Lee Glazer — a director of a college research center from Waterville, Maine
Alex Schmidt — a writer and comedian from Pasadena, California
Adam Francois Watkins — a stay-at-home dad and lawyer from Atlanta, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,706)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adam | $3,800 | $6,000 | $20,000 |
$2,799
3rd place: $1,000 |
$17,200
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Alex | $2,800 | $7,800 | $18,600 |
$20,798
New champion: $20,798 |
$19,600
25 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Lee | $1,600 | $4,600 | $8,200 |
$16,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,200
11 R, 0 W |
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|
$200
[19]
The 1814 bombardment of this Maryland fort almost made it to a second night, but the flag was still there
Fort McHenry
Alex
|
$200
[29]
102 million:His Twitter bio is just 4 words--"Dad, husband, president, citizen"
Barack Obama
Lee
|
$200
[12]
Perhaps a budding entomologist, Muhammad Ali used this 4-word phrase before "sting like a bee"
float like a butterfly
Alex
|
$200
[1]
Bill Bryson's "In a Sunburned Country" takes us to this continent with its unique animals & friendly people too
Australia
Alex
|
$200
[3]
In slang, it follows "easy peasy lemon"
squeezy
Lee
|
$200
[8]
It's the good stuff--I mean the hard stuff--in a classic daiquiri
rum
Alex
|
|
$400
[20]
Before this war had even started, Austrians took a Serbian fortress in a midnight attack in July 1914
World War I
Adam
|
$400
[30]
22 million:Hi! My name is... what? My name is... who? My name is this Detroit rapper
Eminem
Alex
|
$400
[13]
The two elements seenheremake up a reportedly 130-year-old one of these discovered in 2018
a letter in a bottle
Adam
|
$400
[2]
Modern travel book writing got a boost in 1977 with Bruce Chatwin's account of his trip "In" this southern Argentine region
Patagonia
Lee
|
$400
[4]
To breathe with difficulty & with a whistling sound
wheeze
Adam
|
$400
[28]
It's a special birthday; let's celebrate with a glass of 30-year-old this from Glenfiddich
(single-malt) Scotch
Lee
|
|
$600
[16]
In 1756 only 23 of the 146 British soldiers survived the night in the "black hole" of Fort William in this Indian city
Calcutta
Adam
Alex
|
$600
[15]
46 million:The fight against malaria is a big topic for this Seattle tweeter worth many billions
Bill Gates
Adam
|
$600
[26]
This brand of soap was advertised, "It floats"
Ivory
Lee
|
$600
[5]
"Letters from Egypt" is a book of this future British nurse's letter while traveling on the Nile in 1850
(Florence) Nightingale
Adam
|
$600
[9]
Call me this derisive term for an elderly man & see what happens
a geezer
Alex
|
$600
[21]
I'll have a Tom Collins, hold the seltzer, lemon juice & syrup--heck, just give me a glass of this
gin
Adam
|
|
$800
[17]
David Farragut sent 1,500 soldiers in a nighttime assault on Fort Gaines to begin the Civil War battle of this bay
Mobile
Adam
|
$800
[18]
29 million:This"Harry Potter" actress is a champion for women both on & off screen
Emma Watson
Lee
|
$800
[14]
It's said that one of these "lifts all boats"
a rising tide
Adam
|
$800
[6]
He wrote about a bus trip & other kinds of trips in 1968's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"
(Tom) Wolfe
Alex
|
$800
[10]
From the name of a movie monster, it's a woman who is obsessive about wedding planning
a bridezilla
Alex
|
$800
[22]
Dilute my bourbon with vermouth? Go straight to Hell's Kitchen! I didn't ask for one of these cocktails
a Manhattan
Alex
|
|
$1,000
[24]
In 1779 this "Mad" revolutionary led a daring midnight raid to take the fort at Stony Point
(Anthony) Wayne
Alex
|
DD
$2,000
[25]
27 million:This rapper expanded "Mr. 305" (Miami's area code) to "Mr. Worldwide"
Pitbull
Alex
|
$1,000
[27]
Ask Robinson Crusoe--the dessert seenhereis known as a floating this
floating island
Lee
|
$1,000
[7]
Alfred Lansing wrote "Endurance", about this man's 1915 escape from Antarctica
Shackleton
Adam
|
$1,000
[11]
Containing a small scroll, it's put on door frames in Jewish homes
a mezuzah
Lee
|
$1,000
[23]
If you can handle this Italian stuff made from distilled grape seeds & skins, you're a better man than I am
grappa
Adam
|
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|
$400
[19]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows Sagittarius on the monitor.) The constellation Sagittarius represents an archer, but its eight brightest stars are often depicted as one of these, with the Milky Way as the steam rising from the spout
a teapot
Alex
|
$400
[18]
It shares its name with a U.S. state
Georgia
Adam
|
$400
[23]
A reported $600,000 fell out the back of a Brink's truck on the interstate in this Indiana capital, causing 1 or 2 traffic issues
Indianapolis
Adam
|
$400
[25]
The working class characters in a 1957 John Osbourne play "Look Back" this title way at British society
in anger
Alex
|
$400
[26]
Last name of Carmine, who provided music for all 3 "Godfather" films--he may have had an in with the director
Coppola
Alex
|
$400
[1]
There's a bivalve mollusk in this 2-word idiom meaning to become silent
clam up
Alex
Lee
|
|
$800
[20]
The first close-up images sent back to Earth from another planet were from a Russian probe on this planet in 1975
Venus
Adam
Alex
|
$800
[6]
Check it out--it's then ational libraryof this country, which opened its doors in Minsk in 2006
Belarus
Adam
|
$800
[16]
In the highest-scoring FIFA World Cup final in 52 years, this country prevailed 4-2
France
Alex
|
$800
[12]
A psychiatrist works to bring a young man back from the brink of madness in this beastly Peter Shaffer play
Equus
Alex
|
$800
[11]
Since 1974 John Williams has scored more than 25 films from this "Minority Report" director
Spielberg
Alex
|
$800
[2]
If you're reticent to speak, you "wouldn't say" this word meant to scare
boo
Adam
|
|
$1,600
[21]
The 2 main types of optical telescopes are reflectors & these, which use lenses to magnify objects
refractors
Adam
|
$1,200
[3]
After Russia, this "stan" is the largest republic in area
Kazakhstan
Alex
|
$1,200
[17]
In 2018 this "Sex & the City" actress made a bid for New York governor
Cynthia Nixon
Adam
|
$1,200
[13]
Peter Morgan's "Frost/Nixon" takes place during interviews in this year, 3 years after Nixon's resignation
1977
Alex
|
$1,200
[8]
This movie series featured the 4-note mockingjay call heard here
The Hunger Games
Alex
|
$1,200
[27]
A British WWII slogan punned, "Be like Dad, keep" this word for quiet
mum
Lee
|
|
$2,000
[22]
Undetected until the 1990s, this belt is a zone of space past 30 A.U. & home to objects like dwarf planets & icy centaurs
the Kuiper Belt
Adam
|
$1,600
[4]
The first republic alphabetically, it also claims to have been the first country to adopt Christianity as its official religion
Armenia
Adam
Alex
|
$1,600
[24]
Caught up in a sex scandal, the Swedish Academy announced it would not give this Nobel Prize in 2018
Literature
Alex
|
DD
$2,000
[14]
In this Noel Coward play, a man's life is upended by the jealous ghost of his first wife
Blithe Spirit
Alex
|
$1,600
[9]
Mark Mothersbaugh of this "Whip It" group wrote the 1980s-sounding music for "Thor: Ragnarok"
Devo
Alex
|
$1,600
[28]
A sign on some restaurant tables, or a noncommunicative disposition
reserved
Adam
|
|
DD
$4,000
[7]
This Zodiac constellation has only one bright star, Hamal--Arabic for "sheep"
Aries
Adam
|
$2,000
[5]
Kaunas & Marijampole are 2 of the counties or administrative divisions of this country
Lithuania
|
$2,000
[29]
This major figure of Iran-Contra--actually, a lt. colonel figure--was named president of the NRA
Oliver North
Adam
|
$2,000
[15]
You can see the secondkingof this name as a prince in "Braveheart", or see his downfall in a Christopher Marlowe play
Edward
Alex
|
$2,000
[10]
The director of "The Third Man" was entranced by a local playing this instrument & hired him to compose the score
the zither
|
$2,000
[30]
This game, a forerunner of bridge, is also an interjection meaning "Hush!"
whist
Lee
|
Of the 23 lawgivers depicted on marble portraits over doors in the U.S. House chamber, he's the only one in the Bible
Moses