Peter Karamitsos — a software salesman from Elmhurst, Illinois
Allison Berke — a cybersecurity research director from Half Moon Bay, California
Zach Dark — an investment analyst from Hoover, Alabama (whose 2-day cash winnings total $48,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zach | $1,200 | $6,600 | $12,600 |
$17,201
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,600
21 R, 2 W |
| Allison | $5,000 | $5,400 | $8,200 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,200
12 R, 0 W |
| Peter | $400 | $1,000 | $17,200 |
$27,400
New champion: $27,400 |
$15,400
18 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
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$200
[16]
"Madame Veto":This queen during whose reign France's upper classes resisted reform
Marie Antoinette
Zach
|
$200
[9]
Style of eyeglasses seen here
rimless
Allison
|
$200
[1]
Stuart Hughes / Selina Meyer; we saw a lot more of one than the other
Veep
Zach
|
$200
[10]
Abbott & Costello first performed this baseball-themed routine on the radio in 1938
"Who's On First?"
Peter
|
$200
[15]
Tres bummer! You arrived at this French city on the gulf of Napoule the day after its film fest ended!
Cannes
Peter
|
$200
[26]
The perception of texture & weight of a wine in the mouth; in a wine with rich & lingering flavor, it's "full"
body
Peter
|
|
$400
[17]
"Cobwallis":This British general who got "shelled" by Washington
Cornwallis
Peter
|
$400
[5]
This word for exceptional skill starts with a part of a boat
prowess
Allison
|
$400
[2]
Underwood / Underwood, a family values ticket
House of Cards
Zach
|
$400
[11]
The song "Over The Rainbow" ends with this 3-word question
"Why can't I?"
Allison
|
$400
[21]
You spent $140,000 on a Model S from this electric car maker just before its least expensive model hit the market under $70K
Tesla
Zach
|
$400
[27]
Called "brown bag vino", this brand of wine contains 17.5% alcohol & shares its name with a model of Ford
Thunderbird
Allison
Peter
|
|
$600
[18]
"'The Patron Saint of American Orchards":This frontiersman better known by another nickname
Johnny Appleseed
Peter
|
$600
[6]
Barbara Hutton, seen here, was invariably described as this, in reference to her family wealth
an heiress
Allison
|
$600
[3]
Mellie Grant / Jake Ballard; what could go wrong?
Scandal
Zach
|
$600
[12]
In a Longfellow poem, Priscilla Mullins asks this question of John Alden
"Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"
|
$600
[22]
That horse you bought for millions after it won this N.Y. leg of the Triple Crown to get a $75,000 stud fee? Sterile
the Belmont
Zach
|
$600
[28]
Musical term for the clear glass used for rose or champagne
a flute
Zach
|
|
$1,000
[20]
"Father of the Continental Congress"; also, "Father of the Stove"
(Benjamin) Franklin
Peter
|
$800
[7]
Sarabi or Elsa
a lioness
Allison
|
$800
[4]
You get Bartlet / Hoynes
The West Wing
Allison
|
$800
[13]
It's the title question of P.D. Eastman's classic kids' book featuring a just-hatched baby bird
Are You My Mother?
Allison
|
$800
[23]
Calling the 2005 paper "Information Loss in Black Holes" by this Cambridge prof. "derivative"? Bad form
(Stephen) Hawking
Zach
|
$800
[29]
It's not just Oman's capital, it's also a variety of grape with a pronounced sweet aroma & flavor
Muscat
Zach
|
|
DD
$1,200
[19]
"Ironsides":This soldier & lord protector of England
Cromwell
Peter
|
$1,000
[8]
"Follow your" this, said Joseph Campbell, "and the universe will open doors where there were only walls"
bliss
Allison
|
$1,000
[25]
Jeb Bush / Sue Sylvester 2020
Glee
Zach
|
$1,000
[14]
This question from "The Merchant of Venice" mentions a bridge on the Grand Canal
"What news on the Rialto?"
|
$1,000
[24]
Hee hee! Discussing Latin legal terms, you got de facto ("in fact") mixed up with this, "according to law"
de jure
Zach
|
$1,000
[30]
This white wine grape appropriately named for a Roman god is found in many German wines
Bacchus
|
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$400
[26]
This layer extends down from the surface of the Earth about 30 miles beneath the continents
the crust
Zach
|
$400
[6]
Walter Isaacson's 2017 biography of him says while painting Mona Lisa, he was studying lip muscles in the Florence morgue
da Vinci
Zach
|
$400
[11]
Any suspenseful situation not immediately resolved, it came from movie serials with heroes left in peril
a cliffhanger
Zach
|
$400
[16]
Third in line to the throne, herehe is arriving with Dadfor the first day of school
Prince George
Zach
|
$400
[1]
The Museum of the Gaucho is an attraction in this Uruguayan capital
Montevideo
Peter
|
$400
[21]
Small screen home for Bert & Ernie since 1969
Sesame Street
Allison
|
|
$800
[27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) In 1912, Alfred Wegener proposed this theory of geological movement that was an important precursor to the concept of plate tectonics
continental drift
|
$800
[7]
A 2009 biography of Frances Perkins is called "The Woman Behind" this set of programs to jumpstart the economy
the New Deal
Zach
|
$800
[12]
Also meaning the damaging effects of an action, it's radioactive particles carried into the air after an explosion
fallout
Peter
|
$800
[17]
This ceremony at Buckingham Palace takes place after replacements arrive from Wellington barracks
changing of the guard
Zach
|
$1,200
[3]
A proposal for a capital in the interior was made as early as 1789 but work didn't start on this city until 1956
Brasilia
Peter
|
$800
[22]
1964 hit song for Martha & the Vandellas
"Dancing In The Street"
Zach
|
|
$1,200
[28]
2017 seismography revealed it's a hydrothermal reservoir 200 yards wide that supplies this much-visited U.S. feature
Old Faithful
Allison
|
$1,200
[8]
"Star" tells us "How" this star of "Shampoo" & "Bugsy" "Seduced America"
Warren Beatty
Peter
|
$1,600
[14]
This cowboy-hatted ad guy was first used in 1954 & became a symbol of the strong, silent American male
the Marlboro Man
Zach
|
$1,200
[18]
Thisresidence of the queen outside of London is the largest occupied castle in the world
Windsor
Zach
Peter
|
$1,600
[4]
The Casablanca Valley between Valparaiso & this capital is known for its wineries & tasting tours
Santiago
Peter
|
$1,200
[23]
They back up "The Boss"
the E Street Band
Allison
|
|
$1,600
[29]
These unexpected craters suddenly occur when an underground cavern is formed by water eroding away soil
a sinkhole
Peter
|
$1,600
[9]
Marquis James' biography "The Raven" isn't about Edgar Allan Poe but about this flamboyant pres. of early Texas
Sam Houston
Peter
|
$2,000
[15]
A European peninsula gave us this word meaning to break up into smaller countries or other political units
to Balkanize
Peter
|
$1,600
[19]
This "is a voluntary association of 52 independent countries", most formerly under British rule
the Commonwealth
Zach
|
DD
$2,000
[2]
In 1821 it was made the capital of Gran Colombia, it's still a capital today
Bogota
Peter
|
$1,600
[24]
Scorsese feature film from 1973
Mean Streets
Peter
|
| — |
$2,000
[10]
This author whose book inspired "Hamilton" had a new bio out in 2017, making some eager for the musical "Grant"
Ron Chernow
|
DD
$3,000
[13]
It's come to mean immune to criticism; it was discovered by DuPont chemist Roy Plunkett in 1938
Teflon
Peter
|
$2,000
[20]
On this sacred day, 3 days before Easter, the queen visits a cathedral & passes out special money
Maundy Thursday
Zach
|
$2,000
[5]
Fort Zeelandia in this nation's capital of Paramaribo was built to protect the Dutch West India Company
Suriname
Zach
Peter
|
$2,000
[25]
Popular video game first released by Capcom in 1987
Street Fighter
|
Each state has as many electors as its total of senators & reps.; D.C. has this many, the minimum for any state
3