Shayan Sadegh — a medical scribe from Potomac, Maryland
Eleanor Dixon — a freelance technical editor from Vero Beach, Florida
David Bzdak — a philosophy professor from Syracuse, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $2,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David | $800 | $3,000 | $6,600 |
$10,401
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,600
18 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Eleanor | $3,200 | $3,400 | $12,218 |
$20,818
New champion: $20,818 |
$11,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Shayan | $600 | $2,000 | $10,400 |
$13,201
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,400
13 R, 2 W |
| ON A HOLIDAY | U.S. CITIES | ANIMALS & THE LAW | FRUITS & VEGETABLES IN FRENCH | GAME PLAN | "X"s & "O"s |
|
$200
[12]
Martin Luther spooked the Catholic church when he chose this fall day in 1517 to proclaim his 95 Theses
Halloween (October 31st)
Eleanor
|
$200
[1]
Things found in this city: The Joe Louis Fist statue as well as Ford Field
Detroit
Eleanor
|
$200
[17]
Shooting these "in a barrel" is proverbially easy but using firearms on them in Indiana state waters, legally problematic
fish
David
|
$200
[22]
Maïs
corn
Shayan
|
$200
[8]
Determine 3 things:In what room, with what weapon & whodunit
Clue
David
|
$200
[3]
The formal act of adding territory to a nation, it happened to Hawaii in 1898
annexation
David
|
|
$400
[13]
On May Day, 1961 this country's prime minister declared it a socialist nation
Cuba
David
|
$400
[2]
Wacker Drive is an impressive double-decker street in this city of big shoulders
Chicago
David
|
$400
[18]
Minnesota forbade contests in which this animal, "greased (or) oiled... is released & wherein the object is capture of" one
a pig
David
|
$400
[23]
Citron vert
a lime
Eleanor
|
$400
[27]
Collect 6 wedges for answering a question in 6 different categories, then head to the middle & answer one more
Trivial Pursuit
Eleanor
|
$400
[4]
A small book to aid priests performing one of these rites is called "Prayers Against the Powers of Darkness"
exorcism
Eleanor
|
|
$600
[14]
Ex-Confederates got a Christmas gift from this president in 1868: a full pardon
Johnson
Shayan
|
$600
[9]
Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts is home to this city's symphony orchestra
Pittsburgh
David
|
$600
[19]
You can own as many of these as you like in Calif. & enter them in a Calaveras jumping contest, but if one dies, you can't eat it
frogs
David
|
$600
[24]
Chou(chou de Bruxelles is Brussels sprout)
cabbage
Eleanor
|
$600
[28]
In survival mode, fight off mobs such as evokers & build shelter so as to stay alive
Minecraft
Shayan
|
$600
[5]
It's the natural color & appearance of your face
complexion
Eleanor
|
|
$800
[15]
This English explorer got stabbed in Hawaii on Valentine's Day 1779
(Captain James) Cook
David
|
DD
$1,000
[10]
At the foot of the Wasatch Range, this capital city was built on the bed of ancient Lake Bonneville
Salt Lake City
David
|
$800
[20]
New York City says horses that do this, popular with tourists & couples in Central Park, get 5 weeks of vacation a year
draw a buggy
Eleanor
|
$800
[25]
Ananas(& it's not a banana)
pineapple
Shayan
|
$800
[29]
Drop colored discs into a grid trying to get a quartet of yours in a row vertically, horizontally or diagonally
Connect Four
Shayan
|
$800
[6]
It means "tense" & "uneasy" but everyone except language fussbudgets also uses it to mean "eager"
anxious
Eleanor
|
|
$1,000
[16]
Pathfinder & this rover touched down on Mars July 4, 1997
Sojourner
|
$1,000
[11]
Named for a V.P. from Indiana, this Alaska city is home to the Goldpanners, who play an annual Midnight Sun Game at 10 P.M.
Fairbanks
Eleanor
|
$1,000
[21]
This state that had a famous Monkey Trial in 1925 lets you keep a pet monkey, but not a baboon
Tennessee
David
|
$1,000
[26]
Cerise
cherry
Eleanor
|
$1,000
[30]
Using a small mallet, tap out the blocks one by one until someone topples the standing animal
Don't Break the Ice
Eleanor
Shayan
|
$1,000
[7]
Thisemployee, who handles the care & upkeep of a church, sometimes has the specific responsibility seen here
the sexton
|
| ONE-WORD NONFICTION TITLES | FILMED IN GEORGIA | IT'S A PROCESS | 20th CENTURY NAMES | A DISASTER OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS | ITALIAN LOANWORDS |
|
$400
[2]
"Shape", about the hidden meaning of this branch of math, is dedicated in part to "AB"--presumably a person, not a line
geometry
David
|
$400
[7]
Seen here, Swan House, in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood, stood in for President's Snow's mansion in this film series
The Hunger Games
Shayan
|
$400
[1]
After wheat is processed via milling, about 72% of the original grain ends up in sacks of this
flour
David
|
$400
[15]
A Bible of sorts for members of the Red Guards, "The Little Red Book" is a collection of his quotations
Mao (Tse-tung)
David
Eleanor
|
$400
[13]
After this man makes burnt offerings, "The Lord said... neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done"
Noah
Eleanor
|
$400
[12]
Meaning "same here", it has its own marks
ditto
David
|
|
$800
[3]
"Duty" is the memoir of Robert Gates, who held this job from 2006 to 2011
Secretary of Defense
David
|
$800
[27]
Woodbury in this AMC series was actually the town of Senoia & the Alexandria Safe Zone scenes were also shot there
The Walking Dead
Shayan
|
$800
[8]
The Haber-Bosch process combines nitrogen & hydrogen to produce this strong-smelling gas that's liquefied into fertilizer
ammonia
Shayan
|
$800
[16]
In 1965, early in his career, he used a Honda motorcycle to leap over 2 mountain lions & a box of rattlesnakes
Evel Knievel
David
|
$800
[14]
These insects "did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left"
locusts
David
|
$800
[20]
Made with espresso, it's named for resembling the color of a certain friar's habit
cappuccino
|
|
$1,600
[5]
In "Eat, Pray, Love" Elizabeth Gilbert meets a guy from Brazil; soon she's ready to be this, her follow-up book all about marriage
Committed
|
$1,200
[28]
He not only created & executive-produced "The Haves and the Have Nots" for OWN, the series was filmed at his studios
Tyler Perry
|
$1,200
[9]
It's the elegant term for the process by which crude oil is distilled & purified into useful forms of petroleum
refining
|
$1,200
[17]
Hewon nine gold medals in four Olympics before retiring from track & field competition in 1997
Carl Lewis
David
|
$1,200
[24]
The Lord says, "Your children shall wander in the wilderness" for this length of time, "until your carcases be wasted"
40 years
Eleanor
|
$1,200
[21]
Name shared by the weapon & the shoe style seen here
a stiletto
Shayan
|
|
DD
$2,000
[4]
This word for all kinds of distractions from clear thinking is the title of a book subtitled "A Flaw in Human Judgment"
noise
David
|
$1,600
[29]
The Whistle Stop Café in Juliette became a real eatery after this 1991 movie filmed there, & still serves up the title dish
Fried Green Tomatoes
Eleanor
|
$1,600
[10]
Here's a vitriolic clue--the lead-chamber process produces this acid that doesn't react with lead
sulfuric acid
Shayan
|
$1,600
[18]
After his term as vice president, he was reelected to the Senate from Minnesota in 1970
Hubert Humphrey
David
|
$2,000
[26]
In 2 Kings this king of Babylon "cut in pieces all the vessels of gold... in the Temple of the Lord"
Nebuchadnezzar
David
|
$1,600
[22]
It's the text or "book" of an opera or a musical
a libretto
Shayan
|
|
$2,000
[6]
She's the author of the female empowerment bestseller "Untamed" & the wife of Abby Wambach
Glennon Doyle
Shayan
|
$2,000
[30]
Much of this thriller based on a James Dickey novel was filmed in Northeastern Georgia & on the Chattooga River
Deliverance
Eleanor
|
$2,000
[11]
This process reduces fat globules in milk into small particles that are evenly distributed, so the cream doesn't rise to the top
homogenization
Shayan
|
$2,000
[19]
A room at the U.S. Department of the Interior is named for this author of "Silent Spring"
(Rachel) Carson
Shayan
|
DD
$2,018
[25]
There's a lot of smiting & destroying after this group steals the Ark of God; things don't end well for Goliath, either
the Philistines
Eleanor
|
$2,000
[23]
Used to dilate the pupils, atropine is commonly derived from this plant whose name means "beautiful lady"
belladonna
Eleanor
|
Mont Bellevue de l'Inini is the highest point in this European possession largely covered by the Amazon rainforest
French Guiana