Episode begins with a tribute to Alex Trebek by executive producer Mike Richards, and ends with a title card reading, "Dedicated to Alex Trebek / Forever in our Hearts / Always our Inspiration". The title card is displayed at the end of the remainder of the games in Season 37.
Ben Lewis — a data scientist from Costa Mesa, California
Monisha Crisell — a urologist originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico
Andrew Chaikin — a musician and teacher from San Francisco, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew | $6,000 | $11,800 | $22,200 |
$24,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$19,800
25 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Monisha | $1,200 | $1,600 | $10,000 |
$10,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,000
10 R, 0 W |
| Ben | $3,400 | $5,600 | $24,200 |
$44,401
New champion: $44,401 |
$15,600
20 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| PODCASTS | THE BOOK CASE | WHAT THE BLANK? | M-N-Ms | A DAY AT THE RACES | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA |
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$200
[23]
This "Science Guy" "Is on a Mission to Change the World" & takes your questions on "Science Rules!"
Bill Nye
Ben
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$200
[30]
In "Tropic of Fear" Nancy Drew met up with these brothers for a Hawaiian-themed mystery
the Hardy Boys
Andrew
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$200
[28]
Literally, it's a bank draft that is signed but with the amount left empty
a blank check
Ben
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$200
[5]
It's a period of 1,000 years
a millennium
Andrew
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$200
[29]
On May 3, 2008 this Jamaican ran a 100 meters in 9.76; a few weeks later, he shaved .04 to set the world record
(Usain) Bolt
Andrew
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$200
[27]
After his U.S. debut with Joan Sutherland in 1965, this bearded Italian tenor hit the high C's as Tonjo in "La fille du régiment"
Pavarotti
Andrew
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$400
[22]
"Fiasco" examined the issues that played out during the election in 2000 between these 2 politicians
Bush & Gore
Ben
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$400
[21]
This lady who lived in the British village of St. Mary Mead solved "The Murder at the Vicarage"
(Jane) Marple
Andrew
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$400
[12]
Standard versions of this board game have 2 blank tiles that can be any letter but are worth zero points
Scrabble
Ben
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$400
[4]
I'm fond of the one seen here; it was made for me
a monogram
Monisha
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$400
[19]
It took 3 days of looking at news pics, but Lee Petty was finally named the winner of the 1st 500 at this Fla. speedway in 1959
Daytona
Andrew
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$400
[26]
Opera hits a real low note (a "D") in an aria by Osmin, a role for this vocal range in Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio"
bass
Monisha
Ben
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$600
[15]
"We Crashed" looks at this office-sharing company that had a rough month in 2019 when it lost $37 billion in valuation
WeWork
Ben
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$600
[10]
"The Interpretation of Murder" finds this Austrian & Carl Jung caught up in a Manhattan murder mystery
Freud
Ben
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$600
[7]
This phrase meaning to be failed by your memory probably comes from a lottery where losing tickets had nothing written on them
draw a blank
Andrew
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$600
[3]
Used in photography, it has atomic number 12
magnesium
Andrew
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$600
[17]
In 2012 the Maryland Racing Commission shaved 1 2/5 seconds off Secretariat's 1973 win, setting a new record for this Triple Crown race
the Preakness
Andrew
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$800
[25]
In a Samuel Barber opera, you know that this queen is about to die when a man enters carrying a basket of figs
Cleopatra
Ben
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$800
[14]
Start counting Scovilles as the podcast about this food heats up on "It Burns"
(chili) peppers
Ben
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$800
[9]
This "colorful" boy detective solved many crimes, like "The Case of the Stolen Diamonds"
Encyclopedia Brown
Monisha
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$800
[6]
A documentary about this game show hosted by Gene Rayburn & later Alec Baldwin is subtitled "Behind the Blank"
Match Game
Andrew
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$800
[2]
Jesse Ventura said, "Wiki Leaks exists because" this media "haven't done their job"
mainstream
Andrew
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$800
[16]
The tradition of the yellow jersey being awarded during this race began in 1919; yellow was the color of the newspaper that sponsored it
the Tour de France
Andrew
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$1,000
[24]
The king's aria to a tree is a highlight of Handel's "Serse", about the Persian king better known as this
Xerxes
|
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$1,000
[13]
Turns out this TBS late night show host "Needs a Friend"; Malcolm Gladwell & Tina Fey were happy to oblige
Conan O'Brien
Ben
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$1,000
[11]
This, Mary Shelley's middle name, is the name of a detective agency in which a young Mary solves cases
Wollstonecraft
Andrew
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$1,000
[8]
John Milton used this unrhymed pentameter in "Paradise Lost"
blank verse
Andrew
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$1,000
[1]
As opposed to albinism, this hereditary condition allows for darker pigmentation
melanism
Andrew
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$1,000
[18]
As a rookie in 2007, Lewis Hamilton finished only one point behind. season champ Kimi Räikkönen in this alphanumeric auto racing class
F1
Ben
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DD
$3,000
[20]
The name of this famed opera house in Milan built by Maria Theresa in the 1770s translates to "the staircase"
La Scala
Andrew
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| HISTORIC NAMES | ACRONYMS | AMONG THE 10 LARGEST ISLANDS | MOVIE BIOS | SYMBOLS | KEN JENNINGS--MARINE BIOLOGIST |
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$400
[26]
She united Castile with Aragon when she married Ferdinand V in 1469
Isabella
Ben
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$400
[1]
The creator of this type of animated online file intended it to sound like the peanut butter brand
a GIF
Andrew
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$400
[27]
With an area of about 840,000 square miles, it's the world's largest island
Greenland
Monisha
Ben
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$400
[29]
2005:Joaquin Phoenix as this country music sensation
(Johnny) Cash
Andrew
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$400
[28]
The glyph that symbolizes this sign of the zodiac represents ripples of water
Aquarius
Andrew
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$400
[30]
(Ken Jennings presents the clue.) The giantlarvacean, which looks like a tadpole surrounded by a balloon of mucus, helps battle climate change; disproportionate to its small size, the gelatinous animals, with their protein & cellulose snot palaces, have helped the ocean remove this planet-warming gas from the atmosphere
carbon dioxide
Ben
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$800
[25]
During an historic visit to China in 1972, President Nixonmet with this Communist Party leader
Mao
Ben
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$800
[15]
Adman Arthur Meyerhoff got his initials in the name of this cooking spray
PAM
Andrew
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$1,200
[10]
Asilhouetteof this second-largest island kind of looks like a bird in flight
New Guinea
Ben
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$800
[23]
2000:Ed Harris as this drip painter
Jackson Pollock
Monisha
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$800
[22]
The diminutive of star gives this keyboard symbol its name
an asterisk
Monisha
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$800
[19]
(Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Though its name is a byword for "crowding", this fish is vulnerable to steep reductions in numbers; overfishing closed the famed Cannery Row, & in 2014, its Pacific grounds were closed after its populations reduced by about 90%
the sardine
Ben
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$1,200
[16]
Leading the Spartan forces, Lysander defeated the Athenian navy, ending this war in 405 B.C.
the Peloponnesian
Ben
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$1,200
[3]
You might want to wear a wetsuit if you do this type of underwater diving
SCUBA
Monisha
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$1,600
[9]
At No. 10, Ellesmere Island covers about 75,000 square miles in this ocean
the Arctic
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$1,200
[6]
In "The Motorcycle Diaries":Gael Garcia Bernal as this revolutionary
Che Guevara
Ben
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$1,200
[12]
This baby animal represents Jesus, the sacrifice offered for man's sins
lamb (the Lamb of God)
Andrew
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$1,200
[20]
(Ken Jennings presents the clue.)Thiscartilaginous fish with a barbed tail & its mouth on its underside lives on the ocean bottom; its relative, the manta ray, is found in open waters, so I wonder how the classic marine biology text, "Rock Lobster" by the B-52s, can possibly have them swimming together
a stingray
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$2,000
[18]
Prior to David Cameron, the last British PM named David was this man who led his country during WWI
David Lloyd George
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$1,600
[2]
Drake's song "The Motto" helped popularize this acronym telling us to go for what we want
YOLO (you only live once)
Monisha
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$2,000
[8]
Brunei is located on its northern coast
Borneo
Monisha
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$1,600
[5]
1993:Liam Neeson as this German industrialist who saved Jews during World War II
(Oskar) Schindler
Andrew
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$1,600
[13]
An ancient symbol, the ouroboros is this animal with its tail in its mouth; it is continually devouring itself & reborn from itself
a snake
Andrew
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$1,600
[21]
(Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Some species ofshrimpdig burrows that provide shelter for goby fish which, in turn, act as lookout for the nearly blind shrimp; it's an example of mutualism, which, of the main types of this relationship, is the one where both parties benefit
symbiosis
Monisha
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DD
$5,000
[17]
In 1781 this German philosopher published his "Critique of Pure Reason", because he could
Kant
Ben
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$2,000
[4]
This acronymic period takes up about 25% of our sleep time & is when we have our most vivid dreams
REM
Ben
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DD
$6,000
[11]
It's the only one of the 10 that's part of Africa
Madagascar
Ben
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$2,000
[7]
In "12 Years a Slave":Chiwetel Ejiofor as this free Black man sold into slavery
Solomon Northup
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$2,000
[14]
The first 3 letters of this Eastern symbol are represented by the tiger; the last 4, by the dragon
yin-yang
Andrew
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$2,000
[24]
(Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Marine biology with a touch of military history: during World War II, Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientists identified acrustacean whose noises were interfering with the detection of these enemy vessels
submarines
Andrew
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This word for a type of building or institution comes from Greek for a place sacred to a mythical group of 9
museum