Amy Schneider game 18.
Chris O'Malley — an executive director from New York, New York
David Carpman — an attorney from Seattle, Washington
Amy Schneider — an engineering manager from Oakland, California (whose 17-day cash winnings total $687,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amy | $7,000 | $18,600 | $21,400 |
$19,400
18-day champion: $706,800 |
$20,200
29 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| David | $600 | $800 | $4,400 |
$8,700
2nd place: $2,000 |
$4,400
10 R, 3 W |
| Chris | $-200 | $1,800 | $8,600 |
$8,399
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,600
13 R, 3 W |
| SOME LAST-MINUTE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS | ALL AROUND THE WORLD | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL MOVIES? | IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER | FIRST RESPONDERS |
|
$200
[26]
You're looking for the dress this woman wore as she wed Prince William? Talk about one of a kind--that cost $434,000!
Kate Middleton
Amy
|
$200
[11]
Waaaah! The store ran out of my favorite Cabernet
whine wine
Amy
|
$200
[10]
When visiting this Vatican basilica, you might want to spring for a ticket to the dome, which includes a guided tour
St. Peter's
Amy
|
$200
[24]
In "Remember the Titans", this actor is the coach of an integrated football team in 1971
(Denzel) Washington
David
|
$200
[16]
On December 5, 1933 FDR announced the repeal of this; cheers!
Prohibition
Chris
|
$200
[1]
A little more advanced than a typical EMT, "P" is for this first responder, able to dispense medicines
a paramedic
Amy
|
|
$400
[27]
A $200,000 horse of this breed from the American Stud Book--how kind, especially with the $50,000 annual upkeep thrown in
a Thoroughbred
|
$400
[12]
What's that smell coming from your penny?
scent cent
Chris
|
$400
[9]
You'll catch the Baseball Hall of Fame in this village that was settled by the dad of the author of "The Deerslayer"
Cooperstown
Amy
|
$400
[23]
Burt Reynolds starred as Paul Crewe in the original version of "The Longest Yard"; this "SNL" alum, in the remake
Sandler
Chris
|
$400
[25]
In what was then the largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history, this energy giant filed for Chapter 11 protection in 2001
Enron
Amy
|
$400
[2]
Some first responders are trained to deal with this 6-letter issue; here'sone wearing the suit of the same name
HAZMAT
David
|
|
$600
[28]
I can't believe you bought me this NHL team that had players like Guy Carbonneau, Guy Lapointe & Guy Lafleur... merci!
the Canadiens
Amy
|
$600
[15]
What you're in if you can't remember if it's the first of the month, the third, the fourth, the tenth
a daze days
Amy
|
$600
[3]
Picasso's "Guernica" is in this capital, where it was sent only after democracy had returned
Madrid
David
|
$600
[22]
Billy Dee Williams is his friend Gale Sayers & James Caan is the title dying football player in this TV movie
Brian's Song
Amy
|
$600
[19]
On December 26, 2004 a 9.1 undersea earthquake in this ocean triggered a massive & deadly tsunami
the Indian Ocean
Chris
|
$600
[6]
Hoist gloves protect first responders' hands while aboard these vehicles performing rescues
helicopters
David
Chris
|
|
$800
[29]
This indoor bike-making co. had a market value of $31 billion in 2021, so don't go crazy--just 50% of it would be enough for anyone
Peloton
Amy
|
$800
[14]
Unfriendly lodging for young travelers abroad
a hostile hostel
Amy
|
$800
[4]
The 1,500-foot Petronas Towers are linked via a skybridge between floors 41 & 42 in this Malaysian city
Kuala Lumpur
Amy
|
$800
[21]
As a high school football star in a Pennsylvania steel town, this actor had "All the Right Moves"
Cruise
Chris
|
$1,000
[17]
Deciding he was better suited for the Senate, in December 1832 this South Carolinian resigned as vice president
Calhoun
Amy
|
$800
[7]
Where there are these pros, there's fire; the U.S. Forest Service employs more than 300 of them
smoke jumpers
Amy
|
|
$1,000
[30]
An ancient sculpture of an athlete about to throw this should arrive by Christmas--Myron's original is lost, so it's just a copy
the discus
Amy
|
$1,000
[13]
An official document seal belonging to a young swan
a signet cygnet
Amy
|
$1,000
[5]
The 12,000-square-mile Great Bear Lake straddles the Arctic circle in this "directional" political unit
the Northwest Territories
Amy
David
|
$1,000
[20]
The Marx Brothers took the field in this "equine" comedy about Huxley College's football team
Horse Feathers
Amy
|
DD
$6,000
[18]
In December 1577 he set sail from England with 5 ships & a crew of more than 150 men on a voyage around the world
(Sir Francis) Drake
Amy
|
$1,000
[8]
The First Responder Support Network helps those with trauma from the job & who may be suffering from this, PTSD for short
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Amy
|
| SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN | 20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD | NOTORIOUS | "K" 9 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS | FIRST RESPONSES |
|
$400
[26]
America welcomed him as a citizen in 1891, the year he invented a coil that's still used in electronics today
Tesla
Chris
|
$400
[24]
The Volkswagen Passat: this man singing "On The Road again"
Willie Nelson
Amy
|
$400
[30]
Con man George Parker was notorious for "selling" NYC landmarks like the Brooklyn Bridge & this man's tomb on West 122nd St.
Grant
Chris
|
$400
[5]
A single action of pressing a letter or other button on a computer console
keystroke
Amy
|
$400
[15]
Tolstoy & Fielding are among those who've employed an "intrusive" this who both reports & interrupts a story
a narrator
David
|
$400
[6]
We've covered the Earned Income Tax Credit but never this tax credit for parents that came along 22 years later
a child tax credit
David
|
|
$800
[25]
This man who gave his name to a scale of earthquake strength was an avid nudist & Trekkie
Richter
Amy
|
$800
[23]
Allstate:this hit by ska band Madness
"Our House"
Amy
|
$800
[29]
In 1820s Edinburgh, Burke & Hare were killers who sold their victims' bodies to the head of a school of this medical subject
anatomy
Amy
|
$800
[4]
It's the instructional item being used here
a kickboard
Amy
|
$1,200
[11]
Mary McCarthy's "The Group" follows the lives of 8 graduates of this Seven Sisters college north of New York City
Vassar
Chris
|
$800
[7]
Born in 2018, this younger brother of Prince George & Princess Charlotte gets his first response
Prince Louis (of Cambridge)
|
|
$1,200
[19]
This scientist's Agricultural Research Foundation in Tuskegee was founded after he donated most of his life savings in 1940
Carver
Chris
|
$1,200
[22]
Sargento cheese:this biggest hit by Modern English
"I Melt With You"
Chris
|
$1,200
[17]
This doctor was convicted as part of Lincoln's murder after a boot belonging to John Wilkes Booth was found at his home
(Samuel) Mudd
David
|
$1,200
[1]
This word is from the Greek for "thousand" & "measure"
kilometer
Amy
|
$1,600
[12]
Janie, the 40ish heroine of this book by Zora Neale Hurston, sees her life as a tree with "dawn and doom" in the branches
Their Eyes Were Watching God
David
|
$1,200
[8]
Far from hardcore, this type of film is about young people, often adrift & talking a lot (but not loud)
mumblecore
Chris
|
|
$1,600
[28]
In 2000, Bill Clintonjoined entrepreneur Craig Venter & government scientist Francis Collins to announce success in this, HGP for short
the Human Genome Project
David
|
$1,600
[21]
Kia:"Holding Out For A Hero" by this '80s singer
Bonnie Tyler
|
$1,600
[16]
In 2020 the FBI acknowledged that private citizens had broken a cipher sent by the 1960s Bay Area killer known as this
the Zodiac Killer
Amy
David
|
DD
$2,000
[2]
One who uses political influence to put another in power
a kingmaker
Amy
|
DD
$2,000
[14]
"La Galatea", his first novel, appeared in 1585, 20 years before his most famous one
Cervantes
Amy
|
$1,600
[9]
Added to merriam-webster.com in 2020 but done by people long before, it's to hinder a process by doing it at very low speed
slow walk
Chris
|
|
$2,000
[27]
Drawn to the sea before seeing it by a line of poetry, she became a marine biologist & 1941's "Under the Sea-Wind" was her first book
(Rachel) Carson
Chris
|
$2,000
[20]
Oh, oh, oh, it's this '70s song by Pilot that diabetes drug Ozempic adapted
"Magic"
Chris
|
$2,000
[18]
Born Arthur Flegenheimer, hewas gunned down in 1935 after his plan to murder prosecutor Thomas Dewey alarmed other mobsters
Dutch Schultz
David
|
$2,000
[3]
It's what Russian-American inventor Vladimir Zworykin called his early TV picture tube
a kinescope
Chris
|
$2,000
[13]
Call the "P.D."! This British "Queen of Crime" wrote 14 novels featuring Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh
P.D. James
Amy
|
$2,000
[10]
Chelsea Clinton, Levi Strauss chair Bob Haas & Google CEO Sundar Pichai all worked at this management consultant McCompany
McKinsey
Amy
David
|
In December 2020 an international agreement added nearly 3 feet to this; one surveyor lost half a toe in the effort
Mount Everest