Geoff Duncan — a freelance programmer and musician from Seattle, Washington
Cara Moretto — an actor from New York, New York
Jessica Garsed — a librarian from Augusta, Maine (whose 3-day cash winnings total $52,199)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jessica | $1,200 | $4,000 | $7,600 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,600
15 R, 3 W |
| Cara | $800 | $2,400 | $5,500 |
$200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,000
15 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Geoff | $4,800 | $8,000 | $24,800 |
$33,399
New champion: $33,399 |
$16,000
21 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| A JOB IN TV | DOUBLE "Z" WORDS | 20th CENTURY NOVELS | BOLD STRATEGY | COTTON | LET'S SEE IF IT PAYS OFF FOR 'EM |
|
$200
[1]
In 2019 Conan O'Brien cut a half hour from his TBS show but kept this sidekick
(Andy) Richter
Cara
|
$200
[6]
To silence something, like a dog
muzzle
|
$200
[16]
A futuristic society revolves around science & efficiency in this 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
Cara
|
$200
[30]
Starving in this type of standoff, a Portuguese town threw the last of its bread over the walls & asked the foe, "Need more?"
siege
Geoff
|
$200
[29]
Here's Gandhi sitting at one of his favorite tools, the charka, one of these
a spinning wheel
Jessica
|
$200
[21]
In 1892 baking powder salesman William Wrigley began throwing in 2 packages of this with each can, which worked out okay
chewing gum
Cara
|
|
$400
[2]
For years, Petri Hawkins Byrd, working in this job, has handed documents to Judge Judy
bailiff
Geoff
|
$400
[7]
It can be a low story or balcony between 2 other floors in a building or theater
mezzanine
Jessica
|
$400
[17]
"A House Divided" completed Pearl Buck's trilogy that began 4 years earlier with this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
The Good Earth
Cara
|
$400
[11]
To try to stop the American offensive in the Battle of the Leyte Gulf, the Japanese used this "divine wind" tactic
kamikaze
Jessica
|
$400
[28]
In 1794 he was granted a patent for his cotton gin
Eli Whitney
Geoff
|
$400
[22]
In 1927, 4 years after starting a movie company with his brother, he decided to go all-cartoon
Walt Disney
Jessica
|
|
$600
[3]
The mother of this "Black-ish" actor is scorekeeper when he hosts "To Tell the Truth"
Anthony Anderson
Geoff
|
$600
[8]
To drink quickly & with great enthusiasm
guzzle
Jessica
|
$600
[18]
A line from this novel: "Name's Joad, Tom Joad"
The Grapes of Wrath
Jessica
|
$600
[12]
A feigned this move--ooh, you're too strong! We're afraid! Let's run!--helped William the Conqueror to victory at Hastings
a retreat
Geoff
|
$600
[15]
This title creature from a 1922 tale with cotton fabric in his name also has thread whiskers & ears lined with pink sateen
The Velveteen Rabbit
Cara
|
$600
[23]
In 1996, one year after its founding, Auction Web moved more than $7 million in merchandise & in 1997 got this new name
eBay
Geoff
|
|
$800
[4]
With this French-named front of the house job, Marino Monferrato keeps diners happy at "Hell's Kitchen"
maître d'
Jessica
|
$800
[9]
You've got 2 sets of double Z's in this 7-letter word! The exciting quality of an energetic personality
pizzazz
Geoff
|
$800
[19]
This novel by Garcia Marquez tells of the Buendia family in the mythic town of Macondo from the 1820s to the 1920s
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Cara
|
$1,000
[14]
Gen. von Manstein convinced Hitler to attack France in 1940 through this wooded area also in Belgium & Luxembourg--it worked
the Ardennes
Jessica
Cara
|
$800
[26]
Weevils know that cotton comes from little pods called these
bolls
Jessica
|
$800
[24]
Created to show girls they could be anything they wanted to be, this toy debuted--to some skepticism--at a 1959 toy fair
the Barbie doll
Jessica
|
|
$1,000
[5]
Guillermo Rodriguezis much more than just a security guard on this late-night talk show
Jimmy Kimmel
Cara
|
$1,000
[10]
It's stone flooring of marble or granite set in concrete & polished to a smooth surface
terrazzo
|
$1,000
[20]
Nadsat, the fictional language in this book, is from the Russian suffix that means "teen"
A Clockwork Orange
Jessica
Geoff
|
DD
$2,400
[13]
An "and" is in the middle of this strategy used by the Romans to foster feuds among smaller entities they were trying to rule
divide and conquer
Geoff
|
$1,000
[27]
Edison's patent for his first light bulb mentions testing carbonized cotton threads as a possibility for this component
a filament
Geoff
|
$1,000
[25]
Last names of William & Arthur, who partnered in 1903, 2 years after William drew a blue-print of an engine on a bicycle
Harley and Davidson
Jessica
|
| THEY SAID NO! | 4-LETTER PLACES | TECH TALK | OLD PHRASES | THE "NIGHT" WATCH | BOOKS GOING BACK IN TIME |
|
$400
[1]
Director Danny Boyle was offered a knighthood for his work on the London Olympics held in this year, but said no
2012
Cara
|
$400
[26]
This Italian island honors Napoleon with an annual mass on May 5, the anniversary of his death
Elba
Cara
Geoff
|
$400
[25]
In engineering the Rockwell test, measuring this, involves pressing a steel ball or diamond point into a surface
hardness
Cara
|
$400
[6]
This Scottish phrase meaning "old long since" is used of times remembered with fondness
auld lang syne
Geoff
|
$400
[11]
Billy Bob Thornton played coach Gary Gaines in this film; the TV show of the same name had Kyle Chandler as coach Eric Taylor
Friday Night Lights
Cara
|
$400
[16]
Garry Wills' 1992 "Lincoln at" this place examines an event sixscore & nine years previous
Gettysburg
Cara
|
|
$800
[2]
American James Watson took an honorary knighthood, but this British partner turned the real thing down
Francis Crick
Jessica
|
$1,200
[28]
Founded in the 11th century, this capital lies at the head of a fjord
Oslo
Cara
|
$800
[24]
Air traffic controllers know airmets are in-flight advisories about changes in this
weather
Cara
Geoff
|
$800
[7]
The "Aeneid" is the source of the phrase "Beware of" these "bearing gifts"
Greeks
Geoff
|
$800
[12]
A group of dropouts are trying to get their G.E.D.s in this film starring Tiffany Haddish & Kevin Hart
Night School
Cara
|
$800
[17]
The New Orleans Advocate reported a "flood of books" for this event's 10th anniversary, including "Cooking Up a Storm"
Hurricane Katrina
Jessica
|
|
$1,200
[3]
There would be no Sir Ziggy Stardust after this rocker turned down knighthood, saying, "I seriously don't know what it's for"
David Bowie
Jessica
|
$1,600
[29]
Niger is to the west & Sudan to the east of this African country
Chad
Geoff
|
$1,200
[23]
Aerospace experts are familiar with nanometers, these tiny fractions of a meter
billionths of a meter
Geoff
|
$1,200
[8]
Mercutio says "a plague o' both your houses", but often people say this other "P" word instead of "plague"
pox
Jessica
|
$1,600
[14]
Bounty hunter Robert de Niro is escorting bail-jumping accountant Charles Grodin to L.A. in this 1988 comedy
Midnight Run
|
$1,200
[18]
It's the title town where 2 former Texas Rangers live in the 1870s in a classic novel by Larry McMurtry
Lonesome Dove
Cara
|
|
$1,600
[4]
This 2013 Nobelist with a boson named for him didn't want to be a knight, saying the whole system is too political
(Peter) Higgs
Geoff
|
DD
$8,000
[27]
This capital of Hyogo Prefecture on Honshu is all the rage in beef
Kobe
Geoff
|
$1,600
[22]
The "data" type of this activity is looking for patterns; it's also what people do to get bitcoins
mining
Geoff
|
$1,600
[9]
Modification made tunics practical for work; one tweak allowed mobility & gave us this phrase meaning "to prepare for action"
to gird your loins
Geoff
|
$2,000
[15]
This Clark Gable-Claudette Colbert screwball comedy was the great sleeper film of 1934
It Happened One Night
Cara
|
$1,600
[19]
"I woke to the sound of a mosquito whining in my left ear", begins 2000's "Fever 1793", about an epidemic of this disease
yellow fever
Jessica
|
|
$2,000
[5]
In 1918 this man refused a knighthood, saying King George V had betrayed the Arabs by not granting independence
Lawrence (of Arabia)
Geoff
|
— |
$2,000
[21]
Your auto mechanic knows the PCV filter provides positive ventilation of this engine housing
the crankcase
Jessica
Geoff
|
$2,000
[10]
This biblical prophet "come to judgment" is someone who has given some sage advice
Daniel
|
DD
$2,500
[13]
1967 film in which Sidney Poitier clarifies, "They call me Mr. Tibbs!"
In the Heat of the Night
Cara
|
$2,000
[20]
His 1815 novel "Guy Mannering" begins in the year "17--" with Guy visiting some ruins in Dumfries
Walter Scott
Geoff
|
In 1600 a royal charter authorized it to set forth to "parts of Asia and Africa" in search of "trade and traffic"
British East India Company