Michele Friedlander — a family law attorney from Encino, California
Jeff Noblitt — a university administrator from Northridge, California
Jon Spurney — a musician and screenwriter originally from New York, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $37,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jon | $4,000 | $6,800 | $22,400 |
$22,801
2-day champion: $60,002 |
$21,600
26 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Jeff | $1,000 | $1,600 | $8,400 |
$400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,400
8 R, 1 W |
| Michele | $600 | $3,800 | $11,400 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,800
15 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| MOUNTAINS | GUITAR TALK | FISH & CHIPS | SPORTS TROPHIES & AWARDS | PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACES | UP RISING |
|
$200
[29]
Sagarmatha is its name in Nepali
Mount Everest
Michele
|
$200
[5]
The long, narrow part of a guitar that carries the strings from the body to the headstock has this anatomical name
a neck
Michele
|
$200
[16]
Alaskan pollock is the key ingredient in this alliterative McDonald's sandwich
Filet-O-Fish
Jon
|
$200
[6]
World Boxing Council champs get these, handmade of Italian leather
belts
Jon
|
$200
[7]
Honolulu
Barack Obama
Jon
|
$200
[23]
"Up" goes before a mathematical group to make a word meaning "angry"
set & upset
|
|
$600
[15]
Opened in 2016, a rail tunnel under these mountains is the world's longest; hereare miners with the drilling machine known as Heidi
the (Swiss) Alps
Jon
|
$400
[4]
Don't worry, we're sure you know this word for the strips of metal embedded in a guitar's fingerboard
frets
Jon
|
$400
[17]
Kettle Brand makes Backyard, Country Style & Korean versions of this classic chip flavor
barbecue
Jon
|
$400
[13]
MLB's Rookie of the Year awards are named for this groundbreaker who won the award in 1947
Jackie Robinson
Michele
|
$400
[8]
Hope
Bill Clinton
Jeff
|
$400
[24]
"Up" rises to the top of a truck's cargo so you can move data from your computer to a server
load & upload
Jon
Jeff
|
|
$800
[10]
Here'sthe crater of this Hawaiian volcano with a one-word name
Kilauea
Jon
|
$600
[3]
A guitar's strings are set to E-A-D-G-B-E in "standard" this
tuning
Jon
|
$600
[18]
La Banderita adds both chia & flax seeds to its organic blue corn these chips
tortilla chips
Jon
|
$600
[14]
South African Gary Player was the first non-American to receive this association's lifetime achievement award
the PGA
Jeff
|
$600
[11]
Brookline
John F. Kennedy
|
$600
[25]
Take the focal point of a theater & add "up" to get the back of that part
stage & upstage
Jon
|
|
DD
$1,000
[30]
This highest mountain in Japan is actually a volcano that last erupted in 1707
Mount Fuji
Michele
|
$800
[2]
Guitarists use picks, also known by this other "P" word
plectrum
Jon
|
$800
[19]
popchips adds this dairy product to both cheddar- & onion-flavored potato chips
sour cream
Jon
|
$800
[21]
College football rivalries can have their own trophies; the Ireland Trophy goes to the winner of Boston College vs. this school
Notre Dame
Michele
|
$800
[12]
Kinderhook
Van Buren
Michele
|
$800
[26]
"Up" is placed before an emotion to give us a word for "snobbish"
pity & uppity
Michele
|
|
$1,000
[9]
In 1794 George Vancouver caught sight of this peak from Cook Inlet, an arm of the Gulf of Alaska
Mount McKinley (Denali)
Jon
|
$1,000
[1]
Thistype of clamp raises the pitch of a guitar's strings
a capo
Jon
|
$1,000
[20]
In the 1970s a savvy marketer rebranded the tasty Patagonian toothfish as the "Chilean" this
sea bass
Jeff
|
$1,000
[22]
The NHL's Vezina Trophy goes to the league's top player at this position
goalie
Michele
|
$1,000
[28]
Yorba Linda
Nixon
Michele
|
$1,000
[27]
When "up" is rising to the front of a serving of liquor, now we have the gist of an argument
shot & upshot
Jon
|
| COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER | 5-LETTER WORDS | U.S. MUSEUMS | ALTERNATE HISTORY NOVELS | COMPOUNDS | MAKING & REMAKING ROBIN HOOD |
|
$400
[21]
In 1698 Scotland tried to found a colony on this New World isthmus; its failure was a financial disaster
Panama
Jeff
|
$400
[16]
An additional airing of a previously broadcast TV show
a rerun
Jon
|
$400
[1]
Leavenworth, Washington is home to a museum devoted to these, & it's not just open at Christmas
nutcrackers
Michele
|
$400
[6]
The title of this Colson Whitehead Pulitzer winner refers to an actual train system operating beneath southern soil
The Underground Railroad
Michele
|
$400
[26]
Vaporizing a liquid means pulling its molecules apart; for phenol, which forms strong hydrogen bonds, this point is high at 359.6º F.
boiling point
Jon
|
$400
[14]
In a 2018 movie unafraid of anachronism, these traditional Robin Hood weapons blow up walls on contact
bow & arrows
Michele
|
|
$800
[22]
The imageheredepicts the lost colony on this North Carolina island
Roanoke
Michele
|
$800
[17]
Candy word meaning to falsify numbers
fudge
Jon
|
$800
[2]
The Museum of the American Revolution opened in 2017, 2 blocks away from Independence Hall in this city
Philadelphia
Michele
|
$800
[7]
In "Ruled Britannia", the Spanish Armada was victorious & this Spaniard rules England alongside Bloody Mary Tudor
Philip II
Jon
|
$800
[27]
Amyl nitrite is often used to treat this chest pain, a symptom of coronary artery disease
angina
Jon
|
$800
[13]
Alan Hale Sr. played this big buddy opposite Errol Flynn & Douglas Fairbanks
Little John
Jon
|
|
$1,200
[23]
Henry Ford created Fordlandia in Brazil to produce latex for this material, but bugs made it impossible
rubber
Jon
|
$1,200
[18]
Literally, sheep-ish
ovine
Jon
|
$1,200
[3]
The Winterthur Museum of Decorative Arts in Delaware was founded by a member of this famous family
du Pont
Michele
|
$1,200
[8]
Philip Roth's "The Plot Against America" finds FDR losing the 1940 presidential election to this aviator
Lindbergh
Jeff
|
$1,600
[29]
Nickel nitrate is used to make this positive electrode in batteries
cathode
|
$1,200
[9]
Instead of Friar Tuck, this director played Rabbi Tuckman in his parody called "Robin Hood: Men in Tights"
Mel Brooks
Jon
|
|
$1,600
[24]
Churchill described the fall of this future city-state to the Japanese in 1942 as the "worst disaster... in British history"
Singapore
Jon
|
$1,600
[19]
With lovely crystals inside, it's Iowa's state rock
a geode
Jon
|
$1,600
[4]
"I'm going to" this city, this city, "here I come" to visit the American Jazz Museum & The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
Kansas City
Michele
|
$1,600
[10]
Set in a world where Germany & Japan prevailed in WWII, "The Man in the High Castle" is a tale from this sci-fi legend
Philip K. Dick
Jeff
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
Potassium sorbate, which inhibits the growth of molds & yeasts, is mainly used in foods as this
a preservative
Jon
|
$1,600
[11]
Sean Connery is an older Robin wooing Audrey Hepburn in the 1976 film "Robin &" this maid
(Maid) Marian
Jeff
|
|
$2,000
[25]
After Mormons were driven out in the 1840s, French colonists called the Icarians failed to make this Illinois city work
Nauvoo
|
$2,000
[20]
Ablockof precious metal of a standard shape & weight
an ingot
Jon
|
$2,000
[5]
A large stabile called "Two Discs" is one of many works by this artist belonging to the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
Calder
Jon
|
DD
$2,000
[15]
In "The Alteration" by Kingsley Amis, this man became Pope Germanicus I in the 16th century so the Reformation never happened
Martin Luther
Michele
|
$2,000
[30]
In 1839 John Herschel used sodium thiosulfate "to arrest action of light", making it this type of photographic agent
a fixer (fixing agent)
Jeff
|
$2,000
[12]
Alan Rickman won a BAFTA Award for playing this lawman in "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves"
the Sheriff of Nottingham
Jon
|
The 2 to address 3 joint sessions are Churchill & this leader, his non-European country's longest-serving PM, in 1996, 2011 & 2015
Benjamin Netanyahu