Darrin Hall — a director of client engagement from Miami, Florida
Ryan Carmichael — a filmmaker from Astoria, New York
Elise Nussbaum — a financial counselor from Jersey City, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $34,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elise | $3,400 | $9,000 | $25,200 |
$20,200
2-day champion: $54,800 |
$24,000
28 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Ryan | $1,200 | $-200 | $6,600 |
$4,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,600
10 R, 2 W |
| Darrin | $2,200 | $3,400 | $4,400 |
$2,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,400
14 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| PUTTING OUT THE WELCOME MATH | WEIRD LEGAL NEWS | SOUP TO NUTS | "HOLD" IT | 20th CENTURY HISTORY | NICKNAMES FROM TONY STARK |
|
$200
[4]
This branch of math uses symbols to represent numbers or variables in arithmetic operations, like 2x + y = 10
algebra
Darrin
|
$200
[14]
In 2009 maybe a teen should not have robbed a cop...at a police convention...& tried to flee via taxi...near this Penn. capital
Harrisburg
Elise
|
$200
[1]
The Campbell's Soup website calls this & a grilled cheese sandwich a dinner combination that can't be beat
Tomato Soup
Ryan
|
$200
[16]
There's an initial preposition in this word meaning to support
uphold
Elise
|
$200
[6]
On December 19, 1984 Margaret Thatcher & Zhao Ziyang signed a joint declaration to end British rule in this place
Hong Kong
Elise
|
$200
[3]
Tony's name for this web-slinging hero is Underoos
Spider-Man
Elise
|
|
$400
[5]
Sometimes you see the sines; others, you go off on 1 of these, a straight line that touches a curve without cutting through it
a tangent
Elise
|
$400
[15]
A novelist who penned an essay on how to do this to your husband got arrested for allegedly doing it to her husband
murder
Darrin
|
$400
[2]
You can't make traditional pesto sauce without basil & these "nuts"
pine nuts
Darrin
|
$400
[17]
To perceive, old-time-ily
behold
Elise
|
$400
[7]
The people seenhereare forming this painful reminder of the 1930s
a bread line
Ryan
|
$400
[8]
Hawkeye gets this moniker of a "Lord of the Rings" archer
Legolas
Darrin
|
|
$800
[22]
In 1,431 divided by 53, which we will not have you solve, 53 is the divisor & 1,431 is this
the dividend
Elise
|
$600
[28]
The BBC said in 2012 after a Sea World trip, Welsh tourists woke up hungover & "with (this type of) flightless bird in their apartment"
a penguin
Darrin
|
$600
[10]
Small meatballs & vegetables are "joined together" in this Italian soup that sounds perfect for a nuptials dinner
Italian wedding
Ryan
|
$600
[18]
A 2016 report said Ford had "revolutionized" this central console compartment
the cup holder
Elise
Ryan
Darrin
|
$800
[24]
The 381-day bus boycott in this city was triggered by Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white man
Montgomery
Darrin
|
$600
[9]
Tony's nicknames for this group of Avengers lite: Blue Meanie (Nebula), Build-a-Bear (Rocket) & Mr. Clean (Drax)
the Guardians of the Galaxy
Elise
|
|
$1,000
[21]
"O" say can you say this kind of triangle having no right angle? Or at least make some kind of indirect reference?
an oblique triangle
Darrin
|
$800
[27]
A burglar in Vancouver, Wash. was arrested after he broke into one of these fun experience places & naturally, couldn't get out
an escape room
Elise
Ryan
|
$800
[12]
It's the nut in Nutella
a hazelnut
Darrin
|
$800
[19]
In this game there are 5 community cards
Texas hold'em
Elise
Darrin
|
DD
$1,200
[20]
Queen Victoria's eldest son took the throne in 1901 with this name & number
Edward VII
Elise
|
$800
[11]
Tony refers to amnesiac assassin the Winter Soldier by the title of this 1962 Frank Sinatra thriller
The Manchurian Candidate
Elise
|
| — |
$1,000
[26]
Blowing our minds in 2010, a Neb. native got nailed for DUI costumed as this device that depicted a blood alcohol level of 6.9%
a breathalyzer
Elise
|
$1,000
[13]
A French chef in New York gets the credit for creating this creamy potato-&-leek soup that's served cold
vichyssoise
Elise
|
$1,000
[23]
An official who continues in a job from one administration to another
a holdover
Elise
|
— |
$1,000
[25]
Tony calls Loki by the title of this 2009 Broadway musical about 1980s hair bands
Rock of Ages
Darrin
|
| THE BOOK OF LAKE (& POND & RIVER) | NEW TO THEOED | PILLARS OF THE EARTH | THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS | KLAUS ENCOUNTERS | OF THE THIRD KIND |
|
$400
[15]
Thoreau's goal in writing about his time by this body of water was to "front only the essential facts of life"
Walden
Ryan
|
$400
[8]
This adjective meaning "swindled" that sounds like a chess castle was the culprit
rooked
Darrin
|
$400
[7]
The one-pillaredpagodasits very precariously in this Vietnamese capital
Hanoi
Elise
|
$400
[3]
He opened the 2016 AMAs with aperformanceof his golden megahit "24K Magic"
Bruno Mars
Ryan
|
$400
[21]
Physicist & spy Klaus Fuchs was convicted in 1950 of supplying this country with secrets about the allies' atomic bomb research
the Soviet Union
Elise
|
$400
[1]
The second of these German empires ended in 1918; the third came along just 15 years later
the Reich
Darrin
|
|
$800
[17]
In an 1884 novel Jim is held as an escaped slave after rafting down this river
the Mississippi
Elise
|
$800
[16]
This derisive 4-letter word for a novice in an online community
noob
Elise
|
$800
[9]
The Rock of Gibraltar is one of the 2 pillars of this mythical figure
Hercules
Darrin
|
$800
[4]
The 2015 AMAs saw Taylor Swift take home the trophy for Pop/Rock Album--this one named for the year of Taylor's birth
1989
Ryan
|
$800
[22]
Klaus Baudelaire is a character in this 13-book "Series"
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Elise
|
$800
[2]
The Third Amendment to the Constitution is about the right to not have these people in your house
soldiers
Ryan
|
|
$2,000
[28]
"I've never been in a boat before", says Mole to the Rat as the 2 head down a river in this Kenneth Grahame novel
The Wind in the Willows
Elise
|
$1,600
[20]
This 2-word term for the spot from which conspiracy theorists think an unknown second gunman fired on JFK
the grassy knoll
Elise
|
$1,600
[11]
This British hero's column is in Trafalgar Square; his pillar was in Dublin until an IRA member blew it up in 1966
Nelson
Elise
|
$1,200
[5]
Thisguy probably felt "Better Now" after winning Favorite Male Artist--Pop/Rock at the 2018 American Music Awards
Post Malone
Ryan
|
$1,200
[25]
This German actor & father of Nastassja was as well known for his eccentric behavior as for his acting
(Klaus) Kinski
Darrin
|
$1,200
[12]
After Saladin's capture of Jerusalem in 1187, this English king helped lead the Third Crusade to try to win it back
Richard the Lionhearted
Darrin
|
|
DD
$2,200
[18]
Chapter XXV of "Le Morte d'Arthur" is "How Arthur By the Mean of Merlin Gat Excalibur His Sword of" this woman
the Lady of the Lake
Elise
|
$2,000
[19]
Thismythical-sounding product of the pitahaya cactus
the dragon fruit
Elise
|
$2,000
[27]
The Egyptian pillar called by the name of this "Great" foe of Julius Caesar was built 300 years after he lived
Pompey
Elise
|
$1,600
[6]
At the 2017 AMAs, Favorite Song--Pop/Rock went to this one by Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber
"Despacito"
Elise
|
$1,600
[24]
Václav Klaus was president of this Central European republic from 2003 to 2013
the Czech Republic
Ryan
|
$1,600
[13]
The third Winter Olympic site, & the first one in the U.S., it's not far from Saranac Lake & Tupper Lake, N.Y.
Lake Placid
Ryan
|
| — | — |
DD
$3,000
[10]
A rockformationshaped like a pillar of salt near the Dead Sea is named for this biblical woman
Lot's wife
Darrin
|
$2,000
[14]
This K-popgroupmade its official U.S. TV debut at the 2017 American Music Awards, performing its hit "DNA"
BTS
Elise
|
$2,000
[23]
As Bror Blixen, Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer was married to Meryl Streep in this film
Out of Africa
Elise
|
$2,000
[26]
In July 2019, around a big anniversary, there was renewed interest in this 88-year-old often called the "Third Man"
(astronaut) Michael Collins
|
One a Civil War hero & one a U.S. Senator, brothers with this last name were both considered for the 1884 Republican presidential nomination
Sherman