First game of Season 29.New title graphics.Alex announces special online contestant tests for viewers in Cleveland and Cincinnati markets.
Vamsi Adusumilli — a marketing director originally from Columbia, Missouri
Diane Samuelson — a ballroom dance instructor from Annandale, Virginia
Alison Parakh — a personal trainer from Santa Barbara, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alison | $1,200 | $2,000 | $6,000 |
$500
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,000
19 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Diane | $-200 | $3,400 | $11,400 |
$4,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,600
14 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Vamsi | $1,200 | $2,800 | $8,800 |
$12,800
New champion: $12,800 |
$8,800
11 R, 4 W |
| GREAT & OTHER LAKES | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV | MY SO. CAL. LIFE | "A" IN LITERATURE | LATIN PHRASES | YOUR BEST TEXAS HOLD 'EM CALL |
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$200
[9]
The Chicago River flows out of this Great Lake
Lake Michigan
Diane
Vamsi
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$200
[1]
This Oscar winner for "Ordinary People" leads a team of thieves & hackers on TNT's "Leverage"
(Timothy) Hutton
Alison
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$200
[4]
On a clear day, I can see this landmark unveiled in 1923; it's lost 4 letters since then
the Hollywood Sign
Alison
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$200
[12]
In Milton's "Paradise Lost", Gabriel sends 2 of these beings to watch over Paradise, & Satan flees
angels
Vamsi
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$200
[20]
Lapsus linguae, a sudden, unfortunate utterance, translates to this 4-word phrase
slip of the tongue
Alison
Vamsi
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$600
[24]
What's this?
four of a kind
Vamsi
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$400
[10]
In surface area this one of the 5 Great Lakes is the largest body of fresh water in the world
Lake Superior
Alison
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$400
[2]
In the 1980s he & his daughter Holly hosted "Ripley's Believe It or Not", though we don't remember any one-armed push-ups
Jack Palance
Alison
|
$400
[5]
In summer I listen to this great broadcaster, now in his 63rd year calling Dodger games
Vin Scully
Alison
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$400
[16]
When Moby Dick is harpooned, this man becomes fouled in the line & is taken under the sea to his death
Ahab
Diane
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$400
[21]
Said at funerals, requiescat in pace translates to this
rest in peace
Alison
|
$800
[26]
What's this?
a flush
Diane
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$600
[13]
The town of Yellowknife is located on the shore of this "Great" Canadian lake
Great Slave Lake
Diane
Vamsi
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$800
[11]
In 2012 this 2-time Oscar winner won a Golden Globe for her role on "American Horror Story"
Jessica Lange
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$600
[6]
Weekends I go to Musso & Frank's iconic restaurant; GQ called their version of this gin-based cocktail America's best
a martini
Alison
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$600
[17]
Chapter 1 of this Tolstoy novel tells us, "Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house"
Anna Karenina
Diane
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$600
[22]
Agnus dei is this 4-legged animal "of God"
a lamb
Diane
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$1,000
[25]
What's this?
a full house
Vamsi
|
|
$800
[14]
This lake in Oregon is the second-deepest lake in North America
Crater Lake
Vamsi
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
This Oscar-winning daughter of an Oscar-winning director plays producer Eileen Rand on "Smash"
Anjelica Huston
Alison
|
$800
[7]
When I say I live in the Valley, I mean this one that's home to such communities as Studio City & Encino
San Fernando Valley
Alison
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$800
[18]
The oldest of the 3 Musketeers, he was once married to the evil Milady de Winter
Athos
Diane
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$800
[23]
In utero means "within the womb"; this other phrase describes something that happens "in glass"
in vitro
Alison
Vamsi
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$1,000
[15]
Percy Shelley wrote of this Italian lake, it "exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty"
Lake Como
Alison
Vamsi
|
— |
$1,000
[8]
Sometimes I get my kicks driving to Glendora to visit the acclaimed Donut Man on this route
Route 66
Vamsi
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$1,000
[19]
Theodore Dreiser based this novel on the case of Chester Gillette, who murdered Grace Brown on Big Moose Lake
An American Tragedy
|
$1,000
[27]
i.e. is short for this, meaning "that is"
id est
Diane
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| 1990s NO. 1 ALBUMS | NAME THAT WAR | WE MAKE FURNITURE | GIVING A PUP TALK | MATH WORDS | "SEP"-TEMBER |
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$400
[20]
& I'm here... to remind you... her "Jagged Little Pill" was No. 1 in 1995 & again in '96
Alanis Morissette
Alison
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$400
[25]
The 3 Battles of Ypres
World War I
Diane
|
$400
[16]
George Hepplewhite was known for designing the backs of these in such shapes as hearts & shields
chairs
Alison
|
$400
[1]
Margaret Hamilton spoke the immortal movie line "I'll get you, my pretty, and" these 4 words
"your little dog, too!"
Diane
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$400
[5]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows three geometric figures on the monitor.) A trapezium, a rhombus, & even a kite are examples of this type of planed figure, from the Latin for "4-sided"
a quadrilateral
Alison
Diane
Vamsi
|
$400
[11]
A substance used to clean injured skin & to prevent infection
antiseptic
Alison
|
|
$800
[21]
The soundtrack from this movie felt the love tonight (& for 10 weeks)
The Lion King
Alison
|
$800
[29]
The Inchon Landing
the Korean War
|
$800
[17]
In the early 20th century, Gerrit Rietveld led this country's De Stijl movement, which emphasized abstract furniture
the Netherlands
Alison
|
DD
$600
[3]
This Shakespeare play includes the line "Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war"
Julius Caesar
Diane
|
$800
[6]
Now would be a good time to remember that it's 1/60 of a degree
a minute
Alison
|
$800
[12]
It's Italian for Joseph, Mr. Verdi
Giuseppe
Alison
|
|
$1,200
[22]
This Seattle band was "Unplugged in New York"; cuts included "Lake Of Fire"
Nirvana
Alison
|
$1,200
[28]
The Battle of Lookout Mountain
the Civil War
Vamsi
|
$1,200
[18]
This London furniture maker popularized his style in his book "Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director"
Thomas Chippendale
|
$800
[2]
English dramatist John Webster noted, "they that sleep with dogs shall rise with" these
fleas
Diane
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$1,200
[8]
Don't be dense; tell us this word for an angle of more than 90 but fewer than 180 degrees
obtuse
Alison
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DD
$1,000
[14]
The part of a cross-shaped church that intersects the main aisle at right angles
transept
Diane
|
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$1,600
[23]
Not afraid to re-dip in previous success, he topped the chart with "Bat out of Hell II: Back Into Hell"
Meat Loaf
Alison
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$1,600
[27]
The 1356 Battle of Poitiers
the Hundred Years' War
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$1,600
[19]
Most of the early work by this N.Y. cabinetmaker whose name sounds like a musical instrument was in mahogany
Duncan Phyfe
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$1,600
[4]
In 1994, as he left the governorship of New York, he said, "dog eat dog produces... just one dog, and that's a lonely way to live"
(Mario) Cuomo
Vamsi
|
$1,600
[9]
The letter m indicates this steepness of a line
a slope
Vamsi
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$1,200
[13]
A chamber used as a grave
sepulcher
Diane
|
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$2,000
[24]
This band's "Monster" album included "Crush With Eyeliner"
R.E.M.
|
$2,000
[26]
The Battle of Tarawa
World War II
|
$2,000
[30]
Both Alvar Aalto & Charles Eames designed furniture using this layered wood product
laminate
Alison
Diane
|
$2,000
[7]
An editor of The New York Sun said, "but if" this happens, "that is news"
"man bites dog"
Vamsi
|
$2,000
[10]
An assertion that can be proven true, often using axioms & postulates
a theorem
Alison
Diane
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$2,000
[15]
As its name suggests, this early version of the Old Testament was translated by 70 writers
the Septuagint
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Of the world's 5 largest islands by area, the 2 with territory of more than 1 country are Borneo & this one
New Guinea