Michael Menkhus — a data analyst from Kansas City, Missouri
Lynda Tsuboi — a communications specialist from New York, New York
Martha Bath — a retired CPA from Seattle, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $30,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martha | $5,000 | $7,200 | $15,600 |
$26,100
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Lynda | $200 | $2,000 | $3,200 |
$5,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,200
7 R, 1 W |
| Michael | $1,600 | $5,000 | $18,600 |
$31,201
New champion: $31,201 |
$15,400
24 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 1 DD) |
| BETTER MOMENTS IN HISTORY | CHILDREN'S BOOKS | FARMING | MUST BE NICE | MOVIE TITLE REFERENCES | CHANGE ONE LETTER WORD PAIRS |
|
$200
[17]
They let them eat cake at this royal palace when Marie-Antoinette married the dauphin in 1770
Versailles
Martha
|
$200
[1]
In "And Tango Makes Three", based on a true story, 2 of these male flightless birds are given a chick to raise at a zoo
a penguin
Lynda
|
$200
[27]
The hard red spring type of this is a specialty of North Dakota; further south in Kansas is where they grow the hard red winter type
wheat
Michael
|
$200
[12]
Nice! You've got the Strottarga Bianco type of this fancy fishy treat ($3,000 an ounce or so) & a new box of Triscuits to serve it on
caviar
Michael
|
$200
[26]
"The Green Mile" was this bad part of Cold Mountain Penitentiary
death row
Martha
Michael
|
$200
[7]
Enjoyment for an ardent sports follower
fun & fan (fan fun)
Martha
Michael
|
|
$400
[18]
Both Americans & Europeans were jubilant on May 8, 1945, called this "Day"
V-E Day
Michael
|
$400
[2]
A picture book from 2013 tells of "The Day" these drawing implements "Quit"; blue is tired of only being used on bodies of water
Crayons
Michael
|
$400
[28]
Driving 20-ton vehicles on farmland can mean that the next year you'll get "stuck in" one of these, defined as a wheel track 3" deep
a rut
Michael
|
$400
[13]
Enjoy cheering on your NFL team from seats overlooking this numerical synonym for midfield
the 50-yard line
Michael
|
$400
[24]
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" was about the container said to house these
the Ten Commandments
Michael
|
$400
[8]
A jacket for a young male horse
coat & colt (a colt coat)
Lynda
|
|
$600
[19]
In the 1820s Jean-François Champollion deciphered the hieroglyphs on this ancient object found in 1799
the Rosetta Stone
Michael
|
$600
[4]
E.B. White wrote that this character "had ...a mouse's tail, a mouse's whiskers"
Stuart Little
Martha
|
$600
[3]
Jay Sommers, who created this '60s sitcom about retreating to the rural, hated hoeing as a kid on a farm in Greendale, N.Y.
Green Acres
Martha
|
$600
[14]
Not everyone reaches 35 years of marriage, let alone getting the traditional gift made of this natural sea-born substance
coral
Martha
|
$600
[22]
"Black Hawk Down" refers to a pair of these in Somalia
helicopters
Michael
|
$600
[9]
Misplaced plunder
lost loot
Lynda
|
|
$800
[20]
By 1834 this institution was abolished, though 8 years late for its last victim, a Valencia Teacher hanged for heresy
the Inquisition
Michael
|
$1,000
[6]
Huckle Cat & Lowly Worm are just 2 of the inhabitants of the busy, busy world of this author & illustrator
Richard Scarry
Lynda
|
$800
[29]
Since 2002 the European Union has said you can't feed swill, waste food that includes meat, to these animals
pigs
Martha
Michael
|
$800
[15]
Sure, waltz through expedited airport security screening with this arranged-in-advance TSA program
PreCheck
Michael
|
$800
[23]
In the groundbreaking movie "CODA", CODA stands for "child of" these
deaf adults
Lynda
|
$800
[10]
A distant paddle
far & oar (a far oar)
Martha
|
|
$1,000
[21]
On Nov. 9 of this year, Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, the German Walter Cronkite, declared, "The gates of the wall are wide open"
1989
Michael
|
DD
$1,200
[5]
A.A. Milne adapted this children's book for the stage & renamed it "Toad of Toad Hall"
The Wind in the Willows
Martha
|
$1,000
[30]
Heinz sauces--er, sources--ketchup tomatoes from this state's vast & fertile Central Valley
California
Martha
|
$1,000
[16]
For my bedroom, I'll take your closet where you keep a prized photo of this singer/actress & a few of the Hermès bags named for her
Jane Birkin
|
$1,000
[25]
In a 2007 animated film, this "peasant dish" earns a glowing review for a Parisian restaurant
ratatouille
Lynda
|
$1,000
[11]
A structure to store grain covered in fabric made by larvae
silo & silk (silk silo)
Martha
|
| GEOGRAPHY VIAKOKOMO | IN MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY | HUMANS IN SPACE | OLD FASHIONED | BEYONCÉ SONGS | SOUNDS JUST LIKE AN ANIMAL |
|
$400
[21]
In the Florida Keys, this one immortalized as a Bogart title is one of the largest, 30 miles long & less than 2 miles wide
Key Largo
Lynda
Michael
|
$400
[4]
"What gave my book... celebrity, was the success of one of its proposed experiments... for drawing lightning from the clouds"
Benjamin Franklin
Michael
|
$400
[27]
For an astronaut, an "umbilical" is a type of connection used on one of these excursions
a space walk
Michael
|
$400
[13]
A 19th century depiction of this nursery rhyme character is seenherein all her austere predicament
Old Mother Hubbard
Martha
|
$400
[1]
2-word title subtitled "(Put A Ring On It)"
"Single Ladies"
Michael
|
$400
[14]
A term of affection that opens many letters
a dear
Martha
|
|
$800
[22]
I wanna catch a glimpse of the acres ofstallsat the Marché en Fer, or Iron Market, in this Caribbean capital, so here it is
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
|
$800
[7]
"In the small town of Hannibal... everybody was poor, but didn't know it: and everybody was comfortable, and did know it"
Mark Twain
Michael
|
$1,200
[6]
The last year humansstoodon the Moon was during the Apollo 17 mission in this presidential election year
1972
Martha
Michael
|
$800
[12]
Old Dominion University is found in this "Old Dominion" state, one of the original 13 colonies
Virginia
Martha
|
$800
[28]
"Who run the world?" they do
girls
Lynda
|
$800
[15]
3-letter word meaning to intimidate, perhaps with a Guernsey
cow
Martha
|
|
$1,200
[19]
Come on, pretty mamas--& papas--& head 60 miles off West Palm Beach to Grand this, where Freeport is a major shipping hub
Bahama
Michael
|
$1,200
[9]
"The year before I was born a group called the Taliban... had taken over the country and was burning girls' schools"
Malala
Michael
|
$1,600
[8]
In 2021 Laura Shepard Churchley, daughter of the first American in space, went up on this colorful co.'s New Shepard
Blue Origin
Martha
Michael
|
$1,200
[2]
Old World monkeys are classified as catarrhines or downward this body part; New World monkeys, not shown, have flat ones
noses
Michael
|
$1,200
[29]
"Formation" is the last track on this album
Lemonade
Michael
|
$1,200
[16]
Contraction describing someone being mendacious
lyin'
|
|
$1,600
[20]
Baby, why don't we go to this bay? Usain Bolt has a restaurant there and check out Doctor's Cave Beachon the North Shore
Montego Bay
Martha
|
$1,600
[10]
"'Ella,' I said, 'I want to make the pilgrimage to Mecca"'
Malcolm X
|
$2,000
[24]
A Russianastronautis called a cosmonaut, & a Chineseastronautis called one of these, from Chinese for "outer space"
taikonauts
|
$1,600
[3]
In dictionaries O.E. is Old English & O.H.G. is this European language used until about 1200
Old High German
Martha
|
$1,600
[25]
A decade apart came these 2 "D. In Love" songs
"Dangerously In Love" & "Drunk In Love"
|
$1,600
[17]
Synonym for "pawn", as in "my jewelry is in..."
hock
|
|
$2,000
[23]
Get away from it all on this island with everything from A to A that boasts 620-foot Mount Jamanota as its highest point
Aruba
Michael
|
DD
$4,000
[11]
"In Xhosa, Rolihlahla... means 'pulling the branch of a tree,' but its colloquial meaning... would be 'troublemaker'"
Nelson Mandela
Michael
|
DD
$8,000
[26]
In November 2000 Yuri Gidzenko, Sergei Krikalev & William Shepherd became its first residents
the ISS (International Space Station)
Michael
|
$2,000
[5]
This "old style" calendar was dominant for more than 1,000 years before the "new style" Gregorian one came along in 1582
the Julian
Michael
|
$2,000
[30]
In "Sorry" "he better call" the woman known by these 5 words
Becky with the good hair
|
$2,000
[18]
It's another name for a golf course, especially in Great Britain
a links
Michael
|
In 2011 Leland, Mississippi, where Jim Henson grew up, honored Henson & his Muppets by renaming a bridge this, also a song title
Rainbow Connection