Laurel Lathrop — a graduate student from Tallahassee, Florida
Steve St. John — a college psychology professor from Winter Springs, Florida
Gabe Brison-Trezise — a researcher from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gabe | $600 | $2,000 | $15,600 |
$6,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,600
14 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Steve | $800 | $600 | $12,200 |
$5,995
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,200
13 R, 2 W |
| Laurel | $3,400 | $7,400 | $18,400 |
$31,201
New champion: $31,201 |
$16,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| WINNIE-THE-POOH IN THEOED | MUSEUM-PODGE | THEORIES | CABLE TELEVISION | AN IMP OF A RHYME | WHISKEY BUSINESS |
|
$200
[11]
Of course, Pooh is cited in the entry for this noun: "he sat down and took the top off his jar of" it
honey
Laurel
|
$200
[16]
(Sarah of the Clue Crews presents from the Witte Museum in San Antonio.) The Witte Museum's collection includes partialbustsof Abraham Lincoln & Theodore Roosevelt sculpted by Gutzon Borglum as studies for his execution of this much larger project
Mount Rushmore
Gabe
|
$200
[24]
The steady-state theory in which the universe has no beginning or end lost ground to this one where everything went kablooey!
the big bang
Gabe
|
$200
[25]
An all-time record for HBO, in May 2019, 19.3 million tuned in to watch "The Iron Throne" episode of this series
Game of Thrones
Steve
|
$200
[18]
To spend time making adjustments to one's appearance
primp
Laurel
|
$200
[3]
It's a myth that whiskey labeled "bourbon" must be distilled in this U.S. state, but most of it is
Kentucky
Laurel
|
|
$400
[12]
In 2018 the OED updated "Bear" to include Pooh's description of himself as "a bear of very little" this
brain
Gabe
|
$600
[14]
This Chicago Museum of Natural History bought Sue, the largest & most complete T. rex skeleton, for over $8 mil. in 1997
the Field Museum
Gabe
|
$400
[17]
The government is up to something--yes, I'm big on these theories, from the Latin for "breathe together"
conspiracy
Laurel
|
$400
[26]
Stan, Cartman & the whole town of "South Park" helped put this cable channel on the map
Comedy Central
Gabe
|
$400
[22]
"Snoopy One" was one for Metlife
blimp
Steve
|
$400
[4]
Most scotch is distilled twice; this type of whiskey, like Bushmills & Tullamore D.E.W., 3 times
Irish whiskey
Gabe
Laurel
|
|
$600
[13]
This Pooh pal's name means "an exuberant, energetic, and cheerful person"
Tigger
|
$800
[2]
Wisconsin's National Railroad Museum has an exhibit on these porters: "from service to civil rights"
Pullman car porters
Gabe
Steve
Laurel
|
$600
[8]
The greater fool theory in this activity says don't worry about overvaluation--there's always some dummy who'll buy
buying stocks
Steve
|
$600
[23]
FX's "American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson" followed up with the story of this man's assassination
(Gianni) Versace
Gabe
|
$600
[21]
6-letter word meaning to economize
scrimp
Laurel
|
$600
[5]
Forbes says India's Officer's Choice is the world's top-selling whiskey; America's is this Lynchburg libation
Jack Daniel's
Gabe
|
|
$800
[27]
Horrible! the OED defines it as "an imaginary creature resembling an elephant"
Heffalump
Laurel
|
DD
$1,000
[15]
The Vasa, a warship that spent 333 years under the sea, was salvaged & turned into a museum in this capital city
Stockholm
Gabe
|
$800
[9]
This Cold War theory said if one country fell to communism, nearby ones would follow
the domino theory
Laurel
|
— |
$800
[19]
Crangon crangon is the scientific name for the common European one
shrimp
Steve
|
$800
[6]
A small percent of whiskey maturing in barrels evaporates each year, a portion called the "share" of these celestial beings
the angel's share
Laurel
|
|
$1,000
[28]
"Pooh-sticks" is defined as "a game in which sticks are thrown into a river from the upstream side of" one of these
bridge
Laurel
|
$1,000
[1]
Giorgio Vasari designed it as an office building; later it housed the Medici art collection & then became a museum
Uffizi Gallery
|
$1,000
[10]
A 1982 theory named for broken these items says small signs of disorder in an area lead to serious crime
windows
Laurel
|
— |
$1,000
[20]
To connect 2 wires by squeezing the ends together
crimp
Laurel
|
$1,000
[7]
Seagram's famed numeric brand launched the first National Dive Bar Day--naturally on this date in 2018
July 7th
Steve
|
| ANTIQUITY CUSTODY BATTLES | BIOGRAPHERS | SOME STERN WORDS | SOAP | WATER | "B" MOVIE STARS |
|
$400
[26]
In 2019 Norway agreed to give back items taken from Easter Island by this Kon-Tiki explorer
(Thor) Heyerdahl
Gabe
|
$400
[7]
W.E.B. Du Bois wrote a 1909 biography defending this abolitionist who was hanged 50 years earlier
(John) Brown
Steve
|
$400
[10]
A rock that makes a spark begins this adjective for someone of stern demeanor
flinty
|
$400
[24]
This word for the foam formed by soap in water can also mean a state of being upset
lather
|
$400
[27]
Major ports on this lake include Mwanza & Entebbe
Victoria
Gabe
|
$1,200
[5]
She was an Elven queen in "The Lord of the Rings"
Cate Blanchett
Laurel
|
|
$800
[1]
Tension exists between Egypt & the British Museum over the return of this stone, taken from Egypt in 1801
the Rosetta Stone
Laurel
|
$800
[20]
His "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D." came out in 1791, 7 years after his friend's death
Boswell
Laurel
|
$800
[21]
A way an egg is cooked, or an adjective for an unsentimental chap
hard-boiled
Steve
|
$1,200
[15]
According to Pliny the Elder, this ancient seafaring people of the Mediterranean made soap from goat's tallow & wood ashes
Phoenicians
Steve
|
$800
[25]
This strait named for an explorer who passed through it in 1520 separates mainland South America from Tierra del Fuego Island
the Strait of Magellan
Steve
|
$1,600
[4]
This Spaniard had no idea how crazy he was as a hitman in "No Country for Old Men"
Javier Bardem
Laurel
|
|
$1,200
[2]
The U.K.'s Coronation Chair feels a little lonelier without this rock, returned to Scotland in 1996
Stone of Scone
|
$1,200
[8]
"The Pioneers", the latest by David McCullough, features the settlers of this American territory just past the Ohio river
the Northwest Territory
Gabe
|
$1,200
[11]
This word referring to stern discipline comes from a city-state of ancient Greece
Spartan
Steve
|
$1,600
[12]
Soap helps liquids clean better by reducing this molecular cohesion & allowing the liquids' atoms to spread out more
surface tension
Gabe
|
$1,600
[16]
Term for a section of treacherous rapids on a river; the Nile's sixth one is a bit north of Khartoum
cataracts
Steve
|
$2,000
[6]
As Sgt. Barnes in "Platoon", this tough guy really gets on Charlie Sheen's bad side
Tom Berenger
|
|
$1,600
[3]
This rhyming craft-supply chain got in hot water recently after purchasing artifacts that were smuggled out of Iraq
Hobby Lobby
Steve
|
$1,600
[9]
Rose Byrne played biographer Rebecca Skloot in the HBO movie "The Immortal Life of" this woman
Henrietta Lacks
Laurel
|
$1,600
[18]
From a Greek word for a hermit or monk, this adjective means denying oneself comforts
ascetic
Gabe
|
$2,000
[13]
For centuries, this olive oil-based soap named for a region in Spain was exported to royalty throughout Europe
Castile soap
Laurel
|
$2,000
[17]
The longest river in this country, the Murray runs 1,570 miles
Australia
Steve
|
— |
|
$2,000
[23]
In 2017 South Korea returned stolen dinosaur fossils, including the Tarbosaurus bataar, to this Asian country
Mongolia
Steve
|
$2,000
[22]
His fourth volume on Lyndon Johnson appeared in 2012 & was followed by great anticipation of volume 5
(Robert) Caro
Gabe
|
DD
$6,400
[19]
Unwilling to change your opinion? You're this, from the practice of coloring fibers before they were woven into cloth
dyed in the wool
Gabe
|
— |
DD
$3,000
[14]
A painting depicts this river that, in Switzerland, plummets over the Schaffhausen waterfall
the Rhine
Laurel
|
— |
From his own 1898 poem, the epitaph of this Irish-born man ends, "his mourners will be outcast men, & outcasts always mourn"
Oscar Wilde