Mandy Friel — a project specialist from Camarillo, California
Claire-Marie Murphy — a film advertising executive from Los Angeles, California
Garrett Marcotte — a software engineer from Santa Monica, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garrett | $2,800 | $6,200 | $18,200 |
$27,700
2-day champion: $41,700 |
$15,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Claire-Marie | $1,000 | $5,400 | $13,800 |
$26,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,400
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Mandy | $2,600 | $2,800 | $3,300 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,800
9 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| WORDS AT THEIR FINAL RESTING PLACES | POTENT PORTMANTEAU | YES WE "CAN" | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS MOUNTAIN G.O.A.T.s | TALKING FRONT OFFICE BASEBALL | ADD A VOWEL |
|
$200
[16]
"Heroine of the Underground Railroad. Nurse and scout in the Civil War"
Harriet Tubman
Garrett
|
$200
[3]
First step in making frose: do this to rose wine
freeze
Garrett
Mandy
|
$200
[11]
It's the bird seen here
a canary
Mandy
|
$200
[1]
(Ken Jennings presents the clue.) One of the first two men to summit Everest & a part of my personal Mount Rushmore of all-time climbers, healso tractored to the South Pole five years later in 1958
Edmund Hillary
Garrett
|
$400
[20]
In 2017 this ex-Yankee shortstop was part of a group that paid $1.2 billion to buy the Marlins
Derek Jeter
Garrett
Mandy
|
$400
[28]
E: to cut (perhaps diplomatic ties) becomes extremely harsh
sever & severe
Garrett
|
|
$400
[24]
This musician: "Satchmo"
(Louis) Armstrong
Garrett
|
$400
[4]
To make a Jagerbomb, drop a shot of this German liquor into Red Bull
Jägermeister
Claire-Marie
|
$400
[12]
While number 2 in the U.S., it's the number one vegetable oil used in Canada & Japan
canola
Garrett
|
$400
[2]
(Ken Jennings presents the clue.) In 2015, Dani Arnold climbedthis14,700-foot peak in the Pennine Alps in 1 hour, 46 minutes, but I did Disneyland's in, like, a minute
the Matterhorn
Claire-Marie
|
$600
[19]
Oops...Mets owners invested $500 mil.--a ballpark figure--with this man, whose Ponzi scheme struck out in 2008
Bernie Madoff
Claire-Marie
|
$600
[27]
I: a high-fiber cereal item transforms into an organ you should be using right now
brain & bran
Mandy
|
|
$800
[22]
This OK Corral survivor: "That nothing's so sacred as honor, and nothing so loyal as love!"
Wyatt Earp
Garrett
|
$600
[5]
Rum Chata cream liqueur combines rum & this sweet cinnamony drink
horchata
Mandy
|
$600
[14]
The Pont de Québecis the world's longest bridge of this type
cantilevered
Garrett
Claire-Marie
|
$600
[10]
(Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Though the Freerider route takes most people four days, it took Alex Honnoldabout 4 hours, ropeless & using some holds the width of a pencil, to climb El Capitanin this national park
Yosemite
Mandy
|
$800
[18]
Ted Turner was quoted, "I bought" this team "because I'm tired of seeing them kicked around" (& wanted to put them on TBS)
the (Atlanta) Braves
Garrett
|
$800
[26]
O: a male sheep & the way he might wander around
ram & roam
Claire-Marie
|
|
$1,000
[21]
This British leader of men in Antarctica: "I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize"
(Ernest) Shackleton
Claire-Marie
|
$800
[6]
Frou-frou drink of vodka, cider & schnapps
an appletini
|
$800
[15]
This once-popular term for a young female hospital volunteer referred to the red & white uniform
a candy striper
Claire-Marie
|
$800
[9]
(Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Braving subzero temps on June 7, 1913, Walter Harperwas the first person to stand atopthis20,310-foot peak; of Athabascan heritage, he was the one Native American member of the expedition & the mountain itself is now known by its indigenous name
Denali (Mount McKinley)
Garrett
|
$1,000
[17]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Pymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York.) Praying at Brooklyn's Plymouth Church helped this Dodgers general manager decide to take a big step and integrate baseball with Jackie Robinson
Branch Rickey
Garrett
|
$1,000
[25]
U: stationery becomes a very poor person
paper & pauper
Garrett
|
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
"Mother of the modern day civil rights movement"
Rosa Parks
Claire-Marie
|
$1,000
[7]
Ideally the bottle of beer inverted into a Coronarita would be a Corona, but a different beer from this country will do
Mexico
Garrett
|
$1,000
[13]
It's another name for the Bible's Song of Solomon
the Canticles
Mandy
|
$1,000
[8]
(Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Go Canada! In 2018, Monique Richard overcame a fall into a crevice to be the first woman to solo summit this mountain, Canada's tallest
Mount Logan
|
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| HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE | 1990s BEST PICTURE BY TAGLINE | ENZYMES & AMINO ACIDS | RELIGION | CORPORATE LINGO | SPEED READING |
|
$400
[6]
In 2002 Germany ditched this monetary unit, DM for short, for the euro
the deutschmark
Garrett
|
$400
[1]
Directed by Spielberg: "Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire"
Schindler's List
Claire-Marie
|
$400
[25]
Cytochrome P450 enzymes in its liver help detoxify this marsupial's mainly eucalyptus leaf diet
a koala
Claire-Marie
|
$400
[12]
The "Five Solas" of the Protestant Reformation include "sola gratia", salvation by this alone
grace
Mandy
|
$400
[17]
In baseball, you do this to avoid being thrown out as a runner; in meetings, it means to follow up with a person
touch base
|
$800
[23]
A 1965 expose by Ralph Nader warned that the Chevy Corvair was this adjective "at Any Speed"
Unsafe
Garrett
|
|
$800
[24]
After this woman died, Clark of Lewis & Clark became the legal guardian of her children Lisette & Jean Baptiste Charbonneau
Sacagawea
Mandy
|
$800
[2]
"Lt. John Dunbar is about to discover the frontier... within himself"
Dances with Wolves
Claire-Marie
|
$1,200
[28]
The enzyme rennet is crucial to cheesemaking as it causes milk to separate into these semisolids & whey
curd
Claire-Marie
|
$800
[13]
The Koran plus the words of Muhammad form this immutable legal framework for Muslims
sharia
Garrett
Mandy
|
$800
[18]
In biology, it's all the diverse organisms in a location; in business, it's all the parts of an industry
an ecosystem
Garrett
|
$1,600
[9]
Oddly, "Never act in haste" is the moral of the 1892 adventure novel "The Dash for" this Sudanese capital
Khartoum
Garrett
|
|
$1,200
[22]
Robert Ford, who killed this outlaw in 1882, was himself murdered a decade later
Jesse James
Garrett
|
$1,200
[3]
Set in the 16th century: "A comedy about the greatest love story almost never told"
Shakespeare in Love
Garrett
|
$1,600
[26]
Add sodium to glutamic acid & you end up with this 3-letter flavor enhancer
MSG
Claire-Marie
|
$1,200
[14]
In the 19th century Mirza Husayn Ali Nuri founded this faith in Iran
Baháʼí
|
$1,200
[19]
You can do this to change songs on a record or in business to generate a desired reaction or change the outcome
move the needle
|
$2,000
[11]
Robert James Waller's second bestseller left the bridges of Madison County for a "Slow Waltz in" this title place
Cedar Bend
|
|
$1,600
[8]
The Middle Ages is usually defined as the period between the fall of Rome & the fall of this Byzantine capital
Constantinople
Garrett
|
DD
$1,500
[5]
"It's a hell of a thing, killing a man"
Unforgiven
Mandy
|
$2,000
[27]
mRNA, short for this type of RNA, leaves a cell's nucleus carrying instructions for amino acids to form a protein
messenger
Garrett
|
$1,600
[15]
Most of these Buddhist discourses, such as the lotus one, begin, "Thus have I heard"--"I" being Ananda, who memorized them
sutras
Garrett
|
$1,600
[20]
A printing term for an image that pushes past the margin is this edge, more innovative than cutting edge
bleeding edge
Garrett
|
DD
$4,000
[10]
It's the 4-letter title of Lisa Patton's novel about students caught up in the frenzy of matching students with sororities
Rush
Garrett
|
|
$2,000
[7]
Captured by the Persians, the magnificent Peacock Thronewas built for this Mughal emperor who also built the Taj Mahal
Shah Jahan
|
$1,600
[4]
"To enter the mind of a killer she must challenge the mind of a madman"
The Silence of the Lambs
Mandy
|
— |
$2,000
[16]
Latin mandatum novum, a new "commandment", led to this name for Easter Sunday minus 3 days
Maundy Thursday
Claire-Marie
|
$2,000
[21]
This adjective describes a mountain that can be climbed or a company that can handle increased sales or workload
scalable
Claire-Marie
|
— |
It's the largest country in area that begins & ends with the same letter
Australia