Adam Francois Watkins — a stay-at-home dad and lawyer from Atlanta, Georgia
Maureen Block — a high school English and film studies teacher from Rancho Cucamonga, California
Sara Butner — a communications manager from Winston-Salem, North Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $32,700)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sara | $1,400 | $3,400 | $10,200 |
$20,150
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,200
11 R, 1 W |
| Maureen | $2,000 | $4,600 | $10,200 |
$10,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,200
16 R, 3 W |
| Adam | $2,600 | $8,800 | $25,500 |
$25,706
New champion: $25,706 |
$20,800
25 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W |
| TALE AS OLD AS TIME | LET IT GO | FRIEND LIKE ME | "HI" "HO" | DISNEY SONGS | UNDER THE SEA |
|
$200
[20]
Tired & disillusioned after a duel with the knight of the white moon, he returns home to La Mancha
Don Quixote
Adam
|
$200
[13]
Golf, so relaxing... until I got 7 on a par-3, or this score
quadruple-bogey
Sara
Adam
|
$200
[1]
Mary Lincoln said her "best living friend" was her dressmaker Lizzie Keckley, who'd bought her own way out of this
slavery
Adam
|
$200
[2]
An itchy skin condition, or places for certain insect colonies
hives
Sara
|
$200
[3]
This wonderful Swahili phrase means "no worries for the rest of your days"
hakuna matata
Maureen
|
$400
[29]
These shellfish, all bottom-dwellers, are trapped in cages called pots
lobsters
Adam
|
|
$400
[24]
While exiled from Florence, he worked on "The Divine Comedy"; the exile is mentioned in "Paradiso"
Dante
Sara
|
$400
[14]
The working day's over, & I just want to hang with my pal here, this handsome breed of dog
a pug
Maureen
|
$400
[25]
This physicist wrote a foreword to the bio of his German pal Emanuel Lasker, world chess champ from 1896 to 1921
Einstein
Maureen
|
$400
[5]
An employee, as in "Jenkins is that new ____ in accounting"
hire
Maureen
|
$400
[4]
A song in "101 Dalmatians" says if this villainess "doesn't scare you, no evil thing will"
Cruella de Vil
Adam
|
$600
[12]
24,000 feet down & seismically active, the Java Trench is a major fault zone in this ocean
the Indian Ocean
Sara
Maureen
|
|
$600
[21]
This Voltaire title guy rejects Dr. Pangloss' optimism that all is for the best "in this best of all possible worlds"
Candide
Maureen
|
$600
[15]
Oh, it's like I'm drifting down the river itself in a dream whenever I hear this"colorful" tune
"The Blue Danube"
Adam
|
$600
[26]
Marilyn Monroe adored this jazz great & helped her get a booking at a Hollywood hot spot
Ella Fitzgerald
Maureen
|
$600
[6]
This synonym for "unattractive" begins with a dwelling
homely
Adam
|
$600
[9]
"You can bet before we're through, mister I'll make a man out of you", says a song from this China-set film
Mulan
Maureen
|
$800
[16]
Georges Bank off Mass. once teemed with this "fish that changed the world", but the stock is overfished & in poor shape
codfish
Sara
|
|
$800
[22]
In this poetic work pilgrims meet at the Tabard Inn & agree to a storytelling contest as they travel
The Canterbury Tales
Sara
|
$800
[18]
Time to chill on a beach on this island named for a Polynesian demigod, across Pailolo Channel from Molokai
Maui
Adam
|
$800
[27]
George Vancouver named the highest point in Washington state for his friend Pete, this British admiral
(Peter) Rainier
Adam
|
$800
[7]
Hillbillies are known to bust out a fiddle at this type of party
hoedown
Adam
|
$800
[10]
Pocahontas asks, "Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain? Can you paint with all" these?
the colors of the wind
Sara
Adam
|
$1,000
[17]
Thisundersea creature can change its gender if needed
a clownfish
Adam
|
|
$1,000
[23]
"War & Peace" was originally published as "Voyna I" this Russian word
mir
|
$1,000
[19]
Breathe; the Maharishi gave us TM, short for this consciousness-raising practice ...race to the buzzer!
transcendental meditation
Maureen
|
DD
$3,000
[28]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote a celebratory poem for the 80th birthday of this "life-long friend" & fellow crusader
Susan B. Anthony
Adam
|
$1,000
[8]
Say hello to this pretty flower
hibiscus
Maureen
|
$1,000
[11]
Jiminy Cricket sings this song that goes on to say, "Anything your heart desires, will come to you"
"When You Wish Upon A Star"
Adam
|
— |
| CONTEMPORARIES | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES | THE TRIAL'S VENUE | POTPOURRI | THE TELEVISION ACADEMY HALL OF FAME | THE "BEST" WORDS |
|
DD
$100
[14]
On March 5, 1770 Crispus Attucks was slain in the Boston massacre; on May 16 she married the Dauphin of France
Marie Antoinette
Adam
|
$400
[1]
A burden can be this simian "on your back"
a monkey
Maureen
|
$400
[6]
The trial of Jack Ruby
Dallas
Adam
|
$400
[16]
Generous donors pay for college for almost every graduate from public schools in Kalamazoo in this state
Michigan
Maureen
|
$400
[4]
The first "Seinfeld" star to be inducted, she was part of the class of 2014
(Julia Louis-)Dreyfus
Adam
|
$400
[15]
An 1821 poem called "the faithful dog"
man's best friend
Adam
|
|
$400
[21]
While Isaac Newton was figuring out gravity & motion, Bernini was making a fancy cover for the pope's throne at this church
St. Peter's
Adam
|
$800
[2]
Here's a plate of these for your next party
pigs in a blanket
Sara
|
$800
[5]
The Haymarket trial
Chicago
Sara
|
$800
[22]
Later D.W. Griffith's D.P., Billy Bitzer worked for Hearst on the first film camera team to cover a war, this one
the Spanish-American War
Maureen
|
$800
[30]
The class of 2017 included the original 7-member cast of this show that debuted on NBC in 1975
SNL or Saturday Night Live
Maureen
|
$800
[13]
In 1599 Sir Edwin Sandys wrote that he thought "honestie" to be this
the best policy
Adam
|
|
$800
[23]
In 1824 the House of Reps picked John Quincy Adams as president &, further south, this man chose himself as dictator of Peru
Simón Bolívar
|
$1,200
[3]
A type of bird is in this phrase for an exaggerated expression made for a selfie
a duck face
Maureen
|
$1,600
[8]
The trial of Kenneth Lay & Jeffrey Skilling
Houston
Adam
|
$1,200
[24]
Ancient Olympians were nude, including in this sport introduced in 708 B.C. that has a move called the flying mare
wrestling
|
$1,200
[20]
Inductee Brandon Stoddard oversaw "Roots", "The Winds of War" & "The Thorn Birds", the 3 most-watched these in TV history
miniseries
Adam
|
$1,200
[10]
Completes the line from a show tune:"A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, but diamonds are..."
a girl's best friend
Adam
|
|
$1,600
[29]
In 1698 Captain Kidd sailed the seas & this leader came home from a 17-month European tour to crush a revolt in Moscow
Peter the Great
Sara
|
$1,600
[26]
(Sarah shows two yoga poses on the monitor.) To do the yoga pose upward-facing dog, the entire body is lifted up the floor & the arms are straight; the thighs stay on the floor & the arms are bent in this similar pose, named for a snake
cobra
Sara
|
$2,000
[9]
The trial of Leon Czolgosz--this city, not D.C.
Buffalo, New York
|
$1,600
[25]
Once, Royal Navy captains would call "panic stations" as a prelude to this other 2-word command
abandon ship
Adam
|
$1,600
[19]
Thislate writer, director, producer & actor was inducted into the Hall in 1997
Garry Marshall
Maureen
|
$1,600
[11]
In an 1862 message to Congress, Abraham Lincoln called an emancipated America "the last" this "of Earth"
best hope
Adam
|
|
$2,000
[17]
While China's dowager empress Tzu Hsi helped instigate the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, he formulated quantum theory
Max Planck
Maureen
|
$2,000
[27]
Naturally, this '60s dance featured prancing leg movements
the pony
Sara
|
DD
$5,000
[7]
The Mapplethorpe obscenity trial & the Pete Rose grand jury (a year apart)
Cincinnati
Adam
|
$2,000
[28]
bankrate.com says a free one of these kitchen items on opening an account was once so common it was proverbial
a toaster
Maureen
|
$2,000
[18]
The Hall inducted this co-creator of "Big Bang Theory" & "Two and a Half Men"
(Chuck) Lorre
Maureen
|
$2,000
[12]
It's the title of a 1972 David Halberstam book on the U.S. military failure in Vietnam
The Best and the Brightest
Adam
|
Prepared by the Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander, the "COSSAC Plan" outlined the details of this
D-Day