WE ASKED: Ballerina Misty Copeland.Alex uses acaneduring the closing credits chat.
Chandreyi Ghosh — a housewife from Atlanta, Georgia
Joe Quackenbush — an attorney from Tampa, Florida
Theresa Tejada — a project coordinator from Allen Park, Michigan (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,599)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theresa | $1,000 | $2,400 | $5,600 |
$11,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,600
13 R, 3 W |
| Joe | $2,000 | $4,400 | $17,200 |
$7,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Chandreyi | $3,200 | $8,600 | $25,200 |
$34,401
New champion: $34,401 |
$21,400
22 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| EDIBLE EXPRESSIONS | TECH COMPANY NAMES | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | IN RESIDENCE | NHL TEAMS' HOME ICE | FOUND IN GERMANY |
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$200
[1]
Items that sell quickly & in great quantity are said to "go like" these
hotcakes
Joe
Chandreyi
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$200
[8]
Groupon cofounder Andrew Mason explained, "It's short for" these 2 words
group & coupon
Joe
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$200
[16]
This phrase of protest coined by Alicia Garza has become a hashtag & a movement
Black Lives Matter
Theresa
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$200
[10]
Just before "mansion" in the dictionary is this mansion, the main house on an estate
manor
Chandreyi
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$200
[2]
Joe Louis Arena
the Detroit Red Wings
Joe
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$200
[3]
It was the capital of Prussia before it was the capital of Germany
Berlin
Theresa
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$400
[4]
It's the distinctive column of smoke & debris seen over a nuclear explosion
a mushroom cloud
Joe
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$400
[9]
This web-based e-mail service got its name by adding some vowels to "HTML"
Hotmail
Theresa
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$400
[17]
(I'm Misty Copeland.) In 2014 I made history as the first African-American ballerina to dance the role of Clara in American Ballet Theatre's production of this ballet, a holiday favorite
The Nutcracker
Theresa
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$400
[11]
With or without ghosts, a place regularly visited or inhabited can be called by this "scary" name
a haunt
Theresa
Chandreyi
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$400
[24]
United Center
the (Chicago) Blackhawks
Theresa
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$400
[12]
Appropriately, a house where this theologian once lived in Wittenberg is now a Reformation museum
Martin Luther
Chandreyi
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$600
[5]
This expression of contentment can be followed with "at high tide"
happy as a clam at high tide
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$600
[18]
A vendor for this Neil Clark Warren website suggested its name, reflecting its users' search online for compatibility
eHarmony
Theresa
Chandreyi
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$600
[21]
Beginning in 1867 school was in session for what is now Morehouse College & this university in Washington, D.C.
Howard University
Chandreyi
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$600
[26]
A popular type of living space; the 1960 Jack Lemmon movie of that title won 5 Oscars
the apartment
Joe
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$800
[29]
First Niagara Center
the Buffalo Sabres
Joe
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$600
[13]
Oak, beech & fir trees are in this forest region of southwestern Germany that borders Basel
the Black Forest
Chandreyi
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$800
[6]
A condiment is included in this 3-word phrase meaning "to meet or succeed the standard"
to cut the mustard
Chandreyi
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$1,000
[20]
The "PE" at the end of this service around since 2003 stands for peer-to-peer
Skype
Chandreyi
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$800
[22]
Porter on the train cars named for him was a good middle-class job, though you got called "George" whatever your name was
(George) Pullman
Chandreyi
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$800
[25]
Before the man cave, there was this space for an unmarried guy, as in the title of an "Ultra-Lounge" CD
a bachelor pad
Chandreyi
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$1,000
[27]
Gila River Arena
the Phoenix Coyotes
Theresa
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$800
[14]
An industrial region of Germany is named for this 146-mile "r"iver, a tributary of the Rhine
the Ruhr
Chandreyi
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$1,000
[7]
Boxing & wrestling are risk factors for this condition, though it can also be caused by high piercings
a cauliflower ear
Chandreyi
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DD
$1,600
[19]
It got its name by removing the first 3 letters from the name of the horse that Bellerophon tried to fly to heaven
Asus
Chandreyi
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$1,000
[23]
2013 saw the first Congress with 2 African-American senators when Mo Cowan of Mass. served with Tim Scott of this state
South Carolina
Joe
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$1,000
[28]
The presidential retreat today known as Camp David was first named this by FDR after a James Hilton novel
Shangri-La
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$1,000
[15]
Destroyedin a terrifying 1945 air raid, this city's best-known church wasrebuilt& reopened 60 years later
Dresden
Joe
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| AN EMOTIONAL CATEGORY | FOOT POTPOURRI | ENGLISH LITERATURE | OK, "GO"! | ARCHAEOLOGY | THEY MADE MARY |
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$400
[17]
This game from Rovio has been downloaded more than 2 billion times
Angry Birds
Theresa
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$400
[25]
This brand is named for a real doctor, the grandson of a cobbler who got his medical degree in 1904
Dr. Scholl's
Chandreyi
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$400
[7]
The quiet joys of fishing are described in Izaak Walton's 1653 work "The Compleat" this
Angler
|
$400
[2]
Quit moving these, which support the crossbars on a football field
goalposts
Theresa
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$400
[14]
In the 1700s William Stukeley was the first to recognize that the objects of this British site were aligned on the solstices
Stonehenge
Joe
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$400
[20]
First Lady Mary Lincoln:This couple, Robert & Eliza
the Todds
Joe
|
|
$800
[1]
This TV series was based on Chris Rock's childhood
Everybody Hates Chris
Joe
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$800
[27]
The Salish language gives us this other name for Bigfoot
Sasquatch
Theresa
Chandreyi
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$800
[8]
On Dec. 9, 1854, just 45 days after the event, The Examiner published this Tennyson poem
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Chandreyi
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$800
[3]
Hyphenated term for an aggressively enterprising person
a go-getter
Chandreyi
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$800
[10]
18th century archaeologists uncovered the Villa of the Papyri, an ancient library, in this neighbor to Pompeii
Herculaneum
Theresa
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$1,200
[22]
Mary who painted "The Boating Party" in the 1890s:This banker & his wife Katherine
(Robert) Cassatt
Theresa
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$1,200
[19]
In vaudeville, future "I Love Lucy" co-star William Frawley helped popularize the song about this sad "baby"
"My Melancholy Baby"
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$1,200
[28]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical diagram on the monitor.) Wearing flat shoes like flip-flops can lead to a lack of arch support and a stabbing pain in the heel caused by inflammation of the thick band of tissue along the bottom of the foot, a condition known as this fasciitis
plantar fasciitis
Joe
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$1,200
[9]
This 1895 H.G. Wells book was subtitled "An Invention"
The Time Machine
Theresa
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$1,200
[4]
Colorful term for the winning score in an overtime soccer match
golden goal
Joe
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$1,200
[13]
In 1970 the wreck of the El Gran Grifon, part of this fleet, was found off Scotland 382 years after it sank
the Spanish Armada
Joe
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$1,600
[23]
Mary, Queen of Scots:Mary of Guise & this Scottish king V
James V
Joe
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$1,600
[18]
The '80s group New Order rose from the ashes of this British post-punk band
Joy Division
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$1,600
[29]
To do this soccer kick, you throw both feet in the air & kick the airborne ball toward the goal behind you
bicycle kick
Chandreyi
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$1,600
[15]
The subject of 52 G.K. Chesterton stories, this cleric had a simple face "as round and dull as a Norfolk dumpling"
Father Brown
Chandreyi
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$1,600
[5]
Land o' this pastoral part of lower Egypt
Goshen
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$1,600
[11]
3rd c. Roman soldiers found near sulfur crystals were apparently early victims of this type of warfare
chemical warfare
Chandreyi
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$2,000
[24]
Mary Poppins:This author
P.L. Travers
Chandreyi
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$2,000
[26]
Javier Bardem starred in the movie adaptation of this Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel
Love in the Time of Cholera
Theresa
Chandreyi
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— |
DD
$5,000
[16]
Dickens' artist Luke Fildes said Dickens told him the solution to this was that John Jasper strangled his nephew
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Chandreyi
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$2,000
[6]
For the tangles of knots it sometimes forms, a species of nematomorph is called this worm
the Gordian worm
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$2,000
[12]
Robert Koldewey began excavatingthis8th gate of Babylon; it was reconstructed at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin
the Ishtar Gate
Theresa
|
DD
$6,000
[21]
Mary I:Henry VIII & this Spanish import
Catherine of Aragon
Joe
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In 2014 it was No. 1 in Sweden &, thanks to an animated movie, in the top 300 for U.S. baby girls for the first time in decades
Elsa