Becky Reisig — a document management system administrator from Fort Collins, Colorado
Eric Larson — an executive producer at an events agency from Long Beach, California
E.J. Wolborsky — a freelance project manager from Brooklyn, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $54,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E.J. | $1,200 | $5,200 | $13,000 |
$12,499
3-day champion: $66,700 |
$16,000
21 R, 8 W (including 1 DD) |
| Eric | $2,400 | $5,000 | $5,600 |
$8,001
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Becky | $1,200 | $1,200 | $4,000 |
$950
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,000
11 R, 5 W |
| DADS & DAUGHTERS | 2-LETTER WORDS | REMEMBER THE 1990s? | "O" IS FOR OPERA | BIG TOP JOBS | MEERKAT MANNERS |
|
$200
[5]
He's the proud dad seen here
Billy Ray Cyrus
Becky
|
$200
[22]
This biblical word is often found before "& behold"
lo
Eric
|
$200
[3]
Pentagon employee Linda Tripp secretly recorded phone calls with this friend who discussed an affair with an older man
Monica Lewinsky
E.J.
|
$200
[2]
A moving scene in Ambroise Thomas' opera "Hamlet" includes the funeral procession of this character
Ophelia
Becky
|
$200
[28]
This job title comes from akros, Greek for "highest"
acrobat
E.J.
|
$400
[29]
A meerkat at the San Diego zoo served as an animator's model for this character in "The Lion King"
Timon
Becky
|
|
$400
[6]
At age 8, shelearned that her biological dad was in Aerosmith
Liv Tyler
Becky
|
$400
[23]
The 2013 meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association included a paper on "The Social Meaning of" this word
eh
Eric
|
$400
[4]
This magazine was launched in 1995 with a cover showing Cindy Crawford dressed as our first president
George
Becky
|
$600
[13]
Opera composer Christoph Gluck wrote that this instrumental segment should prepare people for the play's plot
the overture
Eric
|
$400
[27]
Tramp & Auguste are 2 different types of these performers
clowns
E.J.
Becky
|
$600
[20]
A meerkat scans for predators in this posture, a term for a guard against surprise attack, and also a type of big robot "X-Men" foe
sentinel
Eric
|
|
$600
[7]
Quincy Jones is dad to this actress, who once sang backup for Maroon 5
Rashida Jones
E.J.
|
$600
[24]
"Clumsy" in language, castrated in fact, it's a type of draft animal
ox
Eric
|
$600
[16]
On July 15, 1997 this designer was killed outside his Miami Beach mansion, an event remembered in a 2018 TV event
Gianni Versace
E.J.
|
$800
[14]
Richard Strauss' "Elektra" has a big recognition scene between the title character & him
Orestes
E.J.
Becky
|
$600
[1]
People, not dogs, had this loud job of calling out attractions on the midway
a barker
Eric
|
$800
[19]
The lives of the Whiskers family on "Meerkat Manor" were filmed in this desert that occupies most of Botswana
the Kalahari
E.J.
Becky
|
|
$800
[8]
At age 7, sheappeared as an extra in the movie "Parenthood," directed by her dad
Bryce Dallas Howard
Becky
|
$800
[25]
As an adjective, it denotes huge self-interest, like in describing an entire decade
me
E.J.
|
$800
[17]
Bringing gifts & astronauts, in 1995 the Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with this Russian space station
Mir
Eric
|
DD
$1,000
[12]
Spoiler: Eurydice dies in Monteverdi's 1607 opera named for this protagonist
Orpheus
Eric
|
$800
[10]
Desultor is an old term for someone who does this while 2 horses are running
jump from one horse to the other
E.J.
Eric
|
$1,000
[21]
Meerkats don't ever want to deal with a day of this wolf-like predator, which also feeds on carcasses
a jackal
Becky
|
|
$1,000
[9]
Thisactress is the daughter of a Grammy-winning musician
Zoë Kravitz
E.J.
|
$1,000
[26]
Dutch for "yes"
ja
E.J.
|
$1,000
[18]
In the late '90s, this toy from Bandai helped you attempt adulting by raising a digital pet
Tamagotchi
E.J.
Becky
|
$1,000
[15]
Unfinished at his death, his "Tales of Hoffmann" had to be completed by somebody else
Offenbach
E.J.
|
$1,000
[11]
Dangerous skills include fire-eating & this, requiring the ability to relax your esophageal sphincter
sword swallowing
Eric
|
— |
| TRUTH OR DARE | N.Y. TV | TRIPLE-A RATED | ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST JACKET | COMMUNICATION | IN & AROUND ASIA |
|
$400
[9]
In 1850 Sojourner Truth asked this fellow abolitionist in Faneuil Hall, "Frederick, is god dead?"
Frederick Douglass
Eric
Becky
|
$400
[14]
Did the rich prep school kid kill that guy? For 20 years, cops like Jerry Orbach said, yeah, probably, on this NBC show
Law & Order
E.J.
|
$400
[23]
Cosmetic for the eyelashes
mascara
Eric
|
$400
[1]
Someone's dead & there's a party & that's all we can say about the plot of this long James Joyce novel
Finnegan's Wake
E.J.
Becky
|
$800
[27]
A popular 21st c. communications device was named for this fruit because of its color & the buttons resembling seeds
a BlackBerry
E.J.
|
$800
[28]
More than 1,700 miles from its origin, the Amur River flows into this ocean
Pacific
Eric
|
|
$800
[10]
Virginia Dare was the first English child born in the New World, in the Roanoke colony in what is now this state
North Carolina
E.J.
Eric
|
$800
[15]
Heplays Detective Jake Peralta on "Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Andy Samberg
Eric
|
$800
[22]
Here's this fruit that's popular in sorbet and juice
papaya
E.J.
|
$800
[2]
In a Steinbeck tale Jody Tiflin kills a buzzard that's come to feast on his "Red" one of these that just died
pony
E.J.
|
$1,600
[25]
The Chinese Comm. Party's publicity dept. was once called this dept., a more negative word for getting the message out
propaganda
E.J.
|
$1,600
[6]
Built to commemorate a visit by George V, The Gateway of India overlooks the harbor in this Indian city
Mumbai
E.J.
|
|
$1,200
[11]
Sojourner Truth adopted her new name in 1843, the year Adventist founder William Miller said this would happen
the Apocalypse
Eric
|
$1,200
[16]
Think back... back to a simpler time, a time spent with family, watching this actor play NYC ad exec Don Draper
Jon Hamm
Eric
Becky
|
$1,200
[19]
Working with attorneys, they may interview witnesses or draft documents
paralegal
Eric
|
$1,200
[3]
Susie in this Alice Sebold novel is already in heaven, but she watches her murderer covering his tracks
The Lovely Bones
E.J.
|
$2,000
[26]
In the early 2000s 2 software developers sold the file-sharing program Kazaa & then built this video chat product
Skype
E.J.
|
$2,000
[8]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) 4 big countries almost meet in the heart of Asia--China & Russia share a 31-mile border that also separates Mongolia &this country
Kazakhstan
Becky
|
|
$1,600
[12]
Almost 100 years before Rosa Parks, Sojourner helped integrate this public transportation in Washington D.C.
streetcars
E.J.
|
$1,600
[17]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) In Manhattan in the '70s, a stretch of 42nd Street between 7th & 8th Avenues was known as this, the title & setting of a Maggie Gyllenhaal HBO show; note the "2" in 42nd Street
The Deuce
E.J.
|
$1,600
[20]
John Barth has a novel called this, about a professor who takes time off from work
Sabbatical
E.J.
|
$1,600
[4]
Tolstoy wrote "The Death of" this alliterative man whose life had been "most simple and most ordinary"
Ivan Ilyich
E.J.
|
DD
$3,000
[24]
In the debate between oralism & manualism, this 2-word type of communication, Thomas Gallaudet was a manualist
sign language
Eric
|
DD
$3,000
[7]
Sights in this capital city include the lovely silver pagoda & the ghastly Tuol Sleng Museum
Phnom Penh
E.J.
|
|
$2,000
[13]
In 1587 Virginia Dare came to the New World in utero in an expedition sponsored by this man
Sir Walter Raleigh
Becky
|
$2,000
[18]
On Netflix & in NYC, Natasha Lyonne dies over & over again on this series
Russian Doll
E.J.
|
$2,000
[21]
Givenchy had a perfume called this adjective that means excessively high
extravagant
|
$2,000
[5]
Addie is the "I" who not only passes away but decomposes in this Faulkner novel
As I Lay Dying
|
— | — |
For the first time, the FDA approved a drug for the treatment of this, though there hadn't been a new case in 40 years
smallpox