Karen Gieger — an accountant and mom from Mobile, Alabama
Will Dawson — a tour guide from Washington, D.C.
Meghan Schulz — an environmental engineer from Bristol, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $27,190)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meghan | $4,400 | $4,200 | $16,300 |
$31,100
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,200
23 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W |
| Will | $1,600 | $6,600 | $17,000 |
$32,601
New champion: $32,601 |
$15,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Karen | $1,200 | $2,600 | $11,800 |
$16,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,800
13 R, 1 W |
| WHAT A DAD WANTS | STAMPS | 5-LETTER "W"ORDS | SHE'S GOT AWAY | NEW YORK STATE OF MIND | BILLY JOEL |
|
$200
[1]
Sometimes a dad just wants to get a dog, & this breed here, developed in the 1800s, can be your new best pal
a golden retriever
Meghan
|
$200
[21]
A pioneer of deaf studies, Robert Panara is showing "respect" in this language on a 2-ounce stamp
American Sign Language
Karen
|
$200
[22]
A thin, crisp cookie
a wafer
Meghan
|
$200
[14]
One of the most daring escapes from this condition was in 1848 by Ellen Craft, posing as the master of her real-life husband
slavery
Meghan
|
$200
[4]
Resort village on Otsego Lake that's home to the Baseball Hall of Fame
Cooperstown
Will
|
$200
[3]
An L.A. bar gig in the '70s inspired Billy to write this song
"Piano Man"
Meghan
|
|
$400
[2]
Dad's hungry! But on his own terms, opting for Wingstreet Chicken Wings at this chain instead of its title fare
Pizza Hut
Will
|
$400
[27]
This cartoon canine appeared on a 2018 stamp to highlight his "Doo Good" campaign
Scooby-Doo
Will
|
$400
[23]
To gamble
to wager
Karen
|
$400
[15]
In 1568 she made a daring escape from Lochleven Castle, where she'd been a prisoner for almost a year
Mary, Queen of Scots
Will
|
$400
[12]
It was a capital idea to found Albany on the banks of this river
the Hudson
Will
|
$400
[5]
In 2018 a banner honoring the 50th show of Billy's residency at this arena was raised into its rafters
Madison Square Garden
Meghan
|
|
$600
[9]
Hey Dad, check out the view atop Diamond Headon this island that also has the state capital
Oahu
Meghan
Will
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
A musician plays a guitar, exemplifying the Delta blues, on the stamp honoring its 200th anniversary of statehood
Mississippi
Will
|
$600
[24]
The pattern of a fabric, such as herringbone
weave
Meghan
|
$600
[16]
After her uncle Salvador was assassinated in Chile in 1973, she fled to Venezuela & later became an author
Isabel Allende
Will
|
$600
[13]
The atrium seenhereis in the New York City building named for this man--because of his finance news service, not his mayordom
Bloomberg
Karen
|
$600
[6]
Thistender song was Billy's first U.S. Top 10 hit
"Just The Way You Are"
Karen
|
|
$800
[10]
Wanna play this Hasbro board game, Dad? It has tuition loans & insurance policies! Total escapism for you, right?!
The Game of Life
Will
|
— |
$800
[25]
Old-timey word for a working-class girl, perhaps a "serving" one
a wench
Karen
|
$800
[17]
Love was rough on this medieval pair:their affair exposed, he fled to a convent & he was castrated & became a monk
Abelard and Heloise
Meghan
|
$800
[19]
Some say this word applies to anything north of the Bronx; it's the name of a medical college in Syracuse
upstate
Meghan
|
$800
[7]
In 2009 Billy headed back out on the road for a "Face 2 Face" tour with this other legend of the 88 keys
Elton John
Meghan
|
|
$1,000
[11]
Hey, Dad! That back 40 ain't gonna plow itself! Perhaps a plow from this maker might help! He created his first one in 1837
John Deere
Meghan
|
— |
$1,000
[26]
A hoist
a winch
|
$1,000
[18]
After Claudius died, he got tired of having his mom Agrippina as regent & tried to drown her, but she got away
Nero
Will
|
$1,000
[20]
This Finger Lakes city shares a name with the home of Odysseus
Ithaca
Meghan
Will
|
$1,000
[8]
This song mentions, among many others, "Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac"
"We Didn't Start The Fire"
Meghan
|
| BETTER CALL PAUL | CITIES THROUGH TIME | SULFUR | MO"V"IES | RELIGIOUS LITERATURE | ANAGRAM PAIRS |
|
$400
[19]
This folklore legend got his first big press in early 20th century pamphlets promoting the Red River Lumber Co.
Paul Bunyan
Karen
|
$400
[10]
A brief civil war took place in this capital after Finland declared independence from Russia in 1917
Helsinki
Meghan
|
$400
[2]
Paired with "fire", this is the Biblical name for sulfur
brimstone
Meghan
Karen
|
$400
[1]
"Acrophobia" might've been a more accurate title for this 1958 Jimmy Stewart film
Vertigo
Meghan
|
$400
[7]
Dante's "Divine Comedy" is divided into 3 parts: this one is followed by "Purgatorio" & "Paradiso"
Inferno
Will
|
$400
[9]
Wept & an apple beverage
cider & cried
Meghan
|
|
$800
[20]
Actor Paul Winchell, voice of this bouncy pal of Pooh, was also an inventor who patented an artificial heart
Tigger
Meghan
|
$800
[11]
Before 1918 Guangzhou was known by this name; a Chinese language still reminds us of it
Canton
Meghan
|
$800
[17]
Louisiana & this neighbor together produce more than half of the sulfur in the United States
Texas
Meghan
Will
|
$800
[3]
Reese Witherspoon played Becky Sharp in Mira Nair's 2004 film of this Thackeray novel
Vanity Fair
Meghan
|
$800
[8]
A poem by Richmond Lattimore titled this holiday says, "Our April is the lamb who died / to paint the year in tones of pride"
"Easter"
Meghan
|
$800
[21]
Belted out a tune & to catch & tear stockings
sang & snag
Meghan
|
|
$1,200
[25]
Preventing government overreach & overspending are concerns ofhis
Rand Paul
Will
|
$1,200
[12]
A team name came from this word that preceded "67" in the name of a 1967 Montreal happening
Expos
Will
|
$1,600
[28]
The amount of sulfur present determines the grade of this lamp fuel
kerosene (or butane)
Will
Karen
|
$1,200
[4]
The title of this Tom Cruise drama about a plot to kill Hitler comes from Norse myth
Valkyrie
Karen
|
$1,200
[13]
This wife of Abraham is the first subject in Orson Scott Card's "Women of Genesis" series
Sarah
Will
|
$1,600
[23]
True blue & a substance composed of 2 or more metals
alloy & loyal
Meghan
Will
Karen
|
|
$1,600
[26]
In 2011 Paul Allen's memoir "Idea Man" looked at the rise of this tech co. that made Paul a billionaire
Microsoft
Meghan
|
$1,600
[14]
In 1535 Lima was founded by Pizarro as Ciudad de los Reyes, meaning this
City of Kings
Will
Karen
|
$2,000
[29]
There's more sulfur than iron in this mineral, AKA fool's gold
iron pyrite
Karen
|
$1,600
[5]
Like, oh my God, the Galleria would be a gnarly place to watch this 1983 movie with Nicolas Cage romancing a young So. Cal. gal
Valley Girl
Karen
|
$1,600
[15]
In addition to his books featuring talking lions, this author also wrote "Out of the Silent Planet", a book of religious sci-fi
C.S. Lewis
Meghan
|
$2,000
[24]
ASAP & a positively charged subatomic particle
proton & pronto
Will
Karen
|
|
$2,000
[30]
A civil rights activist, actor & singer, hebecame famous with his version of "Ol' Man River" from "Show Boat"
Paul Robeson
Will
|
$2,000
[16]
About 1,000 years ago, Casablanca was a village of these double-talk people
the Berbers
|
DD
$3,000
[27]
Before it meant "to add sulfur to rubber", this verb just meant "to burn"
to vulcanize
Meghan
|
$2,000
[6]
There's a Spanish city in the title of this 2008 Woody Allen flm
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Will
|
$2,000
[18]
In Chaim Potok's "My Name is Asher Lev" an artist tries to balance life in this pious Jewish movement with his imagination
Hasidic Judaism
Will
|
DD
$3,500
[22]
Japan's capital, now & then
Tokyo & Kyoto
Meghan
|
For a while in the 1840s, the French wanted to name this new discovery "Le Verrier" & the British wanted "Oceanus"
Neptune