Mohammed Ali — a physician from Bear, Delaware
Joanna LeRoy — an attorney from Boston, Massachusetts
Alex Damisch — a data scientist from Chicago, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $26,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex | $1,800 | $4,800 | $5,600 |
$7,349
3-day champion: $33,549 |
$8,000
9 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Joanna | $3,800 | $4,800 | $8,400 |
$5,599
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,400
15 R, 2 W |
| Mohammed | $1,000 | $1,800 | $9,800 |
$2,799
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,800
12 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
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|
$200
[29]
To her teachers in Stockholm: I'm starting a strike to protest climate change, then sailing to New York; try me on sat phone
Greta Thunberg
Joanna
|
$200
[6]
Jenna Bush Hager has a big wine glass to fill replacing Kathie Lee Gifford as co-host of this show's 4th hour
TODAY show
Mohammed
|
$200
[30]
Here'sa view passengers can't get--taken from high above SFO--this facility
San Francisco Airport
Mohammed
|
$200
[27]
The "Band-Aid" is Vietnam-era slang for this important member of a combat unit
a medic
Alex
|
$200
[22]
In McMurray's diagnostic test, feeling a click in the wrong place can indicate a meniscal tear in this joint
the knee
Joanna
|
$200
[18]
A general disposition to expect the best
optimism
Joanna
|
|
$400
[28]
From her, in 1921: I'm traveling to get presented with a gram of radium by President Harding, but I'm available on cell! Au revoir!
Marie Curie
Joanna
|
$400
[5]
On "Dead to Me", Linda Cardellini befriends this "Married...with Children" actress at a grief support group
Christina Applegate
Joanna
|
$400
[26]
The giant waveherewas captured on the east side of this island of about a million people where big waves are a way of life
Oahu
Joanna
|
$400
[9]
"Chest candy" means these
medals
Joanna
|
$400
[21]
It's Internet content designed to get you to navigate to a website where you may possibly be disappointed
clickbait
Joanna
|
$400
[17]
It's from the Latin for "favorable"; when it knocks, open the door
opportunity
Joanna
|
|
$600
[25]
From Billy Clanton, October 26, 1881: Got a dental appointment... with this killer dentist
Doc Holliday
|
$600
[4]
This children's character played by Bob Keeshan wasn't Australian; he was named for the large pouches in his coat
Captain Kangaroo
Joanna
|
$600
[1]
The grand prize winner shows a village on this largest island.Buildingscolored according to their function are helpful in a snowy landscape
Greenland
Joanna
|
$600
[12]
Onboard a U.S. Navy ship, "pollywogs" turn into "shellbacks" when they've crossed this geographic line
the equator
|
$600
[15]
Ray & Tom Magliozzi were known as Click & Clack, the Tappet Brothers, when they hosted this long-running NPR radio show
Car Talk
|
$600
[16]
Adjective meaning ostentatiously lavish
opulent
Mohammed
|
|
DD
$1,000
[11]
In 1913, from this Jr. capitalist: Working from home in my new mansion, at 102 feet the tallest house yet built in New York City
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Mohammed
|
$800
[3]
As a series creator & actor, hehas cast himself as the righteous Jesse Gemstone as well as the crass Kenny Powers
Danny McBride
Joanna
|
$800
[8]
Vultures can soar gracefully for hours & are classified, along with hawks & eagles, as these, from the Latin for "to seize"
raptors (*birds of prey)
Mohammed
|
$800
[13]
Common term referring to the means by which a significant other breaks up with a service member by mail
a Dear John letter
Alex
|
$800
[23]
Heard by the musicians, click tracks use this device to keep tempo in a song
a metronome
|
$800
[19]
A musical work not as serious as "Rigoletto"; "Babes in Toyland", for example
operetta (*light opera)
Alex
|
|
$1,000
[10]
From him, around 1400: Fynishd wrytng my "Tales" & am off to finde a prufreadur; myghte take a whil
Chaucer
Mohammed
|
$1,000
[2]
The alla prima art technique allowed this man who passed away in 1995 to complete a painting in 30 minutes on PBS
Bob Ross
Joanna
|
$1,000
[7]
Adapted to their alpine home, these wild goats with distinctive horns survey their domain
ibexes
Alex
|
$1,000
[14]
Ejecting from an aircraft & using a parachute is called "hitting" this fabric
the silk
|
$1,000
[24]
The "X"-factor of this South African language is 18 different clicks
Xhosa
Alex
|
$1,000
[20]
It's a branch of physics, or the way a situation looks in the public eye
optics
Alex
|
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|
$400
[9]
New Orleans' Lafayette Square is just south of this district AKA the Vieux Carre, naturellement
the French Quarter
Alex
Mohammed
|
$400
[15]
Look what you made me do, you alliterative British singer! I can't stop humming your 2019 single "Dancing with a Stranger"
Sam Smith
Mohammed
|
$800
[24]
2 characters in her novel "The Last Man" are portraits of her late husband & of Lord Byron
(Mary) Shelley
Joanna
|
$800
[23]
George Lakoff argues that these figures of speech like "He's at the peak of health" are fundamental to how we see the world
metaphors
Joanna
|
$1,200
[21]
The book series about this "Scenario" includes "Retirement" & "Politics"
The Worst-Case Scenario
|
$1,600
[20]
This word for a voting district is from Latin for "surrounding area"
precinct
|
|
$800
[8]
Lafayette, Alabama has an 8-foot bronze statue of this native son & 1930s & '40s heavyweight champ
(Joe) Louis
Mohammed
|
$800
[14]
A band references its own name in the lyric "counting" these, "one for sorrow, two for joy"
crows
Joanna
|
$1,200
[22]
Hepublished many novels in the decade, including "The Pirate", set in the Shetland & Orkney Islands
Sir Walter Scott
|
$1,200
[10]
Trilling is a synonym for verbally doing this with your Rs rrrrrrrepeatedly
rolling them
Joanna
|
$1,600
[17]
Before it described an accident, "contretemps" was a word for a false thrust or pass in this sport
fencing
|
$2,000
[16]
The Commonwealth Electoral Bill of 1924 made voting in federal elections compulsory in this country
Australia
Alex
|
|
$1,200
[7]
Lafayette, Louisiana is home to the Live this Society, whose members are trees with girths of 8 feet or more
Oaks
|
$1,200
[13]
On 2019 album charts Khalid was neighbors with this similar-named artist's "Father of Asahd"
DJ Khaled
Mohammed
|
$2,000
[4]
"Konrad Wallenrod" from 1828 is an epic poem about a Lithuanian prince fighting this invading German crusading order
the Teutonic Knights
|
$1,600
[1]
As in saying the word "cough", a glottal stop is a speech sound made by closing these & releasing them
the vocal cords
Alex
Mohammed
|
$2,000
[3]
How bad can this Italian word be if it describes abottlefor Chianti?
fiasco
|
DD
$2,800
[19]
This electoral change didn't come to Switzerland until 1971, 51 years after it came to the United States
female suffrage
Alex
|
|
$1,600
[6]
Anobelisknear Lafayette, Indiana memorialized this 1811 battle where William Henry Harrison gained fame
Tippecanoe
Mohammed
|
$1,600
[12]
Real name Melissa, with albums like "Supa Dupa Fly" she's the 1st female hip-hop artist in the Songwriters Hall of Fame
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott
|
DD
$4,000
[18]
Jane Webb Loudon wrote the 1st novel about one of these creatures, including the line "'Weak, feeble worm!' exclaimed Cheops"
a mummy
Alex
|
$2,000
[2]
"Schleicher's Fable" was written by a linguist in 1868 in P.I.E. or Proto-this, the ancestor of tongues from Hindi to English
Indo-European
Alex
|
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|
$2,000
[5]
Located entirely within Norfolk, Va., the Lafayette River meets the Elizabeth River just below the anchorage area called these Roads
Hampton
Mohammed
|
$2,000
[11]
Nirvana was Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl & this bassist
Krist Novoselic
|
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"Why does not the Pope... build the basilica of St. Peter with his own money rather than with the money of poor believers?" is one of these
Luther's theses