Debbie Kauffman — a university professor from Greeley, Colorado
Josh Levit — a union organizer from Brighton, Massachusetts
E.J. Wolborsky — a freelance project manager from Brooklyn, New York (whose 3-day cash winnings total $66,700)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E.J. | $1,400 | $4,200 | $13,000 |
$0
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,000
15 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Josh | $2,600 | $7,300 | $17,100 |
$8,199
New champion: $8,199 |
$14,000
20 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Debbie | $3,000 | $5,000 | $11,800 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,800
18 R, 2 W |
| COMPLETES THE NONFICTION TITLE | WHIPS & CHAINS | NAME THAT "OON" | DANES | PATINKIN | HOMELAND |
|
$200
[2]
By Mitch Albom:"Tuesdays with ____"
Morrie
E.J.
|
$200
[21]
Me-ouch! It's the implement seen here
cat o' nine tails
Debbie
|
$200
[10]
It's a synonym for mogul or magnate
a tycoon
Josh
|
$200
[7]
In 1741 this man died on the island that would be named for him in the sea that would be named for him in the N. Pacific
(Vitus) Bering
Josh
|
$200
[26]
In this film Mandy Patinkin has the memorable lines "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die"
The Princess Bride
Debbie
|
$200
[16]
South Africa is home to the Afrikaners, descendants of these people, from a Dutch word for "farmer"
a Boer
Josh
|
|
$400
[3]
Anthony Bourdain's "Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly":"Kitchen ____"
confidential
Debbie
|
$400
[22]
Nuclear fission is an example of this type of self-sustaining process
a chain reaction
Debbie
|
$400
[13]
A popular tourist spot, here's Iceland's Blue this
lagoon
Josh
|
$400
[8]
In 2017 Margrethe II knighted this Metallica drummer with the Order of the Dannebrog
Lars Ulrich
E.J.
|
$400
[27]
Mandy Patinkin created the role of Che on Broadway in this musical set in Argentina
Evita
Debbie
|
$400
[17]
It's the homeland of the Flemings & the Walloons
Belgium
Josh
|
|
$600
[4]
By James Watson, about the discovery of the structure of DNA:"Double ____"
helix
Debbie
|
$600
[23]
With pathologist Howard Florey, biochemist Ernst Chain isolated & purified this antibiotic for general clinical use
penicillin
|
$600
[14]
Various forms of this word appear more than 250 times in the novel "Moby-Dick"
harpoon
Debbie
|
$600
[9]
Comedian Victor Borge's inflationary words turn this phrase into "You look twoderful threenight"
you look wonderful tonight
Debbie
|
$600
[28]
Mandy won an Emmy for playing Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on this medical drama set in the city of his birth
Chicago Hope
|
$600
[18]
The Maori, the first people to settle this country, make up only about 15% of the population today
New Zealand
Josh
|
|
$800
[5]
First published in 1972:"Dr. ____ Diet Revolution"
Atkins
Josh
|
$800
[24]
Whip & hip whip are maneuvers in this sport portrayed in the movie "Whip It"
roller derby
Debbie
|
$800
[1]
This country flies the flag seen here
Cameroon
Debbie
|
$800
[11]
We're just "Mads" for this actor who played a villain opposite Doctor Strange
Mads Mikkelsen
E.J.
|
$800
[29]
Mandy played George in the original Broadway production of this musical with sets & costumes based on a Seurat painting
Sunday in the Park with George
E.J.
|
$1,000
[20]
You'll spot a lot of non-canine Dalmatians in Dalmatia, mostly along the coast of this country
Croatia
E.J.
|
|
$1,000
[6]
A Pulitzer Prize-winning "Biography of Cancer":"The Emperor of All ____"
maladies
Debbie
|
$1,000
[25]
Bitcoin uses this technology as its transaction record
blockchain
E.J.
|
$1,000
[15]
If you insist on chewin' that tobacco, make sure to expel it into this bowl
a spittoon
Debbie
|
$1,000
[12]
For this 19th century philosopher, "Subjectivity... is truth"
Kierkegaard
Josh
|
$1,000
[30]
Auggie, a boy with facial differences, goes to the school where Mandy is the kindhearted principal in this 2017 film
Wonder
Josh
|
DD
$2,500
[19]
The Sinhalese are the majority people of this island nation
Sri Lanka
Josh
|
| ACTION MOVIE STARS | 5-LETTER WORDS | HOW ANGELIC | VILE QUOTES | "V" IN SCIENCE | QUEENS RULE! |
|
$400
[10]
In this film, gunfighter Steve McQueen joins up with 6 others to defend a Mexican village from bandits
The Magnificent Seven
Josh
|
$400
[15]
A funeral song, or any mournful sound
a dirge
E.J.
|
$400
[26]
MLB's Angels aren't based in Los Angeles but in this nearby city
Anaheim
Josh
|
$400
[21]
In the book of this much-suffering Biblical man, he "answered the Lord, and said, behold, I am vile"
Job
Josh
|
$400
[11]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds two containers.) While it might appear that there's more fluid in the test tube than in the beaker, they actually have the exact same this--the amount of space they occupy
volume
Josh
|
$400
[4]
On October 1st, 1553 this "Bloody" monarch was crowned queen of England
Mary I
E.J.
|
|
$800
[3]
As Snake Plissken, this actor had to "Escape from" New York & Los Angeles
(Kurt) Russell
Josh
|
$800
[16]
Collective term for the style of furnishings of a home's interior
decor
E.J.
|
$800
[27]
On this continent's Kerepakupai Meru River, Angel Falls plummets 3,212 feet
South America
Debbie
|
$800
[22]
This poetic lord wrote of "vile assignations, and adulterous beds, elopements, broken vows, and hearts, and heads"
(Lord) Byron
Debbie
|
$800
[12]
Xylem & phloem in plants are part of this system dealing with food & water transportation
vascular
Josh
|
$800
[5]
Joan I was a 13th c. queen of Navarre, a land that controlled vital passes in these Franco-Spanish mountains
the Pyrenees
Debbie
|
|
$1,200
[2]
Thisactor returns as Peter Parker in "Spider-Man: Far From Home", trying to enjoy a vacation while battling new foes in Europe
Tom Holland
E.J.
Josh
|
$1,600
[18]
Worn in public by some Muslim women, it's a long, loose garment covering the body from head to feet
a burka
E.J.
Debbie
|
$1,200
[28]
These 6-winged angels of the Bible are the highest ranked, above cherubim
seraphim
Debbie
|
$1,200
[23]
An 18th c. quote says, "A man who could make so vile" this 3-letter play on words "would not scruple to pick a pocket"
a pun
Josh
|
$1,200
[13]
In vertebrate anatomy, it's the opposite of dorsal & means "on the tummy side"
ventral
Debbie
|
$1,200
[6]
Shereigned as queen of Castile from 1474 until her death in 1504
Isabella
E.J.
|
|
$1,600
[1]
It was Riggs, Murtaugh & Chris Rock as Detective Lee Butters in film number 4 in this series
Lethal Weapon
E.J.
|
DD
$2,000
[17]
Term for a feudal Anglo-Saxon or Scottish lord; Macbeth was one "of Cawdor"
thane
E.J.
|
$1,600
[29]
This German actress immortalized the song "Falling In Love Again" on screen in 1930's "The Blue Angel"
Marlene Dietrich
Debbie
|
$2,000
[25]
In "A Passage to India" by him, Adela thought "Tears vile, a degradation more subtle than anything endured in the Marabar"
E.M. Forster
Debbie
|
$1,600
[14]
Eclipsing binaries are these types of stars that fluctuate in brightness
variable
|
$1,600
[7]
Before she married France's Louis XVI & became queen, Marie-Antoinette was an archduchess of this country
Austria
Josh
|
|
$2,000
[9]
This actress' role in "Salt" as an accused spy for Russia was originally written for Tom Cruise
Angelina Jolie
E.J.
|
$2,000
[19]
It's a shallow bay; there's one of Benin
the bight
|
$2,000
[30]
Something of a self-portrait, Eugene Gant is the hero of this 1929 Thomas Wolfe novel
Look Homeward, Angel
E.J.
|
DD
$3,000
[24]
In a 1941 speech, Churchill referred to a "a vile race of" these traitors, from the name of a Norwegian one
quislings
Josh
|
$2,000
[20]
The outermost region of an atom where electron transfers occur is called this "shell"
the valence
Josh
|
$2,000
[8]
Born in Catania in the 14th century, Queen Maria of this island lost her kingdom but returned with a fleet & took it back
Sicily
E.J.
|
9-letter name for an area of 10 million square miles--4/5 the size of Africa--but only about 120,000 square miles of it is dry land
Polynesia