Lynn Klyde-Allaman — a journalism professor from Lafayette, Colorado
Natasha Go — an innovation strategist from Sunnyside, New York
Rebecca Zoshak — a language specialist from State College, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,407)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rebecca | $3,200 | $6,000 | $13,200 |
$8,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,400
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Natasha | $2,600 | $5,200 | $9,000 |
$4,601
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,600
18 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Lynn | $1,600 | $4,800 | $8,800 |
$8,800
New champion: $8,800 |
$8,800
15 R, 2 W |
| NEWS OF 2017 | MIDDLE INITIAL E. | LOCATION VACATION | ON THE BOARD GAME | LET'S REWRITE THE CLASSIC NOVEL | FUN WITH BACKWARDS WORDS |
|
$200
[3]
On April 24 aboard this, Peggy Whitson became the U.S. astronaut with the most time in space; she's now at 665 days
the International Space Station
Lynn
|
$200
[29]
He's the mascot for the pizza and play place where a kid can be a kid
Chuck E. Cheese
Natasha
|
$200
[17]
Come to this country to visit Hobbiton, where the "Lord of the Rings" films were shot
New Zealand
Natasha
|
$200
[1]
Conservatory, Billiard Room
Clue
Rebecca
|
$200
[14]
Rain?! The climate had changed! The Dust Bowl was no more! "Ma!" Tom yelled. "We're not leaving Oklahoma after all!"
The Grapes of Wrath
Lynn
|
$400
[20]
20461 Dioretsa is one of these with a retrograde orbit
an asteroid
Natasha
|
|
$400
[4]
Adding physical locations to its online empire, Amazon purchased this grocery retailer in a deal worth $13.7 billion
Whole Foods
Lynn
|
$400
[26]
In 1915 bond dealer Charles E. Merrill took on a business partner with this last name
Lynch
Rebecca
Natasha
|
$400
[6]
If you want to see the pavilion where Liesl was "16 going on 17" in this movie, head to Salzburg's Hellbrunn Castle
The Sound of Music
Rebecca
Natasha
|
$400
[2]
Just Visiting, Chance
Monopoly
Lynn
|
$400
[15]
"God forgive me everything!" she said, but then, for no good reason, the train to Obiralovka stopped! She lived!
Anna Karenina
Rebecca
|
$600
[24]
Baseball star Anthony Garciaparra goes by this middle name, his dad's name backwards
Nomar
Lynn
|
|
$600
[5]
In September, Saudi Arabia's government announced it would let women do this
drive
Natasha
|
$600
[21]
We're mad for this cover boy seen here
Alfred E. Neuman
Lynn
|
$600
[7]
Take a tour of Highclere Castle in Hampshire, England, better known to PBS fans as this title manor
Downton Abbey
Lynn
|
$600
[11]
Gumdrop Mountains, Lollipop Forest
Candy Land
Natasha
|
$600
[16]
"Hey Jurgis, Packingtown is going vegan! You'll love boxing up carrots at your new ergonomic work station"
The Jungle
Natasha
|
$800
[25]
Mail abuse prevention systems, or MAPS, are designed to fight this
spam
Natasha
|
|
$800
[8]
Soprano Audrey Luna hit the note known as A above this, a first in Metropolitan Opera history
high C
|
$800
[22]
After graduating from West Point, he married Mary Anna Randolph Custis, the great granddaughter of Martha Washington
Robert E. Lee
Lynn
|
$800
[10]
The Visitors Center in Fargo, North Dakota has this piece of heavy equipment used in "Fargo", complete with fake leg inside
a wood chipper
Rebecca
|
$1,000
[27]
Western Australia, Kamchatka
Risk
Rebecca
|
$800
[18]
"Pencey Prep apologizes for the mixup in grades... no, I'm not being phony. You're not expelled...you're valedictorian!"
The Catcher in the Rye
Natasha
|
$1,000
[28]
A backwards state name, Ak-Sar-Ben has been on the name of a racetrack & coliseum in this Midwest city
Omaha
Natasha
Lynn
|
|
$1,000
[9]
This HHS Secretary & physician became the first secretary to leave the Trump Cabinet
Tom Price
Natasha
|
$1,000
[23]
"Goliath", "Boston Legal" & "The Practice" are among the many TV shows he's created
David E. Kelley
Rebecca
|
$1,000
[12]
The Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield doubled as this film prison; you can tour it & see Andy's escape tunnel
Shawshank
Rebecca
|
DD
$1,600
[13]
Start Career, Pay Day
The Game of Life
Rebecca
|
$1,000
[19]
Sure, she'd had affairs with Leon & Rodolphe & lost all her money, but a quick bankruptcy & a huge Go Fund Me later, she was fine
Madame Bovary
Natasha
|
— |
| FORESTS | VERY POSSESSIVE | "B" PREPARED | AVIATION HISTORY | SING A SONG OF | 6 PENS |
|
$400
[15]
Each year Edwinstowe Village hosts a weeklong Robin Hood Festival in this forest
Sherwood Forest
Rebecca
|
$400
[27]
Writing in his journal in January 1806, he gave Clark's Mountain, Oregon its name
Meriwether Lewis
|
$400
[1]
It's a nonrigid airship often used for observation, Colonel
a blimp
Rebecca
|
$400
[12]
On May 20, 1927 he left Roosevelt Field with 5 sandwiches & over 400 gallons of fuel
Lindbergh
Natasha
|
$400
[17]
No Crosby, Nash or Young around when this man sang "Song Of Love"
(Stephen) Stills
Lynn
|
$400
[9]
Salute this man for holding two pens used for signing the German surrender at Reims in 1945
Eisenhower
Natasha
|
|
$800
[13]
The wind rustling through a forest of this tall grass has been named one of the top 100 sounds in Japan
bamboo
Natasha
|
$800
[10]
The 1807 steamboat known as the Clermont was dubbed his folly
Fulton
Lynn
|
$800
[2]
A secondary substance made during the manufacture of something else
a byproduct
Rebecca
|
$800
[18]
Benjamin Davis Jr. became the first to lead this all-black Alabama flying unit also known as the Red Tails
the Tuskegee Airmen
Natasha
|
$800
[6]
This man sang "Song Of Madness" like a bat out of hell
Meat Loaf
Lynn
|
$800
[22]
Here's a Candide painting of this pensive Frenchman
Voltaire
Natasha
|
|
DD
$1,000
[20]
The Cedars of God area in this country contains remnants of an extensive ancient forest
Lebanon
Natasha
|
$1,200
[11]
As cars were so new, in 1904 this British company's first policy for one called it a "ship navigating on land"
Lloyd's of London
|
$1,200
[3]
It's the formal act of becoming engaged to be wed
betrothal
Lynn
|
$1,200
[28]
In the mid-1800s George Cayley sent a 10-year-old aloft on a "governable parachute", which we call this type of aircraft
a glider
Lynn
|
$1,200
[7]
In "Song Of Home" this Belfast bluesman is sailing home from Maine, then sailing home from Spain--did he get lost?
Van Morrison
|
$1,200
[23]
Thepenshares this name with geologicfeature on the left
Montblanc
Natasha
|
|
$1,200
[14]
As its name indicates, this type of forest such as Monteverde in Costa Rica is higher than a rain forest & cooler
a cloud forest
|
DD
$1,600
[19]
According to Boyle's Law, this in a gas increases whenever the volume of its container decreases
pressure
Natasha
|
$1,600
[4]
This adjective mans characteristic of the lord who penned "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
Byronic
Rebecca
|
$1,600
[29]
With H. Ross Perot Jr. aboard, the Spirit of this state is seenherecompleting the first round-the-world helicopter trip
Texas
Lynn
|
$1,600
[8]
Bette Midler copied a movie title with a "Song Of" this woman from Lourdes--"she saw the queen of heaven once"
Bernadette
|
$1,600
[24]
Left wing feathers were the best of this type of pen for right-handed users, as the feathers curved away from the user
a quill
Lynn
|
|
$2,000
[21]
California's Sequoia National Forest is home to the world's largest-in-volume tree, named for this general
Sherman
Rebecca
|
$2,000
[26]
In the 1730s England went to the War of Jenkins' this body part, allegedly cut off by Spaniards
Jenkins' Ear
|
$2,000
[5]
This African tree producesfruit with an edible pulp called monkey bread
baobab
Natasha
|
— |
$2,000
[16]
In 1972 Joan Baez sang the "Song Of" this newly created South Asian nation
Bangladesh
Lynn
|
$2,000
[25]
The U.K.'s Malicious Communications Act of 1988 covers letters written with this figurative "pen"
a poison pen
Rebecca
|
The Greek islands of Lesbos & Rhodes are each about 10 miles from the mainland of this other country
Turkey