these
a Frisbee
Sarah
|
$400
[26]
Erin Moran was Joanie, the non-nose-twitching daughter on this 1970s sitcom
Happy Days
Laura
Scott
Sarah
|
$400
[11]
Thisbutterfly is named for a much larger animal
a zebra butterfly
Laura
|
|
$600
[23]
With no Mercator projection, this island from up north doesn't look so big--it's smaller than Argentina
Greenland
Sarah
|
$600
[8]
Oh yeah, I'll have a blast at this franchised drive-in that once promised "service at the speed of sound"
Sonic
Scott
|
$800
[5]
During the 1917 Russian Revolution, this faction promised the people "peace, land & bread"
the Bolsheviks
Sarah
|
$600
[18]
Take a whack at sending this candy-filled party item; rainbow donkey is a popular type
a piñata
Laura
|
$600
[27]
Erin Andrews was the gameface for Cover Girl when it was the official beauty partner of this male sports league
the NFL
Scott
|
$600
[13]
"Starting Here, Starting Now" ends the 1966 album "Color Me" this first name
Barbra
Laura
|
|
$800
[24]
If you take this country out of South America, it would stretch from the Barents Sea down to the Persian Gulf
Chile
Laura
|
$800
[9]
Someone pass the syrup--this chain built the last of its iconic A-frame restaurants in 1979
IHOP
Laura
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
As its name suggests, this caravel was the smallest of Columbus' ships in 1492
the Niña
Scott
|
$800
[19]
Charlie Brown's in luck if he wants to paint an address on one of these he got over & over on Halloween in a TV special
a rock
Scott
Sarah
|
$800
[28]
ThisCNN anchor tries to stay ahead of the news on her show "Out Front"
Erin Burnett
Laura
|
$800
[14]
Symbolic math branch
algebra
Laura
|
|
$1,000
[25]
This Scandinavian country is larger than California, but California has 30 million more people
Sweden
Sarah
|
$1,000
[10]
If you can't get to Louisiana, visit this chain named for a "French Connection" character, not a cartoon one
Popeyes
Sarah
|
$1,000
[6]
With Israel's Yitzhak Rabin & Shimon Peres, this man won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize
(Yasser) Arafat
Scott
|
$1,000
[20]
Slap an address & postage on this tropical item & the recipient can enjoy its solid dried meat called copra
a coconut
Laura
|
$1,000
[29]
Erin Mouré, a poet from this country, won a Governor General's Award for "Furious"
Canada
|
$1,000
[15]
A person born in Israel
a Sabra
|
| 14-LETTER WORDS | GETTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER | SEEING THINGS DIFFERENTLY | SUCH NOVEL CHARACTERS | ALIMENTARY SCHOOL | WE'LL TAKE YOUR MEASURE! |
|
$400
[7]
Today a secretary is often rightly called this 14-letter type of "assistant"
administrative
Laura
|
$400
[10]
"We never broke up, we just took a 14-year vacation", said Glenn Frey at this band's first reunion show in 1994
the Eagles
Laura
|
$400
[17]
Suzuki Roshi, a master of this type of Buddhism, coined the term "beginner's mind" for seeing the world afresh
Zen
Laura
|
$400
[1]
Behaving like this hard-charging hero of a 1605 Spanish work has become shorthand for impractical idealism
Don Quixote
Sarah
|
$800
[2]
This slimy membrane lines the organs & passages of the alimentary canal
mucus membrane
Sarah
|
$800
[25]
Anemometers measure this, especially in a tunnel
wind speed
Laura
|
|
$800
[8]
To kill the pathogenic microorganisms in milk using this process, it's necessary to heat it to at least 145°F
pasteurization
Sarah
|
$800
[11]
The Jackson 5 reunited in 1983 for this record label's 25th anniversary special
Motown
Laura
|
$800
[18]
Customized online content can keep people in a "filter" this, the title of a 2012 book that suggest peeking out of yours
a bubble
Sarah
|
$800
[6]
In "Little Women" this character declares, "I'm dying to go and fight with Papa. And I can only stay at home & knit"
Jo
Scott
|
DD
$1,000
[27]
Often changing in shape, this organ contains both cardiac & pyloric sphincters
the stomach
Scott
|
$1,200
[23]
Consult a galvanometer to measure amperes of this
electrical current
|
|
$1,200
[14]
Can I tell you something this way, just between ourselves?
confidentially
Sarah
|
$1,200
[9]
The setlist at their 2007 reunion show included "Kashmir" & "In My Time Of Dying"
Led Zeppelin
Laura
|
$1,200
[20]
St. Paul wrote, "For now we see through" this, "darkly; but then face to face"
a glass
Laura
|
$1,200
[3]
This one of Dumas' 3 musketeers is the extrovert of the group--loud, brash & a courageous fighter & friend
Porthos
Sarah
|
$1,200
[19]
In 2017 Bangladesh gave refugees 900,000 doses of vaccine against this waterborne alimentary disease
cholera
Sarah
|
$1,600
[24]
Glucometers are a big part of life for people with this
diabetes
Sarah
|
|
$1,600
[15]
Like layers of rock, it's the hierarchical division of society according to rank, caste or class
stratification
Laura
|
$1,600
[12]
An estimated 500,000 people jammed New York's Central Park to see this duo's 1981 reunion concert
Simon & Garfunkel
Laura
|
$1,600
[21]
You get a virtual reality experience when puttin' on the Rift from this company
Oculus
Laura
|
$1,600
[4]
"I have brains & almost all the rest of the world are fools", says Becky Sharp in this author's "Vanity Fair"
Thackeray
Scott
|
$2,000
[28]
From the Greek for "throat", this passageway has nasal & oral sections
the pharynx
Sarah
|
$2,000
[26]
Used by the USGS, creepmeters gauge the slip of these, such as the strike-slip type
fault lines
Scott
|
|
$2,000
[16]
John Calvin wrote of this belief, "Eternal life is foreordained for some, eternal damnation for others"
predestination
Laura
|
$2,000
[13]
This band's Black Francis said of reunions, "This ain't about the art anymore...now it's time to talk about the money"
the Pixies
Sarah
|
$2,000
[22]
Novels with multiple narrators' points of view include this Barbara Kingsolver "Bible"
The Poisonwood Bible
Scott
|
DD
$3,000
[5]
During the French Revolution, Sir Percy Blakeney disguises himself as this hero to rescue the wrongly jailed
the Scarlet Pimpernel
Scott
|
— | — |
Once known as the Norman Isles, per the British government this group is "not part of the U.K." & has "never been colonies"
the Channel Islands