(Lin-Manuel Miranda: I'mLin-Manuel Miranda. I wrote and star in the Broadway musicalHamilton. Clues about Alexander Hamilton coming up onJeopardy!)WE ASKED:Hamilton's Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Jon Lubbers — a mechanical engineer from Lafayette, Colorado
Bianca Howard — a waste reduction specialist from Cary, North Carolina
Alex Maggio — a writer originally from Cincinnati, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
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| Alex | $3,200 | $7,400 | $19,600 |
$25,201
2-day champion: $40,301 |
$17,400
25 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Bianca | $400 | $2,400 | $12,600 |
$5,599
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,000
11 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Jon | $4,200 | $6,800 | $8,400 |
$16,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,400
18 R, 3 W |
| PRESIDENTS ON TV | ADVERTISING ICONS | CROSSWORD CLUES "T" | LAST NAMES IN THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS | EARTH, WIND OR FIRE | HAMILTON |
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$200
[19]
He presided over "The West Wing" as President Jed Bartlet
Martin Sheen
Alex
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$200
[8]
This feminine first name plus the last name of flour company executive William Crocker equaled instant icon
Betty Crocker
Alex
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$200
[21]
Native American ax(8)
tomahawk
Alex
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$200
[3]
Severus
Snape
Alex
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$200
[26]
Conflagration
fire
Alex
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$200
[12]
In the show, this rival prophetically warns Hamilton, "Talk less, smile more, don't let them know what you're against or what you're for, you wanna get ahead? Fools who run their mouths off wind up dead"--he was right
Aaron Burr
Jon
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$400
[24]
Show with Pres. Frank Underwood; I must confess that I do enjoy Frank's asides directly to the audience
House of Cards
Alex
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$400
[13]
Why a talking this type of lizard in a GEICO ad? In its words, "Because people trust advertising icons"
a gecko
Alex
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$400
[22]
Schoolroom snitch(10)
tattletale
Alex
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$400
[7]
Rubeus
Hagrid
Bianca
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$400
[27]
Loam
earth
Jon
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$400
[6]
In the show, the Thomas Jefferson character performs "What'd I Miss""So, what did I miss? /What did I miss? /Virginia, my home, sweet home /I want to give you a kiss"What Jefferson missed was America's post-war development while he was away as minister to this country
France
Jon
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$600
[14]
David Palmer was assassinated on this fast-paced show--guess he wasn't in good hands
24
Jon
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$800
[17]
Jonathan Goldsmith plays this man in Dos Equis commercials
the Most Interesting Man in the World
Jon
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$600
[23]
Parking lot picnic(8)
tailgate
Jon
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$600
[9]
Top man Albus
Dumbledore
Alex
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$600
[2]
Flashover
fire
Jon
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$600
[5]
"You cry in your tea which you hurl in the sea when you see me go by why so sad? Remember we made an arrangement when you went away, now you're making me mad", rants this king
George III
Jon
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$800
[15]
Selina Meyer took a step up from this show's title
Veep
Bianca
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$1,000
[18]
A cat with 9 lives has represented this battery brand since the 1930s
Eveready
Jon
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$800
[28]
Work from home(11)
telecommute
Alex
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$800
[10]
Godric--it adorns a house at Hogwarts
Gryffindor
Jon
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$800
[20]
Mistral
wind
Jon
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$800
[4]
"How does the bastard orphan immigrant decorated war vet unite the colonies through more debt?" is asked about Hamilton shortly after he begins to run this Cabinet department
the Treasury
Alex
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$1,000
[30]
This show featured Laura Roslin, a politician unafraid to come out strongly against Cylon attacks
Battlestar Galactica
Alex
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DD
$1,200
[16]
This rotund figure was once drawn "drinking" nails to show that driving over them didn't bother his tires
the Michelin Man
Bianca
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$1,000
[29]
Type of bicycle built for 2(6)
tandem
Jon
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$1,000
[11]
We'll take offense if you don't know this last name of bossy Dolores
Umbridge
Alex
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$1,000
[25]
Aridisol
earth
Alex
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$1,000
[1]
Ahighlightof Act I is our staging of this climactic Virginia battle of 1781, in which Hamilton led an attack; it's where the British ultimately surrendered the war
Yorktown
Jon
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| HIS OWN MUSEUM | HODGEPODGE | WHERE'S THAT BONE? | WORDS & PHRASES | A CATEGORY WITH GAPS | EGOT-ISTS |
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$400
[5]
This pop artist's museum opened in 1994 & is one of the 4 Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
(Andy) Warhol
Jon
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$400
[6]
If nose is your job title, you create these, perhaps for Guerlain
perfumes (a scent accepted)
Bianca
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$400
[2]
Carpal bone:This joint
the wrist
Alex
Bianca
Jon
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$400
[1]
Now synonymous with taking a brief break from a long period of sitting, it may date back to an 1882 baseball game
the seventh-inning stretch
Jon
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$400
[15]
Great St. Bernard Pass through these mountains is one of the most ancient routes between Italy & Switzerland
the Alps
Alex
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$400
[7]
He shared an Oscar, a Grammy & 4 of his Tonys with Oscar Hammerstein II
(Richard) Rodgers
Alex
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$1,200
[13]
In Salzburg you can visit the house where he was born & see such mementos as his childhood violin & his clavichord
Mozart
Jon
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$800
[21]
Puppygate was a 2015 scandal that rocked these awards for science fiction authors
the Hugo Awards
Alex
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$800
[3]
The incus or anvil:This organ
the ear
Jon
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$800
[10]
This 3-word phrase at the end of Warner Bros. cartoons was first uttered in 1930
"That's all, folks"
Bianca
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$800
[16]
Route 61 passes through Schuylkill Gap just north of the city of Hamburg in this state
Pennsylvania
Alex
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$800
[8]
Robert Lopez completed his EGOT in 2015 with an Oscar for this "Frozen" tune
"Let It Go"
Bianca
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$1,600
[19]
His Presidential Library & Museum is located in West Branch, Iowa
Herbert Hoover
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$1,200
[4]
Thissea creature uses the snout that gives it its name to detect the electrical field of its prey
a sawfish
Alex
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$1,200
[22]
The ischium:This "girdle"
the pelvic girdle
Bianca
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$1,200
[11]
A vessel holding water or feed for animals, it now also means a source of illicit income, like for politicians
a trough
Alex
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$1,200
[17]
For several decades, Dixville Notch in this state traditionally has voted first in the U.S. presidential elections
New Hampshire
Alex
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$1,200
[9]
She's seenherein 1977--the year she won the Emmy to complete her quartet
Rita Moreno
Bianca
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$2,000
[20]
This author's Museum & Story Centre in England is "Flushbunkingly Gloriumptious "; it says so right outside
Roald Dahl
Alex
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$1,600
[23]
Originally, Brownies were the youngest Girl Scouts; now, these "flowery" girls are
Daisies
Alex
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$1,600
[24]
Turbinate bone:The upper chamber of this cavity
your nasal cavity
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$1,600
[14]
An exact duplicate, not a deceased Quasimodo, it was a horse switched for another to defraud bookies
a dead ringer
Alex
Jon
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$1,600
[18]
This pass connects Afghanistan & Pakistan via a gap in the Spin Ghar Mountains
the Khyber Pass
Bianca
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$1,600
[25]
For 1973 Marvin Hamlisch got Os for both the score & "memorable" title song of this Redford-Streisand film
The Way We Were
Alex
Bianca
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DD
$3,000
[12]
A museum devoted to this scientist & inventor is housed in what was originally the Tuskegee campus laundry
George Washington Carver
Alex
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$2,000
[26]
This term for the book that holds the prayers of a Catholic Mass sounds like it could be fired in war
a missal
Jon
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$2,000
[29]
The talus:This joint
the ankle
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DD
$3,000
[27]
The Mead Johnson Co. introduced this bland baby cereal, now a term for trite or childish ideas
pablum
Bianca
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$2,000
[28]
Neel Gap to Unicoi Gap is a scenic hike on this very long trail near its south end in Georgia
the Appalachian Trail
Jon
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$2,000
[30]
A Grammy & Tony came for Shakespeare, but this man's Oscar was for his supporting role in "Arthur"
Sir John Gielgud
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This small breed is named for a member of the 17th century House of Stuart
the King Charles spaniel