Last game with Mike Richards as guest host.
Ann Mazzaferro — a high school English and drama teacher from San Andreas, California
Laura Portwood-Stacer — an author and editor originally from Livonia, Michigan
Jim Cooper — a screenwriter from Pacific Palisades, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim | $1,800 | $2,000 | $9,200 |
$10,413
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,200
16 R, 6 W |
| Laura | $2,400 | $6,400 | $21,400 |
$19,400
New champion: $19,400 |
$19,200
20 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Ann | $0 | $1,800 | $6,600 |
$4,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,000
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| BROADWAY MUSICALS | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY | TEXT MESSAGE ABBREV. | ARMY SURPLUS | NAVY BASES | MARINE BIOLOGY |
|
$200
[3]
In the roles of Diva Donna, Disco Donna & Duckling Donna, 3 actresses played this 1970s singer in a 2018 show
Donna Summer
Jim
Laura
Ann
|
$200
[10]
An orange handle on a coffee pot traditionally came to mean this kind of coffee because it was the color of Sanka labels
decaf
Jim
|
$200
[2]
Stay out of my affairs: MYOB
mind your own business
Ann
|
$200
[1]
Army ant colonies are made up of workers, soldiers, mating males & one of these
a queen
Laura
|
$200
[26]
This special forces group has headquarters at naval base Coronado in Southern California
the Navy SEALs
Jim
|
$200
[18]
Species of this cephalopod with 10 appendages include the colossal, which can be 40' long, & the southern pygmy, less than 3/4"
a squid
Laura
|
|
$400
[5]
For this show Justin Collette took the role of Dewey Finn, played by Jack Black in a 2003 movie
School of Rock
Ann
|
$400
[11]
This gas company added an apostrophe to make its name a contraction for International Women's Day in 2020
Shell (She'll)
|
$400
[4]
Hold on now:JAS
just a second
Ann
|
$400
[15]
This multibladed pocket tool evolved from ones first issued to Helvetic soldiers in the late 1800s
a Swiss Army knife
Laura
|
$400
[27]
Since the time of Catherine the Great, Sevastopol has been the site of a Russian navy base on this Black Sea peninsula
the Crimea
Laura
|
$400
[19]
One look at the forehead of the genus Naso, & you'll see why it's also known as this fish
a unicorn fish
|
|
$600
[6]
(Christopher Plummer presents the clue.) In 1973, I sang the closing number "I Never Loved You", playing with panache this heroic Frenchman in Anthony Burgess's musical version of the famous play
Cyrano de Bergerac
Ann
|
$600
[12]
The current CEOs of Adobe & MasterCard went to the same high school in Hyderabad in this country
India
Jim
Laura
|
$600
[9]
Occurring away from the Internet:IRL
in real life
Jim
|
$600
[23]
This professor's "Army" was formed at Hogwarts in defiance of Professor Dolores Umbridge
Dumbledore
Laura
|
$600
[28]
Germany maintains naval bases on this sea, including at Kiel & Rostock, both bombed by the RAF in World War II
the Baltic Sea
Jim
|
$600
[20]
The polyp is the body of this creature whose name also refers to its skeleton; masses of them form reefs
a coral
Jim
|
|
$1,000
[8]
Set in a royal castle, "Once Upon a Mattress" is a musical based on this fairy tale
"The Princess and the Pea"
Laura
|
$800
[13]
3 words become one in this .com, "the world's largest, free social fundraising platform"
GoFundMe
Jim
|
$800
[16]
A bit similar to IMHO:FWIW
for what it's worth
Ann
|
$800
[24]
Rick Atkinson, author of acclaimed books of military history, describes himself as an "army" this, who grew up on posts
a brat
Laura
|
$800
[29]
Commissioned in 1921 & a major training site, an Australian naval base near Melbourne bears the name of this mythic canine
Cerberus
Jim
|
$800
[21]
A major type of these free-floating ocean organisms, with a name from Greek for wandering, dinoflagellates can cause red tides
plankton
Jim
|
|
DD
$1,400
[7]
"The Morning Of The Dragon" was one of the songs from this Puccini-based Broadway musical
Miss Saigon
Ann
|
$1,000
[14]
This company that turns your dimes & pennies into dollars (for you & for them) opened its 20,000th kiosk in 2012
Coinstar
Jim
|
$1,000
[17]
I know NSFW as National Schools Film Week, not as this more lurid warning
not safe for work
Ann
|
$1,000
[25]
William & Catherine Booth started this Christian charitable organization in London in 1865
the Salvation Army
Laura
|
— |
$1,000
[22]
A brown alga, this largest seaweed can grow 200 feet long & forms forests off the California coast
(giant) kelp
Laura
|
| BAD MEN & ROBBIN' | GLOBETROTTING | 3-WORD BOOK TITLES | RYAN GOSLING MOVIE ROLES | THAT'S SO 2019 | IT'LL ALL END IN "X" |
|
$400
[20]
Bank robber Marat Mikhaylich was dubbed the "Holiday Bandit" because he began his crime spree during this month
December
Ann
|
$400
[16]
Home to renowned cafes & 5-star hotels, the Via Veneto is one of the most famous & elegant streets in this city
Rome
Ann
|
$400
[1]
This Huxley novel is set in the year 632 AF (after Ford)
Brave New World
Ann
|
$400
[26]
Sebastian, an idealistic piano player
La La Land
Ann
|
$400
[6]
This country's Chang'e 4 probe landed on the far side of the Moon
China
Jim
|
$400
[11]
Carved from a single piece of limestone, it's said to depict the face of the pharaoh Khafre
the Sphinx
Ann
|
|
$1,200
[23]
The first robbery attributed to this man & his gang of outlaws took place in Liberty, Missouri in 1866
Jesse James
|
$800
[17]
The Temple of the Great Jaguarat Tikal in Guatemala was part of the largest city of these people
the Mayan
Jim
|
$800
[2]
In this novella, Marlow describes ivory trader Mr. Kurtz as "impressively bald" as "an ivory ball"
Heart of Darkness
Laura
|
$800
[27]
Astronaut Neil Armstrong
First Man
Jim
|
$800
[7]
A January bill ended a 35-day U.S. federal government shutdown without funding for this, over which the shutdown began
the border wall
Jim
|
$800
[12]
It means traditional or accepted, from the Greek for "right in opinion"
orthodox
Laura
|
|
$1,600
[24]
Probably the most famous bank robber in U.S. history, he was public enemy number one when he was killed outside a Chicago theater
(John) Dillinger
Jim
|
$1,200
[18]
Jersey is the largest of these islands between France & Great Britain
the Channel Islands
Ann
|
$1,200
[3]
Don't be a birdbrain! Take wing with this fable by Richard Bach that has a bird in its title
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Jim
|
$1,200
[28]
Successful bachelor Jacob Palmer, helping newly separated Steve Carell re-enter the dating scene
Crazy, Stupid, Love
Jim
|
$1,200
[8]
Sports Illustrated said "the signature sporting image of 2019" was this American's after her World Cup-winning goal
Megan Rapinoe
Jim
|
$1,200
[13]
A blend of grape varieties, this type of red wine is named for a French city on the Garonne River
Bordeaux
Laura
|
|
$2,000
[25]
A bootlegger & bank robber with the real name George K. Barnes earned this moniker for the weapon he carried
Machine Gun Kelly
Jim
|
$1,600
[19]
Popular throughout Oceania, this sport with league & union variations is played at a high level in Samoa
Rugby
Laura
|
$1,600
[4]
John Harmon is the title acquaintance in common in this Dickens novel
Our Mutual Friend
|
$1,600
[29]
A mysterious stuntman who moonlights as a getaway chauffeur
Drive
Jim
|
$1,600
[9]
On her decision to leave Downing St., she called herself "the second female prime minister, but certainly not the last"
(Theresa) May
Laura
|
$1,600
[14]
A few millimeters thick, this part of the brain directs motor activity & processes sensory information
the cortex
Ann
|
|
DD
$3,000
[22]
In 2005 4 thieves at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport made off with $118 million worth of these, bound for Antwerp
diamonds
Laura
|
$2,000
[21]
This Asian capital was given its current name by its ruling Nguyen Dynasty in 1831
Hanoi
Jim
Laura
|
$2,000
[5]
Faulkner used "Dark House" as a working title for this novel whose title went in the opposite direction
Light in August
Laura
|
— |
DD
$2,000
[10]
The discovery of Homo luzonensis, an extinct human species that lived in what's now this country, was announced in April
the Philippines
Laura
|
$2,000
[15]
Ittook flight about 150 million years ago & was once considered the oldest known bird
the Archaeopteryx
|
In 2020 their Greatest Hits, with an optimistic '80s anthem, became only the third album to spend 600 weeks on the Billboard 200
Journey