Michelle Arguelles — a product marketing manager from Oakland, California
Klay Frappier — an accountant originally from McHenry, North Dakota
Rocco Graziano — a substitute teacher from Staten Island, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rocco | $1,200 | $2,200 | $8,000 |
$14,000
2nd place: $3,000 |
$6,600
12 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| Klay | $1,600 | $3,000 | $12,000 |
$20,001
New champion: $20,001 |
$13,000
18 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Michelle | $2,600 | $6,400 | $10,000 |
$2,000
3rd place: $2,000 |
$9,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| FILM FRANCHISES | GEOGRAPHY QUIZ | SEUSS CHARACTERS À LA SEUSS | PALINDROMIC NAMES | SOUP! | JEOPARDY!IN 3-"D" |
|
$200
[30]
(Corbin Bleu presents the clue.) I've gone on to other films and theater, but my career got a big boost from my role of Chad Danforth in this Disney film franchise that also launched the careers of Zac Efron & Vanessa Hudgens
High School Musical
Michelle
|
$200
[21]
Monte Perdido, also known as Mont Perdu, lies along an international border in these mountains
the Pyrenees
Michelle
|
$200
[8]
A man on his back / On whom his kids hop / Makes a simple request / For the love of god, stop!
Pop
Michelle
|
$200
[29]
In a rather noted book, she is referred to as "bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh"
Eve
Klay
|
$200
[28]
In 2018 Campbell's trademarked this adjective for its hearty canned soups that eat "like a meal"
Chunky
Michelle
|
$200
[17]
This term for a trinket or gadget includes what you might call your father
a doodad
Rocco
Michelle
|
|
$400
[2]
This Liam Neeson film had the particular set of skills to spawn not one but 2 sequels & a short-lived TV series
Taken
Klay
|
$400
[20]
11,200-foot Mount Koussi in Chad is the highest point in this desert
the Sahara
Rocco
|
$400
[9]
He pushed protein & pork / 'Til a man needed a therapist / On a boat?! With a goat?! / He's a comestible terrorist!
Sam(-I-Am)
Klay
|
$400
[23]
This women's fashion magazine was founded in 1945 by Hélène Gordon-Lazareff
Elle
Michelle
|
$400
[27]
This Mexican stew made from beef tripe shares its name with a boy band; it's also reputed to cure hangovers, unlike the boy band's music
menudo
Michelle
|
$400
[26]
Text added as a supplement to a document or book
addendum
Klay
|
|
$600
[3]
In the "Back to the Future" movies, he played the eccentric & wacky Doc Brown
Christopher Lloyd
Klay
|
$600
[1]
This other stately river flows into the Mississippi about 50 miles southeast of Pine Bluff
the Arkansas River
Rocco
Klay
Michelle
|
$600
[10]
His holiday story has been discussed / In some hardy colleges / But after all that re-gifting / He should see his cardiologist
The Grinch
Rocco
|
$600
[22]
"Karenin's flat feet ... were particularly offensive to Vronsky. He acknowledged only his own right to love" her
Anna
Rocco
|
$600
[24]
Vinegar adds the signature tanginess to suan la tang, a Chinese soup better known by this pair of adjectives
hot & sour
Rocco
Michelle
|
$600
[25]
The expression "pay" these means to directly benefit; some shareholders receive them
dividends
Michelle
|
|
$800
[4]
It made sense when 50 Cent joined the '80s action stars for the 4th of these action films, but Kelsey Grammer in the third?
The Expendables
Rocco
Klay
|
$800
[7]
This big lake of Central Canada lies about 40 miles north of the provincial capital named for it
Lake Winnipeg
Klay
|
$800
[11]
The Once-ler cuts truffula / All greedy for cash / But he fights for nature / With a Sam Elliott 'stache
the Lorax
Klay
|
DD
$1,000
[13]
Born in 1888, little Irene von Bismarck-Schönhausen called her famous grandfather "Opa" this first name
Otto
Michelle
|
$800
[19]
You don't need a stove to make this cold soup, which many have referred to as liquid salad
gazpacho
Rocco
|
$800
[16]
When one of these solid figures is used as a die in games like Dungeons & Dragons, it's known as a D12
a dodecahedron
Klay
|
|
$1,000
[5]
These two words follow "Olympus", "London" & "Angel" in a franchise with Morgan Freeman & Gerard Butler
Has Fallen
Rocco
|
$1,000
[6]
The ABC islands of the Lesser Antilles are Aruba, Bonaire & this
Curaçao
Rocco
|
$1,000
[12]
A duo of destruction / Now, how about that? / Blue hair & red jammies / Per "The Cat in the Hat"
Thing One & Thing Two
Michelle
|
$1,000
[14]
Ms. Arendt, a political scientist & philosopher who wrote of "The Human Condition"
Hannah
Michelle
|
$1,000
[15]
Julia Child's advice for making this soup? Add whipping cream to a potage parmentier & chill, bro! (the soup, that is)
vichyssoise
|
$1,000
[18]
"Directional" word meaning oppressed or treated badly by those in power
downtrodden
Michelle
|
| WORLD HISTORY | NOW IT'S A MUSEUM | YOU'VE GOT NO BACKBONE | GET A ROOM | TOXIC CULTURE | WORDS FROM ASIAN LANGUAGES |
|
$400
[28]
In 1805 he visited Rome & possibly made a vow on Monte Sacro to free the Spanish colonies of America
Bolívar
Rocco
|
$400
[29]
This site began as a 12th century fortress on the Rive Droite; in 1546 Francis I began construction on the palace we now know
the Louvre
|
$400
[4]
This part of a snail gets bigger as the snail gets older, with new coils, or whorls, being added over time
its shell
Klay
|
$400
[19]
The Swedish word for this type of space reserved for bro leisure means "male kindergarten"
a man cave
Klay
|
$400
[9]
"Bleach" is the debut studio album from this grunge band
Nirvana
Klay
|
$400
[30]
A Hindi word for "to press" likely led to this word for the product we use on our hair before applying conditioner
shampoo
Michelle
|
|
$800
[24]
Also known as Cent Jours, this period ended in big trouble for Napoleon
the Hundred Days
Rocco
|
$800
[26]
A former mattress warehouse is now a Museum of Contemporary Art in this Pennsylvania city
Pittsburgh
|
$800
[5]
A jellyfish stings via nematocysts, barbed tubes that deploy venom upon contact with this part of the jelly-body
the tentacles
Klay
|
$800
[20]
If your life were a Jane Austen novel, you'd remove yourself to this room whose full name starts with "with"
the withdrawing room
|
$800
[10]
In the 1945 novel "Sparkling Cyanide" by this author, an heiress is poisoned in the West End & Colonel Race is on the case
Agatha Christie
Klay
|
$800
[27]
From Thai, it's a 3-letter Buddhist temple, like the Phra Kaew
a wat
|
|
$1,200
[3]
John Zephaniah Holwell said, "I will not attempt to describe" his night in this tiny dungeon in India; then he did, in a 1758 book
the Black Hole of Calcutta
Klay
|
$1,200
[12]
Alameda, California, is home to a museum housed in this aircraft carrier named for a type of wasp
the USS Hornet
|
$1,200
[6]
Much of the "squid ink" used in cooking is actually ink from these fellow cephalopods, slower than squids & with W-shaped pupils
cuttlefish
Rocco
Klay
|
DD
$1,000
[23]
Of the rooms where Professor Plum sometimes committed board game murders, it's the one sometimes known as a greenhouse
the Conservatory
Klay
|
$1,200
[11]
The cover of the 181st issue of "Batman" exclaims, "Trouble Between the Dynamic Duo!" & "Beware of" this character!
Poison Ivy
Rocco
|
$1,200
[13]
From Cantonese, it's served around brunch time; the "OED" notes early uses in English around the turn of the 20th century
dim sum
Michelle
|
|
$1,600
[1]
In the early 1900s the Herero & Nama genocide occurred in German South West Africa, now this country
Namibia
Rocco
|
$2,000
[17]
The Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House is now home to the New York City branch of the NMAI, National Museum of this
the American Indian
Rocco
Klay
|
$1,600
[7]
Some stuff you can't make up--certain types of this salad veggie of the ocean can shoot innards out their butts to entangle predators
sea cucumbers
Klay
|
$1,200
[21]
Realtor euphemisms for "small room with a toilet" include "half bath" & this type of room, also where one zhuzhed one's wig
a powder room
Klay
|
$1,600
[18]
This actor, Imhotep in 1932's "The Mummy", played the bad dude Jonathan Brewster in the play "Arsenic & Old Lace"
Boris Karloff
|
$1,600
[14]
From Japanese, it's an enigma or riddle familiar to Zen monks & their acolytes
a koan
|
|
$2,000
[2]
Term for fancy-uniformed cavalry troops; in 1610 "winged" Polish ones scored a victory at the Battle of Klushino
the Hussars
Rocco
|
DD
$3,000
[25]
As its name suggests it was once an administrative office for the Medicis; now it houses Botticelli's "Birth of Venus"
the Uffizi Gallery
Rocco
|
$2,000
[8]
All you need is love... unless you're this kind of critter in phylum Porifera, in which case you need ocean currents to bring you food
the sponges
|
$1,600
[22]
This French word for a woman's bedroom literally means "a place to sulk in"; we're guessing some man chose the name
boudoir
|
$2,000
[16]
Blues musician Huddie Ledbetteris better known by this stage name
Lead Belly
|
$2,000
[15]
Releasing a euphoric stimulant similar to nicotine, this nut that's chewed in Asia has a name from Malayalam
the betel nut
Michelle
|
The EU has 5 metropolitan regions of more than 5 million people; this city is the only one on the Mediterranean
Barcelona