Alex Jacob game 1.
Alex Jacob — a currency trader from Chicago, Illinois
Laura Kohlenberg — a global talent management associate originally from Pemberville, Ohio
Chris Hurt — an actor and grants analyst from New York, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $30,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris | $4,000 | $5,600 | $10,800 |
$20,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Laura | $0 | $1,800 | $1,800 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,800
7 R, 2 W |
| Alex | $1,800 | $5,000 | $23,200 |
$23,200
New champion: $23,200 |
$20,200
25 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| LITERARY LANDMARKS | PUT ON YOUR DISCO SHOES | HERE COMES THE SUN | APRIL | TAX TIME | BETTER FIND THAT "W" 2 |
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$200
[4]
A monument in this capital depicts Sir Walter Scott with his dog
Edinburgh
Alex
|
$200
[13]
This group with a construction worker, cop, G.I., cowboy & Indian sang "San Francisco (You've Got Me)"
The Village People
Laura
|
$200
[1]
The "Yes, Virginia" editorial was the most famous read in the 117-year run of this city's Sun newspaper
New York City
Chris
Laura
Alex
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$200
[9]
On April 3, 1865 the defenses of this Confederate capital were broken & General Grant took the city
Richmond
Alex
|
$200
[18]
"Non-spherical" taxation system that hits everyone, regardless of income, with the same rate
a flat tax
Laura
|
$200
[30]
This interjection can be a verb meaning to thrill
wow
Chris
|
|
$400
[7]
Philip Roth bus tours take you to his boyhood home & high school in this largest New Jersey city
Newark
Alex
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$400
[29]
"I'm Your Boogie Man" by KC & this group hit No. 1, but their "Boogie Shoes" could only dance to No. 35
the Sunshine Band
Alex
|
$400
[2]
Led by stars like Kevin Johnson & Tom Chambers, this NBA team has won 2 Western Conference titles
the Phoenix Suns
Alex
|
$400
[14]
This wicked awesome Boston venue hosted its first game on April 9, 1912, just a few days before the Titanic went down
Fenway Park
Alex
|
$400
[19]
This basic human need comes after "tax" when you're talking about a 401k
shelter
Alex
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$400
[22]
Rewarding or beneficial; your correct response makes it all...
worthwhile
Alex
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|
$800
[3]
In 2010 this late author's museum & interpretive center opened in Henning, Tennessee, where he had deep "Roots"
Alex Haley
Chris
|
$600
[28]
To everything there is a season: the first Top 40 hit for this "Queen of Disco" was "Love To Love You Baby"
Donna Summer
Chris
Alex
|
$600
[15]
In the 200s B.C. Aristarchus of Samos first put forth this idea later made famous by Copernicus
the Earth revolving around the Sun (heliocentricity)
Chris
|
$600
[23]
In big trouble with the Catholic Church, as his trial began in April 1521, he refused to recant his writings & teachings
Martin Luther
Laura
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$600
[24]
A type of tax on certain commodities, or a way to remove a tumor
excise
Alex
|
$600
[11]
On or toward the lee side
downwind
Alex
|
|
DD
$1,000
[6]
You can visit the Belfast buildings where as a child this author saw a lion door knocker & an elaborate wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
Chris
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$800
[27]
The Trammps wanted to "burn that mother down" with this song from "Saturday Night Fever"
"Disco Inferno"
Chris
Alex
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$800
[16]
The leader of the Nationalists, hedied in 1925 after overthrowing China's monarchy
Sun Yat-sen
Chris
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$800
[8]
On April 11, 2002 this president of Venezuela was ousted in a coup d'etat; by April 14 he was back in power
Hugo Chávez
Chris
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$800
[25]
Beginning & ending with the same letter, this type of "tax asset" may be used for a company's future tax liability
deferred
|
$800
[12]
Deglutition is the process of doing this, perhaps hundreds of times a day
swallowing
|
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$1,000
[5]
You can rent Casa Genotta, the Sea Island, Georgia home of this "Ah, Wilderness!" playwright
(Eugene) O'Neill
Chris
|
$1,000
[20]
Don't "Freak Out", but Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" has a bass line similar to "Good Times" by this "stylish" band
Chic
|
$1,000
[17]
This winter sports resort area in Central Idaho is found along the Big Wood River
Sun Valley
Chris
|
$1,000
[10]
At one point on April 12, 1961, this Soviet pilot was traveling more than 17,000 miles per hour
Gagarin
Alex
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$1,000
[26]
This tax is assessed on gross properties prior to distribution to the heirs
an estate tax
Chris
|
$1,000
[21]
Aloof, or removed from circulation, your honor
withdrawn
Laura
|
| DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE | U.S. GEOGRAPHY | "MARK" YOUR WORDS | SHOWBIZ ALTER EGOS | CARPETS & RUGS | BOOKS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE? |
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$400
[2]
"S" is for this machine that records big earth vibrations
a seismograph
Laura
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$400
[26]
This spacey Florida cape is just east of the Banana River
Canaveral
Alex
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$400
[1]
Comments or observations; I will keep mine brief
remarks
Chris
|
$800
[24]
Dan Whitney developed this blue-collar installer recently seen jet-skiing for Prilosec
Larry the Cable Guy
Alex
|
$800
[21]
The Shah Abbas period produced many great carpets in this style still on carpets but no longer on the map
Persian
Alex
|
$800
[23]
By Elmore Leonard, "____ Pickup"
LII
Chris
|
|
$800
[11]
"O" is for this gasoline additive with 8 single-bonded carbon atoms
octane
Laura
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$800
[20]
Council Bluffs, Iowa lies across the Missouri from this Nebraska city & makes up part of its metro area
Omaha
Chris
|
$800
[3]
Up to 50% of babies have one of these called a salmon patch
a birthmark
Laura
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$1,200
[18]
At a "Star Wars" event, this Robert Smigel-voiced dog asked a man, "How do you explain this to your imaginary girlfriend?"
Triumph (the Insult Comic Dog)
Alex
|
$1,200
[14]
The apex of the namazlik, or prayer rug, should always be facing this
Mecca
Chris
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$1,600
[25]
HAL the computer returns in "____: Odyssey Two"
MMX
Alex
|
|
$1,200
[6]
"V" is for this, defined as the speed & direction of motion of a moving body
velocity
Alex
|
$1,200
[5]
Resorts in these barrier islands off North Carolina include Manteo & Wanchese on Roanoke Island
the Outer Banks
Alex
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$1,200
[4]
When reporting a conversation, the British use single ones where we use double ones
quotation marks
Alex
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$1,600
[17]
Cassandra Peterson dated Elvis & was in the Groundlings before creating this "Mistress of the Dark"
Elvira
Alex
|
$1,600
[15]
Madder, woad & sumac are plants that supplied this for making rugs
dyes
Chris
|
DD
$4,000
[22]
From MCMXV, "The ____ Steps"
XXXIX
Alex
|
|
$2,000
[12]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) "P" is for this vascular plant tissue composed of specialized cells that moves food from the leaves
phloem
Chris
|
$1,600
[8]
It's the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada
Whitney
Chris
Alex
|
$1,600
[10]
Alliterative term for someone who's been singled out for an unpleasant fate
a marked man
Chris
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$2,000
[19]
Hello, possums! For 6 decades, Barry Humphries was a total drag as this dame
Dame Edna
Alex
|
$2,000
[16]
Smalloctagonsare features of therugsnamed for this "Younger" German painter
Hans Holbein
Alex
|
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|
DD
$8,600
[7]
"E" is for this hard outer body of an animal, like a mollusk's shell
exoskeleton
Alex
|
$2,000
[9]
The executive mansion in this state capital was the 19th century home of U.S. Senator James G. Blaine
Augusta
Alex
|
$2,000
[13]
People buying sausage or strudel in Nazi Germany paid for it with these
Reichsmarks
Laura
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The subtitle of a biography about this early 20th century man is "The Saint Who Sinned"
Rasputin