Seth Alcorn game 1.
Rene Bender — a substitute teacher from Moreno Valley, California
Seth Alcorn — a bookseller from Placentia, California
Jay Marks — an emergency physician from Little Rock, Arkansas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jay | $0 | $-400 | $6,800 |
$13,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,800
10 R, 3 W |
| Seth | $800 | $1,200 | $23,600 |
$42,100
New champion: $42,100 |
$14,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Rene | $4,600 | $9,000 | $21,600 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$22,200
29 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| FIRST NOVELS | SONGS | COUNTRIES' NO. 1 EXPORTS | GRAVE MATTERS | A JUNE WEDDING CATEGORY | GOING TOPLESS |
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$200
[2]
Stephen King's first published novel was this tale of a tormented telekinetic teen
Carrie
Rene
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$200
[13]
The No. 1 hit "Judy in Disguise (with Glasses)" satirized this song that didn't even make the Top 40
"Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"
Jay
|
$200
[14]
From Cote d'Ivoire, the "beans" that make this ice cream flavor
chocolate
Jay
Rene
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$200
[12]
In October 1977 both his & his mother's remains were moved from Forest Hill Cemetery to Graceland
Elvis Presley
Seth
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$200
[7]
The placement of a wedding ring comes from a supposed connection between the ring finger & this
the heart
Rene
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$200
[1]
What the Forty-Niners sought or, without its first letter, what people over 49 are to some
gold (to old)
Rene
|
|
$400
[3]
Amy Tan's first novel, it told of 4 Chinese mothers & their American-born daughters
The Joy Luck Club
Rene
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$400
[19]
"I Dig Rock And Roll Music" was a Top 10 hit for this trio better-known for folk songs
Peter, Paul and Mary
Jay
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$400
[27]
From Comoros, this plant product, also an ice cream flavor
vanilla
Seth
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$400
[15]
His tombstone in Washington, D.C. is inscribed: "Renowned Photographer of the Civil War"
Mathew Brady
Rene
|
$400
[8]
That famous Mendelssohn music means it's time to start this, the exit of the wedding party
the recessional
Seth
Rene
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$400
[23]
Left unopened, this term for wheat, rice or rye becomes something you'll need to open an umbrella for
grain (to rain)
Jay
Rene
|
|
$600
[4]
Amory Blaine, a handsome, spoiled Princeton student, was the hero of this man's first novel, "This Side of Paradise"
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rene
|
$600
[20]
(Hi, I'm Pam Tillis.) My No. 1 country hit "Mi Vida Loca" translates to this in English
"My Crazy Life"
Rene
|
$600
[28]
From Guatemala, this crop, also an ice cream flavor
coffee
Rene
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$600
[16]
Once the "Greatest Athlete in the World", he now rests in the Pennsylvania town that's named for him
Jim Thorpe
Jay
|
$600
[9]
When a Jewish groom breaks a glass, some say it's to commemorate the destruction of this
the Temple
Rene
|
$600
[24]
Take the top off this musical instrument & you'll get a potent potable you can't beat
drum (to rum)
Rene
|
|
$800
[5]
K is for "Keziah Dane", her first novel published in 1967
Sue Grafton
|
$800
[21]
"Thuggish-Ruggish-Bone" was the first Top 40 hit for this rap group
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
Seth
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— |
$800
[17]
Although his new museum has since opened, he's buried on the grounds of his old one in Malibu, California
J. Paul Getty
Rene
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$800
[10]
I'm going to this place, also the term for a 2 1/2-yard-long veil, and I'm gonna get married
chapel
Rene
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$800
[25]
Without its leadership, this European country experiences physical suffering; Ouch!
Spain (to pain)
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|
DD
$1,400
[6]
I order you to name this first novel by Pat Conroy about tough Marine Corps colonel Bull Meecham
The Great Santini
Rene
|
$1,000
[22]
They were on a "roll" when they sent us a "Rock And Roll Love Letter" in '76
the Bay City Rollers
Jay
Rene
|
— |
$1,000
[18]
While he's buried next to Tennyson at Westminster Abbey, his wife Elizabeth is in Florence, Italy
Robert Browning
Rene
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$1,000
[11]
"Jumping" this object that signifies a wife's duties in the home is an African-American wedding tradition
broom (or broomstick)
Seth
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$1,000
[26]
Thunder can turn up the volume in a puffy one of these; so can losing its first letter
cloud (to loud)
Rene
|
| THE '76ers | THE WIZARDS | THE GRIZZLIES | THE ROCKETS | THE "SUN"s | PRO BASKETBALL |
|
$400
[23]
Roman emperor Theodosius I abolished these Greek games that had begun back in 776 B.C.
Olympic Games
Rene
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$400
[2]
According to the Harry Potter books, wizards use these birds, like Harry's Hedwig, to deliver mail
owls
Seth
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$400
[16]
With an estimated 32,000, this state has the largest population of grizzly bears
Alaska
Jay
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$400
[7]
Probably crude gunpowder-filled tubes tied to arrow shafts, rockets appear to have originated in this country
China
Rene
|
$400
[1]
Butch could tell you this was outlaw Harry Longbaugh's nickname
"The Sundance Kid"
Seth
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$400
[18]
In the name of Israeli basketball team Maccabi Elite T.A., T.A. stands for this city
Tel Aviv
Jay
|
|
$800
[24]
It made news in Nov. 1976 when it was announced that this 9-year-old girl would attend a D.C. public school
Amy Carter
Seth
|
$800
[3]
T.A. Barron wrote a 5-book epic on this wizard who's a big part of T.H. White's "The Once and Future King"
Merlin
Rene
|
$800
[17]
In this annual state, a grizzly's heart rate drops from about 40 beats a minute to as low as 10
hibernation
Jay
|
$800
[12]
This "colorful" missile range near Las Cruces, New Mexico is an important rocket propulsion testing facility
White Sands
Seth
|
$800
[8]
This Idaho ski resort is located in the Sawtooth Mountains
Sun Valley
Rene
|
$800
[19]
This Laker guard spent much of his youth in Italy--his dad Joe "Jelly Bean" played pro hoops there
Kobe Bryant
Rene
|
|
$1,200
[25]
First published at Harvard in 1876, it was the first collegiate humor magazine in the U.S.
Harvard Lampoon
Rene
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
In a John Varley novel, Cirocco Jones is the wizard of this living world named for an Earth goddess
Gaea
Rene
|
$1,200
[28]
This U.S. president's pet grizzly bears were a present from Lewis & Clark
Thomas Jefferson
Jay
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$1,200
[13]
Producing thrust against the main engines, these are fired to slow down the movement of a space vehicle
retrorockets
Jay
|
$1,200
[9]
Ernest Hemingway's original title for this 1926 work was "The Lost Generation"
The Sun Also Rises
Rene
|
$1,200
[20]
In 2002 the Houston Rockets' first round draft pick was this 7'5" center, formerly of the Shanghai Sharks
Yao Ming
Rene
|
|
$1,600
[26]
This "timely" British royal observatory was open for business in 1676
Greenwich
Seth
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$1,200
[4]
Novelist who wrote the line "I'm really a very good man; but I'm a very bad wizard"
L. Frank Baum
Rene
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$1,600
[29]
Grizzly bears are actually a subspecies of this "colorful" species
brown bears
Rene
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$1,600
[14]
All the Apollo spacecraft that landed on the Moon were launched by this booster rocket
Saturn rockets
Jay
|
$1,600
[10]
From the Arabic for "lawful", it's the largest branch of Islam
Sunni
Seth
|
$1,600
[21]
This pro league founded by Dennis Murphy in 1967 used a red, white & blue basketball
the ABA (American Basketball Association)
Jay
|
|
DD
$10,800
[27]
The "Babylonian Captivity" of the Roman Catholic popes in this French city was ended by Pope Gregory XI in 1376
Avignon
Seth
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$2,000
[6]
Ged is the title "Wizard of Earthsea" in a book by this sci-fi writer who uses her middle initial
Ursula K. Le Guin
Seth
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$2,000
[30]
Seen here, a grizzly bear prepares to feed on this fish, a staple of its diet
salmon
Seth
|
$2,000
[15]
Abbreviated the ESA, this agency launches payloads into space from French Guiana using Ariane rockets
European Space Agency
Seth
|
$2,000
[11]
He was the governor of New Hampshire before he became the first President Bush's chief of staff
John Sununu
Rene
|
$2,000
[22]
In 2002 this Sparks center made history with the first slam dunk in a WNBA game
Lisa Leslie
Rene
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In Apple's I-Movie program, the effect seen here that's done with photos is named for this TV filmmaker
Ken Burns