Brianne Barker — a biology professor from Madison, New Jersey
Colleen Birney — a court monitor from Milford, Connecticut
Ed Coulson — an economics and real estate professor from Dana Point, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $40,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ed | $3,200 | $3,600 | $17,600 |
$5,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$14,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Colleen | $600 | $2,000 | $8,200 |
$6,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,200
16 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Brianne | $4,500 | $8,700 | $14,700 |
$11,700
New champion: $11,700 |
$13,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| THE SOUTHERN U.S. | FICTION | A PRISONER OF YOUR OWN DEVICE | ALLITERATION | TENNIS ACES | ACCEPTABLE 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS |
|
$200
[11]
Natchez was an early capital of this state
Mississippi
Ed
|
$200
[2]
The story "January 1999: Rocket Summer" leads off this Ray Bradbury book of "Chronicles"
The Martian Chronicles
Ed
|
$200
[26]
I've lost hours on this site, the "leading destination for short-term mobile video"; fittingly, Kesha is a creator
TikTok
Colleen
|
$200
[16]
The NCAA trademarked this calendar phrase for springtime buzzer-beating, bracket-busting basketball
March Madness
Brianne
|
$200
[1]
"Rafa" is the nickname of this winner of more than 20 Grand Slam titles
Rafael Nadal
Brianne
|
$200
[21]
Big bovine
ox
Brianne
|
|
$400
[12]
If you're searching for El Dorado, the city is located about 80 miles from Hope in this state
Arkansas
Brianne
|
$400
[7]
This 1931 Pearl Buck novel became a Broadway play the next year with Claude Rains as Wang Lung
The Good Earth
Brianne
|
$400
[27]
Sweet! I just downloaded the "Saga" version of this app with a confectionary name; not sweet: there are over 11,000 levels
Candy Crush
Ed
|
$400
[17]
Chicago is practically synonymous with this special type of culinary delight
deep dish (pizza)
Brianne
|
$400
[3]
This Czech-born woman had a pretty good 1983, winning 86 of 87 matches & 3 Grand Slam titles
Martina Navratilova
Brianne
|
$400
[22]
An aboveground railway
el
Ed
|
|
$800
[14]
North Carolina has 2 national seashores: Cape Lookout & this other cape
Hatteras
Ed
|
$600
[8]
Protesting the Jim Crow system, Richard Wright's first book was titled this Stowe character's "Children"
Uncle Tom
Colleen
|
$600
[28]
secretrickroll.com allows my annoying friend to create sneaky links to Rick Astley singing this song; I always fall for it
"Never Gonna Give You Up"
Brianne
|
$600
[18]
First & last name of the woman in a tongue twister who "bought some butter, 'but', she said, 'the butter's bitter"'
Betty Botter
Colleen
|
$600
[4]
Mark "Eddo" Edmondson in 1976 is the last men's singles winner of this major who's from the country where it's played
the Australian Open
Ed
Brianne
|
$600
[23]
George Takei's 2-word catchphrase
oh my
Ed
|
|
$1,000
[15]
To see the Crimson Tide play football at Bryant-Denny Stadium, head to this city
Tuscaloosa
Brianne
|
$800
[9]
Even this Tolstoy heroine thinks it's weird that her husband & lover are both named Alexei
Anna Karenina
Ed
|
$800
[29]
With a name that is Latin for "eye", this company offers prescription lenses for its Quest VR headsets; I may never take it off
Oculus
Brianne
|
$800
[19]
In 2020, it was back to Midgar in this game's "VII Remake"
Final Fantasy
Colleen
|
$800
[5]
In women's tennis, 1930s star Alice Marble pioneered this 3-word aggressive style named for a way to begin a point
serve and volley
Ed
|
$800
[24]
"Special" is one type of this short form
ed
|
|
DD
$1,500
[13]
It's estimated that there are as many as 70 streets in Atlanta with this fruity 9-letter name
Peachtree
Brianne
|
$1,000
[10]
This Anthony Doerr novel is tied together by the idea of a paradise for birds, also found in an Aristophanes play
Cloud Cuckoo Land
|
$1,000
[30]
Companies convey offers via these "notifications", pop-ups on your device that perchance annoy
push notifications (pushes)
Ed
Colleen
|
$1,000
[20]
This group got a 2017 Lasker Award for providing "essential health services & reproductive care"
Planned Parenthood
Brianne
|
$1,000
[6]
Nicknamed "Little Mo", this Grand Slam tennis champ of the 1950s was honored on astampin 2019
Maureen Connolly
Ed
|
$1,000
[25]
COVID variant names skipped nu & this 14th Greek letter
xi
Brianne
|
| NOTABLE WOMEN | OSCAR WINNERS' TV ROLES | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM | TRANSPORTATION | "B.C." | A.D. |
|
$400
[11]
Living in Mytilene on Lesbos, this ancient poet wrote of a community called a thiasos
Sappho
Brianne
|
$400
[6]
Mork from Ork
Robin Williams
Colleen
|
$400
[1]
Most species of this color-changing lizard are native to Africa, like Botswana's flap-necked variety
chameleons
Ed
|
$400
[26]
A "chopper" is one of these with a long fork & a front wheel placed forward of the handlebars
a motorcycle
Colleen
|
$400
[14]
It's slang for basic training of new military recruits
boot camp
Colleen
|
$400
[19]
After he murdered his brother Bleda in the middle of the fifth century A.D., he was the undisputed leader of the Huns
Attila
Colleen
|
|
$800
[12]
Betty Williams & Mairead Corrigan won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for trying to end the violence here
Northern Ireland
Colleen
|
$800
[7]
Godmotheron "Fleabag"
Olivia Colman
Colleen
|
$1,200
[3]
Despite being apex predators, great white sharks are hunted by these cetaceans, which remove & eat their livers
killer whales (orcas)
Ed
Colleen
|
$800
[27]
These alliterative & inflatable recreational vessels are long, narrow & often yellow
banana boats
Colleen
|
$800
[15]
In 1921 at age 16 Clara Bow won one of these, winning a part in a Hollywood movie
a beauty contest
Ed
Colleen
|
$800
[20]
15th century Tibetan abbot Gedun Drupa was posthumously named the first of this title
the Dalai Lama
Brianne
|
|
$1,200
[13]
Steph Curry & Chelsea Clinton are 2 typical people who got early education at a school bearing her name
Montessori
Colleen
|
$1,200
[8]
Elliot Alderson on "Mr. Robot"
Rami Malek
Colleen
|
$1,600
[4]
Adult insects have 6 legs, all attached to this body section
the thorax
Brianne
|
$1,200
[28]
Greek for "circle" gives us the name of this helicopter relative
a gyrocopter
|
$1,200
[16]
It'sone of the few animals commonly called by its genus and species names
a Boa constrictor
Colleen
|
$1,200
[21]
In 1549 the first Governor-General of this Portuguese colony selected Bahia as its capital
Brazil
|
|
$1,600
[22]
Formerly known by this numerical name, the Opportunity in Education Act now bears Hawaii Representative Patsy Mink's name
Title IX
Ed
|
$1,600
[9]
Real-life crime boss Bumpy Johnsonon "Godfather of Harlem"
Forest Whitaker
Brianne
|
$2,000
[5]
Sea parrot is another name for this Atlantic seabird with black-&-white plumage & a triangular bill
a puffin
Ed
|
$2,000
[30]
Thistype of sailing vessel with a 4-letter name is still common in the Red Sea
a dhow
|
$1,600
[17]
It's the Chinese veggie seen here
bok choy
Colleen
|
$1,600
[24]
1616 saw the death of William Shakespeare at New place, in this place where he was born
Stratford-upon-Avon
Brianne
|
|
$2,000
[23]
Famous for her dying swan solo, this Russian ballerina was the most celebrated dancer of her time
Pavlova
Colleen
|
$2,000
[10]
In full prosthetic makeup, convicted killer Pam Hupp in 2022's "The Thing About Pam"
Renée Zellweger
|
DD
$4,000
[2]
This North American marsupial has a gestation period of as little as 12 days
an opossum
Ed
|
DD
$3,000
[29]
This type of sturdy horse-drawn wagon of early America, got its name from the Pennsylvania region where it was developed
a Conestoga wagon
Colleen
|
$2,000
[18]
Jenny Lind was a master of this operatic singing technique
bel canto
Ed
|
$2,000
[25]
The statue seenhereof this emperor of Rome's golden age was created around the time of his Germanic campaigns
(Marcus) Aurelius
Ed
|
Milton wrote of this contemporary: "When by night the glass of" him "observes imagined lands and regions in the Moon"
Galileo