Allegra Hill — a foreign affairs professional from Washington, D.C.
Daniel Richman — a Ph.D. student originally from Santa Barbara, California
Aimée Fluitt — a former national security consultant originally from Kansas City, Missouri (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,599)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aimée | $2,200 | $5,000 | $11,800 |
$11,300
2nd place: $3,000 |
$10,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Daniel | $1,600 | $3,600 | $5,600 |
$5,600
3rd place: $2,000 |
$9,600
16 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Allegra | $4,400 | $5,000 | $12,800 |
$23,601
New champion: $23,601 |
$10,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| INTERSECTING WITH INSECTS | WORLD LITERATURE | TV TITLE FIRST & LAST NAME | ROCKS OF NOTE | "EZ" DOES IT | BACKHANDED COMPLIMENTS |
|
$200
[27]
When these insects get "social" & mingle as a group, they're in a flutter
butterflies
Aimée
|
$200
[10]
Nabokov wrote, "She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always" this title name
Lolita
Allegra
|
$200
[15]
Calista Flockhartpracticing law in Boston
Ally McBeal
Allegra
|
$200
[23]
It was not claimed to be the Pilgrims' landing place until 1741, 121 years after the event
Plymouth Rock
Aimée
|
$200
[30]
Dessert of choice at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum: astronaut ice cream from the gift shop, in this preserved state
freeze-dried ice cream
Daniel
|
$200
[28]
You have the intelligence of 2 men! Lloyd Christmas & Harry Dunne from this 1994 buddy comedy
Dumb and Dumber
Allegra
|
|
$400
[26]
Smaller than ticks at about the size of a sesame seed, the head type of this parasite may cause sleeplessness & be a hairy situation
lice
Daniel
|
$400
[4]
Scandalous antics of this Flaubert heroine include reading trashy novels & getting frisky in a moving carriage
Madame Bovary
Daniel
|
$400
[8]
Kristen Bell solving crimes while still in high school
Veronica Mars
Aimée
|
$400
[13]
In this city you can visit the Kaaba, which holds the black stone revered by Muslims
Mecca
Aimée
|
$400
[22]
Mon dieu! Right-winger Marine Le Pen can likely kiss the French presidency goodbye after a 2025 conviction for this
embezzlement
Daniel
|
$400
[12]
I love how you'll wear anything--even these stretchy cut-offs with a portmanteau name
jorts
Daniel
|
|
$600
[16]
There are 2,700-plus species of this cellulose-eating insect, a close relative of the cockroach--what an awful family reunion
termites
Daniel
|
$600
[1]
This Voltaire hero trades philosophy for fertilizer, deciding the key to happiness is simply to "cultivate our garden"
Candide
Allegra
|
$600
[9]
Hilary Duff as a ratheranimated teen
Lizzie McGuire
Allegra
|
$600
[7]
The natural formations of this venue 15 miles from downtown Denver create a stunning backdrop for rock concerts
Red Rocks
Aimée
|
$600
[21]
"On back day or on shoulder day?"--an age-old debate amongst gym rats over when to train this muscle for optimum rippage
the trapezius
Aimée
Daniel
Allegra
|
$600
[11]
You've got a great tan for someone who professionally plays this Blizzard sci-fi P.C. game with Zerg & Terrans
StarCraft
|
|
$800
[18]
A sub-discipline of entomology, vespology is the study of these like the mud dauber
a wasp
Aimée
|
$800
[2]
The rise & fall of the Buendía family is the subject of this novel that's been called "the gold standard of magic realism"
One Hundred Years of Solitude ( A Hundred Years of Solitude )
Daniel
|
$800
[14]
On this show teen Neil Patrick Harris writes in his journal & practices medicine
Doogie Howser, M.D.
Allegra
|
$800
[6]
A July 1969 story about these headline items called them "currently... the world's most priceless scientific treasure"
Moon rocks
Aimée
|
$1,000
[20]
And the award for most unpleasant biblical comeuppance goes to this queen of Israel, thrown from a window by eunuchs & then eaten by dogs
Jezebel
Allegra
|
$800
[24]
Neat, bro! You're going to camp at Outeroo at this southern music festival in June--I'd go but I enjoy bathing
Bonnaroo
Aimée
|
|
$1,000
[17]
It was big news when the Mediterranean type of this was found in Florida, a state that values its orange groves, April 6, 1929
fruit fly
|
$1,000
[3]
"But I'm not guilty," insists Joseph K., the hero of this novel; "there's been a mistake"
The Trial
Allegra
|
$1,000
[29]
Liev Schreiberis a professional fixer in Los Angeles
Ray Donovan
Aimée
|
$1,000
[5]
The Rosetta Stone features a decree written in Greek, Hieroglyphics & this Egyptian script, partly from the Greek for "people"
Demotic
Allegra
|
DD
$2,000
[19]
One who sings the part of Amneris in "Aida", for example
a mezzo-soprano
Aimée
|
$1,000
[25]
Congrats! Your novel won this award that had "Man" at the start of its name for 17 years--makes up for your unhappy childhood!
the Booker Prize
Daniel
|
| HOW DID I END UP IN CHARGE? | U.S. "J"-OGRAPHY | THE ARCTIC | IN GOOD COMPANY | LATIN LESSON | BACKHAND COMPLIMENTS |
|
$400
[29]
The deaths of Akhenaten & possibly of a little-known co-regent named Smenkhkare brought this boy king to the throne
Tutankhamun (King Tut)
Allegra
|
$400
[17]
In Utah this river empties into the Great Salt Lake, not the Dead Sea
the River Jordan
Allegra
|
$400
[20]
One definition of the Arctic is the area north of this, the limit where the pines & larches stop
the tree line
Aimée
|
$400
[28]
A company with a lot of sole, Kepner Scott in Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania is the oldest surviving maker of these for kids in America
shoes
Daniel
|
$400
[16]
Meaning "word for word", it's sometimes found before et literatim, or "letter for letter"
verbatim
Allegra
|
$400
[30]
John McPhee's book about a 1968 match between white guy Clark Graebner & him calls his backhand a touchstone of modern tennis
Arthur Ashe
Aimée
|
|
$800
[18]
Millard Fillmore ended up in the Oval Office when this predecessor died 5 days after consuming a lot of cherries & iced milk
Zachary Taylor
Daniel
|
$800
[15]
I have found what I'm looking for--it's this California National Park
Joshua Tree
Daniel
|
$800
[19]
Obtaining nutrients from the atmosphere, mosses & these fungus/alga combos can survive being covered in ice & snow for months
lichen
Daniel
|
$800
[27]
In 1886 door-to-door book salesman David McConnell gave perfume as gifts with orders, giving birth to this company
Avon
Aimée
|
$800
[11]
Literally "therefore", it's found in the middle of a famous philosophical phrase
ergo
Allegra
|
$800
[24]
Type of backhand pioneered in women's tennis by Peaches Bartkowicz, whose "terrific marksmanship" the NYT noted in 1965
two-handed
|
|
$1,200
[6]
The leave referendum got David Cameron to resign, Boris Johnsonbailed, soshetook up the mantle as UK prime minister
Theresa May
Daniel
|
$1,600
[13]
It's the most populous U.S. city that begins with "J"
Jacksonville
Daniel
|
$1,200
[3]
Proving that the ice packs rest on water, not land, this U.S. submarine passed under the Arctic in 1958
the Nautilus
|
$1,200
[9]
All aboard! Hobbyists & collectors, for the 125th anniversary in 2025 of this model train maker
Lionel
Daniel
|
$1,600
[8]
When a leader hasn't actually been elected, he might be deemed this 2-word type from Latin
de facto
Aimée
|
$1,200
[21]
Rod Laver had a great topspin backhand; rival Ken Rosewall mastered this opposite type (not "bottomspin")
underspin
Daniel
|
|
$1,600
[5]
Some springtime stabbing of his great-uncle & adoptive father set him up as heir; then he just had to deal with Mark Antony
Octavian (Augustus)
Daniel
Allegra
|
$2,000
[14]
A plot at Grandview Cemetery contains the graves of 777 unidentified victims of the catastrophic 1889 flood in this Pennsylvania city
Johnstown
Allegra
|
$1,600
[2]
The ptoes of this Arctic bird are covered with feathers, & it burrows into snow to sleep
a ptarmigan
Allegra
|
$1,600
[25]
It's the parent company of Ralphs, Harris Teeter, & Smith's Food & Drug supermarkets
Kroger
|
$2,000
[7]
This Latin phrase refers to a depiction in art of Christwearing a crown of thorns
ecce homo
|
$1,600
[22]
Mats Wilander praised the versatile backhand of this Wimbledon champ, given a knighthood in 2016 before he turned 30
Andy Murray
Aimée
|
|
$2,000
[4]
Charles I was executed, the future Charles II was exiled & this man became lord protector in 1653
Cromwell
Allegra
|
DD
$3,800
[12]
It was originally proposed that this capital be called Missouriopolis
Jefferson City
Allegra
|
$2,000
[1]
Kvitoya, Hopen & Spitsbergen are all islands in this Norwegian Arctic archipelago whose name means "cold coast"
Svalbard
Daniel
|
$2,000
[26]
The former headquarters of the Longaberger Company was built in the shape of one of these, its famous product
a basket
Aimée
|
DD
$4,000
[10]
If someone says this 3-word phrase, you might have been a little loose-lipped during happy hour
in vino veritas
Daniel
|
$2,000
[23]
"The best backhand in the world", said John McEnroe about Justine Henin, a star from this country in the early 2000s
Belgium
Allegra
|
The first 2 actors to refuse their Oscar trophies were in films with scripts that this man co-wrote
(Francis) Ford Coppola