Anne Cushman — a flight attendant from Denton, Texas
Conor McMahon — a museum curator from Rapid City, South Dakota
Jackie Fuchs — an attorney and writer from Los Angeles, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $34,089)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackie | $1,800 | $6,400 | $12,400 |
$24,600
3-day champion: $58,689 |
$12,400
15 R, 2 W |
| Conor | $3,000 | $4,000 | $12,000 |
$24,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,200
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Anne | $2,600 | $4,800 | $9,600 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,600
17 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| WHO DONE IT? | HOORAY FOR BOLLYWOOD! | CLOTHES MAKE THE IDIOM | ROALD DAHL | BODIES OF WATER | LIKES & RAVERS |
|
$200
[20]
Invented the lightning rod around 1750
Franklin
Jackie
|
$200
[29]
"Bollywood" is the Hindi-language film industry of this country
India
Anne
|
$200
[28]
If you're a generous person, you "would give" someone in need this, the jersey you're wearing
the shirt off your back
Anne
|
$200
[30]
This character "can make marshmallows that taste of violets"
Willy Wonka
Jackie
Conor
|
$200
[5]
This term for a quintet of bodies of water in North America is also used for a group in Africa
the Great Lakes
Anne
|
$200
[6]
In 2016 this social network sextupled the ways you can react to a posting, adding emojis to plain old "like"
Facebook
Anne
|
|
$400
[24]
Beat Bobby Riggs in 1973's tennis "Battle of the Sexes"
Billie Jean King
Jackie
Anne
|
$400
[19]
Full of gunfights & bandits, the Bollywood classic "Sholay" is called not a "spaghetti" but a "curry" one of these
a western
Conor
|
$400
[17]
Secretive plotting involves this pair of items, one a long garment & one a knife
cloak and dagger
Conor
|
$400
[11]
Roald Dahl wondered what if a cherry from one of this trees just kept growing bigger & bigger, inspiring this novel of his
James and the Giant Peach
Conor
|
$400
[1]
Around 1633 Rembrandt painted the Biblical scene "Storm on the Sea of" this
Galilee
Anne
|
$400
[7]
In 2017 Netflix went from a rating system using stars to a simpler one using these body parts
thumbs
Anne
|
|
$600
[23]
Wrote her autobiography "Lady Sings the Blues"
Billie Holiday
Jackie
|
$600
[27]
Raj Kapoor, star of "Awaara", or "The Tramp", was Bollywood's version of this silent comedian, also "The Tramp"
Chaplin
Jackie
|
$600
[16]
Discussing one's private problems in front of others is "airing" this "in public"
dirty laundry
Anne
|
$600
[12]
Wes Anderson made a stop-motion film based on this tale of a cunning animal who steals poultry from 3 mean farmers
Fantastic Mr. Fox
|
$800
[3]
Italy is surrounded by seas of the Mediterranean, including the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Ionian Sea &this one
the Adriatic Sea
Conor
|
$600
[8]
Jane Lynch leads a cast of comedians in an audiobook reading funny review from this shopping site
Amazon
Anne
|
|
$800
[22]
First proposed a temperature scale that begins at absolute zero
Lord Kelvin
Jackie
|
$800
[26]
In 1946 "Neecha Nagar" shared the Grand Prix at the first of this French city's annual festivals
Cannes
Anne
|
$800
[14]
To make money solely for oneself & perhaps dishonestly is to "line" these
your pockets
Jackie
|
$800
[13]
Roald co-wrote the script for this 1968 musical film about a magical flying car
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Anne
|
DD
$1,000
[2]
This misleadingly named body of water is landlocked by Russia, Kazakhstan & 3 other nations
the Caspian Sea
Anne
|
$800
[9]
This 4-letter site suggests detailing your favorite dishes when writing restaurant reviews on it
Yelp
Conor
|
|
$1,000
[21]
Designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial when she was 21
Maya Lin
Jackie
|
$1,000
[25]
Like Brando, 1940s & '50s Bollywood star Dilip Kumar pioneered this naturalistic acting style
method acting
Jackie
|
$1,000
[15]
To understand another, try "walking a mile" in these soft leather shoes
moccasins
Anne
|
$1,000
[18]
By the time she begins school at age 5, this title girl is reading Charles Dickens & Rudyard Kipling
Matilda
Jackie
|
$1,000
[4]
The Southern or Antarctic Ocean is narrowest at the 600-mile wide Drake Passage between these 2 continents
Antarctica and South America
Conor
|
$1,000
[10]
Online, "h/t" is short for these 2 words, a way to express gratitude with your homburg or fedora
hat tip
Jackie
|
| AMERICAN HELICOPTER MUSEUM | TREES | NO. 1 SONGS | 4th CENTURY BOOKSTORE | IMPOSSIBLE WORDS | DO YOU COMPUTE? |
|
$400
[1]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, Pennsylvania.) Remote-controlled by radar, the torpedo-carrying Gyrodyne QH-50C was used in the 1960s as an anti-submarine weapon, making it one of the first of these now-ubiquitous unmanned vehicles
a drone
Conor
|
$400
[20]
Queen & California fan are 2 species of this tree, an iconic symbol of Beverly Hills
a palm
Jackie
|
$400
[24]
She covered "I Will Always Love You" for "The Bodyguard" soundtrack
Whitney Houston
Conor
|
$400
[22]
"Hymns on Paradise" by Ephrem the Syrian includes commentary on this book of the Bible in which paradise is lost
Genesis
Jackie
|
$800
[15]
"As crooked as a dog's hind leg", for example
a simile
|
$1,600
[23]
The parents of this World Wide Web inventor AKA "TimBL" both worked on the first commercial computer
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
|
|
$800
[2]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, Pennsylvania.) With a fearsome armament that could include rockets, missiles, cannons, a Gatling gun & more, it's no wonder the "A" in the name of Army's Bell AH-1 Cobra stands for this, its primary mission
attack
Anne
|
$800
[19]
The tree called this bat willow provides the best wood to protect your wicket
cricket
Conor
Anne
|
$1,200
[6]
"No One" was a No. 1 hit forher
Alicia Keys
Jackie
|
$800
[21]
A popular romance inspired by a story in the Mahabharata, "Shakuntala" is a revered drama in this language
Sanskrit
Jackie
|
$1,200
[12]
What you give a pursuer you elude
the slip
Anne
|
DD
$5,000
[25]
A computer acting under a hacker's control is called a zombie or this, & a group of them is a zombie army or this "net"
a bot
Conor
|
|
$1,200
[3]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, Pennsylvania.) Able to take off & land vertically & fly like a conventional airplane, thetiltrotor Ospreywas the product of a long & controversial development process, inspired by the failure of Navy helicopters during the aborted 1980 hostage rescue in this country
Iran
Conor
|
$1,200
[16]
Thetree& theitemseen here share this name
a wingnut
Conor
|
$1,600
[7]
She cowrote & sang "Call Me Maybe"
Carly Jepsen
Jackie
Anne
|
$1,200
[9]
Chrysostom's book about parenting says don't overdo this: "Threaten (a child) with the tawse, but do not lay it on"
beating a child
|
$1,600
[13]
In March 2017 the last of a fabled fleet of these was deflated
blimps
Conor
|
— |
|
$1,600
[4]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, Pennsylvania.) Nicknamed the "Receiver", the Piasecki PV-14 saved hundreds of lives in search & rescue operations, and in 1962, one lifted this Friendship 7 pilot from his pickup ship to a waiting aircraft carrier
John Glenn
Anne
|
$2,000
[18]
(Alex presents from the Galapagos Islands.) These trees that provide shelter for many coast-dwelling animals have adapted with an open-air root system with lots of pores to capture the oxygen they don't get from the muddy water they grow in
mangroves
Conor
|
$2,000
[8]
Her '90s No. 1s include "Dreamlover" & "One Sweet Day"
Mariah Carey
|
$1,600
[10]
"Soliloquies" is a collection of the inner dialogues of this saint of Hippo
Augustine
Jackie
|
$2,000
[14]
Border land for Homer & Ovid in Dante's circles
Limbo
|
— |
|
$2,000
[5]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, Pennsylvania.) One of the earliest production helicopters, the S-51, got the "S" in its name from this Russian-American designer & helicopter pioneer
(Igor) Sikorsky
Anne
|
DD
$3,000
[17]
This is the better-known Genus & species name of the maidenhair tree, used in Chinese medicine to boost memory
Gingko biloba
Conor
|
— |
$2,000
[11]
A biography by Athanasius tells of the lures set by the devil, known ever since as this "of St. Anthony"
The Temptations of St. Anthony
|
— | — |
The 1st segment of this was dedicated on July 4, 1930; the next, August 30, 1936; section 3, on September 17, 1937 & the last, on July 2, 1939
Mt. Rushmore