Zach Gozlan — a data analyst from Washington, D.C.
Heather Brice — a retired flight attendant from Brooksville, Florida
Emma Saltzberg — a consultant from Brooklyn, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emma | $2,000 | $6,000 | $20,200 |
$14,799
2-day champion: $36,999 |
$17,800
22 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Heather | $-1,000 | $-400 | $4,300 |
$300
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,800
9 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Zach | $2,800 | $5,200 | $12,800 |
$5,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,800
23 R, 3 W |
| THE 20th CENTURY | IT'S A NATIONAL THING | DATING THE REALITY SHOW | IT WAS ALL PURPLE | FOR NAUGHT | MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES |
|
$200
[1]
Her death following a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel produced worldwide mourning
Princess Diana
Emma
|
$200
[7]
Deriving from a game called halma--Greek for "jump"--this board game is played on a 6-pointed star
Chinese checkers
Zach
|
$200
[3]
Trista Rehn, Andi Dorfman & Katie Thurston have each held this title role... & dare we say, responsibility!
the Bachelorette
Emma
|
$200
[16]
Katharine Lee Bates wrote of "purple mountain majesties" in what became this song
"America The Beautiful"
Zach
|
$200
[21]
Decades after this word for "nothing" appeared, "squat" was added to the end
diddly
Heather
|
$200
[26]
"Horton Hears a Ham"
Horton Hears a Who! & Green Eggs and Ham
Zach
|
|
$400
[2]
At the Olympic games in Stockholm, Jim Thorpe won gold medals in both of these track & field multi-events
the decathlon & the pentathlon
Zach
|
$600
[13]
Roland-Garros has hosted this event since 1928
the French Open
Zach
|
$400
[8]
Head to Casa Amor to see if singles in bathing suits become soulmates after a solid few days on this show "USA"
Love Island
Emma
|
$400
[17]
First instituted in 1782, it has "For Military Merit" on its reverse side
the Purple Heart
Zach
|
$400
[22]
This brand name of lighters that uses a flame logo can mean "zero" in slang
Zippo
Heather
|
$400
[27]
"The Runaway Brief"
The Runaway Jury & The Pelican Brief
Zach
|
|
$600
[4]
Seen here are three random Americans of the 4.3 million born in this year at the tail end of the baby boom
1961
Emma
|
$800
[14]
Don't you love playing with toys? Toy dogs, that is, like this breed here whose name comes from an island
a Maltese
|
$600
[9]
Somehow, TLC built a hit show called this that's centered on a time length established by the USA's K-1 visa program
90 Day Fiancé
Zach
|
$600
[18]
Apollonia Kotero & Morris Day both got to use their first names for their characters in this 1984 flick
Purple Rain
Emma
|
$600
[23]
When someone responds to a question with "Nunya", it's a shortening of this phrase
none of your business
Zach
|
$600
[28]
"Pride and Sensibility"
Pride and Prejudice & Sense and Sensibility
Emma
|
|
$800
[5]
The invasion of Kuwait prompted this Allied operation to free it from Iraqi occupation
Operation Desert Storm
Emma
|
DD
$1,000
[12]
The Feb. 1588 death of its admiral, the Marquis de Santa Cruz, would loom large in the coming disaster that befell this big group
the Spanish Armada
Emma
|
$800
[10]
"Will You Marry Me?" was episode 2 of this Lachey-hosted show where couples got engaged before meeting face-to-face
Love is Blind
Emma
|
$800
[19]
In the 1890s purple became an official color for this entire Illinois university, not just the sports teams
Northwestern
Zach
|
$800
[24]
Remove these 2 letters from the Latin word for "nothing" to get "nil"
I & H
Emma
|
$800
[29]
"Love in the Time of Solitude"
Love in the Time of Cholera & The Hundred Years of Solitude
Zach
|
|
$1,000
[6]
In 1948 John Costello became Irish prime minister, the first from this party whose name means "Gaelic family"
Fine Gael
Emma
Heather
|
$1,000
[15]
Taken from the lean, tender eye of the loin, this smoked breakfast meat comes in cylindrical chunks
Canadian bacon
Zach
|
$1,000
[11]
Punning on a vodka drink, MTV's "Ex" here has reality stars trying to find new love while dealing with past lovers
Ex on the Beach
Emma
|
$1,000
[20]
In the 1990s, this author who wrote about a house on Mango Street painted ahousein an historic area of San Antonio purple
(Sandra) Cisneros
Emma
|
$1,000
[25]
Yiddish for "goat droppings" morphed into this word for "b"arely anything
bupkes
Emma
|
$1,000
[30]
"God Bless You, Mr. Cradle"
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater & Cat's Cradle
Zach
|
| THE EXILE FILES | IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS | LAUGHTER IN THE BIBLE | ROCKS & MINERALS | THE MUSIC "MAN" | TRIBUTARIES |
|
$400
[6]
These Louisiana natives are believed to be descended from the French exiles of Acadia
the Cajun
Zach
|
$400
[1]
I'm going to get a taste of your profits--not a lot, just to do this, as in the photo here
wet my beak
Zach
|
$400
[26]
Jesus is laughed at when he says, "The maid is not" this, "but sleepeth"; then "the maid arose"
dead
Emma
|
$400
[12]
Weathering, abrasion & corrosion are all forms of this natural process by which rock is broken down
erosion
Zach
|
$400
[8]
Singer Gregg & guitarslinger Duane were the siblings who gave this "Ramblin' Man" band its name
The Allman Brothers
Zach
|
$400
[21]
The Missouri flows into it
the Mississippi
Heather
|
|
$800
[13]
Renouncing his American citizenship years earlier, this chess master died in exile in Iceland in 2008
Bobby Fischer
Heather
|
$800
[2]
Meaning "stick to your own area", it can apply to highway driving but was also influenced by football kickoff coverage
stay in your lane
Emma
|
$800
[27]
Ecclesiastes 10 informs us "A feast is made for laughter &" this beverage "maketh merry"
wine
Heather
|
$800
[17]
Thismineral was called krystallos by the ancient Greeks & is primarily silicon dioxide
quartz
Zach
|
$800
[11]
This Wu-Tang Clan man is also half of a duo with Redman
Method Man
Heather
|
$800
[22]
The Madeira & the Xingu are among its 1,100 tributaries
the Amazon
Emma
|
|
$1,200
[14]
José Martí, national hero of this country, probably should have stayed longer in the U.S.; he returned in 1895 & died in battle
Cuba
Emma
Zach
|
$1,600
[4]
Nowadays, people say "(whatever they're really good at) is my" this word; for Johnny Storm, it's actually pyrokinesis
a superpower
Emma
|
$1,200
[28]
When God told this man that he would become a father to a son at age 100, he rolled on the floor laughing
Abraham
Heather
|
$1,200
[18]
Cementation is the last stage in the formation of this type of rock made from accumulated deposits
sedimentary
Zach
|
$1,200
[10]
This Grammy-winning indie pop band was formed in Alaska, not the Iberian country in its name
Portugal. The Man
Zach
|
$1,200
[23]
The Klondike River is a tributary of this one
the Yukon
Emma
|
|
$1,600
[15]
Exiled to Switzerland in 1919, Charles I, also known as Charles IV, was the last ruler of this dual monarchy
Austria-Hungary
Zach
|
$2,000
[5]
Veterans "benefits" include this, to be given by the V.A. if the evidence for & against the claim is about equal
the benefit of the doubt
Emma
|
$1,600
[29]
Be patient like this man, who was told "at destruction & famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts"
Job
Emma
|
$1,600
[19]
4.4 billion-year-old deposits have been found of this end-of-the-alphabet mineral, a December birthstone
zircon
Heather
Zach
|
$1,600
[7]
He topped the charts 3 times in the '70s; "Copacabana" only went to No. 8
Barry Manilow
Heather
|
$1,600
[24]
The Tha, the Ou & the Ngum are part of its flow
the Mekong
Zach
|
|
$2,000
[16]
During his exile in England in the 1720s, this French writer & philosopher met, among others, Alexander Pope & Jonathan Swift
Voltaire
|
DD
$3,000
[3]
Tangled wires led to the 19th c. phrase this type of "telegraph"; eventually, this became the way you hear a rumor
the grapevine
Emma
|
$2,000
[30]
"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in" this, later an Edith Wharton title
the house of mirth
Emma
|
DD
$2,500
[20]
Meaning "stone ball" this rocky 60-mile outer layer of the Earth consists of the crust & the upper part of the mantle
the lithosphere
Heather
|
$2,000
[9]
Twice a "man", he had a hit with "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" before hitting the charts again with his Earth Band
Manfred Mann
Zach
|
$2,000
[25]
The Allier & the Nièvre are joined with this river, famous for its valley
the Loire
Emma
Zach
|
He was buried in 1969 in one of the World War II uniform jackets named for him
Dwight Eisenhower