Abby Roughton — a lawyer from Boston, Massachusetts
Casey Amspacher — a senior data engineer from Brooklyn, New York
Mary Ann Borer — a marketing coordinator from Pomona, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $53,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Ann | $4,000 | $8,000 | $19,400 |
$14,400
3-day champion: $67,800 |
$17,600
26 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Casey | $1,200 | $2,600 | $5,600 |
$9,599
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,800
15 R, 2 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Abby | $2,000 | $1,600 | $800 |
$10
3rd place: $1,000 |
$800
6 R, 2 W |
| CYBER MONDAY | GIVING TUESDAY | WACKY WEDNESDAY | A POP CULTURE THANKSGIVING | BLACK FRIDAY | SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY |
|
$200
[5]
New types of these Japanese-named text images from 2018 include llama, lab coat & bagel
emoji
Mary Ann
|
$200
[21]
When you give to the Michael J. Fox Foundation, it goes to research for finding a cure for this disorder
Parkinson's
Casey
|
$200
[11]
Oh, Florida woman! Your stomach pains weren't from food poisoning by General Tso's this in 2018--you were 37 weeks pregnant!
chicken
Mary Ann
|
$200
[1]
A traditional folk song finds it "in the straw" & "in the hay"
turkey
Abby
|
$200
[16]
Friday, October 13, 1989:A "mini-crash" sees a 190-point drop in this stock average
the Dow Jones Industrial Average
Casey
|
$600
[24]
Even if you have an awesome name like Pita Pan or Holy Mole, these businesses take long hours & hard work
restaurants
Mary Ann
|
|
$400
[7]
You can also use "Amazon" or "Computer" to talk to your Echo device instead of this 5-letter name
Alexa
Abby
|
$400
[22]
Your donation to this, the WWP, helps injured veterans & their families
the Wounded Warrior Project
Abby
|
$400
[12]
In 2018 a Columbia journalism student learned she won this prize while in class 2 floors above the announcement
the Pulitzer
Casey
|
$400
[2]
The song "Zombie" by this group is about the blood shed over Irish freedom
The Cranberries
Mary Ann
|
$400
[17]
October 14, 1881:A storm off the east coast of Scotland kills 189 fishermen on this sea
the North Sea
Casey
|
$1,000
[27]
Is the business just you? Then you are legally a sole this 10-letter word
proprietor
Casey
|
|
$600
[8]
Thisfile storage & sharing cloud service has a real container in its 7-letter name
Dropbox
Abby
|
$600
[23]
You & your BFF might consider donating to this pet welfare organization, whose logo is seen here, & help save them all
the Best Friends Animal Society
|
$600
[13]
Brotherly love indeed! A foul hit by Richie Ashburn of this team broke a lady's nose; as she got carted out a 2nd broke her leg
the (Philadelphia) Phillies
Mary Ann
|
$600
[3]
A 1933 Popeye short is called "I ____ What I ____"
yam
Mary Ann
|
$600
[18]
January 13, 2012:32 die when an Italian cruise ship sinks; its captain is later convicted of this lesser type of homicide
manslaughter
Mary Ann
|
DD
$1,200
[26]
The SBA encourages banks to make these, of $50,000 or less; they can help a business more than a "tiny" bit
microloans
Casey
|
|
$800
[9]
The streets of San Francisco are now littered with electric these small vehicles rentable from Bird or Limebike
scooters
Mary Ann
|
$800
[25]
Give at least $1,000 annually to this organization & you'll be recognized as a Clara Barton Society member
the Red Cross
Casey
|
$800
[14]
Already once bitten by a rattlesnake & mauled by a bear, in 2018 Dylan McWilliams got chomped by an 8' this in Hawaii
a shark
Mary Ann
Abby
|
$800
[4]
Justin Theroux starred in this HBO series in which 2% of the world's population had disappeared--was it the rapture?
The Leftovers
Casey
|
$800
[19]
May 31, 1985:A cluster of about 40 of these wreaks havoc in Ontario, New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio
tornadoes
Mary Ann
|
— |
|
$1,000
[10]
You can "cast" your phone's screen to your TV with this Google product
Chromecast
Mary Ann
|
$1,000
[28]
You can brighten a child's Christmas by donating playthings to this program of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve
Toys for Tots
Mary Ann
|
$1,000
[15]
This "service" of public employees is rarely as cushy as for a Spanish functionary who didn't show up to work for 6 years
the civil service
Mary Ann
|
$1,000
[6]
Gangly banjoplayer David Akeman, a star of the Grand Ole Opry & "Hee Haw", had this nickname
Stringbean
|
$1,000
[20]
This black Friday:C.S. Lewis & Aldous Huxley died the same day JFK was assassinated
November 22, 1963
Mary Ann
|
— |
| 5 SAINT'S DAYS | U.S. LAKES & RIVERS | MUSIC OF YESTERDAY & TODAY | SUCH NOVEL CHARACTERS | GOVT. ABBREV. | "DEAD" |
|
$400
[21]
His feast day is December 6--a few weeks earlier than you might expect
St. Nicholas
Mary Ann
|
$400
[26]
Oneida Lake is often considered to be the "thumb" of these 11 long, narrow lakes in New York
the Finger Lakes
Casey
|
$400
[1]
John Mellencamp got a songwriting credit on Jake Owen's "I Was Jack (You Were)" her
"Diane"
Mary Ann
|
$400
[11]
"Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates" are the first words of this title character
Forrest Gump
Mary Ann
|
$400
[15]
The senior ranking member of the military is the CJCS, chairman of this panel
the joint chiefs of staff
Mary Ann
|
$400
[6]
This septet includes covetousness, lust & anger
the seven deadly sins
Abby
|
|
$800
[22]
February 23 is the feast of St. Polycarp, who some think may have written letters attributed to this apostle
Paul
Mary Ann
|
$1,200
[28]
The Astoria-Megler Bridgespans this river
the Columbia
Casey
|
$800
[2]
No, he said, "In The Air Tonight" was not a real story about someone drowning, it was him being angry about his divorce
Phil Collins
Casey
|
$800
[12]
In this Flaubert work, then-mademoiselle Emma pricks her finger, puts it in her mouth & sucks it & Charles is smitten
Madame Bovary
Mary Ann
|
$800
[17]
To the FAA, MWP is the meteorological processor of this; (sounds redundant)
weather
Casey
|
$800
[7]
This 1947 find consists of some 15,000 fragments of ancient manuscripts
the Dead Sea Scrolls
Abby
|
|
$1,600
[24]
June 3 is the feast of Clotilda, queen of this Germanic people who gave their name to Germany's big western neighbor
the Franks
Mary Ann
Casey
|
$1,600
[27]
Ohio's rivers flow either south into the Ohio River or north directly into this lake
Lake Erie
|
$1,200
[3]
In 2018 this "American Idol" winner & country star sang you can do a lot to cover stuff up, but you can't "Cry Pretty"
Carrie Underwood
Mary Ann
|
$1,200
[13]
Title of a classic Max Brand novel of the Old West--this wronged man "Rides Again"
Destry
Mary Ann
|
$1,200
[18]
A lot of buildings are under the purview of Stephen Ayers, the 11th AOC, this title "of the capitol"
architect
|
$1,200
[8]
As this character, Ryan Reynolds says, "I'm about to do to you what Limp Bizkit did to music in the late '90s"
Deadpool
Mary Ann
|
|
$2,000
[25]
Hegesippus opposed this heresy, from Greek for "knowledge"; if you do too, celebrate his day, April 7
Gnosticism
Mary Ann
|
$2,000
[29]
Geysers, hot springs & fumaroles can be found at the bottom of this largest natural Wyoming lake
Yellowstone Lake
|
$1,600
[4]
Camila Cabello was born in this city & had a 2017 hit singing, "Half of my heart is in" it
Havana
Mary Ann
|
$1,600
[14]
In 1817 Sir Walter Scott published this novel about a Scottish outlaw
Rob Roy
Mary Ann
Casey
|
$1,600
[19]
Part of the NIH is the NIMH, the National Institute of this
Mental Health
Casey
|
$1,600
[9]
It's what you've got if you're holding a pair of aces & a pair of 8s
a dead man's hand
Mary Ann
|
|
DD
$3,000
[23]
April 23 is the feast of this saint feared by dragons everywhere
St. George
Mary Ann
|
DD
$7,000
[30]
This largest Louisiana lake was named for a French count
Lake Pontchartrain
Casey
|
$2,000
[5]
This 1962 Tony Bennett classic was publicly crooned for the first time in the Fairmont Hotel
"I Left My Heart In San Francisco"
Mary Ann
|
$2,000
[16]
In this Bret Easton Ellis novel, Patrick Bateman doesn't want to ruin his Alexander Julian suit with the spray of blood
American Psycho
Casey
|
$2,000
[20]
(House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi gives the clue.) Putting money back in people's pockets, in 2009 I led House passage of an economic stimulus bill called ARRA, or American Recovery & this Act
reinvestment
Abby
|
$2,000
[10]
In navigation, it's determining your position without using the stars
dead reckoning
|
1 of the 2 presidents who offered Daniel Webster the VP slot; he declined both, thinking the job went no where
Zachary Taylor or William Henry Harrison