Quemars Ahmed — a field organizer from La Cañada Flintridge, California
Ashleigh McCord — a marine resource management specialist from Beverly, Massachusetts
Jesse Laymon — a public policy director from Long Island City, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jesse | $5,600 | $9,400 | $15,400 |
$30,400
2-day champion: $43,400 |
$14,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Ashleigh | $200 | $3,400 | $10,600 |
$8,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,600
17 R, 2 W |
| Quemars | $-800 | $-200 | $15,000 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$13,400
13 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| SPORTS MASCOTS | STATES BY BORDERS | POLITICIAN AUTHORS | MAY DAY! MAY DAY! | COMPLETE THE BRIT PHRASE | LET THEM EAT CAKE |
|
$200
[30]
This team's mascot Wally the Green Monster is named for the team's famous left field wall
the Boston Red Sox
Jesse
|
$200
[9]
Oregon, Idaho
Washington
Ashleigh
|
$200
[29]
He left office in January 1981 & released "Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President" in 1982
Jimmy Carter
Jesse
|
$200
[10]
On May 1, 1967 he married Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas
Elvis
Ashleigh
|
$200
[19]
If you're all set, this guy is "your uncle"--perhaps Mr. Ross or Mr. Saget
Bob
Ashleigh
|
$200
[20]
For Christmas, you can make this 2-word chocolate roll cake while watching the same-named item burn on TV
a yule log
Ashleigh
|
|
$400
[3]
This NHL team's mascot Wild Wing descends from the rafters of Honda Center at the start of home games
the Anaheim Ducks
Quemars
|
$400
[8]
New Hampshire
Maine
Jesse
|
$400
[28]
"Earth in the Balance" by this man was published in 1992, the same year he was elected vice president
(Al) Gore
Jesse
|
$400
[11]
350,000 workers responded on May 1, 1886 as the AFL declared a national strike in favor of this workday length
the eight-hour workday
Jesse
|
$400
[13]
"I'll put" this kitchen item on, perhaps for some Earl Grey
the kettle
Ashleigh
|
$400
[21]
Hey, batter batter, don't swing, batter! A trademarked tube pan with fluted sides is used to make this cake
Bundt
Ashleigh
|
|
$600
[2]
This Padres mascot was the first mascot featured on a baseball card
the San Diego Chicken
Quemars
|
$600
[7]
Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin
Michigan
Jesse
Ashleigh
|
$600
[27]
He's the author of "Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games"--the 2002 Salt Lake City games specifically
Mitt Romney
Quemars
|
$600
[12]
Until May 1, 2008 Washington, D.C.'s cabs didn't have these; they used a zone system instead
meters
Jesse
|
$600
[14]
"One man's meat is another man's" this, like a fumigant
poison
|
$600
[22]
An important part of a dessert like a Charlotte, this delicate, light sponge cake sounds perfect (for a cannibal!)
ladyfinger
|
|
$800
[1]
In 2005 the San Antonio Spurs mascot got ejected, ref Jess Kersey saying, "I want the wolf gone!"--he's really this creature
a coyote
Jesse
Quemars
|
$1,000
[5]
New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana
Texas
Jesse
|
$800
[18]
His"The War on Normal People" explains why universal basic income is our future
(Andrew) Yang
Ashleigh
|
$800
[25]
On May 1, 1961 in the first major one of these in the U.S., a Miami-Key West flight made an unscheduled stop in Cuba
a hijacking
Ashleigh
|
$800
[15]
William Congreve wrote, do this "in haste, repent at leisure"
marry
Quemars
|
$800
[23]
Pineapple is the main attraction in this kind of cake, inverted before serving so the glazed fruit goes from bottom to top
a pineapple upside-down cake
Ashleigh
|
|
$1,000
[4]
The Cleveland Browns' Chomps, a Labrador retriever, is said to live in this bleacher section in the east end zone
the Dawg Pound
Quemars
|
DD
$1,800
[6]
Connecticut, Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Jesse
|
$1,000
[17]
This Republican ex-Speaker of the House co-wrote the alternate history novel "1945", published in 1995
Gingrich
Jesse
|
$1,000
[26]
On May 1, 1898 the U.S. Navy fired when ready & sank the Spaniards at the battle of this bay
Manila Bay
Jesse
|
$1,000
[16]
This fruit "-shaped" means things have gone very, very wrong
pear-shaped
Jesse
|
$1,000
[24]
Split a sweet Biscuit in half, fill & top it with softly whipped cream & sliced fruit--like strawberries--& you've got this
a strawberry shortcake
|
| HISTORIC HAPPENINGS | EUROPEAN MUSEUMS | NAMES IN POP CULTURE | COPLEY MEDAL WINNERS | BOOKS OF THE DEAD | AFTER LIFE |
|
$400
[6]
The governor of Louisiana put one of these for $500 on Jean Lafitte's head, so Jean put one out for $1,500 on the governor
a bounty
Jesse
|
$400
[29]
An exhibition about colors in fairy tales at a Brothers Grimm museum was titled "Red Hood," this color "Beard"
blue
Quemars
|
$400
[22]
Celebrating this film's Oscars in 2020, director Bong Joon Ho partied on Galbi & Bibimbap in L.A.'s Koreatown until 5 A.M.
Parasite
Quemars
|
$400
[30]
Alec Jeffreys won for his 1984 discovery of fingerprinting of this genetic material
DNA
Ashleigh
|
$400
[21]
The first volume of her poems didn't appear until 1890, 4 years after death stopped for her
(Emily) Dickinson
Jesse
|
$400
[20]
Able to read & write
literate
Ashleigh
|
|
$800
[5]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Back in the day, those on the island of Tyre felt pretty safe off the mainland, but when this great conqueror showed up in 332 B.C., he built acausewayand ended a siege by marching across the newly created path
Alexander
Quemars
|
$800
[7]
Schloss Liebegg is home to Switzerland's Hexenmuseum, or museum of this practice
witchcraft
Ashleigh
|
$800
[11]
A self-described "average student", this former "Late Show" host funds a scholarship at Indiana's Ball State
Letterman
Jesse
|
$800
[12]
Proving air is a composite substance, 1772 winner Joseph Priestley discovered the gases nitrogen, ammonia & this one he called "pure air"
oxygen
Jesse
|
$800
[25]
Irene Nemirovsky's "Suite Francaise" was a bestseller 6 decades after her 1942 death in this infamous camp in Poland
Auschwitz
Ashleigh
|
$800
[18]
One's direct descent from an ancestor
lineage
Quemars
|
|
$1,200
[4]
An eclipse in August 1142 may have been the impetus for the formation of this Native American confederacy
the Iroquois
Quemars
|
$1,200
[8]
TheNEMO Science Museumis just off the IJ waterway in this world capital
Amsterdam
|
$1,200
[10]
For producing a 2019 live version of "All in the Family" & "The Jeffersons", this man became the oldest Emmy winner ever at age 97
Norman Lear
|
$1,200
[13]
In 1770 William Hamilton won for studying this Sicilian hotspot; later, Lord Nelson would study Hamilton's wife
Etna
Ashleigh
|
$1,200
[23]
Samuel Butler's "The Way of All" this was published in 1903, the year after his death
The Way of All Flesh
Ashleigh
|
$1,200
[17]
Named for a New York bay, a young quahog clam, usually eaten raw
a Littleneck
Ashleigh
|
|
$1,600
[3]
Henry VII backdated his reign to August 21, 1485, essentially making all who supported this guy at Bosworth Field traitors
Richard III
Quemars
|
$2,000
[27]
This Portuguese city is famous for wine but its Serralves Museum specializes in non-aged art, from the 1960s & later
Porto
Quemars
|
$1,600
[9]
Tito Puente was delighted when royalty checks started arriving after this guitarist covered his song "Oye Como Va"
Santana
Ashleigh
|
$1,600
[14]
There was no resistance to this German receiving the medal in 1841 for his research into the laws of electric currents
(Georg) Ohm
Quemars
|
$1,600
[24]
He died of a heart attack in 2004, shortly before the first novel in his mega-selling thriller trilogy was published
(Stieg) Larsson
Jesse
|
$1,600
[16]
A city in France world famous for its porcelain
Limoges
|
|
DD
$2,000
[1]
Accommodations were poor at this Crimean conference that shaped postwar Europe: bad beds, lice, & Stalin had no private bathroom
Yalta
Quemars
|
DD
$3,200
[28]
A U.K. museum dedicated to this author has a ball made of chocolate bar foil wrappers
Roald Dahl
Quemars
|
$2,000
[2]
In 2019, this Canadian YouTube star made the jump to late night television, hosting "A Little Late" on NBC
Lilly Singh
|
$2,000
[19]
He lent his name to a new boson & was honored in 2015 for his contributions to particle physics
(Peter) Higgs
Ashleigh
|
$2,000
[26]
Franz Kafka told an executor to destroy the manuscript of the 1925 novel "Der Prozess", this title in English
The Trial
Quemars
|
$2,000
[15]
Ancient author of "From the Foundation of the City", a history of Rome in 142 volumes
Livy
Jesse
|
On the English-language list of member states at un.org, it's the only nation with a Spanish-language article in its name
El Salvador