Josh Hill game 2.
Kurt Buhring — a professor from Granger, Indiana
Melissa Anthony — a graduate student from Fairhope, Alabama
Josh Hill — a network engineer from North Little Rock, Arkansas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh | $4,400 | $8,600 | $27,400 |
$26,885
2-day champion: $50,485 |
$31,400
34 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Melissa | $1,200 | $3,200 | $9,000 |
$6,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,200
12 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Kurt | $400 | $1,800 | $2,600 |
$1,996
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,600
5 R, 0 W |
| IT BEARS MY NAME | NATURE | SHOW RUNNERS | AUTHORS USE NEW WORDS | 10,000 MANIAC | THESE ARE DAYS |
|
$200
[8]
Thisone of the 13 colonies
Pennsylvania
Josh
|
$200
[6]
The life span for the desert one of these shelled reptiles is about 50 to 80 years
a tortoise
Kurt
|
$200
[1]
Ned Flanders & Seymour Skinner are among the runners in a "Ruin Your Knees for Charity" race in this TV town
Springfield
Josh
Melissa
|
$200
[2]
In 1973 Norman Mailer added this suffix to "fact" for "facts which have no existence before appearing" in the media
a factoid
Kurt
|
$200
[4]
10,000 can be written as 10 to this power
the 4th
Josh
|
$200
[5]
On Facebook & Instagram, "TT" can stand for Transformation Tuesday; 2 days later, TBT is this glimpse at the past
Throwback Thursday
Josh
|
|
$400
[9]
Thislandlocked South American country
Bolivia
Melissa
|
$400
[7]
This South American fish can grow 9 feet long & deliver a jolting 650 volts
an electric eel
Josh
|
$400
[11]
This show's title hero has been running fast--really, really fast--since getting hit by lightning in 2014
The Flash
Melissa
|
$400
[3]
Stephen King's "Christine" is the first novel to use "shut your" this pastry orifice
piehole
Josh
|
$400
[29]
In Islamic lore, 10,000 was the number of soldiers in Muhammad's army during the conquest of this city
Mecca
Melissa
|
$400
[14]
A belief held in the Middle Ages that bears & badgers interrupted their hibernation on a particular day led to this observance
Groundhog Day
Josh
|
|
$600
[10]
Thishome of the main campus of the University of Arkansas
Fayetteville
Josh
|
$600
[16]
About the size of a large house cat, thered panda also goes by this name, known to users of Mozilla
firefox
Kurt
|
$600
[21]
On an episode of "Seinfeld", Jerry's alarm clock fails, making an elite runner late for this race
the marathon
Melissa
|
$600
[19]
Sir Walter Scott used this term to mean a mercenary knight; today, it refers to work project-by-project
freelance
Josh
|
$600
[15]
In 2003, at the age of 24 years, 193 days, this Laker became the youngest player to score 10,000 points in the NBA
(Kobe) Bryant
Melissa
|
$600
[24]
A state holiday in Massachusetts & Maine, Patriots' Day is the third Monday in April, in honor of these 2 battles
Lexington and Concord
Josh
|
|
$800
[12]
Thiskingdom
Saudi Arabia
Josh
|
$800
[17]
The Queen Alexandra's birdwing of Papua New Guinea isn't a bird at all but the world's largest one of these
a butterfly
Melissa
|
$800
[22]
Produced by these 2 actors, the reality show "The Runner" follows contestants across the U.S., not just Boston
Ben Affleck & Matt Damon
|
$800
[20]
Fittingly for some readers, the OED's first citation for "boredom" is this author's "Bleak House"
Dickens
Josh
|
$800
[25]
Alaska has "The Valley of 10,000 Smokes" & this Southern state has "The 10,000 Islands", mostly mangrove islets
Florida
Josh
Melissa
|
$800
[26]
Read Across America Day is held on March 2, the birthday of this beloved author & illustrator of kids' books
Dr. Seuss
Kurt
|
|
$1,000
[13]
These2 states of Australia
Victoria and Queensland
Josh
|
$1,000
[18]
To lead others to a food source, an ant will lay down a scent trail of these chemicals
pheromones
Josh
|
$1,000
[23]
On "The Sopranos" Mikey Palmice was out for a run when this tracksuit-clad guy nicknamed "Walnuts" caught up with him
Paulie
|
DD
$1,000
[30]
This 1955 novel is responsible for popularizing the word "nymphet"
Lolita
Melissa
|
$1,000
[28]
Ten Thousand Villages, selling goods by artisans around the world, sprang from these religious -ites in the Eastern U.S.
Mennonites
Josh
|
$1,000
[27]
The 1865 arrival of Union troops in Galveston, Texas is remembered on this Southern holiday with a portmanteau name
Juneteenth
Josh
|
| CINCO DE MAYO | THE BRONTES | AMERICAN HISTORY | LAKES & RIVERS | THE DAWN OF THE RAILROADS | PUT A "LID" ON IT |
|
$400
[6]
Fritessaus, as the name implies, is a mayonnaise-based Dutch sauce commonly used for dipping with these
French fries
Melissa
|
$400
[5]
This title place created by Emily Bronte fittingly has nearby "stunted firs" & "gaunt thorns" on a "bleak hill-top"
Wuthering Heights
Josh
|
$400
[1]
Leaked to the press in 1971, the Pentagon Papers detailed America's involvement in this conflict
the Vietnam War
Josh
|
$400
[10]
This comedian got her big break with a 1965 appearance on "The Tonight Show"
Joan Rivers
Josh
|
$400
[2]
Seguin locomotives in Germany had so much trouble maintaining steam in the 1830s, a team of these animals accompanied them
horses
Josh
|
$400
[3]
On the end of a state postal abbreviation to get this synonym for "true"
valid
Melissa
|
|
$800
[18]
If you've used all your eggs for poaching, make "mock" this brunch sauce with mayo, sour cream & some mustard
Hollandaise
Kurt
|
$1,200
[23]
At the age of 31 in 1847, Charlotte Bronte finished this novel about a governess
Jane Eyre
Josh
|
$800
[7]
In October of this year, a month after reaching an all-time high of 381, the stock market came crashing down
1929
Melissa
|
$800
[19]
Greg Lake was the middleman for these prog rock legends
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
|
$800
[15]
In 1868 George Westinghouse introduced air these for trains, making greater speed less risky
brakes
Josh
|
$800
[4]
On the 19th letter of the alphabet to get this past tense verb
slid
Josh
|
|
$1,200
[26]
This mayo-based sauce was named due to its earlier function of being paired with bits of raw steak
tartar sauce
|
$1,600
[24]
It was the last name of "Acton", "Currer" & "Ellis" when used as a pseudonym by the 3 Bronte sisters
Bell
Josh
|
$1,600
[9]
(Jimmy of Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Not to be confused with the gap of the same name, America's first national highway--and for many years, the main route west--was this road that extended from Maryland to Vandalia, Illinois
Cumberland
Josh
|
$1,200
[20]
In 2013 coach Doc Rivers flowed from the Celtics to this NBA team
the Clippers
Josh
|
$1,200
[17]
In 1897 Baldwin Locomotives introduced an engine to Japan named this, for the emperor, not an operetta
Mikado
Josh
|
$1,200
[12]
On the end of a London landmark to get this body part where you might get conjunctivitis
your eyelid
Melissa
|
|
$1,600
[27]
The vowels in this Provencal type of mayonnaise outnumber the consonants 4 to 1
aioli
Josh
|
$2,000
[25]
The character of Huntingdon in "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" by this Bronte sister is based on their brother Branwell
Anne Bronte
Josh
|
$2,000
[11]
In 1590 English explorer John White returned with supplies to this colony only to find it gone
Roanoke
Josh
|
$1,600
[29]
A 1995 headline--this talk show host: "Bigger Than Oprah?"
Ricki Lake
Josh
|
$1,600
[21]
At first, this measure of the space between the 2 rails varied quite a bit & trains had trouble switching tracks
the gauge
Josh
|
$1,600
[13]
On a buddy to get this synonym for "wan"
pallid
|
|
$2,000
[28]
There are many ways to make this spicy mayo sauce that Cajuns are known to dip chilled shrimp into
a remoulade
|
DD
$4,000
[16]
Charlotte said Emily had a particular love for this type of uplands, where some of their works are set
the moors
Josh
|
DD
$3,000
[8]
Pres. Lincoln said, "I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right than I do in signing this paper"
the Emancipation Proclamation
Melissa
|
— |
$2,000
[22]
In 1851 a contest was held to design a train to traverse the Semmering Pass in these European mountains
the Alps
Josh
|
$2,000
[14]
On a female first name to get this term for a creature like an earthworm or a leech
annelid
Josh
|
The New York premiere of this film was on Thanksgiving, 15 days after the liberation of its title place
Casablanca