First game of Season 35.New opening graphics.Alex has a beard.
Caitlin Sok — an M.D. and Ph.D. student from Atlanta, Georgia
Isaac Loeb — a senior legislative assistant from Washington, D.C.
Rick Terpstra — an aspiring English teacher from Havertown, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $39,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rick | $2,600 | $9,000 | $20,200 |
$20,200
3-day champion: $60,000 |
$18,000
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Isaac | $1,000 | $2,400 | $2,600 |
$5,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,400
11 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Caitlin | $3,200 | $4,200 | $7,800 |
$8,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,800
13 R, 3 W |
| US OPEN 50 YEARS | EXERCISING: YOUR OPTIONS | FAMOUS THREESOMES | "IN" THE DICTIONARY | HIS WIDOW LIVED ON | OUR STATE LOOKS UP TO YOU |
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$200
[30]
In 1968, the first Open men's singles winner was this athlete & activist, whose name is now on the Open's main stadium
Arthur Ashe
Rick
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$200
[12]
Take a run at this exercise machine, also defined as "any monotonous...routine in which there is little or no...progress"
a treadmill
Caitlin
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$200
[9]
Moe, Larry & Curly
the Three Stooges
Caitlin
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$200
[6]
They're what an entomologist studies
insects
Rick
Isaac
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$200
[1]
Zee James was this outlaw's fiancee for 9 years & his widow for 18, both longer than her marriage
Jesse James
Rick
|
$200
[25]
Kansas looks up to it
Nebraska
Rick
|
|
$400
[18]
In 1973Ms. Court & Mr. Newcombegot $25,000 each as the U.S. Open was the first of this quartet of titles to equalize men's & women'sprizes
the Grand Slam
Isaac
|
$400
[11]
A 150-lb. woman can burn 90 calories in 10 mins. doing this alliterative exercise using leaping & clapping hands repeatedly
jumping jacks
Rick
|
$400
[17]
In a Mother Goose rhyme, "Rub-a-dub-dub", they're the "three men in a tub"
the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker
Isaac
|
$400
[7]
Depending on how you pronounce it, it can mean to hint at, or very personal & private
intimate
Isaac
|
$400
[2]
In 2018 this widow of a Beatle turned 85 & voiced a role in the movie "Isle of Dogs"
Yoko Ono
Caitlin
|
$400
[26]
It's due north of New Mexico
Colorado
|
|
$600
[19]
With a powerful style of play, shewon the women's singles in the1990s, 2000s & 2010s, the only player to do so
Serena Williams
Isaac
|
$600
[13]
Sign up for this 4-letter Hindu philosophy; "The Onion" had an Ali-like "champion" of it boast, "I am the serenest!"
yoga
Caitlin
|
$600
[22]
A legendary love triangle consisted of King Arthur, Queen Guinevere & him
Lancelot
Rick
|
$600
[8]
In her "I Am Woman" song, Helen Reddy was strong & she was this, meaning she can't be defeated
invincible
Rick
|
$600
[3]
Valerie (nee Fletcher) spent 47 years as this poet's widow & cashed more than a few "Cats" checks
(T.S.) Eliot
Rick
|
$600
[27]
Iowans roll their eyes upward at this state
Minnesota
Rick
|
|
$800
[20]
The 1990 Open heralded a new all-time great when, at 19, he be at Agassi to become the youngest men's singles champ
(Pete) Sampras
Rick
|
$800
[14]
Tighten & hold your pelvic floor muscles for 5 seconds, 5 times in these not-just-for-pregnancy exercises
kegels
Caitlin
|
$1,000
[24]
The Three Tenors were Pavarotti, Domingo &this man, who is on an extended farewell tour
José Carreras
|
$800
[10]
Eggs can be artificially hatched in one type of this apparatus; premature babies are kept in another type
an incubator
Isaac
|
$800
[4]
This composer died in 1791; his widow Constanze lived until 1842 & there are even purported photos of her
Mozart
Rick
|
$800
[28]
It's Arkansas' good neighbor to the north
Missouri
|
|
$1,000
[21]
Hisdominance of the first decade of the 2000s includes an Open Era record of five straight titles, losing two sets in the five finals
(Roger) Federer
Rick
Caitlin
|
$1,000
[15]
Dude, time to hit the exercise machine & do this pulldown, named for the widest muscle in your back!
the latissimus
Caitlin
|
DD
$3,000
[23]
Their names are Melchior, Balthasar & Gaspar
the three wise men (or the Magi)
Rick
|
$1,000
[16]
This 10-letter adjective describes certain devices that cause or are designed to cause fires
incendiary
Caitlin
|
$1,000
[5]
In a 2012 memoir the widow of this Argentine-born guerrilla fighter tells of how he declared his love for her in a Jeep
(Che) Guevara
Rick
|
$1,000
[29]
It's the state Wyoming looks up to
Montana
Caitlin
|
| BACK TO BASICS | BUSINESS | THE MOVIES | LITERATURE | COLLEGES EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI FROM K TO Q | HISTORY |
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$400
[13]
This word for "basic" is also a 3rd grade type of school
primary (or elementary)
Isaac
|
$400
[29]
This 3-letter memorandum of debt is a strong but not legally binding promise to pay
I.O.U.
Caitlin
|
$400
[3]
Bob Parr stays home taking care of the kids while Elastigirl is out saving the world in this 2018 sequel
Incredibles 2
Rick
|
$400
[8]
In this H.G. Wells classic, the narrator is "drawn on by the...Earth's fate" & sees it in "strides of a thousand years"
The Time Machine
Isaac
|
$400
[28]
You're always part of the Wolfpack at this Raleigh school
NC State
Rick
|
$800
[17]
The first capital of California following American occupation in 1846 was this city, today the "capital" of Silicon Valley
San Jose
Isaac
|
|
$800
[21]
RIF, short for "Reading is" this, has aided children's literacy since 1966
fundamental
Isaac
|
$800
[27]
In 2007 Forbes reported that this TV personality was "America's sole black female billionaire"
Oprah Winfrey
Rick
|
$800
[4]
A mute Sally Hawkins falls in love with an amphibious creature in this 2017 movie, Oscar's Best Picture
The Shape of Water
Rick
|
$800
[9]
Oddly, the protagonist of "The Tin Drum" stops doing this at age 3
growing
Caitlin
|
$1,200
[26]
Neil Armstrong took more than one small step for himself attending this Big Ten university in Indiana
Purdue
Rick
|
$1,200
[16]
Last name of the young family seenherecirca 1920--father & daughter would combine to serve 31 years as prime minister of India
Nehru
Rick
Isaac
|
|
$1,200
[15]
The timeless line "when in doubt, go basic" this appeared in a 2017 Vogue feature
black
Caitlin
|
$1,600
[18]
A passage from the book of Hosea was the inspiration Israel's first Minister of Transportation had for naming this airline
El Al
Caitlin
|
$1,200
[5]
Gloria Swanson utters the immortal line "I am big, it's the pictures that got small" in this classic film
Sunset Boulevard
Rick
|
$1,200
[10]
Nicholas Rubashov is a revolutionary caught up in this leader's purges in Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon"
Stalin
Isaac
|
$1,600
[25]
About 2,000 women attend this college in South Hadley, Mass., one of the Seven Sisters schools
Mount Holyoke
|
$1,600
[2]
2-word Latin term for the period of relative peace ending with the death of Marcus Aurelius
Pax Romana
Caitlin
|
|
$1,600
[14]
"Watery" term for the dominant trend, perhaps describing big media
mainstream
|
$2,000
[19]
Corn is traded at this sort of exchange as well as, of course, frozen concentrated orange juice
commodity
Rick
|
$1,600
[6]
"The Disaster Artist" chronicles Tommy Wiseau making this so-bad-it's-good film
The Room
Caitlin
|
$1,600
[11]
Booth Tarkington's novel about this "Magnificent" family documents their decline
the Ambersons
Rick
|
$2,000
[24]
Let's take a poll--does at least one of you 3 know this "Q" university is in Hamden, Connecticut?
Quinnipiac
Rick
|
$2,000
[20]
3 pretenders to the Russian throne known as "false" this name plagued the Time of Troubles in the early 1600s
the false Dimitrys
Caitlin
|
|
$2,000
[22]
"R" you ready? This 11-letter word means "basic", like skills everyone should have
rudimentary
Isaac
|
DD
$2,400
[1]
After a $26 billion merger in 2016, this business website might keep nagging Microsoft to update its resume
LinkedIn
Isaac
|
$2,000
[7]
A 12-year-old Jodie Foster played a prostitute opposite Robert De Niro in this 1976 film
Taxi Driver
Rick
|
$2,000
[12]
In a Saul Bellow novel, Eugene Henderson gets this sacred title from the African Wariri tribe
the Rain King
|
DD
$5,000
[23]
It's about a 50-mile drive from Penn to this other Ivy League school that fits the category
Princeton
Isaac
|
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To set a record for longest solo journey by kayak, 2,010 miles, Helen Skelton traveled through this nation for a month
Brazil