Simi Landau — an elementary school teacher from Washington, D.C.
Ariel San Jose — a digital marketing manager from South San Francisco, California
Amy Bekkerman — an academic copy editor from Durham, New Hampshire (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amy | $6,200 | $6,000 | $28,000 |
$38,000
2-day champion: $54,100 |
$20,000
26 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W |
| Ariel | $-600 | $1,000 | $200 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$200
7 R, 6 W |
| Simi | $1,400 | $4,200 | $17,000 |
$12,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$17,000
19 R, 4 W |
| FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES | TV NEWS | FASHION | THE ANCIENT MARINER | WATER, WATER | EVERYWHERE |
|
$200
[18]
Fiat lux translates to "let there be" this
light
Amy
|
$200
[26]
As Mary Richards, she helped put out the local news on WJM-TV
Mary Tyler Moore
Ariel
|
$200
[21]
Types of this headwear include bonnie, rebel & musically, "Raspberry"
beret
Simi
|
$200
[2]
In his 70s, Sir John Ross sailed north to find his lost friend Sir John Franklin; he failed but got promoted to rear this rank
admiral
Amy
|
$200
[6]
The Chukchi & Laptev are among the seas in this ocean
the Arctic
Amy
Ariel
Simi
|
$200
[20]
This fast food restaurant with a transportation name has more locations in the U.S. than any other chain
Subway
Amy
|
|
$400
[17]
German for "highway", it actually does have an advisory limit of 81 mph
autobahn
Simi
|
$400
[27]
"Deadline" (13 episodes) focused on the New York Ledger, which covered the cops on this show (450+ episodes)
Law & Order
Ariel
|
$400
[22]
GQ says this "should be pleated & sit directly on top of the waistband of your trouser"
a cummerbund
Amy
|
$400
[3]
A 1633 book, "The Strange & Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James", may have inspired this "Ancient Mariner" poet
Coleridge
Simi
|
$400
[7]
The Pacific's Yap Trench is this kind of trench that shares a name with a deep sea vessel
submarine
Simi
|
$400
[19]
Barclays Bank in London installed one of the first of these machines in 1967; now there are an estimated 3 million worldwide
an ATM
Simi
|
|
$600
[1]
As in the song, despacito is Spanish for this adverb
slowly
Simi
|
$600
[28]
Show co-starring Reese Witherspoon as a small-time reporter suddenly on national air
The Morning Show
Ariel
|
$600
[23]
Perfect as casual wear, this "letter-perfect" dress fits at the hips & flares out further down
A-line
Ariel
|
$600
[14]
In 1861 elderly Capt. Armstrong was court-martialed for surrendering Pensacola Navy Yard to forces of this seceded state
Florida
Amy
|
$600
[11]
As well as a neighborhood of Queens & the subject of an old joke, it's a river there & thebayit flows into
Flushing
Ariel
Simi
|
$600
[8]
The American Lung Association warns that the dust type of these omnipresent pests are major asthma triggers
mites
Amy
|
|
$800
[4]
Literally "good word", it's a witty remark; en français, S'il vous plait!
bon mot
Simi
|
$800
[29]
Emily Mortimer produced & Jeff Daniels anchored on this HBO show
The Newsroom
Simi
|
$800
[24]
Men's Levi's jeans & recorded music were your only options when this store, now a chain, opened in San Francisco in 1969
the Gap
|
$800
[15]
This Pooh creator wrote a poem about "An old sailor my grandfather knew who had so many things which he wanted to do"
Milne
Amy
|
$1,000
[13]
The Humboldt Current is sometimes called this South American country's current
the Peru Current (the Chilean)
Ariel
|
$800
[9]
Seen here, this perennial grass is used to make biofuel in Brazil
sugar cane
Amy
Ariel
|
|
$1,000
[5]
This word that starts & ends with "U" means freedom in Swahili; it's one letter off from a classic TV character's name
uhuru
Simi
|
$1,000
[30]
In 2013 she began playing a reporter on "Being Mary Jane" & got engaged to Dwyane Wade
Gabrielle Union
Simi
|
$1,000
[25]
As well as a general noun for a looseshirt, it can be a verb meaning "to poof out slightly above the waist"
to blouse
Ariel
|
$1,000
[16]
Henry Allingham died aged 113 in 2009 as the last survivor of World War I's biggest naval clash, the battle of this Danish land
the Battle of Jutland
Amy
|
DD
$2,000
[12]
The Hollands Diep River flows into the Haring Estuary, which ultimately discharges into this sea
the North Sea
Amy
|
$1,000
[10]
Used in making everything from airplanes to appliances, it's the most abundant metal in Earth's crust
aluminum
Amy
Simi
|
| BUILDINGS IN HISTORY | GLOW-POURRI | AUTHORS | MOVIE MADNESS | CLASSICAL MUSIC | CROSSWORD CLUES "Q" |
|
$400
[28]
Martin Luther King wrote his famous letter on the need for civil rights action from ajailin this city
Birmingham
Amy
|
$400
[27]
Made with fluorescent inks, these posters glow in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet rays
black light
Ariel
|
$400
[16]
Julia Quinn is the author behind this steamy series of books that include "The Viscount Who Loved Me" & "To Sir Phillip, with Love"
Bridgerton
Amy
|
$400
[25]
In "The Dark Knight", this character says, "Madness... is like gravity: all it takes is a little push"
the Joker
Amy
|
$400
[13]
This Tchaikovsky work became popular for July 4th after a 1974 Boston Pops performance featuring fireworks & cannons
the 1812 Overture
Amy
|
$400
[4]
A witty remark(4 letters)
a quip
Amy
|
|
$800
[29]
At the Waitangi Treaty House, Chiefs like Tamati Pukututu & Lt. Gov. William Hobson signed this country's founding document in 1840
New Zealand
Simi
|
$800
[26]
Sometimes called the fourth state of matter, it exhibits a glow discharge that occurs between 2 electrodes at low pressure
plasma
Simi
|
$800
[17]
Despite numerous surgeries, eye problems left this "Dubliners" author nearly blind
Joyce
Amy
|
$800
[22]
Vic Vega is a tortured soul--no, make that a torturing soul--& gets an earful from a cop in this 1992 Tarantino film
Reservoir Dogs
Simi
|
$800
[9]
Wanda Landowska revived interest in this instrument, using it in the first recording of Bach's "Goldberg Variations"
a harpsichord
Amy
|
$800
[5]
The shaft of a feather(5 letters)
quill
Simi
|
|
$1,200
[14]
The Yusupov Palaceon St. Petersburg's Moyka River was the location of the rather lengthy killing of this man in December 1916
Rasputin
Amy
|
$1,200
[1]
Cats'eyesglow due to a structure that reflects light after it has passed around this photosensitive structure
the retina
Amy
Ariel
|
$1,200
[18]
In 2020 this author announced he was passing the Jack Reacher baton to his younger brother Andrew
Lee Child
|
$1,200
[21]
In "The Shining" this actor descends into insanity, to the dismay of Shelley Duvall
Jack Nicholson
Ariel
|
$1,200
[10]
He composed the famous "Wedding March" heardhereas part of the incidental music for "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Mendelssohn
Amy
Ariel
|
$1,200
[6]
A fixed minimum needed for a meeting(6 letters)
a quorum
Amy
|
|
$1,600
[15]
Paris' Hotel de Rambouillet was the site of a famous one of these female-run gatherings of artists & intellectuals
a salon
Simi
|
$2,000
[3]
Because tonic water contains this drug, it will glow under certain conditions
quinine
Simi
|
$2,000
[20]
Sharing his pen name with a Hemingway character, he wrote the "Wheel of Time" fantasy series
(Robert) Jordan
Simi
|
$1,600
[23]
This 1960 film character: "A madhouse?... My mother there? But she's harmless!" (welllllll... yes & no)
(Norman) Bates
Simi
|
$1,600
[11]
Though he'd live to age 91, this "Finlandia" composer pretty much stopped composing for the last 30 years of his life
Jean Sibelius
|
$1,600
[7]
To Incas, "the mother grain"(6 letters)
quinoa
Amy
|
|
$2,000
[30]
At Sengakuji Templein Tokyo, visitors honor the 47these, samurai who avenge their dead master & are buried there
ronin
Simi
|
DD
$5,000
[2]
Some think that Lakshmi's blessings go to those whose homes glow brightest during this festival
Diwali
Amy
|
DD
$5,000
[19]
Best known for his detective stories, in his later years, he gave lectures on spiritualism & wrote a 2-volume history of it
(Arthur Conan) Doyle
Amy
|
$2,000
[24]
In 2000 a murderous Christian Bale lived up to this Bret Easton Ellis title
American Psycho
Simi
|
$2,000
[12]
Composer Aram Khachaturian's most familiar piece is this sharp "Dance" featured in his "Gayane" ballet
the "Sabre Dance"
|
$2,000
[8]
Fancy synonym for silent(9 letters)
quiescent
Amy
|
It was feared this word caused panic, but in 1950 the U.S. Weather Bureau ended a ban on it in forecasts, saying prediction wasn't impossible
tornado