Sri Kompella — a corporate strategy professional from Frisco, Texas
Cindy Zhang — a user experience designer from New York, New York
Tony Freitas — a project director from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tony | $3,200 | $5,000 | $7,800 |
$300
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,800
15 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Cindy | $7,400 | $8,200 | $16,200 |
$16,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Sri | $1,400 | $1,000 | $16,400 |
$30,000
New champion: $30,000 |
$12,200
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| PRIME NUMBER, PLEASE | 19th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS | INSTITUTIONS | REGULAR VERBS | ZOMBIETHON | CHARTED |
|
$200
[24]
Like Rome, Edinburgh & Istanbul are known as cities of this many hills
7
Cindy
|
$200
[25]
When Victoria Woodhull ran for president in 1872, she chose as her running mate this famed orator & activist
Frederick Douglass
Sri
|
$200
[26]
In 1985 a team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution found this vessel more than 12,000 feet underwater
the Titanic
Tony
Cindy
|
$200
[29]
I'm here to certifyit means to versify
rhyme
Cindy
|
$200
[30]
In 1998 this animated Great Dane & the gang explored new mysteries "on Zombie Island"
Scooby-Doo
Cindy
|
$200
[28]
In the 1760s this pair worked to delineate a territorial boundary between Maryland & Pennsylvania
Mason & Dixon
Cindy
|
|
$400
[2]
Idiomatically, it precedes "skidoo"
23
Tony
|
$400
[5]
In 1870, Hiram Revelswas elected to the United States Senate from this state once represented by Jefferson Davis
Mississippi
Cindy
|
$400
[1]
A prestigious think tank, the Brookings Institution is headquartered in this city
Washington, D.C.
Sri
|
$400
[10]
To cut a material to form something; you can do it to ski turns, meat & statues
carve
Tony
|
$400
[27]
"Train to Busan" is set in this Asian country during a zombie outbreak there
South Korea
Cindy
|
$600
[13]
In the 1840s this Army surveyor & future Republican presidential candidate mapped much of the American West
(John C.) Frémont
Cindy
|
|
$600
[3]
The OED found the University of Buffalo was the first to use this number denoting an introductory course, in 1929
101
Tony
|
$600
[6]
In 1870 Robert Fox' treatment on a segregated streetcar sparked protests & a boycott in this largest Kentucky city
Louisville
Cindy
|
$600
[9]
Raffles Institution is a co-educational school established back in 1823 in this city-state
Singapore
Cindy
|
$600
[20]
To beat with a strap, or what a party leader does to get votes lined up in Congress
whip
Sri
|
$600
[11]
Glenn & Maggie were just a young couple trying to make it work in a zombie-filled world on this TV series
The Walking Dead
Cindy
|
$800
[14]
Louis de Freycinet mapped much of this large Australian island due south of Melbourne
Tasmania
Cindy
|
|
$800
[4]
These are the 3 prime numbers in the 40s
41, 43 & 47
Cindy
|
$800
[7]
In 1898 Black troops known as Buffalo Soldiers fought alongside the Rough Riders during the battle of this hill
San Juan
Tony
|
$800
[19]
If you want to learn German, maybe your town has a branch of this institute founded in 1951 & named for a famous writer
Goethe
Cindy
|
$800
[21]
This mild word that can follow goal- & bar-means to offer formally for acceptance, like with a resignation
tender
Tony
|
$800
[16]
In "Zombieland" he starred as himself & when asked if he had any regrets, said, "'Garfield,' maybe"
Bill Murray
Tony
|
$1,000
[15]
His 16th c. charts made longitude lines straight instead of curving to the poles; easier for navigators, but distorts distances
Mercator
Tony
|
|
$1,000
[23]
The treaties formally ending the American Revolution were signed in this year
1783
Cindy
Sri
|
$1,000
[8]
In 2020, this journalist seenherewas posthumously awarded a Pulitzer citation for reporting on the era of lynching
Ida B. Wells
Sri
|
$1,000
[18]
Rice University's Institute for Public Policy bears the name of this man who was George H.W. Bush's Secretary of State
James A. Baker
Sri
|
$1,000
[22]
From the Latin for "price", it's what your new car's value does shortly after you drive off the lot
depreciate
Tony
|
$1,000
[17]
Seth Grahame-Smith wrote this send-up of Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Tony
|
DD
$3,000
[12]
Scientists created the map seenhereshowing Challenger Deep in this deepest part of the Pacific
the Mariana Trench
Cindy
|
| EPONYMOUS -ISMs | OLD LITERATURE | "ANTI" UP | DARK MATTER | RE-CHARTED | THAT'S OUR FACTORY |
|
$400
[28]
It wasn't until after his 479 B.C. death that the "ism" named for him became China's leading philosophy
Confucius
Cindy
|
$400
[27]
Epinician odes, from the word Nike, include a series about this event, such as ones praising the boxer Diagoras
the Olympic Games
|
$400
[26]
In Italian cuisine, it's cold food you eat at the start of a meal
antipasto
Sri
|
$400
[25]
In the Harry Potter books, he's the dark lord
Voldemort
Sri
|
$400
[29]
Come on, baby, & name this man seenherewho had a No. 1 hit with "The Twist" in 1960 & again in 1962
Chubby Checker
Cindy
|
$800
[24]
The Ocotillo campus making semiconductors in Chandler, Arizona
Intel
Sri
|
|
$1,200
[21]
Strong nationalism & anti-labor policies were elements of this, named for a 1980s U.K. prime minister
Thatcherism
Tony
|
$800
[5]
The Panchatantra animal fables were written in this ancient language of India & used to teach princes
Sanskrit
Cindy
|
$800
[12]
Carly Simon had a hit song about this feeling of excitement
anticipation
Tony
|
$800
[8]
Traditionally the black keys on a piano are made of this hard dark wood
ebony
Sri
|
$800
[17]
Of course this novelty hit by Bobby "Boris" Pickett was a hit for Halloween 1962, but why did it chart again in the summer of 1973?
"Monster Mash"
Tony
|
$1,200
[20]
This beauty company whose name partly means "gold": the Lassigny plant north of Paris
L'Oréal
Sri
|
|
$1,600
[1]
The philosophical & political "ism" named for this 15th & 16th century man reflects his characteristic unscrupulousness
Machiavelli
Sri
|
$1,200
[2]
This hero of Virgil's famous work escapes with a handful of survivors after the fall of Troy
Aeneas
Sri
|
$1,200
[13]
It's the type of missile used against missiles in flight
anti-ballistic
Tony
|
$1,600
[4]
You get a "B" if you know it's the most common volcanic rock in the Earth's crust
basalt
Cindy
|
$1,200
[16]
Aerosmith did indeed "sing for the years" with this song, re-charting in 1976 when it hit No. 6; it charted again in 2018
"Dream On"
Cindy
|
$1,600
[9]
A "New" factory of the future in Massachusetts for its made-in-the-USA sneakers
New Balance
Cindy
|
|
$2,000
[22]
A controversial 18th century German physician created this early form of hypnotism
mesmerism
Sri
|
$1,600
[6]
Spell 125 in this collection of funerary texts involves Anubis weighing the deceased's heart in the hall of truth
the Egyptian Book of the Dead
Tony
|
$1,600
[3]
It's one who studies ancient relics, or a type of bookstore dealing in old & rare volumes
antiquarian
Tony
|
$2,000
[14]
In the early 1800s Joseph Niépce created some of the first photos using one of these, Latin for "dark chamber"
a camera obscura
Tony
|
$1,600
[15]
Seen here, this man had a hit twice with "Stand By Me", his signature song
Ben E. King
|
$2,000
[19]
The Akashi motorcycle plant, not far from the Good Times World Corporate Museum
the Kawasaki plant
|
|
DD
$5,000
[23]
A 1950 L.A. Times column said the "defect of" this seemed to be the senator for whom it was named
McCarthyism
Sri
|
$2,000
[10]
In an ancient Mesopotamian epic, this king of Rruk meets the goddess Ishtar
Gilgamesh
Sri
|
$2,000
[11]
Term for two points on Earth such as thepolesor such as Spain & New Zealand
antipodes
Cindy
|
DD
$4,000
[7]
This 14th century poet who gave his name to a type of sonnet is often credited with the term the Dark Ages
Petrarch
Tony
|
$2,000
[18]
One of the many Prince songs that re-charted after his 2016 death was this opening track of "Purple Rain"
"Let's Go Crazy"
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It's the only U.N. member state outside Europe with Dutch as an official language
Suriname