Alex Lopinto — a veterinary ophthalmologist from Brooklyn, New York
Shannan Younger — a writer from Naperville, Illinois
Emily Milan — a nanny from Birmingham, Michigan (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emily | $3,200 | $4,200 | $11,800 |
$23,600
2-day champion: $35,201 |
$11,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Shannan | $2,000 | $3,000 | $11,800 |
$16,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,800
14 R, 2 W |
| Alex | $3,200 | $3,800 | $3,400 |
$6,700
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,400
16 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| THE CENSUS ASKS | WHITE | "BLACK" | ASIAN | HIS PANIC | WE'RE ALL AMERICANS |
|
$200
[17]
1940:Whether an occupied dwelling had one of these entertainment devices
a radio
Emily
Alex
|
$200
[24]
ASU scientists have made the first white one of these, whose beams could bring many more colors to TV sets
a laser
Alex
|
$200
[1]
A shiner is slang for this
a black eye
Alex
|
$200
[6]
Ready to climb Mount Everest? Head to Sagarmatha National Park in this country to get started
Nepal
Emily
|
$200
[16]
Jonathan Knight of this "New" group that's been singing for 30 years now has gone public about his panic attacks
New Kids on the Block
Shannan
|
$200
[8]
Sheis a champion of tennis & for social justice
Billie Jean King
Emily
|
|
$400
[18]
2010:Choices among Latino & Hispanic identities included this synonym for Mexican American
Chicano
|
$400
[25]
Dazzle your classroom or colleagues by drawing on an IWB, an interactive one of these
a whiteboard
Emily
|
$400
[2]
In 2015 this hockey team won its sixth Stanley Cup
the Blackhawks
Alex
|
$400
[7]
Reflecting the city's earlier name, it's the nickname for the thriving film industry in India's city of Mumbai
Bollywood
Shannan
|
$400
[20]
This president inherited Andrew Jackson's financial policies, which spurred on the stock world's "Panic of 1837"
Martin Van Buren
|
$400
[9]
Naturally, David Ritz titled his biography of this singer "Respect"
Aretha Franklin
Alex
|
|
$600
[19]
1990:"Do you have a second or junior" one of these "on this property?"
a mortgage
|
$600
[26]
Say "cheese!" & then say "carbamide peroxide!", used in most products for whitening these
teeth
Alex
|
$600
[3]
"You Shook Me All Night Long" was on this classic album of the '80s
Back in Black
Alex
|
$600
[10]
Covering part of northern China is this desert of which Marco Polo said, "It would take a year to go from end to end"
the Gobi Desert
Shannan
Alex
|
$600
[21]
After his 1938 broadcast, a listener ran into a church screaming "N.Y. has been destroyed! It's the end of the world!"
(Orson) Welles
Alex
|
$600
[12]
Thisactress & activist couldn't be more perfect for the category
America Ferrera
Shannan
|
|
$800
[29]
1980: Whether a person's ethnicity was Hawaiian or Samoan, or from this other U.S. Pacific island territory
Guam
Shannan
|
$1,000
[28]
White lion cubs have leucism, not albinism; they make this pigment, but it's having trouble getting to the fur
melanin
Alex
|
$800
[4]
It grew out of a small machine shop in Baltimore to become a leading maker of power tools & accessories
Black and Decker
Shannan
|
$800
[11]
The Red Sea port of Jeddah is more liberal than other big cities in this Middle East kingdom
Saudi Arabia
Shannan
|
$800
[22]
This Greek god embraced the panic, since his sons were fear & panic personified
Ares
Emily
|
$800
[13]
This actress of Connecticut played Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1968's "The Lion in Winter"
Katharine Hepburn
Emily
|
|
$1,000
[30]
1790-1860:Number of members of a household who were these
slaves
Shannan
|
DD
$2,000
[27]
Sir Isaac Newton showed that white light is composed of this many colors
seven
Alex
|
$1,000
[5]
An essay that promoted kindness to animals inspired Anna Sewell to write this novel
Black Beauty
Emily
|
$1,000
[15]
Turkmenistan's Garabogazkol Gulf makes up part of this, the world's largest inland body of water
the Caspian Sea
Emily
|
$1,000
[23]
Gen. Horatio Gates of this army lost to the Redcoats at Camden but got mocking admiration for fleeing 180 miles in 3 days
the Continental Army
Shannan
|
$1,000
[14]
He's made his mark on American fashion
Marc Jacobs
Alex
|
| WESTERN NOVELS | SONGS FROM BROADWAY MUSICALS | BATTLES | 13-LETTER WORDS | STAMPS | THAT'S NOT FLYING! |
|
$400
[6]
Gaylord DuBois wrote the first novel about this masked lawman, published in 1936
the Lone Ranger
Emily
|
$400
[1]
"The Schuyler Sisters" & "Ten Duel Commandments"
Hamilton
Shannan
|
$400
[20]
There were no casualties in this April 12-14, 1861 engagement that got the Civil War going
Fort Sumter
Alex
|
$400
[17]
Don't wait until tomorrow to tell me it means to postpone habitually rather than act
procrastinate
Emily
|
$400
[7]
Disney villains stamps include this baddie from "Sleeping Beauty"
Maleficent
Emily
|
$400
[12]
All flying fish use their pectoral these to "fly"--some are aided by the pelvic ones too
fins
Emily
|
|
$800
[24]
Clifton Adams specialized in rip-roaring Westerns like "Law of" this mechanism that you really press more than pull
Law of the Trigger
|
$800
[2]
"Prisoners Of Love" & "Springtime For Hitler"
The Producers
Alex
|
$800
[21]
Losing 1282's Battle of Orewin Bridge saw this kingdom led by Llywelyn Ap Gruffudd fall to the English
Wales
Shannan
|
$800
[18]
Yummy! This adjective means "saliva-inducing"
mouthwatering
Emily
Shannan
|
$800
[8]
A stamp honoring Henry David Thoreau has his face, his signature & sumac leaves, which grew next to his cabin here
Walden Pond
Emily
|
$800
[13]
The flying type of this rodent can't fly, but is nocturnal like bats
a squirrel
Emily
|
|
$1,200
[25]
This Thomas Berger Western about a white boy brought up by the Cheyenne became a Dustin Hoffman movie
Little Big Man
Emily
|
$1,600
[4]
"Dulcinea" & "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)"
Man of La Mancha
Alex
|
$1,600
[27]
At the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., this Spartan king led the stalwart defenders
King Leonidas
|
$1,200
[19]
This quality isn't just shown in being a good loser but in being a good (non-gloating) winner
sportsmanlike (or sportsmanship)
Emily
|
$1,200
[9]
For your RSVP envelopes, consider thecelebration corsage&this counterpart, worn on a lapel
a boutonniere
Shannan
|
$1,200
[14]
The marsupials called gliders are sometimes incorrectly called flying these worldwide marsupials
possums
Alex
|
|
$1,600
[28]
A thinking person's Western, "The Ox-Bow Incident" explored the aftermath of one of these acts of mob violence
a lynching
|
DD
$2,000
[3]
"Fisch Schlapping Song" & "I Am Not Dead Yet"
Spamalot
Alex
|
DD
$2,000
[26]
The December 2001 siege of Tora Bora took place in this nation
Afghanistan
Emily
|
$1,600
[22]
Term for a musician who plays the cymbals, drums or xylophone
percussionist
Emily
|
$1,600
[10]
Latin American cuisine on the Delicioso stamp series includes this 4-letter egg custard
flan
Shannan
|
$1,600
[15]
The flying this reptile goes from a "J" shape to an "S" shape to a "C" shape to get air
a snake
Alex
|
|
$2,000
[29]
Thisprolific author wrote more than 50 Westerns, including "The Last of the Plainsmen" & "Trail Driver"
Zane Grey
|
$2,000
[5]
"Horace Green Alma Mater" & "Faculty Quadrille"
School of Rock
Emily
|
$2,000
[30]
The 1526 Battle of Panipat saw Chief Babur defeat Sultan Ibrahim & thus begin this 2-century Muslim empire in India
the Mughal empire
Alex
|
$2,000
[23]
It's the large-scale removal of trees from a wooded area, often with detrimental effect
deforestation
Shannan
|
$2,000
[11]
Father Theodore Hesburgh is depicted on the campus of this college, where he was the longtime president
the University of Notre Dame
Shannan
|
$2,000
[16]
The flying type of this cephalopod doesn't fly as much as it leaps by expelling a jet of water
a squid
Emily
Alex
|
In 2017 this govt. agency dedicated a new computational facility named in honor of 99-year-old ex-employee Katherine Johnson
NASA