Josh Saak game 1.Last game with George Stephanopoulos as guest host.Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign.
Josh Saak — a traffic engineer from Boise, Idaho
Lois Doll — a retired library clerk from Rosemount, Minnesota
Tyler Vandenberg — a Marine officer from Washington, D.C. (whose 2-day cash winnings total $41,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
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| Tyler | $6,400 | $7,600 | $12,400 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Lois | $600 | $2,400 | $8,800 |
$17,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,800
15 R, 4 W |
| Josh | $2,200 | $8,000 | $21,600 |
$18,395
New champion: $18,395 |
$17,200
23 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
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$200
[1]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Zeppelin Field in Nuremberg, Germany.) A final Nazi rally, ironically called the Party Rally for Peace, was scheduled for September 2, 1939, but never held, as Germany invaded this country & set off World War II the day before
Poland
Josh
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$200
[8]
The prologue to a trilogy, this novel is subtitled "There and Back Again"
The Hobbit
Lois
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$200
[7]
The P.R. department says we need a new this, a catchy 6-letter musical ad slogan like "Plop Plop Fizz Fizz"
a jingle
Lois
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$200
[18]
Of vacant(8 letters)
occupied
Josh
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$200
[25]
2020: It was a family affair for her & daughter Blue Ivy Carter, winning for the video "Brown Skin Girl"
Beyoncé
Josh
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$200
[30]
Thought to be extinct in 1912, an Australian nocturnal type of this bird was rediscovered in 2013; no word on if it wanted a cracker
a parrot
Lois
|
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$400
[3]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Zeppelin Field in Nuremberg, Germany.) At a 1934 Nuremberg rally, the Nazis proclaimed that this German empire would last a thousand years; but in 1945, U.S. troops helped put the finishing touches to it after little more than a decade
the Third Reich
Tyler
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$400
[9]
In England, this classic was published as "The Whale"; in the U.S., "The Whale" was a subtitle
Moby-Dick
Lois
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$400
[16]
How are we on office supplies? Let's get some Clic Stic Fashion ball point pens from this company, & maybe some of its lighters
BIC
Lois
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$400
[2]
Of written(4 letters)
oral
Tyler
Lois
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$400
[14]
2008: Not in attendance, shedominated the evening, winning 5 awards
Winehouse
Josh
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$400
[15]
The mugshots of Dan Aykroyd in "Trading Places" & this late actor in "The Blues Brothers" have nearly the same prisoner numbers
John Belushi
Tyler
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$600
[4]
During the Battle of Britain, brave engineers removed an unexploded bomb that would have devastated this London landmark
St. Paul's Cathedral
Tyler
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$600
[10]
First published in 1854, this nonfiction work has the subtitle "or Life in the Woods"
Walden
Lois
Josh
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$600
[24]
The accounting team says the R.O.I., short for this, was solid on the Plotsky deal
return on investment
Josh
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$600
[11]
Of chaos(5 letters)
order
Tyler
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$600
[19]
2011: This song gave it all to Adele--Record of the Year, Short Form Music Video & Song of the Year
"Rolling In The Deep"
Tyler
Lois
Josh
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$600
[21]
The food & drink shopherewas uncovered in 2020, complete with traces of 2,000-year-old food in this city buried by a volcano
Pompeii
Tyler
|
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$800
[5]
U.S. troops marched into Germany through the dragon's teeth of this defensive line named for a legendary German hero
the Siegfried Line
Lois
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$800
[17]
This novel's "The Modern Prometheus" refers to the Titan who created man out of clay
Frankenstein
Josh
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$800
[26]
We're aware of the takeover bid, but the legal team added this "tough to swallow" alliterative proviso to kill any deal
poison pill
Lois
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$1,000
[13]
Of pellucid(6 letters)
opaque
Josh
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$800
[20]
2015: He continued "Livin' La Vida Loca" with the best Latin Pop Album, "A Quien Quiera Escuchar (Deluxe Edition)"
Ricky Martin
Josh
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$800
[22]
An "Only in 2020" headline: the Rainbow Warriors of this university "knocks off Houston in Texas-based New Mexico Bowl"
Hawaii
Josh
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$1,000
[6]
Here'sthe view from one of these alphanumeric flying fortresses as it unleashed its bombs over occupied Europe in 1943
the B-17
Tyler
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$1,000
[23]
Longfellow's narrative poem named for this woman is "A Tale of Acadie"
Evangeline
Lois
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$1,000
[27]
The CEO will meet with Alcoa at its headquarters in this city & maybe even catch a game at Heinz Field
Pittsburgh
Josh
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DD
$3,000
[12]
Of powerless(10 letters)
omnipotent
Tyler
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$1,000
[29]
2019: Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album went to this British singer/songwriter & The Imposters, not the Attractions
Elvis Costello
Josh
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$1,000
[28]
This Vermont senator is not only 3rd in the succession line to the presidency, he was born blind in one eye & has been in 5 "Batman" movies
Leahy
Josh
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$400
[1]
Neutrophils are the most plentiful type of these colorless components in the body that fight infections
white blood cells
Lois
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$400
[3]
University of Mississippi alumni include Shepard Smith, Michael Oher & this bestselling author of "The Street Lawyer"
Grisham
Josh
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$400
[10]
12th U.S. president who topped the pop charts with "Shake It Off"
Zachary Taylor Swift
Tyler
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$400
[17]
This synonym for plea can be found after mass, curb & sex
appeal
Lois
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$400
[5]
The High Atlas is a mountain range in this country
Morocco
Tyler
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$400
[12]
"There is no God... man simply is", Jean-Paul Sartre said in a 1945 lecture defending this philosophy
existentialism
Tyler
|
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$800
[2]
Now extinct, the largest mammal of the order that includes the manatee & the dugong was the Stellar's this
a sea cow
Josh
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$800
[11]
In 1965 scientists at the University of Florida came up with this beverage to help the football team stay better hydrated
Gatorade
Josh
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$800
[4]
Talented singer & pianist who can do a mash-up of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" & "All Of Me"
Elton John Legend
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$800
[18]
To sell off all shareholdings from your portfolio, as people did to protest apartheid in South Africa
divest
Josh
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$800
[6]
The Aswan High Dam controls the floodwaters of the Nile, forcing them into this lake
Lake Nasser
Tyler
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$800
[13]
Per Plato's "Apology", this other guy said an unexamined life is not worth living
Socrates
Lois
Josh
|
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$1,200
[21]
This lowest part of the brainstem helps maintain normal blood pressure, among other activities
the medulla
Josh
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$1,600
[25]
Gov. George Wallace protested the court-ordered end of racial segregation at this school in 1963
the University of Alabama
Tyler
Lois
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$1,200
[19]
Movie where the monstrous Lester Burnham locks up Belle, who finds an enchanted rose
American Beauty and the Beast
Lois
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$1,200
[20]
It's the type of bracelet seen here
a bangle
|
$1,200
[7]
Hey, drifter, you should know that this western third of Kansas is an elevated plateau
the High Plains
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$1,200
[14]
Always figuring the odds, this "Guys and Dolls" scribe noted, "All life is 6 to 5 against"
(Damon) Runyon
Tyler
Lois
|
|
DD
$1,900
[23]
This 7-letter adjective describes animals like elephants & gorillas that are mostly active during the day
diurnal
Josh
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$2,000
[26]
He was the first superintendent of Louisiana State but resigned to "march" off into the Union Army
Sherman
Josh
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$1,600
[29]
Han Solo's freighter is a 1980s primetime soap set at a vineyard & starring Jane Wyman
Millennium Falcon Crest
Josh
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$1,600
[27]
Flotsam's partner, it's thrown off a ship to aid stability
jetsam
Lois
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$1,600
[8]
This national scenic trail passes by High Point, the highest peak in New Jersey
the Appalachian Trail
Lois
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$1,600
[15]
No stuffed tiger, he wrote in "Leviathan" that life was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"
Thomas Hobbes
Tyler
|
|
$2,000
[24]
The citric acid cycle also goes by the name of this German-born biochemist who discovered it in 1937
Krebs
Josh
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DD
$5,300
[22]
The University of Tennessee is one of 2 S.E.C. schools from the state; this one founded by a shipping magnate in 1873 is the other
Vanderbilt
Josh
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$2,000
[30]
Film in which a kid in a Welsh coal-mining family like totally falls for a 1980s Southern California chick
How Green Was My Valley Girl
Josh
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$2,000
[28]
This end-of-the-alphabet word is a warm, soft western breeze
zephyr
Josh
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$2,000
[9]
The high pressure system known as the Siberian High is centered on this big Russian body of water
Lake Baikal
Tyler
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$2,000
[16]
Stuart was the middle name of this British philosopher who said, "Liberty consists in doing what one desires"
John Stuart Mill
Tyler
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Completed around 1455, it sometimes gets another name because a famous copy was found in the library of Cardinal Mazarin
the Gutenberg Bible