Frances Kriegh — an assistant controller from Pacifica, California
Aaron Craig — a business litigation attorney originally from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sam Stapleton — a college consultant from Los Gatos, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $50,301)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam | $2,200 | $4,000 | $19,200 |
$15,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$19,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Aaron | $3,800 | $4,800 | $11,200 |
$22,027
New champion: $22,027 |
$11,200
19 R, 1 W |
| Frances | $3,000 | $5,800 | $11,000 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,800
12 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| ROMAN TIMES | AIRLINES IN OTHER WORDS | TV SHOW QUOTES | 4 LETTERS, 3 SYLLABLES | THE LEGEND OF BAGGY PANTS | SWORDS |
|
$200
[26]
In Roman legions, mutiny might be punished with decimation, where this percent of the troops were killed by fellow soldiers
10%
Frances
|
$200
[16]
Alluvial plain
Delta
|
$200
[2]
Sue Sylvester: "Let's be honest, William. You've been out of ideas since Madonna week"
Glee
Aaron
|
$200
[3]
To calculate this for a circle, multiply pi by the square of the radius
the area
Aaron
|
$200
[11]
It's a general term for goods carried on a ship, or big-pocketed baggy pants that can carry their fair share
cargo
Sam
|
$200
[21]
In novel & legend he pulls out "the sword in the stone", revealing that he is the next king
Arthur
Aaron
|
|
$400
[27]
Among the largest ancient structures was thetempleof this supreme Roman god in what's now Lebanon; they're used to be 54 columns
Jupiter
Aaron
|
$400
[17]
The 11th, 12th & 13th letters
KLM
Aaron
|
$400
[7]
Jesse Pinkman: "When the going gets tough, you don't want a criminal lawyer... you want a--criminal--lawyer"
Breaking Bad
Aaron
|
$400
[4]
In 2015 this brand went meta with cookies & creme flavored cookies
Oreo
Aaron
|
$400
[12]
Relax! You can also call these shorter-in-length baggy pants plus fours, so don't get 'em "in a twist", at least proverbially
knickers
Aaron
|
$400
[22]
Harry Potter finds the sword of this Hogwarts co-founder in a forest lake
Gryffindor
Sam
|
|
$600
[28]
Suetonius reported that some men faked their deaths to get out of performances by this emperor who was singing, not fiddling
Nero
Sam
|
$600
[18]
Airbus azure
JetBlue
Frances
|
$600
[1]
Red Reddington: "Try the fertilized duck eggs. It's a daring & unique dining experience--you'll think you've died & gone to hell"
(The) Blacklist
Frances
|
$600
[5]
This Hawaiian island is known as "The Gathering Place"
Oahu
Aaron
|
$600
[13]
Here's this golfer, a 5-time U.S. amateur champ, & a character in "The Legend of Bagger Vance" in hisbaggy pants
Bobby Jones
Aaron
|
$600
[23]
In a fantasy saga by Michael Moorcock, this emperor of Melnibone wields a sword called Stormbringer
Elric
|
|
$800
[29]
The thermae, or these, of Trajan were designed by Apollodorus of Damascus
baths
|
$1,000
[20]
The border of an inhabited region
Frontier Airlines
|
$800
[8]
Dre: "So everything is okay as long as (the kids) are home by 5... & at 5:01, we call the police"; Bow: "4:59, & the fire department"
black-ish
Frances
|
$800
[6]
It's a unit of output for a brainstorming session
idea
Frances
|
$800
[14]
MC Hammer said, "I detest" this alliterative term for his billowy legwear; "They're called Hammer pants"
parachute pants
Frances
|
$800
[24]
Hrunting is the name of the sword Beowulf uses when fighting this creature's mother
Grendel
Sam
|
|
$1,000
[30]
Following a trend, Caligula ordered this month to be renamed Germanicus; the new name failed to catch on
September
|
DD
$2,000
[19]
225 degrees, on a compass
Southwest
Frances
|
$1,000
[9]
An argument vs. naming a tech co. "Pied Piper"--that's "a predatory flautist who murders children in a cave"
Silicon Valley
Aaron
|
$1,000
[10]
It's the only Greek letter that fits the category
iota
Sam
|
$1,000
[15]
Baggy at the hips, these Indian riding pants some call breeches give you that horsey look, whether or not you ride
jodhpurs
Sam
|
$1,000
[25]
Glamdring is this wizard's sword of choice
Gandalf
|
| GUITAR GODDESSES | AFRICAN COUNTRIES | MUSEUM MUST-SEES | DUNCAN | PHYSICS | "S" WORDS |
|
$400
[13]
She& the Blackhearts were inductedinto the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2015
Joan Jett
Aaron
|
$400
[5]
The Nairobi Animal Orphanageis in this country
Kenya
Sam
|
$400
[6]
At the Moscow Kremlin Museums: her 1762 coronation dress
Catherine the Great
Aaron
|
$400
[18]
Duncan is Malcolm's father in this Shakespeare play
Macbeth
Aaron
|
$400
[25]
Symbol Co, this element is big in the field of nanomagnetism, which could lead to huge steps in information technology
cobalt
Aaron
|
$400
[7]
It's a ceremonial staff carried by a monarch as a symbol of authority
a scepter
Frances
|
|
$800
[14]
Bonnie Raittis also known as the queen of this style of guitar playing, that uses a glasstubeon a fretting finger
slide
Sam
|
$800
[4]
"(Kinshasa)" sometimes follows the name of this country
the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Sam
Aaron
|
$800
[12]
At the Field Museum in Chicago: Sue, a 40-foot-long & 90%-complete skeleton of one of these
a Tyrannosaurus rex
Frances
|
$800
[19]
Pedro Flores of the Philippines brought the modern version of this toy to the U.S.; the Duncan company popularized it
a yo-yo
Frances
|
$800
[26]
Seems like you & I are on the same this, a property of both light & sound denoted by the Greek letter lambda
wavelength
Sam
|
$800
[8]
This synthetic fabric is named for a marine predator
sharkskin
Sam
|
|
$1,200
[15]
Carrie Brownstein, axe-slinger in this hyphenated "riot grrrl" band, made Rolling Stone's list of 25 underrated guitarists
Sleater-Kinney
Aaron
|
$1,200
[1]
Some in Puntland, part of this East African country, defend piracy as a response to illegal fishing & toxic dumping
Somalia
Sam
|
$1,200
[20]
At the British Museum this key to deciphering Egyptian heiroglyphics
the Rosetta Stone
Sam
|
$1,200
[23]
Thisfree-spirited dancer rejected classic ballet & her performance presaged the development ofmodern dance
Isadora Duncan
Aaron
|
$1,200
[27]
This common 4-letter word has a more specific meaning in physics: change in kinetic energy
work
|
$1,200
[9]
This Italian title meaning "Mr." is rhymed with "that's amore"
signore
Aaron
|
|
$1,600
[16]
Thissinger-songwriter's unique guitar sound comes from hermastery of alternate tunings
Joni Mitchell
Frances
|
$1,600
[2]
Formerly French, this large nation has its main cities like Oran up near the Mediterranean & a vast, largely empty south
Algeria
Sam
|
$1,600
[21]
At the Queen Sofia National Museum in Madrid: this 25 1/2 foot-long black-&-white painting depicting the tragedies of war
Guernica
Frances
|
$1,600
[24]
Artist Duncan Grant was a member of this London-named group of the 20th century writers & artists of whom he painted portraits
the Bloomsbury Group
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
Around 1800 William Herschel found that this type of radiation he called "radiant heat" is closely related to visible light
infrared
Sam
|
$1,600
[10]
Fibrous tissue in the body that can connect muscle to bone
sinew
Sam
|
|
$2,000
[17]
Classical guitar virtuoso Liona Boydhas won five of these, Canada's equivalent of the Grammy Awards
the JUNO Awards
Aaron
|
DD
$4,000
[3]
They're the two countries highlighted here; insert two letters into the name of one to get the other
Mali & Malawi
Sam
|
$2,000
[22]
At this art museum in Florence: Raphael's "Madonna of the Goldfinch"
the Uffizi
Sam
|
$2,000
[30]
The gilded armchair seenhereis attributed to this 19th century furniture maker, a leader of neoclassicism
Duncan Phyfe
|
$2,000
[29]
"C" can stand for this unit of charge named for French physicist Charles
coulomb
|
$2,000
[11]
Thisinstrument popular in the 18th century is basically a small harpsichord
a spinet
Sam
|
Along with his writing partner, this director is the only person to win screenwriting Oscars for both a film & its sequel
Francis Ford Coppola