Audrey Koh — a professional taste tester from Oakland, California
Matthew Leonard — a client services coordinator from New Haven, Connecticut
Michelle Paul — a managing director from Newark, Delaware (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,900)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michelle | $3,600 | $4,800 | $10,200 |
$12,222
2-day champion: $30,122 |
$9,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Matthew | $0 | $1,600 | $3,200 |
$0
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,000
9 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Audrey | $1,600 | $3,400 | $-2,600 |
$-2,600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,400
11 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| SYMBOLS | @ | % | "&" | * | > |
|
$200
[3]
On the Great Seal of the United States, the eagle grasps this symbol of peace in its right talon
an olive branch
Matthew
|
$200
[1]
About 1,600 smaller islands surround the main one of this nation that's 90 miles south of Key West
Cuba
Audrey
|
$400
[26]
The occupy Wall Street movement helped popularize the populist phrase "We are the" this
the 99%
Audrey
|
$400
[24]
A classic reader featured "Fun with" these 2 siblings, along with their dog Spot
Dick & Jane
Audrey
|
$400
[19]
A footnote in Richard Feynman's Caltech lectures scolds these versifiers who say science reduces the stars' beauty
poets
Michelle
|
$400
[25]
The People's Choice winner for best TV Comedy of 2018 was this show set in a prison
Orange is the New Black
Michelle
|
|
$400
[4]
One symbolic representation of Christ is as the paschal type of this animal
a lamb
Michelle
|
$400
[23]
No visit to Iceland would be complete without a visit to the "Bay of Smokes", this capital city founded around 874
Reykjavik
Michelle
|
$600
[22]
In 2018-19 James Harden of this team led the NBA in usage, the percentage of plays he's involved in on offense
the Houston Rockets
|
$600
[7]
Benjamin Franklin wrote, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except" these 2 things
death & taxes
Michelle
|
$600
[10]
You can get "Lost" in the footnotes & notes on the footnotes in "S.", a novel conceived by this sci-fi writer-director
J.J. Abrams
Michelle
|
$600
[13]
In 2019 Jason Bateman won an Emmy for his direction of this series & Julia Garner won for playing Missouri local Ruth Langmore
Ozark
Matthew
|
|
$600
[8]
Gary Anderson designed 3 chasing arrows as the symbol for this; the negative space on the inside resembles a pine tree
recycling
Audrey
|
$800
[16]
A small trading town until the 19th c., this city on the Huangpu River now has a pop. of 20+ million, kidnapped sailors aside
Shanghai
Matthew
|
$800
[17]
In the dystopian Netflix show "3%", kids in the slums of this largest Brazilian city are competing to join an offshore paradise
São Paulo
Audrey
|
$800
[5]
It's the traditional name of the British dish seen here
bangers & mash
Audrey
|
$800
[11]
A 2016 papal footnote caused a ruckus by saying some divorced Catholics can have "the help of" these, such as communion
the sacraments
|
$800
[20]
In 2019 the Grammy for Best Country Duo/Group Performance went to "Tequila" by the duo of Dan + him
Shay
Audrey
|
|
$800
[18]
Long a symbol of communism, this pair represents the union of worker & peasant
hammer and sickle
Matthew
|
$1,000
[15]
What a pyramid scheme! The landmarkherein this ancient Mayan city was dedicated to Kukulkan
Chichen Itza
|
$1,000
[6]
The government contacts about 110,000 people to get this monthly figure, 3.6% for Oct. 2019
unemployment
Matthew
|
$1,000
[2]
In 1949 Billboard added this new music category to replace what had been called Race Records
R&B (Rhythm & Blues)
Matthew
|
$1,000
[12]
Gibbon's notes in "Decline and Fall of" this include a burn on an ancient historian, "Ammianus is so eloquent, that he writes nonsense"
the Roman Empire
Michelle
|
$1,000
[21]
With superheroic effort at 2019's NAACP Image Awards, he bested Michael B. Jordan--again--as Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
(Chadwick) Boseman
Audrey
|
|
$1,000
[9]
Because of his days as a sailor, the founder of this department store used a red star as its symbol
Macy's
Michelle
|
DD
$2,800
[14]
This waterway extends 51 miles from Limón Bay to a second bay whose name would kinda give it away
the Panama Canal
Matthew
|
— | — | — | — |
| SPECIES NAMES | 14-LETTER WORDS | LITERARY FESTIVALS | HISTORIC PLEAS | WORLD TRANSPORTATION | REAL-LIFE CELEBRITY SUPERHEROES |
|
$400
[10]
Macropus rufus is this color kangaroo
red
Matthew
|
$400
[1]
The action of changing a lowercase letter into an uppercase one
capitalization
Michelle
Matthew
|
$400
[15]
This California city is home to Litquake, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2019
San Francisco
Michelle
|
$400
[6]
In 1860, after anti-abolitionists broke up a meeting, this thinker & ex-slave delivered a plea for freedom of speech in Boston
(Frederick) Douglass
Audrey
|
$1,200
[9]
This U.S. interstate passes through 8 states on its 2,400+ mile journey from Santa Monica to Jacksonville
I-10
Audrey
|
$1,200
[12]
I, this '90s figure skater, called 911 & gave mouth-to-mouth to an 81-year-old woman who collapsed in a bar in Portland
Tonya Harding
Michelle
|
|
$1,200
[16]
The annuus in Helianthus annuus, the sunflower, implies it lives up to this number of years
one
Michelle
|
$800
[2]
Buildings & roads are part of this, the set of features needed for running a city
infrastructure
Michelle
|
$800
[18]
The Tennessee Williams & the Saints & Sinners LGBT Literary Festivals are both held in this southern city
New Orleans
Michelle
|
$800
[7]
An 11th c. chronicle says Lady Godiva pleaded with her husband to lower the people's taxes; he said okay, if you'll do this
horseback ride naked through the town
Audrey
|
$1,600
[5]
Carrying 5,000-plus passengers, one of the largest cruiseliners, the "Harmony of the Seas" is operated by this company with a sea name
Royal Caribbean
|
$2,000
[4]
Before playing Gibbs on "NCIS", he sledgehammered the window of a burning car & pulled 2 teens to safety
Mark Harmon
|
|
$2,000
[24]
The gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus, is named for one of these cave-dwelling creatures in Greek myth
a cyclops
|
$1,200
[3]
Someone in this profession of the man seen here, from the Greek for "ancient", often works with an archaeologist
a paleontologist
Audrey
|
$1,200
[19]
Each year the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada hosts the national gathering for poetry named for this rustic job
cowboy
|
$1,600
[23]
Lycaon, son of this Trojan king, begs Achilles, "Be merciful and spare me"; Achilles kills him
King Priam (or "Pree-um")
Audrey
|
$2,000
[11]
In 31 hours South Africa's blue train travels in luxury between these 2 cities, the administrative & legislative capitals
Cape Town & Pretoria
Audrey
|
— |
|
DD
$2,200
[17]
Pandalus borealis, the deepwater prawn, is also known as this directional shrimp
northern (**north)
Michelle
|
$1,600
[13]
If you have this condition, you see distant objects more clearly than near ones
farsightedness
Michelle
Matthew
|
$1,600
[20]
Louisville's Gonzofest is not about Muppets; it celebrates the writing of this native son
Hunter Thompson
Audrey
|
$2,000
[22]
He asked for mercy from Chester Arthur, arguing that he increased Arthur's income from $8,000 to $50,000 a year
Charles Guiteau
|
— | — |
| — |
$2,000
[14]
Adjective for a space probe designed to travel between earth & Jupiter, for example
interplanetary
Matthew
Audrey
|
$2,000
[21]
One of the largest book festivals in Europe is held in Poland & named for this author of "Heart of Darkness"
(Joseph) Conrad
Matthew
|
DD
$4,000
[8]
Chief Joseph met Teddy Roosevelt & pleaded with him to allow this tribe to return to its ancestral home
Nez Perce
Audrey
|
— | — |
Legend says local farm wife Marie Harel & a priest from Brie created the famous product of this Normandy village
Camembert