Carolyn Walsh — a software engineer from Brooklyn, New York
Robert Marx — a graduate student from Nashville, Tennessee
Jen Regan — a travel marketer from North Bergen, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,780)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jen | $400 | $0 | $5,200 |
$7,700
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,400
9 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Robert | $3,400 | $8,000 | $12,800 |
$4,599
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,800
20 R, 2 W |
| Carolyn | $1,200 | $1,400 | $10,600 |
$10,600
New champion: $10,600 |
$12,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| SPITTING | IMAGE | ME, MYSELF & "I" | WE LOVE THE '80s | EXPRESSIONS FROM OLD BRIT LIT | POLITICS |
|
$200
[14]
These largest New World camelids don't normally spit at humans, but do at others of their kind
llamas
Jen
Carolyn
|
$200
[7]
No, that movie battle scene didn't really have 50,000 extras--too expensive! They used CGI, short for this
a computer-generated image (or computer graphic imaging)
Robert
Carolyn
|
$200
[2]
I was once one of these, which the CDC defines as a person between the ages of zero & one
an infant
Carolyn
|
$200
[17]
Let's kick around this popular '80s object seen here
a hacky sack
Carolyn
|
$200
[1]
Heaven's candle
the sun
Robert
|
$600
[28]
Asking how an idea will "play in" this home city of Illinois Central College is asking for its impact in Middle America
Peoria
Jen
|
|
$400
[15]
This fish with a William Tell-like name shoots water at insects above the surface to knock them in
an archerfish
Robert
|
$400
[8]
NAACP Image Awards winners in 2018 included Taraji P. Henson for "Empire" & Tracee Ellis Ross for this sitcom
Black-ish
Robert
|
$400
[3]
Scavenger cells are part of this group of body defense responses
immune cells
Robert
|
$400
[18]
Quincy Jones assembled a slew of superstars in 1985 to record this fundraising song with a global name
"We Are The World"
Carolyn
|
$400
[12]
Bone-house
your body
Robert
Carolyn
|
$800
[27]
In September 2017 this Tenn. chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said he would not run again in 2018
Bob Corker
Carolyn
|
|
$600
[16]
This Chinese dish is made from the hardened spittle of a cave-dwelling swiftlet
bird's nest soup
Jen
|
$600
[9]
Without X-rays and non-invasively, this technology can give your doctor a great view of your insides
an MRI
Robert
|
$600
[4]
Don't let anyone swipe this, defined by Webster's as "who someone is: the name of a person"
identity
Jen
|
$600
[19]
A safari-wear craze was inspired in part by this movie starring Meryl Streep & Robert Redford
Out of Africa
Jen
|
$600
[13]
Word-hoard
the vocabulary
|
$1,000
[26]
Who Mom loves best, or a candidate like Gov. Cecil Underwood who in 1960 got all W.V.'s delegates at the GOP convention
the favorite son
Robert
Carolyn
|
|
$800
[22]
These tusked creatures spit jets of water into the muddy ocean floor to loosen shellfish for eating
walruses
Robert
|
$800
[10]
In the King James Version of Exodus, commandment no. 2 specifically prohibits the making of this kind of image
a graven image
Robert
|
$800
[5]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical diagram on the monitor.) The name of this vein of the lower body means that it's below the superior vena cava, which drains the head
the inferior vena cava
Robert
|
$800
[20]
The hot toy of Christmas 1983: these dolls created by Xavier Roberts that were "adopted"
Cabbage Patch Kids
Carolyn
|
$800
[24]
Battle-sweat
blood
Robert
|
DD
$2,200
[29]
In 1913 James Hamilton Lewis became the first senator in this job of counting votes & rounding up members
whip
Jen
|
|
$1,000
[23]
The ringhals, or "spitting", this snake doesn't spit venom to subdue prey, but to ward off attackers
the spitting cobra
Carolyn
|
$1,000
[11]
In the 1920s, this American TV pioneer created the first video camera & called it an image dissector
Philo Farnsworth
|
$1,000
[6]
The pupil perforates it
the iris
Carolyn
|
$1,000
[21]
1985 saw the first of these slamfests; one match included Hulk Hogan & "Rowdy" Roddy Piper
WrestleMania
Robert
|
$1,000
[25]
Treasure-seat
a throne
Robert
|
— |
| THE SPITTING IMAGE | ITALIAN LITERATURE | THE SEA SECTION | HELLO, "B.B." | THE OLD WEST | CHEESY MASHUPS |
|
$400
[17]
Redheaded singer Ed Sheeran is sometimes mistaken for this "Weasley" actor
Rupert Grint
Carolyn
|
$400
[22]
Carlo Lorenzini used the pen name Collodi to write this beloved tale about a puppet
Pinocchio
Robert
|
$400
[1]
The Adriatic & Tyrrhenian are large enough to merit being called seas within this sea
the Mediterranean
Carolyn
|
$400
[5]
To bring lunch from home to eat at work
to brown bag
Carolyn
|
$400
[11]
In Deadwood, S.D. you can enjoy re-enactments of the 1876 killing of this "Wild" guy along with the trial of his killer
Wild Bill Hickok
Robert
|
$400
[12]
A smoked Italian cheese becomes a masked lawman in a TV western
provolone Ranger
Robert
|
|
$800
[18]
It's not surprising that Larry Davidnot only plays this man on "Saturday Night Live", but is his distant relative
Bernie Sanders
Carolyn
|
$800
[23]
Lesser known now than another work, this man's "La Vita Nuova" described in poetry his new life after meeting Beatrice
Dante
Carolyn
|
$800
[2]
Not a triangle but an irregular oval, the Sargasso Sea boasts this U.K. territory & its capital, Hamilton, in the west section
Bermuda
Jen
|
$800
[6]
Someone born in the immediate post-World War II years
Baby Boomer
Jen
|
$800
[14]
Sold for $17 in 1873 ($360 today), the .45 caliber "peacemaker" from this manufacturer was "the gun that won the West"
Colt
Jen
Carolyn
|
$800
[13]
A semi-soft cheese big in pizza stretches to be a female jazz & scat singing superstar
mozzarella Fitzgerald
Jen
|
|
$1,200
[19]
Jessica Chastain posted a video of this "Jurassic World" redhead lip-syncing to the song "I Am Not Jessica Chastain"
Bryce Dallas Howard
Carolyn
|
$1,200
[24]
"My Brilliant Friend" begins Elena Ferrante's series about 2 women growing up in this seaport in southern Italy
Naples
Carolyn
|
$1,200
[3]
Many consider St. George's Channel to be the southern section of this sea with a national name
the Irish Sea
Carolyn
|
$1,200
[8]
Singer Jimmy Buffett has been called the pied piper of these laid-back folks
beach bums
Robert
|
$1,600
[16]
The 1850s discovery of this "lode" named for a prospector set off a silver rush in Nevada
the Comstock lode
|
$1,200
[27]
Dodger Stadium's middle-innings "Smooch Screen" gets even sweeter as a cheese with a creamy interior
the Kiss Camembert
Robert
|
|
$1,600
[20]
That's not Will Ferrell, it's Chad Smithof this L.A. band with a spicy name
the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jen
|
$2,000
[26]
The author of "The Leopard" was Giuseppe, prince of this, also the name of anislandnow a haven for hopeful migrants
Lampedusa
|
$1,600
[4]
The northern part of this sea hits Papua New Guinea; on its west, Australia, noted for a certain reef
the Coral Sea
Robert
|
$1,600
[9]
From a film based on a 20th century novel, it's the sinister entity depicted here
Big Brother
Robert
|
DD
$4,000
[15]
The source of the Old West term "buckaroo", it's Spanish for cowboy
vaquero
Carolyn
|
$1,600
[28]
Pecorino & Caprino duke it out in a Spanish expression for a 2-person confrontation
romano a mano
|
|
$2,000
[21]
Comedian John Oliver has some fun with his own resemblance to this Treasury Secretary
Mnuchin
Robert
Carolyn
|
DD
$4,000
[25]
The 1st known one was written c. 1235 by Giacomo da Lentini; Petrarch wrote several to the unattainable Laura
a sonnet
Carolyn
|
$2,000
[7]
A section of the Atlantic north of the North Sea borders this nation & is sometimes called its sea
Norway
|
$2,000
[10]
Playthings, or essential components of a larger structure or project
building blocks
Jen
|
— | — |
This athlete lost a 1931 lawsuit against the Curtiss Candy Company
Babe Ruth