Rebecca Nowack — a government contractor from Leawood, Kansas
Josh Duggan — a production coordinator from Los Angeles, California
Bif Reiser — a mathematician from Portland, Oregon (whose 2-day cash winnings total $60,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bif | $200 | $5,000 | $10,600 |
$8,599
3-day champion: $69,400 |
$10,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Josh? | $2,000 | $2,600 | $12,600 |
$3,999
3rd place: $1,000 |
$15,000
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Rebecca | $2,000 | $3,800 | $5,800 |
$7,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,800
10 R, 1 W |
| BY GEORGE | AVENGERS DISASSEMBLE! | CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS | THE NEW JERSEY HALL OF FAME | WHAT'S IN YOUR BENTO? | DROP IT |
|
$200
[1]
George W. Bush:"41: A Portrait of My ____"
father
Bif
|
$200
[6]
Before dealing with the Black Panther, Paul Rudd told this "Anchorman" character about a fragrance called Sex Panther
Ron Burgundy
Josh?
|
$200
[25]
Bernini designed the gilded bronze baldachin seenhereto fill the empty space below the dome in this basilica
St. Peter's Basilica
Bif
|
$200
[11]
Sitting Bull called her "Little Sure Shot' in the 19th century; N.J. called her Hall-worthy in 21st
Annie Oakley
Josh?
|
$200
[15]
The bento, a single-serve pre-made lunchbox popular in Japan, always has this staple, glutinous or not
rice
Rebecca
|
$200
[20]
Drop "it" from a robber to get this, a type of musical group
a band
Bif
|
|
$400
[2]
George Eliot:"The ____ on the Floss"
The Mill on the Floss
|
$400
[7]
2014 saw Elizabeth Olsen in a film with this title monster & occasional Tokyo destroyer
Godzilla
Rebecca
|
$400
[26]
Prince William & Kate Middleton tied the knot at this London church on April 29, 2011
Westminster Abbey
Bif
|
$400
[12]
This ex-"Daily Show" host "was born in New York City but...was raised in N.J., part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963"
Jon Stewart
Josh?
|
$400
[16]
Who cares what's in the box when you have this iconic Japanese character on the outside?
Hello Kitty
Bif
|
$400
[21]
Drop "it" from a numeral to get this verb meaning to understand, man
dig
Bif
|
|
$600
[3]
George Plimpton:"____ Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback"
paper
Josh?
|
$600
[8]
In between stints as Tony Stark, Robert Downey Jr. headed to the jungle to play actor Kirk Lazarus in this comedy
Tropic Thunder
Rebecca
|
$600
[27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows the Church on Spilled blood in St. Petersburg, Russia.) On the spot where his father was assassinated, Tsar Alexander III built the Church on Spilled Blood; its architecture reflects Russian nationalism & imitates this Moscow cathedral, the country's most famous
St. Basil's
Josh?
|
$800
[14]
The 2016 induction ceremony could have been called "Live! With" this female honoree from Camden County
Kelly Ripa
Rebecca
|
$600
[17]
My angry wife made a shikaeshi bento, meaning "boxed lunch of" this payback term--of course it's served cold
revenge
Bif
|
$600
[22]
From a departure to get this departed one
ex
|
|
$800
[4]
George McGovern:"____ Security and the Golden Age"
social
Josh?
|
$800
[9]
He laid the hammer down as race car driver James Hunt in "Rush"
Chris Hemsworth
Josh?
|
$800
[28]
It's the English name of La Sagrada Familia, a church that's been under construction in Barcelona since 1882
The Sacred Family (or Holy Family)
Bif
|
$1,000
[30]
This 19th century author & creator of Natty Bumppo got the call in 2015
James Fenimore Cooper
Josh?
|
$800
[18]
Bento boxes became popular to eat between acts in Japanese theatre like kabuki or this 3-letter type
noh
Rebecca
|
$800
[23]
Drop "it" from a fulfilled academic course to get this respect-earning quality, maybe on the street
cred
Bif
|
|
$1,000
[5]
George Bernard Shaw:"Mrs. Warren's ____"
profession
|
$1,000
[10]
Before being superheroes, Jeremy Renner & Anthony Mackie were everyday heroes in this 2009 Iraq war-set film
The Hurt Locker
Josh?
|
$1,000
[29]
Theskylineof this German city is dominated by the towers of its Gothic cathedral
Cologne
Josh?
|
DD
$2,000
[13]
Alphabetically, this early American pamphleteer immediately preceded Joe Piscopo as 2013 honorees
Thomas Paine
Josh?
|
$1,000
[19]
For color, my box has shiso leaves around the umeboshi, this fruit that's been pickled
plum
Rebecca
|
$1,000
[24]
Drop "it" from an official license to get this long-lasting hairstyle
a perm
Bif
|
| BYE AGAIN, GEORGE! | ISLANDS | ORGANIZATIONS | FAUX AMIS | STARGAZERS | THE TITLE PLANET |
|
$400
[26]
Since 1896 the Senate has marked Washington's birthday in this month with a reading of his farewell address
February
Rebecca
|
$400
[1]
The entrance to the Baltic Sea is the location of Zealand, this country's largest & most populous island
Denmark
Josh?
|
$400
[18]
Turning 50? You're eligible for full membership in this organization! $16 for a year, & you get discounts!
AARP
Bif
|
$400
[21]
Someone who says "Bonne journée" isn't wishing you a good journey but a good this
a good day
Rebecca
|
$400
[7]
In the 1920s Harlow Shapley concluded this was not at the center of the Milky Way galaxy but 30,000 light years from there
the Sun
Bif
|
$400
[6]
For reasons of his own, W.G. Sebald about a walking tour of England's east coast "The Rings of" this
Saturn
Bif
|
|
$800
[27]
2000's reader, Daniel Moynihan, noted this king called Washington "the greatest character of the age"
George III
Josh?
|
$800
[2]
North Andros Island is the largest island of this nation 60 miles off the coast of Florida
the Bahamas
Bif
|
$800
[19]
According to this 5-letter assn., the number of euthanized dogs & cats has dropped by almost half since 2011
the ASPCA
Josh?
|
$800
[22]
In French C-O-I-N isn't money; coin means corner & coin-coin is what these birds say
ducks
Bif
Rebecca
|
$800
[8]
In 1705 he published "A Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets" describing the orbits of 24 comets that had been observed
(Edmond) Halley
Bif
|
$800
[10]
Rita Mae Brown punningly titled a novel this "Envy"
Venus
Bif
|
|
$1,200
[28]
In 1862 this Tenn. senator & future president called for a reading "in view of the perilous condition of the country"
Andrew Johnson
Josh?
|
$1,200
[3]
The smallest known vertebrate is an 8-millimeter frog found in 2010 on this second-largest island, near Australia
New Guinea
Josh?
|
$1,200
[16]
"America's largest veterans service organization", it has a magazine exploring travel & health as well as military matters
the American Legion
|
$1,200
[23]
La confection isn't candy, it's this trade AKA the schmatta business
clothing
|
$1,200
[9]
In 1609 this Italian used his telescope to determine that the Moon has valleys & mountains
Galileo
Josh?
|
$1,200
[13]
Sting took the temperature of the musical world with the album this "Falling"
Mercury
Josh?
|
|
$1,600
[29]
In 1956 this Minnesota senator & future VP said the address gives "a renewed sense of pride in our republic"
Humphrey
Josh?
|
$1,600
[4]
Tiberius ran the Roman empire from a hilltop villa on this island & made the Grotta Azzurra his personal pool
Capri
Bif
Josh?
Rebecca
|
DD
$1,600
[17]
(Christiane Amanpour presents the clue.) In 2005 I was proud to join the board of the CPJ, the "Committee to Protect" these people
journalists
Bif
|
$1,600
[24]
"Je t'ai blessé" has nothing to do with blessing; it means I did this to you
I hurt you
|
$1,600
[11]
This Dane built his observatory Uraniborg minus a telescope--it hadn't been invented yet
(Tycho) Brahe
Bif
|
$1,600
[14]
Channing Tatum was spaced out in 2015's this "Ascending"
Jupiter
Josh?
|
|
$2,000
[30]
This Illinois senator who read the address in 1994 noted she was the first American of African descent to be so honored
Carol Moseley Braun
|
DD
$1,600
[5]
Larger than Maryland & lying near the equator, the world's largest island in fresh water is in this river
the Amazon
Josh?
|
$2,000
[20]
Started in 2010, an org. named for her helps people who have contributed to medical research & gotten no reward from it
Henrietta Lacks
|
$2,000
[25]
Une librairie is a bookstore; library is this "B" word in French
bibliotheque
Rebecca
|
$2,000
[12]
In 1983 this Cornell astronomer introduced the concept of nuclear winter
Carl Sagan
|
$2,000
[15]
In a Rob Zombie song, this "Needs Women", & apparently, they need to be "angry red women"
Mars
Bif
|
At the end of this play: "Why are our bodies soft & weak... but that our... hearts should well agree with our external parts?"
The Taming of the Shrew