MacKenzie Jones game 8.
Greg Kihm — a systems engineer from Washington, D.C.
Signe Peterson Fourmy — a Ph.D. candidate from Austin, Texas
MacKenzie Jones — a program development director from Tulsa, Oklahoma (whose 7-day cash winnings total $184,208)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MacKenzie | $7,600 | $8,800 | $20,600 |
$20,600
8-day champion: $204,808 |
$15,000
21 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Signe | $1,000 | $3,400 | $3,000 |
$500
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,000
8 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Greg | $1,600 | $3,400 | $6,200 |
$6,100
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,200
13 R, 3 W |
| THE EARTH | HAIR DO | ISLANDS OF AFRICA | WORDS IN PLAIN SIGHT | THE DIGITAL AGE | WHISTLE BLOWERS |
|
$200
[8]
This type of tropical grassland plain found in South America & Africa sounds like a city in Georgia
savanna
MacKenzie
|
$200
[7]
The king of beasts has one around its neck
a mane
Greg
|
$200
[26]
Found off the east coast, it's the world's fourth-largest island
Madagascar
MacKenzie
|
$200
[3]
Dude, where's your girlfriend? You're going to the party this way? Oh, deer!
stag
Greg
|
$200
[1]
This rhyming company that tracks your motion has a Versa 2 smartwatch with Alexa onboard
Fitbit
MacKenzie
|
$200
[13]
In 1990 officials accidentally gave Colorado this many downs to score a last-second game-winning TD at Missouri
five
MacKenzie
|
|
$400
[9]
A basin is a land area drained by a river; 2 basins can be separated by a ridge called this, like a continental one
a divide
MacKenzie
|
$400
[17]
It can be a single hair, or a string of pearls
a strand
Greg
|
$400
[27]
Sites on Elephantine Island in this river across from the city of Aswan include the ancient temple of Khnum
the Nile
Signe
|
$400
[16]
Stop! Cease moving immediately! This!
halt
MacKenzie
|
$400
[2]
A ghost is the logo of this photo-messaging app
Snapchat
Signe
|
$400
[14]
If a referee is flashing one of these at a soccer player, the player isn't just being warned, he's being ejected
a red card
Greg
|
|
$800
[11]
Molokini Atoll, off Maui, is actually one of these craterscaused by the explosion & then collapse of a volcano's cone
a caldera
Greg
|
$600
[18]
"Fruity" 2-word term for fine hair that's growing for the first time
peach fuzz
Greg
|
$600
[28]
Africa's westernmost nation is this island group whose name means "green cape"
Cape Verde
MacKenzie
Signe
|
$600
[21]
A tiny, quick flash of light, perhaps in your eye
glint
Greg
|
$600
[4]
The Tinder app has popularized this 2-word term meaning to accept or approve of something
swipe right
MacKenzie
|
$600
[15]
Ref Clete Blakeman had to police the 2019 game in which the Browns' Myles Garrett swung this at the Steelers' quarterback
a helmet
Signe
|
|
$1,000
[12]
Spanish for "beach", it's a dry desert lake bed
playa
MacKenzie
|
$800
[19]
This hairstyle named for another native people was popular among the Ottawa, who were known as the "raised hair"
a mohawk
Signe
|
$800
[29]
Named for a nephew of George Washington, Bushrod Island is home to the main port of this West African nation
Liberia
Signe
|
$800
[22]
An unfavorable situation, or to promise, perhaps one's troth
plight
|
$800
[5]
Google recently decluttered this browser by simplifying the tab menu
Chrome
MacKenzie
|
$800
[24]
In the NHL, referees call penalties; these officials call offsides & break up fights
the linesmen
Greg
|
|
DD
$3,200
[10]
This is a narrow strip of land connecting 2 larger land areas, like the one connecting North & South America
an isthmus
MacKenzie
|
$1,000
[20]
French gives us the name of this "chi"-chi hairstyle, a large coil of hair worn at the nape of the neck
a chignon
Signe
|
$1,000
[30]
A historic spiritual center, Uganda's Ssese Islands are an archipelago of 84 islands in this lake
Lake Victoria
|
$1,000
[23]
A long, narrow strip of wood used as support for a bed
a slat
Greg
|
$1,000
[6]
Support your favorite streamers on this website that sounds like an involuntary spasm
Twitch
MacKenzie
|
$1,000
[25]
No-nonsense NBA ref Steve Javie, who once ejected a radio announcer, was nicknamed "Mr." this, short for a type of foul
T.
|
| TRIUMPH OF ARCHES | INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES | HIT & "RUN" | LET'S SPEAK HINDI! | NAMES OF THE 1920s | LITERARY LEE |
|
$400
[17]
The Londonarchbuilt to commemorate the defeat of Napoleon is named for this general
the Duke of Wellington
|
$400
[25]
Part of the name of the German airline Lufthansa comes from this medieval league
the Hanseatic League
Signe
|
$400
[1]
Rolling Stone called this 1975 Bruce Springsteen release "a '57 Chevy running on melted-down Crystals records"
Born to Run
Greg
|
$400
[7]
Chanted before "Krishna", this word means "O God!"
Hare
MacKenzie
|
$400
[12]
In June 1928 she gained fame for flying across the Atlantic as a passenger in a plane
(Amelia) Earhart
MacKenzie
Greg
|
$400
[6]
Thisauthor who dealt with race & Southern ways received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in2007
Harper Lee
Greg
|
|
$800
[18]
Barcelona's Arc de Triomfwas built in the Neo-Mudéjar style, also known as this Islamic style revival
Moorish
MacKenzie
|
$800
[26]
With help from TWA, Ethiopian Airlines was founded in 1945 by this leader to modernize the country
Haile Selassie
|
$800
[2]
In 2009 Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West teamed up to assert that they were gonna do this tonight, maybe to L.A.
"Run This Town"
MacKenzie
|
$800
[22]
House in the Bengal style is the original meaning of the Hindi word for this style of modern suburban home
bungalow
|
$800
[13]
Montana Senator Thomas Walsh became a national figure after investigating this Harding administration scandal
Teapot Dome
MacKenzie
|
$800
[8]
His Jack Reacher books include "Make Me" & "The Affair"
Lee Child
|
|
$1,200
[19]
The Victory Gatein Vientiane in this country was built with cement the United States had donated for an airport
Laos
MacKenzie
|
$1,200
[27]
Sorry, Abu Dhabi & Sharjah, this one-word airline is owned only by Dubai
Emirates
Signe
|
$1,200
[3]
In 1989 Tom Petty was doin' this & "goin' wherever it leads"
"Runnin' Down a Dream"
Greg
|
$1,200
[23]
This 7-letter type of rice literally means "fragrant"
basmati
Greg
|
$1,200
[14]
Her role in 1922's "Beyond the Rainbow" was cut from the film; it was restored after she became the "It" girl
Clara Bow
MacKenzie
|
$1,200
[9]
Children's author Virginia Lee Burton created "Mike Mulligan and His" this digging machine
a steam shovel
|
|
$1,600
[20]
The St. Petersburg Arch of Triumphlooks onto this palace
the Winter Palace
Greg
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
Air Atlas merged with another carrier to become the royal airline of this country
Morocco
Signe
|
$1,600
[4]
In 1993 Soul Asylum rode this out-of-control transport into the Top 10
"Runaway Train"
Greg
|
$1,600
[24]
This Punjabi religion's name means "disciple" in Hindi
Sikhism
MacKenzie
|
$1,600
[15]
With wonderful things beforehiseyes, this man broke through into the inner tomb of King Tut on November 26th, 1922
Howard Carter
|
$1,600
[10]
Hermione Lee, later this woman's biographer, picked up her novel "The Waves" at age 8 & thought, "This is my language"
Virginia Woolf
|
|
$2,000
[21]
The Cuban Arch of Triumphis in a park honoring this 19th century Cuban hero
José Martí
|
$2,000
[29]
By 1924 Imperial, the ancestor of this current airline, had routes to Australia, India & South Africa
British Airways
|
$2,000
[5]
In 2005 Chris Brown topped the Billboard Hot 100 with this, his debut single
"Run It"
MacKenzie
|
— |
DD
$5,000
[16]
These 2 Italian-born men were executed on August 23, 1927, still maintaining their innocence
Sacco & Vanzetti
MacKenzie
|
$2,000
[11]
His "Spoon River Anthology" poetry collection was turned into a Broadway musical in 1963
Edgar Lee Masters
|
In 1611 Kepler used this word from the Latin for "attendant" to describe the discoveries of Galileo
satellite