Joan Dietrich — a Montessori teacher from Sammamish, Washington
Sean Thompson — a library assistant from Quispamsis, New Brunswick, Canada
Jill Regan — an auditor from Dedham, Massachusetts (whose 2-day cash winnings total $51,602)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jill | $3,200 | $5,200 | $13,600 |
$4,799
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Sean | $2,600 | $11,000 | $21,200 |
$15,199
2nd place: $2,000 |
$16,600
25 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| Joan | $2,000 | $2,400 | $11,200 |
$21,300
New champion: $21,300 |
$11,200
12 R, 3 W |
| HOPE YOU'VE BEEN STUDYING! | BRUSHED UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE | MAYBE SOME OSCAR WINNERS | DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS | THE PRESIDENTS, OF COURSE | & EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD |
|
$200
[26]
If you practiced "chunking" groups of words, you were probably trying your hand (& eyes) at speed this
reading
Jill
|
$200
[12]
In a "seasonal" play, young Mamillius tells us, "A sad tale's best for" this season
A Winter's Tale
Sean
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$200
[4]
After his win for "Wall Street", he thanked dad Kirk for helping him step out of Dad's shadow
Michael Douglas
Joan
|
$200
[1]
One of the 7 deadly sins, it's excessive eating & drinking
gluttony
Jill
|
$200
[11]
President of more than 1.3 billion, Xi Jinping is also general secretary of this party
the Chinese Communist Party
Sean
|
$200
[17]
The Spotted Cheetah was a 2017 pop-up restaurant with dishes like chicken Milanese incorporating this Frito-Lay snack
Cheetos
Sean
Joan
|
|
$400
[27]
If you can tell a Mindoro hornbill from a Eurasian wigeon, you've really done your homework in this -ology
ornithology
Jill
|
$400
[13]
This villain says, "Now, sir, be judge yourself whether I in any just term am affined to love the Moor"
Iago
Sean
|
$400
[5]
He won an Oscar for his turn as Winston Churchill in "Darkest Hour"
Gary Oldman
Jill
|
$400
[2]
Monarch, a word for a king or queen, is also slang for this old British coin meaning a monarch
a sovereign
Jill
Joan
|
$400
[20]
Vicente Fox was the first president of this country since 1929 not to represent the P.R.I. party
Mexico
Jill
|
$400
[18]
In the 1980s, Canadian polymer company executive Steve Hartman made summer more fun by inventing this
a (pool) noodle
Jill
|
|
$600
[28]
Are you ready to write this in-depth treatment of a subject, from Latin for "discuss", & get your doctorate?
a dissertation
Jill
Sean
|
$600
[14]
In "The Merry Wives of Windsor", this comic character courts both Mistress Ford & Mistress Page
Falstaff
Jill
|
$600
[6]
Mahershala Ali won an Oscar for this 2016 film that won Best Picture...eventually
Moonlight
Jill
|
$600
[3]
7-letter word for a precociously talented child
a prodigy
Joan
|
$600
[21]
In recent years Dilma Rousseff of Brazil & Cristina Kirchner of this neighboring nation left office under a cloud of scandal
Argentina
Sean
|
$600
[19]
During this mammal's hibernation, its heart rate slows from 75 bpm to 5 but could get faster on Feb. 2
a groundhog
Joan
|
|
$800
[29]
Studied Indian history? You know the 1857 revolt known as the Sepoy this type of rebellion against superior officers
a mutiny
Sean
|
$800
[15]
These scaredy-cats "die many times before their deaths", says Julius Caesar
a coward
Sean
|
$800
[8]
This lyricist named Oscar won 2, for Best Song in "Lady Be Good" & "State Fair"
(Oscar) Hammerstein
Joan
|
$800
[7]
The probably course & outcome of a disease
prognosis
Joan
|
$1,000
[23]
Harsh policies toward drug dealers have led to condemnation for Rodrigo Duterte, president of this country
the Philippines
Sean
|
$800
[24]
Hislife was quieter working in the Justice department's tax division than it was as Deputy Attorney General in 2018
Rosenstein
Sean
|
|
$1,000
[30]
If you've been hanging in the library, you'll sing the praises of this enclosed private cubicle
a carrel
Sean
|
$1,000
[16]
In "Much Ado About Nothing", she & Benedick carry on a "merry war"
Beatrice
Sean
|
$1,000
[9]
For 1993 Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" won 3 technical Oscars & this other film of his won Best Picture
Schindler's List
Jill
|
$1,000
[10]
It is "a quarrel or squabble" as well as a plant of the buckwheat family "used in making pies"
a rhubarb
Sean
|
DD
$3,600
[22]
Ex-candy factory owner Petro Poroshenko leads this nation dealing with Russia & rebellion in its east
Ukraine
Sean
|
$1,000
[25]
Last name of Maria & Marjorie, sisters of Osage descent who danced in different Ballets Russes in 1946
the Tallchief sisters
|
| RECENT TV | VALLEYS | STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS | FRENCH MUSIC ABOUT SPAIN | FLYING CARS? | SPELLEMENTS |
|
$400
[2]
Crackle's "Supermansion" has this "Breaking Bad" star voice Titanium Rex, leader of the League of Freedom
Bryan Cranston
Sean
|
$400
[4]
AKA "Happy Valley", it's the valley where Penn State sits; its athletic teams' name provides a hint
the Nittany Valley
Sean
|
$400
[9]
A ceremony for naming an infant or launching a ship
a christening
Sean
|
$400
[15]
Emmanuel Chabrier traveled through Spain in 1882 & titled this work after what Spaniards call their country
"España"
Sean
|
$400
[17]
Lamborghini's Reventonwas inspired by the F-22 Raptor, this kind of fighter designed to evade detection
a stealth fighter
Jill
|
$400
[1]
C
C-A-R-B-O-N
Sean
|
|
$800
[3]
On HBO Camille Preaker, a reporter played by this multi-Oscar nominee, must be careful of "Sharp Objects"
Amy Adams
Sean
|
$800
[5]
In odd-numbered years, Australia's Barossa Valley holds a festival for this, a major product of the region
wine
Sean
|
$800
[10]
An adjective in the Boy Scout law, it means not wasteful with money
thrifty
Joan
|
$800
[16]
Claude Debussy titled this work after the peninsula where Spain is located
the "Iberian" peninsula
Joan
|
$800
[21]
The U.S. Air Force show squadron rolled off the assembly line in 1953; the popular Fords, a year later
the Thunderbird
Sean
|
$800
[11]
Cl
C-H-L-O-R-I-N-E
Sean
|
|
$1,200
[23]
Title last name of Christine, an Emmy-winning role for Louie Anderson
Baskets
Sean
|
$1,200
[6]
We're off to the valley in California named for this succulent
a yucca
|
$1,200
[12]
Before adapting "A Few Good Men", Aaron Sorkin said not only had he never written one of these, he'd never read one
a screenplay
Jill
|
$1,600
[19]
Massenet's opera about this medieval Spanish hero premiered in 1885 with "Le", not "El", in the title
El Cid
Joan
|
$1,200
[22]
GM added "Le" to the name of the F-86 fighter jet to get the name of this Buick model
LeSabre
Joan
|
$1,200
[20]
Cd
C-A-D-M-I-U-M
Sean
Joan
|
|
$1,600
[24]
Disgraced L.A. lawyer Billy McBride has some "huge" issues to deal with on this Amazon show
Goliath
|
$1,600
[7]
Lotsa fuming fumaroles populate the Alaska region known as the Valley of Ten Thousand these
smokes
Sean
|
$1,600
[13]
As a noun, it can be a small strip of paper; as a verb, it's slang for rocking out on your guitar
shred
Sean
|
$2,000
[27]
Lalo's "Symphonie Espagnole" uses the rhythm of this Cuban dance that's also a famous aria in "Carmen"
the habanera
|
$1,600
[26]
To Dodge, it's a minivan; to Cessna, it's a turboprop; in the desert, it's a group of travelers
a Caravan
Joan
|
— |
|
$2,000
[25]
"3 things Titus Andromedon does not do" on this Netflix show--"apologies, drag & calculus"
the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Sean
|
DD
$3,800
[8]
Once part of Thebes, this valley was the burial site of many Egyptian pharaohs of the 18th, 19th & 20th dynasties
the Valley of the Kings
Sean
|
$2,000
[14]
From the Latin for "opening a vein", it's a medical removal of blood as a therapeutic treatment
a phlebotomy
Joan
|
DD
$6,800
[18]
Maurice Ravel's Basque mother gave him a fondness for Spain most famously expressed in this 1928 work
"Bolero"
Jill
|
$2,000
[28]
Giovanni Michelotti designed the Spitfire, a real winner in the '60s for this British car brand
Triumph
Joan
|
— |
One of her circle described her as "a lacy sleeve with a bottle of vitriol concealed in its folds"
Dorothy Parker