Amy Yacorzynski — an attorney from New Orleans, Louisiana
Tracey Hollabaugh — a teacher from Cumming, Georgia
Peter Karamitsos — a software salesman from Elmhurst, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $27,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter | $1,200 | $3,800 | $12,600 |
$23,600
2-day champion: $51,000 |
$12,600
15 R, 0 W |
| Tracey | $2,400 | $3,800 | $11,400 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$13,400
21 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Amy | $2,600 | $2,800 | $17,000 |
$8,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| BAD ADJECTIVES FOR A DATING PROFILE | SPORTS TRADITIONS | WEBSITES | A DOG & PONY & LEMUR SHOW | STATE HOLIDAYS | REAL "D" LIGHTS |
|
$200
[12]
This adjective for a baseball hit out of play is not good, especially if it's before "mouthed"
foul
Peter
|
$200
[1]
A new tradition in 2017--at the end of the 1st quarter, Hawkeye fans at this U. turn & wave at Children's Hospital patients
the University of Iowa
Peter
|
$200
[5]
Thinking about retiring? This agency has a retirement estimator you can use at ssa.gov
Social Security Administration
Tracey
|
$200
[28]
The average height of this pony named for an island group is 40 inches--it's so short that it's not measured in hands
a Shetland
Amy
|
$200
[4]
June 17:Bunker Hill Day
Massachusetts
Tracey
|
$200
[6]
Important for metabolizing calcium, it's created by ultraviolet radiation
Vitamin D
Tracey
|
|
$400
[15]
This word for selfish or boastful comes from the psychoanalytic term for the conscious self
egotistical
Amy
|
$400
[2]
In 1952, 8 playoff game wins took the Stanley Cup, so Red Wing fans threw this sea creature on the ice for luck
an octopus
Amy
|
$400
[11]
This news & entertainment site offers quizzes under headings like "Can We Guess?" & "Would You Rather?"
BuzzFeed
Tracey
|
$400
[26]
Thistracking dog has been described as a unique-looking dog in a baggy suit
a bloodhound
Peter
|
$400
[25]
May 8:Truman Day
Missouri
Tracey
|
$400
[7]
One ofhisearly forays into rap was fittingly on the song "Public Enemy No. 1"
Chuck D
Amy
|
|
$600
[16]
It means "capable of polishing or cleaning a surface by grinding"
abrasive
Tracey
|
$600
[3]
In a Dec. game, Taylor U. hoops fans don't make a sound until the team hits point 10; later, all sing this appropriate carol
"Silent Night"
|
$600
[19]
Its article on itself says it's "the largest and most popular general reference work on the internet"
Wikipedia
Peter
|
$600
[24]
Some primates have noses; lemurs have one of these with a rhinarium at the tip, the same as dogs & pigs
a snout
Peter
|
$600
[27]
March 31:Cesar Chavez Day; May 22:Harvey Milk Day
California
Tracey
|
$600
[8]
"Open some smiles" with this fruity drink, perhaps the orange strawberry variety
SunnyD
Tracey
Amy
|
|
$800
[17]
Rising in rebellion, or causing disgust
revolting
Tracey
|
$800
[13]
Let the beer flow at the Sausage Race with Polish & Italian sausage, brat, hot dog & chorizo at this NL team's games
the (Milwaukee) Brewers
Peter
|
$800
[20]
This website that sells more than just shoes takes its name from the Spanish word for "shoes"
Zappos
Tracey
|
$800
[23]
This state's Chincoteague Island, off its eastern shore, is known as a playground for wild ponies
Virginia
Tracey
|
— |
$800
[9]
Jack Black moonlights in this "persistent" band with partner Kyle Gass
Tenacious D
Amy
|
|
$1,000
[18]
6-letter synonym for acrid, corresponding to one of the 4 major kinds of taste buds
bitter
Peter
|
$1,000
[14]
When the horses enter the track to run in the Kentucky Derby, 160,000 fans sing this Stephen Foster song
"My Old Kentucky Home"
Tracey
|
DD
$2,000
[21]
In 2008 this former editor of Vanity Fair & The New Yorker launched The Daily Beast
Tina Brown
Tracey
|
$1,000
[22]
The sole living representative of its family, this double-named lemur sounds like a Navy man's "yes, sir!"
an aye-aye
Tracey
|
— |
$1,000
[10]
Wizards of the Coast now owns the role-playing game created by Gary Gygax commonly shortened to this
D&D
Tracey
|
| I AM HUSSEIN | '80s MUSIC | SOMEHOW THEY PULLED IT OFF | LITERARY STYLES & MOVEMENTS | MY TREATY | I'LL PICK UP THE "TAB" |
|
DD
$200
[29]
Formerly the mufti of Tuzla, Husein Kavazovic is the current grand mufti of this one-time Yugoslav republic
Bosnia-Herzegovnia
Amy
|
$400
[2]
On "The Simpsons", the "Planet of the Apes" musical had a song about Dr. Zaius a la Falco's "Rock Me" him
Amadeus
Tracey
|
$400
[12]
Proverbially, the best way to pull off this Johnson & Johnson product is quickly
a Band-Aid
Peter
|
$400
[24]
"Howl" poet Allen Ginsberg was once called "The Wild Shaman" of this literary movement
the Beat movement
Amy
|
$400
[11]
The 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki opened 4 Chinese ports to trade with this country that had defeated China in war
Japan
Tracey
|
$400
[3]
Launched in 1903 London's Daily Mirror was an early one of these sex & scandal newspapers
a tabloid
Peter
|
|
$400
[21]
The King Hussein mosque is in the heart of this Jordanian capital
Amman
Tracey
|
$1,200
[4]
Oh, "Come On"! She's the title gal in the first & subsequently last Top 40 hit by Dexys Midnight Runners
Eileen
Peter
|
$800
[15]
This dentist pulled off his boots before he died in bed in 1887, though he'd said he'd die with them on
Doc Holliday
Tracey
|
$800
[25]
Zora Neale Hurston, author of "Their Eyes Were Watching God", was part of this NYC movement
the Harlem Renaissance
Tracey
|
$800
[13]
In 1929 Benito Mussolini signed the Lateran Treaty, creating this very, very tiny country
Vatican City
Tracey
Amy
|
$800
[7]
A striped cat, or a watered silk fabric
a tabby
Tracey
|
|
$800
[22]
Nasser Hussain scored thousands of runs in this sport & also captained the English national team for 4 years
cricket
Peter
|
$1,600
[5]
2 songs held the No. 1 spot the longest--6 weeks--in 1980: "Lady" by Kenny Rogers & "Call Me" by this group
Blondie
Amy
|
$1,200
[16]
The tarp is being pulled off the baseball field, so this 2-word annoyance is ending
rain delay
Peter
|
$1,200
[26]
Cyberpunk is sci-fi set in the future; this is sci-fi set in the 19th century
steampunk
Tracey
|
$1,200
[14]
The American Rev. ended with the Treaty of Paris, returning to Spain part of what would eventually be this state
Florida
Amy
|
$1,200
[8]
Let's count up the synonyms for this word--1) rank2) classify3) order
tabulate
Peter
|
|
$1,200
[23]
In December 2003 TV watchers worldwide saw this man's mouth being swabbed for a DNA sample
Saddam Hussein
|
$2,000
[6]
“Paid in Full” was the 1987 platinum debut album of Eric B.& this MC seen here
Rakim
Amy
|
$1,600
[19]
In a novel he puts on his mask to fight Gonzales, leaves, pulls off his mask & comes back to jest with Gonzales
Zorro
Peter
|
$1,600
[27]
Put these 4 letters before "fiction" to get this style in which the author refers to the artificiality of the work itself
meta
Tracey
|
$1,600
[17]
France got Alsace & Lorraine in the Peace of this, ending the Thirty Years’ War in 1648
Treaty of Westphalia
|
$1,600
[9]
It's Latin for "cleaned slate"
tabula rasa
Amy
|
| — |
DD
$2,800
[1]
Him: "Well, I knew I was in trouble nowmy hope of winning sank 'cause I got the Daily Double now & then my mind went blank"
Weird Al
Amy
|
$2,000
[20]
Sudbury, England unveiled astatueof this "Blue Boy" homeboy in 1913 & reenacted the unveiling in 2013
Gainsborough
Tracey
|
$2,000
[28]
Ellen Glasgow coined the term "Southern" this to describe works by writers like William Faulkner
gothic
Amy
|
$2,000
[18]
Philip V was eventually your big winner in the War of the Spanish Succession, ended by the Treaties of this, "U" know
Utrecht
Peter
|
$2,000
[10]
It was the movable sanctuary of the Israelites in the desert
tabernacle
Amy
|
Of the 10 countries the Danube touches, this one is alphabetically last & is the only one that doesn't end in "Y" or "A"
Ukraine