Andrew Cramer — a program manager from Seattle, Washington
Ben Sonday — a quantitative developer and trader from Chicago, Illinois
Felicity Flesher — a screenwriter from Studio City, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $32,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Felicity | $1,800 | $4,000 | $6,800 |
$3,100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,800
14 R, 3 W |
| Ben | $400 | $600 | $2,800 |
$3,201
2nd place: $2,000 |
$3,800
8 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Andrew | $6,800 | $8,000 | $5,200 |
$3,599
New champion: $3,599 |
$2,200
12 R (including 1 DD), 7 W |
| A HISTORY OF CHARITY | LITERARY TERMS | ROLL WITH IT | THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT | DIFFERS BY A LETTER | QUESTIONS FROM A 1927 QUIZ BOOK |
|
$200
[19]
Founded in April 1919, this organization sold its first stamps or "seals" to help disabled children in 1934
the Easterseals
|
$200
[1]
In fiction, it's the term for the one who tells the story; first person & third person are 2 types
narrator
Felicity
|
$200
[20]
This wood cylinder with a handle at each end will have you undulating in dough
a rolling pin
Ben
|
$200
[7]
24 years after his death in Las Vegas, this rapper as well as actor had his "Greatest Hits" on the Billboard 200 in 2020
Tupac
Andrew
|
$200
[23]
Spirit or determination, & what the American Academy of Pediatrics says not to do to children as punishment
spank & spunk
Felicity
|
$200
[6]
With 10.3 million, it's the largest American state by population according to the 1920 Census
New York
Felicity
Andrew
|
|
$600
[16]
In 1942 this org. was founded in Oxford, England to feed hungry children in Greece; it has since branched worldwide
Oxfam
Andrew
|
$400
[2]
It's the practical lesson about right & wrong that results from an instructive story like a fable
a moral
Ben
|
$400
[21]
Instead of evaluating all applications after a hard deadline, some colleges use this 2-word process & reply more quickly
rolling admission
Felicity
|
$400
[9]
In 2001 this alliterative woman's "30 Minute Meals" premiered with a 30-minute episode about leftovers
Rachael Ray
Felicity
|
$400
[24]
The animals of a given region, & a Finnish-style steam bath
sauna & fauna
Andrew
|
$400
[8]
This "heavier-than-air flying machine is intended to rise & descend vertically"
a helicopter
Felicity
Andrew
|
|
$800
[17]
In 1944 Tuskegee president Frederick Douglass Patterson started this scholarship organization
the United Negro College Fund
Ben
Andrew
|
$600
[3]
From Greek words for "first" & "actor", it's the main character in a story
protagonist
Andrew
|
— |
$600
[10]
Shesays, "There's rarely a day that I'm out in the world that somebody doesn't mention '13 Going on 30'"
Jennifer Garner
Felicity
|
$600
[25]
A small electronic device, & a surfer girl played on TV by Sally Field
Gidget & gadget
Felicity
|
$600
[12]
12 1/2 miles long, the Simplon Tunnel through these European mountains was then the longest in the world
the Alps
Andrew
|
|
$1,000
[18]
This philanthropic organization with a fez for a logo dates back to a meeting of Masons in 1870
the Shriners
Andrew
|
$800
[4]
The 6-line "Scottish stanza" is also known by the name of this 18th century poet
(Rabbie) Burns
Andrew
|
— |
$800
[11]
Hopper was back & sporting a mustache for the 3rd season of this '80s-set Netflix series
Stranger Things
Andrew
|
$800
[26]
An old term for a poet, & the last name of the man who passed away in 2010 at age 92 as the Senate's oldest member
Byrd & bard
Ben
|
$800
[13]
The "3 new European nations of more than 10 million...as a result of the World War" were Poland, Czechoslovakia & this Slovene-ly one
Yugoslavia
|
|
DD
$3,400
[15]
The people who founded this organization in 1976 had previously built a bunch of homes in Zaire
Habitat for Humanity
Andrew
|
$1,000
[5]
This 5-letter word for a figure of speech is widely used to mean any familiar reference
a trope
|
— |
$1,000
[22]
In 1995 she starred as a teacher in the film "Dangerous Minds"; in 2014 she was mentioned in the lyrics of "Uptown Funk"
Michelle Pfeiffer
Felicity
|
— |
$1,000
[14]
Best known for his many portraits, like the one seen here, this three-named American painter died in London in 1925
John Singer Sargent
Andrew
|
| THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE | FLEE CIRCUS | SPORTS TALK | DOGGONE WORDS | COUNTRY OF THE BRIDGE | "I AM" A TITLE |
|
$400
[9]
(MSNBC's Steve Kornacki presents by a display monitor.) 1972 was one of the biggest landslides in Electoral College history as Republican incumbent Richard Nixon piled up 49 states, and this antiwar Democratic senator captured only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, failing to carry even his home state of South Dakota
McGovern
Ben
|
$800
[11]
In 64 A.D. a fire broke out in Rome in the shops surrounding this large hippodrome, no doubt causing many to flee
the Circus Maximus
|
$800
[25]
In track, the "metric mile" is this many meters
1,500
Ben
|
$800
[23]
Until 1996 the research arm of AT&T was called "Bell" these
Laboratories
Felicity
|
$800
[4]
The original Bridge of Sighs
Italy
|
$800
[24]
Robert Cormier's young adult thriller with a very dairy title
I Am the Cheese
|
|
$1,200
[5]
(MSNBC's Steve Kornacki presents by a display monitor.) Upset over the inclusion of a civil rights plank in the 1948 Democratic platform, Strom Thurmond split the party, capturing four Southern states with his Dixiecrat Party and nearly helping this Republican defeat Harry Truman
Dewey
Ben
|
$1,200
[12]
P.T. Barnum marked exits with "This way to" this fancy "E" word; folks left & had to buy a ticket to reenter
egress
Andrew
|
$1,200
[15]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crews presents by a display monitor.) Tennis players shouldn't linger in this area between the service line and the baseline where returns are hard to hit; it shares its name with an area between trenches that World War I soldiers also wanted to avoid
no man's land
Felicity
|
$1,200
[10]
To murmur or grumble
to mutter
|
$1,200
[1]
Jacques Cartier Bridge
Canada
Felicity
Ben
|
$1,200
[20]
The titles of these 2 Leonard Nimoy memoirs contradict each other
I Am Spock and I Am Not Spock
|
|
DD
$1,600
[8]
(MSNBC's Steve Kornacki presents by a display monitor.) A third party candidate hasn't won a state in a presidential election since 1968 when this American Independent Party nominee carried Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, and his native Alabama
George Wallace
Ben
|
$1,600
[13]
WWI pilots sometimes fled a unit of the Jagdgeschwader known as this in English, a name familiar to Monty Python fans
a Flying Circus
Felicity
|
$1,600
[17]
Water polo players stay afloat with this kick that sounds like it could help to scramble an omelet
the egg beater kick
Felicity
|
$1,600
[22]
Like any boxer, belligerent & combative
pugnacious
|
DD
$1,800
[2]
The Bridge of the Americas (not the one in "Sicario")
Panama
Ben
|
$1,600
[19]
Richard Matheson pits Robert Neville against lots & lots of vampires in this sci-fi classic
I am Legend
Felicity
|
|
$1,600
[6]
(MSNBC's Steve Kornacki presents by a display monitor.) New York didn't choose its electors in time and Rhode Island and North Carolina hadn't yet ratified the Constitution, but the vote was otherwise unanimous when every elector cast a vote for George Washington in this year
1789
Felicity
Ben
Andrew
|
$2,000
[14]
In this Sara Gruen novel, later a movie, Jacob & Marlena plan to flee the traveling circus they both work for
Water for Elephants
Andrew
|
$2,000
[18]
In archery it's the 4-letter word for the groove at the rear end of an arrow that fits on the bowstring
nock
Andrew
|
$2,000
[21]
Led the woolen creatures
shepherded
Felicity
|
$2,000
[3]
Victoria Falls Bridge (2 countries, please)
Zimbabwe and Zambia
Andrew
|
$2,000
[16]
Tom Wolfe satirizes 21st century college life in this 2004 novel
I am Charlotte Simmons
Andrew
|
|
$2,000
[7]
(MSNBC's Steve Kornacki presents by a display monitor.) The 1860 electoral map revealed the deep divisions of a country hurtling towards civil war. Abraham Lincoln won the North, the West, and the presidency; border states went for compromise candidate John Bell. Stephen Douglas carried Missouri, and this incumbent vice president and defender of slavery carried the South
Breckinridge
Ben
|
— | — | — | — | — |
In October 2019 this song, a duet, was still in the Top 10 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart after spending a year on the chart
"Shallow"