Sharon Lawson — an administrative assistant from Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Michael Torman — a funeral director from Paw Paw, Illinois
Gary Patent — a screenwriter and actor from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gary | $1,400 | $4,200 | $8,800 |
$201
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Michael | $1,600 | $3,000 | $9,800 |
$17,601
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,800
12 R, 2 W |
| Sharon | $-800 | $1,800 | $15,200 |
$19,601
New champion: $19,601 |
$13,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| A MARRIAGE MADE IN LITERATURE | EARTH DAY AT 50 | EPISODES OF THE SITCOM | THE CRIME OF THE DECADE | WHAT SORT OF ESTABLISHMENT IS THIS? | ADJECTIVES |
|
$200
[15]
Anna Oblonsky is the maiden name of this title character
Anna Karenina
Gary
|
$200
[28]
Nat Geo is honoring the 50th anniv. of Earth Day with a special about this activist who has a special bond with chimpanzees
Jane Goodall
Gary
|
$200
[9]
"Stewie Kills Lois"&"Lois Kills Stewie"
Family Guy
Michael
|
$200
[5]
5 burglars are busted at the DNC's office at the Watergate
the 1970s
Sharon
|
$200
[24]
The type of roadhouse called a this joint lent its name to a coin-operated music machine
a juke joint
Sharon
|
$400
[29]
Sorry, language nerds: the OED allows modifications like "very" on this 6-letter word meaning "one of a kind"
unique
Michael
|
|
$400
[25]
When Romeo marries Juliet, these 2 families are joined in matrimony & later, tragedy
the Montagues and the Capulets
Gary
|
$400
[27]
A theme of Earth Day 2018 was ending plastic pollution; one suggestion is when you order a soda, say, "no" this "please"
a straw
Michael
|
$400
[10]
"The Show Where Lilith Comes Back" & "Murder Most Maris"
Frasier
Gary
Michael
|
$400
[4]
The NSC goes around Congress to sell antiaircraft missiles to Iran in the Iran-Contra Affair
the 1980s
Gary
Sharon
|
$400
[6]
In Mexico, it's a bar; on Tatooine, it's also "an ideal spot to hire a starship's crew"
a cantina
Gary
|
$600
[21]
A homophone of a grain, it's an adjective meaning funny in an understated way
wry
Gary
|
|
$600
[18]
Creepy! In order to get closer to Lolita, this man with a double-talk name marries her mother Charlotte Haze
Humbert Humbert
Sharon
|
$600
[26]
Earth Day reminds us that in 2020 nations are expected to bump climate change commitments to the agreement of 2015 made in this city
Paris
Michael
|
$600
[13]
"Leap to Faith" & "The Worst Possible Use of Free Will"
The Good Place
Michael
Sharon
|
$600
[3]
The Unabomber commits his last murder & is caught with bomb parts & detailed journals of his crimes
the 1990s
Michael
|
$600
[7]
If you encounter a meat & three establishment in the American South, the "three" refers to these
the side dishes
|
$800
[20]
This 2-syllable adjective in a Thomas Hardy title means "frenzied"
madding
Sharon
|
|
$800
[16]
The title of this Daphne du Maurier novel refers to the first Mrs. de Winter; the second Mrs. de Winter is obsessed with her
Rebecca
Gary
|
$800
[22]
The first Earth Day took place in 1970, inspiring this act in the same year that sought to keep our skies free from pollution
the Clean Air Act
Gary
|
$800
[11]
"Secret Shopper" & "Cloud 9 Academy"
Superstore
|
DD
$1,000
[1]
The kidnapping of Charles & Anne Lindbergh's baby
the 1930s
Gary
|
$800
[8]
Raw bars traditionally serve live, uncooked these
oysters (shellfish, clams)
Michael
|
$1,000
[19]
Sartorial means belonging or referring to this profession
tailors
|
|
$1,000
[17]
This 1966 novel is about the first marriage of the character Mr. Rochester from "Jane Eyre"
Wide Sargasso Sea
|
$1,000
[23]
In 2010 Earth Day brought about a tree-planting initiative named for this uppermost section of a forest's trees
the canopy
Sharon
|
$1,000
[12]
"Love is All Around" & "We Want Baxter"
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
|
$1,000
[2]
Leopold & Loeb kill Bobby Franks for an "intellectual" thrill
the 1920s
Gary
|
$1,000
[14]
There's an alloy in this word for a type of casual restaurant, French for "brewery"
a brasserie
Michael
|
— |
| OTHER BRITISH ISLES | YOU KNOW THE DRILL | MUSICIANS' NICKNAMES | AT REST IN WASHINGTON, D.C. | PHENOMENA | "DEE" DEE, DEE-DEE-DEE |
|
$400
[18]
You'll find the Isle of Skye in the Inner these
the Hebrides
Sharon
|
$400
[19]
Twist & counterbore are types of these spinny, pointy drill parts that make the holes
bits
Gary
|
$400
[1]
"The Boss", & before that, "the Doctor"
Springsteen
Gary
|
$400
[30]
At Washington National Cathedral: this president & his wife Edith
Wilson
Gary
|
$400
[10]
This "super" stellar phenomenon--a big bang, so to speak--comes in 2 main types: thermonuclear & core-collapse
a supernova
Gary
|
$400
[28]
The Sami of northern Scandinavia have trained these animals to pull sleighs, just in time for Christmas
reindeer
Gary
|
|
$800
[14]
Foulness Island off the Essex coast was almost completely flooded by a giant 1953 storm surge in this sea
the North Sea
Michael
|
$1,200
[16]
This word follows "drill" in the name of the workshop device seen here
a press
Sharon
|
$800
[3]
"Yeezus"
Kanye West
Sharon
|
$800
[29]
At St. Paul's Rock Creek Cemetery, writer Gore Vidal and this longtime host of "Meet the Press"
Tim Russert
|
$800
[9]
This "super" phenomenon, a lack of electrical resistance, occurs in certain materials below about -425 degrees F.
superconductivity
Sharon
|
$800
[27]
Do this to "yourself" & you make up for a bad performance; do it to Grandma's ring & you get it back from a pawnshop
redeem
Sharon
|
|
$1,200
[13]
The island of Anglesey, AKA Ynys Mon, is the largest that's part of this U.K. country
Wales
Sharon
|
$1,600
[15]
Use a hammer drill to cut through this hard building material named for the bricklayer or stoneworker who constructed it
masonry
Sharon
|
$1,200
[4]
"Slowhand"
Eric Clapton
Sharon
|
$1,600
[20]
At Oak Hill Cemetery: journalist & Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee & this woman who owned the Post
(Katharine) Graham
Gary
|
$1,200
[7]
In 1816 one of these natural phenomena in Asia affected the weather & made it the "year without a summer" globally
a volcanic eruption
Michael
|
$1,200
[26]
Ah, my little black-capped one of these is the state bird of Massachusetts
chickadee
Michael
|
|
$1,600
[2]
The Scottish isle of Bute lies in the inlet called this "of Clyde"
the Firth
Sharon
|
$2,000
[25]
This word for a type of simple hand drill is a homonym of a word meaning to foretell
auger
|
$1,600
[5]
"The Prince of Darkness"
Ozzy Osbourne
Michael
|
$2,000
[21]
At Prospect Hill Cemetery: William with this last name who owned the house where Abraham Lincoln died
Petersen
|
$1,600
[8]
Sure the northern lights are awesome, but check out thesouthern lights, also known as the Aurora this, seen over places like Tasmania
australis
Sharon
|
$1,600
[23]
This type of singer regales us with simple folk or story songs
balladeer
|
|
$2,000
[12]
The monastery on Holy Island produced the illuminated biblical manuscript called the Lindisfarnethese
Gospels
Sharon
|
DD
$2,200
[17]
Archaeologists in Pakistan found neolithic bodies showing that drills were used to fix these more than 7,000 years ago
teeth
Sharon
|
$2,000
[6]
"The Prime Minister of Funk" or "Doctor Funkenstein"
George Clinton
Michael
|
DD
$3,000
[22]
At the Glenwood Cemetery: Emanuel Leutze, who famously painted "(George) Washington" doing this
crossing the Delaware
Gary
|
$2,000
[11]
These creatures started mysteriously falling from the sky in Dubuque, Iowa on June 16, 1882
frogs
Gary
|
$2,000
[24]
A 2011 measurement says this part of the Pacific Ocean reaches 36,070 feet down
the Challenger Deep
Sharon
|
In 2014 this democratic nation broke the record for total turnout in a single election with more than 500 million voters
India