Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to The Bowery Mission.
Sarah Reza — a museum program manager from Hyattsville, Maryland
Evan Williams — an associate broker from North Hollywood, California
Katie Sekelsky — a graphic designer from Kent, Ohio (whose 3-day cash winnings total $35,899)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Katie | $2,200 | $5,200 | $16,600 |
$10,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Evan | $2,800 | $4,000 | $4,800 |
$9,600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Sarah | $1,200 | $4,000 | $11,200 |
$12,801
New champion: $12,801 |
$11,200
13 R, 2 W |
| FAWKES & FRIENDS | SCIENTISTS | ODD STATE FACTS | NOT QUITE STUPID ANSWERS | THE COMICS | IN THE MI"DD"LE |
|
$200
[24]
In 1605 Guy Fawkes & friends tried to make some noise in what's now known as this "plot"
(the) Gunpowder (Plot)
Katie
|
$200
[1]
In the 1790s John Dalton described this condition in himself & thought blue tints in the vitreous humor of his eyes caused it
colorblindness
Katie
Sarah
|
$200
[11]
An amendment to have court psychologists dress as wizards was jokingly proposed in this state; it is the "Land of Enchantment"...
New Mexico
Katie
|
$200
[21]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from outside the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, D.C.)Thisscientist's will provided the funds that established the Smithsonian Institution; his crypt is here in the Smithsonian Castle & the institution he endowed has grown around him, exceeding anything he could have envisioned
Smithson
Evan
|
$200
[6]
Stephan Pastis' strip about a rat, a pig & some other critters is called "Pearls Before" these
Swine
Evan
|
$200
[16]
Walk like a duck
waddle
Katie
|
|
$400
[25]
The conspirators planned their attack for the annual event called the opening of this institution
Parliament
Sarah
|
$400
[2]
Lord Kelvin devised iron balls that were added to a ship's this to compensate for magnetic deviation caused by metal on the ship
the compass
Evan
|
$400
[12]
The only state with a one-syllable name, it's also the closest to Africa
Maine
Evan
|
$400
[22]
Humphry Davy suggested magnium for this element's name so it wouldn't be confused with manganese
magnesium
Sarah
|
$400
[7]
In this comic, Gary Larson had a fish named Carl "embedded in Styrofoam shoes", sent to sleep with the humans
The Far Side
Katie
|
$400
[17]
A golf club schlepper
caddie
Katie
|
|
$600
[26]
This king, only son of Mary, Queen of Scots, was one intended target, with his 9-year-old daughter to be a puppet queen
James I
Evan
|
$800
[4]
In the early periodictableof elements, Baumhauer's spiral spins out from this element in the center
hydrogen
Evan
|
$600
[13]
Kentucky has a population of about 4.4 million people & almost twice as many barrels of this
bourbon
Katie
|
$600
[23]
In Italian, "erta" is a lookout--the phrase "all'erta", meaning on the lookout, led to this 5-letter term for a warning
alert
Katie
|
$600
[8]
Odie is a drooling dog in the comic strip named for this feline
Garfield
Sarah
|
$600
[18]
The Sphinx asked a tough one
a riddle
Evan
|
|
$800
[27]
Father Garnet tried to dissuade the plot leader, Robert Catesby, after the secret slipped during this Catholic sacrament
confession
Katie
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
This man's original temperature scale had 0 as the boiling point; Linnaeus made a more intuitive thermometer with 0 as freezing
Celsius
Evan
|
$800
[14]
Berryville, Arkansas is home to a giant papier mache one of these feral hogs named for the ridge on its spine
a razorback
Sarah
|
$800
[29]
This is the Latin way of saying the Greek phrase "theos ek mechanes"
Deus ex Machina
Katie
|
$800
[9]
A 1930s comic strip starring a woman named Fritzi Ritz introducedthis8-year-old girl
Nancy
Katie
|
$800
[19]
Readily available but not-so-valued people are "cannon" this
fodder
Evan
|
|
$1,000
[28]
The day before the deed, Fawkes was discovered; his pals fled & guy was sent to this place where he confessed after torture
the Tower of London
Sarah
|
$1,000
[5]
When asked about his proof of the existence of these waves, Heinrich Hertz said, "It's of no use whatsoever"
electromagnetic waves
Katie
|
$1,000
[15]
The oddly named town of Chicken Bristle is south of Champaign in this state
Illinois
Katie
|
$1,000
[30]
Italian chemist Ascanio Sobrero created this in 1846 by mixing glycerol with sulfuric & nitric acid
nitroglycerin
Evan
|
$1,000
[10]
Patrick McDonnell's comic strip has this canine name even though Mooch the cat is often seen with Earl the dog
Mutts
|
$1,000
[20]
You can do it to eggs or pampered kids, with very different results
coddle
Sarah
|
| DEAR DIARY | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS | DESERT ISLAND READS | TOUGH VOCABULARY | TWINS & TRIPLETS | POP MUSIC |
|
$400
[4]
Harry Truman's 1945 diary: This man "said he was grossly misunderstood in U.S. and I was misunderstood in Russia"
Stalin
Sarah
|
$400
[3]
Via French & Greek from Hut-ka-Ptah, "temple of the soul of Ptah"
Egypt
Sarah
|
$400
[12]
Civil War P.O.W.s crash land in a hot air balloon onto this French author's "Mysterious Island"
Jules Verne
Evan
|
$400
[1]
Antediluvian refers to a time in Genesis before this event occurred
the flood
Katie
|
$400
[19]
Also known as this type of twins, dizygotic twins may be of different sexes
fraternal twins
Sarah
|
$400
[21]
1988 hit in which George Michael offered to be your "preacher, teacher, anything you have in mind"
"Father Figure"
Katie
|
|
$800
[5]
"The natural history of" the Galapagos "is eminently curious, and well deserves attention", he wrote in 1835
Darwin
Katie
|
$800
[15]
From the Chinese pronunciation of characters meaning "sun" & "origin"
Japan
Evan
|
$800
[13]
Things were bleak in this 1954 novel even before the airplane full of kids crashes on an island--they were fleeing a nuclear war
Lord of the Flies
Katie
|
$800
[27]
A gourmet is a connoisseur; this related foodie starts with the same 5 letters & prizes quantity over quality
a gourmand
Evan
|
$800
[20]
Between 1980 & 2014 U.S. twin births increased by 79%, due in part to the use of the then-new treatment called IVF, short for this
in vitro fertilization
Katie
|
$800
[2]
In a song from The Temptations, "Papa" was one of these, "wherever he laid his hat was his home"
a rolling stone
Sarah
|
|
$1,200
[9]
Jim Carroll recounted his youth as a drug-addicted high school sports star in the "Diaries" named for this sport
basketball
Sarah
|
$1,600
[17]
In South America, from the name of a man born in 1783
Bolivia
Sarah
|
$1,600
[22]
One of Captain Flint's crew, Ben Gunn is marooned on this title island for 3 years
Treasure Island
Evan
|
$1,200
[28]
This word containing a synonym for "big" means "generosity" & was shouted in France when lords were giving gifts to the people
largesse
|
$1,200
[24]
In 2017 this singer was "Happy" to welcome triplets & said they harmonize when they cry
Pharrell
Evan
|
$1,200
[6]
Luther Vandross emotionally told us he'd "Love, love, love" to do this with his father again
dance
Katie
|
|
$1,600
[10]
"With one's face in the wind, you were almost burned with a shower of firedrops", he wrote on September 2, 1666
Samuel Pepys
Katie
|
$2,000
[18]
In central Europe, from Latin for "eastern borderland"
Austria
Evan
|
$2,000
[23]
In this Walter Farley novel, Alec bonds with the title horse when they are shipwrecked together
The Black Stallion
|
$1,600
[30]
It was a music education system developed by a Swiss composer before it was a pop duo
eurythmics
Katie
|
$1,600
[25]
A pregnancy with twins or triplets can be complicated by the A1 gestational type of this condition
diabetes
Sarah
|
$1,600
[7]
Madonna sang in this hit, "I know you're going to be upset, 'cause I was always your little girl"
"Papa Don't Preach"
Sarah
|
|
$2,000
[11]
She's seenherein the 1960s when her decades of diaries, including her affair with Henry Miller, became a literary sensation
Anais Nin
|
DD
$4,000
[16]
In Central America, thought to be from the name of a local leader & the Spanish word for water
Nicaragua
Evan
|
DD
$3,000
[14]
The term Robinsonade refers to a castaway story that emulates the 18th century works of this man
Defoe
Katie
|
$2,000
[29]
It means measuring the amount of space & describes the flask seen here
volumetric
Evan
|
$2,000
[26]
In 1874 these conjoined twins from Siam died, one preceding the other by 3 hours
Chang & Eng
Katie
|
$2,000
[8]
In this "feline" hit, Harry Chapin sings, "When you coming home, son?"
"Cat's In The Cradle"
Katie
|
A character who was going to be called Lunar Larry became him, inspired by the name of a real person
Buzz Lightyear