Joel Levinson — a head of content from Yellow Springs, Ohio
Finn Corrigan — a student from Vista, California
Katie Hargrove — a personal assistant and writer from Redondo Beach, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Katie | $1,600 | $3,400 | $9,800 |
$14,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,400
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Finn | $2,800 | $4,000 | $10,800 |
$19,601
New champion: $19,601 |
$14,400
19 R, 6 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Joel | $600 | $2,000 | $2,400 |
$2,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,400
6 R, 3 W |
| BALLET | 7-LETTER GRAB BAG | BEASTLY LIT | CIRCUMFLEXING ON YOU | SPORTS WITH NO BALLS | IRISH NAME DERIVATIONS |
|
$200
[27]
Stravinsky slyly used Russian folk idioms for the music of his 1922 ballet "Renard", with this animal being the title character
fox
Katie
|
$200
[19]
It's a room for young children or young plants
a nursery
Finn
|
$200
[7]
In "Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone", this groundskeeper has a pet dragon named Norbert
Hagrid
Finn
|
$200
[13]
Arrêter translates to this 4-letter word, if you're reading our signs correctly
stop
Finn
|
$200
[15]
What you're playing or watching if a drop pass is followed by a pad save
hockey
|
$200
[1]
"Water" is one suggested original meaning for this first name of swimming's Mr. Lochte
Ryan
Katie
|
|
$400
[14]
Choreographers like Alexander Gorsky have made this Moscow ballet co. that dates to 1776 one of the world's leading companies
the Bolshoi
|
$400
[24]
This carbohydrate is also called milk sugar
lactose
Katie
|
$400
[17]
The polite Twinkleberry & his impudent brother Nutkin are this type of animal in a Beatrix Potter work
a squirrel
Finn
Joel
|
$400
[21]
A Frenchman who's living in fantasy builds châteaux en Espagne, literally these in Spain; we build them "in the air"
castles
Finn
|
$400
[12]
Put on your gauntlet & wire mesh mask
fencing
Finn
Joel
|
$400
[2]
One of the most common family names in Ireland & a shade of green, it once meant "bright-headed"
Kelly
Katie
|
|
$600
[18]
As thecostumingindicates, Giselle is this kind of country girl, also the name of a pas de deux in the ballet
a peasant
Katie
|
$600
[23]
Nixon famously said, "When the president does it, that means that it is not" this 7-letter word
illegal
Katie
|
$600
[8]
With sinister consequences, a cat named Church is brought back to life in this 1983 novel
Pet Sematary
Finn
|
$600
[11]
Août is French for this traditional vacation time
August
Finn
|
$600
[20]
A shammy towel is key; Olympian Jennifer Abel used a black one
diving
Katie
|
$800
[4]
"The real" this last name means the genuine article; the real derivation is one of "fire"
McCoy
Joel
|
|
$800
[28]
In "Swan Lake", the same ballerina often dances both of these roles, a princess & a sorcerer's daughter
the white swan & the black swan (Odette & Odile)
Katie
|
$800
[10]
Thesetwo events occurred simultaneously in early morning Cambridgeshire in 2011
an eclipse & a sunrise
Finn
Joel
|
$800
[22]
Joy Adamson's nonfiction books "Born Free" & "Living Free" are about Elsa, this type of animal
a lion
|
$800
[9]
La fenêtre is one of these in your home
window
Finn
|
$800
[5]
A grand champion is called a yokozuna in this Asian sport
sumo
Finn
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
Also a type of foldaway bed, it derives from Gaelic for "sea warrior"
Murphy
Katie
|
|
$1,000
[29]
Moira Shearer, famous for dancing "Cinderella", popularized ballet playing a troubled dancer in this colorful film
The Red Shoes
Finn
|
$1,000
[25]
Also called freerunning, this French-sounding word allows one to overcome obstacles in leaps & bounds
parkour
|
$1,000
[26]
Odysseus is remembered by this faithful dog after returning from the Trojan War
Argos
|
$1,000
[16]
Literally "black beast", this 2-word French term refers to a specific thing that one strongly dislikes doing
bête noire
Katie
|
$1,000
[30]
Lots of open space, 7 players per team & one disc
ultimate Frisbee
Joel
|
$1,000
[6]
This last name means "lover of foreigners"--but sadly for the brothers in the band Oasis, not "lover of people in my family"
Gallagher
Joel
|
| LET'S HAVE A CONFLUENCE | MOVIE & TV ROLE IN COMMON | THROWING SHADE | HISTORY QUICK TAKES | "X"s & "O"s | CHEMICAL PEOPLE |
|
$400
[19]
These 2 rivers meet near the city of Al-Qurnah, just north of Basra in Iraq
the Euphrates & the Tigris
Finn
|
$400
[12]
Harrison Ford in a few films; John Krasinski on Prime
Jack Ryan
|
$400
[13]
Drop a "Y" from an action made by sleepy people to get this shade-giving roof extension
awning (from yawning)
Finn
|
$400
[5]
Rebellion is in the air & in the photo seen here, showing fighters in this 1900 uprising
Boxer Rebellion
Finn
|
$400
[26]
Heard here, it's a cousin to the glockenspiel
a xylophone
Katie
|
$800
[24]
Around 600 B.C. Thales of Miletus devised a system in which this one of the 4 classical elements was the basis of all things
water
|
|
$800
[8]
The Yazoo River joins the Mississippi below the bluffs of this Civil War site
Vicksburg
Joel
|
$800
[9]
Lena Headey on the tube, Linda Hamilton in several movies
Sarah Connor
Katie
|
$800
[25]
Abbreviated cu, these puffy, dense clouds are good for periods of shade
cumulus
Katie
|
$800
[1]
Ferdinand & Isabella wed in 1469, uniting these 2 kingdoms
Castile & Aragon
Finn
|
$800
[21]
It's the side of a coin with the principal design
obverse
Katie
|
$1,200
[14]
This English chemist analyzed Ancient Egyptian pigments but is remembered for funding an American institution
James Smithson
|
|
$1,200
[18]
The Rideau River got its name, meaning "curtain", from thefallsthat forms when it joins this one at a national capital
the Ottawa River
Finn
|
$1,200
[6]
Howard Keel in the 1953 film "Calamity Jane"; Keith Carradine in "Deadwood"
Wild Bill Hickok
|
$1,200
[22]
Archaeologists in Egypt found maybe the world's oldest this timepiece, missing its little shadow-casting doohickey
a sundial
Finn
|
DD
$1,500
[2]
In 1642 Mongols deposed Tibet's ruling dynasty & gave rule to the man with this title
the Dalai Lama
Finn
|
$1,200
[20]
From Greek for "dry" & "writing", this 10-letter word was described in 1948 as "a revolutionary process of inkless printing"
xerography
|
$2,000
[29]
19th c. Scottish chemist Thomas Graham is known for his namesake law on the rate of this dissemination of gases
diffusion
Finn
|
|
$1,600
[7]
The Seine splits into 2 channels around the Île Saint-Louis & rejoins just past this bridge across the Île de la Cité
the Pont Neuf
Finn
|
$1,600
[11]
Marlene Dietrich in "The Scarlet Empress"; Elle Fanning, much more recently on Hulu
Catherine the Great
Katie
|
$1,600
[15]
This "U" word refers to leaves that provide shade, or an annoyance that one takes personally
umbrage
Katie
|
$1,600
[3]
Abu Bakr became the first of these rulers in 632 after the death of Muhammad
a caliph
Joel
|
$1,600
[27]
It's defined as government by the few
oligarchy
Finn
|
DD
$2,100
[28]
Danish chemist Henrik Dam named this vitamin for its aid in coagulation, a word spelled differently in Denmark
K
Finn
|
|
$2,000
[17]
Austria-Hungary, Germany & Russia formerly met at a river junction known as Three Emperors' Corner now in this country
Poland
|
$2,000
[10]
James Cromwell in "The Queen"; Tobias Menzies in "The Crown"
Prince Philip
Katie
|
$2,000
[16]
In a 1922 novel he wrote that Siddhartha grew up in the "shade of the sallow wood and the fig tree"
Hesse
Finn
|
$2,000
[4]
He tried to starve the colonists out but later let his daughter Pocahontas marry one
Powhatan
Finn
|
$2,000
[23]
It's a gesture such as a bow to show reverence or respect
an obeisance
Joel
|
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This 1962 classic was dedicated to Albert Schweitzer, who predicted that man "will end by destroying the earth"
Silent Spring