Matt Amodio game 18.Rowan Ward game 1.Last game of Season 37.Last game with Joe Buck as guest host.Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to KidSmart.
Rowan Ward — a chart caller and freelance writer from Chicago, Illinois
Eric Shi — a project manager originally from Houston, Texas
Matt Amodio — a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut (whose 17-day cash winnings total $547,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $5,200 | $6,600 | $27,200 |
$27,201
18-day champion: $574,801 |
$20,600
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Eric | $1,800 | $4,000 | $2,400 |
$2,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$2,400
9 R, 2 W |
| rowan | $6,000 | $7,000 | $13,600 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$17,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| THE LATE, GREAT CHADWICK BOSEMAN | EVENTS OF THE 1850s | NO EGRETS | THE PROUD PARENT COMPANY | THINK BIG! | IDIOMS |
|
$200
[23]
As a student, Chadwick got into a theater program at Oxford but couldn't afford it; this man played "Equalizer" & footed the bill
(Denzel) Washington
Eric
|
$200
[28]
Immortalized by Tennyson, this cavalry advance happened during the Crimean War in 1854
the Charge of the Light Brigade
rowan
|
$200
[30]
The peregrine this can really hit the gas going for prey, hitting 200-plus mph
a falcon
rowan
|
$200
[24]
...of Whats App & Beluga, a service that evolved into the Messenger app
Facebook
Eric
|
$200
[29]
With almost 2 miles of paths, Longleat is the largest of these in Britain; allow about 2 hours
a maze
Eric
|
$200
[26]
A-ha! Literally, I've caught you with your...
hand in the cookie jar
rowan
|
|
$400
[18]
As this film hero: "We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe"
T'Challa (Black Panther)
rowan
|
$400
[20]
70 years after the highest peak in these mountains was 1st climbed, a group conquered 15,200' Dufourspitze, the second-highest
(the) Alps
Matt
|
$400
[21]
This bird can beat its wings 70 times per second, but when it slows down, its body temperature can drop 50 degrees below its normal 104
a hummingbird
Eric
|
$400
[22]
...of McDonnell Douglas F-15 Technical Services Company
Boeing
|
$400
[27]
As part of a 2017 promotion, a pair of briefs with a 76-foot-wide waistband was made for this Dav Pilkey kids' book character
Captain Underpants
Matt
|
$400
[25]
The TV series "Entourage" got people changing plain old "hug" into this 3-word phrase
hug it out
|
|
$600
[12]
The L.A. Dodgers tweeted, "From playing legendary figures to becoming one, we'll never forget your iconic performance as" him
(Jackie) Robinson
Matt
|
$600
[14]
After this pal led a raid on Harpers Ferry, Frederick Douglass hightailed it out of the country to avoid questioning
John Brown
rowan
|
$600
[19]
This alliterative bird numbered between 3 & 5 billion in eastern North America in 1500 but was extinct by 1914
passenger pigeon
Matt
|
$600
[17]
...of Band-Aid & Listerine, which cover up different things
Johnson & Johnson
Eric
|
$600
[16]
With eight lanes for cars & two for trains, this Down Under city's iconicbridgeseenhereis one of the world's widest
Sydney
Eric
|
$600
[15]
One theory says to flip this, meaning to change things around, came from rap battles; it's used in "8 Mile"
the script
rowan
|
|
$800
[6]
Chadwick worked up to 8 hours a day with a choreographer to get what he called "the groove" of this "Godfather of Soul"
James Brown
rowan
|
$800
[5]
Later the model for a musical character, Buddhist scholar Mongkut was crowned King Rama IV of the nation then called this
Siam
Eric
rowan
|
$800
[13]
The brown type of this is Louisiana's state bird
pelican
Matt
|
$800
[10]
...of Schweppes & Dasani
Coca-Cola
Matt
|
$800
[9]
Stretching almost a mile, one of the longest railway platforms is at Gorakhpur Junction in this Indian state, the U.P.
Uttar Pradesh
rowan
|
$1,000
[2]
In the 17th century it was a feather & a horse; today we use this idiom for one more burden you just can't take
the straw that broke the camel's back
Matt
|
|
$1,000
[11]
In 2018 at this HBCU, his D.C. alma mater, Chadwick told grads, "Your very existence is wrapped up in the things you are here to fulfill"
Howard University
Eric
|
$1,000
[1]
The president of the French republic declared himself this emperor III
Napoleon
rowan
|
$1,000
[4]
The "P" is silent in the white-tailed this bird, but in courtship, a male's call is not; also, the red combs swell over its eyes
ptarmigan
Matt
|
$1,000
[7]
...of Skype
Microsoft
rowan
|
$1,000
[3]
The tallest of these structures towers 870 feet over the Great Mosque of Algiers
minaret
Matt
|
DD
$2,000
[8]
A jug does it; a sieve & an improbable story don't
hold water
rowan
|
| CANALS | NOVEL VOCABULARY | HELEN, NOT OF TROY | CROSSWORD CLUES "Q" | LOST | FOUNDRY |
|
$400
[28]
Running from the North Sea to the Baltic Sea, this country's Kiel Canal is 250 miles shorter than going around Jutland Peninsula
Germany
Matt
Eric
|
$400
[26]
The trilby, a type of this, gets its name from an 1894 novel of that title
a hat
rowan
|
$400
[29]
She won an Emmy in 2006 for playing Queen Elizabeth I & an Oscar in 2007 for playing Elizabeth II
(Helen) Mirren
rowan
|
$400
[30]
An argumentative dispute (7 letters)
quarrel
Matt
|
$400
[25]
Idiomatically, if you've "lost" these small spherical toys, you may be losing your mind
marbles
Matt
|
$400
[27]
This hefty noisemaker from Whitechapel Foundry began tolling for Londoners in 1859
Big Ben
rowan
|
|
$800
[21]
Noted for its orchid gardens, the Pacific port of Balboa sits at the southern end of this canal
(the) Panama Canal
Matt
|
$800
[20]
The Oxford English Dictionary cites his novel "Christine" as the origin for "Shut your pie-hole"
(Stephen) King
Matt
|
$800
[1]
In her unofficial anthem for the women's movement, shesang, "I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman"
Reddy
rowan
|
$800
[22]
To haggle over a small detail(7 letters)
quibble
rowan
|
$800
[24]
Something overlooked has been "lost in" this, a term that originated in dealing cards
the shuffle
Eric
|
$800
[23]
Around 4,000 years ago, the first foundries in Mesopotamia began producing this alloy
bronze
rowan
|
|
$1,200
[7]
Buildings on the Prinsengracht Canal in this city include one with a secret annex
Amsterdam
rowan
|
$1,600
[4]
Micawber, meaning an irresponsible optimist, comes from the name of a character in this Dickens novel
David Copperfield
Matt
|
$1,200
[14]
sisterhelen.org is the website of anti-capital punishment nun Helen Prejean, famous for this, her first book
Dead Man Walking
rowan
|
$1,200
[19]
Scandinavian traitor(8 letters)
Quisling
Matt
|
$1,200
[18]
Art Fleming & Don Pardo were in the video for this Weird Al parody song
"I Lost On Jeopardy"
Matt
|
$1,200
[11]
Several different foundries worked for 4 months to build this ironclad that faced off against the Merrimack
Monitor
Matt
|
|
$1,600
[6]
One of the world's busiest shipping lanes, the Suez Canal connects these 2 bodies of water
the Mediterranean & the Red Sea
Matt
|
$2,000
[9]
The title of this 1961 novel is shorthand for a no-win situation
Catch-22
Eric
rowan
|
$1,600
[13]
Thismagazineeditorlived a very cosmopolitan life
(Helen Gurley) Brown
Matt
|
$1,600
[3]
Not "Jeopardy! "-like, but puzzled(9 letters)
quizzical
Matt
|
$1,600
[17]
In "A Moveable Feast", Gertrude Stein is quoted as calling Hemingway & his ilk this, a term later used more broadly
Lost Generation
Matt
|
$1,600
[10]
Once one of the largest of its kind, the Gary Works in Indiana is still a functioning foundry of this corporation
U.S. Steel
Matt
rowan
|
|
$2,000
[12]
When the Erie Canal project began in 1817, it was derisively called this man's ditch; he was the governor who had promoted it
(DeWitt) Clinton
Matt
|
DD
$7,800
[5]
This title heroine of a 1913 novel now means someone who's cheerful to the point of being irritating
Pollyanna
Matt
|
$2,000
[16]
Her staining technique set her apart from other abstract expressionists & influenced younger artists
Helen Frankenthaler
|
$2,000
[2]
Term for a 40-to-49 year old(14 letters)
quadragenarian
Matt
|
DD
$5,000
[15]
The biblical Asher & Zebulun were 2 of these that, despite the name, reached the Promised Land
the lost tribes of Israel
rowan
|
$2,000
[8]
Seen here is a foundry creating steel via the process named for this Englishman
(Henry) Bessemer
rowan
|
2 of the 3 women depicted on the first statue of real women in Central Park, unveiled in August 2020
(2 of) (Sojourner) Truth, (Susan B.) Anthony, or (Elizabeth Cady) Stanton