Sarah McNitt game 1.
Osei Boakye — a graduate student of history from Clearwater, Florida
Sarah McNitt — a study-abroad advisor originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan
Michelle DeGrothy — a Navy helicopter pilot from Neptune Beach, Florida (whose 2-day cash winnings total $25,900)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michelle | $1,000 | $5,200 | $8,400 |
$13,402
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,000
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Sarah | $4,200 | $6,600 | $11,800 |
$15,800
New champion: $15,800 |
$13,800
22 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Osei | $1,800 | $2,000 | $2,400 |
$4,700
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,400
9 R, 5 W |
| EMMY-WINNING DRAMATIC ACTORS | EXPLOSIVE IMPLOSIONS | LOST & FOUND | DOUBLE "T" WORDS | HAPPY BIRTH DAY TO YOU | YOU LIVE IN A ZOO |
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$200
[4]
2005:As Denny Crane, a man who loved to hear the words "Denny Crane"
William Shatner
Osei
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$200
[26]
In 1996 the Alice Hotelin Wichita in this state was no longer taking reservations
Kansas
Sarah
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$200
[13]
Hemingway used Gertrude Stein's "You are all a lost" this word in the epigraph to "The Sun Also Rises"
generation
Osei
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$200
[3]
To cut small shavings from a piece of wood
whittle
Osei
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$200
[21]
He crossed his first frontier in Tennessee on Aug. 17, 1786: his final one would be in Texas
Davy Crockett
Sarah
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$200
[1]
Webcams at the National Zoo allow you to observe Mei Xiang & Tian Tian, 2 of these
pandas
Michelle
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$400
[5]
1984:As Thomas Magnum, P.I.
Tom Selleck
Michelle
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$400
[27]
In 2010 the hole in the roof got a lot bigger in Texas Stadium, the suddenly ex-home to this team after 38 seasons
the (Dallas) Cowboys
Michelle
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$400
[14]
In August 2011 an unknown 62-mile-long section of this landmark was discovered in the Gobi Desert
the Great Wall of China
Michelle
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$400
[6]
It's the past participle of smite
smitten
Sarah
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$400
[22]
Read all about it! This newspaper mogul is delivered on April 29, 1863 in San Francisco!
(William Randolph) Hearst
Osei
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$400
[2]
The howl of the ring-tailed type of this primate can be heard half a mile away
lemurs
Sarah
|
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$600
[10]
2012:As the Dowager Countess of Grantham, who really wouldn't have time for such trifling matters, Dear
Maggie Smith
Sarah
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$600
[28]
In 2006 a 500-foot tallcooling towerat this type of plant in Oregon was no longer 500 feet tall
a nuclear power plant
Sarah
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$600
[15]
Many of the items attached to a 2-D surface in this French-named art form are objets trouves, aka found objects, aka junk
a collage
Sarah
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$600
[7]
Perhaps including an amusing mistake, it's a piece of film not used in the final version of a movie
an outtake
Sarah
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$600
[23]
A future politician, she was just a yummy little Hamburger on July 17, 1954
Angela Merkel
Sarah
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$600
[16]
The "snow" type of this cat normally lives in Asia, but you can also see it at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle
a leopard
Michelle
|
|
$800
[11]
1983, 1984 & 1985:As Lacey, not Cagney
Tyne Daly
Sarah
Osei
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$800
[29]
Many unhappy returns - we're not that sure if Atlantans were so sad to see abuildingfor this government department go down in 1994
the IRS
Michelle
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$800
[19]
This branch of medicine deals with supplying artificial parts to replace lost limbs
prosthetics
Sarah
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$800
[8]
Washed 2 dishes, answered 1 e-mail, watered a plant, basically I just did this around the house all morning
frittered (or puttered)
Sarah
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$800
[24]
He was born in Brooklyn as Benjamin on Feb. 26, 1906 but would die better known as this mobster
Bugsy Siegel
Osei
|
DD
$600
[17]
It's alphabetically first of the 4 members of the South American camelids
an alpaca
Michelle
|
|
$1,000
[12]
1980:Making headlines as Lou Grant
Ed Asner
Osei
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$1,000
[30]
Like an ex-bridge over troubled water, the Memorial Bridgebecame a memory in 2008 in this North Dakota capital
Bismarck
Michelle
|
$1,000
[20]
Discovered by Galileo in 1610, this moon takes 3.55 days to orbit Jupiter; how continental!
Europa
Sarah
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$1,000
[9]
This journal contains the daily record of arrests at a police department
blotter
Osei
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$1,000
[25]
On Nov. 14, 1765 this inventor steamed to life in Pennsylvania
Fulton
Michelle
|
$1,000
[18]
Nicknamed the bushman's clock, this Aussie critter is helpful in rousing the other animals in the morning
a kookaburra
Michelle
Sarah
Osei
|
| THE CIVIL WAR IN 1864 | INSIDE ART | COMPOUND WORDS | U.S. GOVERNMENT | WOMEN AUTHORS | LET'S PUT OUR BAND NAME IN THE SONG! |
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$400
[24]
In February the first Northern prisoners arrived at Andersonville Prison in this state; more than 45,000 followed
Georgia
Osei
|
$400
[1]
Chagall's "White" version of this scene has the unusual detail that Jesus wears a prayer shawl on the cross
the crucifixion
Osei
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$400
[13]
This crime is the act of attempting to obtain money by threatening to reveal damaging information
blackmail
Sarah
|
$400
[11]
Like Nebraska's, Guam's legislature is described with this adjective, meaning it consists of a single chamber
unicameral
Sarah
|
$400
[4]
In 2011 this muggle topped Forbes' list of "the 10 most powerful women authors"
J.K. Rowling
Sarah
|
$400
[18]
No subtlety here: "Hey hey, we're" this '60s TV band
The Monkees
Michelle
|
| — |
$800
[2]
A peek at the Titiantitled this god "and Ariadne" showsgrape leavesadorning his head--nice cheetah-drawn chariot too
Bacchus
Osei
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$800
[14]
Legally, consumer versions of these, like M80s & cherry bombs, must be limited to 50 milligrams of flash powder
fireworks (or firecrackers)
Michelle
|
$800
[12]
(Former Justice of the Supreme Court Sandra Day O'Connor gives the clue.) In 1925 Harlan Fiske Stone became the first nominee to personally go before this group; in 1981 I was relieved when Bob Dole told me I was among friends there
the Senate Judiciary Committee
Sarah
Osei
|
$800
[5]
"Kinsey and Me" is a collection of short stories & autobiographical sketches by this author of the alphabet mysteries
Sue Grafton
Sarah
|
$800
[19]
"We're" this English synth-pop dance band known for "West End Girls" / "Suburbia's a Slipstream to a Memory"
the Pet Shop Boys
Sarah
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| — |
$1,200
[3]
The 2 dominant elements in "Guernica" are the horse & this other animal that's central to Spanish culture
a bull
Sarah
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$1,200
[15]
A spherical mass of naphthalene in Grandma's closet
mothballs
Sarah
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$1,200
[23]
In 2013 former Pentagon lawyer Jeh Johnson was nominated as the new head of this cabinet department
Homeland Security
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$1,200
[6]
In 2013 this author of the memoir "Eat Pray Love" turned to historical fiction with "The Signature of all Things"
Elizabeth Gilbert
|
$1,200
[20]
"In a" this band name, "dreams stay with you / like a lover's voice fires the mountainside / stay alive"
a Big Country
Sarah
|
| — |
$1,600
[9]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us an engraving in the studio.) A closer look at Albrecht Durer's "Melencolia I" shows his skill at not only art but also math; the box in the back is one of these mystical constructs in which any row or column adds up to the same number; here, it's 34
a magic square
|
DD
$2,000
[16]
A vehicle for hire; its component words can each be a synonym of the compound word
a taxicab
Sarah
|
— |
$1,600
[7]
In 2011 Oxford's Bodleian Library acquired her handwritten draft for "The Watsons", a novel begun around 1804
Jane Austen
Sarah
|
$1,600
[21]
"You're just wasting my time, all you do to me is" this '80s band name
Talk Talk
|
| — |
$2,000
[10]
Diogenes, Euclid & Pythagoras are but a few of the "students" seen emerging from this Raphael work
The School of Athens
|
$2,000
[17]
It can be a type of melon with a whitish rind & green flesh or a sticky substance excreted by aphids
honeydew
Michelle
|
— |
$2,000
[8]
In a 1930 letter she wrote, "As an experience madness is terrific... & in its lava I... find most of the things I write about"
(Virginia) Woolf
Michelle
Osei
|
$2,000
[22]
This '70s band with Paul Rodgers, "& I can't deny" / this '70s band with Paul Rodgers, "till the day I die"
Bad Company
Michelle
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It's once again in demand repairing old stone infrastructure, & is 1 of the 5 most popular U.S. boys' names today
Mason