Kathryn Kienholz — a retired CPA from Milltown, Wisconsin
Heath Herel — a ScrumMaster from Niantic, Connecticut
Jon Barber — an investment professional from San Francisco, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,999)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jon | $2,400 | $3,400 | $6,800 |
$4,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Heath | $5,000 | $7,600 | $10,800 |
$15,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,800
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Kathryn | $600 | $4,600 | $13,000 |
$22,000
New champion: $22,000 |
$13,000
16 R, 2 W |
| CONFUSING LYRICS | AIRPORT CODES | ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE | STUCK ON EWE | "GLASS" WORKS | BOWL GAME SPONSORS |
|
$200
[16]
"With the lights out, it's less dangerous" is a cryptic refrain from their "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Nirvana
Heath
|
$200
[11]
LGA
LaGuardia
Heath
|
$200
[1]
She was First Lady from 1989 to 1993
Barbara Bush
Kathryn
|
$200
[20]
It's the 2-word name for the large ancient & medieval weapon used to break down walls & doors
battering ram
Kathryn
|
$200
[6]
Roger Bacon is thought to have designed this type of single convex lens used to produce an enlarged image
magnifying glass
Heath
|
$200
[26]
This big-in-the-'80s video rental chain started its own bowl, but after 4 years, Carquest drove over it
Blockbuster
Heath
|
|
$400
[17]
"Don't touch me please, I cannot stand the way you tease", warns this Soft Cell song, then a few "touch me, baby"s
"Tainted Love"
|
$400
[12]
CDG, non?
Charles de Gaulle
Jon
|
$400
[2]
From 1934 to 1971 this noted photographer was a director of the Sierra Club
Ansel Adams
Jon
|
$400
[21]
A phrase meaning dividing the worthy from the unworthy is "separating the sheep from" these other ruminants
goats
Jon
|
$400
[7]
A symbol in computing to indicate something is busy, or an old-time device using sand to measure time
hourglass
Heath
|
$400
[27]
This theme park first sponsored the Holiday Bowl in 1986 but Shamu would swim off, replaced by Thrifty Car Rental
SeaWorld
Heath
|
|
$600
[18]
In this Stephen Foster song, "it rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry, the sun so hot I froze to death"
"Oh! Susanna"
Kathryn
|
$600
[13]
BOM, not MUM, serves this Asian city
Mumbai (or Bombay)
Heath
|
$600
[3]
Prior to March 6, 1964, Muhammad Ali had this name
Cassius Clay
Jon
|
$600
[22]
This 1996 film starred Chris Farley as the title member of the family who causes embarrassment
Black Sheep
Jon
|
$600
[8]
An unofficial barrier to advancement for women & minorities
the glass ceiling
Kathryn
|
$600
[28]
After Mazda & Toyota drove off, the Gator Bowl got in the Flo with this insurance company but that didn't last, either
Progressive
Kathryn
|
|
$800
[19]
Borrowing from Hamlet, Nick Lowe sang, "you've gotta be cruel to be" this
kind
Kathryn
|
$800
[14]
It makes me loco that this aeropuerto is MAD
Madrid
Kathryn
|
$800
[4]
Heproduced several hit movies in the 1930s and broke speed records, piloting airplanes of his own design
Howard Hughes
Heath
|
$800
[23]
Here's Greek hero Jason seizing this prizeditem
the Golden Fleece
Heath
|
$800
[9]
We'd guess it's what Lewis Carroll called the thing he faced while shaving
a looking glass
Heath
|
$800
[29]
Sponsor-wise, the former St. Petersburg Bowl had magic Jack, Beef 'O' Brady's, ESPN & this digital currency
Bitcoin
Kathryn
|
|
$1,000
[25]
This "boozy" Oasis tune has the line "slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball"
"Champagne Supernova"
|
$1,000
[15]
BWI--these 2 cities are the B & the W
Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
Heath
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
In 1778 he was made President of the Continental Congress; in 1789, he was made Chief Justice of the United States
John Jay
Heath
|
$1,000
[24]
One of his "Songs of Innocence" asks, "little lamb, who made thee?"
William Blake
Kathryn
|
$1,000
[10]
A type of lizard with no limbs is incorrectly called this
glass snake
Jon
Kathryn
|
$1,000
[30]
In 2018 the Bay Area's Foster Farms Bowl was renamed for this company with video rental kiosks everywhere
Redbox
Heath
|
| ON THE HEAVENLY BODY | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS | SEND LAWYERS, GUNS & MONEY | NEWER WORDS | ALMOST PRESIDENT | INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT? |
|
$400
[19]
Schiaparelli Crater--where Mark Watney was headed
Mars
Heath
|
$400
[9]
His "Green Hills of Africa" is an account of big game hunting in Tanganyika in the 1930s
Hemingway
Kathryn
|
$400
[14]
At least 17 indictments & 5 guilty pleas were in by May 17, 2018, one year after he became Special Counsel
Mueller
Heath
|
$400
[3]
Using a breaking story to market your product is called " news " -this; no vehicle theft involved
newsjacking
Heath
|
$400
[28]
Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote in 1876, but lost to Hayes in this body that really counts
the Electoral College
Heath
|
$400
[24]
In this 1974 film Hollis Mulwray is partly based on William Mulholland, a real-life L.A. water engineer
Chinatown
Jon
|
|
$800
[20]
Caloris Montes, aka Heat's Mountains on this planet
Mercury
Jon
|
$800
[10]
"The Times They Are A-Changin"', from his 1964 album of the same name, became an instant anthem
Bob Dylan
Heath
|
$800
[15]
Last names of the 2 men who partnered up in Springfield, Mass. to make "tip-up" revolvers in the 1850s
Smith & Wesson
Heath
|
$800
[4]
This "alert" means warning: I'm about to give away the plot
spoiler alert
Jon
|
$800
[23]
This man's wife prevented him from resigning despite a stroke, leaving veep Thomas Marshall to only dream
Woodrow Wilson
Jon
Kathryn
|
$1,200
[25]
George Clooney tries to kill, then tries to save Prince Nasir in this 2005 film about oil & greed
Syriana
Jon
Kathryn
|
|
$1,200
[21]
An asteroid--Don Juan & Cupid
Eros
|
$1,200
[11]
Shepenned "Fighting Angel," a biography of her father, Absalom Sydenstricker, a missionary in China
Pearl Buck
|
$1,200
[16]
There's a daily 2:00 gunfight reenactment at this historic site in Tombstone, Arizona
O.K. Corral
Heath
Kathryn
|
$1,200
[1]
Dating back to the 1930s, Antifa is short for this
anti-fascist
Jon
|
$1,600
[7]
Harding's pick for running mate was Sen. Irvine Lenroot of Wisconsin, but the 1920 convention chose this man
Coolidge
Kathryn
|
$1,600
[26]
Boston, not a Mideast country, was the setting for this series with Jill Hennessy as a crusading medical examiner
Crossing Jordan
Kathryn
|
|
$1,600
[22]
A moon of Jupiter--Pele volcano
Io
Jon
|
DD
$2,000
[12]
This "colorful" Toni Morrison work follows a black girl's struggle to achieve white ideals of beauty
The Bluest Eye
Heath
|
$1,600
[17]
Courtney B. Vance won an Emmy in 2016 for playing this defense lawyer for O.J. Simpson
Johnnie Cochran
Heath
|
$1,600
[2]
This word used to describe the "seismic" influx of young British voters was Oxford Dictionaries' 2017 word of the year
youthquake
Jon
Heath
|
$2,000
[8]
Had this New England senator and orator won the White House in 1836, we be the would have given quite an inaugural
Daniel Webster
Kathryn
|
$2,000
[27]
Jessica Lange's first Best Actress nomination came for this film in which she portrayed a Hollywood legend
Frances
|
|
$2,000
[29]
A planetoid--Burney Crater, named for the little girl who named the planetoid
Pluto
|
$2,000
[13]
The 2nd & 3rd books in Faulkner's trilogy about this family were published almost 2 decades after the first
the Snopes family
|
$2,000
[18]
Even a withered, witchlike old woman could use this coin of Denmark, equal to 100 ore
a krone
Kathryn
|
$2,000
[5]
Originally a Twitter joke, a "milkshake" this fowl describes a viral darling whose dark past quickly appears
duck
|
DD
$3,800
[6]
Because he held this job in 1973, Carl Albert would have been Pres. had Nixon resigned before a new veep was confirmed
Speaker of the House
Jon
|
— |
At 3,700 miles, the longest ocean trench is named for these 2 nations that share most of South America's Pacific coast
Chile and Peru