Evan Singer — a beverage packaging specialist from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Susan Alden — a fundraising researcher from San Francisco, California
Adam Smith — a law student from Somerville, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adam | $3,400 | $2,800 | $10,400 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Susan | $600 | $3,800 | $13,000 |
$7,999
New champion: $7,999 |
$13,000
16 R, 1 W |
| Evan | $3,600 | $3,600 | $5,800 |
$5,201
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,800
12 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| WORLDFACTBOOKTRAVEL FACTS | LYRICS OF TODAY | PARDON THE INTERJECTION | POLICE SQUAD | CHICAGO | THE PRESIDENTIAL SWEET |
|
$200
[19]
Don't give a gift of chrysanthemums in Italy; they're for these solemn events
a funeral
Adam
|
$200
[3]
Country's Jason Aldean sings about how it should be the other way around, but "memory drowns" this--Jack Daniel's, specifically
whiskey
Adam
|
$200
[10]
In a practical joke it precedes "cushion"
whoopee
Adam
|
$200
[14]
Currently there are 166 commissioned rangers in this state's famous law enforcement division
Texas
Evan
|
$200
[13]
Not chilly gusts off Lake Michigan, but bombastic politicians may be the source of this Chicago nickname
The Windy City
Susan
|
$200
[25]
FDR loved these holiday cakes & in 1933 received as a Christmas gift a 110-lb. one filled with wine-soaked raisins
fruitcake
Susan
|
|
$400
[22]
The World Factbook wants you to know that in India, it's considered rude to wear these indoors
shoes
Adam
|
$400
[6]
"Yeah, I'm gonna take my horse to" this title place, "I'm gonna ride 'til I can't no more"
"Old Town Road"
Evan
|
$400
[11]
This rhyming 2-word way of calling out to attract attention is also a brand of chocolate drink
yoo hoo
Susan
|
$400
[17]
Founded in 1983, it's a police officer-led program in the U.S. & 50+ other countries to keep kids off drugs
D.A.R.E.
Susan
|
$400
[5]
These 2 pro sports teams play their home games at United Center
the Bulls and the Blackhawks
Evan
|
$400
[26]
For an 1806 4th of July party, Thomas Jefferson's steward hired an extra servant to turn a crank to make this
ice cream
Adam
|
|
$600
[28]
In this Mediterranean principality, don't fill a glass more than halfway--booze is to be savored, not guzzled
Monaco
Susan
|
$600
[7]
On "You Need to Calm Down", she sings, "You are somebody that I don't know but you're takin' shots at me like it's Patrón"
Taylor Swift
|
$600
[12]
In a Little Richard song title, this 2-word interjection precedes "Miss Molly"
good golly
Adam
|
$600
[18]
The person in charge of public safety in Red River, New Mexico has this 7-letter title, just like in the Old West
marshal
Adam
|
$600
[1]
Stroll past the Art Institute of Chicago & the sculpture nicknamed "The Bean" on this avenue
Michigan Avenue
Adam
|
$800
[27]
JFK gave a French-themed dinner party featuring duck à l'orange & this smooth chocolate dessert
mousse
Adam
|
| — |
$800
[8]
She demanded, "Break up with your girlfriend, yeah, yeah, 'cause I'm bored"
Ariana Grande
Adam
|
$800
[15]
Meaning "Stop!", this nautical interjection is often heard before "ye matey"
avast
Evan
|
$800
[20]
In New York City, this bureau is in charge of policing the subway
the Transit Bureau
Adam
|
$800
[2]
At the University of Chicago in 1942, a team led by Enrico Fermi created the 1st self-sustaining one of these sequences
a nuclear chain reaction
Evan
|
$1,000
[24]
From 1976, "The Peanut Cookbook" includes a recipe for "Jimmy Carter's Favorite" this crunchy confection
peanut brittle
Susan
|
| — |
$1,000
[9]
Her: "New man on the Minnesota Vikings, truth hurts, needed something more exciting, bom bom bi dom bi dum bum bay"
Lizzo
Evan
|
$1,000
[16]
New to the Scrabble dictionary & containing Y, W & Z, this high-scoring interjection is used to express amazement
yowza
Adam
|
$1,000
[21]
(Dax Shepard presents the clue.) As a motorcycle fanatic, I was thrilled to write & direct the movie version of "Chi Ps"--I even got to cast myself as Jon Baker of this state police agency
the California Highway Patrol
Susan
|
$1,000
[4]
Foundedin 1930 by a successful Chicago businessman, this planetarium is America's oldest
the Adler Planetarium
Adam
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
Ronald Reagan started eating these as part of a successful effort to give up pipe smoking
jelly beans
Adam
|
| ANGELS | 1815 | "OO", SORRY | SHE PLAYED 'EM ON TV | AMERICAN AUTHORS | LOOKING FOR A GOOD TIME? |
|
$400
[12]
"Hark!" It's what the herald angels do in a Christmas carol from the 1700s
sing
Susan
|
$400
[24]
New Orleans dentist Levi Spear Parmley introduced this as a means of dental hygiene using a silken thread
flossing
Susan
|
$400
[2]
It means free to travel about & is often paired with "fancy-free"
footloose
Susan
|
$400
[3]
Kelly Kapoor on "The Office" & ob/gyn Mindy Lahiri
Mindy Kaling
Adam
Susan
|
$400
[20]
He wrote his first novel "A Time to Kill" while putting in 60 to 70 hours a week at a Mississippi law firm
Grisham
Evan
|
$400
[1]
Get your nib, a straight pen & some black ink & dive into this, from the Greek for "beautiful writing"
calligraphy
Evan
|
|
$800
[13]
St. Jerome wrote that from birth, everyone on earth has one of these commissioned to protect us
a guardian angel
Adam
|
DD
$3,000
[26]
Stephen Decatur negotiated treaties with Tunis, Tripoli & Algiers, ending the war against these bad guys
the Barbary pirates
Evan
|
$800
[5]
This nickname for Oklahoma comes from settlers who were early to stake claims
the Sooner State
Adam
|
$800
[4]
Angela Chase on "My So-Called Life" & Carrie Mathison on "Homeland"
Claire Danes
Susan
|
$800
[21]
Here's this author in 1935, hard atworkon "Gone With the Wind"
(Margaret) Mitchell
Susan
|
$800
[16]
Be a mentor with this nonprofit group, BBBS, providing adult role models to kids since 1904
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Adam
|
|
$1,600
[15]
Named after an archangel, this Spanish mission is located east of Los Angeles in a valley of the same name
the San Gabriel Valley
Evan
|
— |
$1,200
[6]
Pandas live in these forests in China
bamboo
Evan
|
$1,200
[9]
Jen Lindley on "Dawson's Creek" & Gwen Verdon, opposite Sam Rockwell
Michelle Williams
Susan
|
$1,200
[22]
This novelist of the frontier died in 1851 in a village his dad founded, the future home of the Baseball Hall of Fame
(James Fenimore) Cooper
Adam
|
$1,200
[17]
Swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 & run 26.2 to finish one of these; hmm...that may be a good time for some more than others
an Iron Man triathlon (triathlon)
Evan
|
|
$2,000
[25]
As depictedherein a Gustave Doré engraving, this man has an encounter with an angel and gains a new name
Jacob
Adam
Evan
|
— |
$1,600
[7]
Wild Bill Hickok died in this type of establishment in Deadwood, South Dakota
a saloon
Adam
|
$1,600
[10]
Rhoda Morgenstern's sister Brenda & as the voice of Marge Simpson
(Julie) Kavner
Susan
|
$1,600
[23]
Author-run bookstores include Ann Patchett's Parnassus Books in Nashville & his Booked Up Inc. in Archer City, Texas
Larry McMurtry
|
$1,600
[18]
In this craft, try the coil method, taking long strips of clay & coiling them on top of each other
pottery
Evan
|
|
DD
$4,000
[14]
Mormons believe the angel Moroni appeared to this man & revealed to him where to find the golden plates
Joseph Smith
Adam
|
— |
$2,000
[8]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from SpaceX in Hawthorne, California.) After Falcon Heavy's successful first launch, SpaceX brought back two of these first-stage rockets and stuck a dramatic simultaneous landing
booster rockets
|
$2,000
[11]
The ground-breaking 1968 title role of Julia, and June on "White Collar"
Diahann Carroll
Susan
|
$2,000
[27]
William Kennedy was born in this state capital & set a trilogy there, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Ironweed"
Albany
|
$2,000
[19]
Although very much associated with collecting coins, this is also a term for collecting medals or paper money
numismatics
Susan
|
The Yucatan Peninsula is shared by these 3 countries
Mexico, Guatemala & Belize