Steve Spriensma — a writer from Port Dover, Ontario, Canada
Marilyn Maher — an administrative specialist from Athens, Ohio
Suzanne Koppelman — a museum education manager from New York, New York (whose 3-day cash winnings total $63,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suzanne | $600 | $2,200 | $7,200 |
$7,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,200
16 R, 5 W (including 3 DDs) |
| Marilyn | $2,400 | $2,800 | $8,000 |
$14,401
New champion: $14,401 |
$8,000
13 R, 2 W |
| Steve | $1,600 | $2,400 | $9,600 |
$3,199
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,600
17 R, 3 W |
| MAY THE HORSE BE WITH YOU | RECENT STUFF | MOVIE SEQUEL SUBTITLES | "L"AKES | BOOKS & AUTHORS | HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS |
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$200
[16]
I say! Old sport! Known as ponies, the horses used in this sport with chukkers have been known to play past age 25
polo
Steve
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$200
[8]
Thiswas a thing, a 2017 fad; yep, sure was
a fidget spinner
Steve
|
$200
[3]
Him:"Pig in the City"
Babe
Steve
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$200
[1]
It's a 720-acre lake in North Carolina, or an artificial bait you might use in it
a lure (or Lake Lure)
Suzanne
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$200
[11]
In 2015shepublished "It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!"
Chelsea Clinton
Steve
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$200
[21]
Dance off with at least 27 points for this word for a coin-operated record player often found in bars
a jukebox
Suzanne
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$400
[20]
The horse's body is marked by a 4-star square in this constellation
Pegasus
Marilyn
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$400
[9]
In January 2018 flooding closed Notre Dame in Paris as this river peaked at 20 feet above its normal level
the Seine
Steve
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$400
[4]
This "Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan"
Friday the 13th
Steve
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$400
[2]
Lakes all over the U.S. are named for this bird with an eerie call; E.L. Doctorow wrote a novel set at one in the Adirondacks
a loon
Marilyn
|
$400
[12]
At age 33 Mary Wollstonecraft published "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"; at 21 this daughter published a classic
Mary Shelley
Marilyn
Steve
|
$400
[24]
For 22 points: to meet certain requirements, or to make a statement less definitive
qualify
|
|
$600
[22]
This horse has been developed in the Middle Eastern area of its name for centuries
an Arabian
Steve
|
$600
[10]
From a country that got in doping trouble, the OAR team that competed in Pyeongchang in 2018 stands for this
the Olympic Athletes from Russia
Marilyn
|
$600
[5]
This "2: Cruise Control"
Speed
Steve
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$600
[19]
A lake in Oregon's Deschutes National Forest is named this, after the flows that formed it
Lava (Lake)
Suzanne
|
$600
[13]
Here's an 1870s photo of this French author looking pretty miserable
Victor Hugo
Suzanne
|
$1,000
[27]
Earn 25 points for this woman who introduced the worship of Baal into Israel & was denounced by Elijah
Jezebel
Steve
|
|
$800
[23]
According to Dio Cassius, this not-all-there Roman emperor planned to make his horse Incitatus a consul
Caligula
Marilyn
|
$800
[17]
Moschino put out a see-through dress just like a bag from this kind of business, complete with "We Heart Our Customers" motto
dry cleaners
|
$800
[6]
This "2: Electric Boogaloo"
Breakin'
|
$800
[25]
Take a boat ride on this lake or disembark at the city of the same name to visit the Swiss Transport Museum
Lucerne
Suzanne
Marilyn
|
$800
[14]
He followed up "Between the World and Me" with "We Were Eight Years in Power"
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Suzanne
|
— |
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$1,000
[18]
In 2017 this ex-national security adviser pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI
Michael Flynn
Suzanne
Steve
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$1,000
[7]
This "II: The Legend of Curly's Gold"
City Slickers
Marilyn
|
$1,000
[26]
You take the high road, & I'll take the low road, to this largest lake in Scotland
Loch Lomond
Suzanne
|
DD
$1,000
[15]
His crime: joining the Petrashevsky circle; his punishment: many months in prison in 1849, ending with a mock execution
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Suzanne
|
— |
| RICK & MORTY | SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT | KEEP SUMMER SAFE | MY "MAN"! | YOU PASS BUTTER | & THAT'S THE WAY THE NEWS GOES |
|
$400
[3]
He wrote the unforgettable lyric "She's a very kinky girl, the kind you don't take home to Mother"
Rick James
Steve
|
$400
[5]
Showing what you got on this device was expensive when it debuted in the '70s costing about $1,200
a VHS system
Steve
|
$400
[13]
It sounds like a swimming style, but this occurs when your body temperature rises to 104 degrees; be wary
heatstroke
Suzanne
|
$400
[1]
It's a 3-D representation of human form, dummy
a mannequin
Suzanne
|
$400
[19]
There's butter in this "old fashioned" Baskin-Robbins flavor as well as in its name
butter pecan
Suzanne
Steve
|
$400
[30]
In December 1848 President Polk gave Congress the news that "the supply" of this in California "is very large"
gold
Marilyn
|
|
$800
[4]
In the late 1800s, an era of tycoons, Joy Morton acquired a company & became the big man in this home product
salt
Marilyn
|
$800
[7]
You think you got the stones to play this sport? Well, if you have the granite type, like the item here, you sure do
curling
Steve
|
$800
[14]
The CDC recommends 4-sided fencing around these to keep youngsters safe
a pool
Marilyn
|
$800
[2]
Hand shackles
manacles
Steve
|
$800
[20]
Sanford Redmond helped diners by automating the production of this unit of butter
a pat
Suzanne
|
$800
[23]
Founded by a Qatari emir, this news entity tried a U.S. version of its news channel from 2013 to 2016
Al Jazeera
Steve
|
|
$1,200
[12]
"Guardian" Rocket Raccoon is derisively called by the name of this mascot of the National Wildlife Federation
Ranger Rick
Marilyn
|
$1,200
[8]
Thisinstrument has 7 main strings & 12 or more sympathetic ones
a sitar
Steve
|
$1,200
[15]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents an overhead shot of a current.) Swim parallel to the shore to reach safety if you encounter one of these swift-moving currents that can move at 8 feet per second
a riptide
Steve
|
$1,200
[6]
It's your destiny to know this 8-letter word means "to show plainly"
manifest
Marilyn
|
$1,200
[21]
Since 1911, the Iowa State Fair has featured one of these sculpted from 600 pounds of pure cream butter
a butter cow
Marilyn
|
DD
$1,000
[29]
This Hungarian-born physicist later regretted the sexism in his telegram "it's a boy" when an H-bomb test worked
Edward Teller
Suzanne
|
|
$1,600
[24]
John Mortimer's stories about this odd British defense lawyer "of the Bailey" were collected in "Forever" him
Rumpole
Suzanne
|
$1,600
[9]
Your antipasto might combine pepperoni &these, one syllable longer & also called Tuscan peppers
pepperoncini
Suzanne
Marilyn
|
$1,600
[17]
Products with this number at 30 block 97% of UVB rays, which is pretty darn good
SPF (or sun protection factor)
Suzanne
|
$1,600
[10]
A royal command, or one from a superior court to a lower one
a mandate
Suzanne
|
$1,600
[26]
Da, Russian cookbook "Please to the Table" has recipe for this crispy chicken dish that squirts butter
chicken Kiev
Suzanne
|
$1,200
[22]
One theory says this Virginia port got its name from an English captain who brought news to settlers at Jamestown
Newport News
Suzanne
|
|
$2,000
[25]
Part of the purpose driven life of this evangelical pastor was founding the Saddleback megachurch
Rick Warren
|
$2,000
[16]
Thistype of sleeve shares its name with a type of swinging doors
batwing
Marilyn
|
$2,000
[18]
Kingsford specifies, don't add this liquid that they also make to briquets that are already hot or burning
lighter fluid
Steve
|
$2,000
[11]
It conveys air & fuel from the carburetor to the cylinders
a manifold
|
DD
$2,000
[27]
Sanskrit for "to sprinkle" gives us this word for a clarified butter
ghee
Suzanne
|
$2,000
[28]
He ran the original marathon, bringing Athens news of the battle
Pheidippides
|
Her 1896 New York Times obituary called her "the writer of probably the most widely read work of fiction ever penned"
Harriet Beecher Stowe