Joe Aquino — an analyst from Chula Vista, California
Nancy Bosecker — a software engineer originally from Peoria, Illinois
Kristin Hucek — an attorney from San Francisco, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $8,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kristin | $1,600 | $3,600 | $8,800 |
$16,808
3-day champion: $24,808 |
$8,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Nancy | $-200 | $1,600 | $8,000 |
$16,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,000
14 R, 3 W |
| Joe | $2,600 | $3,600 | $3,200 |
$6,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,400
12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| ZOOM | MILITARY RANK LANGUAGE | THE AMERICAN FLAG | NOVEL | POE "M" | PLAY |
|
$200
[7]
The educational kids' TV show "Zoom" ran from 1972 to 1978 on this network
PBS
Kristin
|
$200
[15]
The pilot of a commercial airliner
captain
Kristin
|
$200
[1]
What is called the "Betsy Ross Flag" has the stars arranged in this configuration
a circle
Kristin
|
$200
[3]
Thisexercise, whose name is from the Sanskrit for "union", is now being done with goats, and we're not kidding
yoga
Joe
|
$200
[17]
In an 1842 Poe story a prince & his noble guests find that this title costume ball is no haven from "the Red Death"
Masque
Kristin
Nancy
|
$200
[18]
The server charges the net & tries to intercept the return stroke in midair in the tennis tactic called serve & this
volley
Kristin
|
|
$400
[8]
This 3-letter word comes before "Zoom" in the name of many a Nike shoe
Air
Kristin
|
$400
[4]
Confidential
private
Nancy
|
$400
[2]
The flag is known as "Old Glory", "The Stars & Stripes" & this, popularized by Francis Scott Key
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
Nancy
|
$400
[16]
Sort of a woodland Shazam, the Song Sleuth app helps nature lovers identify these by their calls
birds
Nancy
|
$400
[6]
This 2-letter abbreviation precedes "Found in a Bottle" in the title of a Poe tale
MS.
Nancy
|
$400
[19]
A hockey game begins with this play in which 2 opposing players fight for control of a puck dropped between them
a faceoff
Kristin
|
|
$600
[9]
The special foods of the Dutch city Bergen op Zoom are the 3 As: asparagus, aardbeien (strawberries) & these salty little fish
anchovies
Kristin
|
$600
[12]
Of full legal age
major
Joe
|
$600
[27]
This president issued a 1916 proclamation to create a Flag Day on June 14, but it didn't become permanent until 1949
Wilson
Nancy
|
$600
[24]
The new adaptive type of this alliterative auto feature slows you down when the car ahead of you brakes
cruise control
|
$600
[5]
In the title of a Poe story, "in the Rue" is in between these 2 words
Murders & Morgue
Nancy
|
$600
[20]
A player without the ball sets a screen for a ball handler, then cuts to the basket for a pass in the basketball play called "pick &" this
roll
Nancy
|
|
$800
[10]
A zoom lens is aka variable this type
focus
Joe
|
$800
[13]
Miscellaneous
general
|
$800
[29]
In 1777 this governmental body passed a resolution creating an official national flag
the Continental Congress
Kristin
|
$800
[25]
Made from a resin called Croslite, these trendy shoes have done designer collaborations with Kiss, Barneys & Ruby Rose
Crocs
|
$800
[21]
The narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" asks, "Why will you say that I am" this?; read it & find out
mad
|
$800
[22]
There are "safety" & "suicide" versions of this baseball play in which a runner bolts home from third as the batter bunts
a squeeze
Kristin
|
|
$1,000
[11]
Guitarist Billy Zoom rocks out with the pioneering L.A. punk band known by this near-the-end-of-the-alphabet letter
X
|
DD
$1,000
[14]
Of the human body
corporal
Joe
|
$1,000
[30]
After Kentucky & this New England state were added to the Union, the flag had 15 stripes for awhile
Vermont
|
$1,000
[26]
Bose now offers sunglasses with built-in these
speakers
Kristin
Joe
|
$1,000
[28]
A powerful storm is at the center of Poe's story "A Descent into" this
the Maelstrom
|
$1,000
[23]
A soccer player's legs make a pedaling motion, giving this spectacular overhead kick its name
a bicycle kick
Kristin
|
| FIRST LADIES | MOVIES PERFECT FOR A MATINEE | INSIDE "MAN" | PRIMATES | TRIANGULAR | EUROPE |
|
$400
[1]
She won a 1962 Emmy for "A Tour of the White House"
Jackie Kennedy
Nancy
|
$400
[19]
Tom Cruise was Cole Trickle, a driver on the southern stock-car circuit, in this action flick
Days of Thunder
Joe
|
$400
[5]
There are about 700 species of these, most looking like a cross between a frog & a lizard
a salamander
Joe
|
$400
[10]
This semi-arboreal ape of equatorial Africa is our closest living genetic relative
chimpanzee
Joe
|
$400
[20]
Oxalis triangularis is thepurple clover, or purple this, a word associated with Ireland
shamrock
Nancy
|
$400
[21]
The Greek hero Pelops gave his name to the Peloponnese, this type of land mass that also starts with a "P"
peninsula
Kristin
|
|
$800
[2]
Makes sense that she was the first first lady to appear on a stamp
Martha Washington
Kristin
|
$800
[15]
Spoiler alert: at the end of this film, after surviving a break-up, Joseph Gordon-Levitt meets a girl named Autumn
500 Days of Summer
Joe
|
$800
[6]
Manumit is a synonym of this liberating word
emancipate
|
$800
[11]
Practiced by gibbons & siamangs, brachiation is locomoting through trees this way
using their upper legs or arms
Joe
|
$800
[27]
A triangle is the traditional shape of these, which make up half of the Texas state snack
tortilla chips
Nancy
|
$800
[22]
Seen here is one of these protective barriers that keep much of the Netherlands from becoming inundated with water
a dike
Nancy
|
|
DD
$1,200
[3]
As played by Sally Field, she laments that all people will remember is "I was crazy and I ruined your happiness"
Mary Todd Lincoln
Kristin
|
$1,200
[16]
Al Pacino robs a bank & takes hostages in this 1975 film that sounds perfect for an August matinee
Dog Day Afternoon
Nancy
|
$1,200
[7]
English, Dutch & Danish are this type of language
Germanic
Kristin
|
$1,200
[12]
Thesemonkeys normally live in the tropics of the Americas, but in 1959, one rode into space and returned safely
a squirrel monkey
|
$1,200
[28]
The craft of architectural sketching, or the type oftriangleused in the craft
a drafting triangle
|
$1,200
[23]
The city of Plzen in the Czech Republic has lent its name to a style of this potent potable
Pilsner (beer)
Nancy
|
|
$1,600
[4]
Our longest-living first lady, she died at age 97 in 1982 & is buried with her husband at his Missouri library
First Lady Truman
Joe
|
$1,600
[17]
She was a regular good luck charm as Jinx Johnson in "Die Another Day"
Halle Berry
|
$1,600
[8]
It's the sometimes harmful focus on the tiniest details of how your subordinates do their job
micromanaging
Kristin
|
$1,600
[13]
As its appearance may help you guess, in thetarsier, this cortex is extremely large, especially in the V1 section
the visual
Joe
|
— |
$1,600
[24]
The architectural style known as Jugendstilis prevalent in this capital of Latvia
Riga
Nancy
|
|
$2,000
[26]
When she became first lady, both her grandmothers, on the Folsom & Harmon sides, got to hear the happy news!
Frances Folsom Cleveland
Nancy
|
$2,000
[18]
A quote from this 1951 sci-fi classic: "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto"
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Joe
|
$2,000
[9]
To reverse a previous military order
countermand
Joe
|
DD
$3,200
[14]
About 30,000 years old, an early Homo sapiens skull called this "1" was discovered in 1868 at the French site of the same name
Cro-Magnon
Joe
|
— |
$2,000
[25]
This region comprising the northern half of Belgium has neat medieval castles
Flanders
Nancy
|
This 2-word phrase in "The Arabian Nights" may have come from an herb bearing seed pods that burst when ripe
"Open, Sesame!"