Jessica Garsed — a librarian from Augusta, Maine
Ben Hamman — a program coordinator from Missoula, Montana
Kara Skinner — a test accommodations center coordinator from San Diego, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kara | $0 | $2,800 | $5,200 |
$10,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,200
15 R, 5 W |
| Ben | $-800 | $-200 | $8,200 |
$1,199
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jessica | $2,800 | $4,800 | $15,200 |
$12,600
New champion: $12,600 |
$15,200
16 R, 1 W |
| I LEARNED IT FROM MENTAL FLOSS | PLACES OF BUSINESS | AROUND THE USA | VIDEO GAME-POURRI | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER | RANKS & TITLES |
|
$200
[16]
This 19th c. pres. was a champion wrestler who only lost 1 match, to another soldier in the Illinois volunteer militia
Abraham Lincoln
Kara
|
$200
[13]
Sony is an MNC, short for this, meaning it has sites all over the world
a multinational corporation
Kara
|
$200
[8]
You may be more familiar with the La Brea ones, but there's a sticky batch of these in Carpinteria, California as well
tar pits
Jessica
|
$200
[26]
Aunt May & Norman Osborn show up in this superhero's Marvel-ous high-flying game
Spider-Man
Kara
|
$200
[17]
To cast a ballot &to refuse to allow something
vote & veto
Ben
|
$400
[10]
Reasonably enough, it's a Hindi king or prince ranking above a raja
maharaja
Kara
Ben
|
|
$800
[1]
In Sweden these people get a text message when their lifesaving donation is used, as for a trauma victim
blood donors
Kara
|
$400
[12]
Corepower, the largest U.S. chain of studios for this activity, once touted "inner peace & flat abs in an hour"
yoga
Kara
Ben
|
$400
[25]
Eastport in this state is fittingly the easternmost city in the lower 48 states
Maine
Kara
|
$400
[9]
In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, you can choose among many avatars like Link, Donkey Kong or this fast hedgehog
Sonic
Kara
|
$400
[18]
A "golden" lack of noise &a permit for cruising in your convertible
silence & license
Ben
|
$600
[4]
In ancient times a tetrarch by definition ruled this much of a region or province
a fourth
Kara
|
|
$1,000
[27]
Jack London encouraged this young cartoonist who created the "Believe It or Not!" strip, later spun off into multiple TV series
Ripley
Kara
|
$600
[11]
This family-friendly pizza chain with a mouse mascot has more than 600 locations
Chuck E. Cheese
Ben
|
$600
[24]
Charging one nickel, the first automated these hit Oklahoma city streets in 1935
a parking meter
Jessica
|
$600
[6]
Many online games say they are "F2P" , meaning this; beware, there are usually ways to spend cash down the line
free to play
Ben
|
$600
[19]
To make a sauce more viscous &the room of the house where it might happen
thicken & kitchen
Jessica
|
$800
[3]
A nuncio is an ambassador or representative from this person
the pope
Jessica
|
| — |
DD
$1,000
[22]
Despite the state found in the name of this airline, its home offices are in Seattle
Alaska Airlines
Ben
|
$800
[15]
You can feel like an 1880s train rider aboard the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroadin this state
Colorado
Ben
|
$800
[5]
The 7 rotatable blocks used in this video game have names like Orange Ricky, Hero & Smashboy
Tetris
Jessica
|
$800
[20]
Place for your tootsies on a ten-speed &to beg strongly
pedal & plead
Jessica
|
$1,000
[2]
John Fisher's lofty British naval titles included First Sea Lord (1904) & Admiral of this (1905)
Admiral of the Fleet
Kara
Ben
|
| — |
$1,000
[23]
With shared spaces & private offices, this alliterative company helps business get done in more than 110 cities
WeWork
Kara
|
$1,000
[14]
Historians say many residents of this 175-mile long chain of islands off North Carolina are descended from pirates
the Outer Banks
Jessica
|
$1,000
[7]
Of the 4 ghosts in the original English version of the Pac-Man game, the one that doesn't rhyme with the others
Clyde
Kara
Ben
|
$1,000
[21]
Hogs or pigs &a synonym for a tendon
swine & sinew
Ben
|
— |
| DESIGNING WOMEN | SCIENCE BULLETIN | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | DROP OUT | THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY | ESSAYS |
|
$400
[26]
Portland college student Carolyn Davidson received $35 & later, stock for designing the Swoosh that became this company's logo
Nike
Kara
|
$400
[11]
This event that killed more than 400 along the coast of Indonesia in 2018 was due to a collapsing volcano, not an earthquake
a tsunami
Kara
|
$400
[1]
After secretly aiding the rebels for years, this nation openly aided the revolution in 1778
France
Jessica
|
$400
[6]
Drop the "out" from a synonym for "budding" & you get this season when it might happen
spring (from sprouting)
Ben
Jessica
|
$800
[27]
So how does a bill get in the registry? Or "Conjunction Junction"? 'Cause this '70s series of animated shorts was amazing, that's how!
Schoolhouse Rock!
Jessica
|
$1,200
[19]
"Lost Art" & "The Future of Faith" are 2 of the many essays John Updike wrote for this magazine
The New Yorker
Kara
Ben
|
|
$800
[25]
In 1921 she became the first major female fashion designer to introduce a perfume
(Coco) Chanel
Jessica
|
$800
[15]
A campaign to promote handwashing in Australian hospitals greatly reduced infections of this bacterium, the "S" in MRSA
staphylococcus
Jessica
|
$800
[2]
Some 19,000 of these mercenaries were hired by the British
the Hessians
Ben
|
$800
[7]
Drop "out" from a word meaning "screamed" & you get this small storage building
shed (from shouted)
Ben
|
$1,200
[12]
Robert Kennedy's April 4, 1968 speech in Indianapolis on the shocking death of this man is now enshrined forever
Martin Luther King Jr.
Kara
|
$1,600
[20]
This "Infinite Jest" author used the Maine lobster festival to discuss the morality of killing lobsters for eating pleasure
David Foster Wallace
Kara
|
|
$1,200
[22]
Withbalconieslike rippling waves, Jeanne Gang designed the Aqua skyscraper in this city's Lakeshore East neighborhood
Chicago
Ben
|
$1,200
[16]
A 2019 study reveals the negative impact of these chemicals on honeybees' ability to fend off deadly mites
pesticides
Jessica
|
$1,600
[4]
Ethan Allen gets credit for leading this group, but in 1775 Seth Warner was elected as its leader
the Green Mountain Boys
Jessica
|
$1,200
[8]
Remove the "out" from the term for financial aid to a big car company & you get this term that will set the accused free
bail (from bailout)
|
$1,600
[13]
Her 1983 album "She's So Unusual" was unusually good, with songs like "Time After Time"
Cyndi Lauper
Jessica
|
$2,000
[21]
"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself", Emerson wrote near the end of this essay
"Self-Reliance"
|
|
$1,600
[23]
It's the last name of Miuccia, whose career took off in the 1980s with the introduction of her black nylon backpack
Prada
|
$1,600
[17]
The new "wand", or wireless artifact-free neuromodulation device, is being called a pacemaker for this body part
a brain
Kara
|
DD
$2,000
[3]
"Plain Truth" was James Chalmers' Loyalist response to this 1776 pamphlet written in support of the revolution
"Common Sense"
Ben
|
$1,600
[9]
Drop "out" from a French word for high-fashion clothing & you get this help for your sickness
cure (from couture)
Kara
Jessica
|
$2,000
[14]
The Blues Brothers would approve the inclusion of both "Minnie the Moocher" & this Sam & Dave classic song... play it, Steve!
"Soul Man"
|
— |
|
$2,000
[24]
A cultural center in Azerbaijanis one of the notable projects by this late, great dame, & Baghdad-born architect
Zaha Hadid
|
$2,000
[18]
New particles mean new compound words; CERN scientists keep discovering new pentaquarks, each consisting of 4 quarks & 1 of these
an antiquark
|
$2,000
[5]
For his elusive tactics in South Carolina marsh areas, guerrilla leader Francis Marion was known by this nickname
the Swamp Fox
Jessica
|
$2,000
[10]
Get the "out" out of a seasoned stew & you're left with this bit of cloth
rag (from ragout)
Ben
|
— | — |
Washington made the very first presidential proclamation in response to a request for "a day of public" this
thanksgiving