Lindsey Berns — an international school administrator from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Susan White — a bookseller from Norwich, Vermont
Geoff Duncan — a freelance programmer and musician from Seattle, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $33,399)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geoff | $-1,200 | $-600 | $3,400 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,400
12 R, 7 W |
| Susan | $1,000 | $3,600 | $12,800 |
$8,700
New champion: $8,700 |
$12,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Lindsey | $6,400 | $10,400 | $16,200 |
$6,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$17,200
26 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS | PLAYER'S PIANO | WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE | THE SIRENS OF TITIAN | "HO"CUS "PO"CUS | KURT VONNEGUT |
|
$200
[10]
This cereal has used the slogan "Breakfast of Champions" since the 1930s
Wheaties
Lindsey
|
$200
[25]
What'd I say? That the Smithsonian has one of this man's Yamaha KX88 keyboards marked with Braille stickers
Ray Charles
Geoff
|
$200
[16]
Female patas monkeys are dominant; facing a predator, the male runs away, acting as this 5-letter lure
a decoy
Lindsey
|
$200
[2]
Titian painted Isabella d'Este, a patron of the arts, dubbed the First Ladyof this artistic rebirth
the Renaissance
Lindsey
|
$200
[1]
This term for a scalding tuber means a difficult issue to deal with
hot potato
Lindsey
|
$400
[7]
In Vonnegut's novel the title "Breakfast of Champions" refers to this vermouth cocktail
a martini
Geoff
Susan
Lindsey
|
|
$400
[11]
A special maker with larger, deeper grids produces the Belgian type of these
waffles
Lindsey
|
$400
[24]
The Steinway on which John Lennon wrote this 1971 plea for peace was displayed outside a Texas prison before a 2007 execution
"Imagine"
Geoff
|
$400
[17]
Scientists found out about all this monkey's pieces when they mapped out its genome in 2007
the rhesus
Lindsey
|
$400
[3]
Titian used the floral symbols myrtle & roses in depicting this love goddess "of Urbino"
Venus
Lindsey
|
$400
[19]
Some Lamborghini engines have 750 of these "beastly" units under the hood
horsepower
Lindsey
|
$600
[8]
2019 is the 50th anniversary of this Vonnegut novel loosely based on his experiences during the firebombing of Dresden
Slaughterhouse-Five
Lindsey
|
|
$600
[28]
Some translate the Spanish name of this breakfast dish as "country-style eggs"
huevos rancheros
Lindsey
|
$600
[14]
At a 2009 "End of Decade Clearout Sale", this band's Chris Martin auctioned off 2 old pianos, one used on "Parachutes"
Coldplay
Lindsey
|
$600
[21]
It tums out that this monkey with a prominent facial feature is a good swimmer
a proboscis monkey
Lindsey
|
$600
[4]
Some of Titian's sirens have too much to drink in a painting of one of these parties named for a Roman wine god
bacchanal
Susan
|
$600
[15]
Group dance performed in a circle that requires synchronized shaking of the limbs
the hokey pokey
Geoff
Lindsey
|
$1,000
[29]
Vonnegut's "Player Piano" was inspired by his time working for this giant tech company in Schenectady, New York
GE
Geoff
|
|
$800
[27]
For a classic eggs Benedict, use a dollop of this creamy sauce
Hollandaise
Lindsey
|
$800
[12]
The piano on which Dooley Wilson "played" this standard in "Casablanca" was a Warner Bros. prop with just 58 keys
"As Time Goes By"
Geoff
|
$800
[22]
A shell-like organ in its throat gives resonance to the voice of this South American monkey, leading to its name
a howler monkey
Susan
|
$800
[5]
An avid reader of this Roman's "Metamorphoses", Titian translated word to brushstroke in "Rape of Europa"
Ovid
Susan
|
$800
[18]
The base harbor from which a ship originates or is registered
home port
Susan
|
DD
$2,800
[9]
Sci-fi author Theodore Sturgeon was the inspiration for this recurring Vonnegut character who also had a fishy name
(Kilgore) Trout
Lindsey
|
|
$1,000
[26]
This roll flavored with onion, a sort of bagel without the hole, was named for a Polish city
bialy
Lindsey
|
$1,000
[13]
It took Yamaha 4 years to build the "Million Dollar Piano" this man used for more than 200 shows at Caesars Palace
Elton John
Geoff
Lindsey
|
$1,000
[23]
Spider monkeys lack the grasping adaptation known by this 2-word term; it would get in the way as they hook fingers over branches
an opposable thumb (a prehensile thumb)
Geoff
Susan
|
$1,000
[6]
In later years, Titian painted the mysterious "La Bella", which todays hangs in the Uffizi in this city
Florence
Lindsey
|
$1,000
[20]
Versifier James Whitcomb Riley from Greenfield, Indiana was known as this
the Hoosier poet
|
— |
| SOUTHERN POLITICIAN/AUTHOR | MED. ABBREV. | MONGOL RULERS | IT TAKES A VILLAIN | ONE-WORD RHYMES | NATIONAL PARKS |
|
$400
[21]
In the 2000s Doug Jones prosecuted 2 men for the 1963 church bombing in this city; he wrote "Bending Toward Justice" about it
Birmingham
Lindsey
|
$400
[11]
Concussions can occur with or without LOC, loss of this
conciousness
Geoff
|
$400
[1]
The founder of the Mongol Empire, he was great khan from 1206 to 1227
Genghis Khan
Geoff
|
$400
[6]
He says the movie line "You don't know the power of the dark side"
Darth Vader
Geoff
|
$400
[16]
The cost of a plane ticket
airfare
Geoff
Lindsey
|
$1,200
[27]
Development on this Florida bay spurred the campaign that helped create a national park there in 1980
Biscayne
Lindsey
|
|
$800
[22]
This Floridian's memoir is "An American Son"--of Mario & Oriales from Cuba
Marco Rubio
Susan
|
$800
[12]
In 1989 the gene that causes this disease, CF for short, was discovered
cystic fibrosis
Susan
|
$800
[2]
Hulagu Khan's 1258 siege of this Iraqi city destroyed its standing in the Islamic world & ended the 500-year rule of the Abbasids
Baghdad
Lindsey
|
$800
[7]
At the end of "Avengers: Infinity War", he snaps his fingers & wipes out half the inhabitants of the universe
Thanos
Geoff
|
$800
[17]
Direct deposit time of the week
payday
Lindsey
|
$2,000
[26]
Ebenezer is the first name of the Utah settler whose last name adorns this spectacular national park
Bryce Canyon National Park
Geoff
|
|
$1,600
[24]
Jesse Helms' memoir "Here's Where I Stand" says he likes seeing others from this state succeed, like Clay Aiken on "American Idol"
North Carolina
Geoff
Lindsey
|
$1,200
[15]
The common cold is known as a URI, or this type of infection
an upper respiratory infection
Susan
|
$1,200
[3]
Empress Manduhai Khatun was known for this quality, like Solomon, & used it to unite the warring Mongols in the 15th century
wisdom
Geoff
|
$1,200
[8]
Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode has another confrontation with this crazed killer in 2018's "Halloween"
Michael Myers
Geoff
|
$1,200
[18]
Magical or personal power; I've got mine working
mojo
Susan
|
DD
$3,000
[25]
Big Bend National Park is named for a big bend on this river
the Rio Grande
Lindsey
|
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
The first novel ever published by a U.S. president was "The Hornet's Nest", his saga of the Revolutionary War in the South
Jimmy Carter
Susan
|
$1,600
[14]
Kids can thank Albert Sabin for developing this, abbreviated OPV
oral polio vaccine
Geoff
|
$1,600
[4]
Now in ruins, Shangdu is the site of this khan's former great capital where Marco Polo visited him
Kublai Khan
Lindsey
|
$1,600
[9]
He's the non-human villain in "2001: A Space Odyssey"
HAL
Susan
|
$1,600
[19]
Write one & you might get an award from the James Beard Foundation
a cookbook
Susan
|
— |
|
$2,000
[28]
This Georgia state representative and candidate for governor has published several romance novels under the name Selena Montgomery
Stacey Abrams
Lindsey
|
$2,000
[13]
If you sleep with a CPAP device, you know it provides continuous positive this
air pressure
Geoff
|
$2,000
[5]
Batu Khan was the leader of this army that sacked & conquered westward as far as Poland & the Danube Valley
Golden Horde
|
$2,000
[10]
He's Dudley Do-Right's dastardly mustachioed nemesis
Snidely Whiplash
|
$2,000
[20]
To show off, especially in the main seating area of a sports venue
grandstand
|
— |
In 1963 the Pulitzer Advisory Board vetoed his controversial play & gave no award; he would go on to win 3 Pulitzers
Edward Albee