Lucy Ricketts — an illustrator originally from Atlanta, Georgia
Dusty Smith — a former movie executive from Corvallis, Oregon
Tanay Kothari — a business operations associate from Oakland, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $26,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tanay | $5,200 | $10,000 | $16,400 |
$12,801
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Dusty | $400 | $1,600 | $6,400 |
$2
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,400
14 R, 3 W |
| Lucy | $4,400 | $6,600 | $25,200 |
$33,100
New champion: $33,100 |
$17,400
22 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| A CATEGORY FOR FREE | AMERICAN CITIES | 3-LETTER WORDS | HISTORY | "B" WEAR | THESE SONGS COULD KILL YOU |
|
$200
[19]
This 2-word term is used to describe animals like poultry that have been raised in natural conditions
free-range
Dusty
|
$200
[6]
A city of 7 hills, it's known for its sound, namely Puget--but also grunge
Seattle
Tanay
|
$200
[22]
To pull, or a big clumsy oaf
a lug
Dusty
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$200
[1]
This ex-first lady was part of the Tractors for Freedom Committee to pay a ransom for prisoners taken at the Bay of Pigs
Eleanor Roosevelt
Dusty
Lucy
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$200
[9]
This can be a circumnavigator of the waist or a shot of liquor
a belt
Dusty
|
$200
[21]
Roberta Flack & later the Fugees sang about a man "strumming my pain with his fingers", then committing this title crime
killing me softly
Dusty
|
|
$400
[27]
Freestyle swimmers use this stroke that ironically doesn't sound very fast
the crawl
Lucy
|
$400
[12]
The Magic Kingdom south, it was once known as Jernigan but got a name change in 1857 & a Wet 'n Wild water park, a bit later
Orlando
Lucy
|
$400
[26]
When you disengage mentally, you do this 3-letter verb--no broccoli or cabbage required
veg
Tanay
|
$400
[2]
In the 10th century the hajj was suspended for some 20 years after the theft of the black stone from the Kaaba in this city
Mecca
Lucy
|
$400
[13]
The OED calls this, named for an atoll, "a scanty two-piece beach garment"
a bikini
Dusty
|
$400
[20]
In "A Clockwork Orange", the Droogs were up for "a bit of the old ultra-" this; Lana Del Rey sang about it in 2014
violence
Lucy
|
|
$600
[28]
The first freedom mentioned in the Bill of Rights is "the free exercise" of this
religion
Lucy
|
$600
[11]
Peyton Manning repeatedly gave mid-game shout-outs to this city near the confluence of the Missouri & the Platte
Omaha
Tanay
|
$600
[25]
This shortened word precedes "league" or "team" when it's a local sports league for fun rather than money
rec
Dusty
|
$600
[3]
One cemetery holds the remains of the first & the last British soldiers killed in WWI--the latter, at 9:30 A.M. on this date in 1918
November 11
Lucy
|
$600
[18]
Chukkas & Chelseas are types of these
boots
Tanay
|
$600
[15]
Ask Maverick; Kenny Loggins sang of "metal under tension" & "red line overload" as you approach this "risky" title area
"Danger Zone"
Tanay
|
|
$800
[29]
Active from 1848 to 1854, this minor but influential political party opposed the spread of slavery into the western USA
Free Soil
Tanay
|
$1,000
[7]
The American Quarter Horse Association is headquartered in this "yellow" Texas city
Amarillo
Tanay
|
$800
[24]
There are more than 40 species of this conifer, including the 200-foot-tall noble
fir
Lucy
|
$800
[4]
Thisearly 20th century leader advocated a more European & modernized Turkey, including inclothing, as you see
(Kemal) Ataturk
Tanay
|
$800
[17]
In the 1950s a sexy movie with this infantile title inspired Balenciaga to design a dress of the same name
baby doll
Lucy
|
$800
[14]
Call the FBI! This title madman of a Talking Heads song is on the loose; qu'est-ce que c'est
"Psycho Killer"
Lucy
|
|
$1,000
[30]
The port of Freetown is the largest city & capital of this nation of western Africa
Sierra Leone
Tanay
|
DD
$2,000
[8]
A very specific wooden post led to the naming of this southern state capital en Francais
Baton Rouge
Tanay
|
$1,000
[23]
To Chaucer it was the belly; now it's the gaping mouth of a hungry creature
maw
Tanay
|
$1,000
[5]
How do you start a Civil War? Agree to the Magna Carta & then turn around & ask the pope to annul it like this king did
John
Lucy
|
$1,000
[16]
Khaled Hosseini conceived "A Thousand Splendid Suns" after seeing women wearing these during a trip to Afghanistan
burkas
Tanay
|
$1,000
[10]
Hall & Oates sang that this title killer will "only come out at night...watch out boy she'll chew you up"
"Maneater"
Lucy
|
| CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | SCIENCE CENTER | NOTABLE WOMEN | INSANE CLOWN POSSE | HEAVY MEDALS | WEATHER FORECAST INSIDE |
|
$400
[27]
The recipe for this title Judy Blume "Juice" includes grape juice, vinegar & mustard
Freckle (Freckle Juice)
Lucy
|
$400
[30]
When used in ovens, these electromagnetic waves operate at about 2,450 megahertz
microwaves
Dusty
|
$400
[6]
A headlining star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in the 19th century, she was a champion sharpshooter at age 15
Annie Oakley
Lucy
|
$400
[1]
Frank Sinatra reportedly wanted to play this Clown Prince of Crime on "Batman", but Cesar Romero got to the greasepaint first
the Joker
Lucy
|
$400
[23]
2016 recipients of this, our nation's highest civilian honor, included Frank Gehry & Diana Ross
the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Dusty
|
$400
[14]
An AC/DC tune, or a word meaning flabbergasted; you've been...!
" Thunder struck"
Lucy
|
|
$800
[11]
The Washington Post editorialized that "If You Give a Mouse" this was a criticism of the welfare state
a Cookie
Lucy
|
$800
[29]
Thesedistinctive carnivores roamed North America for millions of years until about 10,000 B.C.
a saber-tooth tiger
Dusty
|
$800
[7]
Dolores Huerta co-founded this migrant laborers association in 1962 & served as its vice president for nearly 4 decades
the United Farm Workers
|
$800
[2]
With his artificial smile, Twisty the clown was just one of the terrors in the "Freak Show" season of this FX series
American Horror Story
Dusty
|
$800
[22]
Artur Avila solved problems in chaos theory & won the Fields Medal, described as the Nobel Prize of this area of expertise
math
Tanay
Lucy
|
$800
[15]
One who never, ever gives up hope is an "eternal" this 8-letter word
an opti mist
Dusty
|
|
$1,200
[12]
Books about this title simian include his visit to an aquarium & him making pancakes
Curious George
Lucy
|
$1,200
[28]
This non-imperial measure was originally defined as one 10-millionth the distance from the North Pole to the equator
a meter
Tanay
Dusty
|
$1,200
[8]
She had taken a major role in the family business even before her brother Gianni's tragic death in 1997
Donatella Versace
Tanay
|
$1,200
[3]
Hooray for Captain Spaulding, the murderous clown in "House of 1000 Corpses", directed by this White Zombie frontman
Rob Zombie
Dusty
|
$1,600
[20]
12 years after the Silver Star, this metal medal was established in 1944, retroactive to December 7, 1941
the Bronze Star
Tanay
Dusty
Lucy
|
$1,200
[16]
Adjective for the nationality of a citizen living in Kharkiv or Donetsk
a Uk rain ian
Tanay
|
|
$1,600
[13]
The "World's Greatest Detective", this kid, rhymingly "the Great", solves all sorts of crimes, often in a deerstalker cap
Nate (Nate the Great)
Dusty
|
$1,600
[26]
This pea-sized "master gland" produces hormones that regulate many of the body's other endocrine glands
the pituitary
Lucy
|
$1,600
[9]
This temperance crusader gave lectures billed as "The Famous & Original Bar Room Smasher"
Carrie Nation
Lucy
|
$1,600
[4]
John Leguizamo plays a demon from hell who takes the slightly less creepy form of a clown in this 5-letter comic book movie
Spawn
Dusty
|
DD
$2,000
[21]
The president of Morehouse College was on the first committee to award the Spingarn Medal of this organization
the NAACP
Lucy
|
$1,600
[17]
This bird is famous for its lovelysongheard after dark
a nightingale (a nightin-gale)
|
|
$2,000
[24]
A children's literature prize first given in 2003 is named for this Swedish creator of Pippi Longstocking
(Astrid) Lindgren
Tanay
|
$2,000
[25]
Iceland is a leader in the generation of this type of renewable energy, from words meaning "earth" & "heat"
geothermal
Tanay
|
DD
$9,000
[10]
The longest-serving female U.S. senator in history, Barbara Mikulski represented this state from 1987 to 2017
Maryland
Lucy
|
$2,000
[5]
One persona of this "Man of 1000 Faces" was Tito Beppi, a despondent clown in "Laugh, Clown, Laugh"
Lon Chaney, Sr.
|
$2,000
[19]
Poets like Gwendolyn Brooks who have traveled on less-taken roads can win the Poetry Society of America Medal named for him
(Robert) Frost
Tanay
|
$2,000
[18]
Late 19th century entertainers often toured the country this way, doing one-night shows in makeshift theaters
barn storm ing
|
When she first came to the world's attention in 1957, she was dubbed "Muttnik" by U.S. journalists
Laika