First game with Ken Jennings introduced as hosting.Episode ended with a title card reading, "Alex Trebek / July 22, 1940 – November 8, 2020 / You are missed every day."
Elena Passarello — a writer and college professor from Corvallis, Oregon
Dane Reighard — an editor from Los Angeles, California
Kate Kohn — a communications manager from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kate | $2,600 | $4,600 | $3,800 |
$7,600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,600
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Dane | $5,000 | $6,600 | $19,600 |
$28,000
New champion: $28,000 |
$19,400
25 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Elena | $1,800 | $4,000 | $14,000 |
$20,322
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,000
16 R, 2 W |
| FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE PRAIRIES | INVENTION | FIX THE ELTON JOHN LYRIC | ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS | GETTING INTO THE SPIRITS | LEGAL "EE" |
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$200
[26]
In 1865 Peak XV got this new name to honor a British surveyor general of India
Mount Everest
|
$200
[16]
Laundry tubs & sausage casing were part of Willem Kolff's WWII-era artificial this organ, precursor to the dialysis machine
a kidney
Kate
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$200
[28]
"But the biggest kick I ever got was doin' a thing called the chopping block"
crocodile rock
Dane
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$200
[17]
Temporarily hoarse? You've got this amphibian condition
a frog in your throat
Kate
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$200
[23]
A county in Kentucky gives this type of corn-based spirit its name
bourbon
Kate
|
$200
[27]
A reliable person who holds or administers the possessions of another, like a minor
a trustee
Elena
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$400
[22]
Prairie du Chien, this state's oldest settlement after Green Bay, was the site of the state's only battle in the War of 1812
Wisconsin
Kate
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$400
[19]
In 1893 Marie Tucek invented an early version of this metallic support system in brassieres
underwire
Kate
|
$400
[4]
"I'm not the man they think I am at home, oh no no no, I'm a hired hand"
a rocket man
Dane
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$400
[3]
This phrase about a hidden enemy comes from Virgil, "Latet anguis in herba"
a snake in the grass
Dane
|
$400
[18]
It's the booze in common to a Moscow Mule & a Bloody Mary
vodka
Dane
|
$400
[2]
An assurance that a contract will be executed or something given as security that it will be done
a guarantee
Dane
|
|
$600
[6]
Kansas' Little House on the Prairie Museum was reconstructed from the descriptions of this woman
Wilder
Dane
|
$600
[25]
Working at Kodak in the 1970s, Steven Sasson invented this device that became the company's ruination
the digital camera
Kate
|
$600
[5]
"And it seems to me you lived your life like a vandal who has sinned"
like a candle in the wind
Kate
|
$600
[10]
Also the title of a Marx Brothers movie, this dish means something very easy to do
duck soup
Kate
|
$600
[13]
Chapter 1 of "Treasure Island" mentions this liquor in an old sea song
rum
Kate
|
$600
[1]
It's defined by the U.N. as one who can't return to their home country due "to a well-founded fear of being persecuted"
a refugee
Dane
|
|
$800
[7]
Uranium City, where folks once mined just what you'd think, is in this middle one of Canada's prairie provinces
Saskatchewan
Dane
Elena
|
DD
$1,000
[24]
Yoshitada Minami put an automatic turn-off on this kitchen device & in 4 years, half of Japanese homes had one
a rice maker
Kate
|
$800
[9]
"And you can tell everybody this is all wrong"
your song
Dane
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$800
[12]
Beginning in the 1920s, it was high praise to be the cat's pajamas or this rhyming insect phrase
the bee's knees
Kate
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$800
[14]
This liqueur is distilled from wormwood, & an old word for wormwood gives it its name
absinthe
Dane
|
$800
[15]
A conditionally released prisoner
parolee
Dane
|
|
$1,000
[30]
The polar section of this mountain range ends near the Kara Sea; the southern part, around Kazakhstan's border
the Urals
Dane
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$1,000
[29]
Reading about this group's fate in 1840s California spurred Gail Borden to invent a dried meat biscuit, & then condensed milk
the Donner Party
Elena
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$1,000
[8]
"Get back, hognose bat, better get back to the woods"
honky cat
Dane
|
$1,000
[11]
The lifespans of creatures like Bubbles, said to be 60, may have given rise to this phrase, meaning "it's been a long time"
a donkey's age (donkey's year)
Elena
|
$1,000
[21]
Whiskey & honey go into this Irish cream brand launched in 1979, a few years after rival Bailey's
Carolans
Kate
|
$1,000
[20]
This 6-letter word is a court's final judgment or decision
decree
Elena
|
| THE CITY HAS FALLEN | 7-LETTER WORDS | RUSSIANS | MOVIE STARS | WRITING THE GOVERNESS | NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS |
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$400
[16]
This world capital to the British in August 1814
Washington, D.C.
Kate
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$400
[29]
What used to be called the pound sign is now known as this
hashtag
Dane
|
$400
[3]
On Dec. 22, 1849 this author of "Crime & Punishment" was led before a firing squad, only to get a last-minute pardon from the czar
Dostoevsky
Elena
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$400
[8]
In "Avatar" the Alpha Centauri star system is where humans are mining on this moon
Pandora
Dane
|
$400
[1]
This title Austen character claims credit for the marriage of Mr. Weston to Miss Taylor, her former governess
Emma
Elena
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$400
[30]
On an alphabetical list of national historic landmarks in Texas, this symbol of the state's independence is first
the Alamo
Dane
|
|
$800
[18]
Luckily not permanently, Ramadi in Iraq to this would-be caliphate, May 2015
ISIS
Dane
|
$800
[13]
A small hotel, or a payment to a retiree
a pension
Elena
|
$800
[4]
Various bodyguard reports about this "Mad Monk" had him "very drunk", "dead drunk" & "overcome with drink"; I sense a theme
Rasputin
Elena
|
$800
[9]
The Ceti Alpha star system is the scene of the action in the "Star Trek" film subtitled "The Wrath of" him
Khan
Elena
|
$800
[2]
This author wrote about governesses in "The Turn of the Screw" & "What Maisie Knew"
(Henry) James
Dane
|
$1,200
[25]
This architect's Taliesin & Taliesin West are both national historic landmarks
Frank Lloyd Wright
Elena
|
|
$1,200
[22]
In 222 B.C. Milan to these southerners
the Romans
Kate
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$1,200
[14]
Catholic tradition says this cup used for sacramental wine should be at least part gold or silver
a chalice
Dane
|
$1,200
[6]
Come on, you've been conditioned to remember this physiologist wrote "Lectures on the Work of the Digestive Glands"
Pavlov
Elena
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$1,200
[10]
In "Interstellar", a character wishes he could see the collapsed star inside Gargantua, one of these
a black hole
Dane
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$1,200
[5]
Susan is a governess in "Hogfather", one of this author's "Discworld" novels
Pratchett
Dane
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$1,600
[26]
Landmarks in two states include the 155-year-oldbridgeconnecting Covington, Kentucky to this city
Cincinnati
Elena
|
|
$2,000
[28]
This anthem-inspiring city to the Allies, August 28, 1944
Marseille
Dane
Elena
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$1,600
[19]
A traditional 15th anniversary gift is this, perhaps from Lalique
crystal
Elena
|
$1,600
[15]
In the 1960s this Russian-born man designed stained glass windows for Jerusalem's Hadassah-Hebrew Medical Center
Marc Chagall
Elena
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$1,600
[11]
This off-limits "planet" in the title of a 1956 sci-fi classic is in orbit around Altair
Forbidden Planet
Dane
|
$1,600
[7]
A rich heir hires a governess for his daughter in Michel Faber's novel "The" this color "Petal & the White"
crimson
|
$2,000
[27]
In 2021 the Massachusetts home where she laid the foundations for Christian Science was designated a national landmark
Mary Baker Eddy
Elena
|
|
DD
$3,000
[24]
Caracas to this man's forces, Aug. 6, 1813
Simón Bolívar
Dane
|
$2,000
[17]
An early settler of a territory, or a U.S. space probe that was launched in 1958
a pioneer
Dane
|
$2,000
[20]
Born in St. Petersburg in 1846, he inherited his dad's small jewelry business at the eggs-act age of 24
Fabergé
Dane
|
$2,000
[12]
A cat named Orion wears a collar that contains a miniature galaxy in this 1997 comedy blockbuster
Men in Black
Elena
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$2,000
[21]
In "Vanity Fair" Sir Pitt Crawley proposes to this governess, but it turns out she's already married to his son Rawdon
Becky Sharp
Dane
|
DD
$4,000
[23]
Temple Squarein this state capital was designated a landmark in 1964
Salt Lake City
Dane
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He was Virginia's 1st African-American congressman, whose grandnephew, a famous poet, used his last name as a first name
(John Mercer) Langston