Bif Reiser — a mathematician from Portland, Oregon
Bryan Coyle — a high school English teacher from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Will Dawson — a tour guide from Washington, D.C. (whose 3-day cash winnings total $70,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Will | $4,000 | $6,000 | $13,200 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$13,200
19 R, 2 W |
| Bryan | $600 | $3,400 | $14,000 |
$500
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Bif | $4,200 | $7,800 | $20,200 |
$28,001
New champion: $28,001 |
$19,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| APPLE PIE ORDER | HISTORIC FAMILIES | MEASURE FOR MEASURE | MOVIE QUOTES | WHAT WE HAVE HERE | FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE |
|
$200
[17]
I'll have mine with ice cream--this way, s'il vous plait
à la mode
Bryan
|
$200
[6]
Considered American royalty, this family would include senators, an attorney general, an ambassador & a president
the Kennedys
Will
|
$200
[9]
In England a "long" one of these is equal to 2,240 pounds
a long ton
Bif
|
$200
[1]
"I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank pina coladas...why couldn't I get that day over & over?"
Groundhog Day
Bryan
|
$200
[14]
Burundi might be a good place to open a mint, as it's rich in this element that gave its name to a U.S. coin
nickel
Will
|
$200
[22]
"Hamlet" uses this verb meaning to talk nonsense; adding -ish to it makes it a nonsense language
gibber
Bryan
|
|
$400
[18]
I'll take one from this chain, though as I recall it tasted better before they went from fried to baked in 1992
McDonald's
Will
|
$400
[7]
This famous family from Florence included Popes Leo X & Clement VII & Catherine, mother of 3 French kings
the Medicis
Bryan
|
$600
[11]
A gallon is equal to 3.785 of these liquid metric units
a liter
Bif
|
$400
[2]
"Donny was a good bowler. And a good man"
The Big Lebowski
Will
|
$400
[25]
Ilam is a tea-growing center of this mountainous country between India & Tibet
Nepal
Bryan
|
$400
[23]
These homophones, 1 from Genesis & 1 not, both mean a confused assortment of sounds
Babel/babble
Bryan
|
|
$600
[19]
You can have this "apple" pie made with Ritz crackers; I'll have the real thing
mock apple pie
|
$600
[8]
It's been estimate that one in 200 men are direct descendants of this Mongol ruler & grandfather of Kublai
Genghis Khan
Bif
|
$800
[12]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows two thermometers on the monitor.) To convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit, multiply the Celsius reading times 1.8 & then add this number
32
Bif
|
$600
[3]
Oscar's Best Picture of 2000:"At my signal, unleash hell"
Gladiator
Will
|
$600
[28]
Need a good scrubbing? The volcanic islands of American Samoa are rich in this porous rock
pumice
Bif
|
$600
[24]
This rhyming phrase for meaningless ritual ends with the name of an elephant owned by P.T. Barnum
mumbo-jumbo
Will
|
|
$800
[20]
Gimme this alliterative "feminine" dessert, crustless pie with apples & brown sugar
apple brown betty
Bryan
|
$800
[15]
This patriot & founding father was a second cousin of the second president
Sam Adams
Will
|
DD
$1,000
[10]
A quadrant is a unit of circular measure equal to this many degrees
90
Bif
|
$800
[4]
Spoken by Allison Williams in 2017:"You know I can't give you the keys, right, babe?"
Get Out
Will
|
$800
[29]
Botswana has some of the world's largest "pipes" of these, the country's major economic resource
diamonds
|
$800
[26]
On Pentecost, the apostles received this ability AKA glossolalia that may baffle some onlookers
speaking in tongues
Bryan
|
|
$1,000
[21]
Pasadena's Pie 'n Burger will serve you this "national" apple pie with a crumbly streusel topping
Dutch apple pie
Will
|
$1,000
[16]
Due to inbreeding, King Charles IIof Spain had a prominent jaw, like other members of this European royal family
the Hapsburgs
Bif
|
$1,000
[13]
Like the shifting sands of time, there are 437.5 of these weight units to an ounce
grains
Bif
|
$1,000
[5]
About a drummer at "the Isle of Lucy Jazz and Blues Festival...it was tragic, really. He exploded on stage"
This is Spinal Tap
Will
|
$1,000
[30]
You'll find plenty of bananas & coffee in this largest Central American country by area
Nicaragua
Bif
|
$1,000
[27]
Change the first 3 letters in "jumbled" to get this word for a message that's so jumbled its meaning is lost
garbled
Bif
|
| WWF | INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES | GOOD FELLOWS | WOMEN OF THE BIBLE | NAME THE COMPOSER | "SOCK" IT TO ME |
|
$400
[7]
Thesnow leopardis facing the loss of its habitat in this Asian range that includes the highest mountains in the world
the Himalayas
Will
|
$400
[11]
With its main store at Broadway & 12th Street, Strand Books in this city boasts "18 miles of books"
New York
Bryan
|
$400
[1]
They're close allies; it's said that "politics makes strange" ones
bedfellows
Bryan
|
$400
[27]
This queen arrives in Jerusalem packing spices, gold & gems & sets out to test the wisdom of King Solomon
the Queen of Sheba
Will
|
$400
[4]
With Tim Rice, "Don't Cry For Me Argentina"
(Andrew Lloyd) Webber
Will
|
$400
[25]
In a 1969 video Jim Henson shows kids how to make a simple one of these
a sock puppet
Bryan
|
|
$800
[19]
A census of 18 countries revealed a 30% drop in the population of these mammals, mostly the result of poaching for the ivory trade
elephants
Bif
|
$800
[12]
The square in Square Books is in this Mississippi college town where William Faulkner lived
Oxford
Bif
|
$1,200
[3]
AKA Poputchiks, fellow travelers were writers Leon Trotsky considered to be neutral about this 1917
the Russian Revolution
Will
|
$800
[26]
In Luke 2 Simeon tells her that her "child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel"
Mary
Bif
|
$800
[5]
Of the score for "Jurassic Park"
(John) Williams
Bryan
|
$1,200
[22]
From 1965, this popular Dr. Seuss work includes the line "Knox in box"
Fox in Socks
Will
Bryan
|
|
$1,200
[14]
Extinct on mainland Australia, this marsupial is now found only on the island in its name
Tasmanian devils
Will
|
$1,200
[16]
Co-founded in S.F. by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, this bookstore says it was the first to sell only paperbacks
City Lights
Bryan
|
$1,600
[6]
Someone with "FRS" after his name is a fellow of this British science group
the Royal Society
Bif
|
$1,200
[28]
This festival honors Esther, a Jewish queen of Persia who saved Jews from the plotting of the evil Haman
Purim
Bryan
|
$1,200
[8]
Of "Fig Leaf Rag" & "The Ragtime Dance"
Scott Joplin
Will
|
$1,600
[21]
Thisred swimmer of the northern Pacific coast can navigate 1,000 miles upriver to spawn
a sockeye
Bif
|
|
$1,600
[13]
The World Wildlife Fund is working to double the number of these endangered cats in the wild by 2022 with a program known as TX2
tigers
Bif
|
$1,600
[17]
The Grolier Poetry Bookshop in this eggheaded city in the Boston metro area dates from 1927
Cambridge
Bif
|
$2,000
[15]
This slain IRA head known as "The Big Fellow" was played on film by big fellow Liam Neeson
Michael Collins
Will
|
$1,600
[29]
Hannah was the mother of this judge & prophet with a first & second book to his name
Samuel
Bif
|
$1,600
[9]
Of "If I Could Turn Back Time" & "Because You Loved Me", this woman
Diane Warren
Will
|
$2,000
[24]
An industrial city of northern Rhode Island on the Blackstone River
Woonsocket
|
|
$2,000
[20]
The WWF's "Living Planet Report 2018" has dire news--plastic debrisin all ouroceans, even this deepest ocean trench
the Marianas Trench
Bryan
|
$2,000
[18]
Calling itself "the world's largest independent bookstore", this store was once a Portland, Ore. car dealership
Powell's
Bif
|
DD
$3,000
[2]
Politicians draw us in with "my fellow Americans" to open a speech, like this 1952 one in which Nixon rejected talk of corruption
the Checkers speech
Bryan
|
$2,000
[30]
In Acts, after Tabitha dies, this early Christian leader brings her back to life
Peter
Will
|
$2,000
[10]
Of the song "Weird Science" & the music for the "Fifty Shades" movies
Danny Elfman
Will
|
DD
$6,000
[23]
It's the full-length clerical garment seen here
a cassock
Bryan
|
Germany has land borders with 9 countries & only maritime boundaries with 2 countries, the U.K. & this one across the Baltic
Sweden