Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to Justice Defenders.
Nick Arciero — a writer's assistant originally from Mounds View, Minnesota
Lyrka Lawler — a digital media specialist from Big Rock, Illinois
Kelly Donohue — a bank examiner from Winthrop, Massachusetts (whose 2-day cash winnings total $48,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kelly | $4,600 | $7,600 | $19,800 |
$31,601
3-day champion: $79,601 |
$18,000
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Lyrka | $1,000 | $2,600 | $15,800 |
$22,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,800
17 R, 1 W |
| Nick | $2,600 | $600 | $2,400 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,800
10 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| OFFICIAL STATE SONGS | AT THE MOVIES | BUSINESS ACRONYMS & ABBREV. | 18th CENTURY STUFF | FANTASTIC BEASTS | STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS |
|
$200
[11]
"These Green Mountains"
Vermont
Kelly
|
$200
[10]
"Heeere's Johnny!" Well, not Johnny, but this actor who played Jack Torrance in "The Shining" in 1980
Jack Nicholson
Kelly
|
$200
[17]
The boss wants that report by EOD, this
end of day
Nick
|
$200
[16]
When the king of Great Britain wanted a barge party, Handel composed the orchestral suite called this
"Water Music"
Kelly
Lyrka
|
$200
[1]
The hodag, a horned, ferocious beast with a spiked back, is said to live in forest areas of this "Badger State"
Wisconsin
Kelly
|
$200
[26]
For example, the 7 & 10 pins left standing after your first roll
split
Kelly
|
|
$400
[12]
"Where The Columbines Grow"
Colorado
Kelly
|
$400
[7]
In "Guardians of the Galaxy", Vin Diesel employed numerous ways to express these 3 words of introduction
"I am Groot"
Lyrka
|
$400
[20]
The pharmaceutical industry spends about $200 billion a year on R&D, short for this
research & development
Nick
|
$400
[18]
She became a wealthy widow when hubby Daniel Custis died in 1757; she'd bring 2 kids into her next marriage with a Virginia commander
Martha Washington
Kelly
|
$400
[2]
Now meaning any large beast, the behemoth of the Bible is sometimes identified as this amphibious African mammal
hippopotamus
Kelly
|
$400
[27]
"What the Night Knows" is part of a "3-Book" this genre "Collection" from Dean Koontz
the Thriller
Lyrka
|
|
$600
[13]
"Rocky Top"
Tennessee
Kelly
|
$600
[5]
This 1978 college comedy asked the immortal question, "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!"
Animal House
Kelly
|
$600
[23]
Let's get down to the bottom line & discuss AGI, "adjusted" this
gross income
Kelly
|
$600
[19]
Born on the Big Island, this king known as "the Great" set out to unify the Hawaiian Islands
Kamehameha
Lyrka
|
$600
[3]
The qilin is the Chinese equivalent of this mythic equine
a unicorn
Lyrka
|
$600
[28]
Thisconifer is widely grown for timber, pulp & holiday decoration
spruce
|
|
$800
[14]
"Yankee Doodle" (in New England)
Connecticut
|
$800
[8]
Her, as the bride: "So, O-Ren... any more subordinates for me to kill?"
Uma Thurman
Nick
|
$800
[24]
NASDAQ is the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated these bids & offers
quotations
Kelly
Lyrka
|
$1,000
[22]
Georges Danton was the first president of the Committee of Public Safety, which oversaw this awful period of the French Revolution
the Terror
Kelly
|
$800
[4]
The puk is a small, household one of these fire-breathers that protects the home & brings treasure to its master
a dragon
Nick
|
$800
[29]
Biblical writing; Shakespeare wrote that "The devil can cite" it "for his purpose"
scripture
Kelly
|
|
$1,000
[15]
"Old Folks At Home", also known as "Swanee River"
Florida
Kelly
|
$1,000
[9]
Cinematographer Roger Deakins didn't say exactly how many shots were in this 2019 WWI film, but the longest was about 7 minutes
1917
Kelly
|
$1,000
[25]
Business analysts use SWOT to stand for "strengths, weaknesses, opportunities &" these possible dangers
threats
Kelly
|
DD
$1,600
[21]
When his sound effect method was copied in a staging of "Macbeth", John Dennis accused perpetrators of this, now an idiom
stealing his thunder
Nick
|
$1,000
[6]
In Hindu mythology Hanuman is a devoted helper of the god Rama & the king of these creatures
a monkey
Nick
|
$1,000
[30]
The "G" is silent in its root word, but not in this adjective meaning stolid & slow-moving
phlegmatic
Nick
|
| FEMALE AUTHORS & SOME MALE ONES, TOO | Q, NO U | STRINGED INSTRUMENTS | THE CABINET | HARD SCIENCE | RADIO ON THE TV |
|
$400
[3]
In this novel George Orwell wrote, "We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it"
1984
Lyrka
|
$400
[6]
In 1965 this airline made the first nonstop commercial flight from the U.S. to Australia
Qantas
Nick
|
$400
[26]
A violin & this both have 4 strings, but a violin is just a tad smaller, with E as the high string, as opposed to A
a viola
Kelly
|
$400
[9]
Established after 9/11, it's the newest cabinet department
Homeland Security
Lyrka
|
$400
[19]
The Vickers test measures the hardness of a metal by indenting it with one of these super-hard gems
a diamond
Nick
|
$400
[14]
This title character hosted a psychology advice radio show on KACL in Seattle
Frasier (Crane)
Lyrka
|
|
$800
[2]
Elizabeth Wurtzel detailed her clinical depression in her memoir called this "Nation"
Prozac
Lyrka
|
$800
[22]
This sheikdom was a British protectorate from 1916 to 1971
Qatar
Lyrka
|
$800
[27]
The Hungarian cimbalom is traditionally associated with them usicof this itinerant people
Gypsies (the Roma)
Kelly
|
$800
[10]
Once joined with Health & Welfare, it became its own department under President Carter
Education
Nick
|
$800
[7]
Nanofiltration is used to reduce hardness of this, caused by dissolved minerals like calcium & magnesium
water
Kelly
|
$800
[13]
Regis Philbin & Stephen King went up against this pal of Howard Stern's on "Celebrity Jeopardy!" in 1998; she won
Robin Quivers
Kelly
|
|
$1,200
[1]
Joseph Wambaugh is best known for writing about this profession in which he served in L.A. for 14 years
a police officer
Lyrka
|
$1,200
[23]
3-letter abbreviation for the Latin phrase meaning "that which was meant to be shown"
Q.E.D.
Kelly
|
$1,200
[28]
4 feet long with a gourd body, this instrument is huge in the Hindustani music scene
a sitar
Lyrka
|
$1,600
[20]
The first Asian-American woman in the cabinet, Elaine Chao was previously Labor Secretary, & in 2017, took on this post
Transportation
Kelly
|
$1,600
[17]
The Knoop test uses low indentation pressure to measure the hardness of glass & these materials, from Greek for "pottery"
ceramics
Lyrka
|
$1,200
[12]
Venus Flytrap was the nom de DJ of Gordon Sims on this Ohio-set sitcom
WKRP in Cincinnati
Lyrka
|
|
$1,600
[4]
A documentary called this woman "and Still I Rise" detailed her life as a memoirist, actress & poet
Maya Angelou
|
$1,600
[24]
Chinese word for circulating life energy
Qi
Lyrka
|
$1,600
[29]
Let me hear the 3 strings of this triangular Russian instrument ringing out--come & keep your comrade warm
a balalaika
Lyrka
|
DD
$1,800
[11]
Henry Knox in 1789 & Kenneth Royall in 1947 were the first & last secretaries of this department
War (then became the Department of Defense)
Nick
|
$2,000
[18]
Gypsum is 2 & quartz is 7 on this scale
Mohs
Nick
|
$1,600
[15]
Herrole as Lisa on the '90s sitcom "News Radio" was pivotal in her career
(Maura) Tierney
Kelly
|
|
$2,000
[5]
The husband of this French author also wrote under one name, Willy
Colette
|
$2,000
[25]
This city in North Central Iran is a pilgrimage site & a center of learning
Qom
|
$2,000
[30]
A renaissance man known as "Il Divino" was a master of this round-bodied 4-letter instrument that often has 2 G strings
a lute
Lyrka
Nick
|
$2,000
[21]
A Nobel Prize winner, this soldier served as Secretary of State from 1947 to 1949
(George C.) Marshall
Kelly
|
DD
$3,000
[8]
The number used to designate a pencil's hardness, relates to the ratio of clay to this material, a form of carbon
graphite
Kelly
|
$2,000
[16]
This man of 1,000 voices played "Brockmire", who in Season 3 made it back to a Major League broadcast booth
Hank Azaria
Nick
|
The mythical founder Byzas consulted the Oracle of Delphi before establishing what's now known as this city
Istanbul