Michael Liu — a college student from San Marino, California
Leslie Minot — a grant writer from Las Vegas, Nevada
T.J. Tallie — an assistant professor of African history from San Diego, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T.J.! | $2,800 | $2,800 | $14,000 |
$2,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$19,600
25 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Leslie | $-200 | $1,500 | $4,700 |
$2,700
New champion: $2,700 |
$5,200
9 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Michael | $1,800 | $4,200 | $12,600 |
$2,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,600
14 R, 2 W |
| EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY | CITY WORDS | OVAL & OVAL AGAIN | SCIENCE BOOKS | THE HIP-HOP ERA | NONPROFITS |
|
$200
[6]
On Dec. 16, 1773 during a wild night of partying, 342 chests of this were dumped into Boston Harbor
tea
T.J.!
|
$200
[5]
A capital Cuban cigar
a Havana
T.J.!
|
$200
[11]
Random House defines it as "an inflated oval with a bladder contained in a casing usually made of leather"
a football
T.J.!
|
$200
[18]
In 2001 Ernst Mayr published an explanation of Darwinian theory called "What" this process "is"
Evolution
Michael
|
$200
[26]
T-Pain & Kanye West brought this pitch correction technology to mainstream hip-hop
Auto-Tune
Michael
|
$200
[20]
This group founded by Ingrid Newkirk & Alex Pacheco helped get the auto industry to stop using animals in crash tests
PETA
Leslie
|
|
$400
[4]
The first book printed in what's now the United States was a 1640 translation from the Hebrew of the book of these songs
Psalms
Leslie
|
$400
[10]
A version of hold 'em poker where the player is dealt 4 cards
Omaha
Leslie
|
$400
[15]
Since its creation in 1880, the Resolute Desk has spent a lot of time in this work room
the Oval Office
Michael
|
$400
[19]
"The 8th day of" this biblical event covers the development of molecular biology
creation
Leslie
|
$400
[27]
This 2015 hip-hop biopic was for a time the highest-grossing film with an African-American director, F. Gary Gray
Straight Outta Compton
T.J.!
|
$400
[21]
The name of this food bank sounds like a miraculous food from Exodus 16, but it's actually an acronym
MANNA
T.J.!
|
|
$600
[1]
2 English astronomers completed this line in 1767
the Mason-Dixon Line
T.J.!
|
$600
[8]
Jovan Musk is a popular brand--you smell good, man
Cologne
Michael
|
$600
[12]
In 1939 T.A. Peterman founded this company known for premium heavy-duty trucks & its red oval logo
Peterbilt
|
$600
[13]
"When Life Nearly Died" travels back 251 million years to "The Greatest Mass" this "of All Time", which wiped out 90% of life on earth
Extinction
Leslie
|
$600
[28]
She staked her claim as the queen of hip-hop on the 2010 track "Monster"
Nicki Minaj
T.J.!
|
DD
$500
[24]
"Service above self" is a motto of this service group so named for how its meetings originally moved around to different offices
Rotary International
Leslie
|
|
$800
[2]
Leonard Calvert & friends landed in what's now this state in 1634 & held the first mass in the colonies
Maryland
T.J.!
|
$800
[7]
Any gathering place that attracts devotees of a specific topic
Mecca
Leslie
|
$800
[16]
The oval window forms part of the boundary between the middle & the inner parts of this organ
the ear
T.J.!
|
$800
[14]
"The Fabric of Reality" explores the idea that there is a multiplicity of "parallel" these (the one we know is the "tangible" one)
universes
Michael
|
$800
[29]
With artists like Jay-Z & LL Cool J, "the Motown of hip-hop" is this record label co-founded by Rick Rubin
Def Jam
|
$600
[23]
In 1970 a group of law students & attorneys founded this environmental group, the NRDC
the Natural Resources Defense Council
T.J.!
Leslie
|
|
$1,000
[3]
Congress adopted these November 15, 1777, though they weren't ratified for another 4 years
the Articles of Confederation
T.J.!
|
$1,000
[9]
The protective care of God
Providence
T.J.!
|
$1,000
[17]
The main venues for the 2010 Olympics in this Canadian city, including the Richmond speed skating oval, remain in use
Vancouver
Michael
|
$1,000
[22]
Who better to write "Thermodynamics" than this Italian-American physicist who helped create the first nuclear chain reaction
(Enrico) Fermi
Michael
|
$1,000
[30]
This Naughty by Nature classic with "Hip Hop" in its title got new fans when Rita Wilson rapped along in a 2020 clip
"Hip Hop Hooray"
|
$1,000
[25]
Here'sthe logo of this nonprofit newsroom that uses the moral force of investigative journalism
ProPublica
Leslie
|
| THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZES | CROSSWORD CLUES "G" | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD | TAKING YOUR MEASURE | ALLITERATIVE TV SHOWS | NON-PROPHETS |
|
$400
[30]
Reuters photographers won for pictures of this Chinese region's months-long protests
Hong Kong
Michael
|
$400
[1]
French device that took a little off the top(10)
guillotine
Leslie
|
$400
[6]
Snezka in Bohemia is this country's highest point
the Czech Republic
T.J.!
|
$400
[21]
To the Romans, it was a distance of 1,000 paces
a mile
T.J.!
|
$400
[20]
The fried chicken franchise "Los Pollos Hermanos" was a front for nefarious fowl-ness on this show
Breaking Bad
T.J.!
|
$400
[11]
Matthew 7:15 says beware of false prophets who "come to you" in this animal's clothing; "inwardly they are ravening wolves"
sheep
T.J.!
|
|
$800
[26]
The Washington Post won for a report on climate change named this number of degrees Celsius--the critical increase for global warming
two
T.J.!
Michael
|
$800
[2]
Severe congestion on the road(8)
gridlock
Michael
|
$800
[8]
Basilicata & Campania are administrative regions of this country
Italy
Leslie
Michael
|
$800
[22]
Cheers! An imperial one is .568 liters
a pint
T.J.!
|
$1,200
[17]
With her mystical lariat, Lynda Carter roped troublemakers into shape on this series from the late 1970s
Wonder Woman
T.J.!
|
$800
[13]
In Acts of the Apostles, the false prophet Elymas, aka Bar-Jesus, has a bad day when this man calls him a "child of the devil"
Paul
T.J.!
|
|
$1,200
[27]
The inaugural award for Audio Reporting went to an episode of this Ira Glass-hosted show
This American Life
T.J.!
|
$1,200
[3]
Sociable or extroverted(10)
gregarious
T.J.!
|
$1,200
[9]
The islands called the Azores lie about 800 miles from this country to which they belong
Portugal
Michael
|
$1,600
[25]
In 2018, it was decided to retire physical objects, like the one seen here, as the standard of this metric unit of measure
a kilogram
T.J.!
|
$1,600
[18]
A crime that wasn't solved is considered this, also the name of a CBS drama series that ran for 7 seasons
a cold case
T.J.!
|
$1,200
[12]
In the Old Testament this true prophet, Eliyahu in Hebrew, humiliates & then kills the 450 false prophets of Baal
Elijah
T.J.!
|
|
$1,600
[28]
Nikole Hannah-Jones won for the N.Y. Times multimedia project named for this year when 20 slaves were brought to Virginia
1619
T.J.!
|
$1,600
[4]
A small ape, like a siamang(6)
gibbon
|
$1,600
[10]
In Africa to the northwest of Guinea is Guinea-this
Guinea-Bissau
T.J.!
|
$2,000
[24]
The poise is a measure of this, a fluid's resistance to flow
viscosity
Michael
|
$2,000
[19]
Tom Hanks & Peter Scolari starred in this 1980s show whose title punningly refers to close friends
Bosom Buddies
T.J.!
|
$1,600
[14]
In Revelation the beast & the false prophet are tossed into a "lake of fire burning with" this substance
brimstone
Michael
|
|
$2,000
[29]
The Music Pulitzer went to Anthony Davis for his opera about these wrongly convicted "Five" from Harlem
the Central Park Five
Michael
|
$2,000
[5]
Pertinent to the topic(7)
germane
Michael
|
$2,000
[7]
The name of this kingdom just south of Tibet may be derived from Sanskrit for the "end of Tibet"
Bhutan
Leslie
|
DD
$7,300
[23]
The unit abbreviated MJis used to describe the heft of extrasolar planets & other astronomical bodies--M is for mass, J is for this
Jupiter
T.J.!
|
DD
$2,500
[16]
The Hatfields & the McCoys were appropriately armed for an appearance on this game show
Family Feud
T.J.!
|
$2,000
[15]
The first letter of John decries as false prophets this early movement, whose name is from the Greek for "knowledge"
gnosticism
T.J.!
|
This character from an 1851 novel "was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge"
Captain Ahab