Niranjan Murali — an education policy professional from Washington, D.C.
Travis Lee — a systems engineer from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
Diandra D'Alessio — a technical writer from Montreal, Quebec, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $3,299)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diandra | $2,400 | $2,800 | $8,800 |
$12,401
2-day champion: $15,700 |
$8,800
10 R, 1 W |
| Travis | $800 | $2,800 | $12,400 |
$7,199
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,000
19 R (including 1 DD), 8 W (including 1 DD) |
| Niranjan | $1,400 | $4,200 | $8,000 |
$8,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| POETIC SUBJECTS | THE ROCKEFELLERS | TREES COMPANY | WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? | YES, OUI | CANNERY |
|
$200
[22]
Stephen Crane wrote, "Fast rode" one of these men, "ever waving an eager sword, 'to save my lady!"'
a knight
Niranjan
|
$200
[30]
One of the world's wealthiest men, John D. Rockefeller made his fortune in this business
oil
Travis
|
$200
[29]
It can refer to the uppermost layer of overlapping tree branches, or a cloth covering suspended over a bed
a canopy
Niranjan
|
$200
[6]
In 2004's "Spider-Man 2", this actor gets unmasked in front of Kirsten Dunst, James Franco & a trainload of New Yorkers
(Tobey) Maguire
Niranjan
|
$200
[1]
Evetin Izmir & Istanbul
Turkish
Niranjan
|
$200
[10]
This brand with an insect name cans a few varieties of albacore tuna including chunk white
Bumble Bee
Travis
|
|
$400
[16]
"Maître corbeau, sur un arbre perché", begins a Jean de la Fontaine poem about this type of bird
a crow (raven)
Niranjan
|
$400
[24]
In the 1970s this member of the Rockefeller family served briefly as vice president
Nelson
Travis
|
$400
[25]
FBI is shorthand for 3 common decomposers of dead trees: fungi, bacteria & these
insects
Niranjan
|
$400
[21]
In 2017's "Spider-Man: Homecoming", this actor accidentally appears unmasked in front of his pal Ned
Tom Holland
Travis
|
$400
[2]
Haion Hokkaido
Japanese
Niranjan
|
$400
[28]
Just outside of Porto in this country, Conservas Pinhais has been canning sardines in tomato sauce since 1920
Portugal
Diandra
|
|
$600
[23]
In haiku, hana are blossoms in general but most likely these, as in Buson's these "having fallen the temple belongs to the branches"
cherry blossoms
Travis
|
$600
[19]
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller was a founder of this NYC museum in 1929 & her son David was a longtime donor & trustee
the MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art)
Travis
Niranjan
|
$600
[12]
Pine trees are evergreens & also classified as these, for the scaly structures that house seeds
conifers
|
$600
[14]
In 2012's "The Amazing Spider-Man", this actor gets unmasked by NYPD captain Denis Leary
(Andrew) Garfield
Travis
|
$600
[3]
Takin Gdansk
Polish
Diandra
|
$600
[17]
A high-pressure machine is called this type of retort since it cooks fish in the cans with water vapor
steam
Travis
|
|
$800
[27]
"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame", says Emma Lazarus' poem called "The New" this
Colossus
Travis
|
$800
[15]
From 1985 to 2015 Jay Rockefeller, also known as John D. Rockefeller IV, was a senator from this state
West Virginia
Travis
|
$800
[8]
One of the 3 gifts of the Magi, this aromatic resin whose very name suggests sweet aroma comes from trees of the genus Boswellia
frankincense
Niranjan
|
$800
[11]
(I'm Shameik Moore.) In"Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse"I once again don the spider-mask as this Brooklyn teenager who follows in Peter Parker's webbed footsteps
Miles Morales
Travis
|
$800
[4]
Naiin the Cyclades
Greek
Diandra
|
$800
[13]
Seen here is a moody photo of a cannery on this Alaskan island that lends its name to a brown bear
Kodiak (Island)
Niranjan
|
|
$1,000
[26]
Time to release this sea creature, a Tennyson poem subject said to be a mile & a half wide with ship-crushing tentacles
the kraken
Niranjan
|
$1,000
[20]
Living to the age of 97, John D. was born when this man of Dutch descent was president, & died during FDR's second term
Van Buren
Travis
|
$1,000
[9]
"Green is the plane-tree in the square, the other trees are brown / They droop & pine for country air / The plane-tree loves it"here
the town
|
$1,000
[7]
He's the other title guy alongside Chris O'Donnell in 1997's "Batman & Robin", & he wishes we hadn't reminded you
George Clooney
Travis
|
$1,000
[5]
Baiin Bilbao & the Western Pyrenees
Basque
Diandra
Travis
Niranjan
|
DD
$1,400
[18]
This author said of Monterey, "The corrugated iron of the canneries glows with the pearly lucence of platinum"
John Steinbeck
Travis
|
| HISTORY | THE GULF OF MEXICO | CHEMISTRY | POP INSTRUMENTALS | MONTHLY PEOPLE, REAL & IMAGINED | PLAY "FREE" WORDS |
|
$400
[4]
To protect an ancestral cemetery, in 1910 attorney Lyda Conley became the 3rd woman & 1st Native American to argue a case here
the Supreme Court (of the United States)
Travis
|
$400
[27]
This powerful warm current flows north from the Gulf into the Atlantic Ocean
the Gulf Stream
Travis
Niranjan
|
$400
[12]
Water hardness is determined by the amount of minerals it contains, mostly carbonates of magnesium & this element
calcium
|
$400
[20]
In January 2000 Kenny G blew into the Top 10 with a version of this New Year's favorite
"Auld Lang Syne"
Travis
|
$400
[2]
A monthly person herself, Louisa May Alcott gave her characters Jo & Meg this last name
March
Travis
|
$400
[22]
In 1993 Gerald Perry became the first NFL player to sign with a new team as one of these under a new unrestricted system
a free agent
Niranjan
|
|
$800
[17]
Fake gunsnicknamed for this peaceful religious group fooled the Union into canceling an 1862 attack on Centerville, Virginia
the Quakers
Diandra
Travis
|
$800
[28]
The western end of this island forms a partial divider between the Gulf & the Caribbean Sea
Cuba
|
$800
[13]
Formerly used as an anesthetic & still used by bad guys on TV, it has the chemical formula CHCl3
chloroform
Travis
|
$800
[29]
A hit from "Deliverance" is called "Dueling" these, though in the movie, one duellist is playing guitar
banjos
Niranjan
|
$800
[21]
Aubrey Plaza, getting married as this character on "Parks & Rec": "I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Is that cool?"
April Ludgate
Diandra
|
$800
[23]
Also in the title of a classic Miles Davis track, it's a person who likes to mooch complimentary food & drink
a freeloader
Niranjan
|
|
$1,200
[3]
The byname of this 11th century Castilian military leader, a national hero of Spain, is from Arabic for "lord"
El Cid
Diandra
|
$1,600
[15]
The world's largest fish, these Gulf residents, can gather in large groups to feed near the mouth of the Mississippi River
whale sharks
Travis
|
$1,200
[10]
The Haber process was developed prior to World War I to produce this pungent gas from nitrogen & hydrogen
ammonia
Travis
Niranjan
|
$1,200
[19]
This almost lyric-free 2013 hit by Brooklyn producer/DJ Baauer has part of Manhattan in its title
the "Harlem Shake"
|
$1,600
[1]
This was revealed as Offred's real name on TV's "The Handmaid's Tale", but not in the novel
June
Diandra
|
$1,200
[5]
This cable channel was once known as ABC Family
Freeform
Niranjan
|
|
$1,600
[14]
Thisparamilitary group of young people was used in the 1960s to enforce the Cultural Revolution
the Red Guard
|
$2,000
[16]
In 1559 a Spanish expedition settled for about 2 years at what is today this city near the western end of Florida's Panhandle
Pensacola
Diandra
|
$1,600
[11]
Lighten "lightning" by a few letters & you have this polymer that bonds with cellulose to make wood
lignin
Diandra
|
$1,600
[24]
This monster hit by the Edgar Winter Group got its title from the way it was pieced together in the editing process
"Frankenstein"
Travis
|
$2,000
[7]
"Married", an 1884 collection of stories by this Swede, got him prosecuted for blasphemy
August Strindberg
|
$1,600
[6]
C.S. Lewis wrote that this ability is "the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having"
free will
Niranjan
|
|
$2,000
[18]
A 6th c. outbreak of bubonic plague bears the name of this Byzantine Emperor; it nearly killed him & devastated his empire
Justinian
Travis
|
DD
$6,000
[26]
This 76,000-square-mile peninsula juts up into the Gulf's south end
the Yucatan Peninsula
Travis
|
$2,000
[25]
This Italian's law says that equal volumes of gases at the same temp. & pressure have the same "number" of molecules
Avogadro
Travis
|
$2,000
[30]
In 1958 The Champs had a No. 1 hit with this sax-heavy tune whose only lyric is the title booze
"Tequila"
Diandra
|
DD
$3,800
[8]
The first woman to chair the U.K. Conservative Party, she led even more after becoming prime minister in 2016
Theresa May
Niranjan
|
$2,000
[9]
A kind of shoe is in this name for a pirate
a freebooter
|
The Vietnam War crypt at this memorial has been empty since the remains once there were identified & moved to St. Louis
the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier