Becky Warren — a rock musician from Nashville, Tennessee
Lori Goodman — a nonprofit executive director from Goleta, California
Rick Terpstra — an aspiring English teacher from Havertown, Pennsylvania (whose 3-day cash winnings total $60,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rick | $4,000 | $7,000 | $17,800 |
$29,199
2nd place: $2,000 |
$17,400
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Lori | $2,800 | $8,800 | $19,000 |
$34,401
New champion: $34,401 |
$14,800
20 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Becky | $1,400 | $1,600 | $3,200 |
$3,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,200
9 R, 3 W |
| SCIENCE AROUND US | NUMERICAL CINEMA | I'M ALLEN | U.S. HISTORY | THAT ENDED "WELL" | GO FLY A KITE! |
|
$200
[1]
Curtains made of carbon fiber rods are specifically designed to help buildings withstand these
earthquakes
Becky
|
$200
[11]
White rapper wins contest, yo
8 Mile
Rick
|
$200
[13]
He became friends with Bill Gates at Lakeside School; like Bill, he dropped out of college
Paul Allen
Becky
|
$200
[19]
Published in 1783, his "American Spelling Book" preceded his famous dictionary by 45 years
Webster
Rick
|
$200
[2]
Type of card you might receive in a hospital
a get well card
Lori
|
$400
[29]
Kite Power Systems in the U.K. is developing the use of kites instead of turbines to provide this type of energy
wind power
Rick
|
|
$400
[5]
Pesticides called neonicotinoids are under an E.U. ban, primarily to save these insects
honeybees
Rick
|
$400
[12]
A trio of bachelors cares for a foundling left on their doorstep
Three Men and a Baby
Lori
|
$400
[17]
Here's the buzz--he's the voice of Buzz Lightyear
Tim Allen
Lori
|
$400
[20]
In 1875 this Tammany Hall "Boss" escaped from prison & fled to Cuba & then to Spain
Boss Tweed
Lori
|
$400
[3]
To reside
dwell
Lori
|
$600
[26]
The 1822 "Charvolant" was this type of passenger vehicle pulled at up to 20 MPH by kites instead of horses
a carriage (or chariot)
Rick
Becky
|
|
$600
[6]
(Kelly shows the Statue of Liberty on the monitor.) When unveiled in 1886, the Statue of Liberty looked something like this, but by 1920, the copper exterior had turned completelygreenbecause of weathering, as well as this chemical process & the copper's exposure to the air
oxidation
Rick
|
$600
[14]
A chaste nerd trades his action figures in for chicks
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Rick
|
$600
[18]
In 1844 Macon Allen became the first black one of these professionals in the U.S. & later, first black justice of the peace
an attorney (or lawyer)
Becky
|
$600
[21]
In 1817, Congress divided a territory that became these two states that are practically mirror images of each other
Alabama and Mississippi
Lori
|
$600
[4]
Adieu!
farewell
Rick
|
$800
[27]
This type of kite, also known as a cellular kite, is seen here, aloft
a box kite
Lori
|
|
$800
[7]
Many invertebrates comprising this 1,400-mile structure off Australia died in 2016
the Great Barrier Reef
Lori
|
$800
[15]
A derelict alien spaceship is stalled out over South Africa
District 9
Rick
|
$800
[24]
Trying to capture Montreal, this Green Mountain Boy was captured by the British & held prisoner until May 6, 1778
Ethan Allen
Lori
|
$800
[22]
On Sept. 17, 1862 this bloody battle in Maryland ended the first Confederate invasion of the North
Antietam
Rick
|
$800
[9]
Samuel Johnson's faithful bio man
(James) Boswell
Rick
|
DD
$3,000
[28]
On Dec. 12, 1901 he used a kite to raise an antenna & claimed to receive the first wireless signal from over the Atlantic
(Guglielmo) Marconi
Lori
|
|
$1,000
[8]
A new bacterium, Ideonella sakaiensis, could soon help degrade these polymers in landfills
plastics
Lori
|
$1,000
[16]
A man is sent back in time to try to prevent a plague
12 Monkeys
Rick
|
$1,000
[25]
This 1960 Pulitzer Prize winner by Allen Drury told about the inner workings of the U.S. Senate
Advise and Consent
|
$1,000
[23]
On Feb. 1, 1960 4 students held a historic sit-in at a lunch counter in this N.C. city in protest over segregation
Greensboro
Becky
|
$1,000
[10]
A rapid, spontaneous growth of support for a political movement
a groundswell
Becky
|
— |
| RELIGIOUS LEADERS | AUTHORS' SECOND NOVELS | THE SECRET OF -NYM | "V"ACATION SPOTS | BROADWAY REPLACEMENTS | UNDER STUDIES |
|
$400
[11]
In 2005 some 300,000 mourners filled St. Peter's Square for his funeral
John Paul II
Rick
|
$400
[6]
John Grisham followed "A Time to Kill" with this novel about a Harvard Law grad joining a shady Southern practice
The Firm
Lori
|
$400
[20]
Ask Lewis Carroll--anonym is a synonym for this word that ends in "nym"
pseudonym
Becky
|
$400
[1]
A town 14 miles southwest of Paris developed around this 17th century palace that tourists flock to
Versailles
Rick
|
$400
[16]
Overrun with "Cats" for nearly 20 years, the Winter Garden Theatre opened this ABBA-tastic show in 2001
Mamma Mia!
Rick
|
$400
[19]
Phycology is the study of this very common type of underwater plant
seaweed (or algae)
Becky
|
|
$800
[12]
Seen here is Thubten Gyatso, the 13th person to be given this title
the Dalai Lama
Lori
|
$800
[7]
Knowing a good thing when he'd found it, Daniel Defoe penned "The Further Adventures of" this guy
Robinson Crusoe
Rick
|
$800
[21]
Peking is an exonym for this place
Beijing
Rick
|
$800
[2]
The Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe in this state welcome skiers as well as superfans of "The Sound of Music"
Vermont
Lori
|
$800
[17]
Irony! This future Jean Valjean film actor bumped "Les Miserables" from the Imperial Theatre with "The Boy From Oz"
(Hugh) Jackman
Rick
|
$800
[25]
The Cloaca Maxima of this city is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world
Rome
Becky
|
|
$1,600
[14]
In 1996, heformally retired as archbishop of Cape Town
(Desmond) Tutu
Rick
|
$1,200
[8]
In "Midnight's Children", No. 2 by Salman Rushdie, Saleem is born Aug. 15, 1947 in this country on its independence day
India
Rick
|
$1,200
[22]
Homonym time: a "Battlestar Galactica" cuss word, or an oil-extraction process
frack
Lori
|
$1,200
[3]
Viking's "Waterways of the Tsars" cruise travels down this river in Russia
the Volga
Lori
|
$1,200
[18]
The "monthly" Tracy Letts Pulitzer Prize winner was replaced by his own play "Superior Donuts"
August: Osage County
Rick
Becky
|
$1,200
[26]
The under secretary for nuclear security works for this U.S. department
Energy
Rick
|
|
$2,000
[15]
Mary, Queen of Scots was not amused when this Scottish Reformation leader married her relative in 1564
John Knox
|
$1,600
[9]
2006's "New Moon", second in a 4-book series, was the sequel to this debut
Twilight
Lori
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
Members of the organization known by this acronym run alphabetically from Algeria to Venezuela
OPEC
Rick
|
$1,600
[4]
Adjacent to Norfolk, this city has about 30 miles of oceanfront & a creative district called Vi Be
Virginia Beach
Becky
|
$1,600
[23]
"The Little Mermaid" preceded this show as a Disney movie, but followed it at the Lunt-Fontanne as a musical
Beauty and the Beast
Rick
Lori
|
$1,600
[27]
Freud put plenty of laugh lines in "Jokes and Their Relation to" this part of the mind
the unconscious
Lori
|
|
DD
$3,400
[13]
John Carroll, the first Roman Catholic bishop in the U.S., founded this D.C. university in 1789
Georgetown
Lori
|
$2,000
[10]
Hissecond novel, "The Beautiful and Damned", was published in 1922 & deals with a rich & glamorous couple
Fitzgerald
Rick
|
$2,000
[29]
A tautonym is a scientific name consisting of the same word twice, like Vulpes vulpes for the red this
fox
Lori
|
$2,000
[5]
Port-Vila is the capital city of this nation of the southwest Pacific that was the New Hebrides until 1980
Vanuatu
Rick
Becky
|
$2,000
[24]
This writer's "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" followed "Dial 'M' for Murder" at the Plymouth Theatre
Herman Wouk
|
$2,000
[30]
"As far beneath Hades as heaven is above Earth", this place of Greek myth was worse than getting your teeth scraped
Tartarus
Lori
|
Switching the syllables in the German word for building of a home gave this design & architecture school its name
Bauhaus