WE ASKED: Stephan James.9 clues left unrevealed in Double Jeopardy!
Sarah Wright — a school librarian from Plainfield, Indiana
Ramona Riddles — a substitute teacher from Fullerton, California
Chris Becker — a bus driver and trainer from Orlando, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,399)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris | $5,400 | $10,400 | $10,000 |
$9,399
2-day champion: $27,798 |
$11,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ramona | $-600 | $4,200 | $5,000 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,000
14 R, 4 W |
| Sarah | $-200 | $2,000 | $10,600 |
$5,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,800
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| WHERE YA FROM? | COMPUTER TERMINOLOGY | COOPER: ALICE, GARY OR ANDERSON | GOOD CAUSES | WHAT THE "H"? | RACE |
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$200
[1]
People from the Perth area of this country are "Sandgropers"
Australia
Ramona
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$200
[6]
You'll be A-OK with a TFT-LCD one of these basic parts of a desktop computer
a monitor (or display)
Chris
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$200
[22]
2-time Academy Award winner
Gary Cooper
Chris
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$200
[11]
In 2015 about 6,500 athletes with intellectual disabilities, from 165 countries, came together in L.A. for this event
the Special Olympics
Ramona
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$200
[15]
This symbol helps you find posts on Twitter
a hashtag
Chris
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$200
[14]
Jesse Owens, known as "the Buckeye Bullet", broke an astounding 3 world records &tieda 4th, all within45 minutes, for this Big 10 school
Ohio State
Chris
Sarah
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$400
[2]
Sticky nickname for someone from Fayetteville or Charlotte
Tar Heel
Sarah
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$400
[7]
A circuit that allows data to travel between a peripheral & a computer is a "local" this vehicle
a local bus
Ramona
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$400
[20]
Appeared in the 1992 film "Wayne's World"
Alice Cooper
Ramona
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$400
[13]
The USA's first humane society & today's leading voice for animal welfare, it's celebrating its 150th anniv. in 2016
the ASPCA (the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)
Ramona
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$400
[12]
Its deadly demise in 1937 marked the end of the use of airships for commercial air transportation
the Hindenburg
Chris
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$400
[27]
In 1935 Jesse broke the old world record of 26' 2 1/8" by a full half foot in this field event--a record that stood for an amazing 25 years
the long jump
Sarah
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$600
[3]
Walloons are French-speaking residents of this country
Belgium
Chris
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$600
[8]
If your website is DDoSED, you've got problems because DDoS stands for distributed this
denial of service
Chris
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$600
[21]
Studied & speaks Vietnamese
Anderson Cooper
Sarah
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$600
[16]
Walt Disney designed the train logo for this program that distributes new playthings for kids at Christmas
Toys for Tots
Ramona
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$600
[19]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago.) The warm & soft wool of the alpaca is low in substances that irritate human skin, making it popular for garments that are this, meaning "unlikely to cause immunological reaction"
hypoallergenic
Ramona
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$600
[28]
(I'm Stephan James, and I play Jesse Owens in Race.) Hitler didn't want the Olympics in Berlin, but this propaganda chief convinced him that the games could showcase Aryan superiority; Jesse had other ideas
(Joseph) Goebbels
Ramona
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$800
[4]
People from this city in the Distrito Federal call themselves Chilangos
Mexico City
Chris
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$800
[9]
A pun on one of China's claims to fame, this is the nickname for China's Internet barriers
the Great Firewall
Chris
Sarah
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$800
[23]
Once dated Raquel Welch
Alice Cooper
Ramona
Sarah
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$800
[17]
Largely from its telethons, this program, whose logo is seen here, has had over $300 million pledged to the campaign
Stand Up to Cancer
Chris
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$800
[25]
In hockey it's 3 goals scored in a single game by the same player
a hat trick
Chris
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$800
[29]
In 1936Adi Dassler, father of this sportswear company, risked the wrath of the Nazis by having Jesse Owens wear his cleats
Adidas
Ramona
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$1,000
[5]
Sting is a proud Geordie, from the area of Newcastle-upon-this river
Tyne
Chris
Ramona
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$1,000
[10]
Different from emoticons, these pictographs come from the Japanese for "picture writing"
emojis
Chris
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$1,000
[24]
Born in Helena, Montana
Gary Cooper
Sarah
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DD
$3,200
[18]
The National Society for Crippled Children was later renamed this, after its famous stamp that bears a lily
Easter Seals
Chris
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$1,000
[26]
Latin for "have the body", this legal writ requires that a person held in custody be brought before the court
habeas corpus
Sarah
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$1,000
[30]
(Stephan James delivers the last clue.) Due to the climate of Hitler's Germany, USA's Jewish runners were pulled fromthis4-man event; Ralph Metcalfe & a reluctant Owens stepped in, giving Jesse his historic 4th gold medal
the 4 × 100 meter relay (the 400 meter relay accepted)
Ramona
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| GEOGRAPHY FROM SPACE | TAKE YOUR MEDS | "C" IN LITERATURE | THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE | STARTS WITH A 3-LETTER BODY PART |
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$400
[13]
This Mideastern body of water through which big ships pass is rarely deeper than 300 feet
the Persian Gulf
Sarah
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$400
[12]
It's a medicine taken to neutralize a specific poison & the hero usually finds it just in time
an antidote (an anti-toxin accepted)
Sarah
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$400
[1]
This 1854 poem contains the lines "Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die"
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Ramona
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$400
[6]
After Heraclius assumed the throne in 610, he replaced Latin as the official language with this
Greek
Chris
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$400
[7]
A large wardrobe or movable cupboard
an armoire
Chris
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$800
[14]
The Central American areaseenhereis this type of narrow strip of land joining two larger land masses
an isthmus
Sarah
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$1,200
[18]
The heart medicine digitalis comes from this flower that sounds like a vixen accessory
foxglove
Sarah
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$800
[2]
He's the very dramatic Russian seenherearound 1900
Chekhov
Ramona
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$1,600
[20]
In the 8th century this movement that barred the veneration of Christian images swept throughout the empire
iconoclasm
Sarah
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$800
[8]
7-letter word for the area close enough to be audible
earshot
Chris
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$1,200
[15]
Extending 65 miles into the Atlantic Ocean off North America, itsbeaches attract visitors in droves
Cape Cod
Sarah
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$1,200
[3]
He's the only human in the "Winnie-the-Pooh" stories
Christopher Robin
Ramona
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$2,000
[21]
The empire's ships sailed as far as Britain for tin from this historic county at the island's southwest tip
Cornwall
Sarah
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$1,200
[9]
Comically vulgar or indecent in speech
ribald
Ramona
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$1,600
[16]
The inhabitants ofthis76,000-square-milepeninsulaare predominantly descendants of the Maya
the Yucatán
Ramona
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$1,600
[4]
This sci-fi author's "C" novels include "Childhood's End" & "Cradle", about contact with an alien civilization
Arthur C. Clarke
Chris
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DD
$3,000
[19]
The Byzantine Empire's overthrow of the Ostrogothic Kingdom paved the Lombards' way into what's now this country
Italy
Sarah
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$1,600
[10]
urbandictionary.com says they hate "corporations and everything mainstream, yet... buy Apple products"
hipsters
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$2,000
[17]
2 nations share the 220-mile-widedeltaof this Asian river
the Ganges River
Sarah
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$2,000
[5]
"Chirp the first" is the first chapter of this Dickens short novel
The Cricket on the Hearth
Ramona
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— |
DD
$3,600
[11]
Pertaining to the throat, though it sounds like it means pertaining to an area near the stomach
guttural
Chris
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In one version of a 19th century quote, "There is room and health... away from the crowds" so you're urged to do these 2 words
Go West