Duncan Weals — a law student from Silver Spring, Maryland
Kim Lifeso — an associate director of scientific training from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Jessica Babbitt — a personal stylist from Austin, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $46,598)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jessica | $600 | $1,800 | $13,400 |
$25,000
3-day champion: $71,598 |
$13,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Kim | $-200 | $-800 | $6,000 |
$9,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,000
9 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Duncan | $2,600 | $5,700 | $12,100 |
$6,100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| PETAL PUSHERS | ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENTS | STATE THE PROBLEM | SMITHSONIAN AIR & SPACE MUSEUM | S PLUS 3 LETTERS | FIRST NAMES OF FAMOUS PAIRS |
|
$200
[21]
The Ultimate Elegance arrangements from 1-800-Flowers feature long stem these
roses
Jessica
|
$200
[13]
From 1978 to 1990 this woman won 9 Wimbledon singles titles, giving her the most ever among both men & women
Martina Navratilova
Jessica
Kim
Duncan
|
$200
[11]
The 1972 Black Hills flood claims more than 200 lives
South Dakota
Jessica
Kim
|
$200
[6]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.) In the 1960s, the rocket-powered North American X-15 went higher and faster than any other aircraft in history with eight pilots who flew it to the fringes of space earning designation as these
astronauts
Duncan
|
$200
[1]
To cook food by slow boiling, perhaps in one's own juice
stew
Kim
|
$400
[27]
Stockton & Malone
John & Karl
Duncan
|
|
$400
[22]
Not just about tulips, in 2017 this European country had 50% of the world's exports of cut flowers
the Netherlands
Jessica
|
$400
[14]
Known as O Rei, Portuguese for "the king", this man born in 1940 has the most men's World Cup championships, with 3
Pelé
|
$400
[12]
An 1893 hurricane devastates the island of Cheniere Caminada
Louisiana
|
$400
[7]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, Steve F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.) There was room for two men--Frank Borman and James Lovell in the capsule used for their 2-week-long 1965 orbital mission in this program
the Gemini program
Jessica
|
$400
[2]
I say potato, you say...
spud
Duncan
|
$600
[26]
Woodward & Bernstein
Bob & Carl
Kim
Duncan
|
|
$600
[23]
For more than 100 years, this Roman god has been delivering flowers as the logo for FTD
Mercury
Jessica
|
$600
[15]
Tom Brady holds the record for most Super Bowl wins as a player with this many--he needs 2 hands for his rings
Six
Duncan
|
$600
[17]
The Great Revere train wreck of 1871
Massachusetts
Duncan
|
$600
[8]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.) Known as "the couch", these atinside Friendship 7 was custom-made to fit this Project Mercury pilot and future U.S. Senator
John Glenn
Duncan
|
$600
[3]
Japanese wrestling
sumo
Jessica
|
$800
[25]
Burns & Allen
George & Gracie
|
| — |
$800
[16]
In 1939 this Yankee's No. 4 was retired, the first number ever retired in major league baseball
Lou Gehrig
|
$1,000
[19]
Company thugs assault UAW leaders in the 1937 "Battle of the Overpass"
Michigan
Duncan
|
$800
[9]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.) Though it wasn't quite ready for combat in WWII, the Bell Airacomet first flew in 1942, making it the first American plane to use this then-emerging technology
jet propulsion
|
$800
[4]
To influence someone's opinion, or to move to & fro
sway
Jessica
|
$1,000
[24]
Hillary & Norgay
Edmund & Tenzing
Kim
|
| — |
$1,000
[20]
This golden golfer has won the most Masters Tournaments
Jack Nicklaus
Kim
Duncan
|
DD
$1,500
[18]
State troopers attack peaceful marchers on "Bloody Sunday" 1965
Alabama
Duncan
|
$1,000
[10]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, Steve F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.) Appropriately, "Little Stinker", a nimble Pitts Special S1C, hangs upside down; in the 1940s and '50s, pioneering daredevil Betty Skelton flew it to win titles in this spectacular sport of stunt flying
aerobatics
|
$1,000
[5]
Fine sand or soil deposited as sediment
silt
Duncan
|
— |
| HAJJ-PODGE | WHO DID SHE MARRY? | 1940s LITERATURE | "R" WE THERE YET? | THE NORMAN CONQUEST | PORTMANTEAU WORDS |
|
$400
[11]
If done properly, the hajj is supposed to remove these from those who make the pilgrimage
sins
Duncan
|
$400
[1]
Emily Blunt: this actor
John Krasinski
Kim
|
$400
[18]
Mollie the mare is a minor character in this George Orwell novel
Animal Farm
Duncan
|
$400
[6]
It's about 30 miles north of Carson City on Interstate 580
Reno
Jessica
|
$400
[26]
When this king "the Confessor" died childless in January 1066, a succession dispute led to the invasion & conquest of England
Edward
Jessica
Duncan
|
$400
[13]
This word usually refers to a straight guy who is quite fashionable & might even carry a murse
metrosexual
Duncan
|
|
$800
[12]
Zamzam is a kind of this dispensed to thankful pilgrims during the hajj
water
Jessica
|
$800
[2]
Jessica Biel: this former boy bander
Justin Timberlake
Jessica
|
$800
[19]
The first words of this faded southern belle are "They told me to take a streetcar named Desire"
Blanche DuBois
Jessica
|
$800
[7]
Let's get together again at this Indian Ocean island & French overseas department east of Madagascar
Reunion
Jessica
|
$800
[27]
The invaders fought this way, something not done in England before; get down 'ere, you blasted Norman, & fight like a real man
horseback
|
$800
[14]
Many Comic-Con attendees engage in this, dressing up as characters from anime, movies or TV
cosplay
Kim
|
|
$1,200
[21]
The hajj is the fifth of what are called the 5 of these of Islam
pillar
Jessica
|
$1,200
[3]
Priyanka Chopra: in 2018, this former boy bander
Nick Jonas
Jessica
|
$1,200
[20]
This 1944 Charles Jackson novel about a chronic alcoholic won 4 Oscars when it came to the big screen a year later
The Lost Weekend
|
$1,200
[8]
Yep! We've arrived at Lake Toma in the Swiss Alps, part of the headwaters of this river
the Rhine
Kim
|
$1,200
[28]
William's Norman troops met Harold's Anglo-Saxon army in the decisive battle of this coastal town on Oct. 14, 1066
Hastings
Jessica
|
$1,200
[15]
3 birds are smashed together in this word as well as in the resulting poultry dish
turducken
Kim
|
|
$1,600
[22]
The National Geographic documentary "Inside" this city "focuses on the personal stories of the hajj"
Mecca
Kim
|
$1,600
[4]
Steffi Graf: this fellow court star
Andre Agassi
Kim
|
$1,600
[24]
Her 1948 novel "Peony" told the story of a Jewish family living in China in the 1800s
Pearl Buck
|
$1,600
[9]
The national monument called this Bridge is in Utah, not on the way to Asgard
Rainbow Bridge
Duncan
|
$1,600
[29]
The Normans introduced this process "by combat", maybe an improvement on Anglo-Saxons' this "by ordeal"
trial
Jessica
|
DD
$2,000
[16]
Money can't buy happiness, says this portmanteau syndrome in which the wealthy feel guilt & isolation
affluenza
Kim
|
|
$2,000
[23]
Pilgrims circle seven times around this monument that the Koran mentions in relation to the raising of its foundation
the Kaaba
Duncan
|
$2,000
[5]
Portia de Rossi: her, in 2008
Ellen DeGeneres
Jessica
|
$2,000
[25]
Some of this American poet's "Pisan Cantos" was penned in 1945 while he was in prison for fascist radio broadcasts
(Ezra) Pound
Kim
|
$2,000
[10]
If you go to this seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania, remember to say the first syllable like the color
Reading
Duncan
|
DD
$2,000
[30]
On Christmas day 1066, Ealdred, the Archbishop of York, crowned William King of England at this church
Westminster Abbey
Jessica
|
$2,000
[17]
Lewis Carroll coined this word for a gleeful laugh
a chortle
|
Black-footed & black-browed are 2 species of this seabird whose name was influenced by the Latin word for "white"
albatross