Dan Melia game 1.Last game of Season 13.
Brian Keliher — a museum educator from San Diego, California
Dan Melia — a professor from San Francisco, California
Patrick Friel — a teaching assistant originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $30,021)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick | $1,500 | $3,100 | $9,100 |
$599
2nd place: Vacation to Tahiti |
$9,000
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Dan | $300 | $3,400 | $8,800 |
$12,800
New champion: $12,800 |
$8,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Brian | $-100 | $400 | $3,600 |
$8
3rd place: Motorola Star Tac Cellular Phone |
$4,600
9 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| SCIENCE | THE MOVIES | AMERICANA | THE 20th CENTURY | IN THE BACKYARD | ENDS IN "OUGH" |
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$100
[2]
This fossilized resin from prehistoric pines can preserve an insect forever
amber
Dan
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$100
[14]
In "The Wizard of Oz", Billie Burke told Judy Garland, "Never let those" items "off your feet for a moment"
the ruby slippers
Patrick
|
$100
[7]
Shoppers, take note: the Potomac Mills discount mall is this state's No. 1 tourist destination
Virginia
Dan
Brian
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$100
[1]
On May 5, 1981 Irish nationalist Bobby Sands died after a 66-day-long one of these
a hunger strike
Dan
|
$100
[26]
One of these devices stocked with thistle seeds may attract goldfinches
a birdfeeder
Dan
|
$100
[19]
When it breaks, the cradle will fall
the bough
Patrick
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$200
[3]
Most icebergs in the North Atlantic come from about 20 glaciers on this island's west coast
Greenland
Dan
|
$200
[15]
This 1996 animated & live action sports film featured the songs "Fly Like An Eagle" & "I Believe I Can Fly"
Space Jam
Patrick
|
$200
[8]
Midwesterners know it's the "Sioux State" as well as the "Flickertail State"
North Dakota
Brian
|
$200
[10]
An order was given in October, 1961 to remove this man's body from Lenin's tomb
Josef Stalin
Dan
|
$200
[27]
It's a good idea to regularly test the pH & chlorine levels of the water in one of these
a swimming pool
Dan
|
$200
[20]
A goon, a bruiser, a heavy or a thug
a tough
Dan
Brian
|
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$300
[4]
Around 1840 chemist John William Draper took the first photograph of this heavenly body
the Moon
Dan
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$300
[16]
He not only directed "The Doors" & "JFK", he cowrote the screenplays
Oliver Stone
Brian
|
$300
[9]
Known for its Victorian homes, Cape May in this state celebrates Victorian Week every October
New Jersey
Patrick
|
$300
[11]
2 British destroyers were sunk during this 1982 war
the War of the Falklands
Patrick
|
$300
[28]
Children help spread this common lawn weed when they blow off its white, puffy seeds
a dandelion
Patrick
|
$300
[21]
It's similar to batter but it's too stiff to pour
dough
Dan
|
|
$400
[5]
Birds & bees perform this transfer of gametes from anthers to stigmas
pollination
Patrick
|
$400
[17]
In movie titles, this pop artist's name precedes "Bad", "Dracula" & "Frankenstein"
(Andy) Warhol
Patrick
|
$400
[23]
Tahlequah in this state is the capital of the Cherokee Nation, so it's home to the Cherokee National Museum
Oklahoma
Dan
|
DD
$500
[12]
This country withdrew from the League of Nations in 1933 after the league condemned its attacks on China
Japan
Patrick
|
$400
[29]
A craze in the '50s, these bunkers were built in case of nuclear war
fallout shelters
Dan
|
$400
[22]
To truly eat like a pig, put your food in one of these
a trough
Brian
|
|
$500
[6]
Einstein said measurements of this depend on whether the observer is moving; it's not absolute
time
Patrick
Dan
|
$500
[18]
This actor played a scarred ex-teacher in his directorial debut, "The Man Without a Face"
Mel Gibson
Dan
|
$500
[24]
The world's oldest zydeco festival takes place annually in Plaisance, near Opelousas in this state
Louisiana
Dan
|
$500
[13]
A 1993 car bomb explosion in Florence, Italy damaged priceless works of art at this gallery
the Uffizi
Patrick
|
$500
[30]
This game played across a net became a medal sport at the 1992 Olympics
badminton
Dan
|
$500
[25]
It's a political division of New York City; Queens is one
a borough
Patrick
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| WORLD CITIES | RELIGION | VOCABULARY | THEATRE | U.S. PRESIDENTS | THE BLUES |
|
$200
[3]
Until 1990 it was the capital of West Germany
Bonn
Patrick
|
$200
[1]
This common Catholic prayer to Mary, the mother of Jesus, is set often to music
a Hail Mary ( Ave Maria )
Patrick
|
$200
[17]
This term for a powerful business leader comes from the Latin for "great"--magnus
a magnate
Patrick
|
$200
[11]
The Ritz-Carlton hotel in this Mass. capital is the setting for Moss Hart's comedy "Light Up the Sky"
Boston
Patrick
|
$200
[12]
During the Spanish-American War, his unit first saw action June 24, 1898 at Las Guasimas, Cuba
Theodore Roosevelt
Dan
|
$200
[24]
This region, the namesake of a blues style, is a plain hundreds of miles from the Mississippi's mouth
Delta
Brian
|
|
$400
[7]
Poland's third-largest city, its name can be spelled with 2 Ks or with 2 Cs
Kraków
Patrick
|
$400
[2]
In Hinduism the ashes of the dead are cast into this river to insure safe passage from this life
the Ganges
Dan
|
$400
[20]
A quint has at least this many siblings
4
Dan
|
$400
[13]
Female impersonator Charles Busch called his 1996 New York show "Flipping My" this
Wig
Dan
|
$400
[18]
Referring to his initials, classmates at West Point began calling him Uncle Sam
U.S. Grant (Ulysses Grant)
|
$400
[30]
A famous 1914 composition by W.C. Handy, or Missouri's professional hockey team
the St. Louis Blues
Patrick
|
|
$600
[8]
1 of only 2 Asian cities that hosted the Summer Olympics
Seoul (or Tokyo)
Brian
|
$600
[4]
This term used to designate all monks in Tibetan Buddhism means "superior one"
Lama
Patrick
|
$800
[22]
In 1907 humorist Gelett Burgess coined this word for the praising quotes on book jackets
a blurb
Dan
|
$600
[14]
James Earl Jones appeared as Lennie in a 1974 revival of this play based on a Steinbeck novel
Of Mice and Men
Dan
|
$600
[19]
He was the first president to serve 2 terms in office
George Washington
Dan
|
$600
[27]
In the 1960s this still-rocking British rock band took its name from a Muddy Waters blues classic
The Rolling Stones
Brian
|
|
$800
[9]
After Rhodesia became this country, Salisbury, its capital, became Harare
Zimbabwe
Patrick
|
$800
[5]
One symbol of this Japanese religion is the torii, a large gate traditionally made of wood
Shinto
Patrick
|
DD
$1,000
[21]
Synonyms for this adjective include evil, unlucky & to the left
sinister
Dan
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$800
[15]
Charlie Chaplin's son Sydney earned a Tony nomination for playing Nick Arnstein in this 1964 musical
Funny Girl
Brian
|
DD
$1,000
[25]
In 1832 this president vetoed the recharter of the Second Bank of the United States
Andrew Jackson
Brian
|
$800
[28]
With his band Double Trouble, this Texas guitar wizard led a blues revival until his death in 1990
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Patrick
|
|
$1,000
[10]
A church in this Italian city contains the tomb of Saint Anthony
Padua
Brian
|
$1,000
[6]
On May 1, 1738 he & some friends began a "little society" that prefigured later Methodist societies
(John) Wesley
Brian
|
$1,000
[23]
It's a term or expression used in place of an indelicate or taboo term
a euphemism
Patrick
|
$1,000
[16]
His expressionistic 1922 play "The Hairy Ape" opens in the firemen's forecastle of an ocean liner
Eugene O'Neill
Dan
|
$1,000
[26]
On March 4, 1853 this president gave his inauguration address from memory without notes
Franklin Pierce
Patrick
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$1,000
[29]
Known as the "Empress of the Blues", this singer often recorded with jazz great Louis Armstrong
(Bessie) Smith
Patrick
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The murders in the Rue Morgue & the mystery of Marie Roget are mentioned in the 1st paragraph of this 1845 story
"The Purloined Letter"