Natalie Hadjiloukas — a translator from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Vinny Byju — a student from Cambridge, Massachusetts
Gauravi Shah — a nuclear engineer and improv comedian from Cincinnati, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gauravi | $800 | $4,200 | $11,800 |
$1,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,800
15 R, 1 W |
| Vinny | $1,200 | $2,600 | $6,200 |
$3,399
New champion: $3,399 |
$5,800
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Natalie | $4,600 | $5,800 | $12,800 |
$800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$17,800
21 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| COUNTRY DROP A LETTER | THEILIAD | COUSIN EFFECT | THE REST OF THE SAYING | NO BELL | PRIZE |
|
$200
[18]
When a big Asian country loses its last vowel, it becomes this body part
chin (from China)
Gauravi
|
$200
[3]
Thought to contain material transmitted orally over centuries, the "Iliad" is attributed to this poet
Homer
Gauravi
|
$200
[21]
In 2011 this weatherman told "TODAY" show viewers he & Lenny Kravitz are cousins
Al Roker
Natalie
|
$200
[7]
Very alert:"bright-eyed &" this
bushy-tailed
Vinny
|
$200
[14]
Let me give you a hand with a practical joke using a "joy" this
a buzzer
Natalie
|
$200
[24]
midwestliving.com posted a mouth-watering slideshow of 12 foods that won this prize at state fairs--mmm, butterscotch pie
a blue ribbon
Natalie
|
|
$400
[4]
A Nordic country loses its first letter & becomes this area away from the coast
inland (from Finland)
|
$400
[8]
In book 3 Menelaus fights Paris, who ran off with this wife
Helen
Natalie
|
$400
[22]
Jenny McCarthy's first cousin is this scene-stealing co-star of "Bridesmaids"
Melissa McCarthy
Gauravi
Vinny
|
$400
[6]
Important people:"movers & " these
shakers
Natalie
|
$400
[15]
The Motorola LS350 is this type of device also called a pager
a beeper
Vinny
Natalie
|
$400
[25]
For 300 years the French government gave young artists the prize of a stay in this city; one winner's work is seen here
Rome
Gauravi
|
|
$600
[1]
Drop the fourth letter from an Iberian country & you get this general term for a distance
span (from Spain)
Gauravi
|
$600
[9]
There's quite a bit of graphic violence, as when Patroclus kills a Trojan with this long weapon, then hauls him up on it like a fish
a spear
Vinny
|
$600
[23]
In 2011 Gwyneth Paltrow said she'd never met this cousin & Arizona congresswoman, but her prayers were with her
Giffords
Vinny
|
$600
[11]
Completely settled:"cut &" this
dried
Natalie
|
$600
[19]
Types of this attention getter are slide, train & wolf, but it's probably best not to employ the wolf one anymore
whistle
Natalie
|
$600
[26]
Tata Steel of India was a 2008 winner of the Deming Prize in the field of TQM, total this management
quality
Gauravi
|
|
$800
[2]
Subtract a letter from a 4-letter African country & you get this man who be have s badly, especially to women
a cad (from Chad)
Natalie
|
$800
[10]
The main character & the greatest Greek warrior, he leads the Myrmidons against the Trojans
Achilles
Natalie
|
$1,000
[29]
"The Man with the Golden Gun", Christopher Lee can thank this cousin for creating James Bond
(Ian) Fleming
Gauravi
|
$800
[12]
With little hope of success:"on a wing &" this
a prayer
Natalie
|
$1,000
[20]
Chicago Blackhawks owner Bill Wirtz liked the sound of this on his yacht & used it when his team scored; the custom spread
a foghorn (a horn)
Gauravi
|
$800
[27]
The Abel Prize in this field is named for Niels Abel, famed for his work on the quintic function
math
Gauravi
Natalie
|
|
$1,000
[5]
When a Mediterranean isle loses its last letter, it becomes this soda fountain drink
a malt (from Malta)
|
$1,000
[16]
This Trojan warrior is saved by Aphrodite, or there might never have been that epic by Virgil
Aeneas
Gauravi
|
— |
$1,000
[13]
"All dressed up &" this problem
nowhere to go
Natalie
|
DD
$1,200
[17]
In Greek myth, sailors resisted the calls of these sea nymphs by putting wax in their ears
sirens
Vinny
|
$1,000
[28]
Seen at the ceremony of the Breakthrough Prize for scientific discoveries are co-sponsors Mark Zuckerberg&this physician wife
(Priscilla) Chan
Natalie
|
| WINTRY READING | MEET YOUR WATERLOO | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES | SATURN | PRESIDENTIAL HOMES | A UNIQUE SYNONYM |
|
$400
[1]
In a kids' book, on a snowy day Nicki loses this item of clothing, just like the 3 little kittens
mittens
Vinny
|
$400
[23]
When the Republic of Texas decided to move the government there in 1839, Waterloo, Texas got this new name
Austin
Vinny
|
$400
[16]
Cameron Diaz sings & dances as the magical British nanny of Ben Stiller's desire
There's Something About Mary Poppins
Vinny
|
$400
[3]
Made up primarily of dust & ice, these of the planet Saturn are divided into 7 groups, A through G
the rings
Gauravi
|
$400
[17]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Massachusetts.) A national park in Massachusetts preserves the adjacent birthplaces of these two presidents: the first born in 1735, in that cottage, & second, born in 1767 in theother
John Adams & John Quincy Adams
Vinny
|
$400
[15]
It's between the toes & the heel
sole
|
|
$800
[7]
Dostoyevsky's autobiographical novel "The House of the Dead" has been published with the subtitle "or, Prison Life" here--brrr!
Siberia
Vinny
|
$800
[26]
For work on lasers, Donna Strickland of Ontario's University of Waterloo became the first woman Nobel laureate for this in 55 years
physics
Gauravi
|
$1,200
[21]
Edward Norton tries to convince his brother Edward Furlong not to hate or join up with mutants like Wolverine
American History X Men
Natalie
|
$800
[4]
In an epic poem by Keats, Saturn turns for help in regaining his throne to this rather "hyper" other titan
Hyperion
Natalie
|
$800
[27]
From 1955 until Jerry became president, the Ford family lived in a 4-bedroom Colonial in Alexandria in this state
Virginia
Natalie
|
$800
[12]
Lacking small fire-lighting sticks
matchless
Vinny
|
|
$1,200
[5]
The 2019 book "The Enchanted Forest" is a tie-in with this long-awaited animated sequel
Frozen 2
Natalie
|
$1,200
[24]
In the 1890s a fossil one of these mammoth relatives was unearthed near Waterloo in DeKalb County, Indiana
a mastodon
Natalie
|
$1,600
[22]
Struggling in Hollywood, Emma Stone & Ryan Gosling time travel with paleontologist Will Ferrell & befriend a primate named Chaka
La La Land of the Lost
Vinny
|
$1,200
[10]
In 1610 this man was the first to observe Saturn through a telescope
Galileo
Gauravi
|
$1,200
[19]
His hat hangs from an elk antler at Sagamore Hill, his Oyster Bay, New York home
Teddy Roosevelt
Natalie
|
$1,200
[11]
Without a member of the House of Lords
peerless
Vinny
|
|
$1,600
[2]
Set in Iceland, the sixth novel in the Detective Erlendur series is titled not "Frostbite" but this condition
hypothermia
Gauravi
|
— |
$2,000
[25]
George Clooney & Will Smith team up & hunt Nazi art thieves & alien bugs
The Monuments Men in Black
|
$1,600
[8]
Saturn has more than 60 moons, including this second-largest named for Zeus' mother
Rhea
Natalie
|
$1,600
[18]
He wrote part of 1809's "History of New York" while staying in what would later be Martin Van Buren's home, Lindenwald
Washington Irving
|
$1,600
[13]
Confinement in a separate prison cell by oneself
solitary
Gauravi
|
|
$2,000
[6]
It's 1954 & tensions are high on an island with a lot of Japanese Americans in David Guterson's novel "Snow Falling on" these
Cedars
Natalie
|
— |
DD
$3,000
[20]
A holiday classic where an angel gets his wings & Roberto Benigni gets an Oscar
It's a Wonderful Life Is Beautiful
Natalie
|
$2,000
[9]
Saturn was the Roman equivalent of this Greek father god
Kronos
Natalie
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
Dead just 3 months after retiring, James K. Polk was buried at Polk Place in this state capital
Nashville
Natalie
|
$2,000
[14]
Unhitched
single
Gauravi
|
A member of the British Amateur Athletic Club wrote this 1867 set of 12 regulations whose name honors nobleman John Sholto Douglas
the 12 rules of Queensberry