Josh Kolchins — a homeland security consultant from Bethesda, Maryland
Sherri Benoun — a planning clerk from Anaheim, California
Katie Fitzgerald — a wealth management project analyst originally from New Rochelle, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Katie | $3,000 | $6,400 | $16,000 |
$16,801
2-day champion: $30,201 |
$16,000
21 R, 1 W |
| Sherri | $0 | $800 | $5,600 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,600
15 R, 6 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Josh | $400 | $3,200 | $8,400 |
$400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| BEN FRANKLIN | NFL TEAM PLAYERS | SHAPE UP | 3rd GRADERS KNOW THIS STUFF | STUCK IN THE MIDDLE | WITH "U" |
|
$200
[3]
The knicknacks seen here were part of the Benmania resulting from his arrival in this city[audio]
Paris
Sherri
|
$200
[16]
Tom Mix, Will Rogers &Gene Autry
the Cowboys
Josh
|
$200
[21]
It's the descriptive shape of an egg timer & a curvaceous woman
hourglass
Katie
|
$200
[1]
Zero divided by 6 yields this quotient
zero
Katie
|
$200
[7]
"Dial down the middle" is this vegetative comedian's mantra for making collect calls
Carrot Top
Josh
|
$200
[26]
A popular revolt, like the one in Hungary in 1956
an uprising
Josh
|
|
$400
[8]
"A house without a woman and firelight is like a body without soul or sprite" is from this Ben Franklin annual
Poor Richard's Almanack
Josh
|
$400
[17]
Murphy, Encyclopedia or Jackie
the Browns
Sherri
|
$400
[22]
It's a musical instrument, or a shape whose interior angles add up to 180 degrees
a triangle
Katie
|
$400
[2]
Of I'm, they've, you're or won't, the contraction that lost the most letters
won't
Josh
|
$400
[12]
It's the color of the middle stripe on the U.S. flag
red
Sherri
Josh
|
$400
[27]
It's a musical term for 2 performers singing the same part at once
unison
Sherri
|
|
$600
[9]
This job Ben got in 1753helped his business, asdescribed here
Postmaster
Sherri
Josh
|
$600
[18]
Crous, Reha, Phoebe, Oceanus & Hyperion among others
the Titans
Josh
|
$600
[23]
This shape found in a deck of cards could also be called a lozenge
a diamond
Sherri
|
$600
[4]
The predicate of a sentence tells what this part is or does
the subject
Katie
|
$600
[13]
Better-known middle name of media mogul Keith Murdoch
Rupert
Katie
|
$800
[29]
Adjective for an oily substance or an insincere, affected person
unctuous
Sherri
|
|
$800
[10]
Among Franklin's science and astronomy instruments is an orrery, an early model of this system
the solar system
Katie
|
$800
[19]
By his nickname the late Andre Roussimoff
the Giants
Sherri
|
$800
[24]
Shapely two-word location of the people seen here, May 5th, 1973
the winner's circle
Josh
|
$800
[5]
The size of this body part changes, depending on the light
the pupil
Katie
Josh
|
$800
[14]
The oval window is a membranous opening between the middle & the inner parts of this
the ear
Katie
|
DD
$1,000
[28]
In 1997 this country was the world's largest tea importer at 150,538 tons
United Kingdom
Sherri
|
|
$1,000
[11]
Shown here, a musical instrument Ben invented is called the "glass" one of these
harmonica
Sherri
|
$1,000
[20]
Germany's Joseph Ratzinger, The USA's Roger Mahony
a Cardinal
Katie
|
$1,000
[25]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands by a blackboard showing connected hexagons.) The conjecture that hexagons use the least total perimeter to cover a surface is named for this animal structure
a honeycomb
Katie
|
$1,000
[6]
The 15th, 17th, 19th, 23rd, 24th & 26th ones of these are specifically concerned with voting
constitutional amendments
Sherri
|
$1,000
[15]
Linus Pauling discovered there's a middle ground between the distinct ionic & covalent types of these
chemical bonds
Katie
|
$1,000
[30]
With a population of more than 47 million, its flag is seen here
the Ukraine
Katie
Josh
|
| HISTORICAL QUOTES | ECONOMICS | EXTREME TAKEOVER | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | PLAYS BY CHARACTER | 10-LETTER WORDS |
|
$400
[21]
In a November 3, 1969 speech, he used the phrase "The great silent majority"
Richard Nixon
Josh
|
$400
[26]
Adam Smith thought these were conspiracies against the consumer, but don't tell that to Parker Brothers
monopolies
Josh
|
$400
[16]
1521:With help from smallpox, Cortez & a few hundred men crush this empire of 30 million
the Aztec
Sherri
|
$400
[11]
This school's Bruins play their home football games at the Rose Bowl
UCLA
Katie
|
$400
[1]
Anne, Helen, Captain Keller
The Miracle Worker
Katie
|
$400
[6]
These flat, narrow noodles are popularly served "alfredo"
fettuccini
Katie
|
|
$800
[25]
In a 1914 speech at Guildhall, Churchill said, "The maxim of the British people is" this "as usual"
business
Josh
|
$800
[27]
In economics, it's the actual using of a good or service; in medicine, it's tuberculosis
consumption
|
$800
[17]
1975:Beginning an infamous & murderous 4-year period of rule, this group takes power in Cambodia
the Khmer Rouge
Sherri
|
$800
[12]
(Hi, I'm Joshua Malina of The West Wing.) My fellow graduates of this Ivy League school include Jodie Foster & Jennifer Beals
Yale
Katie
|
$800
[2]
Joseph II, Salieri, Mozart
Amadeus
Katie
|
$800
[7]
Discovered in 1928, it was the first successful antibiotic
penicillin
Katie
|
|
$1,200
[24]
On September 12, 1864, this general wrote the Mayor of Atlanta, "War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it"
(William Tecumseh) Sherman
Josh
|
$1,200
[28]
On a specified day of its financial year, a firm issues this "sheet" of its assets & liabilities
balance sheet
Katie
|
$1,200
[18]
1206-1227:Under this man, the Mongols kill millions seizing an empire from the Black Sea to the Pacific
Genghis Khan
Sherri
|
$1,200
[13]
For the last 16 years, its school of Engineering grad program has been ranked number 1 by U.S. News & World Report
M.I.T.
Sherri
Josh
|
$1,200
[3]
Gremio, Petruchio, Katharina
The Taming of the Shrew
Josh
|
$1,200
[8]
Entranced, or a 1945 Hitchcock film
spellbound
Katie
|
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
W.E.B. Du Bois wrote, "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of" this "line"
the color
Josh
|
$1,600
[29]
Articles of trade like coffee or wheat are termed these on exchange listings
commodities
Sherri
|
$1,600
[19]
The 580s B.C.:These people capture, loot & destroy Jerusalem, taking thousands of Jews as captives
the Babylonians
Sherri
Josh
|
$1,600
[14]
Women weren't admitted to this school, VMI for short, until 1997
Virginia Military Institute
Katie
|
$1,600
[4]
Prologus, Senex, Pseudolus
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Sherri
|
$1,600
[9]
It's a word or phrase that reads the same backward or forward
palindrome
Sherri
|
|
$2,000
[22]
On March 22, 1820, 5 years after saying, "Our country, right or wrong", he was killed by a fellow Naval officer
Stephen Decatur
Josh
|
$2,000
[30]
The Laffer, the Phillips & the Lorenz are examples of these lines used by economists
curves
|
DD
$4,000
[20]
1204:Supposedly on their way to Jerusalem, Crusader knights sack this richest Christian city
Constantinople
Sherri
|
$2,000
[15]
Reportedly acting upon God's command, he founded a university in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1963
Oral Roberts
Sherri
|
$2,000
[5]
Vladimir, Estragon, Lucky, Pozzo
Waiting for Godot
|
$2,000
[10]
From the Latin for "delay", it's an authorized delay of payment or of a specified activity
moratorium
Katie
|
This adjective for scholars & "Jeopardy!" champs is from the Latin ex, "out or away" & rudis, "rudeness"
erudite