Reshima Wilkinson — a researcher from Venice, California
Tyler Brill — a freelance writer from Simi Valley, California
Dana Hill — a book dealer and stay-at-home mom from Simi Valley, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dana | $2,800 | $9,000 | $21,600 |
$19,600
2-day champion: $44,800 |
$17,000
23 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Tyler! | $1,400 | $3,600 | $11,200 |
$5
3rd place: $1,000 |
$15,200
21 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Reshima | $0 | $0 | $5,600 |
$600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,600
7 R, 1 W |
| YOU GOTTA FIGHT! | EUROPEAN HISTORY IS A DOWNER | HODGEPODGE | FOOD SCIENCE | THE LANGUAGE OF LIKE | WESTWARD HO! |
|
$200
[5]
Before becoming a UFC champ, Ronda Rousey was the 1st U.S. woman to win an Olympic medal in this martial art
judo
Tyler!
Reshima
|
$200
[7]
A lack of genetic diversity in this crop in 1840s Ireland was a major cause of disaster for the population
a potato
Tyler!
|
$200
[4]
An early depiction of a demon holding this customary farm implement is on a thousand-year-old high cross in County Louth, Ireland
a pitchfork
Reshima
|
$200
[1]
Sodium hydroxide, aka lye, is traditionally used to create the brown coating on these twisted German snacks
pretzels
Dana
|
$200
[9]
2-4-6-8, who do we this? It means to be grateful for! Or rise in value! Yay!
appreciate
Dana
|
$200
[24]
Georgia
Alabama
Tyler!
|
|
$400
[6]
In 2011, this man went 12 rounds to beat Juan Manuel Márquez, got 28 stitches, then hit the House of Blues to sing "La Bamba"
Manny Pacquiao
Tyler!
|
$400
[8]
The USSR's 1930s Great Purge included the notorious "show" type of these, with defendants forced to confess
trials
Reshima
|
$400
[22]
The current king of Spain is named after Philip V (died 1746) but is more commonly known by this Spanish version of his name
Felipe
Dana
|
$400
[2]
One theory for why tomatoes were thought to be poisonous--their acidity leached this toxic metal out of pewter plates
lead
Dana
|
$400
[10]
The "Hippie Dictionary" says it means "to see, understand ", as in "can you ___ it"?
dig
Tyler!
|
$400
[25]
Montana
Idaho
Tyler!
|
|
$600
[19]
This nickname of unjustly imprisoned boxer Rubin Carter was the title of the Denzel Washington film about him
Hurricane
Dana
|
$600
[11]
1950-51 in the Alps was the "Winter of Terror" as these disasters destroyed buildings & killed more than 200 people
avalanches
Tyler!
|
$600
[21]
Latin term for a law that makes an act illegal though it was legal back when it was done
ex post facto
Tyler!
|
$600
[3]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows high-speed photography of a popcorn kernel popping on the monitor.) Pressure of about 135 pounds per square inch is needed to pop each popcorn kernel; the pressure comes from steam, created when this white carbohydrate is heated to around 400 degrees
starch
|
$600
[16]
Something very complicated & ornamental; does that "strike your" this? Or is it just a "passing" one?
fancy
Dana
|
$600
[26]
Indiana
Illinois
Dana
|
|
$800
[27]
No bones about it--this dominant UFC light heavyweight has a brother who plays linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals
Jon "Bones" Jones
|
$800
[12]
The Vatican had second thoughts about its treatment of heretic Giordano Bruno--400 years after he was executed this way
burned at the stake
Dana
Reshima
|
$800
[20]
These people lived up to their name when they sacked Rome in 455 A.D., tearing up the tiles of the Temple of Jupiter
Vandals
|
$800
[14]
Around 10,000 years ago, human adults gained the ability to digest this milk sugar
lactose
Dana
|
$1,000
[18]
To hold a memory fondly in your mind, perhaps of the same-named 1989 Madonna hit
cherish
Tyler!
|
— |
|
$1,000
[28]
A goal, an assist & a fight in the same game is a hockey "hat trick" named for this Red Wing but he only had 2 himself in 32 years
(Gordie) Howe
Dana
|
$1,000
[13]
A secret Sicilian group fighting foreign invaders may be the origin of this notorious criminal group
the Mafia
Dana
|
$1,000
[23]
His 1690 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" argues for the "blank slate" view that all knowledge is from experience
(John) Locke
Dana
|
$1,000
[15]
Mustard can act as one of these agents that allow oil & water to stay blended
an emulsifier
Dana
|
DD
$2,000
[17]
To venerate, say, a specific Revolutionary War nighttime equestrian
revere
Dana
|
— |
| AMERICANS IN PARIS | COUNTRY CLUBS? | THE MAN, THE POETRY | MUSIC FESTIVALS | DADDY! PAPA! | 3 Ns |
|
$400
[6]
In 1952 she & 2 French friends started a cooking school in Paris, L'ecole des trois gourmandes
Julia Child
Tyler!
|
$400
[25]
In 1956 the International Criminal Police Commission got this new & snazzier name
INTERPOL
Tyler!
|
$400
[8]
"i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens... nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands"
(E.E.) Cummings
Tyler!
|
$400
[13]
When Beyoncé headlined this California music festival in 2018, some called it "Beychella"
Coachella
Dana
|
$400
[16]
Harvestmen, crane flies & cellar spiders are all known by this nickname
daddy longlegs
Dana
|
$400
[1]
In 1984 the White Sox beat the Brewers 7 to 6 in a game that lasted 25 of these
innings
Tyler!
|
|
$800
[7]
His trips to Paris in the 1920s inspired his orchestral piece "An American In Paris"
(George) Gershwin
Dana
Tyler!
|
$800
[26]
The WTO, this club for commerce, has grown to more than 160 members
the World Trade Organization
Tyler!
|
$800
[9]
"Bells" (interspersed more than 60 times within the poem)
(Edgar Allan) Poe
Dana
|
$800
[14]
This rainy city's music festival is fittingly named Bumbershoot, a slang word for an umbrella
Seattle
Reshima
|
$800
[17]
"Better ingredients. Better pizza" is an ad slogan for this chain
Papa John's
Tyler!
|
$800
[2]
In 2019, for her book "Amity and Prosperity", Eliza Griswold won a Pulitzer Prize for general this
nonfiction
Tyler!
|
|
$1,200
[18]
Sheran a salon out of her home for some of the leading artists & writers of the day
Gertrude Stein
Tyler!
Reshima
|
$1,200
[27]
The FAO, the Food & this Organization, operates in more than 130 countries
Agriculture
Tyler!
|
$1,200
[10]
"I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong"
(Walt) Whitman
Dana
|
$1,200
[15]
Perry Farrell claims he got the 5-syllable name for this long-running music festival from an episode of "The Three Stooges"
Lollapalooza
Dana
|
$1,200
[20]
The name of this caramel lollipop was meant to suggest a wealth of sweetness
a Sugar Daddy
Tyler!
|
$1,200
[3]
Among other things, the Fifth Amendment protects against self-this
incrimination
Dana
|
|
$2,000
[24]
In 1932 this author began a passionate love affair in Paris with Anais Nin that would last for years
Henry Miller
Dana
|
$1,600
[28]
AOSIS, the Alliance of Small Island States, is concerned about a rise in this--1 meter would doom some of its members
sea-levels
Tyler!
|
$2,000
[12]
"The soul of Adonais, like a star, beacons from the abode where the eternal are"
Shelley
Dana
|
$1,600
[19]
200,000 people crowd a Belgian town of 18,000 for Tomorrowland, a festival of EDM, short for this "music"
electronic dance music
Reshima
|
$1,600
[21]
A spirit known as a loa, Papa Legba is a gatekeeper & a master communicator in this religion practiced in Haiti
Voodoo
Tyler!
|
$1,600
[4]
It's also called transmigration of the soul
reincarnation
Dana
|
|
DD
$4,000
[23]
In 1803 this American launched an experimental steamboat on a river in Paris
Robert Fulton
Tyler!
|
$2,000
[29]
This 11-letter word is the "D" in IDA, a 173-member association that grants loans to foster growth in poor countries
development
Reshima
|
DD
$5,000
[11]
"Back from the mouth of hell, all that was left of them, left of six hundred"
Tennyson
Dana
|
$2,000
[30]
This Tennessee music festival comes from a slang word on a Dr. John album title that means "the best on the streets"
Bonnaroo
|
$2,000
[22]
Burl Ives played Big Daddy in the Broadway & film versions of this Tennessee Williams play
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tyler!
|
$2,000
[5]
Get thee to this other word for a convent
a nunnery
Tyler!
|
The book "The Eagle & the Elephant" is about the relationship between the U.S. & this Asian country beginning in 1833
Thailand (Siam)