Tim Everhart — an attorney originally from Brockton, Massachusetts
Melis Sahin-Collins — a data analyst from Redondo Beach, California
Jon Spurney — a musician and screenwriter originally from New York, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $60,002)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jon | $1,800 | $3,800 | $14,200 |
$0
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,200
23 R, 3 W |
| Melis | $800 | $4,400 | $2,000 |
$2,000
New champion: $2,000 |
$6,000
9 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Tim | $1,800 | $2,600 | $14,200 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
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$200
[9]
"Space Force", with this actor seen here, portrays science advisor Dr. Adrian Mallory
John Malkovich
Tim
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$200
[7]
Of the 14 countries that border Russia, this "stan" country shares the longest border with it, 4,750 miles
Kazakhstan
Jon
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$200
[26]
After raising $17.9 billion in a 2008 IPO, this credit card company was truly everywhere it wanted to be
Visa
Jon
|
$200
[28]
The city of Larsa wasn't up to this Babylonian's code, so he conquered it in the 1760s B.C.
Hammurabi
Jon
|
$200
[29]
A Massachusetts paper discussed using this honorific for women in 1901; The New York Times would embrace it in 1986
Ms.
Tim
|
$200
[1]
It's a beard trimmed to a point on the chin
a goatee
Jon
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|
$400
[13]
Drag queens lip-sync for their legacy on this host's "Drag Race All Stars"
RuPaul
Tim
|
$400
[8]
This capital of Puerto Rico is the oldest city founded by Europeans that is now under U.S. jurisdiction
San Juan
Jon
|
$400
[27]
This company makes Scotch Wall-Safe tape
3M
Melis
|
$400
[22]
Among the treasures he was buried with around 1325 B.C., was the gold mask seen here
King Tut
Melis
|
$400
[30]
The wife of a lord ain't just a lady (though that is a title equivalent), she's a this
a dame
Jon
|
$400
[2]
To bind all 4 of an animal's legs together
hogtie
Jon
|
|
$600
[10]
This 2008 film about bomb defusers, which won 6 Oscars
The Hurt Locker
Tim
|
$600
[15]
Basra is an oil-refining center & this country's main port
Iraq
Jon
|
$600
[23]
In 1978 its eventual co-founders saw red--make that orange--after getting fired by Handy Dan Home Improvement Centers
The Home Depot
Tim
|
$600
[14]
Shortly after he attained enlightenment, he gave a sermon in which he presented the 4 noble truths
Buddha
Melis
|
$800
[5]
An abbot is referred to as right this; a Roman Catholic bishop, most this
reverend
Jon
Tim
|
$600
[3]
To crouch in fear
to cower
Tim
|
|
$800
[11]
"Truth Seekers", which reunited Nick Frost & this guy who was "Shaun of the Dead"
Simon Pegg
Tim
|
$800
[16]
Aka Tahoma, this 14,400-foot active volcano is about 60 miles southeast of Seattle
Mount Rainier
Jon
Melis
|
$800
[24]
There's no business like this shoe business that joined the Dow in 2013
Nike
Jon
|
$800
[20]
The Peace of Nicias in 421 B.C. brought a temporary end to the fighting in this Greek war
Peloponnesian
Melis
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
American legal eagles are commonly called this, but it also can refer to the eldest son of a baronet
esquire
Tim
|
$800
[17]
Bilirubin & carotene are these coloring agents
pigments
|
|
$1,000
[12]
Drake's "Nice For What" video, featuring Olivia Wilde & this ballerina
Misty Copeland
Tim
|
$1,000
[19]
In 1871 Henry Stanley finally tracked down Dr. David Livingstone along the shores ofthis2nd-largest lake in Africa
Tanganyika
Melis
|
$1,000
[25]
When it comes to personal insurance, boat & yacht & even umbrella insurance are all under its symbolic umbrella
Travelers
Jon
|
$1,000
[21]
X marks the spot for this king who succeeded his father Darius I as ruler of the Persian Empire
Xerxes
Jon
|
$1,000
[6]
In German forms of address, traditionally this word goes before "doktor" if the doktor is a dude
herr
Melis
|
$1,000
[18]
It's the proud & historic region seen here
Catalan (Catalonia)
Melis
|
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$400
[29]
In the early 1900s Rose O'Neill's popular drawings of this winged god evolved into wildly popular Kewpie dolls
Cupid
Melis
|
$400
[18]
His first law of motion is the law of inertia
Newton
Jon
|
$400
[23]
Paul Reubens named this childlike alter ego after a harmonica
Pee-wee Herman
Jon
|
$400
[15]
Serbian & Ukrainian are written in versions of this alphabet
Cyrillic
Tim
|
$400
[27]
This hyphenated numerical adjective can mean tough or holding booze in both hands
two-fisted
Jon
Tim
|
$400
[26]
One legend says that the tall stones in Carnac, France were Roman legions petrified by this Arthurian wizard
Merlin
Jon
|
|
$800
[30]
Peggy Fortnum sketched in the London Zoo to perfect this traveling bear created by Michael Bond
Paddington
Jon
|
$800
[19]
The human this is all of the 3 billion base pairs of DNA that make up the entire set of a person's chromosomes
genome
Jon
|
$800
[24]
"Billie Jean" is on the 2019 album of cover songs by this Rivers Cuomo band
Weezer
Melis
|
$800
[14]
In 2013 he added Latin to the 8 still-living languages of his Twitter account
Pope Francis
|
$800
[28]
There's a sensory organ in this hyphenated adjective meaning tough-minded
hard-nosed
|
$800
[25]
Many of the giant stone figures on this island were quarried from the crater walls of the Rano Raraku volcano
Easter Island
Jon
|
|
$1,200
[7]
The modern image of Santa Claus owes a lot to the illustrations Haddon Sundblom created for this beverage's ads
Coca-Cola
Tim
|
$1,200
[20]
Hg is the symbol for this element
mercury
Melis
|
$1,200
[1]
This model is married to Gene Simmons
Shannon Tweed
|
$1,200
[11]
In addition to the language of the host country, these 2 are the official languages of the Olympics
English & French
Jon
|
$1,200
[4]
This last name of English novelist Thomas means sturdy & tough
Hardy
Tim
|
$1,600
[16]
The roof box in the 5,000-year-old Newgrange tomb in Ireland allows light to enter during this annual winter event
the solstice
Jon
|
|
$1,600
[8]
Daniel Beard provideddashingbut comicalillustrationsfor this novel by Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Tim
|
$2,000
[22]
A mother's levels of this "hormone of love" may influence the intensity of the bond between her & her child
oxytocin
Jon
|
$1,600
[2]
This singer-songwriter founded the band Wilco
Jeff Tweedy
Tim
|
$1,600
[12]
This language is known as hanguk-mal in the south & choson-mal in the north
Korean
Jon
|
$1,600
[5]
Meaning able to recover quickly from a setback, it's from Latin for "to bounce back"
resilient
|
$2,000
[17]
These avian-named people of Montana have origin myths for large sacred medicine wheels, like the one in the Bighorn Mountains
the Crow
Jon
|
|
$2,000
[9]
Around 1890, Kate Greenawayillustratedthe pages of a children's story by this British poet
Robert Browning
|
DD
$4,000
[21]
Working according to the same principles as a laser, a maser gets the "M" in its name from this word
microwave
Melis
|
$2,000
[3]
Hewas Shoeless Joe Jackson in "Eight Men Out", & Doug Dorsey in "The Cutting Edge"
D.B. Sweeney
|
$2,000
[13]
Official in the kingdom of Cambodia, this language has 74 letters in its alphabet
Khmer
Jon
|
$2,000
[6]
A tough guy from ancient Greece, or a synonym for spare or frugal
Spartan
Tim
|
DD
$4,000
[10]
This 5-letter word for a circle of stones is a back-formation from the name of a famous one on Salisbury Plain
henge
Tim
|
Of the principal architects working on it from the mid-1500s to the 1980s, like Pierre Lescot & Hector Lefuel, none were foreigners
the Louvre