Jennifer Quail game 8.
Lisa Murray — a grant writer from Ann Arbor, Michigan
Jeanne Fuller — a trauma surgery administrator from Irvine, California
Jennifer Quail — a wine tasting consultant from Dowagiac, Michigan (whose 7-day cash winnings total $198,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jennifer | $2,200 | $11,800 | $27,400 |
$30,400
8-day champion: $228,800 |
$26,000
31 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Jeanne | $2,000 | $1,200 | $9,200 |
$11,198
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,200
12 R, 1 W |
| Lisa | $-200 | $1,000 | $3,600 |
$7,100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,600
9 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN | YOU'RE A BUNCH OF CARDS | 3-LETTER WORDS | HOUSE & HOME | MOVIE EXCHANGES | NELLIE BLY |
|
$200
[16]
The opening of this in 1869 provided direct water access between the Mediterranean & the Red Sea
the Suez Canal
Jeanne
|
$200
[1]
Chase Sapphire, Discover, Blue Cash
credit cards
Lisa
|
$200
[2]
Partner of hither, it means farther away
yon
Jennifer
|
$200
[8]
After the high chair, a toddler can graduate to this seat
a booster seat
Jeanne
|
$200
[13]
Him: "Back up, we don't have enough road to get up to 88." Doc Brown: "Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads"
Marty McFly
Jennifer
|
$200
[26]
Nellie Bly was a reporter for this man's New York World & had she been born later, she might have won one of his prizes
(Joseph) Pulitzer
Jennifer
|
|
$400
[17]
This island belonging to France is just 7 miles from Sardinia
Corsica
Lisa
|
$400
[7]
Oyster, Smar Trip, Clipper
subway cards (transit cards)
Jennifer
Lisa
|
$400
[3]
Three-letter name for the offspring seen here
a kid
Jennifer
|
$400
[9]
In your bathroom you might have a corner or clawfoot one of these
a tub
Jeanne
|
$400
[14]
Young Jenny: "What's wrong with your legs?" This character: "Nothin' at all, thank you. My legs are just fine and dandy"
Forrest Gump
Jennifer
|
$400
[27]
Venturing south to report from this country, Bly reported "American food is insipid in comparison" to the local food
Mexico
Jennifer
|
|
$600
[18]
A 2015 hit song was about what happened when "I took a pill in" this third-largest of Spain's Balearic Islands
"Ibiza"
|
$600
[20]
SD, Compact Flash, Smart Media
memory cards
Jennifer
|
$600
[4]
Water begins to form on plants & cars at this "point", the temperature at which the atmosphere is saturated with water vapor
dew
Jennifer
|
$600
[10]
You don't have to hold a candle if you have this hanging fixture whose name is from a word meaning "something that holds candles"
chandelier
Jeanne
Lisa
|
$600
[15]
Neo: "What are you trying to tell me, that I can dodge bullets?" Him: "No... when you're ready, you won't have to"
Morpheus
Lisa
|
$800
[29]
WWI correspondent Nellie was literally "in the" these, which she described as "muddy & filthy"
the trenches
Jennifer
|
|
$800
[19]
Straddling 2 continents, this city famous for its mosques & palaces has been called the place where "East meets West"
Istanbul
Jennifer
|
$800
[21]
The hermit, the hanged man, the 4 of pentacles
tarot cards
Lisa
|
$800
[5]
This 3-letter word can mean "except", especially preceding "none"
bar
Lisa
|
$800
[11]
Benjamin Maughan invented one of these called the geyser; nowadays tankless ones have eradicated cold showers
a hot water heater
Jeanne
|
$800
[24]
2 characters: "Look, your worshipfulness... I take orders from just one person: me"; "It's a wonder you're still alive"
Han Solo & Princess Leia
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[30]
For her first big story, Bly faked insanity & was diagnosed with this 8-letter "female malady" & committed to an asylum
hysteria
Jennifer
|
|
$1,000
[23]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) While Greece is the southernmost country of the Balkan Peninsula, the southernmost part of mainland Greece is this other peninsula where ancient Sparta was located
the Peloponnesian
Jennifer
Jeanne
|
$1,000
[22]
Topps, Bowman, Panini America
baseball cards
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[6]
A fuzzy surface on leather
a nap
Lisa
|
$1,000
[12]
IKEA sells freestanding these for the kitchen; models include Vadholma & Tornviken
islands
Lisa
|
$1,000
[25]
2 characters: "You're using Bonetti's Defense against me, ah?"; "I thought it fitting considering the rocky terrain"
Inigo Montoya & Westley
Jennifer
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
While famously going around the world in 72 days, Bly met this author who told her how her route differed from Phileas Fogg's
Jules Verne
Jennifer
|
| BY POPE-ULAR DEMAND | LITERARY TV ADAPTATIONS | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGY | WORD WAR Z | FACTS | MATTER |
|
$400
[6]
In 1508 Julius II told him, forget Florence--I got a ceiling for you to paint, or words to that effect
Michelangelo
Jeanne
|
$400
[1]
This show about the bionic Steve Austin was based on the novel "Cyborg"
The Six Million Dollar Man
Jennifer
|
$400
[7]
In German place names, bad means "bath" & a spa town got its name from this plural word for bath
baden
Lisa
|
$400
[18]
Zywiec, a town in this Central European nation, is home to the Komorowski Castle
Poland
Jennifer
|
$400
[14]
A flying fox, with a wingspan of up to 5 feet, isn't a fox--it's this type of mammal
a bat
Jeanne
|
$400
[26]
The 3 basic states of matter are solid, liquid & this; superfluids, plasmas & superconductors got defined later
gases
Jennifer
|
|
$800
[12]
At a mass in 1978, John Paul II repeatedly said, "Be not" this, a biblical phrase calling for Christian courage
afraid
Jennifer
|
$800
[2]
Michael Sheen & David Tennant play an angel & demon in this series based on a Neil Gaiman-Terry Pratchett comic novel
Good Omens
Jennifer
|
$800
[8]
Xian means "county" in this language
Mandarin
Lisa
|
$800
[19]
Car and Driver test drove one of these rink machines & said it had "the vague steering" of a '70s Cadillac
a Zamboni
Jeanne
|
$800
[15]
In the mid-19th century, the screw type of this took over from the paddle wheel as the way to make steamships go
a propeller
Jennifer
|
$800
[27]
Energy & matter can be converted into each other, says this notable equation from 1905
E=mc 2
Jennifer
|
|
$1,200
[13]
After 1378 rival popes in Rome & Avignon excommunicated each other during the Great Western this 6-letter term
Schism
Jeanne
|
$1,200
[3]
Played by Timothy Olyphant on "Justified", Raylan Givens appeared earlier in the short story "Fire in the Hole" by this author
Elmore Leonard
|
$1,600
[10]
The Spanish word "Baja" in Baja California means this
below (lower)
Jeanne
|
$1,200
[21]
Zymosis is a type of this process that produces alcohol by the conversion of sugar
fermentation
Jennifer
|
$1,200
[20]
On I-64 it's about an 80-mile drive between these 2 metrop-"L"-ises of Kentucky
Louisville and Lexington
Jennifer
|
$1,200
[28]
Hydrogen & helium, which make up 98% of atomic matter, were formed during the first few minutes after this event not caught on film
the Big Bang
Lisa
|
|
$1,600
[16]
Pius X's demand for the resignations of 2 bishops led to France's 1905 law mandating the separation of these 2 entities
church and state
Jennifer
|
$1,600
[4]
Season 5 of this detective show was largely based on Michael Connelly's "Two Kinds of Truth"
Bosch
|
$2,000
[11]
This word that follows Andhra & Uttar comes from Sanskrit for "province"
Pradesh
Jennifer
|
$1,600
[22]
It's the former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Zaire
Jennifer
|
$1,600
[24]
Before Prohibition, middle-class women were rarely seen in bars; sincethese1920s establishments were illegal anyway, they were welcomed
speakeasies
Jennifer
|
$1,600
[29]
All forms of matter have this property, the resistance of an object to a change in its state of motion
inertia
Jeanne
|
|
DD
$2,000
[17]
On Jan. 25, 1959 John XXIII called for this, the 21st ecumenical council of the church, but it sounds more like the 1st sequel
Vatican II
Jennifer
|
$2,000
[5]
Based on a Caroline Kepnes novel, this Lifetime/Netflix series about stalking is one creepy pronoun
You
|
DD
$2,200
[9]
From Indo-Iranian for "place", these 4 letters at the end of a place name mean "land of"
stan
Lisa
|
$2,000
[23]
Feeding on flies, zyzzyx is a sand type of this stinging insect
a wasp
Jeanne
|
$2,000
[25]
In the late 1800s this physician identified Mycobacterium leprae, the cause of a disease now named for him
Gerhard Hansen
Lisa
|
$2,000
[30]
A 1964 prediction said this 2-named subatomic particle imparts mass to all known elementary particles
the Higgs boson
|
It's the last name of the man who said, "Our whole concept was based on speed, lower prices & volume...my God, the carhops were slow"
McDonald