Angela Xu — a corporate lawyer from San Mateo, California
Ed Coulson — an economics and real estate professor from Dana Point, California
Karla Fossett — a content administrator from Saco, Maine (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karla | $200 | $3,400 | $7,000 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,000
14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ed | $4,000 | $5,000 | $18,700 |
$17,399
New champion: $17,399 |
$17,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Angela | $3,000 | $3,600 | $10,000 |
$2,601
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| EASTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY | BREAKFAST TIME | 8-LETTER WORDS | CHEMISTRY | SLOW | YOUR ROLE |
|
$200
[2]
Roman emperor Trajan made Dacia a Roman province, hence this country's very Roman name
Romania
Karla
|
$200
[1]
Enjoy that muesli--I'll be having this Quaker Oats cereal that debuted in 1963 along with its sailing man mascot
Cap'n Crunch
Ed
|
$200
[23]
Paper container for more paper
an envelope
|
$200
[8]
Organometallic compounds are defined by the presence of a bond between a metal & this element
carbon
Angela
|
$200
[16]
We're not sure which is the slowest but this thick sticky syrup can be made from carob or dates as well as from sugar cane
molasses
Karla
|
$200
[15]
Tonya Harding's movie mom & Anna Faris' TV "Mom"
Allison Janney
Ed
|
|
$400
[3]
Winston Churchill gave the speech that mentioned this ideological barrier that separated Eastern Europe
the Iron Curtain
Ed
Angela
|
$400
[27]
Nothing better than one of these classic donuts that shares its name with a venerable whiskey cocktail
an old-fashioned
Angela
|
$400
[24]
A formal hearing with a big shot, or a group of spectators
audience
Ed
|
$400
[11]
The lipids, which include fats & oils, are organic compounds that don't appreciably interact with this
water
Angela
|
$400
[17]
In Exodus he says, "I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue"
Moses
Ed
|
$400
[19]
Brüno & Borat
Sacha Baron Cohen
Ed
Angela
|
|
$800
[5]
The Alma River entered history when Russia lost an 1854 battle there during this war
the Crimean War
Ed
|
$600
[28]
A traditional Japanese breakfast might include this soup made with the same-named soybean paste as well as tofu & scallions
miso
Angela
|
$600
[10]
This adjective can mean related to debate or related to legal issues, like how somebody died
forensic
Ed
|
$600
[26]
The human body produces this vitamin when a sterol in the skin absorbs radiation
vitamin D
Ed
|
$600
[18]
Of the 4 swim strokes used in the Olympics, this one with a body part in its name is the slowest
the breaststroke
Karla
|
$600
[20]
Danny Tanner on 2 TV series
Bob Saget
Karla
|
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
Now written in the Latin alphabet, Moldova's language used to be written in this alphabet named for a 9th century priest
Cyrillic
Angela
|
$800
[29]
How about a spot of this? Espresso with a thin foam of steamed milk, from Italian for "spotted"
a macchiato
|
$800
[7]
Located near a coast, like some oil rigs
offshore
Ed
|
$800
[12]
Relative atomic mass is another name for this
atomic weight
|
$800
[9]
We all know it, exercise can boost a slow this, the rate at which the body expends energy & burns calories
metabolism
Ed
|
$800
[21]
The title roles in "Blue Jasmine" & "Where'd You Go, Bernadette"
Cate Blanchett
Karla
Ed
|
|
$1,000
[6]
Bulgaria is one of many countries on this peninsula that won freedom by breaking the cruel Ottoman yoke
the Balkan Peninsula
Angela
|
$1,000
[30]
This Hawaiian dish with a rhyming name is white rice topped with hamburger, a fried egg & gravy
loco moco
Karla
|
$1,000
[25]
Not bad, not great, just sufficient, from Latin for "equal"
adequate
Karla
|
$1,000
[13]
Acids & bases are among these current conductors; using a solid instead of a liquid one reduces the risk of fire in batteries
electrolytes
|
$1,000
[14]
The planet farthest from the Sun, it takes this ice giant 165 years to orbit it
Neptune
Ed
|
$1,000
[22]
Marty Kaan on "House of Lies" & Rhodey, also known as War Machine in the Avengers movies
Don Cheadle
Karla
|
| U.S. GEOGRAPHY | LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES | IT'S A BUST! | SPECIAL "K" | CELEBRITY CATCHPHRASES | HOMONAMES |
|
$400
[9]
The 8 Florida parishes in this state were once part of Spanish West Florida
Louisiana
Angela
|
$400
[29]
Some of the earliest known examples of these 14-line poems are by Giacomo da Lentini, who wrote in the 1200s
a sonnet
Ed
|
$400
[28]
Here'sa bust of this Founding Father who sat for the great French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon
Jefferson
Ed
|
$400
[27]
Sir David Brewster invented this optical device & patented it in 1817
a kaleidoscope
Ed
|
$400
[30]
This heiress trademarked "That's hot"
Paris Hilton
Angela
|
$400
[26]
To summon someone over a loudspeaker in a public place
to page
Karla
|
|
$800
[8]
Bowling Green, Kentucky & Bismarck, North Dakota are both in this time zone
the Central Time Zone
Karla
|
$800
[7]
In a 2021 movie version of a medieval tale, Dev Patel plays Sir Gawain, journeying to meet this title character
the Green Knight
Karla
|
$800
[16]
In 2007 a bust of this physicist was unveiled at the newly opened Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at Cambridge
Stephen Hawking
Ed
|
$800
[17]
This, usually spicy pickled cabbage, is the national dish of Korea
kimchi
Karla
|
$1,200
[18]
Heidi Klum made this German phrase her signature goodbye to losing contestants on "Project Runway"
auf Wiedersehen
Karla
|
$800
[25]
Made a hole in the earth
dug
Angela
|
|
$1,200
[1]
Seen here, Shoshone Falls, on this river in Idaho has been called "The Niagara of the West"
the Snake River
Ed
|
$1,200
[4]
The allegory "Everyman" from the late 1400s is one of the best known of these "plays" that stressed salvation & personal virtues
morality plays
Angela
|
$1,600
[14]
You'll find a bust of this composer near his piano at a small museum on Mallorca, where he wintered with George Sand
Chopin
Ed
|
$1,200
[12]
Running for 6 months on Broadway, the musical "Timbuktu!" was based on this other show whose name means "fate"
Kismet
Ed
|
$1,600
[20]
"Bam!" says this man who opened his first self-named restaurant in 1990 in New Orleans
Emeril (Lagasse)
Karla
|
$1,200
[24]
A draw in sports
a tie
Ed
|
|
$1,600
[2]
The Monongahela joins this river in Pittsburgh to form the Ohio
the Allegheny
|
$1,600
[5]
The "Chanson de" or "Song of" this hero tells of his death & the vengeance taken on the traitor Ganelon
Roland
Angela
|
$2,000
[15]
Here'sa bust of this French premier by fellow countryman Rodin
Georges Clemenceau
|
$1,600
[10]
The name of this cloth, a colorful fabric of Ghanaian origin, comes from a word meaning "basket"
kente cloth
Angela
|
$2,000
[21]
"Another One" is a catchphrase of this deejay & record producer
DJ Khaled
Angela
|
$1,600
[23]
To get smaller, or especially to get less bright, like the Moon
wane
Angela
|
|
$2,000
[3]
Major cities in New Hampshire include Dover & this port that also shares its name with a historic port of southern England
Portsmouth
Karla
|
$2,000
[6]
This"venerable" guy completed his "Ecclesiastical History of the English People" around 731
Bede
Ed
|
DD
$2,500
[13]
In the painting seen here, Rembrandt depicted Aristotle contemplating a bust of this poet
Homer
Ed
|
$2,000
[11]
In Zen Buddhism, it's a paradoxical statement or question; a well-known one involves the sound of one hand clapping
a koan
Ed
|
DD
$4,000
[19]
In 2012 Merriam-Webster added this phrase about inspiration popularized by Oprah
aha moment
Karla
|
$2,000
[22]
4-letter word for thepiecethat slides into notches on a ratchet to pause the mechanism
a pawl
|
Honored in 1998 as part of a rock group & in 2019 as a solo artist, this singer was the first woman to be inducted into the Hall twice
Stevie Nicks