Gerald Dudley — a pub quiz host and writer from Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Mary Ann Borer — a marketing coordinator from Pomona, California
Jonathan Greenan — a human rights legal officer from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $27,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan | $4,400 | $7,200 | $14,400 |
$9,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,400
24 R, 3 W |
| Mary Ann | $2,400 | $8,200 | $19,200 |
$38,200
New champion: $38,200 |
$17,400
19 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Gerald | $2,400 | $3,800 | $0 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,400
11 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| RECENT HEADLINES INTHE ONION | SISTER CITIES | RHYMES WITH MUG | POKER FACE | BAD ROMANCE | LADY GAGA |
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$200
[16]
The foundation of this husband & wife "Announces New $17 Bil. Initiative to Eradicate All 3rd-World Mac Users by 2040"
Bill and Melinda Gates
Jonathan
|
$200
[30]
This city in Maine--not the Oregon one--is sisters with Shinagawa, Japan, a city of 350,000 inside the borough of Tokyo
Portland
Jonathan
|
$200
[25]
An often shameless promotion of a product or one's self
a plug
Mary Ann
|
$200
[29]
Your face falls as it's 7-card stud & your straight just lost to a hand with 3 queens & 2 jacks, called this
a full house
Jonathan
Mary Ann
|
$200
[14]
Petruchio deprives Kate of food & sleep in this play, which makes her grow to love him? That's messed up, Shakespeare!
The Taming of the Shrew
Mary Ann
|
$200
[9]
Intel provided 300 drones to accompany Lady Gaga for this short but major gig in Houston Feb. 5, 2017
the Super Bowl (halftime show)
Gerald
|
|
$400
[17]
She's the White House press secretary who "Flatly Refuses Jim Acosta's Assertion That He's Jim Acosta"
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Jonathan
|
$400
[1]
Boring, Oregon & Dull, Scotland are informal sister communities; some wanted to say g'day to Bland in this foreign nation
Australia
Jonathan
|
$400
[21]
The tightly curled tail of this toy dog breed lies over the hip
a pug
Jonathan
|
$400
[5]
A twitch of a bettor's face can be this 4-letter word that signals the strength of the player's hand
a tell
Mary Ann
|
$400
[15]
George & Martha drag Nick & Honey into a nasty liquor-fueled 4-sided battle in this Albee play
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Gerald
|
$400
[10]
Born Stefani Germanotta, Lady Gaga is a huge fan of this band & got her stage name from their song "Radio Ga Ga"
Queen
Mary Ann
|
|
$600
[18]
"Should" this NFL team that went 0-16 in 2017 "Use the First Overall Pick on a Once-in-a-Generation Long Snapper?"
the Cleveland Browns
Gerald
|
$600
[2]
There once was a town called Spokane / but a long rhyme won't fit here, no, man / so just name this Irish sister city
Limerick
Jonathan
|
$600
[22]
Cymbalta, for example
a drug
Jonathan
|
$600
[6]
Joy fills your face as it did for Phil Ivey after winning bracelets at 10 events held during this Vegas poker tourney
the World Series of Poker
Jonathan
|
$800
[27]
In this novel by George Eliot, Dorothea thinks she'll find happiness with the aging scholar Casaubon (nope!)
Middlemarch
Mary Ann
|
$600
[11]
Gaga helped Bradley Cooper rock as they re-re-remade this drama that last starred Streisand & Kristofferson
A Star is Born
Mary Ann
|
|
$800
[19]
This rhyme-named exercise tech co. "Releases New Tracking Collar That Gets Tighter Every Second You Are Inactive"
Fitbit
Jonathan
|
$800
[3]
Sisters can be so competitive! "You have the Lincoln Memorial, D.C.? OK! This city of ours has the monument of Lysicrates!"
Athens
Mary Ann
|
$800
[23]
Back in Grandma's day, dancing was also known as "cutting" this
a rug
Gerald
|
$800
[7]
You can now hoot & holler as this last card has flipped over in Omaha poker & your win is secure
the river
Jonathan
|
$1,000
[28]
In this novel, Lady Brett Ashley & Jake Barnes could have been great together, if not for her affairs & his war wounds
The Sun Also Rises
Mary Ann
|
$800
[12]
Lady Gaga is on the right track with her charitable foundation named for this hit with a 3-word title
"Born This Way"
Gerald
|
|
$1,000
[20]
"Deceased Souls Backed Up at" this river's "Ferry Crossing During Underworld Transit Strike"
the River Styx
Jonathan
|
$1,000
[4]
In 2014 Cambridge, Massachusetts became family with Les Cayes in this nation, 4 years after a terrible natural disaster
Haiti
Jonathan
|
$1,000
[24]
Counterfeit vending machine "coin"
a slug
Jonathan
Mary Ann
|
$1,000
[8]
You look chagrined when you forget to put up the "big" this bet, so named because you don't get to see your cards first
the big blind
Jonathan
|
DD
$3,000
[26]
This novel ends with Amy & Nick Dunne reunited--sure, she framed him for her murder, but now she's pregnant
Gone Girl
Mary Ann
|
$1,000
[13]
In this song Lady Gaga also name checks Fernando & Roberto
"Alejandro"
Gerald
|
| NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC'SMARS | POP CULTURE | CAVES | WORD ORIGINS | BRITISH HISTORY | DRUM SCHTICK |
|
$400
[3]
Thistype of storm causes major problems for the explorers when it blocks the sun & solar power
a dust storm
Mary Ann
|
$400
[4]
Say howdy to Rowdy, mascot of this NFL team; he's 6'1", or 6'2 1/2" with the big hat
the Dallas Cowboys
Jonathan
|
$400
[19]
The longest cave system on Earth reaches 380 feet down & stretches more than 400 miles in this Kentucky national park
Mammoth Cave
|
$400
[9]
This word for a horse that needs busting is Spanish for "rough"
bronco
Jonathan
|
$400
[14]
Containing concessions by the king, this 13th c. document is one of the foundations of English & American law
the Magna Carta
Jonathan
|
$400
[1]
The Atlas, a type of this developed in the 1950s, used magnetic drum memory
a computer
Gerald
|
|
$800
[24]
Part of the series is set in 2033, when the first human mission heads to Mars on ashipnamed for this father of Icarus
Daedalus
Mary Ann
|
$800
[5]
For fall, the cornucopia of pumpkin spice-flavored offerings include Cheerios & these Hostess snack cakes
Twinkies
Jonathan
|
$800
[20]
Caves eroded by water are most commonly found in this type of rock composed mainly of calcium carbonate
limestone
Gerald
|
$800
[10]
This 4-letter word for a place of confinement originally referred to a monk's quarters
a cell
Jonathan
|
$800
[15]
The 1st archbishop of this historic town was St. Augustine, a monk sent by the pope to convert the English
Canterbury
Jonathan
|
$800
[2]
In architecture, a drum is any of the cylindrical stone blocks that make up one of these
a column
|
|
$1,200
[25]
This German scientist actually built the Saturn Vmoon rocket with a plan to use it to one day reach Mars
von Braun
Mary Ann
Gerald
|
$1,200
[6]
In the 2018 film "The Girl in the Spider's Web", this star of "The Crown" plays outcast hacker Lisbeth Salander
Claire Foy
Jonathan
|
DD
$1,000
[22]
From the Greek for "cave", it's an old term for a cave dweller or caveman
a troglodyte
Mary Ann
|
$1,200
[11]
From Sanskrit for "weighty" comes this word for a Hindu spiritual guide or any recognized leader in a field
guru
Mary Ann
|
$1,200
[16]
In 1984 she narrowly escaped assassination as her hotel bathroom was destroyed by an IRA bomb
Margaret Thatcher
Jonathan
|
$1,200
[28]
"Bang The Drum Slowly" is one of Mark Harris' novels about this sport
baseball
Jonathan
Gerald
|
|
$1,600
[26]
Lifefound on Mars in 2042 turns out to be a deadly microbe that only responds to this antibiotic discovered in 1928
penicillin
Mary Ann
|
$1,600
[7]
Shinnok is one of the evil karacters in this fighting video game franchise from Nether Realm studios
Mortal Kombat
Gerald
|
$1,200
[21]
Found in Europe & living more than 100 years, an olm is a blind, cave-dwelling one of these amphibians
a salamander
Mary Ann
|
$1,600
[12]
This word is for the Greek for "molded" & was first used in reference to a synthetic product in 1909
plastic
Mary Ann
|
$1,600
[17]
The record of a monumental accounting of England & Wales, this document was compiled around 1086
the Domesday Book
Gerald
|
$1,600
[29]
A '90s dance music style from England is called "drum &" this instrument
bass
Jonathan
Gerald
|
|
$2,000
[27]
In season 2, one of these bursts of energy fries theelectronics& communications of thetownsettlers had built on Mars
a solar flare
Jonathan
|
$2,000
[8]
Ariana Grande has a song on her 2018 album called this, the name of her fiancee
"Pete Davidson"
Jonathan
|
$2,000
[23]
Stunning examples of Paleolithic art, like the ones seen here, can be found in this cave in France's Vézère Valley
Lascaux Cave
|
$2,000
[13]
This old-time word for a pantry comes from its origin as a place to store bacon
a larder
Mary Ann
|
DD
$7,400
[18]
King of Wessex, this great monarch prevented England from completely falling to the Danes in the 800s
Alfred the Great
Gerald
|
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Memories of refugees in British train stations before & after WWII helped inspire the creation of this character
Paddington Bear