Ian Foutz — a teacher from Camarillo, California
Simona Fine — a graduate student from Great Neck, New York
Taylor Clagett — a marketing director originally from Chesapeake Beach, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor | $2,600 | $7,300 | $17,500 |
$21,000
2-day champion: $31,800 |
$16,200
25 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Simona | $2,400 | $3,200 | $4,000 |
$1,500
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,000
8 R, 2 W |
| Ian | $2,200 | $2,400 | $6,800 |
$5,500
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,800
12 R, 4 W |
| STATES' HIGHEST POINTS | SPACE MEN & WOMEN | WELCOME TO OUR FRUIT STAND | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST | UNIFORM NUMBERS | THE "END" ZONE |
|
$200
[28]
Found in a small grove of trees, 1,257-foot Hoosier Hill
Indiana
Taylor
|
$200
[26]
In 1995 Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot one of these & in 1999 the first to command a mission aboard one
Space Shuttle
Ian
|
$200
[24]
A traditional part of Muslim diets during Ramadan, these palm fruits are known as tamuru in Arabic
dates
Taylor
|
$200
[27]
Of NBA franchises by team name, not city, they won the championship in 2021
the Milwaukee Bucks
Taylor
|
$200
[30]
In 2017 the Lakers retired both his No. 8 & 24; tragically, 3 years later, he was gone
Kobe Bryant
Taylor
|
$200
[20]
This word refers to the supports placed at either end of your collection of Simon & Garfunkel biographies
bookend
Taylor
|
|
$400
[22]
Humphreys Peak in the Kachina Peaks Wilderness
Arizona
|
$400
[25]
As this country's first astronaut, Soyeon Yipacked kimchi to share with her colleagues on the International Space Station
South Korea
Ian
|
$400
[23]
Thissweet & seedy vine fruit sounds like it might inspire an intense desire for it
passion fruit
Simona
|
$400
[21]
Of the Great Lakes, it's the fourth-largest & drains out through the Niagara River
Erie
Simona
Ian
|
$400
[29]
Tennis-related last name of NBA center Kevin, who wore 0 for the Cleveland Cavaliers for O-regon & O-hio
Love
Taylor
|
$400
[19]
Here are some "terms of" this: my little schmoopy, pookie, pumpkin & my darling
endearment
Taylor
|
|
$600
[10]
In Alaska, this mountain peak, of course
Denali
Simona
|
$600
[3]
Recorded aboard the ISS, Chris Hadfield's zero-g version of this Bowie song has gotten 52 million+ views on YouTube
"Space Oddity"
Ian
|
$600
[2]
Yup, those are ready to eat: you can quote me, Bartlett these get lighter in color as they ripen
pears
Ian
|
$600
[17]
Of the first 10 ordinal numbers
eighth
|
$600
[15]
Joe Namath offered his retired 12 to this new Jets QB, but he said that'd always be Broadway Joe's & went with his college No. 8
Aaron Rodgers
Taylor
|
$600
[18]
To compete for a prize
contend
Taylor
|
|
$800
[9]
Wheeler Peak in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains
New Mexico
|
$800
[4]
After a crewman was exposed to measles, backup Jack Swigert made it onto this 1970 Apollo mission & might have wished he hadn't
Apollo 13
Ian
|
$800
[8]
Fresh these are only in U.S. markets from September to January but they keep in your freezer for a year
cranberries
Taylor
|
$1,000
[12]
Of the 11 national battlefields, this one 10 miles from Hagerstown, Maryland
Antietam
Taylor
|
$800
[14]
You won't see any players from this MLB team wearing a single digit number; they've all been retired, & No. 8, twice
the Yankees
Taylor
Ian
|
$800
[7]
When Andrew Carnegie got his first of these monthly checks, he cried, "Here's the goose that lays the golden eggs"
dividend
Simona
|
|
$1,000
[1]
In Hawaii, this dormant volcano whose name means "white mountain" because it gets snow in winter
Mauna Kea
Taylor
Simona
Ian
|
$1,000
[5]
The first British citizen in space, Helen Sharman spent a week aboard this Soviet space station in 1991
Mir
Taylor
|
$1,000
[11]
Try a Pink Lady, also known as Cripps Pink, the first variety of this fruit to be trademarked
apple
Taylor
|
DD
$2,300
[16]
Of the 5 books of the Pentateuch, it's written in the form of a farewell address by Moses
Deuteronomy
Taylor
|
$1,000
[13]
This great Pittsburgh Penguin wore number 66 & was credited with 690 goals
Mario Lemieux
Ian
|
$1,000
[6]
Someone who throws money away on things they don't need might be called this compound word
a spendthrift
Ian
|
| MUSICAL WORKS | MY WOULD-BE VP | STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS | INTERNATIONAL BOOKS | HOSTEL | MAKEOVERS |
|
DD
$100
[7]
One of Rachmaninoff's best-known works is his "Rhapsody On A Theme of" this Italian violin virtuoso
Paganini
Taylor
|
DD
$100
[18]
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., running with a then-veep himself
Nixon
Taylor
|
$400
[22]
Doctors' duds
scrubs
Ian
|
$400
[21]
"Notes from Underground", a novella by this Russian, is about a man alienated from the world
Dostoevsky
Simona
|
$400
[20]
At the Circus Hostel in Berlin, there is a museum of this "Baywatch" actor who single-handedly ended the Cold War (jk, jk)
Hasselhoff
Taylor
|
$400
[15]
A few things added to cars on this show hosted by Xzibit: a fish tank, a fireplace, a Sistine Chapel-like ceiling
Pimp My Ride
Taylor
|
|
$400
[26]
Thea Musgrave's first commissioned work, in 1953, was "Suite O' Bairnsangs" for a festival in this, her native country
Scotland
|
$400
[27]
Sarah Palin, in a would-be first that would wait for a while longer
McCain
Taylor
|
$800
[23]
This-ing "the gnar" means skiing difficult terrain; this-ing on a guitar is what Eddie Van Halen did
shredding (thrashing)
Simona
Ian
|
$800
[25]
A deadly epidemic is sweeping through Oran, Algeria in this classic by Albert Camus
The Plague
Taylor
Simona
|
$800
[19]
A lodge on a playa in Nicaragua has this activity in its name & offers lessons to "improve your ripping skills"
surfing
Taylor
|
$800
[14]
In "Encino Man", this actor gets a major makeover after defrosting--he takes a bath
Brendan Fraser
Ian
|
|
$800
[29]
1739's "Saul" is one of this composer's most dramatic oratorios
Handel
|
$800
[28]
Paul Ryan, who'd remain in the House
Mitt Romney
Ian
|
$1,200
[6]
It's a machine that removes husks from grain; Andrew Meikle patented one in 1788
a threshing machine
|
$1,200
[16]
"Ghost Stories", a graphic novel from Canadian Jeff Lemire is set in atownoutside this city, across the river from Detroit
Windsor
Taylor
|
$1,200
[1]
You don't have to BYOV, bring your own volleyball, to this hostel in Bali that sounds exactly like a Tom Hanks film
Castaway
Taylor
|
$1,200
[13]
Rachael Leigh Cook gets a major glow up in this 1999 film with Freddie Prinze Jr.--her glasses are removed
She's All That
Ian
|
|
$1,200
[30]
Ferde Grofé called for coconut shells to imitate the clip-clopping of a burro "on the trail" in this suite
Grand Canyon Suite
|
$1,200
[8]
Lloyd Bentsen, who knew Jack Kennedy & was not afraid to say so
Dukakis
|
$1,600
[5]
It's adevicefor artists to make canvas taut & ready to be painted; the word also refers to something you carry an injured person on
a stretcher
Taylor
|
$1,600
[24]
Yu Hua's "Chronicle of a Blood Merchant" paints a picture of life under this man's Cultural Revolution
Mao
Simona
|
$1,600
[2]
The Central House Marrakech Medina boasts views of these mountains from its rooftop terrace
the Atlas Mountains
Taylor
|
$1,600
[11]
In "Crazy, Stupid, Love", Ryan Gosling helps this actor with a sartorial transformation
Steve Carell
Taylor
|
|
$2,000
[17]
Each of the 10 movements of this Mussorgsky work represents a piece of art on display, created by a late friend
Pictures at an Exhibition
Taylor
|
$2,000
[12]
Earl Warren, 5 years before becoming Chief Justice
Thomas Dewey
|
$2,000
[4]
Franz Joseph Gall developed this discredited pseudoscience that attempted to discern personality by skull shape
phrenology
Taylor
|
$2,000
[9]
Milan Kundera's second novel, "Life Is Elsewhere" was not allowed to be published in this, his home country at the time
Czechoslovakia
Simona
|
$2,000
[3]
Hostels around the Riviera Maya include the Itza Hotel Akumal & the Mayan Monkey Hostel in this "T"rendy place
Tulum
Taylor
|
$2,000
[10]
In season 5 of "Family Matters", Jaleel White's character takes an elixir & becomes this suave alter ego
Stefan Urquelle
Ian
|
The only country in Africa with Spanish as an official language, it lies mostly between 1 & 2 degrees north latitude
Equatorial Guinea