Mandy DeLucia — a restaurant consultant from Newport Beach, California
Bruce Lou — a software engineer from San Francisco, California
Aaron Goetsch — a law student from Macomb, Michigan (whose 2-day cash winnings total $41,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron | $3,000 | $4,200 | $6,200 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,200
14 R, 3 W |
| Bruce | $2,000 | $2,400 | $18,800 |
$13,245
New champion: $13,245 |
$20,400
25 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Mandy | $1,200 | $2,600 | $6,200 |
$6,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,200
9 R, 3 W |
| X-MEN: YOUNG & NOT AS YOUNG | THE 20th CENTURY | NOVEL CHARACTERS | STAY PROTECTED | WORDS FROM THE MAP | RUBRIC CUES |
|
$200
[26]
Hirsute James McAvoy & not as hirsute Patrick Stewart
Professor X (Charles Xavier)
Aaron
Mandy
|
$200
[1]
His son, nicknamed "The Eaglet", was kidnapped on March 1, 1932
Lindbergh
Mandy
|
$200
[16]
In the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" books, Marvin is a paranoid this, which rhymes with paranoid
android
Bruce
|
$200
[21]
It's a lightweight plastic or metal protective helmet worn by construction workers
a hardhat
Aaron
|
$200
[6]
This word for the item seenherewas originally a fabric-making town in the Low Countries
a duffel
Bruce
|
$200
[11]
Whether you're a seamstress or working at the lumber mill, it's always a good idea to "measure twice" & do this "once"
cut
Bruce
|
|
$400
[27]
Hugh Jackman in 2000 & Hugh Jackman in 2017
Wolverine
Bruce
|
$400
[2]
She was an Oklahoma law professor when her testimony in a 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearing made headlines
Anita Hill
Bruce
|
$400
[17]
For this novel James Hilton based the teacher named Chipping partly on his schoolmaster father
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Aaron
|
$400
[22]
Soccer players often wear these between the knee & the ankle
shin guards
Aaron
|
$600
[8]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) I'll go into a rhapsody if you can name this historical kingdom within the Czech Republic that gave us a word for a type of unconventional person
Bohemia
Aaron
|
$400
[12]
If this type of symbolic animal claws the stock market to a 20% loss, wisdom says buy!
a bear
Aaron
|
|
$600
[28]
Nicholas Hoult & Kelsey Grammer talked 'til they were blue in the face
Beast
|
$600
[3]
This 1961 invasion was an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Cuba's government
the Bay of Pigs
Aaron
|
$600
[18]
The 2 main female characters in this Edith Wharton novel are the proper May Welland & the exotic & daring Ellen Olenska
Age of Innocence
Aaron
|
$600
[23]
Operated by the U.S. Marshals Service, it may include relocations & new identities
the Witness Protection Service (Program)
Aaron
Bruce
|
$800
[9]
Brooks Brothers is proud of their "original button-down" this shirt
oxford
Bruce
|
$600
[13]
A good rule of thumb when gauging the merit of online media is DBEYR, or "don't believe" this
everything you read
Aaron
|
|
$800
[29]
Michael Fassbender & Ian McKellen
Magneto
Mandy
|
$800
[4]
In the early 1950s these 2 figured out the structure of DNA at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory
Watson & Crick
Bruce
|
$800
[19]
Aunt Chloe is married to the title character of this 1852 novel
Uncle Tom's Cabin
|
$800
[24]
In 2019 Fargo, N.D. filled 400,000 of these in 4 days for protection against possible flooding on the Red River
sandbags
Bruce
Mandy
|
$1,000
[10]
Samuel Johnson thought a French town gave us this word that has applied to very differenttypesof transport
sedan
Bruce
|
$800
[14]
The old rubric that you should spend 3 months' salary on one of these prior to a wedding is popular among jewelers
an engagement ring
Aaron
|
|
$1,000
[30]
Sophie Turner & Famke Janssen
Jean Grey
|
$1,000
[5]
Milton Obote was president of this African country from 1966 to '71 & 1980 to '85; both terms were ended by military coups
Uganda
Bruce
|
$1,000
[20]
This character begins his story with his own conception, so his father, Walter Shandy, is an important figure
Tristram Shandy
Bruce
|
$1,000
[25]
Blocking horizontal light rays, these specialized eyeglass lenses can reduce reflected glare
polarized
Bruce
|
DD
$2,400
[7]
Referencing famous falls, a 1912 book complains that a this "of nonsense is continually roaring from the press"
Niagara
Bruce
|
$1,000
[15]
On men's pants these generally give a dressier look, but tuxedo pants are hemmed instead
cuffs
Mandy
|
| MUSIC | THE TOOLSHED | MICRONESIA | CRANKY TV CHARACTERS | MOON ME | JUST "NO" |
|
$400
[6]
This part of Gustav Holst's "The Planets" is subtitled "The Bringer of War"
"Mars"
Bruce
|
$400
[24]
Let's get to the point: used to grab & twist small objects in tiny places, this type of pliers has a body part in its name
needle nose
Aaron
|
$400
[1]
Micronesia is both a country & a larger region of about 2,000 islands within the 10,000 that make up this South Pacific region
Oceania
Aaron
Bruce
|
$400
[21]
Scram! On Sesame Street this ill-tempered guy makes his home in a garbage can
Oscar the Grouch
Mandy
|
$400
[11]
To the Greeks the goddess of the moon was Selene; to the Romans, her
Luna
Bruce
|
$400
[16]
Oui! In the dictionary it follows both film & Pinot
noir
Bruce
|
|
$800
[7]
A traditional string quartet is made up of 2 musicians playing violins, one on viola & one on this instrument
a cello
Bruce
|
$800
[25]
A man named Thompson invented the screw with a "cruciform groove" & matching screwdriver, but a guy with this last name got the patent
Phillips
Bruce
|
$800
[5]
Many of Micronesia's islands are this type in which a surrounding coral reef encloses a lagoon
atolls
Aaron
|
$800
[22]
Szyslak is the last name of this surly barkeep on "The Simpsons"
Moe
Aaron
|
$800
[12]
Formed less than 1 billion years ago, this 58-mile-wide crater bears the name of a Polish astronomer
Copernicus
Bruce
|
$800
[17]
When you add an "S" to this word meaning "idea", you get stuck with a bunch of pins & needles
notion(s)
|
|
$1,200
[8]
This 7-letter word on a musical score like "Flight Of The Bumblebee" means to play lively & fast
allegro
Bruce
|
$1,200
[26]
If you need to take out your frustration on sheet metal, then this hammer with a hemispherical head at one end is for you
a ball peen hammer
Mandy
|
$1,200
[4]
Micronesia was colonized by this European power in the 1880s, but after losing a war it sold the islands to Germany in 1899
Spain
Aaron
|
$1,200
[23]
Tentacles is the last name of this character, SpongeBob's cantankerous co-worker at the Krusty Krab
Squidward
Bruce
|
$1,600
[14]
A plaque reading, "Here man completed his first explorations of the Moon" is still there, signed by this president
Nixon
Bruce
|
$1,200
[18]
Once easing pain in the dental chair, this drug was introduced in 1905
Novocain
Mandy
|
|
$1,600
[9]
Gamelan orchestras in Indonesia make good use of this "G" percussion item
a gong
Bruce
|
$1,600
[27]
Time to go nuts by removing nuts using one of these 2-word tools, what the Brits call an adjustable spanner
a monkey wrench
Mandy
|
$1,600
[2]
The states of America are "United"; the states of Micronesia are this
Federated
Bruce
|
$1,600
[29]
This cranky TV news director character on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" later got his own show
Lou Grant
|
$2,000
[15]
Meaning "rounded", this odd word is used of the Moon when it's bigger than a semicircle but not yet a full circle
a gibbous
Bruce
|
$1,600
[19]
In court a defendant who pleads this Latin term agrees to be convicted & punished without admitting guilt
nolo contendere
Aaron
Mandy
|
|
DD
$3,000
[10]
A trip to Cannes on the Mediterranean at age 8 helped influence Paris boy Claude Debussy to compose this 1905 orchestral work
"La Mer"
Bruce
|
$2,000
[28]
It's a device with a pawl for holding a toothed wheel; in another sense, it's something done to prices, up & down by degrees
ratchet
Mandy
|
$2,000
[3]
Micronesia's exports include these nuts, chewed by many Asian & Pacific peoples
betel
Bruce
|
— |
DD
$5,000
[13]
This nickname is given to the full moon occurring nearest to the time of the autumnal equinox
the harvest moon
Bruce
|
$2,000
[20]
They're the edible cactus parts seen here
nopales
Mandy
|
A 1919 letter quotes Jesus, "Go into the whole world and preach the gospel" & notes the vigilance, energy & hardships of these workers
missionaries