Jason Marsden — a nonprofit executive from Denver, Colorado
Jennifer Kinyak — a freelancer from Albuquerque, New Mexico
Laurel Lathrop — a graduate student from Tallahassee, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $31,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laurel | $3,400 | $4,800 | $17,600 |
$32,801
2-day champion: $64,002 |
$15,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Jennifer | $4,400 | $7,600 | $15,200 |
$15,199
3rd place: $1,000 |
$14,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Jason | $-800 | $-2,200 | $16,400 |
$30,401
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| FROM THE SCOTS, AYE | COLLEGE-POURRI | I BEAT MERYL! | "S"EVEN-LETTER SCIENCE | TIME FOR A SNACK | TRAIL MIX |
|
$200
[19]
This checked fabric pattern found on many a Tartan
plaid
Laurel
|
$200
[15]
In 2018 Dartmouth offered almost 2,000 freshmen a place on this--neither acceptance nor rejection
the waiting list
Jennifer
|
$200
[7]
This "Silver Linings Playbook" actress said (accurately), "I beat Meryl" at the Golden Globes in 2013
Jennifer Lawrence
Jennifer
|
$200
[1]
This complex organic compound is found in many plants & is used as a sweetening agent
sucrose
Jennifer
|
$200
[17]
Arrr! Snacks from this buccaneer brand include veggie puffs & aged white Cheddar puffs
Pirate's Booty
Laurel
|
$200
[12]
In Boston follow this trail to see the Old State House & the Old North Church
the Freedom Trail
Jason
|
|
$400
[20]
This type of minstrel-poet, not necessarily of Avon
a bard
Laurel
|
$400
[30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from outside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.) Transferred from the Army to NASA at the beginning of the space race, JPL, or Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is a division of this Pasadena-based science school
Caltech
Jennifer
|
$400
[8]
Talk about a Titanic upset! Meryl had "Doubt" but this British actress took the Oscar for "The Reader"
Kate Winslet
Laurel
|
$400
[2]
It's the second most abundant element in the earth's crust
silicon
Laurel
|
$400
[16]
Even if it's not October, how about some of these, also called pepitas
pumpkin seeds
Jennifer
|
$400
[13]
You can still see wheel ruts along this 2,000-mile-long route used by pioneers heading west to the Willamette Valley
the Oregon Trail
Laurel
|
|
$600
[21]
This word for a motto or advertising phrase
a slogan
Jennifer
|
$600
[29]
Bowling Green teams in this state were once known as the BG Normals or BG Pedagogues but Falcons seems a better fit
Ohio
Laurel
Jason
|
$600
[9]
In Meryl's one nomination for this drama award, she lost to Shirley Knight at the Shubert Theatre in 1976
a Tony
Laurel
|
$600
[3]
It functions as a junction with the help of neurotransmitters
synapse
Jennifer
|
$600
[4]
Healthy & simple, broccoli & hummus sets you up with plenty of the complex type of these
carbohydrates
Laurel
|
$600
[24]
This national scenic trail in the eastern U.S. passes through 14 states & 8 national forests
the Appalachian Trail
Laurel
|
|
$800
[22]
This big pole that gets tossed by athletic Scotsmen
caber
Jennifer
Jason
|
$800
[28]
In 2017 Yale renamed one of its residential colleges to honor this Navy computing maven
Grace Hopper
Laurel
|
$800
[10]
No Oscar for Meryl because this other actress' role in "Dead Man Walking" was second to nun
Susan Sarandon
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[14]
In geology it's the normally hidden mineral-rich layer just above bedrock
subsoil
Jason
|
$800
[5]
How about a couple of these, first sold under the Honey Maid name in 1925
Graham crackers
Jennifer
|
$800
[26]
A popular trail in Europe passes through France, Italy & Switzerland while circling this highest mountain in the Alps
Mont Blanc
Laurel
|
|
$1,000
[23]
You're on a first-name basis with this narrow mountain valley
a glen
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[27]
The opulent home of William & Kate Hofstra is now the centerpiece of a private university on this island
Long Island
Jason
|
$1,000
[11]
At the BAFTA Awards the Brits have home court & several have beaten Meryl, including Helen Mirren for this 2006 film
The Queen
Laurel
|
DD
$1,600
[6]
This species name is also the title of a bestselling history of humanity by Yuval Noah Hariri
Sapiens
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[18]
Maybe a couple of medjool these wrapped in bacon?
dates
Laurel
|
$1,000
[25]
In her memoir "Wild", Cheryl Strayed tells of hiking more than 1,000 miles of this trail, from Calif. to Washington State
the Pacific Crest Trail
Jason
|
| RECENT BROADWAY PLAYS | AMERICAN HISTORY | IT'S ONLY A PAPER MOON | EUROPEAN JOBS | A "BUM" STEER | FUN-TO-SAY QUOTATIONS |
|
$400
[26]
Heidi Schreck reaches back to her days debating civics as a 15-year-old in "What" this document "Means to Me"
the Constitution
Laurel
|
$400
[1]
Before the Naval Academy opened in this city in 1845, midshipmen were trained at sea
Annapolis
Jason
|
$400
[17]
Margaret Wise Brown wrote the kids' books "The Runaway Bunny" & this one that features a bunny going to sleep
Goodnight Moon
Laurel
|
$400
[6]
The voga alla veneta technique of getting from place to place was made famous by men in this job
gondoliers
Jennifer
|
$400
[7]
An LP, or a collection of photographs
an album
Jennifer
|
$400
[16]
In an Edward Lear poem, this character says to the Owl, "O let us be married! too long we have tarried"
the Pussycat
Jennifer
|
|
$800
[27]
Laurie Metcalf & John Lithgow play the first couple in "Hillary & Clinton", set in this year Hillary first ran for president
2008
Jason
|
$800
[2]
Most of the battle on June 17, 1775 took place on Breed's Hill, but it's this hill that gets the press
Bunker Hill
Laurel
|
$800
[22]
"In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf" is the first line of this classic children's book
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Laurel
|
$800
[18]
People are employed to fish for discardedbikesin the numerous canals of this capital city on the North Sea
Amsterdam
Jason
|
$800
[8]
This type of bad trip is a real drag, man
a bummer
Jason
|
$800
[12]
"Hey, hey, mama, said the way you move, gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove" is from this Led Zeppelin tune
"Black Dog"
|
|
$1,200
[28]
Set during The Troubles, "The Ferryman", which won the 2019 Tony for Best Play, takes place in this U.K. country
Northern Ireland
Jason
|
$1,200
[5]
When this beloved first lady died in Washington in 1849, the "ladies of Virginia" were urged to wear a black bow or ribbon in tribute
Dolley Madison
Jason
|
$1,200
[23]
The title of this James Bond novel referred to a fictional missile-based national defense system
Moonraker
Jason
|
$1,600
[20]
Go work at the Vatican on this force, also known as the world's smallest army
the Swiss Guard
Jason
|
$1,200
[9]
To blunder about, or to do a task badly
to bumble
Jennifer
|
$1,200
[13]
This film: "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Jennifer
|
|
$1,600
[29]
Billed as a sequel to this first Shakespeare tragedy, the comedy "Gary" takes place after the climactic bloody Roman feast
Titus Andronicus
Laurel
|
$1,600
[4]
In 1947 Congress passed this act named for 2 politicians that banned using union dues in national election campaigns
Taft-Hartley
Jason
|
$1,600
[24]
This 2006 novel features the Volturi, Italy's reigning royal family of vampires
New Moon
Laurel
|
$2,000
[21]
Try harvesting cork in the Algarve region of this country, one of Europe's leading producers
Portugal
|
$1,600
[10]
Silly slang word for an umbrella
a bumbershoot
Laurel
|
$1,600
[14]
In Barry Mann's doo-wop classic, it follows "Who put the ram"
in the rama lama ding dong
Laurel
|
|
$2,000
[30]
Ethan Hawke broke more than 10 golf clubs wrecking the set nightly in a revival of this playwright's "True West"
Sam Shepard
Jennifer
|
$2,000
[3]
Suffering from tuberculosis, William Rufus DeVane King died in April 1853 before ever performing his duties in this post
vice president
Jason
|
DD
$4,000
[25]
A novel by him says, "Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, coming and going in great whirling circles"
Bram Stoker
Laurel
|
DD
$5,000
[19]
Ravenmaster Yeoman Warder Christopher Skaife said he felt "like a proud father" after 4 raven chicks hatched here in 2019
the Tower of London
Jason
|
$2,000
[11]
Annoyingly self-assertive
bumptious
Jennifer
|
$2,000
[15]
"I'm called little buttercup, dear little buttercup, though I could never tell why" is from this Gilbert & Sullivan operetta
the H.M.S. Pinafore
Jason
|
To complete one of its regular trips, in 1948 it took a boat across the English Channel; in 1952 it took a plane en route to Finland
Olympic torch (Olympic flame)