Karen Johnson — a member acquisition coordinator from Portland, Oregon
Margaret Chipowsky — an attorney from Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Finn Corrigan — a student from Vista, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $39,602)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finn | $1,000 | $1,800 | $11,400 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Margaret | $800 | $3,800 | $9,800 |
$18,800
New champion: $18,800 |
$9,800
15 R, 2 W |
| Karen | $800 | $1,800 | $15,400 |
$7,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,400
15 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| PICTURE/BOOK | BOATING GLOSSARY | DANCE OFF, BRO! | 4-LETTER COUNTRIES | FILMS OF THE 1990s | LET YOUR STAR GUIDE YOU |
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$200
[30]
Here's this 1850 novel quite literally
The Scarlet Letter
Margaret
|
$200
[26]
A windlass is a rotating device that houses the chain used to raise or lower this
the anchor
Karen
|
$200
[13]
If you like doing this step-slide-step ballroom dance, you can zip & whirl in a Viennese one or glide & dip with a Boston
a waltz
Karen
|
$200
[10]
It was the home of the Inca civilization for centuries before its conquest by Spain
Peru
Finn
|
$200
[24]
Dorothy is a device that studies tornadoes in this film starring Helen Hunt & Bill Paxton
Twister
Margaret
|
$200
[25]
A movie with lots of celebrities is said to be "star-" this, meaning "covered with objects"
studded
Finn
|
|
$400
[29]
This tragic 1937 novella now looks kind of cute
Of Mice and Men
Finn
|
$400
[14]
To take a sounding is to measure this, often important in unfamiliar seas
depth
Finn
|
$400
[21]
Pop star Psy said, the "mindset of this dance," also a song title, "is dress classy & dance cheesy" & imagine you're on a horse
"Gangnam Style"
Finn
|
$400
[2]
The city of Fallujah in this country is nicknamed the "City of Mosques"
Iraq
Finn
|
$400
[8]
For this 1994 film, Sandra Bullock actually learned to drive a bus & passed the licensing test
Speed
Finn
|
$400
[19]
This word can refer to a radiant explosion or a multi-colored candy brand
a starburst
Margaret
|
|
$600
[16]
It's mainly set in New York City
The Catcher in the Rye
|
$600
[7]
It's a rope attached to the lower corner of a sail to control it; if you're 3 of them "to the wind", you're drunk
sheet
Karen
|
$600
[27]
Popping is contracting & relaxing your muscles quickly; this, paired with popping, stops & holds during a move
locking
Margaret
|
$600
[12]
Columbus landed on this island nation in 1492, but Diego Velazquez began its first permanent settlement in 1511
Cuba
Finn
Margaret
|
$600
[1]
Character actorJ.T. Walshtold a story that made Billy Bob Thornton's Karl very ill at ease in this 1996 film
Sling Blade
|
$600
[20]
If you "hitch" one of these conveyances to a star, you're aspiring to lofty goals
a wagon
Margaret
|
|
$800
[17]
A landmark work of the 18th century
The Wealth of Nations
Karen
|
$800
[6]
It sounds like scissors are required to do this, change the angle of a sail to take advantage of the wind
to trim
Finn
Margaret
|
$800
[22]
Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do this Spanish courtship dance using castanets & an increase in speed as it progresses
the fandango
Finn
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
Sultan Haitham rules this nation on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula
Oman
Finn
|
$800
[4]
The 1990s saw 2 mob movies co-written by Nicholas Pileggi & directed by Martin Scorsese: "Goodfellas" & this Vegas-set one
Casino
Finn
|
$800
[5]
Originally a British tribunal, this 2-word term now refers to any group that adjudicates unfairly
the star chamber
Finn
|
|
$1,000
[18]
A first novel dealing with the Second World War
The Naked and the Dead
Finn
|
$1,000
[15]
This uppermost edge of the side of a boat gets its name because it was once used to support cannons
the gunwale
|
$1,000
[28]
French for "thrown", it's the grand ballet move seenherein all its beauty
a jeté
Margaret
|
$1,000
[11]
Mostly volcanic, about 300 islands make up this Pacific Ocean nation 1,000 miles north of New Zealand
Fiji
|
$1,000
[9]
Kat & Bianca Stratford attend Padua High School in this 1999 film loosely based on "The Taming of the Shrew"
10 Things I Hate About You
Margaret
|
$1,000
[23]
Oscar Wilde wrote "We are all in" this, "but some of us are looking at the stars"
the gutter
|
| GROUPS IN HISTORY | SEISMIC ACTIVITY | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK | GIVING YOU A PLUM ASSIGNMENT | CHILDHOOD HOMES | 3 LETTERS IN A ROW ALPHABETICALLY |
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$400
[5]
Around 300 B.C. this common class of ancient Romans gained equal rights with the patricians
the plebeians
Finn
|
$400
[24]
An earthquake where one platemovesunder another & pushes the top plate up may cause this wave that can reach around 500 miles per hour
a tsunami
Finn
|
$400
[25]
"Slow and steady wins the race" is a moral from Aesop's fable of these 2 creatures
the tortoise & the hare
Margaret
|
$400
[9]
For a while, Hasbro changed this profession of Plum in the game Clue to archaeologist, then to video game designer
professor
Finn
|
$400
[12]
A later owner of this current pop star's childhood home in Pennsylvania says the initials "TAS" in cement may be the singer's
Taylor (Alison) Swift
Margaret
|
$400
[30]
By the 1930s, its tokens included a battleship, a top hat & a shoe
Monopoly
Karen
|
|
$1,200
[2]
In England's Civil War, barbers probably rooted for this Puritan group named for keeping their hair short
the Roundheads
Karen
|
$800
[23]
In 1964 the Prince William Sound earthquake registered a scary 9.2 in magnitude in the southern part of this state
Alaska
Karen
|
$800
[22]
In his own version of this rule, Confucius said, "What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others"
the golden rule
Finn
|
$800
[14]
The kids in "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" had "visions of" these--likely not fruit but sweetened seeds
sugar plums
Margaret
|
$800
[11]
In 1942 the father of this baseball legend was the one doing the hammering, building a house in Mobile that you can visit today
Hank Aaron
Margaret
|
$800
[28]
A failure to pay money on a loan
default
Karen
|
|
$1,600
[1]
Lower-class people eager to see aristocratic French heads roll were "sans" these fancy breeches
culottes
Karen
|
$1,200
[18]
Haiti's government reported 300,000 deaths after a 7.0 quake & multiple aftershocks hit about 15 miles from this capital in 2010
Port-au-Prince
Finn
|
$1,200
[6]
Shame on Hipponax' line "There are two days when a woman is a pleasure: the day one marries her and the day one" does this rhyming finish
buries her
Karen
|
$1,200
[15]
Michelle Obama's plum-colored outfit on this day in 2021 helped crash designer Sergio Hudson's website
Inauguration Day
Finn
|
$1,200
[10]
"There are places I'll remember all my life", & one would have been thehomein Liverpool where he lived with Aunt Mimi
John Lennon
Finn
|
DD
$1,000
[27]
Apparel for a thespian
a costume
Karen
|
|
$2,000
[3]
Abbreviated KMT, it once battled Mao & is now one of Taiwan's main political parties
the Kuomintang
Karen
|
$1,600
[17]
A 9.1 off the coast of Honshu in 2011 led to a nuclear accident in this prefecture
Fukushima
Margaret
|
$1,600
[7]
While in the bath, he reportedly exclaimed "Eureka!" after coming up with a method to test the purity of gold
Archimedes
Finn
|
$1,600
[20]
This plant-breeding genius created more than 120 varieties of plum, more than of any other fruit or vegetable
Luther Burbank
Finn
|
$1,600
[8]
In Palisades, N.Y. the Whitney House, as in the family behind the Whitney Museum, was home to this daughter of Jon Voight
Angelina Jolie
Margaret
|
$1,600
[26]
Traditional head covering worn by Muslim women
a hijab
Margaret
Karen
|
|
DD
$3,000
[4]
Term for businessman like Rockefeller & Pullman; reformist Carl Schurz wrote of "The Modern" these who "Plunder at Will"
Robber Barons
Karen
|
$2,000
[19]
In 1960 an 8.1 quake that devastated Concepción in this South American nation was but a foreshock to a 9.5 event the next day
Chile
Karen
|
$2,000
[16]
From this "Elder" Roman's "Natural History": "When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it"
Pliny
Finn
|
$2,000
[21]
Not for the faint of heart or liver, it's European plum brandy, such as Rudolf Jelínek 10 Year Gold
slivovitz
|
$2,000
[13]
Martha Stewart likes to visit Nutley in this state to see her childhood home on Elm Street & the store where her dad bought Gallo wine
New Jersey
Margaret
|
$2,000
[29]
He led the Greeks against Troy
Agamemnon
Finn
Karen
|
In 2021 at age 95, this singer achieved a Guinness World Record for the oldest person to release an album of new material
Tony Bennett