Beth Gunter — an attorney from Los Angeles, California
Joe Velasco — a student from La Mirada, California
David Ferrara — a Realtor from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,977)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David | $3,000 | $5,000 | $7,600 |
$15,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,000
19 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Joe | $2,400 | $4,200 | $14,600 |
$20,100
New champion: $20,100 |
$13,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Beth | $2,000 | $7,400 | $14,200 |
$1,201
3rd place: $1,000 |
$13,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| A SHRUBBERY! | WORD WORDS | DAILY READING | U.S. SENATOR RHYME TIME | AREN'T YOU... | DISCOUNT CEOs? |
|
$200
[1]
Honk if you know the name of this avian berry that grows on shrubs all over Europe & the United States
a gooseberry
Joe
|
$200
[6]
Add "Y" to the kind of clock with hands & numbers to get this type of comparison
analogy
Beth
|
$200
[11]
"Black Sunday" by Thomas Harris sees terrorists plot a deadly attack using a blimp on this ultimate sporting event
the Super Bowl
David
|
$200
[15]
McConnell's curveballs
Mitch's pitches
David
|
$200
[13]
This Harry Potter actor once signed a photo of Elijah Wood, "I am not Elijah Wood"
(Daniel) Radcliffe
Joe
|
$200
[20]
On Nov. 2, 2006 John Mackey, CEO of this grocery chain aka "Whole Paycheck", told employees he was giving up almost all of his salary
Whole Foods
Joe
|
|
$400
[2]
Shrubs are woody plants with non-dominant stems, & a super-dense one can be called this, the surname of 2 presidents
a bush
Joe
|
$400
[7]
An idioticon is a dictionary of this "D" word, a form of a language spoken in a particular region
a dialect
Beth
|
$400
[12]
Mary Rodgers wrote this novel, later a Disney film, about a mother & daughter who magically switch places
Freaky Friday
Joe
|
$400
[19]
Booker's anecdotes
Cory's stories
Joe
|
$400
[14]
Actress Isla Fisher once put this "Arrival" actress' face on her holiday card & said no one noticed
(Amy) Adams
Joe
|
$400
[21]
Mark Zuckerberg asked Facebook for this salary in 2013, making him the lowest-paid guy there
$1.00
David
|
|
$600
[3]
Both Doc Holliday & a certain animated hound are fans of this fruit-bearingshrub
a huckleberry
David
|
$600
[8]
To talk without preparation is to ad-lib or to speak this "sleeve-oriented" way
off the cuff
Beth
|
$600
[16]
A 1958 novel (later an Albert Finney film) about a worker whose only pleasure is weekend blowouts is called this "& Sunday Morning"
Saturday Night
David
|
$600
[28]
Cruz' prescription pills
Ted's meds
Joe
|
$600
[25]
Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan said the New York Post mistook him for this Oscar-winning Spanish actor
(Javier) Bardem
Joe
|
$600
[22]
This CEO of Tesla used to earn a salary representative of California's minimum wage, yet he never took a dime of it
Elon Musk
Beth
|
|
$800
[4]
The leaves of a small shrub produce this 5-letter dye that is widely used in temporary tattoos
henna
Beth
|
$800
[9]
It's a dramatic monologue or speech made to oneself
a soliloquy
Joe
|
$800
[17]
A youngster wakes up to find everything out of place in "Wacky Wednesday" by this author writing under the name Theo LeSieg
Dr. Seuss
|
$800
[29]
Independent Angus' violin section
King's strings
|
$800
[26]
Jesse Eisenberg once said he was getting mistaken for this "Arrested Development" actor about once a day
Michael Cera
Beth
|
$1,000
[24]
When Meg Whitman took over as CEO of this hyphenated tech giant, she couldn't buy coffee with her salary; she did okay with stocks, though
Hewlett-Packard
David
|
|
$1,000
[5]
Fats Waller put this sweetshrubberyword in front of"Rose"in one of his most famous songs
honeysuckle
David
|
$1,000
[10]
Lapsus linguae is literally Latin for this kind of mistake
a slip of the tongue
David
|
$1,000
[18]
This 1973 Kurt Vonnegut novel about depressed car dealer Dwayne Hoover is subtitled "or Goodbye Blue Monday!"
Breakfast of Champions
|
$1,000
[30]
Sherrod's new teeth
Brown's crowns
Beth
|
$1,000
[27]
Though this sitcom actress sings in the duo She & Him, she's not crazy about being taken for Katy Perry
Zooey Deschanel
Beth
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
Jack Dorsey, CEO of this credit card processing giant, gets a $2.75 yearly salary, 2.75 being the percentage charged per swipe
Square
Beth
|
| FAMOUS NAMES | SCIENCE & NATURE | ONE-LETTER GEOGRAPHY | FILM COMPOSITION | THE 18th CENTURY | STARTS & ENDS WITH "E" |
|
$400
[19]
A guide book called "Adventures in Good Eating" recommended the food at his Kentucky motel & changed his fortunes
Colonel Sanders
David
|
$400
[18]
The giant variety of this, Tridacna gigas, is the largest living bivalve mollusk & can grow to 4 feet across & 500 pounds
a clam
David
|
$400
[12]
Due west of its capital Salem, this state's D River is billed as the world's shortest at 120 feet
Oregon
David
|
$400
[4]
Piotr Adamczyk played this Polish composer in a 2002 film
Chopin
David
|
$400
[9]
In 1717 the first "Grand Lodge" of this secret society was founded
the Masons (Freemasons)
Beth
|
$400
[2]
This word borrowed from the French can mean "access" as well as "main course"
entrée
David
|
|
$800
[20]
Sean Parker co-founded this music file-sharing service that debuted in 1999
Napster
Beth
|
$1,200
[15]
After sulfur is removed, this has no odor; mercaptan is added to it so that leaks can be detected
natural gas
Joe
|
$800
[13]
You'll find the region called "U" in Pohnpei, one of the Federated States of this multi-island Pacific nation
Micronesia
Joe
|
$800
[5]
Ringo Starr was the pope & Roger Daltrey played the lead in a 1975 film called this Hungarian -"omania"
Liszt
David
|
$800
[26]
In 1783 she annexed the Crimean Peninsula & it became Russian territory
Catherine the Great
Joe
|
$800
[1]
It often means a lavish country residence, but in Britain can also mean a housing development
an estate
David
|
|
$1,200
[21]
Jonathan Larson created this show based on "La Boheme" that revived the rock musical genre in the 1990s
Rent
Joe
|
$1,600
[16]
Studying flares & the corona, in 2019 U.K. astronomers determined that this field is 10 times stronger than previously thought
the Sun's magnetic field
|
$1,200
[22]
Sweden, Denmark & Norway all have villages with the "ring" type of this vowel for a name
A
Joe
|
$1,600
[7]
Iosif Pasternak wrote & directed the documentary "The Pathetique" about this composer
Tchaikovsky
|
$1,200
[25]
In 1732 James Oglethorpe secured a royal charter to establish what became this colony
Georgia
David
Joe
|
$1,200
[3]
Synonym for a posse--a rapper's or an actor's, not a sheriff's
an entourage
Joe
|
|
$1,600
[29]
In 1935, the year before his Olympic heroics, this track star broke 3 world records & tied a 4th within 45 minutes
Jesse Owens
David
|
DD
$2,000
[14]
Aside from the Sun & the Moon, this is the brightest natural object in the night sky
Venus
Joe
|
$1,600
[23]
This French village exists at the junction of 3 roads, hence its one-letter name
Y
Beth
|
$2,000
[8]
"Bride of the Wind" (a Gustav wind?) found Jonathan Pryce playing this symphonist
Mahler
David
|
$1,600
[27]
This Alpine German-speaking principality was created in 1719 & is still here today
Liechtenstein
Joe
|
$1,600
[10]
This word for a perfect example doesn't rhyme with "home"
epitome
David
|
|
$2,000
[30]
-ian added to the last name of this 3-named economist refers to his theories promoting government spending & stimulus
(John Maynard) Keynes
Beth
|
$2,000
[17]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a monarch butterfly on the monitor.) Butterflies emerge as adults not from a cocoon but from one of these structures whose name is from the Greek for "gold"
a chrysalis
Joe
|
$2,000
[24]
Mount E on this island is at the entrance to the Tsugaru Strait, across which lies Honshu
Hokkaido
Joe
|
DD
$7,400
[6]
1938 & 1972 films both called "The Great Waltz" focus on this composer
Johann Strauss
David
|
$2,000
[28]
In 1789 this Scotsman left from Lake Athabasca to explore the 1,100 miles of the Canadian river named for him
the Mackenzie
Beth
|
$2,000
[11]
This 9-letter word is a less common synonym for "former"
erstwhile
|
"Los Tres Grandes" were José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros & him
Diego Rivera