Jennifer Cooper — a university volunteer coordinator from Sylva, North Carolina
Christine McKeever — a writer from Los Angeles, California
Andrew Thomson — a journalist from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew | $2,000 | $3,600 | $15,000 |
$6,799
2-day champion: $30,800 |
$14,800
19 R (including 3 DDs), 5 W |
| Christine | $3,000 | $1,600 | $11,600 |
$0
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,600
18 R, 3 W |
| Jennifer | $2,000 | $7,000 | $10,200 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,200
15 R, 0 W |
| A SHROOM WITH A VIEW | NAMED FOR A PRESIDENT | A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY | THE U.N. REPORTS | THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT | "B.C." |
|
$200
[17]
Theseubiquitous mushrooms share a name with something found on your shirt
button mushrooms
Jennifer
|
$200
[1]
In 1998 Congress wished him a happy 87th birthday by renaming Washington National Airport in his honor
Reagan
Christine
|
$200
[12]
This word for a rope used to tie up a horse is also the name of a sleeveless top that has straps around the neck that leave the back bare
halter
Christine
|
$200
[6]
An alarming 2019 environmental report called for action to reduce the 8 million tons of this substance going into oceans every year
plastic
Jennifer
|
$200
[22]
Alicia Keys
piano
Christine
|
$200
[7]
It's a less appealing 2-word name for tofu
bean curd
Christine
|
|
$400
[18]
"P" is for this type of mushroom that, fittingly, shares its name with a type of umbrella
parasol
Jennifer
|
$400
[2]
Here's a nifty cabin made from these
Lincoln Logs
Andrew
Jennifer
|
$400
[13]
This type oflace, used to make the fan seen here, bears the name of the French town where it originated
Chantilly
Christine
|
$400
[27]
From a 2018 report: "There is evidence that integrating" these people fleeing violence "in local economies can be mutually beneficial"
refugees
Andrew
|
$400
[23]
Kenny G
saxophone
Jennifer
|
$400
[8]
People who have these snakes as pets favor the red-tailed species
boa constrictors
Jennifer
|
|
$600
[19]
They'reoften used in Japanese dishes, such as kinoko gohan
shiitake mushrooms
|
$600
[3]
Founded in Africa in 1822, it's the only world capital (besides Washington, D.C.) that's named for a U.S. president
Monrovia
Andrew
|
$600
[14]
A musical instrument with bellows gives its name to this style of pleats
accordion
Christine
|
$600
[28]
The 2013 World Health Report said zinc supplements reduce the rate in kids of this lung infection associated with the elderly
pneumonia
Andrew
Christine
Jennifer
|
$600
[24]
Earl Scruggs
banjo
Jennifer
|
$600
[9]
Thismusical notation sets the position of the F below middle C
bass clef
Christine
|
|
$800
[20]
Don't be shell-shocked; despite the name of this mushroom, it doesn't grow under water
oyster mushrooms
Jennifer
|
$800
[4]
Seen here are flight controllers at work at this facility's Mission Control Center
the Johnson Space Center
Andrew
|
$800
[15]
A royal house gives its name to this style for a necktie; it has a more complicated knot than a four-in-hand
Windsor
Christine
|
$800
[29]
The 2018 World Drug Report said about 192 million people worldwide used this recreational drug, including 38 million Americans
marijuana
Andrew
|
$800
[25]
Rock Hall of Famer Hal Blaine
drums
|
$800
[10]
It's the slang term for the ideological barrier separating China from the West
Bamboo Curtain
|
|
$1,000
[21]
This Italian mushroom, whose name comes from a dairy product, is a juvenile portobello
cremini
Christine
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
The Department of Commerce headquarters building is named for this president who once served as Commerce Secretary
Hoover
Andrew
|
$1,000
[16]
This traditional peasant costume seenhereis still worn in the Austrian & Bavarian Alps
dirndl
Christine
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[30]
"I.I"! A 2016 report found this financial issue had increased in 75% of the world's cities in the preceding 2 decades
income inequality
Andrew
|
$1,000
[26]
Sarah Chang & Midori
violin
Christine
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[11]
Thisdesert plant is named for its cylindrical shape
a barrel cactus
Jennifer
|
| FEEL THE BERN! | BIG & SMALL SCREEN CLASSICS | AGRICULTURE | CONTRACTIONS | THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS | B.C. |
|
$400
[16]
On Nov. 28, 1848 the parliament of this country chose Bern as its federal capital
Switzerland
Andrew
|
$400
[1]
Gwen Verdon said she helped dub in the tapping & splashing in the title number in this 1952 film
Singin' in the Rain
Christine
|
$400
[6]
Farmers plant trees around farms to create windbreaks as they battle this, attrition of soil by wind
erosion
Andrew
|
$400
[10]
Why'd you do that? "Just..." this 5-letter contraction
'cause
Christine
|
$400
[30]
This Tom Wolfe work was spacey but had the correct contents to win a 1980 Nonfiction Award
The Right Stuff
Jennifer
|
$400
[21]
Starting around 600 B.C. many Jews were deported east from the kingdom of Judah in what's known as the Babylonian this forced departure
Babylonian Exile (or diaspora)
|
|
$800
[17]
Finn, Bjork & Ursina are a family of brown these big animals, fishing & climbing in a park in the heart of Bern since 2009
bears
Andrew
|
$800
[2]
It's 10 years later as Al Swearengen & friends celebrate South Dakota statehood on the 2019 movie based on this HBO series
Deadwood
Christine
|
$800
[7]
A 138-pound cabbage set a world record for Scott Robb, a farmer in this state, benefiting from the above-average amount of sunlight
Alaska
Andrew
|
$800
[11]
The American Heritage Dictionary calls it "perhaps the single most famous feature of southern United States dialects"
y'all
Andrew
|
$800
[29]
The 2017 Nonfiction winner was Masha Gessen's "The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed" this superpower
Russia
Christine
|
$800
[22]
Human occupation on Corsica dates from at least the 3rd millennium B.C., as evident from dolmens & menhirs, standing these
stones
Jennifer
|
|
$1,200
[18]
Tour the 2nd floor apt. of Kramgasse 49 where this scientist began to live in 1903 & did some incredible work, relatively speaking
Einstein
Andrew
|
$1,200
[3]
Charlie Chaplin faces the perils of technology in this 1936 film that was also the last appearance of "The Tramp"
Modern Times
Christine
|
DD
$1,500
[8]
In France & Germany, asparagus is grown underground to inhibit this pigment, creating a delicious white variety
chlorophyll
Andrew
|
$1,200
[12]
A contraction of "would rather"; having these would mean you'd get your way
druthers
Christine
|
$1,200
[28]
Colson Whitehead liberated the 2016 Fiction Award for his novel about this title 19th century "conveyance"
The Underground Railroad
Andrew
|
$1,200
[23]
Ostia, at the mouth of this river, served as Rome's naval base & commercial harbor
the Tiber
Andrew
|
|
$1,600
[19]
Any pirate could tell you that Bern lies along this river with a double "a" rating that rises in the Alps
the Aare
Andrew
|
$1,600
[4]
Howie Mandel & Denzel Washington were on staff at this '80s show set at St. Eligius Hospital
St. Elsewhere
Christine
|
$1,600
[9]
This 11-letter type of farming supplies produce for the farmer to eat, but not enough for market
subsistence
Andrew
Christine
|
$1,600
[13]
There is a contraction in this French phrase for "please"; it's literally "if it pleases you"
s'il vous plait
Andrew
|
$1,600
[27]
Thomas Pynchon found the Fiction Prize at the end of this 1973 novel
Gravity's Rainbow
Andrew
|
DD
$1,500
[24]
In the 1st century B.C. Philo of Larissa taught his skeptical Philo-sophy at this school founded by Plato
the Academy
Andrew
|
|
$2,000
[20]
Renzo Piano designed the Bern museum here, dedicated to this painter, a local boy who taught at Bauhaus in the 1920s
Paul Klee
|
$2,000
[5]
In this Alexander Payne film, Paul Giamatti is asked, "Why are you so into Pinot?"
Sideways
Andrew
|
$2,000
[15]
Most of the dairy cows in the U.S. are descended from this cattle breed named for an area of northern Germany
Holstein
Andrew
Jennifer
|
$2,000
[14]
The poem "Home, Sweet Home" doesn't begin, "'Mong pleasures & palaces though we may roam"; the first word is this contraction
Mid
|
$2,000
[26]
He won Fiction Awards for "The Magic Barrel" & "The Fixer" but not for "The Natural"
Bernard Malamud
|
$2,000
[25]
The 6th century B.C. Temple of Artemis was a mainstay of this city whose residents St. Paul would later pen a letter to
Ephesus
Christine
|
This denomination takes its name from the day, as told in the New Testament, when the Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles
Pentecostalism