Jon Spurney — a musician and screenwriter originally from New York, New York
Jillian Zeidner — a legislative analyst from Sacramento, California
Michael Colton — a screenwriter originally from Newton, Massachusetts (whose 2-day cash winnings total $17,603)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael | $2,800 | $5,400 | $17,600 |
$9,201
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,800
21 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Jillian | $0 | $2,200 | $4,600 |
$5
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,000
13 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jon | $1,800 | $5,000 | $21,400 |
$37,201
New champion: $37,201 |
$20,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| AMERICAN HISTORY | IN THE MEDICINE CABINET | HOW 'BOUT A GAME OF CARDS? | LONDON MONOPOLY GEOGRAPHY | ____ & ____ | THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY |
|
$200
[6]
Seen here, the Lucas Gusher in Beaumont started gushing in 1901 & forever changed the economy of this state
Texas
Jon
|
$200
[16]
James Howe created this 4-letter brand to treat his wife's indigestion
Tums
Jillian
|
$200
[11]
This game includes skip cards & draw 2 cards, & it makes you say its name just before you win
UNO
Michael
|
$200
[26]
Selfridges department store is on this street that shares its name with a university
Oxford
Michael
|
$200
[1]
If you're extremely thin, you are said to be these 2 body parts
skin & bones
Jillian
|
$200
[21]
Her rendition of "I Will Always Love You", recorded for "The Bodyguard" soundtrack
Whitney Houston
Michael
|
|
$400
[7]
In 1800 she became the first first lady to live in the White House
Abigail Adams
Jillian
Jon
|
$400
[17]
If you are allergic to aspirin, you may also be allergic to this active ingredient in MOTRIN IB
ibuprofen
Jillian
|
$400
[12]
In this kids' game, one of the 4 queens is removed from the 52-card deck & you don't wanna be stuck with its odd pair in the end
Old Maid
Michael
|
$400
[27]
Old Kent Road is the only London Monopoly location south of this body of water
the Thames
Michael
|
$400
[2]
Something once attached to an inmate's leg, it's also sometimes used to refer to a spouse
ball & chain
Michael
|
$400
[22]
"The Chronic", the solo debut album by this faux medico & former member of NWA
Dr. Dre
Jillian
|
|
$600
[8]
Hereare John Young & Robert Crippen, the crew of the first of these missions in 1981
Space Shuttle
|
$600
[18]
This, aka peppermint camphor, is a key ingredient in Icy Hot & Biofreeze
menthol
Jon
|
$600
[13]
Think hard! This kids' game where you match pairs is also called Memory
Concentration
Jon
|
$600
[28]
There's no mistaking this public plaza that commemorates an important British victory of 1805
Trafalgar Square
Jillian
|
$600
[3]
This highly unlikely kind of story pairs 2 animals, one feathered & one horned
cock & bull
Jon
|
$600
[23]
This group's disco classic "YMCA" made the list
the Village People
Jon
|
|
$800
[9]
Black Elk, a holy man of the Oglala branch of these people, was at the battle of Little Bighorn & lived until 1950
the Sioux
Jillian
|
$800
[19]
The "D" in Claritin-D stands for this, which is what pseudoephedrine is
decongestant
Jillian
|
$800
[14]
Being dealt the unbeatable number in the first 2 cards can pay 3 to 2 in a standard casino game of this
Blackjack
Michael
|
$800
[29]
This rhyming thoroughfare is home to a demon barber in a Sondheim musical
Fleet Street
Jillian
|
$800
[4]
These 2 blacksmith's tools are in an idiom that describes something done with great vigor
hammer & tongs
Jon
|
$800
[24]
The original Broadway cast's 1964 album of this musical with Zero Mostel as Tevye
Fiddler on the Roof
Michael
|
|
DD
$1,400
[10]
From 1953 to 1961 Allen Dulles was the director of this U.S. government agency
CIA
Jillian
|
$1,000
[20]
The song "Poison Ivy" says, "You're gonna need an ocean of" this lotion
calamine
Jon
|
$1,000
[15]
You can get naughty with this game--its black cards include "What did Vin Diesel eat for dinner?" & "Why am I sticky?"
Cards Against Humanity
Michael
|
$1,000
[30]
This 2-word "royal" train station has been suggested as the spot where Queen Boadicea was buried in 60 A.D.
King's Cross
Jillian
Jon
|
$1,000
[5]
Beginning with a 2-letter interjection, this phrase tells you to look, really look
lo & behold
|
$1,000
[25]
Allan Sherman singing, "Hello Muddah, hello Fadduh, here I am at" this camp
Granada
Michael
|
| AUTHORS' ROAD TRIPS | ANTHROPOLOGY | 1984 TV SHOW DEBUTS | F IS FOR FAMILY | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS | NATIONALITY RHYMES |
|
$400
[1]
At age 64, before her "Little House" books, she traveled in a 1923 Buick named Isabelle from Missouri to her old Dakota home
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Jillian
|
$400
[19]
The Natl. Museum of Anthropology, Mexico's most visited museum, boasts the stone of Tizoc, used for these grim rites
human sacrifice
Jon
|
$400
[30]
Philip Michael Thomas & this actor were the too cool cops on the mean streets of "Miami Vice"
Don Johnson
Michael
|
$400
[9]
The Fatimid Dynasty of North Africa in the 900s A.D. claimed descent from Fatimah, daughter of this prophet
Muhammad
Michael
|
$400
[14]
"It's more fun to be a pirate than join the navy", said this Apple Computer co-founder
Steve Jobs
Michael
|
$400
[21]
Joy for those of Geneva
Swiss bliss
Jon
|
|
$800
[2]
A bestseller ensued when Robert M. Pirsig used this transport for a 1968 journey with his son, doing his own maintenance
a motorcycle
Michael
|
$800
[20]
George P. Murdock popularized the term this type of family (mom, dad, kids) & called it "a universal human social grouping"
a nuclear family
Michael
|
$800
[29]
Wally & Theodore had grown up & now had families of their own in the "New" 1984 update of this classic sitcom
Leave it to Beaver
Jon
|
$800
[10]
Business treated this family better than politics; Malcolm lost a 1957 race for N.J. governor & Steve, 2 presidential runs
Forbes
Jon
|
$800
[15]
"He prayeth well, who loveth well both man and bird and beast" is quoted from this Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Michael
|
$800
[22]
Corned beef sandwich made in Havana
the Cuban reuben
Jillian
|
|
$1,600
[4]
A 2019 book tells the true tale of a 1927 road trip by this woman & Langston Hughes, including a Bessie Smith show in Macon
Zora Neale Hurston
Michael
|
$1,600
[25]
In early "factories" , Neanderthals turned out tools of this hard stone known for fire-sparking qualities
flint
Jon
|
$1,200
[6]
Retired baseball player Tony Danza became the housekeeper for a single mom advertising exec on this show
Who's The Boss?
Michael
|
$1,200
[11]
In 2015 Piero, son of this late car magnate, zoomed to billionaire status when the co. listed on the New York Stock Exchange
(Enzo) Ferrari
Jon
|
$1,200
[16]
"Stay on the scene like a sex machine" is a lyrical quote from this performer
James Brown
Michael
|
$1,200
[23]
The Prague couple's quick kiss
a Czech peck
Jon
|
|
$2,000
[5]
Mark Twain's trip from Missouri to Nevada included being "avalanched" inside a stagecoach--no wonder he called the book this
Roughing It
|
$2,000
[26]
Anthropologists study these Melanesian "cults" that live in anticipation of the arrival of goods on Pacific islands
cargo cults
|
$1,600
[7]
In addition to "Jeopardy!", that year saw a new "Super" version of this game show that used one-word clues between players
Password
Jon
|
$1,600
[12]
He took over dad's jewelry biz in St. Petersburg in 1870 & landed a big gig 15 years later--Russian imperial court jeweler & goldsmith
Fabergé
Jillian
|
$1,600
[17]
Under anonymous is listed the helpful typing pangram "The quick brown fox..." these 5 words
jumps over the lazy dog
Jillian
|
$1,600
[27]
Strapless purse of that gal from Utrecht
Dutch clutch
Michael
|
|
DD
$3,000
[3]
One of the most famous road trips in American lit began in 1947 when he rode the bus with crying babies from New York to Chicago
Jack Kerouac
Michael
|
DD
$2,400
[24]
Pre-agricultural societies that relied on wild game & plants for food are known by this hyphenated term
hunter-gatherer
Jon
|
$2,000
[8]
Launching a new era of celebrity worship was this Robin Leach show about things wealthy people have & do that most of us never will
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
Jon
|
$2,000
[13]
The Colosseum is aka this amphitheater, named for the dynasty begun by Vespasian in 69 A.D. but over by 96--good run, guys!
Flavian
Jon
|
$2,000
[18]
"Hail to you gods... on that day of the great reckoning, behold me, I have come to you" is from this Ancient Egyptian text
the Book of the Dead
Jillian
Jon
|
$2,000
[28]
The standard principle for evaluation in Damascus
Syrian criterion
|
In "Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes" Charles de Brosses coined this term for the many islands of the region
Polynesia