Phillip Howard — a naval officer from Santa Clarita, California
Preston Wilson — a sommelier originally from New Orleans, Louisiana
Mason Maggio — a songwriter from Los Angeles, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $42,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mason | $3,800 | $4,800 | $14,600 |
$2,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Preston | $800 | $2,200 | $5,000 |
$7
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,000
9 R, 3 W |
| Phillip | $600 | $2,000 | $13,000 |
$23,000
New champion: $23,000 |
$11,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| EVERY DAY'S A HOLIDAY | BESTSELLERS | THAT'S MY JAM! | NEW TO THEOED | DURING HIS PRESIDENCY | YANKEE STADIUM |
|
$200
[11]
On January 12 have a cuppa on National Hot this Day
Tea
Mason
|
$200
[13]
Recent speeches by this young Swedish climate activist are collected in "No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference"
Greta Thunberg
Mason
|
$200
[4]
My personal fave: this type of grape jam bearing the name of a Massachusetts town
Concord
Preston
|
$200
[22]
This zero-shaped bread product, now as a verb meaning to beat someone 6-0 in a set of tennis
a bagel
|
$200
[1]
73 million watched the Beatles' debut on Ed Sullivan & the Pueblo incident happened during his Oval Office stay
(Lyndon) Johnson
Mason
Phillip
|
$200
[21]
In 2009 Jorge Posada hit the first HR in the new Yankee Stadium; in 1923 the first in the old park was, naturally, hit by this man
Babe Ruth
Mason
|
|
$400
[12]
In Japan, November the 11th is a holiday celebrating this art form
origami
Preston
|
$400
[17]
"The Lost World" was Michael Crichton's sequel to this bestseller
Jurassic Park
Mason
|
$400
[5]
My jam is complicated--it's made from pluot, a hybrid of plum & this other fruit
apricot
Mason
|
$400
[23]
This shortened word you might use to order some Sauvignon
cab
Preston
|
$400
[2]
The Reagan era saw Desmond Tutu win the Nobel Peace Prize & Barney Clark survive 112 days after surgery implanting this
an artificial heart
Preston
Phillip
|
$400
[24]
All rise! On June 11, 2017, a ball landed in the bleachers 495' from home plate, off the bat of this 6'7" Yankee
Aaron Judge
|
|
$600
[14]
National Thank You Note Day is on this date, the day after opening lots of gifts
December 26th
Phillip
|
$600
[18]
He gave a behind-the-scenes look at his career in "The Mamba Mentality: How I Play"
Kobe Bryant
Phillip
|
$600
[6]
Inna jam makes a "plenty spicy" one from these peppers named for a place the Aztecs called Xalapan
jalapeño
Phillip
|
$600
[26]
This name of an alarmist fowl from a folk tale
Chicken Little
Mason
|
$600
[3]
Silent Cal took in the founding of CBS & the publication of this 1925 novel set in East Egg, Long Island
The Great Gatsby
Preston
|
$600
[25]
It wasn't just baseball at the old stadium; this Frank Gifford team moved there in 1956 & promptly won a championship
the New York Giants
|
|
$800
[15]
August 13 is a special day for these folks, including Barack Obama, Paul McCartney & Clayton Kershaw
southpaws (left-handers)
|
$800
[19]
1986's "Red Storm Rising" was his second novel & his second No. 1 bestseller
Tom Clancy
Phillip
|
$800
[7]
My favorite type of this torte, named for a city in Austria, is the one made with raspberry jam
Linzer
|
$800
[27]
This word for a content creator on a certain video-sharing site, such as Yuya (beauty) or Moriah Elizabeth (crafts)
a YouTuber
Mason
|
$800
[9]
The Nixon era saw Hank Aaron hit home run No. 715 & this country, at times part of India & of Pakistan, gain independence
Bangladesh
Mason
|
$800
[29]
Stadium swan songs include this immortal center fielder's, getting the Yanks' only hit off Luis Tiant Sept. 25, 1968
Mickey Mantle
|
|
$1,000
[16]
Held in October at the end of the week, this alliterative day celebrates Mary Shelley & her famous creation
Frankenstein Friday
|
$1,000
[20]
In the '90s this newsman had a nonfiction bestseller with "The Greatest Generation" about the men & women of WWII
Tom Brokaw
Preston
|
$1,000
[8]
My new fave is the jam from the Meiwa type of this small fruit with a "Q" in the middle of its name
a kumquat
Mason
|
$1,000
[28]
This 5-letter type of kosher, for food prepared strictly in accordance with Jewish dietary law
glatt
|
$1,000
[10]
This artist's "The Persistence of Memory" & Earhart flying solo across the Atlantic happened on Hoover's watch
Salvador Dalí
Mason
|
DD
$1,000
[30]
A museum at the stadium has statues of World Series hero Don Larsen & 60' 6" away, this great Yankee
Yogi Berra
Mason
|
| THE YOUNG & THE RECKLESS | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS | MOVIE THRILLERS | GNAT GEO | E 1-2-3-4-5 | HISTORIC WOMEN |
|
$400
[21]
Wing-suited 1930s aviationdaredevil Clem Sohn was nicknamed this like a caped superhero who debuted in 1939
Batman
Mason
|
$400
[11]
George Washington Carver came up with 300 products derived from these, including dyes, flour & linoleum
peanuts
Mason
|
$400
[1]
In "Marathon Man" Laurence Olivier plays war criminal Szell, who breaks out the tools he used as one of these
a dentist
Preston
|
$400
[16]
2019 high water on this river in cities like Natchez helped bring gnats out in force
the Mississippi River
Preston
Phillip
|
$400
[6]
A mistake, like throwing the ball into left field
an error
Mason
|
DD
$3,000
[26]
Her services refused due to prejudice, Jamaican-born Mary Seacole helped care for British soldiers on her own during this 1850s war
the Crimean War
Mason
|
|
$800
[22]
Rossa Richter was just 14 in 1877 when she was fired into the air at London's Royal Aquarium, becoming famous as the first human this
a cannonball
Preston
|
$800
[12]
Tabitha Babbitt invented a circular type of this tool after seeing Shakers struggle with the long 2-handled type
a saw
Phillip
|
$800
[2]
This 2020 thriller based on an H.G. Wells novel had the title character as an abusive ex stalking Elisabeth Moss
The Invisible Man
Mason
|
$800
[17]
Queen Victoria wrote of being "half devoured by midges" at an 1872 picnic near Dornoch Firth in this country
Scotland
Mason
|
$800
[7]
Musical rate of movement indicated by adagio or presto
tempo
|
— |
|
$1,200
[25]
One story says this 1970s Daredevil got his rhyming nickname after crashing his motorcycle while being chased by police as a teen
Evel Knievel
Mason
|
$1,200
[13]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Great Market Hall in Budapest, Hungary.) In the tradition of Hungarian inventive geniuses like Mr. Rubik, two Hungarian scientists designed the Gömböc to prove that there can be a three-dimensional object with only one stable and one unstable point of this
balance
|
$1,200
[3]
Tom Hardy played the title role in this high-octane flick, but Charlize Theron stole the spotlight as Furiosa
Mad Max: Fury Road
Phillip
|
$1,200
[18]
The luminous larvae of Orfelia fultoni, a gnat of the Appalachians, are aka these "worms"
glow worms
Phillip
|
$1,200
[8]
It describes the indentation on a chin
cleft
Mason
|
— |
|
$1,600
[23]
Stunt man Bud Ekins, not Steve McQueen, made the iconic motorcycle jump over a barbed-wire fence in this 1963 P.O.W. breakout movie
The Great Escape
Phillip
|
$2,000
[15]
This guitar legend is the only person in both the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & The Inventors Hall of Fame
Les Paul
|
$1,600
[4]
In "The Transporter: Refueled", Ed Skrein took the wheel from this British actor who starred in the previous 3 entries
Jason Statham
Mason
|
$1,600
[19]
You might encounter the fungus gnat on safari in this country's Kwazulu-Natal province
South Africa
Phillip
|
$1,600
[9]
A small flock of quail
covey
|
— |
|
$2,000
[24]
World War I ace Frank Luke was famed for attacking observation these, dangerous targets ringed with antiaircraft guns
balloons
Phillip
|
DD
$3,000
[14]
Donald Hings created a portable 2-way radio around 1940; today it has this rhyming name
a walkie-talkie
Phillip
|
$2,000
[5]
The dreams that take place at the climax of this Christopher Nolan film are dreamed inside the first class cabin of a 747
Inception
Preston
|
$2,000
[20]
The destructive fruit fly Ceratitis capitata is better known as this, after a body of water
the Mediterranean fruit fly
Preston
|
$2,000
[10]
Canadians enjoy wearing this type of heavy stocking cap
a toque (tuque)
Preston
|
— |
In medieval times it was a long tale of a hero like Gisli or Njall; today it means any story of epic length
saga