Alex Damisch — a data scientist from Chicago, Illinois
Jamin Speer — an economics professor from Memphis, Tennessee
Ellen Keane — a librarian from Stoneham, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellen | $1,800 | $1,600 | $6,400 |
$10
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,400
9 R, 2 W |
| Jamin | $3,800 | $3,600 | $10,600 |
$1,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Alex | $88 | $1,688 | $9,788 |
$12,801
New champion: $12,801 |
$10,600
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| GETTING COLT FEAT | FROM G TO G | UNFIX THE SONG TITLE | CHESS TALK | PAMPAS | CIRCUMSTANCE |
|
$200
[30]
The Indianapolis Colts' stadium is the NFL's first to have one of these that opens sideline-to-sideline, not end zone-to-end zone
retractable roof
Jamin
|
$200
[1]
This North American rodent is classified as a marmot, but is basically a large squirrel
a groundhog
|
$200
[8]
A '60s classic: "(I Cannot Get Any) Satisfaction"
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
Jamin
|
$200
[29]
A player conceding defeat is said to do this, like someone quitting an office
resigning
Alex
|
$200
[28]
The Pampas cover an area in South America of about 300,000 square miles from the Atlantic to the foothills of these mountains
the Andes
Jamin
|
$200
[18]
A 1955 sermon by Dr. King was about "looking beyond your circumstances", like "the tragic" one of this forced racial separation
segregation
Alex
|
|
$400
[6]
In 1836 Samuel Colt patented a design for a cylinder mechanism for this kind of handgun
a revolver
Jamin
|
$400
[2]
It's the offspring of a gander
a gosling
Jamin
|
$400
[9]
"There Is Not Any Mountain That Is High Enough" by Diana Ross
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
Jamin
|
$400
[22]
If this special move is done on the queenside, it's "long"; on the kingside, "short"
castling
Jamin
|
$400
[25]
What the cowboy is to the American West, this heroic herder is to the Pampas
a gaucho
Alex
|
$400
[14]
To file for the personal type of this under chapter 13, you must submit a debt repayment plan
bankruptcy
Alex
|
|
$600
[7]
Camp Colt in Penn. was the first U.S. post to train soldiers to use these new armored fighting vehicles of World War I
tanks
Ellen
|
$600
[3]
There are 12 species of this aromatic herb with a name from Chinese meaning "root of heaven"
ginseng
Ellen
|
$600
[10]
Clapton's plea: "Lie Down, Sally"
"Lay Down Sally"
Ellen
|
$600
[21]
An attack that forces a piece to move & expose another piece behind it is called this, after a type of beam discovered in 1895
X-ray
|
$600
[24]
George Bellows painted Luis Firpo, "The Wild Bull of the Pampas", de-ringing this champ in 1923. Ah, the champ came back to win
Jack Dempsey
|
$600
[13]
Donald Pleasence was one of these for real in 1944 & '45, then played one in "The Great Escape"
a prisoner (of war)
Jamin
|
|
$800
[19]
Ending a 37-year drought, in 2015 this "American" colt won the Triple Crown & was unanimously named horse of the year
American Pharoah
Alex
|
$800
[4]
Used for covering a hole or window, it's a metal frame with bars across it
grating
|
$800
[11]
A '70s smash from Bachman-Turner Overdrive: "You Have Not Seen Anything Yet"
"You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"
Jamin
|
$800
[23]
The horizontal rows of squares on a chessboard are the ranks; the vertical ones are these
files
|
$1,000
[26]
Thisflightless South American bird, a relative to the ostrich, lives on the Pampas
the rhea
Ellen
Jamin
|
$800
[17]
In people with the most common type of CP, short for this, increased muscle tone is bad, causing stiff movement
cerebral palsy
Ellen
|
|
$1,000
[20]
In TV commercials, stars like Snoop Dogg have endorsed this "Works every time" malt liquor from Pabst
Colt 45
|
$1,000
[5]
A ration of rum mixed with water aboard an old Navy ship
grog
Jamin
|
$1,000
[12]
The Pussycat Dolls want to know: "Do You Not"
"Don't Cha"
Alex
|
$1,000
[27]
Only the humble pawn can make this special type of capture with a French name
en passant
|
DD
$1,312
[15]
This capital city of 13 million sits on the northeast edge of the Pampas
Buenos Aires
Alex
|
$1,000
[16]
An alarming increase led to a count of about 60,000 people in this circumstance in L.A. County in 2019
homeless
|
| STATUESQUE AUTHORS | WHERE THE FISH ARE | OSCAR-WINNING ADAPTED SCREENPLAYS | MIRANDAS, RIGHT? | 12-LETTER WORDS | DICTATOR TOTS |
|
$400
[21]
That's not such an uglyducklingbeside the statue of this Dane in Central Park
Hans Christian Andersen
Jamin
|
$400
[29]
A Pacific bluefin one of these may migrate across the Pacific & back, 10,000 miles round trip, only to end up as sashimi
a tuna
Jamin
Alex
|
$400
[1]
2016: Barry Jenkins, from Tarell McCraney's play
Moonlight
|
$400
[14]
The Supreme Court's 1966 "Miranda" decision said that an accused person "must be warned that he has a right to remain" this
silent
Jamin
|
$400
[19]
A maker of maps & atlases
cartographer
Alex
|
$400
[20]
Hitler tried to return Yakov Dzhugashvili, this Soviet leader's son, in a P.O.W. swap; dad declined, saying "War is war"
Stalin
Ellen
|
|
$800
[26]
Never mind the "Nevermore", he's been in Baltimoresince 1921
(Edgar Allan) Poe
Jamin
|
$800
[27]
The Great Lakes are great for Esox lucius, the northern this
pike
|
$800
[2]
2002: Ronald Harwood, from the memoir by Polish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman
The Pianist
Ellen
|
$800
[18]
Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote songs with heart for this 2016 animated film about the search for the heart of Te Fiti
Moana
Ellen
|
$800
[12]
The opening of the "Mission: Impossible" TV show advised that the instructional tape would do this "in 5 seconds"
self-destruct
Jamin
|
$800
[4]
Marko Milosevic, son of the former leader of this country, is said to have crashed over 20 luxury cars
Serbia
Ellen
Jamin
|
|
$1,200
[23]
As you might expect, this author's statue is relaxing at thebarin the El Floridita in Havana
Hemingway
Alex
|
$1,200
[25]
Roe around on the Columbia River & you might spot the white, or Oregon, species of this huge freshwater fish
the sturgeon
|
$1,200
[3]
2005: Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana, based on a short story by Annie Proulx
Brokeback Mountain
Alex
|
$1,200
[15]
You'll find "Automatic" & "Little Red Wagon" on this country star's 2014 album "Platinum"
Miranda Lambert
Jamin
|
$1,200
[9]
The skin of this aquatic mammal is about 2 inches thick & secretes a pinkish fluid that acts as a sunblock
a hippopotamus
|
$1,200
[6]
Currently in power, this "Great Comrade" was reportedly dubbed "Morning Star King" by his mom
Kim Jong-un
Jamin
|
|
$2,000
[24]
The statue of this Victorian author, born Mary Ann Evans, is in Warwickshire, where she set many of her novels
George Eliot
|
$1,600
[28]
AKA the coalfish, it doesn't do action painting but does provide action for North Atlantic anglers
the pollock
|
$1,600
[5]
1999: John Irving, from his novel
The Cider House Rules
|
$1,600
[16]
Miranda in this play says, "O brave New World, that has such people in't!"
The Tempest
Alex
|
$1,600
[10]
Value-wise, it begins once you drive your new car off the lot
depreciation
Ellen
|
$1,600
[7]
Last name of Jean-Claude, AKA "Baby Doc", who at 19 succeeded his father as president for life of Haiti
Duvalier
Alex
|
|
DD
$3,000
[22]
Much ofher6th century B.C. poetry is lost, but her reputation as a female writing pioneer remains
Sappho
Jamin
|
$2,000
[30]
The North Atlantic abounds in this tasty fish that sparked 1970s trouble between Britain & Iceland
the cod
|
$2,000
[13]
1971: Ernest Tidyman, based on Robin Moore's nonfiction account of NYC cops & drug smuggling
The French Connection
Ellen
|
DD
$2,500
[17]
The smallest moon of Uranus, Miranda was discovered by this Dutchman, better known for his comet "Belt"
(Gerard) Kuiper
Alex
|
$2,000
[11]
From words meaning "life" & "difference" , it's the term for the range of species in a given environment
biodiversity
|
$2,000
[8]
In 2003 these 2 infamous sons were represented by the ace of hearts & the ace of clubs in the deck of Iraq's most wanted
Uday and Qusay
Jamin
|
From a Sanskrit word for "descent", it's the form a god takes upon descending to Earth
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