Henry Michaels — an arts administrator originally from Morganton, North Carolina
Myrlin Hermes — a novelist from Portland, Oregon
Steve Crupi — a retired police department information supervisor from Las Vegas, Nevada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steve | $1,000 | $3,600 | $12,000 |
$12,000
2-day champion: $22,000 |
$12,000
15 R, 0 W |
| Myrlin | $1,800 | $6,800 | $14,400 |
$4,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,400
18 R, 0 W |
| Henry | $4,100 | $5,500 | $5,100 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY | FASHION | COUNTRY / MUSIC | 2 LETTERS, ENDS IN "E" | AMERICAN NAMES | AUTHORS |
|
$200
[1]
If saw blades with this gemstone in their name seem a bit cheaper than an engagement ring, it's because they use synthetic stones
diamonds
Steve
|
$200
[20]
This green & brown fabric pattern began with army wear for blending into the scenery
camouflage
Steve
|
$200
[17]
Toots & the Maytals pioneered this Jamaican musical style & lead singer Toots Hibbert is credited with naming it
reggae
Henry
|
$200
[16]
That male, in singular pronoun form
he
Henry
|
$200
[4]
At the age of 12 this future Founding Father was apprenticed to his brother James, a printer
Ben Franklin
Myrlin
|
$200
[5]
Toni Morrison wrote her play "Desdemona" as a response to a production of this Shakespeare play
Othello
Myrlin
|
|
$400
[2]
People famous in this profession, like Jamie Oliver, often use Wüsthof knives from Germany
chefs
Henry
|
$400
[21]
Deerstalkers & derbies are types of these
hats
Steve
|
$400
[18]
Made with rows of short tubes of different lengths, versions of this instrument are played from China to Peru
the pan flute
Myrlin
|
$400
[19]
It's used in French personal names to show place of origin
de
Myrlin
|
$400
[10]
Linus Pauling wrote a bestselling book called this vitamin "and the Common Cold"
vitamin C
Steve
|
$400
[6]
This British author was married to a woman also named Evelyn--they were called He-Evelyn & She-Evelyn by friends
Waugh
Steve
|
|
$600
[3]
A rip-cut saws along the grain of the wood, while this cut goes against the grain
a cross cut (or pull cut)
Henry
|
$600
[22]
This 1983 film inspired a fashion craze of leg warmers & off-the-shoulder sweatshirts; "what a feeling!"
Flashdance
Myrlin
|
$600
[25]
Cante jondo or "deep song" is a powerful type of this Spanish style of music & dance associated with Gypsies
flamenco
Steve
|
$600
[28]
The "royal" one is used formally by a monarch to refer to him or herself
we
Steve
|
$600
[11]
"Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie" is a 1971 collection of poetry by this African-American woman
Maya Angelou
Myrlin
|
$600
[7]
In 2020 this author of "Dear John" returned to familiar territory (love in North Carolina) with "The Return"
Nicholas Sparks
|
|
$800
[8]
The Oliver 777 is one of these machines that bakeries find handy when a customer wants bread for sandwiches
a slicer
Henry
|
$800
[23]
This5-letter fabric, popular forjackets, bears the name of a Scottish river
tweed
Myrlin
|
$800
[26]
A fusion of samba & cool jazz, bossa nova burst onto the world scene in the 1950s out of this country
Brazil
Myrlin
|
$800
[29]
In the case of
re
Steve
|
$800
[12]
He failed in a few candy businesses before founding the Lancaster Caramel Company in 1886; later it was on to chocolate
(Milton) Hershey
Henry
|
$800
[14]
Finally out in 2020, this feminist's "The Inseparables" was not published in part because Jean-Paul Sartre didn't like it
Simone de Beauvoir
Myrlin
|
|
$1,000
[9]
The wavy pattern in the metal of theknifeindicates that it is made of steel named for this Mideast capital
Damascus
|
$1,000
[24]
From the French for horsehair, this 19th c. array of fabric & hoops under a skirt was revived by Jean Paul Gaultier
crinoline
Henry
|
$1,000
[27]
This folk music performed by a small group of strolling musicians dressed in traditional costume originated in Jalisco, Mexico
mariachi
Myrlin
|
$1,000
[30]
Plural of thou, when talking to a group
ye
Myrlin
|
DD
$1,500
[13]
The movie "Rope" was partly based on a murder committed by this pair, first names Nathan & Richard
Leopold & Loeb
Henry
|
$1,000
[15]
He began "Dombey and Son" during a trip to Switzerland in 1846
Charles Dickens
|
| "A" IS FOR ASTRONOMICAL | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE | FILMS WITH SMALL CASTS | OLD NEWSPAPERS | THE NORMAN CONQUEST | RHYME TIME |
|
$400
[1]
2 impact craters in the Sea of Tranquility are named for these 2 men
Aldrin & Armstrong
Henry
|
$400
[22]
Though large & powerful, this South American empire flourished for only about 100 years until the Spanish conquered it in 1532
Inca
Steve
|
$400
[11]
The 2007 horror film titled this "Activity" had just 5 credited parts, 4 uncredited ones & some creepy atmospherics
Paranormal Activity
Myrlin
|
$400
[2]
Published in this southern city beginning in 1856, the Daily Creole was the first African-American daily newspaper
New Orleans
Steve
|
$400
[12]
An English rebel called Hereward the Wake led resistance to this Norman king even after the conquest
William the Conqueror
Myrlin
|
$400
[7]
A verdant chromosome part
a green gene
Henry
|
|
$800
[3]
If you strain your eyes a bit, you can see this spiral galaxy aka M31 without using a telescope
Andromeda
Henry
|
$800
[23]
Bonners Ferry, north of Coeur d'Alene, calls itself this state's "most friendly town"
Idaho
Henry
|
$800
[17]
Sandra Bullock learns it's lonely out in space in this 2013 film
Gravity
Myrlin
|
$800
[4]
This London newspaper first published in 1785 had a daily circulation of about 400,000 in 2019
The Times of London
Steve
|
$800
[13]
Norman knights fought in hauberks, long coats of this bendable armor
chain mail
Myrlin
|
$800
[27]
The location for a 12-round match
a fight site
|
|
$1,200
[5]
Absolute magnitude measures a celestial object's true brightness; this other magnitude is its brightness as seen from Earth
the apparent magnitude
Henry
|
$1,200
[24]
In 2019 throngs of people turned out to celebrate the 40th anniversary of this country's Sandinista revolution
Nicaragua
Steve
|
$1,200
[18]
Heplayed an isolated astronaut in the film "Moon"
Rockwell
Henry
|
$1,200
[8]
The name of this 19th century William Lloyd Garrison abolitionist newspaper reminds us of Simon Bolivar
The Liberator
|
$1,200
[14]
This 231-foot-long strip of linen is an important source of knowledge about the conquest
the Bayeux Tapestry
Henry
|
$1,200
[28]
Jargon for the "parlor" game in which players mark off numbers on a card
bingo lingo
|
|
$1,600
[6]
It's the diameter of a telescope's main lens or mirror
the aperture
Myrlin
|
$1,600
[25]
The name of these islands off the southern tip of South America means "land of fire"
Tierra del Fuego
Henry
|
$1,600
[19]
This acting legend plays the only character in 2013's "All Is Lost", about a solo sailor in big trouble on the high seas
Robert Redford
Steve
|
DD
$2,000
[9]
A furious rivalry between NYC's World & Journal papers in the 1890s led to this term used for sensational news reporting
yellow journalism
Henry
|
$1,600
[15]
At the decisive Battle of Hastings, the Normans had many more bowmen than the English, & one of them may have hit this king in the eye
King Harold II
Myrlin
|
$1,600
[29]
Temperamental & capricious coinage metal
fickle nickel
Henry
|
|
$2,000
[21]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows map imagery of the Moon on the monitor.) Possibly caused by magnetized lava under the Moon's surface, lunar swirlsare easy to spot because of a high one of these reflective ratios of light relative to the surrounding surface
albedo
Steve
|
DD
$4,000
[26]
This "C" in the ABC Islands of the Caribbean has the oldest continuously inhabited Jewish community in the Americas
Curaçao
Henry
|
$2,000
[20]
The entire cast of this 1944 Hitchcock drama was 9 stars & an uncredited German sailor adrift in the title conveyance
Lifeboat
Steve
|
$2,000
[10]
Begun in 1764, this Hartford, Connecticut Journal is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the USA
The Hartford Courant
|
$2,000
[16]
The Normans brought the custom of inherited these, like Charpentier; they weren't common in pre-conquest England
surnames
Henry
|
$2,000
[30]
A priory for a bivalve
an oyster cloister
Myrlin
|
The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine gave "rejoice" as a rhyme for the correct pronunciation of his name
Dr. Seuss