Doug Grimshaw — a high school economics teacher from Burbank, California
Daniella Regencia — an attorney originally from Westfield, New Jersey
Greg Marrero — a school administrator from Huntington Beach, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greg | $3,200 | $5,000 | $17,600 |
$20,000
2-day champion: $41,200 |
$15,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Daniella | $400 | $2,200 | $4,200 |
$2
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,200
9 R, 1 W |
| Doug | $3,400 | $6,100 | $15,100 |
$10,100
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,800
16 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| SET THE TABLE | TAXES | 3-LETTER CROSSWORD CLUES | GEOLOGY | SHE SHOOTS | HE SCORES! |
|
$200
[1]
Named for its placement on the table, it's the main event of flower arranging
a centerpiece
Daniella
|
$200
[9]
Primarily imposed on land & buildings, in the U.S. it can be extended to farm equipment & automobiles
property tax
Daniella
|
$200
[4]
High-arcing tennis shot
lob
Doug
|
$200
[19]
An event around 8,000 B.C. called the Flims rockslide created Ruinaulta, the Grand Canyon of this Alpine country
Switzerland
Greg
|
$200
[28]
When Virginia Schau won this news prize for a photo of a 1953 rescue, the announcement identified her as Mrs. Walter M. Schau
a Pulitzer
Doug
|
$200
[27]
This onetime Boston Pops conductor is even better known for his scores for the "Star Wars" & "Indiana Jones" film series
John Williams
Daniella
|
|
$400
[2]
These can be quite elegant as in the 19th century Venetian example here; tacos & fried chicken must have been popular in 19th century Venice
a finger bowl
|
$400
[10]
The 16th Amendment permitted a federal one of these
an income tax
Greg
|
$400
[8]
Emeril's signature exclamation!
Bam
Greg
|
$400
[21]
The VEI, or this adjective "explosivity index", rates Tambora (1815) a 7 with 100 cubic kilometers of ejected material
a volcanic
Doug
|
$400
[29]
While she was working on a kibbutz in 1969, this celeb photographer's boyfriend got her a subscription to Rolling Stone
Annie Leibovitz
Greg
|
$400
[26]
Elmer Bernstein's "magnificent" theme to this 1960 Western was also played over the end credits of the 2016 remake
The Magnificent Seven
Greg
|
|
$600
[3]
An elegant table may combine stemmed glasses & these cylindrical ones, a word that could also describe a gymnast
a tumbler
|
$600
[11]
In 1898 the federal government implemented a version of the estate tax to help finance this war
the Spanish-American War
Doug
|
$600
[7]
Write it down
jot
Greg
|
$800
[23]
These features have their disastrous downsides, but on the plus side many, such as Australia's Junction one, host gold deposits
faults
|
$600
[20]
19th century rivals ridiculed Julia Margaret Cameron's blurry photos; she's now revered as a pioneer of "soft"this
focus
Daniella
|
$600
[25]
Producer Atticus Ross & this Nine Inch Nails frontman shared a 2010 Oscar for their score for "The Social Network"
Trent Reznor
Doug
|
|
$800
[18]
It's the 4-letter word for the part of the tablecloth that hangs down; the farther it falls, the more formal the occasion
the drop
|
$800
[12]
Usually collected through withholding, this employment tax comes only from wages & salaries & provides 1/3 of fed. government revenue
a payroll tax
Doug
|
$800
[6]
Last letter to a Brit
zed
Doug
|
$1,000
[24]
If water or wind alters rock, it's called by this meteorological name; if that process moves the rock, that's erosion
weathering
|
$800
[16]
Dorothea Lange chronicled Depression-era droughtrefugees from this state looking for work in California
Oklahoma
Greg
|
$800
[15]
Former Clash frontman Joe Strummer scored this 1997 black comedy starring John Cusack as a conflicted hitman
Grosse Pointe Blank
Greg
|
| — |
$1,000
[13]
In economics this 4-letter type of taxation system utilizes a single tax rate that applies to all citizens
a flat tax
Doug
|
$1,000
[5]
Apple seed, or domino dot
pip
|
DD
$1,500
[22]
J. Harlen Bretz explored many of these with his dog; in his book, these "of Missouri", he called them "valleys with roofs"
caves
Doug
|
$1,000
[17]
Cindy Sherman acts as her own photographic model, often employing these artificial body parts, from Greek for "add"
prosthetics
Daniella
|
$1,000
[14]
"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" is one of Ennio Morricone's classic scores for this Italian director's films
Sergio Leone
Greg
|
| 21st CENTURY BROADWAY | AUTHORS' HOMES | GEOGRAPHIC GATEWAYS | JOHN BROWN | UNUSUAL ADJECTIVES | TRANSPORTATION |
|
$400
[1]
Time Out New York called "The Lightning Thief", a musical about this son of Poseidon, "worthy of the gods"
Percy Jackson
Greg
|
$400
[18]
In person or online, you can tour his Hartford home where he wrote "Huckleberry Finn"
Mark Twain
Doug
|
$400
[11]
Companies in this Midwest city include Gateway Metals, Gateway Title & Gateway Chili & Beans (okay, we made that last part up)
St. Louis
Daniella
|
$400
[28]
Zainab Jah plays this woman who tried to recruit supporters for John Brown; he called her "The General""I will come with all the bees I can hive, but once that date is set, do not change it, not for anything."
(Harriet) Tubman
Doug
|
$800
[23]
Canicular refers to this star aka Sirius
the Dog Star
|
$800
[19]
Officially opened in 1994, this engineering marvel now allows for a less than 3-hour train trip from Paris to London
the Chunnel
Doug
|
|
$800
[2]
When this show opened, Hank Azaria played several roles including Sir Lancelot & a Knight of Ni
Spamalot
Greg
|
$800
[17]
He lived & wrote works like "To Have and Have Not" in the Key West home seen here
Hemingway
Daniella
|
$800
[9]
There are no roads or trails in Alaska's Gates of this region National Park
Arctic
|
$800
[27]
Brown was supported by transcendentalist writers like Emerson & this friend who gave a "Plea for Captain John Brown"
Thoreau
Daniella
|
$1,200
[22]
Referring to wisdom, the adjective palladian comes from an alternate name for this Greek goddess
Athena
Doug
|
$1,200
[12]
In 2007 this company unveiled its Dreamliner, a commercial jet made of 50% carbon-composite materials
Boeing
Greg
|
|
$1,200
[3]
Jessie Mueller took piano lessons to play this singer-songwriter in "Beautiful"
Carole King
Greg
|
$1,600
[14]
In 1842, he & his new bride moved into the oldmansein Concord, Massachusetts, hence his "Mosses from an Old Manse"
Nathaniel Hawthorne
|
$1,200
[6]
North of Pacifica & San Bruno, & just south of this city, Daly City, Calif. is the "Gateway to the Peninsula"
San Francisco
Greg
|
$1,200
[26]
John Brown had respect for & a close friendship with this orator seen in "The Good Lord Bird" & played by Daveed Diggs"The conscience of the nation... must be roused."
Frederick Douglass
Greg
|
$2,000
[20]
Absinthial can mean related to this herb that is used to make absinthe
wormwood
Daniella
|
$1,600
[10]
A howdah is a seat for one or more people to ride on the back of one of these creatures
elephant (camel)
Doug
|
|
$1,600
[4]
Kathleen Turner played cougar Mrs. Robinson to Jason Biggs' Benjamin Braddock in the Broadway adaptation of this film
The Graduate
Greg
|
$2,000
[16]
In 1972 his daughter Jill sold Rowan Oak, the family home in Oxford, to the University of Mississippi
Faulkner
Daniella
|
$1,600
[7]
This Manitoba capital is Canada's "Gateway to the West"
Winnipeg
|
$1,600
[25]
After an 1858 raid, this pres. put a $250 bounty on Brown, who in turn offered a reward of $2.50 for the capture of the pres.
Buchanan
Doug
|
DD
$3,000
[21]
Something that is quadragesimal happens during this period of the Catholic calendar
Lent
Doug
|
$2,000
[15]
First used in Japan around 1870, this 2-wheeled cart pulled by a runner often had a hood to protect the passengers
a rickshaw
Greg
|
|
$2,000
[5]
In 2014 this Lorraine Hansberry drama won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play
A Raisin in the Sun
|
DD
$3,000
[13]
In the 1870s she & her family lived in a little dugout house near Walnut Grove, Minnesota on the banks of Plum Creek
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Greg
|
$2,000
[8]
Rostov-on-Don, Russia is the "Gateway" to this mountainous region between the Black & Caspian seas
Caucasus
Greg
|
$2,000
[24]
Ethan Hawke plays John Brown, who hoped to liberate all enslaved people, & Oct. 16, 1859 raided the arsenal in this town"I want them to know we just took over the nation's largest armory to free the enslaved people of this nation. That will be big news, I reckon."
Harpers Ferry
Greg
|
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2020 marks the 55th birthday of the first piece of equipment dedicated to this process, now used for regular screenings
mammogram