Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to the North Valley Community Foundation.
Patrick Hume — a project manager originally from Stoneham, Massachusetts
Kari Stadem — a retired homeschooler from Willmar, Minnesota
Erick Loh — a pastor from Northridge, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erick | $2,000 | $2,600 | $12,200 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,200
17 R, 2 W |
| Kari | $2,800 | $5,800 | $7,800 |
$3,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,600
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Patrick | $3,000 | $5,800 | $20,600 |
$24,401
New champion: $24,401 |
$22,200
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| CARIBBEAN GEOGRAPHY | ALSO A BATMAN VILLAIN | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED BOOK TITLES | THE LETTER OF THE LAWN | HODGEPODGE | ONE-SYLLABLE ADJECTIVES |
|
$200
[16]
The new Progressive Party on this island wants it to become a U.S. state
Puerto Rico
Erick
|
$200
[1]
In poker it's commonly used as a wild card
joker
Patrick
|
$200
[6]
"Stranger in a Strange Land" refers to this leader exiled in Exodus; his son's name means "stranger there"
Moses
Erick
|
$200
[26]
"P" is for these colorful plastic lawn avians, also the title of a John Waters film
a pink flamingo ( Pink Flamingos )
Erick
|
$200
[11]
This mythic guy used a gold-tipped arrow to inspire love; a lead-tipped one had the opposite reaction
Cupid
Erick
|
$200
[19]
A sign outside Los Angeles' busiest airport spells this word meaning not so strict
lax
Kari
|
|
$400
[17]
The 3 major island groups of the Caribbean are the Bahamas & the "Greater" & "Lesser" these
Antilles
Patrick
|
$400
[2]
The Adelie is a medium-sized one
a penguin
|
$400
[7]
Faulkner's novel "Absalom, Absalom!" bears the name of a tragically rebellious offspring of this biblical king
David
Kari
|
$400
[27]
"B" is for this lovely grass named for a British island territory in the Atlantic; it grows well in your front yard
Bermuda
Erick
|
$400
[12]
The Ucayali river joins the Marañón to form this river whose length equals the distance from New York City to Rome
the Amazon
Erick
|
$400
[20]
This word for something impartial is also used in storybooks to describe a beautiful princess
fair
Erick
|
|
$600
[18]
A rum-producing district in eastern Cuba lends its name to this cocktail of rum, lime juice & sugar
a daiquiri
Erick
Patrick
|
$600
[3]
In the movies he sings "If I Only Had A Brain"
Scarecrow
Erick
|
$600
[8]
Cain ended up living in Nod, which Genesis says is here, giving this Steinbeck novel its title
East of Eden
Kari
|
$600
[28]
"D" is for lawns known as this "resistant"; fescues are good when there's not that much water
drought
Kari
|
$600
[13]
Though income tax was temporarily abolished 10 years after this agency was born, it stuck around to collect other monies
the IRS
Erick
|
$600
[23]
As an adjective, this word describes a reddish-brown horse; as a noun, a large body of water
bay
Kari
|
|
$800
[21]
Norman Island in this British archipelago is said to have inspired "Treasure Island"
the British Virgin Islands
Kari
|
$800
[4]
What Humpty Dumpty is--literally, that is, not because of his smarts
an egghead
Patrick
|
DD
$1,000
[9]
Translating the name of a Philistine god mentioned in 2 Kings gives this 1954 novel about castaways its title
Lord of the Flies
Kari
|
$800
[29]
"T" is for this lattice construction that allows your plants to climb above your lawn
a trellis
Erick
|
$800
[14]
This British physician helped establish a medical school but is much better remembered for compiling a thesaurus
(Peter Mark) Roget
Kari
|
$800
[24]
This adjective means strong & healthy; it can also describe good advice or fit judgment
sound
Erick
Kari
|
|
$1,000
[22]
The Caribbean Sea's greatest depth, about 25,000 feet, is in this trench bearing the name of a crocodilian
the Cayman Trench
Patrick
|
$1,000
[5]
Its scientific name is Toxicodendron radicans
poison ivy
Patrick
|
$1,000
[10]
This Philip K. Dick sci-fi novel title is a twist on "Through a Glass Darkly", from Paul's letter to the Corinthians
A Scanner Darkly
Patrick
|
$1,000
[30]
"A" is for this quality of your pitiful lawn; it means your soil is "deficient in oxygen"
anaerobic
Patrick
|
$1,000
[15]
This 5-letter word is a type of black tea; when preceded by orange, it's a reference to the leaves, not the flavor
pekoe
|
$1,000
[25]
It can mean rapid, or a bird known for its rapid movement
a swift
Patrick
|
| 3-NAMED CELEBRITIES | OLD OCCUPATIONS | MATH TALK | WARM THOUGHTS | WHAT IS YOUR "MAJOR"? | MALFUNCTION |
|
$400
[5]
In 2020 the MTV Movie & TV Awards honored this "Halloween" actress as the greatest scream queen of all time
Jamie Lee Curtis
Patrick
|
$400
[16]
Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! Theheraldwith this 2-word job announced important news & proclamations
the town crier
Kari
|
$400
[1]
Let's touch this, the bottom side of a plane figure
base
Patrick
|
$400
[21]
Thomas De Quincey wrote of "the divine pleasures of" a fireside in this season: "candles at four o'clock, warm hearth-rugs, tea"
winter
Erick
|
$400
[11]
It's the person leading a marching band, sometimes twirling a baton
a majorette
Patrick
|
$400
[26]
An oxygen tank explosion on this mission in 1970 led to some tense days before the crew managed to get back to earth
Apollo 13
Kari
|
|
$800
[6]
With her mom Adrienne & daughter Willow, shehosts a web series called "Red Table Talk"
Jada Pinkett Smith
Patrick
|
$800
[17]
Oddly, the same person who performed minor surgeries once also had this job, joined with surgeon in the name of a guild
a barber
Kari
|
$800
[2]
This 3-letter word is a piece of the circumference of a circle
an arc
Patrick
|
$800
[22]
In "Walden" he used a version of the saying "One who splits his own wood warms himself twice"
(Henry David) Thoreau
Patrick
|
$800
[12]
The Seattle Sounders are one of the 27 teams in this organization
Major League Soccer
Erick
|
$800
[27]
The Patriots beat the Panthers, but her "wardrobe malfunction" at Super Bowl XXXVIII is what most people remember
Janet Jackson
Patrick
|
|
$1,200
[7]
When he first rocked out to "Pink Houses" & "R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.", he was using these 3 names
John Cougar Mellencamp
Patrick
|
$1,200
[18]
In these 2 similarly named jobs, one ground grain into flour & the other, often a woman, made & sold clothes & hats
a miller & a milliner
Patrick
|
$1,200
[3]
A triangle with 2 equal sides is this type, from the Greek for "equal legged"
isosceles
Erick
Kari
|
$1,200
[23]
She wrote to Abelard, "Now warm in love, now withering in my bloom, lost in a convent's solitary gloom!"
Heloise
Patrick
|
$1,200
[13]
This constellation containing the stars Adhara & Murzim is appropriately near Lepus, the hare
Canis Major
|
$1,200
[28]
After one group of scientists used kilograms & another used pounds, a probe sent to this planet in 1998 was lost in orbit
Mars
Patrick
|
|
$1,600
[8]
Just a kid when he saw dead people in "The Sixth Sense", today, he'sall grown up & still acting
Haley Joel Osment
Erick
|
$2,000
[20]
Like Bartleby in Melville's title, it was a clerk or copyist
a scrivener
Patrick
|
$1,600
[4]
A constant that multiplies a variable is a "co-" this
efficient (co-efficient)
Kari
|
$1,600
[24]
Adlai Stevenson said this first lady "would rather light candles than curse the darkness & her glow had warmed the world"
Eleanor Roosevelt
Erick
|
$1,600
[14]
Until 1997 his official residence was 10 Downing Street
John Major
Patrick
|
$2,000
[30]
This engineer's L.A. Aqueduct worked fine, but his St. Francis Dam north of the city collapsed in 1928, flooding Ventura County
William Mulholland
|
|
$2,000
[9]
Married to Freddie Jr., she uses Prinze as her legal last name
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Erick
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
It wasn't just a purple color & flower, it was also a washerwoman
lavender
Patrick
|
$2,000
[10]
Avertical bar on each side of a numbermeans to ignore any negative sign, giving the measure called this value
the absolute value
Erick
|
$2,000
[25]
In "Tam O'Shanter" he writes of a wife "gathering her brows like gathering storm, nursing her wrath to keep it warm"
Robert Burns
|
$2,000
[15]
"Secretive" 2-word term for the 22 unsuited cards in a tarot deck
the Major Arcana
Patrick
|
DD
$3,000
[29]
In 1979 an automatic valve at this Pennsylvania facility failed to close, leading to damage to the core
Three Mile Island
Patrick
|
With 4,042 lines, it's Shakespeare's longest play & it's also the one that's been filmed the most
Hamlet