Gabrielle Merken — a student assessment specialist from Washington, D.C.
Emma Wall — a graduate student from La Jolla, California
Alex Damisch — a data scientist from Chicago, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex | $2,400 | $5,300 | $14,300 |
$13,399
2-day champion: $26,200 |
$10,400
18 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Emma | $2,000 | $2,800 | $6,800 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,800
13 R, 3 W |
| Gabrielle | $2,000 | $5,000 | $7,600 |
$1,599
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,200
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| THE OLD WEST | THIS CATEGORY IS FULL OF VINEGAR | BEFORE & AFTER | ENTREPRENHEIRS | WHO WROTE IT? | THE WWE SLAMMY AWARDS |
|
$200
[16]
If you were being serenaded by a "prairie tenor" around the campfire, you were hearing this cut-rate wolf
a coyote
Gabrielle
|
$200
[12]
Made from Trebbiano grapes, this Italian vinegar is aged in barrels to get its dark color & sweetness
balsamic
Alex
|
$200
[2]
Giant bell in the London clock tower that published "Poor Richard's Almanack"
Big Ben Franklin
Alex
|
$200
[11]
Dylan Lauren, daughter of this fashion designer, founded Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001 & now offers "7,000 edible treats"
Ralph Lauren
Gabrielle
|
$200
[10]
The novel "Catch-22"
(Joseph) Heller
Emma
|
$200
[26]
The 1986 Slammys saw Nikolai Volkoff win "Most Ignominious" & as girls just want to have fun, "Best Producer" was Mona Flambé, AKA her
Cyndi Lauper
Alex
Emma
|
|
$400
[17]
Some lazy, some crazy, these marks were registered in a book & showed the ownership of open-range cattle
brands
Alex
|
$400
[13]
Kartoffelsalat, German this salad, gets its zing from vinegar
potato salad
Gabrielle
|
$400
[4]
Golf short game practice area served up in the title of a Dr. Seuss book
a putting Green Eggs and Ham
Emma
|
$400
[21]
Thisheiress and reality show star has brought 20-plus fragrances to the world and has more than $1.5 billion in sales
Paris Hilton
Alex
|
$400
[9]
The poem "Mending Wall"
Robert Frost
Alex
|
$400
[27]
Doing the work of 2 1/2 men, this actor beat Tyson, Schwarzenegger & the Muppets to be Top Social Media Ambassador in 2012
Charlie Sheen
Gabrielle
|
|
$800
[19]
The pre-Civil War discovery of gold in Colorado led to cries of this alliterative site "or Bust"
Pike's Peak
|
$600
[14]
A proper Brit will not have his chips with anything but this vinegar made from fermented barley
malt vinegar
Gabrielle
|
$600
[1]
Grinning enigmatic acquaintance of Alice in Wonderland seen in cross section by doctors
the Cheshire Cat scan
Emma
|
$600
[22]
Yeah yeah yeah, her dad is a musician of note but it was she who was VH1/Vogue Designer of the Year in 2000
Stella McCartney
Gabrielle
|
$600
[6]
The play "Waiting for Godot"
Beckett
Alex
|
$600
[28]
New Sensation of the Ring in 1997 was this guy who now dabbles in action films...& TV...& basically, world domination
Dwayne Johnson (the Rock)
Emma
|
|
$1,000
[20]
Jesse & Frank James saddled up with these other brothers--Jim, John, Bob & Cole
the Youngers
|
$800
[15]
In 1864 this Frenchman showed how the Acetobacter bacteria turned alcohol into vinegar
Pasteur
Emma
|
$800
[3]
If they used a well-known brand of kosher hot dogs instead of bats, the Dodgers & Phillies would be in this baseball group
the Hebrew National League
Gabrielle
|
$800
[23]
Ariana Rockefeller's fashion line has roots in great-great-grandpa co-founding this company
Standard Oil
Alex
|
$800
[7]
"An Essay on Criticism", 1711
Alexander Pope
|
$800
[29]
Thisex-UFCer and arm bar master got a "This is Awesome" Moment of the Year Slammy for her work in Wrestlemania 31
Ronda Rousey
Gabrielle
|
|
DD
$1,500
[18]
This Arizona site that entered Old West legend in 1881 had ' "Livery and Feed Stables" in its full name
the O.K. Corral
Alex
|
$1,000
[25]
This organic product, perhaps from Bragg, is combined with turmeric for a drink said to be anti-inflammatory
apple cider vinegar
Gabrielle
|
$1,000
[5]
Condition of being unable to think of anything to pen for a long time that becomes a neighborhood celebration
a writer's block party
Alex
|
$1,000
[24]
It doesn't take an Oracle to know this last name of Megan, producer of Oscar-nominated films like "Her" & "Zero Dark Thirty"
Ellison
|
$1,000
[8]
The 1986 memoir "All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes"
Maya Angelou
|
$1,000
[30]
No winner for 1987's Song of the Year--Sika ate the envelope--but this WWE head honcho was nominated & did perform "Stand Back"
Vince McMahon
|
| THE OLD WEST | WHEN TV WAS FREE | WOMEN OF SCIENCE | RANDOM FACTS | KEEPING UP WITH THE KENNEDYS | ENDS IN "SS" |
|
$400
[18]
Before 500 B.C. the Greeks had reached westward to colonize much of southern Italy, including Neapolis, now this city
Naples
Gabrielle
|
$400
[16]
He shot to fame in the '70s playing Mork
Robin Williams
Alex
|
$400
[1]
"Queen of Carbon Science" Mildred Dresselhaus was the first female National Medal of Science winner in this "E" in STEM
engineering
Alex
|
$400
[26]
In 1912 Arthur Eldred made a fire from 2 sticks & a string & became the USA's first Scout to earn this honor
an Eagle Scout
Emma
|
$400
[13]
His dad was the "Lion of the Senate" & this man Jr. served in the Connecticut State Senate from 2015 to 2019
Ted Kennedy, Jr.
Gabrielle
|
$400
[10]
The 2 bulbs on this low-tech time-keeper are connected by a narrow passage sometimes called the waist
an hourglass
Alex
|
|
$800
[22]
In the 800s B.C. Assyrian armies began moving west of this 1,700-plus-mile river, eventually conquering most of the Middle East
the Euphrates
Emma
|
$800
[19]
This news magazine's 1988 first episode covered precisely 2 days in Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital
48 Hours
Emma
Gabrielle
|
$800
[3]
Nobel-winning pharmacologist Gertrude Elion oversaw the creation of the drug AZT, the first used to combat this condition
AIDS
Alex
|
$800
[12]
On the Christian calendar, it's the day after Shrove Tuesday
Ash Wednesday
Alex
|
$800
[27]
For a time, political dynasties were joined while Kerry Kennedy was married to Andrew of this New York family
the Cuomo family
Emma
|
$800
[9]
In this type of heart surgery, a blood vessel taken from a different part of the body is used to circumvent a blocked artery
a bypass
Emma
|
|
$1,200
[23]
The Umayyads had one of these entities that stretched to the western shores of Africa; in 2014 ISIS also claimed one
a caliphate
Emma
|
$1,200
[17]
It was as if Earth ceased its rotation when this CBS soap that had featured actors like Meg Ryan & Martin Sheen went off the air in 2010
As the World Turns
Emma
|
$1,200
[2]
Daughter of Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace created one of these for a machine devised by Charles Babbage
a code (a computer program)
Emma
|
$1,200
[11]
The Battle of Bosworth Field was the last major engagement of this conflict
War of the Roses
Alex
|
DD
$1,000
[29]
Timothy & Bobby Shriver both serve on the board that sponsors this intl. sports competition founded by their mom, Eunice
the Special Olympics
Gabrielle
|
$1,200
[6]
In Spain the Alhambra was a famous one
fortress
|
|
$1,600
[24]
"The Chronicle of the Discovery & Conquest of Guinea" recounts this Portuguese prince's subdual of the West Coast of Africa
Prince Henry the Navigator
|
$1,600
[20]
On a '70s drama Caine wanders the West, using this title martial art as needed
Kung Fu
|
$1,600
[4]
Jennifer Doudna & Emmanuelle Charpentier are co-inventors of the revolutionary tool CRISPR to edit these in the body
genes
Alex
|
$1,600
[14]
Today home to a U.S. military base, this nation was known as French Somaliland until 1967
Djibouti
Gabrielle
|
$1,200
[28]
In 2014, for her dedication to various causes, shereceived a Presidential Medal of Freedom
Ethel Kennedy
Alex
Gabrielle
|
$1,600
[7]
A poem says, "At length did cross" this bird, "Thorough the fog it came"
an albatross
Alex
|
|
$2,000
[25]
"Swan River Mania" brought settlers to what's now "Western" this in 1829
Western Australia
Emma
Gabrielle
|
$2,000
[21]
In the '80s Joan Collins was this schemer on "Dynasty"; Nicollette Sheridan took over in 2018
Alexis Carrington
|
DD
$5,000
[5]
Vera Rubin confirmed the existence of this component of the universe, originally dubbed "missing mass"
dark matter
Alex
|
$2,000
[15]
The Egyptian god Anubis bears the head of this animal
a jackal
Emma
|
$2,000
[30]
Late actor/activist Christopher, who wrote books on addiction, was the son of Patricia Kennedy & this British actor
Peter Lawford
|
$2,000
[8]
Derived from the name of a German mathematician, it means to neutralize a magnetic field
degauss
Alex
|
The title character of this novel says of his home, "The wind breathes cold through the broken battlements and casements"
Dracula