WE ASKED: Placido Domingo.
Sarah Thompson — an art history professor from Rochester, New York
Vivek Srikrishnan — a graduate student from State College, Pennsylvania
Claudia Stucke — a former writer and high school English teacher from Decatur, Georgia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $30,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claudia | $400 | $1,800 | $9,000 |
$4,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,000
8 R, 0 W |
| Vivek | $5,000 | $8,400 | $15,200 |
$4,399
3rd place: $1,000 |
$18,800
28 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Sarah | $2,800 | $6,600 | $13,000 |
$16,999
New champion: $16,999 |
$12,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| THE FIRST MILLENNIUM | SPORTS SHORTS 2015 | PHYSIOLOGY | BOOZIN' IT UP | TRIPLE RHYME TIME | FINAL RESTING PLACES |
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$200
[16]
393 years after a bigger eruption, it was active again in 472, sending ash clouds as far away as Constantinople
Mount Vesuvius
Vivek
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$200
[7]
This teamwon its first title since 1985, a different era technologically
Kansas City Royals
Vivek
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$200
[21]
This spongy tissue in most bones is also known as myeloid tissue
marrow
Vivek
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$200
[2]
I'll have one of these vodka cocktails & unlike a certain character, I don't care if you shake it or stir it
a vodka martini
Vivek
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$200
[1]
A chess piece, a day's beginning & a sign of boredom
pawn, dawn, yawn
Vivek
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$200
[26]
He shares a crypt with wife Coretta in Atlanta
Martin Luther King (Jr.)
Vivek
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$400
[17]
According to tradition, the angel Gabriel appeared to him in 610 on Mount Hira
Mohammed
Sarah
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$400
[8]
She won Wimbledon & the Australian & French Opens but got slammed by Roberta Vinci at the U.S. Open
Serena Williams
Vivek
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$400
[22]
These act as shock absorbers between the vertebrae
discs
Vivek
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$400
[3]
Stella Rosa calls itself your favorite wine for this type of stadium parking lot party
tailgate
Sarah
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$400
[12]
A small city, a buffoon & a scowl
town, clown, frown
Claudia
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$400
[27]
Dan Aykroyd led this fellow "SNL" comedian's funeral procession on a motorcycle to his grave in Martha's Vineyard
John Belushi
Vivek
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$600
[18]
A major battle in 9 A.D. established this river as the boundary between the Roman Empire and Germany
the Rhine
Sarah
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$600
[9]
They made a splash as NBA champs
Golden State Warriors
Vivek
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$600
[23]
In medical speak, it's the calcaneal tendon
Achilles tendon
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$600
[4]
Made from pure agave, Hornitos says it was founded on this country's Independence Day
Mexico
Vivek
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$600
[13]
A spelling contest, a poplar & a pope's bailiwick
bee, tree, see
Sarah
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$600
[28]
US President whose grave site isseen here
John F. Kennedy
Claudia
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|
DD
$1,000
[19]
In one of their first known attacks, in 793 these raiders looted & burned a monastery in northern Britain
the Vikings
Sarah
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$800
[10]
July 5:This team 5, Japan 2
the U.S. women's national soccer team
Vivek
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$800
[24]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) To do a neck check, look in the mirror & take a sip of water; a bulge below the Adam's apple but above the collarbone could mean this gland is swollen and not functioning normally
the thyroid
Sarah
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$800
[5]
Talisker Storm is a "single" this ingredient Scotch
malt
Sarah
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$800
[14]
An armed struggle, a baby's toy & a major Northwest port
battle, rattle, Seattle
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$800
[29]
This swashbuckler at Forest Lawn in Glendale, California is rumored to share his coffin with 6 bottles of whiskey
Errol Flynn
Claudia
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$1,000
[20]
This Barbarian leader took a meeting with Pope Leo I, who convinced him not to ransack Rome
Attila the Hun
Vivek
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$1,000
[11]
This horse bred in Kentucky (not Egypt) won the Triple Crown
American Pharoah
Vivek
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$1,000
[25]
Head & neck pain & difficulty opening the jaw may be symptoms of the syndrome known by these 3 initials
TMJ
Sarah
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$1,000
[6]
Carpano Antica is a red one of these; you can try it in a Manhattan
vermouth
Vivek
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$1,000
[15]
A fruit, a shore & a whitener
peach, beach, bleach
Sarah
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$1,000
[30]
In 1849 this composer died in Paris; a handful of Polish dirt was sprinkled on his grave at Pere Lachaise
Frederic Chopin
Vivek
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$400
[1]
(I'm Sondra Radvanovsky.) For the Metropolitan Opera's 2015-16 season, I'm playing all 3 queens in Donizetti's Tudor trilogy: Anne Boleyn, Mary Stuart & this 16th century queen
Queen Elizabeth I
Vivek
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$400
[21]
"Argo"
Ben Affleck
Vivek
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$400
[16]
From 1926, the Hundred Acre Wood
Winnie-The-Pooh
Sarah
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$400
[2]
This nation's anthem isheard here
Canada
Sarah
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$400
[26]
Of the NBA, NFL & NHL, this one has the shortest regulation games
the NBA
Vivek
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$400
[11]
Such beautiful writing with special pens
calligraphy
Vivek
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$800
[5]
Wagner's opera about him & Isolde made its U.S. debut at the Met
Tristan
Sarah
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$800
[22]
"Tropic Thunder"
Ben Stiller
Vivek
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$800
[17]
From 1922, Dubliner Molly Bloom
Ulysses
Vivek
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$800
[3]
This anthem of France has also been an anthem of international revolutionary movements
"La Marseillaise"
Sarah
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$800
[27]
The common type of this many-armed cephalopod lives only 1-2 years, in which time a female can lay 500,000 eggs
octopus
Vivek
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$800
[12]
Its distinctive musical sound comes from a series of steam whistles
calliope
Sarah
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$1,200
[6]
(I'm Placido Domingo.) The role I've performed the most at the Met--40 times since 1979--is this title one that Verdi based on a tragedy by Shakespeare
Otello
Sarah
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$1,600
[24]
"Garden State"
Zach Braff
Vivek
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$1,200
[18]
In the Old Testament, the burning bush
Exodus
Vivek
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$1,200
[4]
Its anthem contains the line "Beneath our radiant Southern Cross"
Australia
Claudia
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$1,200
[28]
Seen here, hosted by this TV star, the game show "You're in the Picture" lasted but a single episode in 1961
Jackie Gleason
Claudia
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$1,200
[13]
From the Latin for "hard-skinned", it's an insensitive disregard for others
callousness
Claudia
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$1,600
[7]
The Met opened in 1883 with this devilish Gounod opera based on Goethe's play
Faust
Vivek
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$2,000
[25]
"Pitch Perfect 2"
Elizabeth Banks
Sarah
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$1,600
[19]
A truth-telling alethiometer, the title object
The Golden Compass
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DD
$2,000
[9]
First performed in 1745, it has been quoted & arranged by composers including Haydn & Britten
"God Save the Queen"
Vivek
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$1,600
[29]
Per "The Simpsons", "There's Fillmore & there's Hayes / There's William Henry Harrison--I died in" this long
30 days
Vivek
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$1,600
[14]
A young man is usually the one described as this, meaning "immature"
callow
Claudia
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$2,000
[8]
In 1923 the Met put the overture of this Swiss-set opera before Act II so latecomers wouldn't miss it
William Tell
Vivek
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DD
$4,000
[23]
"By the Sea" (she directed her husband, too)
Angelina Jolie
Vivek
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$2,000
[20]
From 2006, the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show On Earth
Water for Elephants
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$2,000
[10]
"Nashid as-Salaam as-Sultani" is the national anthem of this Middle Eastern nation
Oman
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$2,000
[30]
William Walker led a military takeover of this Central American country & was its "President" for 10 months in the 1850s
Nicaragua
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$2,000
[15]
This icy moon "bears" its time well orbiting Jupiter
Callisto
Claudia
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In 1872 he wrote his thesis "Diseases of the Teeth" & soon after moved west to a drier climate for his health
Doc Holliday