Matt Jackson game 7.
Amanda Brock — a biologist from Champaign, Illinois
Ben Rudd — a client service specialist from Minneola, Florida
Matt Jackson — a paralegal from Washington, D.C. (whose 6-day cash winnings total $166,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $7,600 | $11,400 | $24,200 |
$24,200
7-day champion: $190,601 |
$26,400
27 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ben | $2,000 | $4,600 | $10,200 |
$5,100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,200
13 R, 0 W |
| Amanda | $200 | $2,000 | $7,600 |
$9,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,600
14 R, 3 W |
| WHERE AM I? | A BLANK EXPRESSION | NAME THAT BASEBALL STAT, STAT! | MEDICAL AKAs | COLOR MY WORLD | STILL ALICE IN WONDERLAND |
|
$200
[12]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports.) I've traveled a long way to this continent that's surrounded by what's sometimes called the Southern Ocean
Antarctica
Matt
|
$200
[17]
Give it a try:"Nothing ventured, nothing ____"
gained
Matt
|
$200
[6]
Babe Ruth, 1921:59 these
home runs
Ben
|
$200
[24]
Pertussis is more familiar as this cough, for the sound it makes
whooping cough
Ben
|
$200
[22]
Idiomatically, one of these is misleading or distracting
a red herring
Matt
|
$200
[26]
Grin & name this feline character who can disappear & reappear at will
the Cheshire Cat
Amanda
|
|
$400
[13]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports.) I'm in this city which was officially renamed Ho Chi Minh City in 1976, but which everyone calls by this former, more familiar name
Saigon
Matt
|
$400
[18]
From Henny Youngman:"Take my ____, please! "
wife
Ben
|
$400
[7]
Rickey Henderson, career:1,406 these
stolen bases
Ben
Amanda
|
$400
[25]
Rubeola is the measles; this similar word refers to German measles
rubella
Amanda
|
$400
[23]
The main culprit in the greenhouse effect that's causing global warming is the rise of this gas in the atmosphere
carbon dioxide
Matt
|
$400
[27]
At a party, Alice encounters this lagomorph with a month in his name
the March Hare
Matt
|
|
$600
[14]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports.) I'm on Aviano Air Base, which is 50 miles north of Venice in the Dolomite Range of these mountains
the Alps
Matt
|
$600
[19]
A proverb:"You can't make a ____ ____ out of a sow's ear"
a silk purse
Amanda
|
$600
[8]
New York Mets, 1962:120 these
losses
Ben
Amanda
|
$600
[1]
Herpes zoster is another name for this disease that's caused by the same virus as chickenpox
shingles
Amanda
|
$600
[2]
In the 19-teens this soda was advertised as getting flavors from the groves of Southern California
Orange Crush
Amanda
|
$600
[28]
Alice's first time in Wonderland concludes with a trial regarding the theft of these pastries
the Queen of Hearts' tarts
Amanda
|
|
$800
[15]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.) I'm in the Plaza Mayor in this South American city founded by a conquistador in 1535
Lima
Matt
|
$800
[20]
Much ado about nothing:"A ____ in a teapot"
a tempest
Matt
|
$800
[9]
Cal Ripken Jr., 1982-1998:2,632 these
consecutive games played
Matt
|
$800
[5]
This disease that infected dogs can transmit to humans is also called lyssa
rabies
Ben
|
$800
[3]
A possession whose care & upkeep are an excessive financial burden
a white elephant
|
$800
[30]
Take a swing & see if you can name this satiric magazine for which Alice illustrator John Tenniel was cartoonist
Punch
Matt
|
|
$1,000
[16]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports.) I'm in this largest township in Johannesburg, South Africa; once notorious for repression, now setting trends in fashion & art
Soweto
Matt
|
$1,000
[21]
The simplest explanation is preferred:"____'s razor"
Occam
Ben
|
$1,000
[10]
Sandy Koufax, 1965:382 these
strikeouts
Matt
|
DD
$2,800
[11]
Tetanus is also called this, typically the first sign of the disease
lockjaw
Matt
|
$1,000
[4]
For what presumably runs through their veins, this phrase means members of the aristocracy
blue bloods
Matt
|
$1,000
[29]
This character is described to Alice as the thing the soup is made from
the Mock Turtle
Ben
|
| DON'T DRINK THE WATER | WOMEN ARTISTS | MAGAZINES | NEWS OF THE 21st CENTURY | HOME MOVIES | "HOW" GOES IT |
|
$400
[22]
Declared biologically dead in 1957, this London river won a restoration award in 2010
the Thames
Matt
|
$400
[30]
In 2015 MoMA presented its first exhibition devoted exclusively to the work of this widow of a Beatle
Yoko Ono
Amanda
|
$400
[27]
Walter Annenberg helped us tune in by founding it in 1953
TV Guide
|
$400
[24]
On June 5, 2012 Wisconsin made him the first governor in U.S. history to survive a recall vote
Scott Walker
Amanda
|
$400
[28]
Young Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) gets left behind when his family heads to France for Christmas in this 1990 film
Home Alone
Amanda
|
$400
[13]
The expertise needed to accomplish a task
know-how
Matt
|
|
$800
[23]
In 2007 Hindu holy men protested the filth in this river; a scientist said it "had turned the color of Coca-Cola"
the Ganges
Ben
|
$800
[29]
She was close to 80 & trying to earn a little money when her paintings were discovered at a Hoosick Falls, N.Y. drugstore
Grandma Moses
Ben
|
$800
[12]
A special photo-filled February issue sells 10 times as many copies as its other weekly issues
Sports Illustrated
Ben
|
$800
[11]
The largest ever marine oil spill happened when a rig leased to this company sank in 2010
BP
Matt
|
$800
[5]
The fourth film in this series was subtitled "The Voyage Home"
Star Trek
Amanda
|
$800
[14]
This artillery piece gets its name from an old Czech word for catapult
a howitzer
Amanda
|
|
$1,200
[19]
In 2015 a rock dam was removed from this type of site in Colorado, turning the Animas River yellow & metallic
a (gold) mine
Matt
|
$1,600
[25]
In 1938, Alice Neel moved to this 2-word area of Manhattan & began to paint its Puerto Ricancommunity
Spanish Harlem
Matt
|
$1,200
[6]
It launched in 1973 during the feminist movement as an answer to Hef
Playgirl
Amanda
|
$1,200
[4]
Firsts for this new German chancellor in 2005 included first East German in the post
(Angela) Merkel
Ben
|
$1,200
[1]
Reese Witherspoon returns to the Southern town of Pigeon Creek & her estranged husband in this romantic comedy
Sweet Home Alabama
Amanda
|
$1,200
[15]
A short jacket resembling the Army uniform style popularized by the 34th president
an Eisenhower jacket
Amanda
|
|
$1,600
[20]
This big Florida lake fed by the Kissimmee River has doubled its phosphorus content over the last 50 years
Lake Okeechobee
Matt
|
$2,000
[26]
She got down to a little monkey business for the self-portrait seen here
Frida Kahlo
Ben
|
$1,600
[7]
E.B. White once edited its "Talk of the Town" section
The New Yorker
Matt
|
$1,600
[9]
Ending a 100-year dispute, in 2011 this univ. returned thousands of artifacts to Peru that were taken from Machu Picchu
Yale
Matt
|
$1,600
[2]
Patrick Swayze was no ordinary bouncer--his character had a degree in philosophy in this film
Road House
Amanda
|
$1,600
[16]
A blunder, perhaps one made by a monkey of genus Alouatta
a howler
Matt
|
|
DD
$4,000
[21]
In 1969 Time said, "Chocolate-brown, oily... it oozes rather than flows" after this Ohio river caught fire
the Cuyahoga
Matt
|
DD
$6,000
[18]
Seenwith one of her paintings, that's the real Margaret Keane, whose story was told in this 2014 film
Big Eyes
Matt
|
$2,000
[8]
172-year-old British financial mag that's also a job
The Economist
Matt
|
$2,000
[10]
(ABC News anchor David Muir gives the clue.) As the Arab Spring made its way into Egypt in January of 2011, I reported from this pivotal public gathering place where protests eventually brought down 2 Egyptian leaders
Tahrir Square
Matt
|
$2,000
[3]
The title of a Cary Grant film is this character "Builds His Dream House"
Mr. Blandings
|
$2,000
[17]
In a jazz standard, this 4-word title question follows "Somewhere there's heaven"
"How High The Moon"
|
From the Latin for "buy back", it once referred to buying a slave's freedom & today can refer to being saved from sin
redeem (or redemption)