Ali Hasan — a secondary school teacher from New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Jessica Rea — a student from Carmichael, California
Deirdre Thomas — an attorney and editor from Seattle, Washington (whose 2-day cash winnings total $33,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deirdre | $2,200 | $5,600 | $10,000 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,000
15 R, 2 W |
| Jessica | $1,400 | $1,200 | $10,200 |
$1,700
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,600
12 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Ali | $0 | $1,800 | $10,800 |
$20,401
New champion: $20,401 |
$15,800
22 R, 6 W (including 2 DDs) |
| THE SHAPE OF THINGS | WORLD HISTORY | OUR FAVORITE SUFF-ICS | THAT REDUNDANCY IS REDUNDANT | FRANK SINATRA | CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD |
|
$200
[12]
Struck with a small steel rod, one of the simplest percussion instruments is this one named for its geometric shape
the triangle
Deirdre
|
$200
[6]
Around 200 B.C. an anonymous Chinese innovator froze rice, milk & spices in a paste, creating a type of this dessert
ice cream
Deirdre
|
$200
[17]
Issues in bioethics include this copying of an organism
cloning
Deirdre
|
$200
[1]
This 4-letter word does not need to be in front of "studio audience"--are there audiences of ghosts otherwise?
live
Ali
|
$200
[25]
The son of a tavern owner, Francis Albert Sinatra was born in this New Jersey city in December 1915
Hoboken
Deirdre
Jessica
Ali
|
$200
[7]
When Eric Schmidt was chairman of this company, it acquired YouTube & started Gmail
Google
Ali
|
|
$400
[13]
Some women wear a corset to achieve this figure, named for a time-measuring instrument
hourglass
Deirdre
|
$400
[8]
In 1202 Leonardo of Pisa urged the use of Arabic numerals including this one originally called a zephyrum & it caught on
zero
Ali
|
$400
[21]
Aristotle's "Politics" says in this system, the poor have more power than the rich, because there are more of them
democracy
Ali
|
$400
[2]
An "added" this additional amount of money, from Latin for "good", is extraneous
bonus
Jessica
|
$400
[26]
Shebecame Frank's wife in 1966, 2 years before starring in "Rosemary's Baby"
(Mia) Farrow
Ali
|
$400
[16]
As chairman of this media company for nearly 50 years, William S. Paley kept his eye on things
CBS
Ali
|
|
$600
[14]
This state is said to be shaped like a boot, with Lake Charles near the heel
Louisiana
Jessica
|
$600
[9]
Around 1450 printer Wynken de Worde printed an early story of this legendary outlaw & forest dweller
Robin Hood
Ali
|
$600
[22]
Within linguistics, this -ics is the study of meaning
semantics
Deirdre
Ali
|
$600
[3]
The NFL says the ball is dead if the runner's this 2-word phrase is stopped
forward progress
Deirdre
Jessica
|
$600
[27]
It was a very good 45 minutes it took for Ervin Drake to write this song that helped Frank make a comeback in the '60s
"It Was A Very Good Year"
Ali
|
$600
[18]
A member of Ayn Rand's inner circle, this jazz musician became chairman of the Fed's board of governors
(Alan) Greenspan
Deirdre
|
|
$800
[15]
Shaped like this fruit means tapered on top & round below; the Seckel has less of the classic shape than the Concorde
pear
Deirdre
|
$1,000
[11]
Heads up! Or off! the Reign of Terror ended in July 1794 with this man's execution
Robespierre
Jessica
|
$800
[23]
In Boston's Symphony Hall, these are famously spectacular
the acoustics
Deirdre
|
$800
[4]
It's way too polite to write this word in front of "RSVP"--the "SVP" takes care of that
please
Ali
|
$800
[28]
JFK was known as "Chicky Baby" as an honorary member of this group of Frank's pals
the Rat Pack
Deirdre
|
$800
[19]
Before becoming chairman of this "co", Indra Nooyi brought Tropicana & Quaker Oats into the fold
PepsiCo
Deirdre
|
| — |
DD
$3,200
[10]
After a long journey, this was signed Nov. 21, 1620 to ensure the enactment of "just & equal laws"
the Mayflower Compact
Ali
|
$1,000
[24]
Candidate McCain said Obama didn't know strategy (a larger goal) from these (how to reach it)
tactics
Ali
|
$1,000
[5]
The U.N. says member states may not provide terrorists with the redundantly named "safe" this kind of refuge
haven
Ali
|
$1,000
[29]
Frank won an Oscar for "From Here to Eternity" & got a 2nd acting nomination for this film about drug addiction
The Man with the Golden Arm
Ali
|
$1,000
[20]
Icahn Enterprises chair Carl Icahn is among activist investors, AKA corporate these, also an NFL team name
raiders
Deirdre
|
| THE 27 LANDLOCKED U.S. STATES | KNOWN BY ONE NAME | POKE OUT AN I | ARCHITECTURE | MARRIED LITERATURE | HOOK, LINE & SINKER |
|
$400
[8]
It's alphabetically first
Arizona
Jessica
Ali
|
$400
[22]
He's often called the "Father of Geometry"
Euclid
Ali
|
$400
[1]
Whether acrylic or watercolor, an art supply without its "I" becomes this--breathe hard
a pant
Ali
|
$400
[9]
At 1,396 feet, 432 Park Avenue in this city is the world's tallest all-residential building in our hemisphere
New York City
Deirdre
|
$400
[21]
At the end of chapter 3, Emma Rouault marries & becomes the title Madame of this 1857 novel
Madame Bovary
Ali
|
$400
[23]
The Steel Curtain was the defensive line of this 1970s NFL team
the Pittsburgh Steelers
Ali
|
|
$1,200
[26]
It's the largest in area
Montana
Jessica
|
$800
[20]
Before he could exact his revenge, he was taken prisoner by Cortes & died after an attack
Montezuma
Ali
|
$800
[4]
A word towards the end of an auctioneer's spiel sells its "I" to ring out as this instrument
gong
Deirdre
|
$800
[10]
Built between the 1100s & 1300s, Paris' Notre Dame cathedral is a leading example of this style of architecture
gothic
Jessica
|
$800
[15]
Trying to get into their purses & skirts, Falstaff writes love letters to 2 married women in this play; the plan backfires
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Ali
|
$800
[24]
Known as "Smokin' Joe", he was famous for his left hook & smoked Muhammad Ali with many of them
Smokin' Joe Frazier
Ali
|
|
$1,600
[27]
The westernmost
Nevada
Deirdre
|
$1,200
[19]
He recently announced that he plans to step down as Japan's emperor in April 2019
Akihito
Ali
|
$1,200
[5]
Without its "I", a synonym for "landed" becomes this computer key
alt
|
$1,600
[12]
In the early 1950s Louis Kahn designed his first important work: this Ivy League university's art gallery
Yale
Jessica
|
$1,200
[14]
A kids' classic pairs this title Mrs. "and the Rats of NIMH"
Mrs. Frisby
Jessica
|
$1,200
[25]
Orel Hershiser's sinker helped bring him the 1988 N.L. Cy Young Award & this team a World Series title
the Dodgers
Jessica
|
|
DD
$1,800
[16]
Word shared in the name of 2 of the 27
Dakota
Ali
|
$1,600
[18]
After her baptism & marriage, she went by the name Lady Rebecca Rolfe
Pocahontas
Jessica
|
$1,600
[6]
Poke out the "I" from a ghostly apparition to get this intense anger
wrath
Jessica
|
DD
$1,800
[11]
Instead of Doric, seen here, columns at Athens' temple of Athena Nike are in this order, named for a region in Asia Minor
Ionic
Jessica
|
$1,600
[3]
"The Paris Wife" is a fictional account of Hadley Richardson, first wife of this novelist
Hemingway
Deirdre
|
$1,600
[29]
Kevin McHale, Robert Parish & this other Hall of Famer made up the legendary front line of the 1980s Boston Celtics
(Larry) Bird
Jessica
|
|
$2,000
[28]
Bordering a Great Lake but no ocean, it was the first on the list to become a state
Pennsylvania
Jessica
|
$2,000
[17]
The Venus in his "Venus of Urbino" painting has hair of the red-gold color for which his art was known
Titian
Ali
|
$2,000
[7]
Drop the "I" from the start of a word for one's likeness to get this synonym for sorcerer
mage
Jessica
|
$2,000
[13]
It can be a simple country home, or a 7-square-mile complex like the ancient Roman one known as "Adriana"
a villa
Ali
|
$2,000
[2]
This novel by Virginia Woolf is one day in the life of a woman married to a member of Parliament
Mrs. Dalloway
Ali
|
$2,000
[30]
Gordie Howe, Sid Abel & Ted Lindsay formed the "Production Line" for this NHL squad
the Detroit Red Wings
|
On Nov. 3, 1948 he sent a congratulatory telegram, then told reporters, "I was just as surprised as you"
Thomas Dewey