Matt Jackson game 1.
Matt Jackson — a paralegal from Washington, D.C.
Laura Varriale — a government attorney from Madison, Wisconsin
Dylan Parson — a student from Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania (whose 3-day cash winnings total $29,799)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dylan | $400 | $2,000 | $8,600 |
$17,198
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,200
12 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Laura | $2,200 | $3,800 | $7,800 |
$412
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,800
14 R, 3 W |
| Matt | $1,400 | $5,600 | $20,600 |
$21,200
New champion: $21,200 |
$17,200
24 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| ALSO A CABINET DEPARTMENT | HAIKU ABOUT THE POET | NICKNAMES | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS | THE "MAR" THE MERRIER | THAT'S A WRAP! |
|
$200
[27]
In 2011-12 a woman having triplets went through this for 75 days & had to lie nearly upside down for more than 10 weeks
Labor
Laura
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$200
[30]
Born in Beatrice /Worshiped a girl named Florence /Oops, got that backwards
Dante
Matt
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$200
[28]
Referring to the extensive quarries there, it's "the Granite State"
New Hampshire
Matt
|
$200
[10]
In 2010 a massive 8.8 earthquake damaged this Chilean capital city
Santiago
Laura
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$200
[29]
Can't you see it? Your name, up in lights, on this sign over the entrance to a theater
the marquee
Matt
|
$200
[7]
1941:A sled burns
Citizen Kane
Matt
|
|
$400
[26]
A large-scale interchange of goods
Commerce
Dylan
|
$400
[24]
"Queen Mab" was so fab /Was the groom of Frankenstein /Not waving, drowning
Percy Shelley
Matt
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$400
[16]
Andrew Jackson's toughness during the War of 1812 earned him this "Old" nickname
"Old Hickory"
Matt
|
$400
[11]
Stand back--it's the capital seen here
Buenos Aires
Matt
|
$400
[25]
Made from sugar & almonds, it's used for decorating cakes & making candies
marzipan
Matt
|
$400
[9]
1996:Norm gets his mallard on the 3-cent; Marge is due in 2 months
Fargo
Laura
|
|
$600
[19]
Department name a sports crowd often chants--"Health & Human Services! Health & Human Services!" ...nope
Defense
Dylan
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$600
[23]
Talkin' 'bout lilacs /A Civil War caregiver /The good gray poet
(Walt) Whitman
Matt
|
$600
[15]
Stockbroker Jordan Belfort's nickname, it's the title of Scorsese's 2013 biopic of him
"The Wolf of Wall Street"
Laura
|
$600
[12]
Oils well that ends well in this city by the Caribbean coast that became a capital in the 1820s
Caracas
Dylan
|
$600
[22]
To relegate someone to lesser status; it sounds like pushing him to the edge
marginalize
Dylan
|
$600
[8]
1990:Henry Hill gets to live the rest of his life like a schnook
Goodfellas
Laura
|
|
$800
[4]
Types of this include a funicular
Transportation
Dylan
|
$800
[18]
"Aurora Leigh", whoa! /19th century lady /Let me count the ways
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Laura
|
$800
[14]
This French tennis player & shirt tycoon was "the Crocodile"
(René) Lacoste
Matt
|
DD
$1,000
[2]
The Universidad Catolica in Paraguay's capital is called Nuestra Senora de la, or Our Lady of, this
Asunción
Dylan
|
$800
[21]
It's one of Morocco's 4 imperial cities
Marrakesh
Matt
|
$800
[6]
2013:A hand reaches down to save sailor Robert Redford; or, the sailor has a vision of a rescuing hand as he drowns
All Is Lost
|
|
$1,000
[3]
Its synonyms include vigor, force & potency
Energy
|
$1,000
[17]
A joy forever /Big "into Chapman's Homer" /Tuberculosis
Keats
Matt
|
$1,000
[13]
A Yat, as in "Where y'at?", is a person from this Southern U.S. city
New Orleans
Dylan
|
$1,000
[1]
It's roughly 300 miles from Panama, 200 miles from the Pacific & a mile & a half high
Bogotá
Dylan
|
$1,000
[20]
From the name of a French military officer, it's anyone who demands strict adherence to rules
martinet
|
$1,000
[5]
1969:Captain America & Billy have a really bad trip
Easy Rider
Laura
|
| THE BOOK OF NORMAN | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS | THE VIKINGS | LET'S STOP AT THE GAS STATION | SHELL | X ON |
|
$400
[30]
Norman Mailer's "The Gospel According to the Son" is in the form of a first-person memoir by him
Jesus Christ
Matt
|
$400
[3]
Dillon, Texas
Friday Night Lights
Laura
|
$400
[29]
Many Vikings wore pendants made in the form of Mjolnir, this symbol of Thor, to protect them from danger
the hammer
Matt
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$400
[25]
Before GPS, gas stations gave these away by the millions; a 1960s one for Indiana was "For People Going Places"
a map
Dylan
|
$400
[28]
The blue species of this crustacean is commonly eaten soft-shell, which means it is newly molted
a crab
Matt
|
$400
[27]
X on an animal such as a gorilla gives you a high point
ape & apex
Matt
|
|
$800
[17]
Jack Anderson used this rhyming title for his heroic tale of General Schwarzkopf
Stormin' Norman
Dylan
|
$800
[4]
Bon Temps, Louisiana
True Blood
Matt
|
$800
[26]
The Vikings may have been named for Viken, located in a fjord of this future Scandinavian capital
Oslo
Matt
|
$800
[24]
If you stop for gas in Ashland or Medford in this Pacific NW state, stay in the car; self-serve is illegal
Oregon
Laura
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$800
[21]
Prized by collectors, this spiral shell can be used as a trumpet
a conch (shell)
Matt
|
$800
[23]
X on a numerical prefix gives you a General Mills cereal
tri- & Trix
Laura
|
|
$1,200
[16]
A Howard Norman novel set in Manitoba is titled after this spectacular show in the skies
the Northern Lights
Laura
|
$1,200
[5]
Starling City
Arrow
|
$1,200
[6]
The need for wood in Greenland prompted visits to Markland, which today is this mainland partner of Newfoundland
Labrador
Matt
|
$1,200
[12]
Here comes this Northeast-based company, the official fuel of NASCAR, & I say it's all right
Sunoco
Laura
Matt
|
$1,200
[20]
The band Squeeze had a song called "Pulling" these "(From The Shell)"
Mussels
Dylan
Laura
|
$1,200
[22]
X on a word for size or extent gives you a brand that limits the size or extent of your waist
span & Spanx
|
|
$1,600
[15]
In addition to "The Power of Positive Thinking", he put out a spiritual leaflet called "Guideposts"
Norman Vincent Peale
Dylan
|
$1,600
[10]
Cicely, Alaska
Northern Exposure
Laura
|
$2,000
[18]
Viking shipbuilders greatly improved the seaworthiness of their vessels by adding this piece of wood to form the backbone
a keel
Dylan
|
$1,600
[13]
If you drive mucho in Mexico, you'll stop at one of these stations, an abbreviation of Petroleos Mexicanos
Pemex
Matt
|
$2,000
[2]
You don't want to leave Hawaii without getting a necklace made from these shells whose name means "hole"
puka shells
Laura
|
$1,600
[9]
X on a word that goes with "behold!" gets you a word that goes with "and bagels"
lo & lox
Laura
|
|
$2,000
[14]
Norman Cousins wrote books about this German humanitarian who won the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize
Albert Schweitzer
Dylan
|
$2,000
[11]
Collinsport, Maine
Dark Shadows
|
DD
$5,000
[7]
Under the terms of a 911 treaty, Norse leader Rollo received this region at the mouth of the Seine River
Normandy
Matt
|
$2,000
[1]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a photo on the monitor.) The first long distance automobile trip was in 1888 & included a stop at a pharmacy in Wiesloch, Germany; Berthaof this last name bought petroleum detergent to fuel the car invented by her husband Karl
Benz
Dylan
Laura
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
This mottled material used for jewelry & eyeglasses once came from the hawksbill turtle; it's now illegal most places
tortoise shell
Dylan
|
$2,000
[8]
X on a cryptic system makes for a biblical manuscript
code & codex
Matt
|
National Geographic says the site of this city is "the largest wetland in the Mediterranean"
Venice