Dev Thakur — a psychiatrist from West Lebanon, New Hampshire
Andrea Schuelke — a tutor from Saint Paul, Minnesota
Virginia Cummings — a geriatrician from Randolph, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $35,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | $2,000 | $2,000 | $21,400 |
$15,999
2-day champion: $51,200 |
$20,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Andrea | $1,400 | $2,000 | $4,400 |
$8,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$4,400
7 R, 1 W |
| Dev | $1,200 | $4,700 | $13,400 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$13,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| NURSERY RHYME POLICE REPORT | SWINGERS OF SPORTS | THE STATE SHE GOVERNED | PALINDROMIC WORDS | THE BODY HUMAN | ON THE "T"ABLE |
|
$200
[1]
Took statement from this woman of advanced age. She reports finding her cabinets empty & her dog dead
Mother Hubbard
Virginia
|
$200
[11]
In 1985 this "Iron" heavyweight swung his fists in 15 fights; all ended in knockouts, 11 in the first round
Mike Tyson
Andrea
|
$200
[21]
Sarah Palin
Alaska
Dev
|
$200
[12]
The world of project-to-project employment is known as this economy
the gig economy
Andrea
|
$200
[17]
When you're cold or frightened, your arrector pili muscles make this "stand on end"
your hair
Dev
|
$200
[6]
You can serve stew or soup out of one of these deep lidded dishes
a tureen
Andrea
|
|
$400
[2]
First aid administered to this pair injured while tumbling down hill during water retrieval
Jack and Jill
Dev
|
$400
[27]
Untamable, this "Golden Bear" was the first man to win all 4 of golf's major titles at least twice
Jack Nicklaus
Dev
|
$400
[22]
Ann Richards
Texas
Dev
|
$400
[13]
An old 3-letter word meaning "before"
ere
Andrea
|
$400
[18]
Special cells called gustatory receptors are responsible for your sense of this
taste
Dev
|
$400
[7]
A fancy fungus & a chocolate confection are both called this
a truffle
Virginia
|
|
$600
[3]
Suspect Peter, no last name, appears to have eaten these gourds as well as imprisoned his wife in one
a pumpkin
Virginia
|
$600
[28]
In 2010 Sachin Tendulkar scored the first one-day double century (that's 200 runs) in the long history of this sport
cricket
Dev
|
DD
$500
[24]
Lurleen Wallace
Alabama
Dev
|
$600
[14]
Instead of "Hey, pal" or "mister", you can say "Hey", this word made popular by the character Wolverine
bub
|
$600
[19]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of the human body.) It takes three main muscles to raise the arm above the head: first, thesuperspinatus; next, thedeltoidto about 90 degrees & finally, this large, flat, triangular muscle of the upper back
the trapezius
Andrea
|
$600
[8]
This Mexican beer brand uses a black eagle in its logo
Tecate
Virginia
|
|
$800
[4]
Child services summoned to check on mother with uncontrollable family; problem aggravated by this unusual residence
a shoe
Andrea
|
$800
[29]
He holds the MLB record for home runs by a shortstop, 345; there was a reason his manager let him play every day
Cal Ripken Jr.
|
$600
[23]
Jennifer Granholm
Michigan
|
$800
[15]
Accompanying a gesture, it can substitute for "that" in a sentence like "my son is that tall"
yay
Dev
|
$800
[20]
This pancake-shaped temporary organ in pregnant women supplies the fetus with food & oxygen
the placenta
Dev
|
$800
[9]
Pewter is a traditional material for this vessel, with a lid
a tankard
Virginia
|
|
$1,000
[5]
Last known sighting of this person of interest: talking with bakery salesman while on way to festival
Simple Simon
|
— |
$1,000
[25]
Jan Brewer
Arizona
|
$1,000
[16]
In a song by The Wiggles, this double talk palindrome comes before "chugga chugga"
toot toot
|
$1,000
[26]
Seen here is an animation of this wave-like muscular motion that pushes food through the esophagus
peristalsis
Dev
|
$1,000
[10]
A Moroccan stew is named for this implement in which it's cooked
tagine
Virginia
|
| 3-NAMED PEOPLE | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONG | WORLD GEOGRAPHY | MEMORIAL DAY | BEACH SEASON | IT'S GETTING "HOT" |
|
$400
[1]
In 2016 this "Sling Blade" Oscar winner began playing lawyer Billy McBride in TV's "Goliath"
Billy Bob Thornton
Virginia
|
$400
[6]
"Chim Chim Cher-ee" (1964), written by Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman
Mary Poppins
Virginia
|
$400
[11]
Asia forms the entire northern border of this ocean
the Indian Ocean
Virginia
|
$400
[21]
For Memorial Day, the 3rd U.S. infantry regiment places flags in front of more than 200,000 headstones in this cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery
Dev
|
$400
[26]
Don't put a beached whale or dolphin back in the water; keep it wet, cool & shaded & don't cover this nostril
the blowhole
Dev
|
$400
[16]
A phone number for people to call for more information during an emergency
a hotline
Dev
|
|
$800
[2]
This lawyer who penned "The Star-Spangled Banner" was later a member of Andrew Jackson's "Kitchen Cabinet"
Francis Scott Key
Dev
|
$800
[7]
"Jai Ho" (2008), written by A.R. Rahman & Gulzar
Slumdog Millionaire
Dev
|
$800
[12]
This capital on the island of Java is sometimes spelled with a "D" at the beginning
Jakarta
Virginia
|
$800
[22]
The World War I poem "In Flanders Field" inspired the use of this flower as a symbol for remembering fallen soldiers
the poppy
Virginia
|
$800
[27]
Hand me my thong! 150-mile-long Praia do Cassino in this country is the world's longest beach
Brazil
Andrea
|
$800
[17]
Designers Mary Quant & Mariuccia Mandelli are credited with popularizing these in the early 1970s
hot pants
Virginia
|
|
DD
$1,500
[3]
He's the architect seen here with his plans for a mile-high skyscraper that was never built
Frank Lloyd Wright
Dev
|
$1,200
[8]
"(This title)... What A Feeling" (1983), written by Giorgio Moroder, Irene Cara & Keith Forsey
Flashdance
Virginia
|
$1,200
[13]
Rising in the Valdai Hills northwest of Moscow, this is Europe's longest river
the Volga
Dev
|
$1,200
[23]
This traditional song of Memorial Day was originally a call to extinguish lights
"Taps"
|
$1,200
[28]
The red sand of Maui's Kaihalulu Beach is due to a high concentration of this metallic element
iron
Virginia
|
$1,200
[18]
Westinghouse once made an electric frying pan that doubled as this when turned upside down
a hot plate
Dev
|
|
$1,600
[4]
Just days after the Scopes monkey trial ended, this statesman who assisted the prosecution died
William Jennings Bryan
Andrea
|
$1,600
[9]
"Glory" (2014), written by the guys we know as John Legend & Common
Selma
Virginia
|
$1,600
[14]
The capital of the Cayman Islands & the capital of Guyana share this name
Georgetown
Virginia
|
$1,600
[24]
On the holiday, the Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma hosts a festival for these vehicles, the food trucks of the Old West
chuck wagons
Virginia
|
$1,600
[29]
Live sand dollars have velvety coats but lose them after death; the invertebrate shell, AKA this, washes ashore
the exoskeleton
|
$1,600
[19]
Nickname of impetuous Sir Henry Percy, killed at the 1403 Battle of Shrewsbury
Hotspur
Virginia
|
|
$2,000
[5]
"The Queen of Suspense", she's written more than 35 bestsellers since the '70s, including "Daddy's Little Girl"
Mary Higgins Clark
Virginia
|
$2,000
[10]
"I'm Easy" (1975), written by Keith Carradine
Nashville
|
$2,000
[15]
South America's most arid region is this desert in northern Chile
the Atacama
Virginia
|
DD
$3,000
[25]
To honor the 100th anniversary of a battle here, LBJ gave a Memorial Day speech in 1963
Gettysburg
Virginia
|
$2,000
[30]
Waves can deposit sediment along the shore asterraced areasalliteratively called "beach" these
beach berms
|
$2,000
[20]
Many a politician has told the public more than he wanted to because he didn't know he was on one of these
a hot mike
Dev
|
This author whom Helen Keller could identify by his cigar scent was the first to call Anne Sullivan a "miracle worker"
Mark Twain