Matt Jackson game 12.
Victor Quillen — a career counselor from Kingsport, Tennessee
Julia Novakovic — an archivist originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Matt Jackson — a paralegal from Washington, D.C. (whose 11-day cash winnings total $339,411)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $2,200 | $6,600 | $39,600 |
$51,000
12-day champion: $390,411 |
$25,800
29 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Julia | $800 | $1,000 | $7,000 |
$10,002
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,000
8 R, 0 W |
| Victor | $2,600 | $4,400 | $12,000 |
$14,001
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,400
15 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| WINTER IS COMING | A SONG OF "ICE" & "FIRE" | GAME OF THRONES | YOU KNOW NOTHING | THE NORTH REMEMBERS | ALWAYS PAY YOUR DEBTS |
|
$200
[9]
The coldest recorded winter temperature in the U.S. was the Jan. 1971 temp of -80 at Prospect Creek Camp in this state
Alaska
Matt
|
$200
[27]
The "tip of" it is the first hint of something more complex
the iceberg
Julia
|
$200
[17]
Daenerys' many titles on the show include "Breaker of Chains" & "Mother of" these creatures
dragons
Matt
|
$400
[25]
Antonio in "The Merchant of Venice" promises to pay this gruesome price if he can't repay a loan in time
a pound of flesh
Matt
|
$400
[24]
...George de Long's North Pole venture sponsored by the same newspaper that had just sent this man to find Livingstone
(Henry Morgan) Stanley
Matt
Victor
|
$400
[23]
2007 brought what's sometimes called this "mortgage crisis", after a high-risk type of lending
subprime
Matt
|
|
$400
[10]
In the Southern Hemisphere, winter begins in this month
June
Victor
|
$400
[26]
Someone busy with several projects has a lot of these, like a blacksmith
irons in the fire
Victor
|
$400
[18]
The Season 5 finale left some wondering about the fate of this "Bastard of Winterfell" with a wintry name
Jon Snow
Matt
|
$600
[1]
Since the 1889 expiry of a copyright, anyone can put out a dictionary & slap this man's name on it
(Noah) Webster
Victor
|
$600
[22]
...to pluralize the name of this vast region whose website is www.gov.nt.ca
the Northwest Territories
Matt
|
$600
[16]
Charles Dickens' father was tossed into prison for debt, a life event the writer used in this "Little" 1850s novel
Little Dorrit
Matt
|
|
$600
[11]
Following "hot" or the name of a liquor, it's booze, hot water & sugar to take the chill off winter
a toddy
Victor
|
$600
[15]
Corona discharge, or a 1985 Judd Nelson movie
St. Elmo's fire
|
$600
[19]
Littlefinger on "Game of Thrones", Aidan Gillenruled as Baltimore's mayor on this other HBO show
The Wire
Matt
|
$800
[2]
Boeuf a la bourguignonne is a meat dish; these a la bourguignonne means you're getting snails
escargot
Victor
|
$800
[6]
...this ginger-haired fellow who went to Greenland in the 980s after he couldn't stop murdering people in Iceland
Erik the Red
Victor
|
$800
[14]
This word comes from the Italian for "broken bench", which would happen to failed Italian businesses
bankrupt
Victor
|
|
$800
[12]
Hibernation uses a natural form of this serious 11-letter condition that results from a dangerous drop in core body temp.
hypothermia
Victor
|
$800
[8]
7-letter word meaning to be adequate enough for needs; that will...
suffice
Julia
|
$800
[20]
This young king with a ballet company name was little mourned at his demise
Joffrey
Matt
|
$1,000
[3]
This co. developed the rear-facing child seat with the help of the national Swedish council for road safety research
Volvo
Victor
|
$1,000
[5]
...about 100 Americans died in 1919 fighting this victorious communist faction in northern Russia
the Red Army
Matt
|
DD
$2,400
[4]
TILA is short for this "Act" that dictates how Visa or Amex can raise your variable interest rate
Truth in Lending
Victor
|
|
$1,000
[13]
Stranded on his farm one winter around 1937, Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Quebec invented this transport
the snowmobile
|
$1,000
[7]
Job of one appointed to rule a country as the representative of a sovereign
the viceroy
Matt
|
$1,000
[21]
Back in the day, this actress, who plays Olenna Tyrell, was a Bond girl & Emma Peel on the Avengers
Diana Rigg
Victor
|
— | — | — |
| NOVELS OF WORLD WAR II | ADJECTIVES | THE RIVER'S TRIBUTARIES | DOCUMENTARY FILMS | THINK OF A NUMBER BETWEEN... | RELIGIOUSI-"T" |
|
$400
[30]
Herman Wouk's book about this ship's mutiny was inspired by his experiences aboard a similar WWII vessel
the Caine
Matt
|
$400
[1]
Kids today just don't learn this type of handwriting, defined as having the letters joined together
cursive
Matt
|
$400
[24]
Wabash, Kentucky, Monongahela
the Ohio
Matt
|
$400
[29]
Jimi Hendrix, The Who & Sha Na Na all rocked out in the 1970 film that documented this happening
Woodstock
Matt
|
$400
[28]
5 & 15:From a Germanic root meaning "2 left over"
12
Matt
|
$400
[27]
This word for a house of worship is found between "Mormon" & "Choir"
tabernacle
Matt
|
|
$800
[10]
In this young adult novel set during the war, "The Grave Digger's Handbook" is the first item Liesel Meminger steals
The Book Thief
Julia
|
$800
[16]
It comes between 2 "Sunday"s in a U2 title--"and the battle's just begun"
Bloody
Matt
|
$800
[23]
Pend Oreille, Willamette, Snake
the Columbia
Julia
|
$800
[25]
2013's "Blackfish" focuses on the treatment of this creature, which is actually of the dolphin family
the orca (or killer whale)
Julia
|
$800
[6]
100 & 200:It's a gross
144
Matt
|
$800
[26]
This spiritual technique, TM for short, is based on ancient Hindu writings
transcendental meditation
Victor
|
|
$1,200
[9]
Billy Pilgrim witnesses the firebombing of Dresden & subsequent killing of 135,000 in this Vonnegut novel
Slaughterhouse-Five
Julia
|
$1,200
[13]
This 10-letter adjective describes plants or people that are native to a particular region
indigenous
Matt
|
$1,200
[22]
Nam Ca Dinh, Songkhram, Mun
the Mekong
Julia
|
$1,200
[21]
Listen to me now & tell it to me later the name of this 1977 documentary that starred Ahnold
Pumping Iron
Victor
|
$1,200
[5]
15 & 20:Andrew Johnson's, as U.S. president
17
Julia
|
$1,200
[2]
In Hinduism it's a group of texts featuring Shiva's consort Shakti; in the West it's associated with sexuality
Tantra
Matt
|
|
$1,600
[11]
His 1961 novel "Mila 18" tells of the 1943 Jewish uprising in the Warsaw ghetto
Leon Uris
|
$2,000
[17]
By definition, something that's described as sagittal is shaped like one of these
an arrow
Matt
|
$2,000
[18]
Kabul, Gar, Panjnad
the Indus
Victor
|
$1,600
[20]
2004's "Born into Brothels" is an Oscar-winning film about children growing up in this Indian city's red-light district
Calcutta
Victor
|
$1,600
[7]
100 & 1,000:The square root of 160,000
400
Matt
|
$1,600
[3]
This monastic order founded in 17th century France is known for keeping quiet
the Trappists
|
|
$2,000
[12]
50 years after he wrote it, Norman Mailer said he was still fond of this novel: "It has virtues, it has faults"
The Naked and the Dead
Matt
|
DD
$7,000
[14]
"Eloquent" comes from the same root as this word that means overly talkative
loquacious
Matt
|
DD
$10,000
[15]
Inn, Morava, Tisza
the Danube
Matt
|
$2,000
[19]
The "Paradise Lost" trilogy is about the men known as this "3", accused of murder in Arkansas, not Tennessee
West Memphis
Victor
|
$2,000
[8]
1900 & 2000:Year in which the Korean War began
1950
Matt
|
$2,000
[4]
In English, the name of this Latin hymn means "God, we praise you"
Te Deum laudámus
Matt
|
Its restitchings over the centuries helped perpetuate the story of King Harold II being struck in the eye with an arrow
the Bayeux Tapestry