Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to the North Valley Community Foundation.
Abbey Copeland — a professor and scenic designer from North Haven, Connecticut
Pasquale Palumbo — a financial services professional from Hawthorne, New York
Brandon Deutsch — a student from Long Beach, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $70,026)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon | $6,200 | $5,800 | $13,200 |
$2
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,400
14 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Pasquale | $3,800 | $8,800 | $14,200 |
$6,799
New champion: $6,799 |
$19,200
26 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Abbey | $1,000 | $3,600 | $10,800 |
$300
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,800
13 R, 3 W |
| TOP OF THE BILL | A NOUN & ALSO A VERB | PLACES IN TEXAS | THE IVY LEAGUE | HEAVY METAL | GUITARS & DRUMS |
|
$200
[30]
"Saving Private Ryan", 1998: this actor, not Private Ryan
Tom Hanks
Brandon
Pasquale
|
$200
[20]
Spring or summer, & to sprinkle your steak with salt & pepper
season
Brandon
|
$200
[14]
The "Good Neighbor" Bridge is one of several that cross this river from Juarez, Mexico to El Paso
the Rio Grande
Abbey
|
$200
[10]
The mascot of Penn & the nickname of its sports teams is this religious one
Quakers
Brandon
|
$200
[15]
Itcontains 88,000 tons of steel
the Golden Gate Bridge
Pasquale
|
$200
[29]
The sound of an electric guitarstringsgets transmitted to an amplifier by this device, also a word for a light truck
a pickup
Abbey
|
|
$400
[21]
"The Godfather Part II", 1974: this actor who could have been nicknamed Fredo himself
Alfredo James Pacino
Pasquale
|
$400
[19]
A short viewable piece from a TV show or film, & to cut coupons
clip
Pasquale
|
$400
[1]
Fittingly, this Texas city has a 65-foot-tall replica of the Eiffel Tower
Paris
Abbey
|
$400
[6]
Begun in 1909, the Whiffenpoofs are a celebrated collegiate singing group at this university
Yale
Brandon
Abbey
|
$400
[2]
The EPA says if your home was built pre-1978, beware of this heavy metal, banned in paint by the federal government that year
lead
Pasquale
|
$400
[28]
Marching drummers use 2 sticks on this biggest & deepest-sounding drum; rockers kick it with a foot pedal
a bass drum
Abbey
|
|
$600
[22]
"Some Like It Hot", 1959: her
Marilyn Monroe
Pasquale
|
$600
[18]
A current of air, & to conscript into the army
a draft
Pasquale
|
$800
[12]
This word for a perfect human society is from words meaning "no place", but it's a real place west of San Antonio
Utopia
Abbey
|
$600
[7]
Woodrow Wilson had been president of Princeton & Dwight Eisenhower had been president of this NYC Ivy League school
Columbia
Pasquale
|
$600
[3]
In 2016 a passerby on a Manhattan street grabbed an 86-pound, $1.6 million bucket of this off the back of an armored car
gold
Pasquale
|
$600
[25]
Music theory says that these combine at least 3 different notes, but the "power"typecommon in heavy guitar music uses just 2
chords
Pasquale
|
|
$800
[23]
"The Princess Bride", 1987: this leading man whose name was not Inigo Montoya
Cary Elwes
Brandon
Pasquale
|
$800
[17]
A light fencing sword, & to thwart a plan
foil
Pasquale
|
$1,000
[13]
Zaragoza Street & Convent Avenue are 2 downtown "streets of" this seat of Webb County
Laredo
Pasquale
|
$800
[8]
Chartered as Rhode Island College in 1764, it changed its name to this in 1804 to honor a major benefactor
Brown
Brandon
|
$800
[4]
The Panzerkampfwagen Maus, the heaviest of these ever built, weighed nearly 200 tons & had 8-inch steel armor
a tank
Brandon
|
$800
[26]
Side drum is another name for this drum that gets its sound from vibrating strings stretched across one drumhead
a snare drum
Pasquale
|
|
$1,000
[24]
"Enter the Dragon", 1973: this martial arts legend
Bruce Lee
Abbey
|
$1,000
[16]
One's emotional state, & to make glass stronger by heating & then quickly cooling it
temper
Pasquale
|
DD
$3,000
[11]
Brought from across the pond in 1959, a piece of this rock can be found on display in the town of Shamrock, Texas
the Blarney Stone
Brandon
|
$1,000
[9]
Harvard banned filming of Hollywood movies after this Ryan O'Neal/Ali Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma MaMacGrawearjerkeruinedreesithakenow
Love Story
Pasquale
|
$1,000
[5]
A 14-ton replicacoinin Sudbury, Ontario, is called the Big this, an element long mined there
Nickel
Brandon
|
$1,000
[27]
Many a rock guitarist plays this classic Gibson guitar named for its legendary designer
Les Paul
Abbey
|
| WOMEN ON STAMPS | IT HAPPENED IN EUROPE! | BOOKS BY THE NUMBER | CONSTITUTIONAL CHECKUP | WIPE OUT | FUNNY TV SONGS |
|
$400
[5]
In 1907 as part of a Jamestown Exposition set, shebecame the first Native American woman on a U.S. stamp
Pocahontas
Pasquale
|
$400
[20]
This festival started by Ludwig of Bavaria is more than 200 years old
Oktoberfest
Pasquale
|
$400
[29]
After not 1 but 2 nuclear wars, books are burned to prevent complicated thought in this 1953 sci-fi classic
Fahrenheit 451
Pasquale
|
$400
[10]
This writ "shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it"
habeas corpus
Pasquale
|
$400
[15]
A place where criminals evade the law loses "out" to become this, also a term for a pelt
hide
Brandon
|
$800
[24]
On "How I Met Your Mother", this character redresses all he sees with the jaunty "Nothing Suits Me Like A Suit"
Barney Stinson
Brandon
|
|
$800
[1]
The Legends of American Music series in 1994 included Ethel Waters& this Broadway Ethel
Ethel Merman
Brandon
|
$800
[19]
On December 1, 1918 Transylvania made it official & reunited with this country
Romania
Brandon
Abbey
|
$800
[25]
Jules Verne's first novel was "Cinq Semaines en Ballon", or this long "in a balloon"
Five Weeks
Pasquale
Abbey
|
$800
[6]
Article I, Section 3 says this official "shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided"
the vice president
Pasquale
|
$800
[14]
A term for something no longer in fashion loses "out", becoming this past tense verb regarding social coupling
dated (from outdated)
Pasquale
|
$1,200
[23]
Donald Glover & Danny Pudi sang "Baby Boomer Santa" on a Christmas episode of this comedy
Community
Brandon
|
|
$1,200
[2]
As part of a Great American series, this artist who made a big impression in France appeared on a 1988 stamp
Cassatt
Abbey
|
$1,200
[16]
In 1648 throngs of these horseman warriors in the Ukraine rose up against Polish rule
Cossacks
Pasquale
Abbey
|
$1,200
[26]
The sequel to Ernest Cline's bestseller about Wade Watts solving a fantastic virtual reality puzzle has this logical name
Ready Player Two
Pasquale
|
$1,200
[7]
The president has the power "by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make" these agreements
treaties
Pasquale
|
$1,200
[13]
A word meaning excellent loses its initial "out", becoming this action performed by many waiting in line
standing (from outstanding)
Pasquale
|
$1,600
[22]
Songs in the rock opera "The Nightman Cometh" are part of an elaborate scheme for Charlie to propose marriage on this show
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Abbey
|
|
$1,600
[3]
This Latin American icon who made a big splash in U.S. movies appeared with her tutti-frutti hat on a 2011 stamp
Carmen Miranda
Abbey
|
$2,000
[18]
In 1215 the Articles of Barons, or Magna Carta, was sealed by King John in this mede or meadow
Runnymede
Abbey
|
$2,000
[28]
This Jane Smiley Pulitzer Prize winner about the inheritance of a large Iowa farm is a modern retelling of "King Lear"
A Thousand Acres
|
$1,600
[8]
Article 3 says, "the trial of all crimes, except in cases of" this, "shall be by jury"
impeachment
Brandon
|
$1,600
[12]
What the banking industry got in 2008 loses "out" & needs to head to a bondsman for this
bail (from bailout)
Pasquale
|
$2,000
[21]
Sung of this feline on "Friends": "You may not be a bed of roses, and you're no friend of those with noses... what are they feeding you?"
"Smelly Cat"
Abbey
|
|
$2,000
[4]
The first African American soloist to sing with the Metropolitan Opera, this contralto was honored on a stamp in 2005
Marian Anderson
|
DD
$5,000
[17]
In 2010 Greece, in exchange for financial help, agreed to these measures whose name means "harshness"
austerity measures
Brandon
|
DD
$5,000
[27]
In an 1844 Alexandre Dumas novel this member of the title trio is alphabetically last
Porthos
Pasquale
|
$2,000
[9]
Article 1, Section 8 gives Congress power to grant these "letters" that allow privately owned ships to be used as warships
letters of marque
Pasquale
|
$2,000
[11]
"Out" is dropped from a word for a gridiron ball catcher, becoming this expansive word
wide (as in wideout)
Pasquale
|
— |
2 of the 3 national capitals on the continent whose metro areas have more than 10 million people
(2 of) Buenos Aires, Bogotá, or Lima