Swapna Sathe — an engineering manager from Loveland, Ohio
Adam Soffrin — a behavior analyst from San Francisco, California
Emily Frey — a professor from Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,701)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emily | $3,600 | $3,800 | $18,600 |
$31,201
2-day champion: $48,902 |
$16,400
26 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Adam | $600 | $3,600 | $7,600 |
$2
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,600
11 R, 1 W |
| Swapna | $1,400 | $2,400 | $15,600 |
$20,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,600
13 R, 0 W |
| GAME SHOW HOSTS | TAKE A "NEE" | REPORTS OF MY DEATH... | IT'S A WITCH | A SKELETON | GIVE THEM SOME CANDY |
|
$200
[10]
"The Joker's Wild" washisfavorite game show growing up, & now, he hosts his own version of it on TBS
Snoop Dogg
Adam
|
$200
[12]
Someone in the running for an Emmy or a Tony
a nominee
Emily
|
$200
[28]
"Where have you gone", this 1940s N.Y. Yankee legend? A January 1999 NBC obituary was 7 weeks premature
Joe DiMaggio
Emily
|
$200
[1]
In this Shakespeare play, Hecate appears as queen of the witches
Macbeth
Adam
|
$200
[21]
Bones making up your thorax include the sternum & 12 pairs of these
ribs
Emily
|
$200
[2]
Requiring 20 min. of pulling, the salt water type of this has been described as a candy & an upper body workout all in one
taffy
Emily
|
|
$400
[17]
In 2007 this funnyman took over from Bob Barker as host of "The Price is Right"
Drew Carey
Adam
|
$400
[13]
A scornful, lip-curling facial expression
a sneer
Adam
|
$400
[27]
Since a 2003 flub this "paper of record" uses the 2nd paragraph of obits to explain why it's sure the person is dead
The New York Times
Swapna
|
$400
[7]
This novel by Gregory Maguire about the green-skinned Elphaba became a gravity-defying musical
Wicked
Emily
|
$400
[22]
This lower jawbone is the strongest & largest bone of the face
the mandible
Emily
|
$400
[3]
A smooth, heavy paste made from sugar & these nuts is the traditional basis of marzipan
almonds
Emily
|
|
$600
[18]
Put an "X" in the box if you know that Peter Marshall, seen here, was the long-time host of this game show
Hollywood Squares
Adam
|
$600
[14]
A Native American people who lived on the Platte River, or Leslie Knope's fictional Indiana town
Pawnee
Adam
|
$600
[26]
A radio report said James Earl Jones had left us in 1998 (actually, it was this similarly named assassin)
James Earl Ray
Swapna
|
$600
[8]
The 2 female founders of Hogwarts are Helga Hufflepuff & this witch
(Rowena) Ravenclaw
Swapna
|
$800
[24]
Sharing its name with St. Paul's birthplace, it's the collective name for 7 bones in the foot
tarsus
Emily
|
$600
[4]
Egg whites & sugar syrup go into recipes for this versatile goo found in Snickers & Toblerone
nougat
Emily
|
|
$800
[19]
From 2002 to 2013 she hosted the syndicated version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"
Meredith Vieira
Emily
|
$800
[15]
Captain Bligh suffered the wrath of a group of them
mutineers
Emily
|
$800
[29]
CNN posted a no-bituary about this politician, "1941-2001... loyal point man for two Bush presidencies"
Dick Cheney
Emily
|
$800
[9]
A girl is whisked away to Endor College of Witchcraft by "The Little" this, the title of a classic by Mary Stewart
a little broomstick
|
$1,000
[25]
This part of the skull that protects the brain is made up of 8 bones including the occipital & temporal bones
the cranium
|
$800
[5]
It's not booze, it's the liquid produced when cocoa beans are ground into paste, releasing the cocoa butter
liquor
Adam
Swapna
|
|
$1,000
[20]
We can neither confirm nor deny that he was a CIA assassin, but he did co-create & host "The Gong Show"
Barris
Adam
|
$1,000
[16]
Stanley makes these long-jawed pliers
needle-nose
Adam
|
— |
$1,000
[11]
Alexandra Jane & Sukie are a bewitching trio in a Rhode Island town in this Updike novel
The Witches of Eastwick
|
DD
$1,400
[23]
This arm bone was named for its supposed resemblance to the spoke of a wheel
the radius
Emily
|
$1,000
[6]
This confection of pecans & brown sugar is named for the French military officer whose cook is credited with inventing it
pralines
Emily
|
| HALLOWEEN WITH GENE SIMMONS | THE FIRST MILLENNIUM | PHILOSOPHY | WORLD CAPITAL PUNISHMENT | SONG TITLE WOMEN BY LYRIC | OTTOMAN-OPOEIA |
|
$400
[10]
(Gene Simmons presents the clue.) Halloween goes back to Samhain, a word from this Irish language; in a Celtic festival, people wore masks so ghosts wouldn't recognize them
Gaelic
Emily
|
$400
[1]
In 841 this future capital was established by Viking invaders on the east coast of Ireland
Dublin
Emily
|
$400
[5]
In a late dialogue by him, Socrates is replaced as main speaker with Timaeus, who gives an account of creation
Plato
Emily
|
$400
[7]
Should you call the capital of this Asian country Rangoon or Yangon? Neither--it's now Nay Pyi Taw, 200 miles away
Myanmar
Emily
|
$400
[19]
"She's just a girl who claims that I am the one"
"Billie Jean"
Emily
|
$400
[16]
Kahkaha is Turkish onomatopoeia for the sound of this--good joke, Kemal
laughter
Emily
|
|
$800
[25]
(Gene Simmons presents the clue.) In a forerunner to this Halloween statement, kids would ask for food in exchange for saying prayers for the dead
"trick or treat"
Emily
|
$800
[2]
After Emperor Claudius was poisoned, he was succeeded by this man, who fiddled around in the job for 13 years
Nero
Swapna
|
$800
[6]
In 1965 Lotfi Zadeh introduced this type of set with no clear boundaries, leading to the same type of "logic"
fuzzy
Swapna
|
$800
[12]
This city's airport is named for LAN Chile Airlines founder Arturo Merino Benitez
Santiago
Emily
|
$800
[21]
"You came and you gave without taking but I sent you away"
"Mandy"
Swapna
|
$800
[17]
If you hear a Turk go "Hapsu!", the sound of this, say "Cok yasa", "live long"
a sneeze
Emily
|
|
$1,200
[26]
(Gene Simmons presents the clue.) In the original 1978 "Halloween", a Captain Kirk mask was the perfect disguise for this positively homicidal character
Michael Myers
Emily
Adam
|
$1,200
[3]
With cities like Palenque, this civilization saw its peak from 250 to 900
the Mayan civilization
|
$1,600
[9]
In the 18th century "taste" was the topic we now call this study of beauty
aesthetics
Adam
|
$1,600
[14]
The Gadhafi Mosque, a gift from Muammar, isn't in Tripoli but in this capital of Uganda
Kampala
Emily
|
$1,200
[22]
"I know this world is killing you... my aim is true"
"Alison"
Adam
|
$1,200
[18]
A Turkish snorer might make a "horul horul" sound; in English it's represented by this letter a bunch of times
Z
Swapna
|
|
$1,600
[27]
(Gene Simmons presents the clue.) What would Halloween be without this novelty song from Bobby "Boris" Pickett; "it was a graveyard smash"
"Monster Mash"
Emily
|
$1,600
[4]
This "Venerable" monk & author who died in 735 is known as "the father of English history"
the Venerable Bede
|
DD
$2,000
[8]
Kierkegaard said a leap of faith into a relationship with God is the way to deal with this, German for "dread"
angst
Emily
|
$2,000
[15]
This capital city's name means "stone village" in Uzbek
Tashkent
Emily
|
$1,600
[23]
She "says, 'I'm done with Sergio. He treats me like a rag doll"
Jane
|
$1,600
[20]
This organ is your kalp & it's the body part most likely to go "kut kut"
a heart
Swapna
|
|
$2,000
[28]
(Gene Simmons presents the clue.) Legend says that death awakens the dead with a fiddle on Halloween & invites the skeletons to this French-named dance of death
danse macabre
Swapna
|
$2,000
[29]
Founded by the Fatimid dynasty c. 970 as a center of Islamic learning, al-Azhar Univ. is still going in this country
Egypt
|
$2,000
[11]
This 14-letter -ism about creating the greatest happiness for all has been called the "most important secular ethical theory"
utilitarianism
Swapna
|
DD
$4,000
[13]
This capital of Barbados got its name from the type of structure seen here
Bridgetown
Emily
|
$2,000
[24]
She "rings like a bell through the night & wouldn't you love to love her?"
"Rhiannon"
Swapna
|
$2,000
[30]
The onomatopoetic tikir gives us "tikirinda gitmek", "to go like" this 9-letter word, as an efficient plan does
clockwork
Swapna
|
Chocolate syrup, casaba melon & Playboy model Marli Renfro were enlisted to create an iconic scene in this film
Psycho