Linda Sellars — a retired archivist from Durham, North Carolina
Matt Takimoto — an elementary school teacher from Moraga, California
Charles Fogelman — a geographer from Champaign, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,500)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles | $1,200 | $2,400 | $14,400 |
$5,997
3rd place: $1,000 |
$14,400
18 R, 2 W |
| Matt | $2,600 | $1,000 | $11,400 |
$21,400
New champion: $21,400 |
$12,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Linda | $1,600 | $3,200 | $10,600 |
$9,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,600
12 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| PLUS | THAT'S SO CLICHÉ! | DESSERT | JAZZ GREATS | ABRAHAM LINCOLN | MIDAS |
|
$200
[5]
At the University of Chicago & other schools, the grading system consists of 5 letters, 3 that can have + added & these 2 that can't
A & F
Matt
|
$200
[25]
"Better safe than" this
sorry
Charles
|
$200
[8]
Popular in the South, chess pie is basically this pie without those big brown nuts
pecan pie
Matt
|
$200
[10]
Known for her scat singing, she received 14 Grammys, including a lifetime achievement award in 1967
(Ella) Fitzgerald
Matt
|
$200
[1]
(Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) Born in 1809 into a frontier family, young Abe Lincolnhad only one year of schooling, but read the Bible, Shakespeare, & learned logic from "The Elements" of this ancient Greek mathematician
Euclid
Charles
|
$600
[27]
Midas got the wish he later regretted by being kind to Silenus, one of these faun-like beings
a satyr
|
|
$400
[6]
These long, baggy men's knickers were popular on 1920s golf courses
plus fours
Linda
|
$400
[24]
It "is always greener on the other side"
the grass
Matt
|
$400
[9]
This Spanish dessert with a 4-letter name is custard with a layer of caramel sauce
flan
Charles
|
$400
[13]
This sax great's last public engagement was on March 5, 1955 at Birdland, a New York City club named for him
Charlie ("Bird") Parker
Linda
|
$400
[2]
(Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) Lincoln was a struggling 30-year-old lawyer when he began wooingthis21-year-old, & though she came from a prominent family & had many suitors, eventually won her hand in marriage
Mary Todd
Charles
|
$800
[26]
In "The Lost Hero" by this adapter of myths for young adults, Midas turns Leo & Piper into gold statues
(Rick) Riordan
Matt
|
|
$600
[7]
Britain's eleven plus exams are basically entrance tests to admits kids to this kind of school that not our writers, obviously
grammar school
|
$600
[21]
2 bad choices: "between the devil &" this location
the deep blue sea
Linda
|
$600
[16]
A line from "The Godfather": "Leave the gun, take" this dessert
a cannoli
Matt
|
$600
[11]
Shehoned her unique style singing in Harlem nightclubs
Billie Holiday
Matt
|
$600
[3]
(Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) Lincoln grew frustrated with many of his commanders but with none more so than this generalwho did a brilliant job of readying the Union Army to fight but proved reluctant to commit it to battle
George McClellan
Charles
|
— |
|
$800
[14]
At Bell Labs Bjarne Stroustrup designed this programming language released in 1985
C++
Matt
|
$800
[22]
It "doesn't fall far from the tree"
the apple
Matt
|
$800
[17]
Marshmallows, almonds & chocolate ice cream pave the way to make this classic flavor
Rocky Road
Matt
|
$800
[12]
Here'sa bit of "So What", the lead track from this trumpeter's 1959 album "Kind of Blue"
Miles Davis
Charles
|
$800
[4]
(Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) At the White House on August 10, 1863, Lincoln met for the first time with this man to discuss the treatment of thousands of Black soldiers recently inducted into the Union army
Frederick Douglass
Linda
|
— |
|
$1,000
[19]
In French the word plus means "more", as in this expression that begins, "plus ça change" (a translation is fine)
the more things change the more they stay the same
Charles
|
$1,000
[23]
It's where the "proof of the pudding" is
in the eating
Matt
|
DD
$4,000
[18]
What the French call an omelette norvégienne is what Americans call this dessert
a baked Alaska
Matt
|
$1,000
[15]
Seen here tickling the ivories, he got his famous nickname from an announcer who equated him with jazz aristocrats like Duke Ellington
Count Basie
Matt
|
$1,000
[20]
(Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) On April 4, 1865, Lincoln made a daring & dangerous visit to this newly capturedcapital, walking its still-burning streets to thecheersof jubilant former enslaved people
Richmond
Linda
|
— |
| BRITISH TERRITORIES & DEPENDENCIES | THE MOVIE TITLE ELEMENT | ANIMALS OF NOTE | A HARD CATEGORY | A MEASURE OF AUTHOR-ITY | "FOR" WHAT IT'S WORTH |
|
$400
[8]
In 1969 Francisco Franco closed the border with this territory
Gibraltar
Linda
|
$400
[22]
It precedes "& Dime" in the title of a 1992 comedy with Wallace Shawn & C. Thomas Howell
Nickel
Charles
|
$400
[29]
In 1960 Jane Goodall saw that the animal she'd dubbed David Greybeard, this type of primate, made & used tools
a chimpanzee
Matt
|
$400
[18]
The hardest tissue in your body, this tooth-topper predominately contains calcium & phosphate
enamel
Charles
|
$400
[3]
Emily Brontë says it flat out in Chapter 1: this title place "is the name of Mr. Heathcliff's dwelling"
Wuthering Heights
Charles
|
$400
[1]
A weather report
a forecast
Matt
|
|
$800
[9]
For 10 weeks in 1982, Britain & Argentina battled over this territory
the Falklands
Matt
|
$800
[26]
Meryl Streep (2011), Leonardo DiCaprio (1998) & Robert Downey Jr. (over & over) have starred in movies with this element in the title
iron
Charles
|
$800
[25]
In 218 B.C. Hannibal left Spain with at least 37 of these animals; it's said the one-tusked Surus lasted the longest
elephants
Matt
|
$800
[20]
Known for its hardness, durability & capacity to take a high polish, this heavy, black wood is big in cabinets & knife handles
ebony
Matt
|
$800
[4]
Reasonably sure that people would like another story about dinosaurs, he published "The Lost World" in 1995
Crichton
Charles
|
$800
[2]
An excursion or raid
a foray
Charles
|
|
$1,200
[14]
With 2 territories on it, the U.K. joins Turkey & Greece as countries with influence on this Mediterranean island
Cyprus
Linda
|
$1,200
[27]
Helen Mirren is trying to recover a portrait by Gustav Klimt in the fact-based movie "Woman in" this
Gold
Charles
|
$1,200
[13]
The western lowland gorilla with this repetitive name, known for using sign language, died at age 46 in 2018
Koko
Charles
|
$1,600
[23]
Rubies & sapphires rate a 9 on this scale of hardness named for a German mineralogist
the Mohs scale
Charles
|
$1,200
[5]
This Alabama woman was honored by President Bush for her "outstanding contribution to America's literary tradition" in 2007
Harper Lee
Charles
|
$1,200
[10]
If you tolerate a lot of nonsense, you're showing great this
forbearance
Linda
|
|
$2,000
[19]
In short, the Somers Islands is a former name of this British possession in the Atlantic
Bermuda
|
$1,600
[28]
Bradley Cooper is a bipolar man looking to reconnect with his ex in this 2012 film
Silver Linings Playbook
Matt
|
$1,600
[16]
Many British govt. offices have cats called "Chief" this rodent-ridder; Palmerston worked in the foreign office 2016-2020
mouser
Matt
|
$2,000
[24]
This white substance in the outer skeleton of crabs is used to bind dyes & as a strengthening agent for paper
chitin
Linda
|
$1,600
[6]
His 1854 book began, "When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods"
Thoreau
Charles
|
$1,600
[11]
Maintain this part of a horse'smaneor it can cause eye irritation
the forelock
Linda
|
|
DD
$3,000
[15]
Point Christian & Bounty Bay are features of this South Pacific island territory
Pitcairn Island
Linda
|
$2,000
[30]
"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops", Cary Grant says in a 1944 comedy about his aunts' use of this
arsenic
Linda
|
$2,000
[17]
A German Shepherd named Trakr found the last survivor in the Manhattan area dubbed this after 9/ 11
Ground Zero
Charles
|
DD
$4,000
[21]
This brand with a biblical character in its name offers hardside luggage with a polycarbonate composite shell
Samsonite
Matt
|
$2,000
[7]
O! This author of "O Pioneers" was featured on astampin 1973
Cather
Charles
|
$2,000
[12]
Verily, this archaic adverb means "in truth"
forsooth
Linda
|
This character who has been on the air for more than 50 years is only 6 1/2 years old
Big Bird