Matt Jackson game 8.
Ernestine Gardner — an administrative assistant from South Bend, Indiana
John Kozempel — an I.T. consultant from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Matt Jackson — a paralegal from Washington, D.C. (whose 7-day cash winnings total $190,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $3,000 | $8,000 | $36,800 |
$40,009
8-day champion: $230,610 |
$29,200
33 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| John | $4,600 | $8,000 | $4,400 |
$2,789
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Ernestine | $400 | $600 | $3,000 |
$6,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$3,000
6 R, 2 W |
| THE I.T. GUY | PUBLISHED FIRST | STATE OF EMERGENCY | TV | A BILL IN CONGRESS | "UN" ENDING |
|
$200
[11]
He may be there to increase this, the capacity of data transmitted point to point in a given amount of time
bandwidth
Matt
|
$200
[10]
"The Sign of the Four","The Murders in the Rue Morgue","The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
John
|
$200
[23]
A coach for the NFL's Titans said "good sized carp" were in the team's parking lot after 2010 flooding in this state
Tennessee
Matt
|
$200
[9]
For Season 30, this reality show divided the castaways into 3 tribes: White Collar, Blue Collar, & No Collar
Survivor
John
|
$200
[29]
These formal arguments for or against proposed bills take place on the floor of the House & the Senate
debates
Matt
|
$200
[30]
A repeat episode
a rerun
John
|
|
$400
[12]
The I.T. guy knows his coffee & this Sun Microsystems computing language influenced by Objective-C
Java
Matt
|
$400
[8]
"Robinson Crusoe","Paradise Lost","Sense and Sensibility"
Paradise Lost
Ernestine
|
$400
[24]
The escape of 2 prisoners from the Clinton Correctional Facility in this state led to a long 2015 manhunt
New York
Matt
|
$400
[2]
The hosts of the first GOP debate on Fox in August 2015 were Bret Baier, Chris Wallace & her
Megyn Kelly
John
|
$400
[28]
After a bill is introduced, it is given a number, printed & referred to one or more of these entities for review
a committee
John
|
$400
[18]
A Hemingway character says he "brought Anita around for a little spot of good clean" this
fun
Matt
|
|
$600
[13]
He took the class at Princeton on C.A., short for this, the design of a computing system
computer architecture
John
|
$600
[5]
"The Faerie Queene","Don Quixote", the First Folio
The Faerie Queene
Matt
|
$600
[20]
Hurricane Katrina devastated La. & also this state's coastal communities of Dauphin Island & Bayou La Batre
Alabama
John
Ernestine
|
$600
[1]
On a CBS drama Peter Florrick is the bad husband; Alicia Florrick is this title woman
The Good Wife
John
|
$600
[25]
A holiday symbol lends its name to this type of bill that attracts many amendments, like ornaments
a Christmas tree bill
John
|
$600
[16]
The way it feels on your fingers gives this baked treat its name
a sticky bun
John
|
|
$800
[14]
This word means "final", but when the I.T. guy uses it, he means a device that communicates with a computer
a terminal
John
|
$800
[6]
"Brave New World","Nineteen Eighty-Four","Erewhon"
Erewhon
Matt
|
$1,000
[22]
1850s conflict over slavery led to violence that was dubbed "Bleeding" this; it became a state in 1861
Kansas
Matt
|
$800
[3]
At least your mother-in-law can't curse you the way Endora vexed & hexed Darrin Stephens on this '60s series
Bewitched
John
|
$800
[26]
Per its initials, the Revoking Excessive Policies that Encroach on American Liberties Act tried to do this to Obamacare
repeal
Matt
|
$800
[17]
Shortened name used for the petty officer in charge of a ship's equipment
a bosun
Ernestine
|
|
$1,000
[15]
If your I.T. guy is from outside the company, you're this to him, also a program or system that requests server activity
a client
John
|
$1,000
[7]
"Thus Spake Zarathustra", Hobbes' "Leviathan","The Social Contract"
Leviathan
Matt
|
DD
$2,200
[21]
On March 28, 1979 a nuclear plant in this state suffered a massive core meltdown
Pennsylvania
John
|
$1,000
[4]
An executive at Bravo, he also hosts "Watch What Happens Live"
Andy Cohen
|
$1,000
[27]
In 2002 Congress approved a campaign-spending bill co-sponsored by John McCain & this Wisconsin senator
(Russ) Feingold
Matt
|
$1,000
[19]
Originally referring to cloth or yarn made at one's residence, it now means "rustic" or "unsophisticated"
homespun
Matt
|
| THE "I.T." GUY | BIBLICAL CITIES | WEATHER | I AM HISTORY! | SWORDS | THESE WORDS COULD GO ON A DIET |
|
$400
[29]
This musician wrote in "Takin' Back My Name", "I felt as comfortable with Tina as if I was with my mother"
Ike Turner
Matt
|
$400
[30]
Joseph & Mary traveled to this city of Joseph's birth to be taxed by the Romans
Bethlehem
John
|
$400
[17]
It forms on blades of grass in the morning because of condensation
dew
Matt
|
$400
[12]
The 1830s Whigs wanted to offset Andrew Jackson with a "coonskin" politician & backed this b'ar-huntin' Tenn. congressman
Davy Crockett
Ernestine
|
$400
[1]
A katana is a close combat sword that was traditionally used by these swordsmen
samurai
Matt
|
$400
[19]
Besides referring to a larger clothing size, it can also be an Arctic dog
husky
Matt
|
|
$800
[28]
In 2015 this former Piston was named president of the WNBA's Liberty
Isiah Thomas
John
|
$800
[27]
Joshua killed everyone in this city except for Rahab & her family because they hid Joshua's spies
Jericho
Matt
|
$800
[16]
Cape Verde-type hurricanes develop as storms off this continent & then become hurricanes before reaching the Caribbean
Africa
Ernestine
|
$800
[13]
The only surviving son of a rector, this 17th century man went on to design more than 50 churches in London
(Christopher) Wren
Matt
|
$800
[2]
Also a car from Oldsmobile, it was a short sword with a curved blade that was favored by sailors & pirates
cutlass
Matt
|
$1,200
[6]
The Latin for "body" gives us this 9-letter word that needs a diet
corpulent
Matt
|
|
$1,200
[26]
This Aussie Olympian was nicknamed "the Thorpedo"
Ian Thorpe
Matt
|
$1,200
[25]
The cities of Sodom & Gomorrah are believed to have been near this body of water
the Dead Sea
Matt
John
|
$1,200
[11]
You can build your own hygrometer using a human hair; the hair lengthens as this increases
humidity
Ernestine
|
$1,200
[9]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Rhine, Danube & Volga Rivers provided the approximateempireborders of this ruthless warrior king in the 400s A.D.
Attila the Hun
Matt
|
$1,200
[3]
With the same name as the raised part at the front of a saddle, it's the round knob at the end of a sword's hilt
pommel
Matt
|
$1,600
[7]
Take a boxing blow, insert an "A" & you get this word for a big belly
paunch
Matt
|
|
$1,600
[24]
Back when he was Tracy Marrow, this rapper & actor did a 4-year stint with the U.S. Army
Ice-T
Ernestine
|
$1,600
[23]
While a captive in this city, Daniel was given the name Belteshazzar
Babylon
Matt
|
$1,600
[14]
In a bad storm, so many people resort to this more-than-breakfast restaurant, FEMA bases an index on its operations
Waffle House
John
Ernestine
|
$2,000
[20]
Ukraine-born, she moved to the U.S. in 1906 & eventually became a world leader for Israel
Golda Meir
Matt
|
$1,600
[4]
Thissharp-pointed, 6-letter sword used for thrusting lost its cutting edge in the 18th century
a rapier
Matt
|
$2,000
[8]
This word that means "resembling swine" rhymes with "swine"
porcine
Matt
|
|
$2,000
[22]
He left Russia when his 1862 novel "Fathers and Sons" outraged both radicals & conservatives
Ivan Turgenev
Matt
|
$2,000
[21]
The Gospel of Mark says that Jesus visited the Phoenician ports of Sidon & this
Tyre
Matt
|
$2,000
[15]
Drizzle often falls from this lowest type of cloud, which looks like a smooth, even sheet
stratus
John
|
DD
$6,000
[10]
In the 1940s he needed 2 tries to become mayor of Minneapolis; 20 years later, he was vice president
Hubert Humphrey
Matt
|
$2,000
[5]
The national flag of Sri Lanka depicts one of these animals holding a sword
a lion
|
DD
$4,000
[18]
Meaning plump, this adjective begins with a shipboard direction
portly
Matt
|
"To explain... Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt", he wrote in 1927
Hermann Hesse