Matt Jackson game 2.
Vicki Eastus — a law school professor and administrator from Brooklyn, New York
Jedidiah Smith — a technical writer from Denver, Colorado
Matt Jackson — a paralegal from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $5,000 | $10,000 | $35,000 |
$30,000
2-day champion: $51,200 |
$29,200
34 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W |
| Jedidiah | $0 | $-1,200 | $2,000 |
$2,928
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,000
3 R, 3 W |
| Vicki | $4,800 | $8,200 | $14,200 |
$4,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,200
20 R, 1 W |
| COMPUTER HISTORY | THE BRADY BUNCH | CRIME OF THE DECADE | PLAYING POLITICS | FROM PAGE TO MUSICAL | "O-M-G"! |
|
$200
[26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew clicks the signaling device from behind a familiar lectern at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California; Jimmy is her sole human competitor.) The museum has an homage to this "Jeopardy!" cyber contestant, whose brilliance is now being put to work diagnosing illnesses, recommending better investments & helping researchers around the world find information faster
Watson
Matt
|
$200
[4]
This improv comedian currently hosts the daytime revival of "Let's Make a Deal"
Wayne Brady
Matt
|
$200
[21]
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
the 1910s
Vicki
|
$200
[16]
Steve Beshear, Rand Paul & Henry Clay were left, right & center working for this state
Kentucky
Matt
Jedidiah
|
$200
[10]
It was a 75-year journey, but "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" stepped out as this musical with an all-black cast
The Wiz
Matt
|
$200
[2]
This traffic is headed your way
oncoming
Matt
|
|
$400
[30]
The alternative to hard disk wasn't called soft disk but this, & 5 billion a year were sold in the mid-'90s
floppy disk
Matt
|
$400
[5]
In a 1917 movie Alice Brady played this flag maker, with lines like "There can be no reward so great as the honor"
Betsy Ross
Vicki
|
$400
[22]
The Lindbergh baby is kidnapped
the 1930s
Matt
|
$400
[17]
Magna cum laude at Harvard, Fred Grandy was your yeoman purser on this show before "making another run" at Congress
The Love Boat
Vicki
|
$400
[11]
The Tony-winning musical "Big River" was based on this Mark Twain classic
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Matt
|
$400
[12]
Members of OPEC declared one of these 2-word stoppages in 1973
oil embargo
Vicki
|
|
$600
[29]
A big hit with 1960s scientists, the CDC 1604 was one of the first computers with these instead of vacuum tubes
transistors
Matt
|
$600
[1]
From 1988 to 1993 Nicholas Brady's signature appeared on our paper currency because of his position as this
Secretary of the Treasury
Vicki
|
$600
[23]
Mary Surratt is found guilty of conspiracy
the 1860s
Matt
|
$600
[18]
Photos taken in this D.C. space that's 36 by 29 feet (well, roughly) may not be used in political campaigns
the Oval Office
|
$800
[8]
Welcome, old chum, to this musical based on Christopher Isherwood's "Berlin Stories"
Cabaret
Matt
|
$600
[13]
They've been held in Antwerp, Chamonix & Seoul
Olympic games
Vicki
|
|
$800
[28]
Unveiled in 1977, the TRS-80 got its name from the Tandy Corporation & this retail chain where it was sold
Radio Shack
Matt
|
$800
[3]
She died in April 2015 after 30 years of gun control activism
Sarah Brady
Vicki
|
$800
[24]
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre takes place
the 1920s
Matt
|
$800
[19]
This Northeastern man was 30, the minimum age for a U.S. senator, when he ran in 1962; he stuck around 47 years
Ted Kennedy
Vicki
|
$1,000
[9]
Lerner & Loewe adapted this musical from T.H. White's "The Once & Future King"
Camelot
Vicki
|
$800
[14]
The study of eye diseases
ophthalmology
Matt
|
|
$1,000
[27]
The name of this early programming language is an acronym starting "Beginner's All-purpose"
BASIC
Matt
Jedidiah
|
$1,000
[6]
Thisflashy 19th-century financier was said to have bejeweled underwear
Diamond Jim Brady
Matt
|
$1,000
[25]
The Achille Lauro cruise ship is hijacked, Leon Klinghoffer is killed
the 1980s
Vicki
|
$1,000
[20]
Rep. Michael Grimm, whose district encompassed this NYC borough, threatened to toss a reporter off a balcony
Staten Island
Vicki
|
DD
$1,400
[7]
Damon Runyon's story "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" rolled the dice as this musical
Guys and Dolls
Matt
|
$1,000
[15]
Fancy name for Fleischmann's
oleomargarine
Vicki
|
| BOTANISTS | A "COOL" CATEGORY | QEII IS THEIR QUEEN TOO | DOUBLE THAT LETTER! | ODE ON A | GRECIAN EARN |
|
$400
[20]
Nehemiah Grew (good name for a botanist) coined the term "radicle" for the embryonic one of these
a root
Matt
|
$400
[6]
It's the nom de rap of Artis Ivey
Coolio
Matt
|
$400
[17]
In area, it's the largest country with Elizabeth II as its queen, & she's been there over 20 times
Canada
Matt
|
$400
[1]
The last name of a French fashion designer & a body of water like the one next to France
Chanel & channel
Matt
|
$400
[8]
The Battle of Shiloh is mentioned in Allen Tate's ode to the dead soldiers of this losing side
the Confederacy
Vicki
|
$400
[30]
Born in 1906, this Greek who made his first million at 25 had a philosopher for a middle name too--Socrates
Aristotle (Socrates) Onassis
Matt
|
|
$800
[21]
This monk's 2 basic principles of heredity are the law of independent assortment & the law of segregation
Mendel
Matt
|
$800
[7]
In this film Strother Martin tells Paul Newman, "What we've got here is failure to communicate"
Cool Hand Luke
Vicki
|
$800
[18]
A Crown colony in 1877, it became independent in 1974 & was invaded by the U.S. in 1983
Grenada
Matt
|
$800
[2]
Walked through shallow water & balled up paper into a small lump
waded & wadded
Vicki
|
$800
[9]
"I faint in this obscurity, thou dewy dawn of memory", ends an ode by this "Idylls of the King" poet
Tennyson
Matt
|
$800
[29]
In 2011 this gal from Athens earned big time when her post sold for $315 million
Arianna Huffington
Vicki
|
|
$1,200
[22]
In 1888 Liberty H. Bailey established the 1st horticultural laboratory in the U.S. at this East Lansing school
Michigan State
Matt
|
$1,200
[13]
It's been topping desserts since 1966
Cool Whip
Matt
|
$1,200
[16]
The 2 countries farthest south that recognize Elizabeth as queen
New Zealand & Australia
Vicki
|
$1,200
[3]
A word meaning vigor & to look through a small opening
pep & peep
Vicki
|
$1,200
[10]
Vocalists sing this Schiller poem at the end of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
"Ode To Joy"
Vicki
|
$1,200
[28]
Shipping heir Philip Niarchos inherited his dad's art, including "Self-Portrait with a Bandaged Ear" by this man
van Gogh
Matt
|
|
$1,600
[23]
This Santa Rosa, Calif. botanist's "How Plants Are Trained to Work for Man" influenced the 1930 Plant Patent Act
Luther Burbank
Matt
|
$1,600
[14]
She's the funny lady seen here
Jennifer Coolidge
Jedidiah
|
$1,600
[19]
In 1632 the British colonized this island; it took them until 1678 to get around to Barbuda
Antigua
Jedidiah
|
$1,600
[4]
The place where you live & the French word for man
home & homme
Vicki
|
$1,600
[11]
This Chilean celebrated ordinary things via odes "To the Onion" & "To My Socks"
Neruda
Matt
|
$1,600
[27]
Socrates Kokkalis made his coin in the telecom industry & as owner of Olympiacos FC, one of these
a soccer team
Matt
|
|
DD
$3,000
[24]
As a professor of botany at Uppsala University, he wrote several works including "Species Plantarum"
Linnaeus
Matt
|
$2,000
[15]
The tracks on this 1957 Miles Davis album introduced a kind of jazz that never got too hot, hence its title
Birth of the Cool
Matt
Jedidiah
|
$2,000
[25]
Don't dread this English-speaking country 90 miles south of Cuba
Jamaica
Matt
|
$2,000
[5]
Carried on a war & moved like some tails
waged & wagged
Jedidiah
Vicki
|
DD
$6,000
[12]
Keats wrote an "Ode to" this mythological persona who wed Cupid
Psyche
Matt
|
$2,000
[26]
She, of the black spectacles, is worth around $300 million & is said to be the world's top-selling female singer
Nana Mouskouri
|
The group Nazareth took its name from the first line of a 1968 song from this other group
The Band