Catherine Belling — a medical humanities professor from Chicago, Illinois
Matt Mierswa — an attorney from River Edge, New Jersey
William Chou — a research fellow from Austin, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| William | $2,600 | $4,200 | $14,600 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$14,600
18 R, 0 W |
| Matt | $6,200 | $9,400 | $16,600 |
$29,201
New champion: $29,201 |
$20,600
26 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Catherine | $-600 | $-400 | $400 |
$800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$400
5 R, 3 W |
| SAN DIEGO: NEWS CLUES | CARTOON THEME SONG LYRICS | 20th CENTURY AMERICA | HYBRID ANIMAL PARENTS | "LOCK" | KEY |
|
$200
[15]
(Sheena Parveen of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) At San Diego’s Grant Hotel back in 1970, sci-fi master Ray Bradbury& superhero artist Jack Kirby, greeted the 300fanswho attended the first of these; now, it’s an annual event drawing more than 130,000 each year
Comic-Con
William
|
$200
[6]
"I'm strong to the finich, cause I eats me spinach" is sung by this hero
Popeye
Matt
|
$200
[2]
In 1954 Senator Joe McCarthy provoked televised hearings after accusing the army of "coddling" these people
communists
Matt
|
$200
[20]
Of the zonkey seen here
a zebra & a donkey
William
|
$200
[25]
Notice the placement of this type of storage unit by each bed in the barracks
a footlocker
William
|
$200
[30]
It's the fort over which Francis Scott Key observed "the rockets' red glare"
Fort McHenry
William
|
|
$400
[14]
(Dagmar Midcap of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) On April 8, 2004, the Padres beat the Giants in the first Major League game at this ball park, a centerpiece of San Diego’s newly revitalized downtown
Petco
William
|
$400
[7]
He "will sleep till noon but before it's dark, he'll have every picnic basket that's in Jellystone Park"
Yogi Bear
William
|
$400
[1]
Tragically, on January 28, 1986 this exploded 73 seconds after liftoff
the Challenger
Matt
|
$400
[19]
Of the cattalo
a cow & a buffalo
William
|
$400
[24]
To move together in unison as if connected is to "march in" this
lockstep
Matt
|
$400
[29]
The painting seenheredepicts Christ giving the keys to heaven to this saint
Saint Peter
Catherine
|
|
$600
[13]
(Sheena Parveen of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) In 1986, the San Diego Museum of Arts mounted the first ever retrospective exhibit for this longtime La Jolla resident who had recently been named one of San Diego’s living treasures
Dr. Seuss
Catherine
|
$600
[8]
"More than meets the eye", they're "robots in disguise"
Transformers
William
|
$800
[4]
In 1925, this high school teacher was put on trial for teaching evolution in his Tennessee classroom
Scopes
Matt
|
$600
[16]
Of the small & energetic dog called a Chiweenie
a Chihuahua & a dachshund
William
|
$600
[23]
The western species of this tree has distinctive short, flat needles
a hemlock
Matt
|
$600
[28]
In this TV series, Keegan-Michael Key stumbles upon a magical town in which everyone acts like they are in a musical
Schmigadoon!
Matt
|
|
$800
[12]
(Dagmar Midcap of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) In 1969, the U.S. Navy opened its Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Program at Air Station Miramar, better known as this school that inspired a 1986 movie title
TOPGUN
Matt
|
$800
[9]
"Grab your backpack! Let's go! Jump in! Vámonos!!" says her theme
Dora the Explorer
Matt
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
Its 1980 eruption was the first by a volcano in the continental U.S. outside Alaska since 1917
Mount St. Helens
Matt
|
$800
[17]
Of the large but gentle dog called a Daniff
a Great Dane & a mastiff
Matt
|
$800
[21]
An Allen charge can be read to try to coax a verdict out of this type of jury
deadlocked
Matt
|
$800
[27]
Thisornithologist visited Key West in the 1830s; here'sthe house that's now named in his honor
Audubon
Catherine
|
|
$1,000
[11]
(Dagmar Midcap of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) In February 1983, Queen Elizabethvisited San Diego, stopping in Balboa Park to unveil a statue of William Shakespeare at this theater, named for the historic one in London where many of Shakespeare’s plays were first performed
the Globe
William
|
$1,000
[10]
"Come join the Warner Brothers & the Warner Sister, Dot! Just for fun we run around the Warner movie lot"
the Animaniacs
Matt
|
$1,000
[5]
In 1960 4 students in Greensboro, N.C. staged a sit-in at this store's whites-only lunch counter, sparking other sit-ins in the South
Woolworth's
Matt
|
$1,000
[18]
Of the Huarizo, these 2 domesticated South American camelids
a llama & an alpaca
Catherine
|
$1,000
[22]
Synonym for a wizard or a conjurer
a warlock
Matt
|
$1,000
[26]
This community service & leadership organization has Key Club International, for high school students
Kiwanis International
Matt
|
| INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL PARKS | THE MOVIE'S DIRECTOR | LET'S BUILD A HOUSE | POSSESSIVE LIT | UNDER QUARANTINE | WORD ORIGINS |
|
$400
[16]
Noted for its wooded gorges, Snowdonia National Park is found mostly in this U.K. country's Gwynedd County
Wales
William
|
$400
[10]
The 2019 horror thriller"Us"
Jordan Peele
Matt
|
$400
[21]
The hand railings on a stair or balcony can be called a balustrade or this, which you might slide down
a banister
Catherine
|
$400
[5]
"Some Pig" is one of the messages that shows up in the title object of this 1952 novel
Charlotte's Web
Matt
|
$400
[26]
To prevent 14th c. epidemics, some ships arriving in Europe had to sit at anchor for quaranta giorni, this many days before landing
40
Catherine
|
$400
[11]
This word for a political aspirant comes from Latin for "white", the color of their togas in ancient Rome
candidate
|
|
$800
[17]
India's Sundarbans National Park is part of a reserve for this endangered feline
a tiger
Matt
|
$800
[9]
2003's"Lost in Translation"
Sofia Coppola
William
|
$800
[27]
You can buy a finder to locate these vertical interior pieces of wall framing, which is helpful when hanging your Picasso
studs
Matt
|
$800
[1]
In this novel, the intelligent horses called Houyhnhnms have no words for evil
Gulliver's Travels
Matt
|
$800
[23]
With disease threatening NYC in 1738, the city set up a quarantine at Bedloe's Island, today home to this landmark
the Statue of Liberty
William
|
$800
[12]
This formal jacket is named for a New York country club where it was popularized in the 1880s
a tuxedo
Matt
|
|
$1,200
[18]
A sanctuary for moose, elk & bison, a Saskatchewan national park bears the name of this 19th century royal husband
Prince Albert
William
|
$1,200
[8]
The all-American tale "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"--with Gary Cooper, not Adam Sandler
Frank Capra
|
$1,200
[28]
If you're renovating, be careful before taking out one of these walls named for the extra weight it supports
load-bearing
Matt
|
$1,200
[2]
This Frank McCourt Pulitzer winner became a 1999 movie starring Emily Watson as the author's mother
Angela's Ashes
Catherine
|
$1,200
[22]
A 1793 yellow fever epidemic struck this city, then the U.S. capital, forcing the government to evacuate to Germantown
Philadelphia
Matt
|
$1,200
[13]
Before it meant a record player, it referred to a symbol representing a sound
a phonograph
Catherine
|
|
$1,600
[19]
Urho Kekkonen National Park in this nation is illuminated in summer by the midnight sun
Finland
William
|
$1,600
[7]
The 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe installment"Eternals"
Chloé Zhao
Matt
|
$1,600
[29]
An inward angle where two sloping roof sections meet is known by this geographic name
a valley
|
$1,600
[3]
Aslan gives animals the ability to talk in this book in which Narnia is created
The Magician's Nephew
Matt
|
$1,600
[24]
Numbers 5 mandated that the Israelites isolate anyone with the skin affliction the King James Bible calls this
leprosy
William
|
DD
$1,200
[14]
This dog breed gets its name from the German for "nose" or "muzzle"
Schnauzer
Matt
|
|
$2,000
[20]
This country's parks include Bontebok, a reserve for the rare bontebokantelope, as well as Kruger & Agulhas
South Africa
Matt
|
$2,000
[6]
1960's"La Dolce Vita"
Fellini
William
|
$2,000
[30]
"C" if you can come up with this term for a projecting beam that's supported at only one end
a cantilever
|
DD
$3,200
[4]
This Robert Penn Warren novel chronicles the rags-to-riches story of politician Willie Stark
All the King's Men
Matt
|
$2,000
[25]
Plague arrived by ship at this French Mediterranean port in 1720 & despite an immediate quarantine, half the city perished
Marseille
William
|
$2,000
[15]
Now a way to get out of something, it was originally a window in a castle wall for archers to shoot through
loophole
|
An aria from this opera says, "Put on your costume & apply make-up to your face. The people pay & they want to laugh"
Pagliacci