Patrick Creech — a planning director originally from Pink Hill, North Carolina
Elizabeth Hurd — a pastor from West Bloomfield, Michigan
James Hirsh — a lawyer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 2-day cash winnings total $47,418)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James | $2,400 | $6,200 | $16,200 |
$20,000
3-day champion: $67,418 |
$20,200
26 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Elizabeth | $1,600 | $2,800 | $6,000 |
$5,000
2nd place: $3,000 |
$6,400
9 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Patrick | $200 | $800 | $1,200 |
$1,180
3rd place: $2,000 |
$3,200
9 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME | STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME CONSONANT | SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS | BUSINESS AS UNUSUAL | FIRST LINES OF LITERATURE | SOME IF/THEN STATEMENTS |
|
$200
[28]
Timothée Chalamettransformed himself into Bob Dylan for this film & received an Oscar nomination
A Complete Unknown
James
|
$200
[29]
Wasabiis a Japanese version of this condiment
horseradish
James
Elizabeth
|
$200
[30]
In 1931 psychologist Winthrop Kellogg raised his own son alongside one of these animals, our very close relative
a chimpanzee
James
|
$200
[25]
During wartime, President Wilson nationalized these for a 2-year period; standardized freight cars were one result
railroads
Patrick
|
$200
[24]
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"
Pride and Prejudice
James
|
$200
[18]
If you have IgA nephropathy, then you have swelling in this organ & might take an ACE inhibitor to lower your blood pressure
the kidney
James
|
|
$400
[27]
As a tech guy, Jesse Eisenberg notes in this film, "If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook"
The Social Network
James
|
$400
[26]
Tyler Henry, star of TV's "Life After Death" & "Live from the Other Side", is known as the Hollywood this
Medium
Elizabeth
|
DD
$400
[8]
One step of Joseph Priestley's 1700s experiment to make soda water involved storing this gas in a sheep's bladder
carbon dioxide
Elizabeth
|
$400
[23]
As the sound era dawned, studios made movies in multiple languages using the same sets; here's the 1931 Spanish this
Dracula
Patrick
|
$400
[5]
"Samuel Spade's jaw was long & bony, his chin a jutting V under the more flexible V of his mouth"
The Maltese Falcon
Elizabeth
Patrick
|
$400
[17]
If you've applied to this private Calif. university with its own ZIP code, 94305, then you have about a 4% chance of getting in
Stanford
James
|
|
$600
[3]
"You better think"--who else but Jennifer Hudson could've pulled off playing this legend in "Respect"?
Aretha Franklin
James
|
$600
[6]
In a trial, if a unanimous verdict can't be reached, the jury is said to be hung or this
deadlocked
|
$600
[19]
To test this man's theory, a scientist hired trumpeters to play from a moving train & listened for a drop in pitch as the train passed by
Doppler
James
|
$600
[22]
In the 1950s a blight all but wiped out the Gros Michel, the standard variety of this, & growers had to switch to the Cavendish
the banana
James
|
$600
[9]
From the 19th century: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"
Anna Karenina
Elizabeth
|
$600
[14]
If x = 2, then y = thiswhen3x + y2= 55
7
James
|
|
$800
[1]
In a royal performance, Wu Tao played Pu Yi at age 15 in this 1987 Bertolucci film that won 9 Oscars
The Last Emperor
James
Elizabeth
|
$800
[7]
It's the young animal seen here
a gosling
Elizabeth
|
$800
[20]
The Central Rotunda of the Griffith Park Observatory showcases the pendulum experiment tried by this man in 1851
Foucault
|
$800
[4]
During Prohibition, this St. Louis company sold ice cream, carbonated coffee &malt syrup which, wink, could be used to brew beer
Anheuser-Busch
Patrick
|
$800
[10]
Walter Mosley's first novel: "I was surprised to see a white man walk into Joppy's bar"
Devil in a Blue Dress
Patrick
|
$800
[16]
If you stroll west along the coast of Tunisia, then you'll cross into this country (& be done with leg day for a bit)
Algeria
James
|
|
$1,000
[2]
One year before the appropriately named Adam Driver played "Ferrari", Frank Grillo was this fellow Italian maker of fast cars
Lamborghini
Patrick
|
$1,000
[13]
It can be someone who sets things right, or an electronic device that converts alternating current into direct current
a rectifier
|
$1,000
[21]
In the 1860s he presented to the French Academy of Sciences his work undermining the idea of spontaneous generation
Pasteur
Elizabeth
|
$1,000
[12]
During World War II, General Motors made guns, planes & tanks, like the M4 named for this Civil War general
Sherman
Elizabeth
|
$1,000
[11]
By Zora Neale Hurston: "Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in... for others they sail forever"
Their Eyes Were Watching God
James
|
$1,000
[15]
If you're this Greek god & you steal fire to benefit man, then you better have an escape plan, or like having your liver eaten on the reg
Prometheus
James
|
| GEOGRAPHY | INSTRUMENTAL TUNES | "BIT"S | LA BELLE ÉPOQUE | CONVICTED | THE ROLL OF A LIFETIME |
|
$400
[26]
Of the European countries with a Colonial presence in the Guianas, this one still has its overseas territory there
France
James
|
$400
[27]
A danceable "Theme from 'Mission: Impossible'" was a Top 10 hit in 1996 for Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen, aka 2/4 of this band
U2
Patrick
|
$400
[29]
It's the unit of currency comprising 100 million satoshis
bitcoin
|
$400
[13]
Completed in 1889, this landmark was later described by Jean Cocteau as "the beautiful giraffe in lace"
the Eiffel Tower
Patrick
|
$400
[25]
Nicola Bellomo killed a British officer in this type of camp & was one of the few convicted war criminals of Axis Italy
a POW camp (prisoner of war camp)
James
Elizabeth
|
$800
[7]
Roll Call's "Casualty List" reports on folks who retire, die or leave this for various other reasons
(the U.S.) Congress
Patrick
|
|
$800
[1]
This country has 3 regions: the Costa on the west, the Andes in the center & the Amazonia on the east
Peru
James
Patrick
|
$800
[19]
Inspired by a dance, this anthem of the disco era won a Grammy award for Best Pop Instrumental
"The Hustle"
Patrick
|
$800
[28]
From the German, this verb means to watch a card game & offer unsolicited advice to players
kibitz(ing)
James
|
$800
[12]
La Belley Époque began around 1871, after this war ended & the Paris Commune fell apart; by then, the French were ready to party
the Franco-Prussian War
James
|
$800
[14]
Sir Everard Digby pleaded guilty in this explosive 1605 plot, so he got to make a speech about Catholic rights
the Gunpowder Plot
James
|
$1,200
[6]
Hesang, "Lately I'm drowning my pain with a bottle and Mary Jane, no matter what I take, I feel the same"
Jelly Roll
James
|
|
$1,200
[2]
A tombolo is a sandy or pebbly one of these connecting an island to the mainland, like in Marblehead, Massachusetts
an isthmus
Elizabeth
|
$1,200
[4]
In 2013 YouTube streams became part of Billboard's chart metrics; the same week, this viral dance banger debuted at No. 1
"The Harlem Shake"
Elizabeth
|
$1,200
[3]
Once widely used as sedatives, this family of drugs has largely been supplanted by less risky benzodiazepines
barbiturates
Elizabeth
Patrick
|
$1,200
[11]
A club regular, this artist painted a six-foot-tallposterfor the Moulin Rouge that made him famous overnight
Toulouse-Lautrec
James
|
$1,600
[15]
Cryptocurrency executive Caroline Ellison's BF was SBF, this man, & Caroline got 2 years
Sam Bankman-Fried
Patrick
|
$1,600
[5]
Not recommended for 787s, it's anair maneuverinvolving a 100% revolution around the longitudinal axis
a barrel roll
James
|
|
$1,600
[18]
If you're in Oslo but pining for the fjords, take a 7-hour trip on the railway line named for this Hanseatic city
Bergen, Norway
|
$1,600
[20]
This theme from "Beverly Hills Cop" enjoyed a second life in the aughts thanks to a viral remix involving a digital frog
"Axel F”
James
|
$1,600
[22]
Deputy Dawg (more than Yosemite Sam) used this "cuss" word, an example of "taboo deformation", i.e., a naughty word being made benign
dagnabbit
|
$2,000
[10]
Still in use today, Hector Guimard's fancifulsubway station gatesintroduced many Parisians to this emerging style
Art Nouveau
|
DD
$2,000
[16]
It's no good when someone who had this job is convicted; the 68th, Richard Kleindienst, misled the Senate & got a suspended sentence
attorney general
Patrick
|
$2,000
[8]
Polynesians sailed thousands of miles using the feel of these "great" waves that keep rolling after the wind dies that caused them
swells
|
|
$2,000
[17]
This active volcano located on Antarctica's Ross Island is named after one of explorer James Clark Ross' ships
Erebus
Patrick
|
$2,000
[21]
This plucky tune first aired on "The Andy Griffith Show", but it became a No. 2 hit after a creepy cameo in "Deliverance"
"Dueling Banjos"
James
|
$2,000
[23]
In finance, it's the term for buying in one market & selling in another to profit from a price discrepancy
arbitrage
James
|
DD
$4,000
[9]
Wondrous contraptions at the Paris Expo of 1900 included La Grande Roue, the world's biggest one of these
Ferris wheel
James
|
$2,000
[24]
The conviction of Genrikh Yagoda, purged by Stalin in 1938, was a foregone conclusion, as it is in this PR-based type of proceeding
a show trial
James
|
— |
As a child, Christopher Robin Milne loved feeding a London Zoo animal whose former owner hailed from this city
Winnipeg