Hillary Sebeny — a historian from Honolulu, Hawaii
Greg Zona — a principal from West Grove, Pennsylvania
Dane Reighard — an editor from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dane | $4,000 | $5,600 | $16,600 |
$6,799
2-day champion: $34,799 |
$14,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Greg | $-200 | $1,200 | $4,800 |
$4,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$4,800
12 R, 2 W |
| Hillary | $3,200 | $5,600 | $16,800 |
$199
3rd place: $1,000 |
$15,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| THE BEGINNING | MOVIE REWARDS | POTPOURRI | ANOTHER ONE BITES THE CRUST | CROSSWORD CLUES "H" | THE END |
|
$200
[28]
When the U.N. was founded, Gladwyn Jebb of the U.K. did this job in an acting capacity from October 1945 through January 1946
Secretary-General
Greg
|
$200
[25]
Jamal wins 20 million rupees after getting the final question right in this 2008 movie
Slumdog Millionaire
Greg
|
$200
[29]
After his wife had a terrifying jump with an automatically deploying parachute, Floyd Smith invented this manual release
a rip cord
Hillary
|
$200
[30]
I want some more key lime pie, especially with a crust made using these Honey Maid items
graham crackers
Dane
|
$200
[26]
Tights & stockings(7 letters)
hosiery
Dane
|
$200
[27]
"He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother"
1984
Hillary
|
|
$400
[24]
With about 240 athletes from 14 countries, the modern Olympics began in this year in Athens, Greece
1896
|
$400
[16]
In "Brave", Merida discovers a loophole & "wins" her own hand in marriage through a contest in this sport
archery
Dane
|
$400
[18]
Many Australians celebrate this holiday in a homegrown way with a chocolatebilby; that's amarsupial
Easter
Dane
|
$400
[23]
In 1995 Pizza Hut introduced original stuffed crust pizza, stuffed with "100% real" this cheese
mozzarella
Dane
|
$400
[19]
Songbook for Sunday(6 letters)
a hymnal
Greg
|
$400
[22]
"God bless us, every one!"
A Christmas Carol
Hillary
|
|
$600
[6]
This body first assembled Feb. 1, 1790, but John Jay had to postpone actual proceedings a day as not all the members had made it
the Supreme Court
Dane
|
$600
[3]
In a 1994 film this character receives a Medal of Honor from LBJ after being wounded "in the buttocks"
Forrest Gump
Greg
|
$600
[17]
The 1921 book "The Witch-Cult in Western Europe" sets 13 as the number of members in this group
a coven
Greg
|
$600
[21]
It's French for "in crust" &salmonis one food often prepared comme ça
en croûte
Hillary
|
$600
[1]
God of the underworld(5 letters)
Hades
Dane
|
$600
[15]
"It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan"
Moby-Dick
|
|
$800
[7]
A shortfilmby these brothers of workers leaving a factory is considered the world's first motion picture
the Lumières
Dane
|
$800
[5]
In "Never Say Never Again", this Bond actor settles for a dance with Kim Basinger after winning a game vs. the villainous Largo
Sean Connery
Dane
Greg
|
$800
[11]
Extremely cold & difficult to store, this gas is prone to shortages, like one in 2019 that made life tough for Party City stores
helium
Dane
|
$800
[12]
The Washington Post noted, "The thinner the wrapper, the flakier the crust" in this "seasonal" Chinese appetizer
spring rolls
Hillary
|
$800
[2]
A daily in Miami(6 letters)
Herald
Hillary
|
$800
[13]
"Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before"
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Hillary
|
|
DD
$1,200
[9]
Around 650 B.C.Greek colonists founded a city on the Bosporus that they called this; it would later be the capital of empires
Byzantium
Hillary
|
$1,000
[4]
At the end of a 2009 movie this title guy is offered his dream job but instead continues to protect shoppers at the West Orange Pavilion
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Dane
|
$1,000
[10]
When MLB pitcher Jim Gott faced batter Tim Teufel, in German it was a confrontation of these 2 beings
God & the Devil
Hillary
|
$1,000
[20]
A Pillsbury recipe offers up their original crescent rolls for a crisp crust enclosing tenderloin steaks in this dish for 2
Beef Wellington
Hillary
|
$1,000
[8]
Shaggy-haired & bewhiskered(7 letters)
hirsute
Hillary
|
$1,000
[14]
"Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this!"
Little Women
Dane
|
| SOME CREATURES GREAT & SMALL | ART CRITICS | LET'S TALK BUSINESS | FIRST NAMES WITH CHARACTER | WORLD CITIES | 2-WORD PALINDROMES |
|
$400
[28]
Silk from the orb-weaver type of this animal can be packed so densely that it has been used to make violin strings
a spider
Greg
|
$400
[23]
In a 1435 essay Leon Battista Alberti declared that an art renaissance was occurring in this city of Leonardo
Florence
Greg
|
$400
[29]
As the name implies, even for a giant company it can be a single page showing a business' assets & liabilities
the balance sheet
|
$400
[17]
This sister of Rumer & Tallulah Willis was named for a character in "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Scout
Dane
|
$400
[9]
An important industrial center, this city is also home to the Welsh central government
Cardiff
Greg
|
$400
[30]
Intelligent streetcars
smart trams
|
|
$800
[24]
Heavy poaching of Persian gazelles contributed to the near extinction of the Asiatic cheetah, mainly found in this country
Iran
Hillary
|
$800
[22]
After seeing a painting by Monet, critic Louis Leroy derisively gave this movement its name
Impressionism
Dane
|
$800
[27]
If rate of yield fails to increase in proportion to investment beyond a certain point, you get these declining 2-word profits
diminishing returns
|
$800
[16]
The daughter of Michelle Williams & Heath Ledger is named for this Roald Dahl book
Matilda
Greg
|
$800
[8]
Mohammed V Square is the central plaza in this city but you probably won't find any gin joints there
Casablanca
Dane
Greg
|
$800
[18]
A guanaco relative's shopping complex
llama mall
Dane
|
|
$1,200
[11]
With feathers that look like quills sticking from its head, a predatorybirdof Africa had this office worker name
a secretarybird
|
$1,600
[14]
Christopher Knight criticizes museums as shortsighted for funding operations by selling art--in museum-speak, this "de"-verb
deaccessioning
Hillary
|
$1,600
[25]
As the name suggests, when buying a home it's a deposit paid to the seller to demonstrate a buyer's good faith
earnest money
|
$1,200
[13]
In the U.S., this first name from "Gone with the Wind" is more often given to girls, but boy band & Broadway star Parker Angel has it
Ashley
Hillary
|
$1,200
[7]
Seen here is the coat of arms of this German city whose name derives from a 10th century stud farm
Stuttgart
Greg
|
$1,200
[19]
An eager female opera star
an avid diva
Dane
|
|
$1,600
[10]
The black species of this African mammal vulnerable to poaching is recovering from a 98% drop in its numbers
the rhino
Greg
|
$2,000
[15]
Clement Greenberg said the 1943 work "Mural" showed this man was the greatest painter the U.S. had produced
Pollock
Dane
|
$2,000
[12]
Some traders specialize in this, the simultaneous buying & selling of the same asset at different prices in different markets
arbitrage
Greg
|
$1,600
[3]
Dwayne Johnson named a daughter this, also the first Black Disney princess
Tiana
Hillary
|
$1,600
[5]
In 1961 Stalingrad was renamed this, for the river on which it lies
Volgograd
Dane
|
$1,600
[20]
A sleepy scimitar
drowsy sword
|
|
$2,000
[2]
This duck seenheresounds like it's named for a Russian place
Muscovy
Hillary
|
DD
$3,000
[6]
Lawrence Alloway is credited with this 2-word term for work that uses comic strips, soup cans & the like as subject matter
pop art
Dane
|
DD
$4,000
[26]
It's the horticultural term for a largely unregulated private partnership group using speculative investment strategy
a hedge fund
Hillary
|
$2,000
[4]
Known for period dramas like George Eliot adaptations, actress Garai has this first name of an Eliot title character
Romola
Dane
|
$2,000
[1]
Argentina's second-largest city is named for this Spanish city; both are known for their leather
Córdoba
|
$2,000
[21]
A Papeete porkpie
a Tahiti hat
|
In 1976 "Bohemian Rhapsody" was replaced at No. 1 on the U.K. charts by this Europop song whose title is heard in Queen's lyrics
"Mamma Mia"