Robert Kaine — a copy editor from Hacienda Heights, California
Lisa Grove — a writer from Los Angeles, California
Dana Hill — a book dealer and stay-at-home mom from Simi Valley, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $44,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dana | $200 | $1,000 | $8,200 |
$16,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,200
12 R, 2 W |
| Lisa | $-1,600 | $400 | $9,200 |
$18,300
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,200
10 R, 2 W |
| Robert | $1,800 | $3,600 | $14,400 |
$18,401
New champion: $18,401 |
$17,800
23 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| AROUND THE USA | POLITICS GETS PHYSICAL | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT ETYMOLOGY | JONATHAN SWIFTIES | TV INSPIRATIONS | NAME THAT PART OF SPEECH |
|
$200
[11]
14,060-foot Mount Bierstadt is a good place to start climbing the "Fourteeners" of this western range
the Rockies
Robert
|
$200
[16]
During an 1858 brawl on the House floor, one representative accidentally grabbed this off the head of another, revealing him to be bald
a wig or toupée
Lisa
|
$200
[6]
Hautbois, literally "high" & "wood", is the origin of the name of this double-reed instrument
oboe
Robert
|
$200
[26]
Jonathan Swift famously observed that this food "is the staff of life"
bread
Dana
|
$200
[1]
Lucious Lyon on "Empire" was partly based on this rapper--should we infer that Cookie is Beyoncé
Jay-Z
Robert
|
$200
[25]
Remember
a verb
Dana
|
|
$400
[12]
The arch seenhereis not in Paris but in this city
Las Vegas
Dana
Robert
|
$400
[17]
"Elbowgate" rocked Ottawa after this PM bumped a rival MP in the chest before a 2016 House of Commons vote
Justin Trudeau
Robert
|
$400
[7]
The name of this percussion instrument comes from the Greek for wood & voice
xylophone
Dana
Robert
|
$400
[27]
This genre for which Swift was renowned is "a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"
satire
Lisa
|
$400
[2]
Washington, D.C. fixer Judy Smith inspired Olivia Pope on this drama
Scandal
Dana
|
$400
[24]
Thou
pronoun
Dana
|
|
$600
[13]
The Mall of America in this state has no central heating--skylights & store fixtures help do the job
Minnesota
Robert
|
$600
[18]
In Arkansas in 1837, one representative fatally stabbed another with this weapon named for a man killed the year before
a Bowie knife
Robert
|
$600
[8]
The name of this oval flute, which can have up to ten finger holes, is from the Italian
ocarina
Robert
|
— |
$600
[3]
The name of Idris Elba's character on this HBO show comes from Baltimore criminals Bernard "Stringer" Reed & Roland Bell
The Wire
Dana
Lisa
|
$600
[23]
Splendiferous
an adjective
Lisa
|
|
$800
[14]
To prevent road ice, Polk County, Wisconsin fittingly makes use of brine left over from making this
cheese
|
$800
[19]
In 1972 an Ulster MP slapped Britain's home secretary who told parliament that "Bloody" this day was self-defense by British troops
Bloody Sunday
Lisa
|
$1,000
[10]
This Renaissance-era stringed keyboard instrument sensibly gets its name from the Latin for "key" & "string"
a clavichord
Lisa
|
— |
$800
[4]
Preet Bharara was reportedly an inspiration for Paul Giamatti's character on this Showtime drama set in the financial world
Billions
Robert
|
$800
[22]
Already
adverb
Robert
|
|
$1,000
[15]
Montgomery, Alabama, is home to the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Church of this Protestant denomination
Baptist
Robert
|
$1,000
[20]
After John McLaurin & Benjamin Tillman traded punches on the Senate floor in 1902, the Senate voted 54-12 to give both this rebuke
a censure
|
DD
$2,200
[9]
Whether hammered or strummed, this instrument gets its name from the Latin for "sweet song"
dulcimer
Robert
|
— |
$1,000
[5]
Women's wrestling director Matt Cimber is an inspiration for Marc Maron's character on this show set in the 1980s
GLOW
|
$1,000
[21]
Although
conjunction
|
| JOURNALISTS | ON THE GLOBE | GASES | "UU" COMPLETE ME | IT'S A DATE | CELEBS COMING & GOING |
|
$400
[18]
A memorial in Westminster Abbey commemorates Richard Dimbleby, this network's first war correspondent
the BBC
Dana
|
$400
[7]
The Libreria Acqua Alta or "High Water Bookshop" keeps its books in waterproof basins just in case this Italian city floods
Venice
Dana
|
$400
[6]
Absorbed into the blood slower than nitrogen, this lightest inert gas is mixed with oxygen for deep-sea divers
helium
Robert
|
$400
[1]
Space that has had all the air removed from it
a vacuum
Robert
|
$400
[19]
On March 17, 1905 this future first lady got married in New York City & didn't even have to change her last name
Eleanor Roosevelt
Robert
|
$400
[8]
In 2019 he left "The Voice" after 16 seasons
Adam Levine
Robert
|
|
$800
[23]
He'smoved on from local newscasts in Birmingham & Chicago to become a nightly anchor at CNN
Don Lemon
Lisa
|
$800
[9]
Notes left at this holy site are collected twice a year & buried at the Mount of Olives
the Wailing Wall
Robert
|
$800
[13]
This inhaled anesthetic gas with a 5-letter name was first used for surgery in 1842
ether
Dana
|
$800
[2]
The name of this garment is Hawaiian
muumuu
Dana
|
$800
[27]
On Aug. 7, 1964 this international resolution that would prove controversial passed the House unanimously
the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
|
$800
[17]
"I have things to prove to myself," explained Tom Brady about moving to this team after 20 seasons with the Patriots
Tampa Bay
Robert
|
|
$1,200
[24]
From 1962 to 1981 he ended CBS Evening News broadcasts with the signoff "And that's the way it is"
Cronkite
Lisa
|
$1,600
[11]
In 1986 this country got a new province, Flevoland, built completely on reclaimed land
the Netherlands
|
$1,200
[20]
Trademarked in 1930, it's the name for gases used as refrigerants thanks to their low boiling points
Freon
Robert
|
$1,200
[3]
A series in which adjacent elements are not perceptibly distinguishable from one another
a continuum
Lisa
|
$1,200
[28]
You could look it up--on April 14, 1828 this man copyrighted the first edition of his dictionary
(Noah) Webster
Robert
|
$1,200
[15]
Tina Fey returned in a 2020 "One-Time Special" of this sitcom; Kenneth the page is now the boss of the network
30 Rock
Dana
|
|
$1,600
[25]
(David Muir of ABC World News Tonight presents the clue.) In 2018, ABC's "World News Tonight" & I were proud to be named Best Newscast as recipients of the Radio-Television Digital News Association Award named for this legendary newsman
(Edward R.) Murrow
Lisa
|
$2,000
[12]
Pyongyang's Arch of Triumphwas built in 1982 to honor the 70th birthday of this first North Korean leader
Kim Il-sung
Lisa
|
$2,000
[22]
Harriet Brooks is sometimes credited with discovering this 5-letter element, a gas emanating from thorium
radon
|
$1,600
[4]
It's the genus that includes asses, zebras & related mammals
Equus
Robert
|
$1,600
[29]
On Jan. 10, 1776 Thomas Paine put out this 47-page pamphlet demanding independence
"Common Sense"
Robert
|
$1,600
[14]
A young Vince Gill turned down a chance to join Dire Straits; a less young Vince Gill replaced Glenn Frey on this band's tour
the Eagles
Dana
|
|
$2,000
[26]
A longtime newspaperman, this author of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" vanished after going to Mexico in 1913
(Ambrose) Bierce
Dana
|
DD
$3,000
[10]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Argentina has a fertileregionbetween two rivers, the Paraná & the Uruguay, that's known by this 11-letter name, the same as an ancient Middle Eastern civilization
Mesopotamia
Robert
|
DD
$3,000
[21]
Trapped in pockets underground where plant decomposition has occurred, natural gas is primarily this gas
methane
Robert
|
$2,000
[5]
This longtime opposition leader in Myanmar has been the de facto leader of the country since 2016
Aung San Suu Kyi
Robert
|
$2,000
[30]
This Mideast war ended on June 10, 1967 when the U.N. negotiated a cease-fire
the Six-Day War
|
$2,000
[16]
Emmy Rossum is no longer the oldest Gallagher daughter on this TV show
Shameless
Lisa
|
Reluctant to write what became her most famous novel, she said, "Never liked girls or knew many, except my sisters"
(Louisa May) Alcott