Zoe Strassfield — a park ranger and writer from Water Mill, New York
Matt Brooks — a healthcare IT analyst from Fredericksburg, Virginia
Cat Pisacano — a nurse from New York, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,500)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cat | $2,000 | $5,200 | $12,300 |
$3,399
2nd place: $3,000 |
$14,800
22 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Matt | $2,600 | $6,600 | $10,600 |
$10,600
New champion: $10,600 |
$10,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Zoe | $0 | $-1,000 | $1,600 |
$3,100
3rd place: $2,000 |
$3,000
9 R, 7 W (including 1 DD) |
| STRANGE CURRENCIES | RHYME TIME | NOVELLAS | TAKING YOU TO SCHOOL | LAST CENTURY | BASED ON A TRUE STORY |
|
$200
[30]
Per The Wall Street Journal, Sam Bankman-Fried uses this fish as clink currency; they call 'em "macks" in the joint
mackerel
Cat
|
$200
[1]
A fat-free monarch
a lean queen
Cat
|
$200
[29]
Richard Wright wrote a series of novellas titled this Harriet Beecher Stowe character's "Children"
Uncle Tom
Cat
|
$200
[28]
English:Amidst & into are amidst & into this part of speech
prepositions
Cat
|
$200
[13]
In 1989 Winfried Freudenberg was the last person who died while trying to escape over this, in a balloon
the Berlin Wall
Zoe
|
$200
[6]
Caitlin Carver played Nancy Kerrigan when Margot Robbie starred as this rival in a 2017 film
Tonya Harding
Matt
Zoe
|
|
$400
[17]
Using cheese as "cheese", a dairy cooperative near Bologna backed loans with wheels of this hard cheese
Parmesan
Matt
|
$400
[2]
A merciless academy
a cruel school
Cat
|
$400
[21]
This 1902 novella tells the story of a man assigned by an ivory company to take command of a damaged boat
Heart of Darkness
Matt
|
$400
[27]
Anatomy:There are both false & true vocal cords in this hollow, tubular structure, also called the voice box
the larynx
Matt
|
$400
[12]
A 1906 N.Y. Times headline announced President Teddy Roosevelt was "off for the ditch" to visit this country
Panama
Zoe
|
$400
[11]
In "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral", Kirk Douglas played Doc Holliday & Burt Lancaster played this lawman
Wyatt Earp
Zoe
|
|
$600
[16]
It's the silver type of currency in the "Harry Potter" series that shares its name with a farming tool
silver Sickles
Cat
|
$600
[3]
A violin conundrum
a fiddle riddle
Cat
|
$600
[20]
Truman Capote said Holly Golightly in this novella of his was not a call girl but an "American geisha"
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Cat
|
$600
[26]
Phys Ed:Hit the field of track & field & see if you can throw this a little over 323 feet, like Jan Zelezný
a javelin
Cat
|
$600
[14]
Here's a 1975 photo of a CIA worker helping evacuees onto an Air America helicopter during the fall of the city then known as this
Saigon
Cat
Matt
|
$600
[8]
An excerpt from "The Master of Disguise" & the article "Escape from Tehran" were the basis for the screenplay of this 2012 film
Argo
Cat
|
|
$800
[7]
In the 1940s this country's Magyar Nemzeti Bank printed the million billion pengő note to fight inflation
Hungary
Cat
|
$800
[4]
A kayak inspection
a canoe review
|
$800
[19]
At the end of this Hemingway tale, the title character's former helper Manolin agrees to go fishing with him again
The Old Man and the Sea
Cat
|
$800
[23]
French:Say "that's life" en Français, s'il vous plaît; it's also a B*Witched song
c'est la vie
Matt
|
$800
[15]
What's now this fossil fuels giant began in 1909 as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company
BP
Matt
|
$800
[9]
Jack O'Connellplayed Olympic runner & World War II P.O.W. Louis Zamperini in this film based on a nonfiction bestseller
Unbroken
Zoe
|
|
$1,000
[18]
Named for a signature sandwich, it was a cryptocurrency launched by the Russian branch of Burger King in 2017
WhopperCoin
Cat
Zoe
|
$1,000
[5]
Someone more rapid of movement when he begins fly fishing
a faster caster
|
$1,000
[22]
In "Berlin Stories" Christopher Isherwood wrote a novella about her, a nightclub singer in the Weimar Republic
Sally Bowles
Cat
|
DD
$1,000
[24]
History:This congressional committee created in 1938 became the Internal Security Committee in 1969 & was dissolved in '75
House Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Matt
|
$1,000
[25]
In 1966 a stuck thruster & an uncontrollable spin nearly killed Neil Armstrong on Mission 8 in this Apollo precursor program
Gemini
Matt
|
$1,000
[10]
Mark Rylance won an Oscar for playing spy Rudolf Abel in this Spielberg film
Bridge of Spies
Matt
|
| IT'S ALIVE | GUESTS ONHOT ONES | SAME FIRST & LAST CONSONANT | O CANADA | WE STAND ON GUARD | FOR THEE |
|
$400
[6]
Scientists think some dolphins use these creatures to protect their snouts while foraging along the ocean floor, not for cleaning it
a sponge
Zoe
|
$400
[22]
Look athim! Who would have thought he'd go on "Hot Ones" & talk about "Living with Yourself"? Not me
Paul Rudd
Cat
|
$400
[20]
Hopefully, you don't have to use your winnings to buy back the family jewels at this kind of store
a pawn shop
Matt
|
$400
[10]
Rising sea levels threaten the isthmus that connects Nova Scotia, "New Scotland", & this province with "New" in its name
New Brunswick
Matt
Zoe
|
$400
[26]
Guard Jerry Kramer's book "Instant Replay" chronicled this NFL team's 1967 season, including the "Ice Bowl" & Super Bowl II
Green Bay
Matt
|
$400
[14]
President Obama wrote "A Letter to My Daughters" titled this phrase that follows "sweet land of liberty"
Of Thee I Sing
Cat
Zoe
|
|
$800
[4]
It's the 4-letter word for some 30 genera of brown algae that grow big in cold sea water
kelp
Zoe
|
$800
[21]
This boy band told host Sean Evans how Swedish songwriters insisted the line "it's gonna be me" sound like "it's gonna be may"
*NSYNC
Cat
|
$800
[13]
It's a lack of harmony, or a gamer-friendly online gab zone
discord
Cat
|
$800
[9]
Once a part of the Northwest Territories, it became its own territory in 1898
the Yukon Territory
Matt
|
$800
[27]
The motto of this service branch is Semper Paratus, "Always Ready"
the Coast Guard
Matt
|
$800
[15]
Centuries ago, "you" was used to a social superior, but this religious group founded by George Fox thou-ed & thee-ed everyone
Quakers
Zoe
|
|
$1,200
[5]
That's not moss, but a species of usnea, the beard type of this
lichen
Zoe
|
$1,200
[3]
In her episode she spoke on the ageless staying power of her film "13 Going on 30"
Jennifer Garner
Cat
|
$1,200
[12]
It's a portmanteau word for a fiend for Lindt or Ghirardelli
chocoholic
Cat
|
$1,200
[1]
The Ottawa River is a tributary of this one that becomes a seaway
St. Lawrence
Matt
|
$1,200
[28]
In 1789 this hero of America's Revolution became colonel-general of the National Guard of Paris
Lafayette
Cat
|
$1,200
[16]
Melville's Ahab says, "From hell's heart I stab at thee" & this other 4-letter character in a classic sci-fi movie repeats it
Khan
Matt
|
|
DD
$1,400
[7]
The "B" in B. cereus, which causes food poisoning, stands for this nasty type of bacteria
Bacillus
Zoe
|
$1,600
[2]
JLaw teared up from the wings--or the memory of meeting this director at 18; he'd later direct her in "Don't Look Up"
Adam McKay
Matt
|
$1,600
[11]
army.mil says this battle cry can mean "anything & everything except 'no'"
hooah
|
$1,600
[18]
Canada recognizes more than 600 groups of indigenous people known by this ordinal term
First Nations
Zoe
|
$1,600
[17]
This 1888 Gilbert & Sullivan opera set in the Tower of London is subtitled "The Merryman and his Maid"
The Yeomen of the Guard
|
$1,600
[24]
She loved the hymn "I Vow To Thee My Country" by British composer Gustav Holst & it was heard 16 years apart at her wedding & funeral
Diana
Cat
|
|
$2,000
[8]
Many protozoans get around using these, aka false feet
pseudopods
Zoe
|
$2,000
[23]
On his Adult Swim show, this host destroys his set every episode, but says he is sedated in real life--"I meditate, jog, I eat salad"
Eric André
|
DD
$2,500
[29]
Weltanschauung in German, it can be optimistic or pessimistic
a worldview
Cat
|
$2,000
[19]
More "O Canada" lyrics! In 2018 this kind of love "in all thy sons command" became "in all of us command"
true patriot love
Zoe
|
$2,000
[30]
Rome breathed a sigh of relief in January of 41 A.D. after Caligula was assassinated by a member of this guard
Praetorian
Matt
|
$2,000
[25]
Polonius' rather windy advice to this son of his in "Hamlet" ends, "Farewell: My blessing season this in thee!"
Laertes
Cat
|
First published in 1812, this anthology included "The Water Nymph" & "The Booted Tom Cat"
Grimms' Fairy Tales