Ben Ingram game 6.
Donna Hesson — a public-health informationist from Ellicott City, Maryland
Jonathan Couser — a medieval historian from Lee, New Hampshire
Ben Ingram — an IT consultant originally from Florence, South Carolina (whose 5-day cash winnings total $115,632)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben | $6,600 | $11,200 | $22,000 |
$22,100
6-day champion: $137,732 |
$22,400
29 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jonathan | $1,400 | $400 | $2,400 |
$3,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$2,400
11 R, 6 W |
| Donna | $-600 | $-600 | $1,400 |
$2,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,400
3 R, 2 W |
| "UP" WORDS | COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAMERS' SCHOOLS | LANDS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE | THE ARTS | DOD ABCS | RANDOM HOUSE DEFINES IT AS... |
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$200
[17]
The Supreme Court case Jones v. Van Zandt didn't overturn the Fugitive Slave Act but did this opposite
uphold it
Jonathan
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$200
[12]
George Gipp & Joe Theismann
Notre Dame
Ben
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$200
[6]
This South American country is named for an Italian navigator (don't think too much)
Colombia
Ben
Jonathan
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$200
[8]
Nearly 10 feet long, "Lavender Mist" from 1950 is one of his drip paintings
Jackson Pollock
Jonathan
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$200
[24]
AAA can stand for this kind of artillery
anti-aircraft
Ben
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$200
[20]
"Strangle" or "to enrich the fuel mixture of"
choke
Ben
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$400
[18]
This "up" word is a term in both boxing & bridge
uppercut
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$400
[13]
Lynn Swann & Marcus Allen
(University of) Southern California
Ben
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$400
[7]
This South American country that became independent in 1825 is named for its liberator
Bolivia
Jonathan
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$400
[9]
The Pentelic type of this form of limestone was a favorite material of classical Greek sculptors
marble
Jonathan
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$400
[25]
The "R" in D&R is reintegrate; the "D" is this, to interrogate a soldier who's back from a mission
debrief
Ben
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$400
[21]
"Slang... a member of a crew for a traveling group of musicians"
roadie
Jonathan
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$600
[19]
To promote someone to a higher position where he can do less damage is to kick him here
upstairs
Ben
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$600
[14]
Archie Griffin & Eddie George
the Ohio State University
Donna
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$600
[1]
This country on the Rhine River is named for an Austrian prince; his descendants still rule the country
Liechtenstein
Ben
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$600
[10]
A rag is not just a Joplin tune but a melodic pattern of Indian music also called this, 1 letter longer than "rag"
raga
Jonathan
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$600
[26]
SACEUR leads all NATO operations & is this Commander, Europe
Supreme Allied Commander
Ben
Jonathan
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$600
[4]
"The withdrawal from the Union of 11 southern states in the period 1860-61"
secession
Ben
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$800
[29]
To reprimand or censure severely
upbraid
Ben
|
$800
[15]
Bobby Layne & Earl Campbell
University of Texas
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$800
[2]
This Indian Ocean island is named after a former governor, Maurice of Nassau
Mauritius
Ben
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$800
[11]
A Michael Smuin work was the first full-length ballet shown on "Dance in America", part of this "great" PBS series
Performances
Ben
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$800
[27]
Second to the CO on a ship is the XO, short for this
executive officer
Ben
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$1,000
[22]
(2 words) "a deep...color" or "woolen cloth of this color, used esp. for U.S. Army uniforms"
olive drab
Jonathan
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$1,000
[30]
This stroke for stringed instruments like violins is indicated in scores by the symbol V
upbow
Jonathan
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$1,000
[16]
Johnny Rodgers & Grant Wistrom
University of Nebraska
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$1,000
[3]
A British territory, this island group about 700 miles east of the Carolinas is named for its discoverer
Bermuda
Ben
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$1,000
[23]
Perhaps the greatest composer of German songs, he died the year after his hero Beethoven
(Franz) Schubert
Ben
|
$1,000
[28]
Marines can conduct recon in LAVs, light these
light armored vehicles
Jonathan
|
DD
$2,000
[5]
(2 words)"Goal achieved at too great a cost"
Pyrrhic victory
Ben
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| LITERARY FLORIDA | TEACH YOUR CHILDREN | POISONOUS PLANTS | ROCK & ROLL CALL | DUKE, DUKE | GOOSE! |
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$400
[1]
Tennessee Williams passed many days in this southernmost Florida town & recalled it fondly in his memoirs
Key West
Ben
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$400
[6]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) Place your fingers over the laces and flick the wrist downward to make your pass a perfect one of these
spiral
Jonathan
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DD
$100
[20]
The symptoms from eating this plant, Digitalis purpurea, include blurred vision, irregular heartbeat & hallucinations
foxglove
Ben
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$400
[13]
Drummer Frank Beard is the only member of this Texas trio who does not sport a flowing beard
ZZ Top
Donna
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DD
$100
[3]
The Duke of Gloucester, better known as this, is seenherein a reconstruction done after he was unearthed in 2012
Richard III
Ben
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$400
[27]
Proverbially, "What's good for the goose is good for" this
the gander
Ben
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$800
[10]
This Carl Hiaasen novel set in Fort Lauderdale became a movie in which Demi Moore takes it off
Strip Tease
Donna
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$800
[8]
Push the barb all the way through at several places on the body in this pre-angling task
baiting (a hook)
Ben
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$400
[11]
Poison control centers today still get calls about ingestion of this herb that was fatal to Socrates
hemlock
Ben
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$800
[14]
Rick Savage plays bass in this band, whose name was initially spelled like a hard-of-hearing feline
Def Leppard
Jonathan
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$400
[21]
The ancient British noble title "Duke of" this WWII landing place began with William the Conqueror
Normandy
Ben
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$2,000
[26]
Perhaps prepping for flight No. 2, Howard Hughes had a full crew maintain this mammoth plane for nearly 30 years
the "Spruce Goose"
Ben
|
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$1,200
[12]
Marjory Stoneman Douglas, who died aged 108 in 1998, helped preserve this area with her book subtitled "River of Grass"
the Everglades
Jonathan
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$1,200
[4]
A "push cut" helps when carving intricate shapes in this activity whose name comes from the Middle English for "knife"
whittling
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$800
[16]
You can kiss under this Christmas parasite, but don't eat its white berries--they can be fatal
mistletoe
Ben
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$1,200
[15]
In 2012 "Been Away Too Long" was the first single off this Chris Cornell band's first album in 16 years
Soundgarden
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$800
[22]
14th c. Hapsburg ruler Rudolf IV leng thened "duke" to this, & the family used the title until the end of WWI
archduke
Jonathan
Donna
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— |
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$1,600
[17]
Famous for a Civil War novella, he also wrote "The Open Boat", an 1897 account of a Florida shipwreck
(Stephen) Crane
Ben
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$1,600
[5]
It's adding an extra turn in the wide triangular knot that gives this necktie style its royal name
Windsor
Donna
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$1,200
[7]
The red stalks of this pie plant are fine, but its leaves can cause convulsions & death
rhubarb
Ben
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$1,600
[24]
Pete Wentz & Joe Trohman are 2 of the boys in this "boy" band
Fall Out Boy
Jonathan
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$1,200
[2]
In 1814 the duke of this was appointed ambassador to France; the next year, he defeated Napoleon in battle
Wellington
Ben
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— |
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$2,000
[18]
John D. MacDonald explored Florida's dark side in "Pale Gray for Guilt" & other novels about this Mc Her Mc Her Mc Her Mc Her Mc Her Mc Her Mc HerMcHero
Travis McGee
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$2,000
[9]
In the firefighting acronymP.A.S.S., pull the pin, aim at the fire's base, squeeze the lever, then do this until the fire is out
sweep
|
$1,600
[19]
This type of "oil" was bad enough as a folk cure for kids; a few of the same plant's seeds can kill you
castor
Ben
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$2,000
[25]
Drummer Bun E. Carlos wants you to want this band, who had a career-making night "at Budokan"
Cheap Trick
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$2,000
[23]
Around 1482 Leonardo da Vinci left Florence to become a court artist for Ludovico Sforza, the duke of this city
Milan
Jonathan
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— |
Tracing her family to William Hood of 18th century Pennsylvania, Karen Batchelor made news as this organization's first African-American member
the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)