Brennan Bushee game 6.
Sacha Samotin — a student from Naples, Florida
Kay Yung — a psychiatrist from San Diego, California
Brennan Bushee — an operations analyst from Malden, Massachusetts (whose 5-day cash winnings total $126,404)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brennan | $3,200 | $5,600 | $11,800 |
$16,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Kay | $400 | $2,000 | $16,200 |
$16,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,800
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Sacha | $2,600 | $3,000 | $9,800 |
$19,600
New champion: $19,600 |
$9,800
14 R, 1 W |
| THE MOST POPULOUS NATION | BIBLE "B" BOYS | FIORELLO LaGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL ALUMS | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES | TAKE A PHOTO | SAY CHEESE! |
|
$200
[6]
Israel, Ireland, Italy
Italy
Sacha
|
$200
[1]
By crowd vote, this convict was released instead of Jesus
Barabbas
Kay
|
$200
[15]
Gene Anthony Raywent to LaGuardia's precursor, the School of Performing Arts, & won renown in this movie about it
Fame
Sacha
|
$200
[21]
It's believed that Shakespeare introduced this phrase meaning a hopeless quest
a wild-goose chase
Brennan
|
$200
[11]
When ordering prints of your photos, you usually get to choose between glossy & this, French for "dull"
matte
Kay
|
$200
[12]
Add white wine to some shaved Gruyere & Emmentaler & then heat to make this dipping treat
fondue
Sacha
|
|
$400
[7]
Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
Saudi Arabia
Brennan
|
$400
[2]
This youngest son of Rachel fathered one of the 12 tribes of Israel
Benjamin
Kay
|
$400
[16]
We wonder how many times this "Cabaret" star had to tell teachers at roll call, "Yes, it's spelled with a 'Z'"
Liza Minnelli
Brennan
|
$400
[22]
It's the field of vision from a high altitude, allowing you to see a wide area
a bird's-eye view
Brennan
|
$400
[19]
A larger aperture (lower f/stop) means that this 3-word term will be shallower
depth of field
|
$400
[13]
It's a long way to this Irish county famous for its Cashel blue cheese
Tipperary
Kay
|
|
$600
[8]
Switzerland, Swaziland, Poland
Poland
Sacha
|
$600
[3]
One of the 12 apostles, he's called Nathanael in John's gospel
Bartholomew
Brennan
|
$600
[20]
Once Mariah Carey's "Idol" co-judge, she wanted to speak at her old school, but the principal nixed the cameras
Nicki Minaj
Sacha
|
$600
[23]
To boast or exult over your own good fortune or the misfortune of another
to crow
|
$600
[25]
In 1935 Kodak introduced this product line, the first commercially successful amateur color film
Kodachrome
Brennan
|
$600
[14]
Seen here, a cool cat named Chester endorses this cheesy snack
Cheetos
Sacha
|
|
$800
[9]
Central African Republic, North Korea, East Timor
North Korea
Kay
Sacha
|
$800
[4]
Son of Rahab, great-granddad of David & husband of Ruth
Boaz
Brennan
|
$800
[28]
She made friends at Fiorello before making "Friends" serving coffee at "Central Perk"
Jennifer Aniston
Kay
|
$800
[24]
An absurd tale passed off as being true, it combines a bird & a bovine
a cock-and-bull story
|
$800
[26]
Colorful term for the undesired reflection of a flash off the blood vessels of a photo subject's retinas
red-eye
Brennan
|
$800
[17]
The name of this cheese of India follows saag in a spinach & cheese dish
paneer
Kay
|
|
$1,000
[10]
Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Serbia
|
DD
$1,400
[5]
This Babylonian is slain the same night as his feast at which Daniel reads the writing on the wall
Belshazzar
Brennan
|
$1,000
[29]
Whether you take the red pill or the blue one, this alum opened Neo's eyes to reality in "The Matrix"
(Laurence) Fishburne
Sacha
|
$1,000
[27]
It can be slang for a woman singer, a sweet white wine or a stool pigeon
a canary
|
— |
$1,000
[18]
This Germanic cheese name is also found paired with "-gerome"
Munster
|
| A BOUQUET OF FLOWERS | PLAY INTO FILM | WORKING ON A BUILDING | HUMAN ENDEAVOR | "A_C_D_C" | OLD JERSEY, NEW JERSEY |
|
$400
[25]
The jonquil is sometimes confused with this yellow Narcissus to which it's related
the daffodil
Kay
|
$400
[9]
Songs in this 2012 film that came from the Broadway musical include "At The End Of The Day" & "Javert's Suicide"
Les Miserables
Brennan
|
$400
[3]
82 A.D.: Domitian adds a level of nosebleed seats to this amphitheater so more Romans can watch gladiatorbleeds
the Colosseum
Brennan
|
$400
[1]
Pushing his body's limits, Dean Karnazes ran 50 of these in 50 states on 50 consecutive days in 2006
marathons
Kay
|
$400
[13]
Scholarly, or irrelevant
academic
Sacha
|
$400
[21]
You'll find the William Trent House on Market Street in this New Jersey city
Trenton
Sacha
|
|
$800
[26]
In 1907 Anna Jarvis chose a pink one of these flowers as the symbol for Mother's Day
a carnation
Brennan
|
$800
[10]
The nose knows that the play about this man has been filmed several times; here's an early one
Cyrano de Bergerac
Kay
|
$800
[4]
1163: Pope Alexander III lays the foundation stone for this Paris cathedral; bells & bell-ringers come later
Notre Dame
Brennan
|
$800
[2]
Countless people in India were saved from starvation by new strains of wheat in the 1960s this color revolution
the Green Revolution
Brennan
|
$800
[14]
Woody Allen is a noted one of these show biz hyphenates
actor-director
Sacha
|
$800
[22]
Situated between southern England & western France, Jersey is the largest & southernmost of these islands
the Channel Islands
Sacha
|
|
$2,000
[28]
Luckily, these flowers seenhereare in bloom again & would look lovely in a vase
calla lilies
Kay
|
$1,200
[11]
In this play, life-sized puppets of the equine star were used; the 2011 movie used real ones to play Joey
War Horse
Brennan
|
$1,200
[5]
1941-43: 13,000 American workers labor day & night to turn swampland into this federal office complex
the Pentagon
Sacha
|
$1,200
[8]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the California Science Center in Los Angeles.) The Space Shuttle Endeavouris 122 feet long and 78 feet wide, more than 20 feet longer & 50 feet wider than its 18th-centurynamesakecommanded by this intrepid Englishman
(Captain) Cook
Brennan
|
$1,200
[15]
When you agree with something, you're "in" this with it
accordance
Brennan
|
$1,200
[23]
From 1789 to 2008 only one breed of this was allowed on the island of Jersey
a cow
Brennan
Sacha
|
| — |
$2,000
[18]
In 1958 this folk singer reprised his stage role as Big Daddy in the film adaptation of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
Burl Ives
|
$1,600
[6]
1902: Daniel Burnham completes NYC's Fuller Building, now known by this household appliance name
the Flatiron
Brennan
|
$2,000
[20]
Confronting the questions mankind still faces, this Thomas Aquinas work fills 5 volumes in one translation
Summa Theologica
Brennan
|
$1,600
[16]
Dice game in which you want to roll a 1 or a 2
acey-deucey
|
$1,600
[24]
In the early '20s Lakehurst, N.J. had a hangar as big as 3 football fields, built to hold 2 of these aircraft
Zeppelins (or dirigibles)
Kay
|
| — |
DD
$3,000
[12]
Patty Duke & Anne Bancroft re-created their stage roles to make this 1962 film
The Miracle Worker
Brennan
|
$2,000
[7]
1238: Muhammad Ibn al-Ahmar begins work on this Moorish masterpiece
the Alhambra
Kay
|
DD
$5,000
[19]
His 1753 work "Species Plantarum" provided binomial names for all known species of plants
Carolus Linnaeus
Kay
|
$2,000
[17]
Jose Gomez, seen here, runs this jurisdiction of Los Angeles
archdiocese
Kay
|
$2,000
[27]
This New Jersey township that's home to the Menlo Park area acquired its present name in 1954
Edison
Sacha
|
This live-action TV show about a family debuted in 1965 & was set in 1997
Lost in Space