First game with Katie Couric as guest host.Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to Pancreatic Cancer Dream Team from Stand Up to Cancer.
Matt Wierman — an aerospace engineer originally from Lake Mary, Florida
Justin Yaeger — a high school history teacher from Studio City, California
Laura Portwood-Stacer — an author and editor originally from Livonia, Michigan (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laura | $2,600 | $8,000 | $15,600 |
$23,201
2-day champion: $42,601 |
$14,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Justin | $600 | $3,000 | $10,200 |
$5,100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,200
13 R, 1 W |
| Matt | $3,400 | $4,600 | $11,600 |
$21,614
2nd place: $2,000 |
$18,600
19 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| HISTORY ACCORDING TO HERODOTUS | REAL REVIEWS OF THE NOVEL | TV SHOWS IN 2 WORDS | D MIDDLE OF THE WORD | THE BOURGEOISIE | CURVE YOUR ENTHUSIASM |
|
$200
[26]
The ancient "Father of History" aka "Father of Lies", Herodotus said in India, ants bigger than foxes dig for this precious metal
gold
Justin
|
$200
[18]
Its author shouldn't "waste his strength on such purposeless and unequal doings as these rambling volumes about spermaceti whales"
Moby-Dick
Laura
|
$200
[5]
Mirrorball Trophy
Dancing with the Stars
Justin
|
$200
[6]
"Without further" this... it means hubbub!
ado
Laura
|
$200
[27]
This 1848 writing team popularized the word bourgeoisie for the middle class that controlled the means of production
Marx & Engels
Laura
|
$200
[14]
Harvard professor Charles Eliot Norton thought the curve, an innovation of his time in this sport, was cheating
baseball
|
|
$400
[25]
Herodotus wrote that this ancient capital on the Euphrates was so big it had 100 gates (it had 8)
Babylon
Justin
Matt
|
$400
[7]
H.L. Mencken: The "clown Fitzgerald rushes to his death in nine short chapters... this story is obviously unimportant"
The Great Gatsby
Laura
|
$400
[1]
"Outplay","Outlast"
Survivor
Matt
|
$400
[10]
A promenade by the beach, or a fancy Monopoly property
a boardwalk
Matt
|
$400
[19]
This French word for "small" is used of small businessmen, civil servants & others aspiring to be haut-bourgeois
petite
Laura
|
$400
[15]
With readings taken at Mauna Loa Observatory, the Keeling Curve shows the buildup of this gas in the atmosphere
carbon dioxide
Matt
|
|
$800
[29]
Many historians doubt that Herodotus visited Egypt, but he still gave a detailed description of this embalming process
mummification
Matt
|
$600
[8]
"Characterization in general is weak... nor is the commander strongly drawn. Again, the aunts are best... it lacks imagination"
The Handmaid's Tale
Justin
|
$600
[2]
Brainiacs, Bazinga!
The Big Bang Theory
Laura
|
$600
[11]
Keats' "To Autumn" is one
an ode
Matt
|
$600
[20]
An essential part of the 19th century German decor called Biedermeier was one of these, ein Klavier
a piano
Laura
|
$600
[16]
In this curve with a musical instrument in its name, a "C" grade is typically the center of the distribution
the bell curve
Laura
|
|
$1,000
[30]
Herodotus claimed that only 192 Greeks were killed but 6,400 of these invading foes died at the Battle of Marathon... hmmm
the Persians
|
$800
[9]
Oh, Heathcliff! "The only consolation which we have in reflecting upon" this Bronte work "is that it will never be generally read"
Wuthering Heights
Matt
|
$800
[3]
Piper, prison
Orange Is the New Black
Laura
|
$800
[12]
Exodus mentions "the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in" this, meaning captivity
bondage
Matt
|
$800
[21]
This relaxing residence is a common bourgeois possession; the film "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" is set in one
a chateau (country home)
Matt
|
$800
[22]
Many roadways in America have a curve known by this morbid name as in the 1964 song; the California one seenhereis no longer used
a dead man's curve
Justin
|
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
Skeptical for once, Herodotus doubted the accuracy of this poem, questioning why Greeks would fight for so long over one woman
the Iliad
Laura
|
$1,000
[17]
"The trial and the melodramatic conclusion" of this "seem contrived. But (the) insight into Southern mores is impressive"
To Kill a Mockingbird
Justin
|
$1,000
[4]
Sweathogs, school
Welcome Back, Kotter
Justin
|
$1,000
[13]
It's a French dialect of Louisiana, ma chere
Acadian
|
$1,000
[24]
David Brooks dubbed those who combine nice possessions & hippie values "Bobos", short for bourgeois these
Bohemians
Laura
|
$1,000
[23]
"P" is for this type of curve, which lends its name to a type of mirror or antenna
parabolic
Laura
|
| COMPOSERS | SCIENCE TIME | STRANGE BEDFELLOWS | YOU CAN'T HAVE JUST ONE | PORT "L" | THE CAKE IS A LIE |
|
$400
[4]
Beethoven hadn't written a symphony in 10 years when England's Royal Philharmonic Society commissioned this last one in 1822
the Ninth Symphony
Matt
|
$400
[3]
The mafic type of this 5-letter underground molten rock can reach more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit
magma
Laura
|
$400
[17]
In "The Hangover", Ed Helms wakes up next to a chicken, but has a bigger problem--one of these in the bathroom
a tiger
Laura
|
$400
[26]
These expressions of gratitude are rarely heard in the singular form
thanks
Laura
|
$400
[14]
This port on the Tagus River is the westernmost capital in Europe
Lisbon
Matt
|
$400
[1]
Cakebread Cellars doesn't bake cakes but makes these, like a vin de porche rose
wine
Justin
|
|
$800
[6]
The 1953 death of "Peter & the Wolf" composer Sergey Prokofiev was overshadowed by the death of this leader on the same day
Stalin
Justin
|
$800
[5]
It has atomic number 3 as the least dense of all metals & number 34 as a SiriusXM channel for '90s tunes
lithium
Laura
|
$800
[18]
Khartoum, an expensive one of these in "The Godfather", makes a memorable bedfellow; well, part of him
a race horse
Justin
|
$800
[27]
This word for people is plural whether you add an "S" or not--so "that's all"
folks
Justin
|
$800
[15]
This city's port on the Ohio River is just southwest of Churchill Downs
Louisville
Laura
Justin
|
$800
[2]
A surprisingly easy victory is known as one of these; despite the name--no layers, no icing
a cakewalk
Matt
|
|
$1,200
[11]
Leonard Bernstein turned a discarded number from his stage work "Candide" into this musical's "Gee, Officer Krupke"
West Side Story
Matt
|
$1,200
[9]
In 1995 physicist Melissa Franklin was part of the team that discovered the elusive "top" one of these
a quark
Matt
|
$1,200
[19]
In this Mel Brooks classic, Madeline Kahn ends up with "The Monster" in her bed; she seems pretty happy
Young Frankenstein
Matt
|
$1,200
[28]
A word containing a clothing item, these rarely visited parts at the edge of a town just sound weird in the singular
outskirts
Matt
|
$1,200
[16]
This port is central to the British county of Merseyside
Liverpool
Laura
|
$1,200
[7]
This make-up, a trademark of the Noxell Corporation, is applied with a damp sponge & used as a foundation
Pan-Cake make-up
|
|
$2,000
[25]
The wife of Robert Schumann, she was a child prodigy & an accomplished composer in her own right
Clara Wieck (Schumann)
|
$1,600
[10]
Evergreens have waxy or leathery leaves to hold moisture, but this other main tree type holds moisture by losing leaves in the cold
deciduous
Laura
|
$1,600
[20]
Steve Martin & John Candy got a lot of comedic mileage after they ended up spooning in bed in this 1987 comedy
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Justin
|
$1,600
[29]
Whether it means an undesirable part of society or sediment in liquor, this word is almost always plural
the dregs
Laura
|
$2,000
[23]
This big port was once the capital of Nigeria
Lagos
Matt
|
$1,600
[8]
Seen here is the marine invertebrate known as the cake this & it is covered in spines, not candles
an urchin
Matt
|
|
DD
$3,000
[24]
Nicknamed Papa, this18th century man composed more than 100 symphonies
Franz Joseph Haydn
Matt
|
$2,000
[12]
The "water on the road" mirage is due to hotter air above the blacktop, causing this bending of light rays
refraction
Justin
|
$2,000
[21]
In "Step Brothers", these 2 actors ask their parents for permission to make bunk beds; it doesn't turn out well
John C. Reilly & Will Ferrell
Matt
|
$2,000
[30]
These acts of restitution in steps 8 & 9 of Alcoholics Anonymous are always plural
amends
Laura
|
DD
$4,000
[22]
Meaning "the harbor", this French port was the seat of the Belgian government for a time during World War I
Le Havre
Matt
|
$2,000
[13]
Do not! Repeat, do not eat yellowcake, which is composed of this radioactive element
uranium
Matt
|
A 1949 broadcast in Spanish of this drama from 11 years before caused mass panic in Ecuador & the destruction of the radio station
"The War of the Worlds"