Jesse Matheny — a customer success implementation manager originally from Huntington, Indiana
Liz Everhart — a subrogation analyst and science teacher from Louisville, Kentucky
Johanna Stoberock — a fiction writer and adjunct professor from Walla Walla, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,999)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johanna | $0 | $4,000 | $12,000 |
$1,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,000
14 R, 0 W |
| Liz | $3,200 | $3,600 | $11,000 |
$1,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,600
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Jesse | $1,000 | $4,200 | $10,800 |
$2,600
New champion: $2,600 |
$15,000
19 R, 2 W (including 2 DDs) |
| RIHANNA | HISTORICAL POTPOURRI | CONFIDENCE | BRIT LIT | TOP TO BOTTOM | A NATION OF VODKA BRANDS |
|
$200
[29]
Music superstar Rihanna was born in 1988 in the parish of Saint Michael in this Caribbean island country
Barbados
Liz
|
$200
[12]
The battle of this elevated spot took place in June 1775 after the Yanks fortified it, threatening the British position
Bunker Hill
Jesse
|
$200
[19]
This synonym for confidence can be found before "healer" & after "defender of the"
faith
Johanna
|
$200
[18]
Thomas Hardy promised his editor a pastoral novel & indeed set it, as the title says, "Far from" this group
the Madding Crowd
Johanna
Liz
|
$200
[24]
You've hit this hard piece of nature "bottom" at your lowest point
rock
Jesse
|
$200
[3]
Perhaps to enjoy with your caviar, Beluga Noble
Russia
Liz
|
|
$400
[30]
At age 16, Rihanna signed with Def Jam Records, then run by this man, & moved to his label a few years later
Jay-Z
Liz
|
$400
[11]
During the Galvestonhurricane of 1900, Isaac Clinehad this job & lost much of his reputation as well as his wife in the storm
meteorologist
Liz
|
$400
[20]
Ask with confidence in this classic game, "Was it Plum with the dagger in the study?"; you might be wrong, but be confident!
Clue
Jesse
|
$400
[17]
Passionate & a bit on the dark side, "The Giaour" in a poem by this lord & romantic is truly a him-ic hero
Lord Byron
Johanna
|
$400
[25]
You've scraped "the bottom of" this container at your lowest point
the barrel
Johanna
|
$400
[7]
Tito's
the United States
Jesse
|
|
$600
[15]
Rihanna's last name, it's on the beauty line that helped make her a billionaire
Fenty
Liz
|
$600
[10]
A 1756 incident saw numerous Europeans die in this dungeon in India
the Black Hole of Calcutta
|
$600
[21]
Facing a trial in 399 B.C., this philosopher was confident he was a good man & could not be harmed (he could, & he certainly was)
Socrates
Johanna
|
$600
[16]
In "A Room with a View", the view isn't of England but of this country
Italy
Johanna
|
$600
[26]
A New Yorker parody detailed the product liability lawsuit against this "top" company by "Mr. Wile E. Coyote, a resident of Arizona"
Acme
Johanna
|
$600
[4]
Sobieski
Poland
Liz
|
|
$800
[14]
Rihanna played a hacker helping with a heist at the Met Gala in this movie that took a male series to the distaff side
Ocean's 8
Liz
|
$800
[9]
In the 1650s this French king danced in ballets, some of which lasted for 12 hours
Louis XIV
Jesse
|
$800
[22]
A Shakespeare character asks, "Does he not hold up his head, as it were, and" this 5-letter confident walk "in his gait?"
strut
Jesse
|
$800
[2]
In Sir Walter Scott's "Castle Dangerous", which is book good, the castle is defended in 1306 against this Scottish king
Robert the Bruce
Jesse
|
$800
[27]
This word meaning situated beneath the Earth's surface also precedes "regions" about more, shall we say, sensitive body areas
nether
Jesse
|
$800
[5]
Grey Goose
France
Liz
|
|
$1,000
[13]
Rihanna's girl songs include "Selfish Girl", "A Girl Like Me", & signaling a new edgy image, "Good Girl..." these 2 words
"Gone Bad"
Liz
|
DD
$1,200
[8]
He peaked in power as Lord Privy Seal in 1536, fell from power, was executed & had his reputation revived by the late Hilary Mantel
Thomas Cromwell
Jesse
|
$1,000
[23]
With "each depositor insured to at least $250,000", this.gov says its "official teller sign... is a symbol of confidence"
FDIC
Jesse
|
$1,000
[1]
As the title suggests, this D.H. Lawrence novel recounts the romantic affairs of sisters Gudrun & Ursula
Women in Love
|
$1,000
[28]
This 6-letter word refers to the zenith or farthest point, such as the point where the Moon is farthest from the Earth
the apogee
Johanna
|
$1,000
[6]
Referring to a line of latitude that runs through it,42 Below
New Zealand
|
| THE NEW CAPITAL | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS | WHISTLEBLOWERS | COMEDIANS | UNGULATES | THE PARENT COMPANY |
|
$400
[6]
In 1918 Moscow replaced this city to become the new capital of Russia
St. Petersburg
Jesse
|
$400
[17]
This type of wedding often involves traveling to a fun location like Hawaii or Mexico
a destination
Jesse
|
$400
[15]
Public affairs officer Gina Gray's whistleblowing at this cemetery revealed unmarked graves, misplaced headstones & more
Arlington National Cemetery
Jesse
|
$400
[11]
Alex Trebek was a fan of this comedian who got "no respect" & liked hearing about his physician, Dr. Vinnie Boombatz
Dangerfield
Jesse
|
$400
[30]
This "ship of the desert" creature can survive a week of extreme heat without a drink
a camel
Jesse
|
$400
[27]
Care for a beverage? Coke owns Minute Maid; this owns Gatorade
Pepsi
Liz
|
|
$800
[5]
The urban plan for this post-Rio South American capital was called "Plano Piloto"
Brasília
Liz
|
$800
[18]
Everybody into the pool, this type with a vanishing edge
an infinity pool
Johanna
|
$800
[14]
Jeffrey Wigand's reporting about tobacco companies making products with addictive levels of nicotine became this movie
The Insider
|
$800
[12]
April 26, 2023 is the 90th bday of this funny lady whose Saturday night skits included "Rancid Harvest" & "Went with the Wind"
Carol Burnett
|
$800
[29]
Rudolph with your knees so loud... some types of this ungulate have knees that click so the group stays together in a blizzard
a reindeer
Johanna
|
$800
[9]
It provides YouTube, & you can Google that
Alphabet
Jesse
|
|
$1,200
[4]
In 2019 the president of Indonesia announced the capital would be moved from Jakarta on this island to a new city on Borneo
Java
Johanna
|
$1,200
[19]
Once meaning to "pull up by the roots", today it means to get rid of something completely, like to wipe out a disease
to eradicate
Liz
|
$1,200
[1]
Daniel Ellsberg's exposé of policy misconduct during the Vietnam War had this collective name & was leaked to The New York Times
the Pentagon Papers
Jesse
|
$1,200
[8]
Inducting him with just 3 others in a new Comedy Hall of Fame, John Mulaney said this "Fisher King" star never once phoned it in
Robin Williams
|
$1,200
[22]
The spear-like canine teeth of the collared peccary gave the animal this other name, an Olympic event plus a final "A"
the javelina
|
$1,200
[10]
You could say this company plays around, with Play-Doh & Playskool
Hasbro
Johanna
|
|
$2,000
[3]
In the 1990s this country moved its capital from Almaty to Akmola, which was renamed Astana & then briefly named Nur-Sultan
Kazakhstan
Jesse
|
$2,000
[20]
Used in science, a substance that can't be dissolved in a liquid is termed this
insoluble
Liz
|
$1,600
[7]
Sherron Watkins' whistleblowing led to the collapse of Enron as well as this "A"ccounting firm
Arthur Andersen
|
$1,600
[25]
There's video of this star of "Ride Along" taking a polygraph: inflating his height to 5'4" doesn't fool the machine
Kevin Hart
Jesse
|
$1,600
[23]
Arni is another word for this ungulate with a liquid in its 2-word name, tipping--& possibly breaking--the scales at over 2,500 pounds
a water buffalo
|
$1,600
[13]
Its name implies one simple machine, but this big multinational holds the mayo with Hellmann's
Unilever
|
|
DD
$3,000
[2]
In 1923 Kemal Ataturk helped make this city, home to the anti-Ottoman resistance movement, the new capital
Ankara
Jesse
|
DD
$3,000
[21]
In Zen Buddhism satori is attainment of this, also an intellectual awakening of the 18th century
enlightenment
Liz
|
$2,000
[16]
While working at a nuclear facility, this woman played by Meryl Streep on film grew concerned about safety issues & blew the whistle
Silkwood
Johanna
|
$2,000
[26]
In 2023hehosted the Golden Globe Awards, which returned to broadcast TV after a time-out
Jerrod Carmichael
|
$2,000
[28]
An ibex is a 4-letter ungulate ending in X; so is this, with one type being the scimitar-horned
an oryx
Johanna
|
$2,000
[24]
DreamWorks Animation is under NBCUniversal, which is under this cable provider
Comcast
Jesse
|
Last name of 3 men who missed the 1927 premiere of "The Jazz Singer" because a 4th of that name had died hours before
Warner