Terence Scroope — an online marketing consultant originally from Dobbs Ferry, New York
Ariel Schneider — a biology student from West Lafayette, Indiana
Tom Zamojcin — a digital marketing manager from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom | $1,400 | $4,400 | $12,400 |
$8,001
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,400
22 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ariel | $3,800 | $5,800 | $13,400 |
$24,900
New champion: $24,900 |
$13,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Terence | $0 | $1,200 | $4,000 |
$2,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,800
6 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| AFTER ALASKA... | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS | TICKLE THE IVORIES | DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP | MY "B*FF" | STUPID ANSWERS |
|
$200
[17]
The largest state in area
Texas
Tom
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$200
[2]
Riff & Bernardo lead 2 warring gangs in New York City in this 1961 musical
West Side Story
Tom
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$200
[12]
The Bible says this wise king's ships went to Tarshish to bring back "gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks"
Solomon
Ariel
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$200
[26]
Death came for him in 1170: T.S. Eliot resurrected him in 1935
Thomas Becket
Tom
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$200
[1]
It's the state animal of Kansas & Oklahoma
a buffalo
Ariel
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$200
[11]
It was the phase of the moon on Nov. 16, 2009, the date the movie "New Moon" premiered
the new moon
Tom
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$400
[18]
The next state, alphabetically
Arizona
Tom
Ariel
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$400
[3]
In this 1977 Woody Allen-Diane Keaton film, author Truman Capote had an uncredited bit as a Truman Capote look-alike
Annie Hall
Tom
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$400
[13]
Procter & Gamble calls this 2-word laundry detergent "a gentle clean that you can trust"
Ivory Snow
|
$400
[27]
Philippe Nguyen Kim Dien, an activist archbishop of Hue, died under house arrest in this country in 1988
Vietnam
Tom
|
$400
[7]
Variety has long used this word for a box office hit
boffo
|
$400
[14]
Canada's Swan River empties into this lake
Swan Lake
Ariel
|
|
$600
[19]
1 of 3 states with a smaller population
Wyoming (or Vermont or North Dakota)
Terence
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$600
[4]
This Oscar winner starring Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert was based on a cosmopolitan short story titled "Night Bus"
It Happened One Night
Ariel
|
$600
[16]
This African nation's population includes 4 major tribal groups: Akan, Kru, Voltaic & Mande
Ivory Coast
Terence
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$600
[28]
Ealdred, archbishop of York, died in 1069, a few years after crowning this Norman in Westminster Abbey
William the Conqueror
Ariel
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$600
[8]
It frequently refers to a help-yourself all-you-can-eat meal
a buffet
Ariel
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$600
[15]
Captain William Mynors named this island in the Indian Ocean on Christmas Day, 1643
Christmas Island
Tom
|
|
DD
$1,000
[20]
The state with the highest mountain
California
Terence
|
$800
[5]
This Best Picture winner for 2006 is Martin Scorsese's highest-grossing film to date
The Departed
|
$800
[22]
You live in an ivory one if you're isolated from the real world
an ivory tower
Tom
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$800
[29]
Vissarion Tikas, who became archbishop of this church in 1974, died in Athens in 1998
the Greek Orthodox Church
Tom
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$800
[9]
This officer maintains order in the court & also has custody of the jury
a bailiff
Ariel
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$800
[24]
You can form your own rock band & tour the world with this 2007 video game from MTV games
Rock Band
Ariel
|
|
$1,000
[21]
The state with the longest coastline
Florida
Terence
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$1,000
[6]
Temperance groups & the liquor industry both pleaded with Paramount not to release this 1945 Oscar winner
The Lost Weekend
|
$1,000
[23]
Called "king of the woodpeckers" & "Elvis in feathers", it may not be extinct
the ivory-billed woodpecker
Ariel
|
$1,000
[30]
This N.Y. archbishop died in 2000, 2 months after receiving the Congressional Gold Medal
Bishop John O'Connor
|
$1,000
[10]
I'm confused, perplexed, absolutely this
baffled
Ariel
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$1,000
[25]
In the web address of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, it comes just before "dot gov"
DOT (Dept. of Transportation)
Tom
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| 18th CENTURY HISTORY IN ART | PETS | BEYOND BELIEF | "W"ORDS | ME TARZAN | YOU JANE |
|
$400
[13]
William Hodges, official artist to this captain & explorer, painted "Tahitian War Canoes" in 1774
(Captain) Cook
Tom
Terence
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$400
[6]
The korat doesn't lose hair easily, so cat lovers who suffer from these can get a korat & ditch the Claritin
allergies
Ariel
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$400
[8]
From the Greek for "far feeling", it's communication between minds by paranormal means
telepathy
Terence
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$400
[1]
It's a small thin disk of unleavened bread used in the Eucharist
a wafer
Tom
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$400
[15]
Tarzan, lord of the jungle, encounters Numa, this royal animal of the jungle
a lion
Tom
|
$400
[22]
...who played a Conehead on "Saturday Night Live" & in the movies
Jane Curtin
Tom
|
|
$800
[18]
Here, army officer Rouget de Lisletries out this newpatriotic song he's writtenin 1792
"The Marseillaise"
Ariel
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$800
[7]
A tank with a large surface increases the supply of D.O., dissolved this, which fish take from the water
oxygen
Tom
Ariel
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$800
[10]
If your street address is 1234 & you were born 5/6/78, this -ology has a lot to say to you
numerology
Ariel
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$800
[2]
Snout beetle is another name for the true type of this insect
a weevil
Tom
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$800
[28]
"And so it was that... Tarzan stripped to" this garment & was "armed after the primitive fashion he best loved"
a loincloth
Tom
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$800
[23]
...who created a jewelry design called "Open Hearts"
Jane Seymour
Tom
|
|
$1,200
[19]
Seen here, Nader Shah of what's now this Mideastern land loved conquering places like Bahrain & Oman
Iran
|
$1,200
[9]
After cuddling your common box type of this reptile, wash your hands to prevent salmonella
turtle
Tom
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$1,200
[14]
It's fortunetelling by analysis of the creases of the hand
palm reading (or palmistry)
Ariel
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$1,200
[3]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a monitor.) Fingerprints are impressions of the friction ridges on the skin that form an overall pattern; the three main ones are loops, arches & these
whorls
Tom
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$1,200
[27]
This author of the Tarzan stories was expelled from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts
(Edgar Rice) Burroughs
Tom
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$1,200
[24]
...who plays Jenna Maroney on "30 Rock"
Jane Krakowski
Terence
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|
DD
$2,000
[20]
Now hanging in the Capitol, the 20th-century work seenheredepicts a scene in this building in 1787
Independence Hall
Ariel
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$1,600
[11]
One of the oldest breeds of this type of dog, the Lakeland comes in handy if you have vermin in your house
the terrier
Ariel
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$1,600
[16]
A type of medieval chemistry, it aimed in part to transmute base metals into gold
alchemy
Ariel
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$1,600
[4]
This verb meaning to twist like someone in pain comes from the Old English for "twist"
writhe
Tom
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DD
$2,000
[26]
Tarzan is the son of John & Alice Clayton, Lord & Lady this
Greystoke
Tom
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$1,600
[25]
...who directed the movie "The Piano" & won an Oscar for writing the screenplay
Jane Campion
|
|
$2,000
[21]
The battlehereis off South Africa in 1757 during this conflict that's been called the "real first world war"
the Seven Years' War
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$2,000
[12]
The Syrian or golden type of this isn't a good child's pet as it's nocturnal & can be crabby & nippy by day
a hamster
|
$2,000
[17]
Analysis of someone's character by feeling the bumps & shape of their skull
phrenology
Terence
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$2,000
[5]
A stratagem or trick: when used as a verb with "away", it means "to pass the time"
wile/while
Terence
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Published posthumously in 1970, his first novel, "A Happy Death", features a protagonist named Patrice Mersault
Albert Camus