Last regular-play game of Season 28.
Alison Parakh — a personal trainer from Santa Barbara, California
Jenny Healey — a public interest lawyer from Burke, Virginia
Leo Lopez — a psychiatrist from Brooklyn, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,199)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leo | $1,000 | $2,400 | $13,600 |
$5,999
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Jenny | $200 | $3,400 | $7,600 |
$7,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,600
12 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Alison | $3,600 | $5,800 | $10,600 |
$15,201
New champion: $15,201 |
$10,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| THE NEW YORK TIMES HISTORIC HEADLINES | 6-LETTER WORDS | GO FISH | A HAMMER FEST | THE FEMALE LEAD VOCALIST | DEMOCRA "C" |
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$200
[1]
April 19, 1906: "Over 500 dead, $200,000 lost in" this disaster--"nearly half the city is in ruins"
the San Francisco earthquake
Alison
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$200
[2]
Idiomatically pigs do it "in the mud" & people do it "in luxury"
wallow
Leo
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$200
[21]
On June 2, 1932 George Perry caught a 32 1/2-inch, 22-lb., 4 oz. largemouth one of these in Georgia
a bass
Alison
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$200
[24]
Rapper MC Hammer got his nickname from his resemblance to this hammerin' home run king
Henry Aaron
Leo
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$200
[4]
The Supremes
Diana Ross
Alison
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$200
[16]
They're paired with "balances" as the way our 3 branches of government share power
checks
Alison
|
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$400
[9]
June 29, 1914: "Heir to" this country's "throne is slain with his wife by a Bosnian youth" (leading to World War I)
Austria-Hungary
Leo
Jenny
Alison
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$400
[3]
A bank employee who accepts your deposit
a teller
Alison
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$400
[22]
Named for its long, flattened upper jaw that looks like a weapon, this fish can swim up to 60 mph
a swordfish
Leo
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$400
[25]
In wrestling's hammerlock hold, this part of an opponent is pulled behind his back & twisted upward
his arm
Jenny
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$400
[5]
Eurythmics
Annie Lennox
Alison
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$400
[17]
A resident of a congressman's district
a constituent
Alison
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$600
[10]
The tragic headline for April 20, 1995: A deadly "car bomb attack in" this city "wrecks 9-story federal office building"
Oklahoma City
Jenny
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$600
[11]
It's the aerosol foam used to control & style hair
mousse
Alison
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$600
[23]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads the clue in scuba gear from inside a tank in the Maui Ocean Center.) As opposed to bony fishes, sharks & rays are elasmobranchs with skeletons made up of this softer material: less is known of their evolution because they leave fewer fossils than bony fish
cartilage
Jenny
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$600
[28]
"Hammer &" this grasping device means with tremendous effort
tongs
Jenny
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$600
[6]
The Pretenders
Chrissie Hynde
Leo
Alison
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$600
[18]
Congress has many of these, including a "joint" one on taxation
committee
Jenny
Alison
|
|
$800
[15]
February 14, 1935: this man "guilty, sentenced to death for the murder of the LIndbergh baby"
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
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$800
[12]
The soroban, the Japanese type of this adding device, used rods with 1 bead above the partition & 4 beads below
abacus
Alison
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— |
$800
[26]
A UCLA museum named for this petroleum executive makes a good impressionist on visitors
Armand Hammer
Alison
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$800
[7]
No Doubt
Gwen Stefani
Alison
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$800
[19]
After talk of moving them to December, Iowa's first in the nation these were held January 3, 2012
caucuses
Leo
|
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$1,000
[14]
A medical milestone December 4, 1967: "Heart transplant keeps man alive in" this country
South Africa
Leo
Alison
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$1,000
[13]
Originally referring to one who fled the French Revolution, it now means any political refugee
émigré
|
— |
DD
$1,200
[27]
The Soviet constitution of 1918 said that the coat of arms should include these 2 items, handles down
a hammer and sickle
Alison
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$1,000
[8]
10,000 Maniacs
Natalie Merchant
Alison
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$1,000
[20]
Discussion rooms adjacent to the House & Senate Chambers are called these, for a type of clothing
cloakrooms
Jenny
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| PATRON SAINTS | NOVELISTS | NET FLICKS | CHECK YOUR FOOD LABEL | CAPITAL STEPS | "OX" MARKS THE SPOT |
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$400
[26]
Legend says he drove the snakes out of Ireland
St. Patrick
Leo
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$400
[1]
This French novelist's futuristic "Paris in the Twentieth Century", written in 1863, was found 126 years later
Jules Verne
|
$400
[4]
In a 2004 film tennis players Kirsten Dunst & Paul Bettany fall in love while competing in this Grand Slam event
Wimbledon
Leo
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$400
[11]
MSG, short for this food additive, is also used to enhance the flavor of tobacco
monosodium glutamate
Jenny
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$400
[3]
Calcutta was replaced as capital by this city that now has "Old" & "New" sections
Delhi
Alison
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$400
[17]
I'll tell you before TMZ does--for me, these or briefs? Thongs!
boxers
Leo
|
|
$800
[27]
Patron Saint of Animals & Italy, in 1979 he was proclaimed the Patron Saint of Ecology as well
St. Francis
Jenny
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$800
[2]
This Polish-English novelist collaborated with Ford Madox Ford on 2 novels, "The Inheritors" & "Romance"
Joseph Conrad
|
$800
[5]
"Pat and Mike" stars Spencer Tracy as sports promoter Mike; she's Pat, pro golf & tennis champ
Katharine Hepburn
Leo
|
$800
[22]
This element precedes "nitrite" in a chemical that colors ham, helps prevent botulism & poses only a teeny cancer risk
sodium
Alison
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$1,200
[13]
Colombo remains the executive capital of this country, but the legislature has moved
Sri Lanka
Leo
|
$800
[18]
Scientists believe that in the 20th Century alone, this disease killed more than 300 million people
smallpox
Alison
|
|
$1,200
[30]
This dragon slayer is a Patron Saint of Boy Scouts
(St.) George
Jenny
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$1,600
[10]
In 1883, 5 years after writing the novel, he published a dramatization of "Daisy Miller"
(Henry) James
Alison
|
$1,200
[6]
Tennis pro Jonathan Rhys-Meyers is smitten with Scar-Jo in this Woody Allen film with a tennis term title
Match Point
Leo
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$1,200
[23]
Found in Nutrasweet, it's 200 times sweeter than sugar
aspartame
Jenny
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$1,600
[14]
Dodoma has officially replaced Dar Es Salaam as its Capital
Tanzania
Leo
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$1,200
[19]
The steersman of a racing shell in the water
the coxswain
Alison
|
|
$1,600
[29]
This gospel writer is the "beloved" Patron Saint of physicians
St. Luke
|
DD
$2,000
[9]
He was named for a distant cousin who was aboard a sloop during the 1814 bombardment of a Baltimore fort
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Leo
|
$1,600
[7]
In Hitchcock's "Dial M For Murder", ex-tennis pro Ray Milland hatches a plot to kill his wife, played by her
Grace Kelly
Leo
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$1,600
[24]
HFCS is short for this corn syrup
high fructose
Leo
|
$2,000
[15]
Until Manila took over, this city named for a Philippine president was capital
Quezon City
Alison
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$1,600
[20]
Frank Sinatra's 1942-43 stand at NYC's Paramount Theater caused a frenzy among teenage girls called these
bobby soxers
Jenny
|
|
$2,000
[28]
As the first person in the New World to be canonized, she's the Patron Saint of the Americas & of Peru in particular
St. Rose of Lima
|
$2,000
[16]
In 1975 3 books in his "Kent Family Chronicles" series appeared on the N.Y. Times Best-seller List, a 1st for any author
John Jakes
|
$2,000
[8]
In this Hitchcock film, Robert Walker wants to swap murders with tennis pro Farley Granger
Strangers on a Train
|
$2,000
[25]
The FDA lists soy lecithin as this type of substance that "allows smooth mixing" & "prevents separation"
emulsifier
Jenny
|
DD
$3,000
[12]
In 1955 it beat out Aberystwyth to become capital
Cardiff
Jenny
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$2,000
[21]
A person authorized to act as the substitute for another
a proxy
Alison
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This country that explored the Antarctic interior is the most northerly nation to claim territory on the continent
Norway