Mary Kate Moriarty — a dentist from Dumfries, Virginia
Faris Alikhan — a speechwriter from Atlanta, Georgia
Elana Schor — a journalist from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elana | $1,600 | $4,000 | $10,800 |
$21,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,800
19 R, 3 W |
| Faris | $400 | $3,200 | $17,200 |
$22,700
New champion: $22,700 |
$20,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mary Kate | $-600 | $2,800 | $-400 |
$-400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$400
8 R, 7 W (including 1 DD) |
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$200
[19]
Byron is dead & Fauntleroy is fictional, but my true love has those 2 & 8 others with this title a-leaping!
lords
Elana
|
$200
[6]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the Palk Strait on the monitor.) It's about 40 miles across the Palk Strait from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu to this island that's about 15% ethnically Tamil
Sri Lanka
Elana
|
$200
[13]
A coveted award for those who exhibit their dogs, "B.I.S." stands for this accolade
best in show
Elana
|
$200
[1]
The "Night in Canada" celebrating this sport began airing in 1952
hockey
Elana
|
$200
[10]
This term for a boxing match refers to the cash to be won
a prize fight
|
$200
[26]
"Desdemona! Che Veggo!"
Othello
Elana
|
|
$400
[22]
I really don't wanna know where my BFF found the 8 maids a-doing this
milking
Elana
|
$400
[7]
The Korea Strait connects the East China Sea with this other country-named sea
the Sea of Japan
Elana
Faris
|
$400
[14]
It was a verb meaning to grind into small bits before it was a noun for dog food pellets
kibble
Faris
Mary Kate
|
$400
[2]
Tim Russert was a longtime moderator of this news program that's now over 70 years old
Meet the Press
Faris
|
$400
[11]
After the demise of Nirvana, Dave Grohl formed this musical group
the Foo Fighters
Mary Kate
|
$400
[27]
"Elseneur, Une Salle Du Palais"
Hamlet
Faris
|
|
$600
[23]
My true love went all out, getting Stewart Copeland, Clem Burke, Ginger Baker & 9 other of these musicians
drummers
Mary Kate
|
$600
[8]
Thisstrait separates 2 countries & 2 continents by a mere 53 miles
the Bering Strait
Faris
|
$600
[15]
This term is used to describe a dog's coat, like the one seen here, that has a texture similar to strands of metal
wire-haired
|
$600
[3]
Pauley Perrette was still part of the cast when this crime drama celebrated its milestone 300th episode
NCIS
Elana
Mary Kate
|
$600
[20]
With teams of pros & volunteers, this life-saving profession was an Olympic demonstration sport in 1900
firefighting
Elana
|
$600
[28]
"The Doge's March"
The Merchant of Venice
Faris
|
|
$800
[24]
Looks like the love of my life got fowl with this trio
three French hens
Elana
Mary Kate
|
$1,000
[16]
The Strait of Hormuz connects the Gulf of Oman with this gulf to the west
the Persian Gulf
Faris
|
$800
[17]
A dog command, it's also the anatomical name for the end of a loaf of bread
heel
Faris
|
$800
[4]
Lasting from 1955 to 1975, this TV western slung 635 episodes
Gunsmoke
Faris
|
$800
[12]
Jim O'Malley & D.J. Fitzpatrick played their college football for this team
the Fighting Irish
Elana
|
$800
[29]
"Vor Prosperos Zelle"
The Tempest
Elana
|
|
$1,000
[25]
A couple of these birds that winter in central Africa? Oh, my true love, you shouldn't have! Really. I mean that
turtle doves
Mary Kate
|
DD
$3,200
[9]
The Denmark Strait lies between these 2 islands, one 20 times the size of the other
Greenland and Iceland
Faris
|
$1,000
[18]
The American Kennel Club breaks dogs down into 7 groups, including this one featuring the chihuahua & miniature pinscher
the toy group
Mary Kate
|
$1,000
[5]
Public TV station WGBH in this city has been airing the home renovation show "This Old House" since 1979
Boston
Faris
|
$1,000
[21]
In a 1975 thriller Gerald Seymour popularized the phrase "one man's terrorist is another man's" this
freedom fighter
Elana
|
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|
$400
[21]
The unstable J.K. Stephen was the son of England's main authority on this type of law dealing with theft, murder, etc.
criminal law
Faris
|
$400
[3]
Primrose Everdeen & Effie Trinket, in the action series' first offering
The Hunger Games
Faris
|
$400
[2]
Born 1 second into the year 1946, Kathleen Casey-Kirschling was the first kid in this huge wave
the baby boom
Elana
|
$400
[11]
This alliterative phrase meaning "to make simpler for those who know less" was used way back in 1927 about Hollywood
to dumb down
Elana
|
$400
[1]
"Full Rip 9.0" examines the signs & possibilities of the next big one of these in the western United States
an earthquake
Faris
|
$400
[27]
This word for hello! is the title of several books on basic French, including one that gives you help from Louis L'Escargot
bonjour
Elana
Faris
Mary Kate
|
|
$800
[22]
Richard Mansfield played the title roles in a stage version of this R.L. Stevenson tale at the time & was suspected
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Mary Kate
|
$800
[4]
In 1975:Ellen Brody & Quint, who has a war story to share
Jaws
Faris
|
$800
[8]
In 1945 Grand Rapids became the first city to do this to its drinking water, revolutionizing dental care
to fluoridate
Elana
|
$800
[12]
A standard message in Adobe Acrobat is "insufficient" these (it's a plural!) "for an image"
insufficient data
|
$800
[17]
A 65-million-year-old story is told in "Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became" these
birds
Elana
Faris
|
$800
[26]
As a grown man, le garcon is someone doing this job
the waiter
Elana
|
|
DD
$800
[25]
This 19th c. author has been looked at; later writers pitted his creation against the Ripper in books like 2009's "Dust and Shadow"
Arthur Conan Doyle
Mary Kate
|
$1,200
[5]
McLovin, hangin' with Officers Slater & Michaels
Superbad
Faris
|
$1,200
[9]
This edifice built for the War Dept. was intended to go back to civilian use after WWII, maybe as a very big hospital
the Pentagon
Mary Kate
|
$1,200
[13]
Donald Rumsfeld's 2002 phrase meaning "things we now know we don't know"
the known unknowns
Elana
|
$1,200
[18]
Many were turned on to physics as a career by 1947's "One Two Three..." this number you can't actually count to
infinity
Faris
|
$1,200
[28]
To us "faux pas" can mean all sorts of blunders, but to the French it's "false" this
a false step
|
|
$1,200
[23]
Prince Albert Victor, brother to the future V king of this name, died soon after the murders & was suspected
George
Mary Kate
|
$1,600
[6]
Ice Cube & Dr. Dre, on their rise to fame in a 2015 film
Straight Outta Compton
Faris
|
$1,600
[10]
Numerical name of the group from the West Coast that defied the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947
the Hollywood Ten
Elana
Mary Kate
|
$1,600
[14]
In 1910 the Supreme Court reinforced an old legal maxim, saying this 4-word phrase "does not excuse"
ignorance of the law
Faris
|
$1,600
[19]
Subtitled "The Plant That Changed the World" in John Gaudet's study, this species was first widely used in ancient Egypt
papyrus
Mary Kate
|
— |
|
$2,000
[24]
The graphic novel "From Hell" posits that William Gull, who served Queen Victoria in this capacity, was the Ripper
her doctor
Mary Kate
|
$2,000
[7]
Little Bill & Amber Waves, adults in adult film
Boogie Nights
Elana
|
DD
$2,000
[15]
On March 11, 1941 this alliterative act became law & let FDR transfer billions of dollars in supplies to foes of the Axis
the Lend-Lease Act
Faris
|
$2,000
[16]
This rather negative name of an 1850s political party referred to its members' response to keep its lodges secret
the Know-Nothings
Faris
|
$2,000
[20]
In 2013 this late physicist released an autobiography titled "My Brief History"
Stephen Hawking
Faris
|
— |
In the preface to a book of his stories, he thanks a herpetologist of upper India & an elephant named Bahadur Shah
Rudyard Kipling