Matt Jackson game 5.WE ASKED: Quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
Ezgi Ustundag — a student from Durham, North Carolina
Greg Vinton — a ranch hand from North Platte, Nebraska
Matt Jackson — a paralegal from Washington, D.C. (whose 4-day cash winnings total $106,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $1,800 | $5,000 | $33,000 |
$34,401
5-day champion: $140,401 |
$24,600
26 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Greg | $7,000 | $8,800 | $17,200 |
$1,399
3rd place: $1,000 |
$15,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Ezgi | $1,000 | $2,000 | $2,000 |
$2,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$2,000
6 R, 3 W |
| DICKENS BOOK BY CHARACTER | SUPER BOWL MVP QBs | FINANCIAL LITERACY | "EX"CELLENT! | BLUE BIRDS | OF HAPPINESS |
|
$200
[21]
Bob Cratchit
A Christmas Carol
Greg
|
$200
[1]
In 2015 this QB gave the truck he won as MVP to Malcolm Butler, the rookie who made the game-saving interception
(Tom) Brady
Matt
|
$200
[14]
To set a fair valuation of a property for a transaction, turn to a certified residential this professional
appraiser
Ezgi
|
$200
[10]
With the power of a million tornadoes, it's a description that overstates reality for effect
exaggeration
Matt
|
$200
[18]
Both blue-faced boobies & blue-footed boobies nest in these Ecuadorian islands
the Galápagos
Matt
|
$200
[30]
Happy baby, in which you lie on your back with your knees to your chest & hold your feet, is a pose in this
yoga
Greg
|
|
$400
[20]
Bill Sikes
Oliver Twist
Matt
|
$400
[2]
Coach Weeb Ewbank, furious after this Jet guaranteed a win, was probably not as mad after his MVP performance
Joe Namath
Greg
|
$400
[15]
Cash, investments & physical goods are all these, from the Latin for "enough"
assets
|
$400
[8]
In math it indicates the number of times an expression is multiplied by itself
exponent
Greg
|
$400
[22]
The smallest species of this bird, the fairy or little blue, nests in burrows, not in the ice & snow
a penguin
Ezgi
|
$400
[29]
He had a way with words, enumerating our unalienable rights as "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
Jefferson
Matt
|
|
$600
[16]
Esther Summerson
Bleak House
Matt
|
$600
[3]
(I'm Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers.) I'm one of the first 2 Packer QBs to be Super Bowl MVP; this2-time winner who later coached the team is the other
Bart Starr
Greg
|
$600
[11]
Colorful term for stock from an established company, regarded as a safe investment
blue chip
Greg
|
$600
[6]
A concentrated substance used in chemistry or cooking
an extract
Matt
|
$600
[23]
Found across North America, the blue-winged teal is a small dabbling one of these birds
a duck
Ezgi
|
$600
[28]
The song "Happy" says, "Clap along if you feel like a room without" this
a roof
Greg
|
|
$800
[17]
Dr. Alexandre Manette
A Tale of Two Cities
Greg
|
$800
[4]
In 2010 this MVP QB said, "We played for our city... for the entire Gulf Coast region... for all the entire Who Dat Nation"
(Drew) Brees
Matt
|
$1,000
[13]
If you hold a bond as its price rises, this other 5-letter word falls, because you're getting a lower return percentage
yield
Greg
|
$800
[7]
Like a foot or a hand, it's a part of something that is the farthest from the main part
an extremity
Ezgi
|
$800
[24]
As well as the great blue, there is a little blue type of this long-legged wading bird
a heron
Matt
|
$800
[27]
A book by him is called "Happiness Is a Warm Puppy"
(Charles) Schulz
Matt
|
|
$1,000
[19]
Uriah Heep
David Copperfield
Matt
|
$1,000
[5]
Quoth the raven, "MVP!" after this man was deemed most valuable in 2013 at Super Bowl XLVII
(Joe) Flacco
Greg
|
DD
$3,000
[12]
Often used in mutual funds, it's the strategy of investing broadly across a number of investments to reduce risk
diversification
Greg
|
$1,000
[9]
Someone who deliberately be have s in an extravagant way to attract attention
an exhibitionist
|
$1,000
[25]
The blue bird seenhereis Steller's this, noted for its beautiful plumage & harsh call
a jay
Ezgi
|
$1,000
[26]
In 1997 this French-named cosmetics company introduced Happy, a fragrance for women
Clinique
Matt
Ezgi
|
| GREEK ALPHABET PUZZLERS | HISTORIC AMERICANS | ASIAN MOUNTAINS | THEORIES OF EVERYTHING | 20th CENTURY COMPOSERS | TV SHOWS BY SIBLINGS |
|
$400
[16]
It's a symbol of the all-american way of life
apple pie
Greg
|
$400
[19]
On January 20, 1801 he was nominated to be Chief Justice, a job he would retain for the next 34 years
John Marshall
Greg
|
$400
[1]
Mount Kita-Dake, Japan's second-highest peak, is almost 2,000 feet lower than this top mountain
Fuji
Greg
|
$400
[27]
Maurice Allais got a 1988 Nobel in this for work in "the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources"
economics
Matt
|
$400
[30]
Yes, Sir! Among this British composer's awards & honors are 7 Tonys, 7 Oliviers & a life peerage
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Ezgi
|
$400
[29]
Ross & Monica Geller
Friends
Matt
|
|
$800
[28]
What babyneeds, according to craps players
a new pair of shoes (new shoes accepted)
Greg
|
$800
[18]
On May 24, 1844 he sent the historic message "What hath God wrought" to his partner Alfred Vail
Morse
Greg
|
$800
[2]
Some believe that Saudi Arabia's Jabal al-Lawz is the real this mountain Moses climbed
Mount Sinai
Greg
|
$800
[22]
The kinetic theory of these directly relates their pressure to their temperature & density
gases
Matt
|
$800
[5]
In 1911 this "King of Ragtime" completed "Treemonisha", an opera set during Reconstruction
(Scott) Joplin
Matt
|
$800
[26]
Keith, Laurie, Danny, Christopher & Tracy
The Partridge Family
|
|
$1,200
[15]
Around 1960, itwas a state-of-the-art music system
Hi-Fi
Matt
|
$1,200
[10]
In 1866 she fell on the ice in Lynn, Mass. & her recovery led to the principles of Christian Science
(Mary Baker) Eddy
Matt
|
$1,200
[3]
Rongbuk Monastery, at about 16,400 feet on this mountain in Tibet, is the world's highest religious temple
Everest
Greg
|
$1,200
[12]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a geological animation on the monitor.) Dynamo theory says that Earth's rotation causes liquid iron in the outer core to move in spiral currents, generating this gigantic field around the planet
the magnetic field
Matt
|
$1,200
[6]
This longtime conductor of the New York Philharmonic also composed the music for "West Side Story"
Bernstein
Matt
|
$1,200
[23]
Helena & her many "Sestras", including Sarah
Orphan Black
|
|
$1,600
[25]
In song, she's asked, "What's that flower you have on?"
Delta Dawn
Greg
|
$2,000
[17]
This Maryland physician hadn't practiced medicine primarily for years when he set John Wilkes Booth's broken leg
(Dr. Samuel) Mudd
Greg
|
$1,600
[4]
Declared a national park of this country in 1936 by Manuel Quezon, Mount Apo is home to a rare species of eagle
the Philippines
Matt
|
$1,600
[13]
Feminist standpoint theory is rooted in this "ism" named for a 19th century manifesto man
Marxism
Matt
|
$1,600
[7]
He composed "Peter and the Wolf" to demonstrate for children the instruments in an orchestra
Prokofiev
Matt
Ezgi
|
$1,600
[21]
Charlie, Bailey, Julia, & Claudia Salinger; notshown--Owen
Party of Five
|
|
$2,000
[24]
A type of violentwindstorm
a cyclone
Matt
|
DD
$6,000
[11]
(Hi. I'm Ken Burns.) My film about this man who inspired Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men" depicts his road to the White House cut short by an assassin in 1935
Huey Long
Matt
|
$2,000
[9]
This mountain range's name means "kills the Hindu"; many Indian slaves died there while being moved to central Asia
the Hindu Kush
Ezgi
|
DD
$6,000
[14]
Bronsted & Lowry were red & blue in the face when Lewis disputed their theory about these 2 types of substances
acids & bases
Matt
|
$2,000
[8]
He also wrote a "Death Valley Suite", but he's better known for his "Grand Canyon Suite"
(Ferde) Grofé
Matt
|
$2,000
[20]
Prue, Piper & Phoebe Halliwell
Charmed
|
8-letter name shared by a tragic heroine & Uranus' innermost known moon
Cordelia