Sarah Jett Rayburn game 3.
Mina Le — an ear, nose and throat surgeon from Montclair, New Jersey
Alison Nelson — an elementary school teacher from Oak Park, Illinois
Sarah Jett Rayburn — a writer and stay-at-home mom from Hutto, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $39,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah | $800 | $4,200 | $7,800 |
$15,500
3-day champion: $54,900 |
$7,800
13 R, 4 W |
| Alison | $2,200 | $3,000 | $11,000 |
$1,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mina | $2,600 | $1,200 | $10,400 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,400
17 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| WHAT'S MY AIRLINE? | A LANDMARK ADDRESS | SNOPES SAYS NOPE | BODY PART AKAs | SILENT "C" | MLB SINGLE-SEASON RECORDS |
|
$200
[19]
In 1947 this carrier began flying regularly to London on what was called the "Kangaroo Route"
Qantas
Sarah
Mina
|
$200
[6]
Looking for this landmark? Go over to 400 Broad Street, Seattle, then go up up up
the Space Needle
Mina
|
$200
[16]
A NASA astronaut did not carry a big bag of marijuana up to this in 2012
the International Space Station
Sarah
Alison
Mina
|
$200
[7]
Womb
the uterus
Mina
|
$200
[1]
An elephant's trunk contains roughly 40,000 of these, more than you have in your whole body
muscles
Sarah
|
$200
[26]
Rickey Henderson holds the record for these "thefts": 130 in 1982
stolen bases
Mina
|
|
$400
[22]
After his flight was canceled, he hired a plane, wrote "Virgin Airlines" on a board, charged $39 for 1-way & "filled up my first plane"
Branson
Mina
|
$400
[12]
This "Birthplace of America" is at 520 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Independence Hall
Mina
|
$400
[17]
A U.S. tourist in Saudi Arabia was not arrested for refusing to sell his wife for 45 of these animals
camels
Sarah
|
$400
[8]
Voice box
larynx
Alison
|
$400
[2]
A song from "Annie Get Your Gun" says, "Got no mansion, got no" this boat, "still I'm happy with what I've got"
yacht
Sarah
|
$400
[27]
In one sense, batter Mark Reynolds holds the record for these with 223; in another, pitcher Nolan Ryan holds the record with 383
strikeouts
Mina
|
|
$800
[24]
A few years after losing control of TWA around 1960, this man soldhisshares for more than $500 million
Howard Hughes
Sarah
|
$600
[13]
Roses are run for at 700 Central Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky, this site
Churchill Downs
Mina
|
$600
[18]
An episode of "The Simpsons" did not predict the April 2019 fire here in Paris
Notre Dame Cathedral
Alison
|
$600
[9]
The carpus
the wrist
Mina
|
$600
[3]
Title for a Russian empress, like Nicholas II's Alexandra
czarina
Sarah
|
$600
[28]
Boston ace Dutch Leonard ended the 1914 season with a microscopic 0.96 one of these
ERA (earned run average)
Alison
|
|
$1,000
[25]
On May 27, 1936 Dublin & Bristol were on the very first route of this airline
Aer Lingus
Sarah
|
$800
[14]
At 4 South Market Street in Boston, you can find Faneuil Hall and this venerable market and shop to your heart's content
Quincy
|
$800
[20]
This Mexican-style fast-food chain's cinnamon twists are not made from deep-fried rotini
Taco Bell
Sarah
|
$800
[10]
Tympanum or tympanic membrane
eardrum
Alison
|
$800
[4]
A moral compass
a conscience
Mina
|
— |
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
The headquarters of this airline that was organized jointly in 1953 by the federal & state government is in Cologne, Germany
Lufthansa
Mina
|
$1,000
[15]
Relive 30 seconds of history at this site at 326 East Allen Street, Tombstone
the Battle of the O.K. Corral
|
$1,000
[21]
This House Speaker did not use $15,000 worth of pens to sign impeachment articles against Donald Trump
Nancy Pelosi
Alison
|
$1,000
[11]
Pollex
the thumb
Mina
|
$1,000
[5]
The Latin for "to declare" is the origin of this legal term for a formal accusation
indict(ment)
Alison
|
— |
| BARACK OBAMA'S READING LIST | HOW NOW, DOUBLE VOWEL | RELIGIOUS "ISM"s | DJ, JAZZY | JEFF | THE FRENCH PRINCE |
|
$400
[12]
One of President Obama's favorite children's books is this 1963 classic by Maurice Sendak
Where the Wild Things Are
Alison
|
$400
[6]
To win every game in a playoff series
to sweep
Mina
|
$400
[1]
The name of this rite of purification is from the Greek for "to dip"
baptism
Alison
|
$400
[11]
Horace Silver's tune about L.A. DJ Chuck Niles isn't "the hippest guy in Hollywood"--it uses this 3-letter jazz word for "guy"
cat
Alison
|
$400
[26]
According to him, "You might be a redneck if you think the stock market has a fence around it"
Jeff Foxworthy
Sarah
|
$400
[17]
Jean de France, who controlled much of France during this protracted war, was born in 1340 shortly after its start
the Hundred Years' War
Sarah
|
|
$800
[13]
Perhaps more than casually interested in biographies about presidents, Obama noted Ron Chernow's 2017 work on this ex-military man
General Grant
Mina
|
$800
[7]
Plant-related word meaning to tear away violently from a native environment
uproot
Mina
|
DD
$600
[2]
Many adherents of this Caribbean religion believe in Haile Selassie as a Messiah
Rastafarianism
Alison
|
$800
[22]
Musicians Dave Koz & Brian McKnight DJed for L.A.'s KTWV in the format called this kind of jazz, nice & mellow
smooth jazz
Sarah
Alison
|
$1,600
[28]
Jeff Shaara's quartet of WWII novels include "No Less Than Victory", about the 1944 "Battle of" this, Hitler's last gasp
the Bulge
Mina
|
DD
$600
[20]
The title Prince of Conti was borne by sons of this royal house that ruled France from 1589 to 1830, mostly
Bourbon
Alison
|
|
$1,200
[14]
"The Wealth of Nations", written by this Scot in 1776, beat a lot of competition to make the reading list
Adam Smith
Mina
|
$1,200
[8]
What a plane is doing moving down a runway, preparing for take-off
taxiing
Mina
|
$1,200
[3]
A 1919 gathering of 6,000 Protestants to get back to the basics of their faith has been called the birth of this -ism
Fundamentalism
Sarah
Alison
|
$1,200
[23]
Still going strong, the jazz festival of this bay & aquarium city in California was founded in 1958 by DJ Jimmy Lyons
Monterey
Alison
|
$2,000
[27]
DreamWorks was originally called DreamWorks SKG, in honor of founders Steven Spielberg, David Geffen & this Jeffrey
Katzenberg
Alison
|
$800
[18]
Because of his father's frequent bouts of insanity, in 1418 15-year-old Charles VII declared himself one of these royal stand-ins
regent
Alison
|
|
$1,600
[15]
Obama made it through Larry Bartels' "Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New" this "Age", like the 1870-98 one
Gilded
Mina
|
$1,600
[9]
Also called the Taal, this language is much like Dutch
Afrikaans
Alison
|
$1,600
[4]
This Asian faith's name means "way of the gods" & its shrines are dedicated to rivers, mountains & other natural objects
Shintoism
Alison
Mina
|
$1,600
[24]
The 1930s was this "Era" named for the rhythm of the big bands, also a word in the title of a Sid Torin radio show
the Swing Era
Mina
|
— |
$1,200
[19]
In 1715, at the age of 5, Louis the Well-Beloved became King Louis of this number
XV
Sarah
Alison
|
|
$2,000
[16]
We don't know if Mr. O thought "What is the What" was some more staggering genius by this man, but it got the stamp of approval
David Eggers
Sarah
|
$2,000
[10]
If the Gettysburg address had been given in 1843, this would have been the first word
threescore
Sarah
|
$2,000
[5]
From a Hebrew word for "pious", this movement in Judaism combines austerity with joyful mysticism
Hassidism
|
$2,000
[25]
Before DJing, Phil Schaap was babysat by this bandleader's drummer Jo Jones & later managed The Countsmen, made up of his alumni
Count Basie
Alison
|
— |
$2,000
[21]
The future Charles V was the first heir apparent to the French crown to bear this title
dauphin
Sarah
|
The last line of this epic film was "Go--proclaim liberty throughout all the lands unto all the inhabitants thereof"
The Ten Commandments