Dave Leach game 6.
Amy Ludwig — a copywriter from Los Angeles, California
Mark Rupp — a stay-at-home dad from Indianapolis, Indiana
Dave Leach — a software analyst from Atlanta, Georgia (whose 5-day cash winnings total $78,054)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dave | $4,000 | $9,200 | $19,200 |
$20,000
6-day champion: $98,054 |
$23,200
32 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mark | $600 | $600 | $9,000 |
$2,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,000
11 R, 2 W |
| Amy | $2,000 | $4,500 | $8,700 |
$16,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| QUOTATIONS | EMMY-WINNING TV | I'M JUST TALKIN' ABOUT "SHIFT" | HOW DO YOU... | ARMY STRONG | HIGHLY EDIBLE |
|
$200
[17]
His "Divine Comedy": "All hope abandon, ye who enter here!"
Dante
Mark
|
$200
[13]
"Hill Street Station" (Writing, 1981)
Hill Street Blues
Dave
|
$200
[1]
A manual transmission requires the driver to use one of these alliterative items
stick shift
Dave
|
$200
[11]
Drop to one knee--hold on. Check for puddles, drop to one knee, take out the ring, ask
propose marriage
Mark
|
$200
[23]
Its army has about 30,000 permanent troops, with about 11,000 stationed in Queensland
Australia
Dave
|
$200
[6]
Bleu des Causses is a cave-matured type of this
cheese
Dave
|
|
$400
[19]
From Wilde's "Lady Windermere's Fan": "I can resist everything except" this
temptation
Amy
|
$400
[18]
"'A', My Name is Alex" (Writing, 1987)
Family Ties
Dave
|
$400
[2]
"Charnel" work period between midnight & 8 A.M.
the graveyard shift
Dave
|
$400
[12]
Get out of the cold, put waxy white fingers in 104- to 107-degree water
treat frostbite
Dave
Mark
Amy
|
$400
[24]
Its PLA has an active strength of about 1.25 million personnel
China
Dave
|
$400
[7]
At Hardee's these sides are beer-battered
onion rings
Dave
|
|
$600
[20]
Karl Marx: this "is the opium of the people"
religion
Dave
|
$600
[28]
"Slay Everyone, Trust No One" (Cinematography for Reality Programming, 2010)
Survivor
Dave
|
$600
[3]
Nonfiction bestseller about the battle to succeed Johnny Carson
The Late Shift
Dave
|
$600
[14]
Use the buttons & the strum bar, access star power by tilting the head, forget about how foolish you look
play Guitar Hero
Dave
|
$600
[25]
In 2009 its armed forces had a reported strength of 134,886--beware their multi-purpose knives!
Switzerland
Amy
|
$600
[8]
This Hawaiian word can refer to the bigeye or the yellowfin tuna; on menus it often follows "seared"
ahi tuna
Amy
|
|
$800
[21]
From "Walden": "the mass of men lead lives of quiet" this
desperation
Dave
|
$800
[29]
"Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Pilot)" (Writing for a Drama Series, 2008)
Mad Men
Mark
|
$800
[4]
On "True Blood" Sam is this hyphenated kind of creature, often becoming a dog
shape-shifter
Mark
|
$800
[15]
Fill glass with ice, pour in pinot grigio, add club soda, garnish
make a wine spritzer
Amy
|
$1,000
[27]
In August 2010 General Zahir Azimi announced that its army had reached target strength of 134,000 2 months ahead of schedule
Afghanistan
Dave
Amy
|
$800
[9]
Eggs a la Jockey Club are served with kidneys & garnished with mushrooms & these fungi (jockeys eat well)
truffles
Dave
|
|
$1,000
[22]
John Adams at the Boston Massacre trials: these "are stubborn things"
facts
Dave
|
$1,000
[30]
"Routine: Hummingbird and Flower / The Chairman's Waltz" (Choreography, 2008)
So You Think You Can Dance
Mark
Amy
|
$1,000
[5]
Jury-rigged
makeshift
Dave
|
$1,000
[16]
Pick a lead underwriter, give the SEC a prospectus, give possible investors a red herring, run tombstone ads
do an IPO
Dave
|
DD
$1,500
[26]
It has an active-duty military force of about 1.2 million; its neighbor to the south, about 680,000
North Korea
Amy
|
$1,000
[10]
Kasha is often made from the edible kernels of buckwheat, which are also called not oats but these
groats
Amy
|
| BIBLICAL ART | NICKEL & DIMED | 4-LETTER WORDS | SCIENTIFIC SOUTH AMERICAN | "MAN"LY MOVIES | HIGHLY OEDIPAL |
|
$400
[24]
For royal visits, a replica of this Michelangelo nudie at the Victoria & Albert Museum was formerly adorned with a fig leaf
David
Mark
|
$400
[1]
The name of his pet charity made the dime an obvious choice in 1945 when a grieving nation said, "put him on a coin!"
FDR
Dave
|
$400
[2]
On a tent, it's the equivalent of the door
a flap
Dave
|
$400
[21]
Manuel Patarroyo developed SPf66, a purported vaccine against this tropical disease that still strikes tens of millions
malaria
Dave
|
$400
[8]
In 2010 Robert Downey Jr. reprised his role as the heavy metal hero in this movie's sequel
Iron Man
Mark
|
$400
[15]
King Robert II of this country was a good son to Hugh Capet, but his own sons turned against him
France
Mark
|
|
$800
[25]
The first 2 paintings in Rembrandt's Passion Series are "The Raising of" & "The Descent from" this
the Cross
Dave
|
$800
[7]
The Buffalo head nickel was also called this type; John Big Tree was a model for it
an Indian nickel
Dave
|
$800
[3]
A tire that has lost its air
a flat
Dave
|
$800
[22]
Pedro Paulet's Peruvian promoters claim he built a liquid-fueled one of these in 1895
a rocket
Amy
|
$800
[9]
Peter O'Toole sang & tilted at windmills in the movie adaptation of this musical
Man of La Mancha
Dave
|
$800
[17]
The book " Operation " these "Secrets" tells how Frank Calabrese Jr. informed on his mobster father
Family
Dave
|
|
$1,200
[26]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) In this 17th-century painting, you see Sarah turn her back, as Hagar the handmaid & her son Ishmael are rejected & sent away by this patriarch
Abraham
Amy
|
$1,200
[13]
Before the 5-cent piece was nickel, it was silver & was, logically, called by this fractional name
a half dime
Dave
|
$1,200
[4]
It can be a custardy tart or a creme caramel
a flan
Dave
|
$1,200
[23]
M. Costa-Mattioli found a protein that controls memory formation, a possible help for this disease named for a German
Alzheimer's
Dave
|
$1,200
[10]
Once upon a time Russell Crowe played boxer James Braddock in this critically acclaimed film
Cinderella Man
Dave
|
$1,200
[18]
This skater had new troubles in 2010 when her brother assaulted their father
(Nancy) Kerrigan
Dave
Amy
|
|
$1,600
[27]
A painting by Caravaggio shows this man's "conversion on the way to Damascus"
Saul (or Saint Paul)
Dave
|
$2,000
[16]
The winged liberty dime bore the bundle of sticks that gave its name to this liberty-hating political system
fascism
Amy
|
$1,600
[5]
Fatty flesh around people's tummies
flab
Dave
|
$1,600
[28]
Sometimes credited with inventing the torpedo, Andre Reboucas helped torpedo this in Brazil; it was abolished in 1888
slavery
Mark
|
$1,600
[11]
This 1980 movie told the true story of the deformed Mr. Merrick
The Elephant Man
Mark
|
$2,000
[20]
This deranged emperor may even have killed his own father, as Joaquin Phoenix does playing him in "Gladiator"
Commodus
Dave
Amy
|
|
$2,000
[29]
Claude Lorrain painted a landscape with the marriage of Rebecca & him
Isaac
Mark
|
DD
$4,000
[14]
On the 2006 nickel this building looks basically the same as it always did, though the dome is a little sharper
Monticello
Dave
|
$2,000
[6]
The unfortunate quality that brings ruin to the hero of a tragedy is called the tragic this
flaw
Mark
|
$2,000
[30]
In the 1970s Jose Goldemberg showed that this clean fuel can be harvested from sugar cane
ethanol
Amy
|
$2,000
[12]
It's Greek to me, but in 1971 Richard Matheson's story "I Am Legend" was filmed under this title
The Omega Man
Amy
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
This revolutionary patriot's son William stuck with the crown as Royal Governor of New Jersey
Benjamin Franklin
Amy
|
Surname of the employer of James W. Marshall, who found gold in a stream near the Sacramento River in 1848
Sutter