Kevin Walsh game 5.
Jack Mooney — an aerospace engineer from Santa Cruz, California
Elaine Zatarain — a patient care coordinator from San Diego, California
Kevin Walsh — a story analyst originally from Williamstown, New Jersey (whose 4-day cash winnings total $81,700)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin | $1,000 | $2,200 | $18,600 |
$29,601
5-day champion: $111,301 |
$18,600
23 R, 2 W |
| Elaine | $0 | $2,400 | $14,800 |
$28,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,800
14 R, 0 W |
| Jack | $2,600 | $800 | $2,000 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,400
11 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 2 DDs) |
| OK, BOOMERANG | IT'S A FACT | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES | 2-WORD TV TITLES | WHICH COUNTRY'S FOREST? | CONTRONYMS |
|
$200
[16]
Nonreturning boomerangs have been used by these first people of Australia for centuries to hunt, dig & skin animals
the Aborigines
Kevin
|
$200
[11]
This smallest planet is the fastest moving, circling the Sun in 88 days
Mercury
Kevin
|
$200
[21]
Exodus 12 tells the story of this Jewish holiday
Passover
Kevin
|
$200
[1]
It starred Hugh Bonneville as the Earl of Grantham, lord of the title dwelling
Downton Abbey
Kevin
|
$200
[26]
Der Schwarzwald
Germany
Elaine
|
$200
[6]
It can mean on view, like the moon, or no longer visibly functioning, like a light bulb
out
Kevin
|
|
$400
[17]
The bend near the middle of a boomerang is called this, also a joint in the body that can bend
the elbow
Kevin
|
$400
[12]
This Utah body of water is several times more saline than the oceans
the Great Salt Lake
Jack
|
$400
[22]
Union leader Peter McGuire is given credit for creating this holiday in 1882
Labor Day
Jack
|
$400
[2]
It co-starred RJ Mitte as Walter Jr.
Breaking Bad
Kevin
|
$400
[27]
Sumatra Rainforest
Indonesia
Elaine
|
$400
[7]
Something firm & immovable, or to move back & forth like a cradle
a rock
Jack
|
|
$600
[18]
The 1922 discovery of his tomb revealed a weapons stash including swords, bows, slingshots & boomerang-like throwsticks
King Tut
Jack
|
$600
[13]
To prevent Marines from landing, in 1991 this country dumped millions of gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf
Iraq
Jack
|
$800
[24]
Thanksgiving is followed by Black Friday, Small Business Saturday & this weekday named for a certain way to shop
Cyber Monday
Jack
|
$600
[3]
Long before Tom Cruise was Ethan Hunt on the big screen, Peter Graves was Mr. Phelps on this TV show
Mission: Impossible
Jack
|
$600
[28]
Fundy National Park
Canada
Kevin
|
$600
[8]
It can mean repaired, or no longer working, like a spayed dog
fixed
Jack
|
|
$800
[19]
Ever fashion forward, this DC Comics superhero wears a royal tiara that can also be weaponized as a boomerang
Wonder Woman
Elaine
|
$800
[14]
The name of these 2 states goes back to a Sioux word for "friend" or "ally"
the Dakotas (North & South Dakota)
|
$1,000
[25]
Until 1954 it was known as Armistice Day in the United States
Veterans Day
Kevin
|
$800
[4]
In this 2020 reboot, Matthew Rhys as the title character starts out as a private eye, then becomes a defense lawyer
Perry Mason
Kevin
|
$800
[29]
Epping Forest, Forest of Dean
England
|
$800
[9]
Something you didn't notice, or watchful supervision of a project
oversight
Kevin
|
|
$1,000
[20]
Possibly the world's oldest boomerang was found in 1987 in a 23,000-year-old Polish cave & was made out of the tusk of one of these
a woolly mammoth
Elaine
|
$1,000
[15]
The term "Cold War" was first used in print by this British author in his essay "You and the Atomic Bomb"
George Orwell
|
DD
$3,600
[23]
April 22 was chosen for this observance because it fell between spring break & final exams
Earth Day
Jack
|
$1,000
[5]
Nadia Vulvokov is caught in a time loop in this acclaimed Netflix series
Russian Doll
|
$1,000
[30]
Tongass National Forest
the United States
|
$1,000
[10]
It can mean an assortment of different types, or one type in particular
variety
|
| PIC-POURRI | SCIENTISTS | SWEDEN LOWS--& HIGHS | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS | '80s & '90s HIT PARADE | MAKING A 4 "A" |
|
$400
[16]
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo or bison roam in this national park; it has the largest number of them on public land
Yellowstone
Elaine
|
$400
[1]
Anna Röntgen's wedding ring is visible in the first of these taken by her husband Wilhelmin 1895
an X-ray
Jack
|
$400
[26]
High: founded by Ingvar Kamprad in Älmhult, Sweden, it's now the world's largest furniture retailer
IKEA
Elaine
|
$400
[21]
To write her play "Twilight", Anna Deavere Smith interviewed 350 people who experienced the 1992 riots in this city
Los Angeles
Kevin
|
$400
[11]
This group's first No. 1 hit was inspired by a note Andrew Ridgeley left his mum asking her to "Wake him up up"
Wham!
Kevin
|
$400
[6]
These nuts originated in Australia, not Hawaii
macadamia
Kevin
|
|
$800
[17]
It's the numerical name for the large-holed vinyl single seen here
a 45
Kevin
|
$1,200
[3]
This naturalist's journey on the Beagle took him to barren Ascension Island; he promoted terraforming it with trees
Darwin
Kevin
|
$800
[27]
Low: in the 1958 World Cup final, Sweden lost on its home soil 5-2 to Pele & the rest of this country's team
Brazil
Elaine
|
$800
[22]
Sarah M. Broom's New Orleans family home, this kind of narrow house with a firearm name, inspired her memoir "The Yellow House"
a shotgun shack
Kevin
|
$800
[12]
A hit by this British group says, "I smell like I sound, I'm lost & I'm found, & I'm hungry like the wolf"
Duran Duran
Elaine
|
$800
[7]
Goodbye, Joe, we gotta go to the bayou for this Cajun rice, seafood & meat dish
jambalaya
Jack
|
|
$1,200
[18]
ThisU.S. city has been hosting an annual international balloon fiesta for nearly 50 years
Albuquerque
Elaine
|
$1,600
[4]
Thermometers in Holland got more accurate after this lad moved there in 1701 when poisonous mushrooms left him an orphan
Fahrenheit
Kevin
|
$1,200
[28]
High: this man born in Stockholm in 1833 established some very prestigious awards
Nobel
Kevin
|
$1,200
[23]
Novelist Marita Golden paid homage to this woman in an essay called "Zora & Me"
Hurston
Kevin
|
$1,200
[13]
Thispop star who passed away in 2020 had his first No. 1 hit in 1980 with "Lady", written by Lionel Richie
Kenny Rogers
Elaine
|
$1,600
[9]
It's another word for a bachelor's degree
baccalaureate
Kevin
|
|
$1,600
[19]
2020 marks the 100th birthday of this British lad who, with his toybear, inspired his dad's famous stories
Christopher Robin
Elaine
|
DD
$2,000
[2]
Galileo mistakenly concluded that these were caused by the orbit of the Earth & not the proximity of the Moon & Sun
the tides
Jack
|
$1,600
[29]
Low: in a twist like one out of his "Millennium" mysteries, some fans think this author was murdered in 2004
Stieg Larsson
Kevin
|
$1,600
[24]
This creator of TV's "Grey's Anatomy" revealed how saying yes changed her life in her book "Year of Yes"
Shonda Rhimes
Kevin
|
$1,600
[14]
This Bon Jovi album yielded the No. 1 hits "You Give Love A Bad Name" & "Livin' On A Prayer"
Slippery When Wet
Kevin
|
DD
$2,000
[8]
This royal title is from Sanskrit words meaning "great king"
maharaja
Jack
|
|
$2,000
[20]
This11-letter French word means a variety of meats, cheeses and other snacks
charcuterie
Elaine
|
$2,000
[5]
During WWII this computer scientist & code breaker converted his money into silver & buried it; he never found his buried treasure
(Alan) Turing
Kevin
|
$2,000
[30]
High: all 3 of the Oscars Sweden won for Best Foreign Language Film were for movies directed by this man
(Ingmar) Bergman
Elaine
|
$2,000
[25]
In the novel "Black Betty" by this author, P.I. Easy Rawlins is hired to find a missing woman
Walter Mosley
|
$2,000
[15]
In 1999 this Matchbox Twenty frontman joined Santana for the hit song "Smooth"
Rob Thomas
Elaine
|
$2,000
[10]
This verb means to mix into a compound, specifically with mercury
amalgamate
|
Not an actor, this man who died in 2018 appeared briefly in some 40 mainly action films with a combined $30 billion worldwide gross
Stan Lee