Buzzy Cohen game 9.
Dan Rothfarb — a technical writer and editor from Annandale, Virginia
Riley Molin — a political science student originally from Bloomington, Indiana
Buzzy Cohen — a music executive from Los Angeles, California (whose 8-day cash winnings total $147,803)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buzzy | $3,000 | $6,000 | $16,800 |
$16,800
9-day champion: $164,603 |
$16,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Riley | $200 | $-1,000 | $2,200 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,200
7 R, 2 W |
| Dan | $4,400 | $4,000 | $7,600 |
$5,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| ROMANTICS | TV's GREATEST HITS | WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT | MOUNTAIN / MAN | HAZARDOUS | "P" IN FASHION |
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$200
[6]
"Honeymoon Mountain" & "Close to my Heart" were 2 of the first books published by this romance novel company in 1949
Harlequin Romance
Riley
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$200
[23]
It's the internationally intriguing TV classic whose theme is heard here
Mission: Impossible
Riley
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$200
[7]
This short helping word is often found after foreign, first or hearing
aid
Buzzy
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$200
[12]
Why ask about this mountain named for a British surveyor in 1865? Because it's there
Everest
Dan
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$200
[17]
The salmonella & E. coli types of these organisms may be culprits in food poisoning
bacteria
Buzzy
|
$200
[1]
It's the "spritely" name for a very short hairstyle that's worn close to the head & combed in points around the face
a pixie
Buzzy
|
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$400
[27]
The romantic era of classical music included Paganini, Beethoven & this composer/virtuoso whose 1830s work is heard here
Frédéric Chopin
Buzzy
|
$400
[19]
It's time to seek out this classic show
Star Trek
Dan
|
$400
[8]
This 7-letter verb can mean what a rousing speech does, or simply to inhale
inspire
Buzzy
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$400
[13]
A 16,000-foot Venezuelan mountain is known as Pico this last name, honoring a noted liberator
Bolívar
Dan
|
$400
[18]
About 30 people are killed each year in the U.S. by these sudden electrostatic discharges
lightning
Riley
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$400
[2]
This type of leather is processed on the grain side & coated with paint & linseed oil
patent leather
Buzzy
|
|
$600
[28]
Snow & ice fan the flames of Yuri's passion for Lara in this Pasternak novel that became a 1965 film
Doctor Zhivago
Dan
|
$600
[20]
This show's openingmusicis submitted for your approval
The Twilight Zone
Dan
|
$600
[9]
Meaning "to sustain", it's also a type of "group" who meet regularly to help each other
support
Dan
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$600
[14]
In 1792 George Vancouver named this mountain, the tallest in Wash., after a British navy man who never even saw it
Rainier
Dan
|
$600
[24]
Drag racing is a sport with rules & safety regs; illegal racing on public roads is usually called this type of racing
street racing
Buzzy
|
$800
[4]
This type of folkloric blouse is usually white with puffed sleeves & has a square, embroidered neckline
a peasant
Buzzy
|
|
$800
[29]
Pop band the Romantics had a hit with this song that could be called "Somniloquy"
"Talking In Your Sleep"
Riley
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$800
[21]
Wax up your boards, dudes! It's everybody's favorite heard here
Hawaii Five-O
Buzzy
|
$800
[10]
This encouraging word is also a floating item used for navigation
buoy
Dan
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$800
[15]
In 1792 William Broughton named this mountain, the tallest in Oregon, after a British navy man who never even saw it
Mount Hood
Dan
|
$800
[25]
A danger to scuba divers, it results from a too-rapid transition from a high-pressure environment to a lower one
the bends
Buzzy
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
J. Crew offers this classic skirt in a style appropriately called "No. 2"
a pencil skirt
Buzzy
|
|
$1,000
[30]
From the Italian for "open air", it's a love song sung perhaps beneath a sweetheart's window at night
a serenade
Riley
|
$1,000
[22]
The theme of this show was quite magical
I Dream of Jeannie
Buzzy
Dan
|
$1,000
[11]
It means "to console", but when it follows "cold" in an alliterative phrase, it's not much consolation
comfort
Dan
|
$1,000
[16]
Around 1890 I.C. Russell named this mountain, the tallest in Canada, for a geologist
Logan
|
$1,000
[26]
Under physical hazards to avoid in the workplace, OSHA lists the "ionizing" & "non-ionizing" types of this
electromagnetic radiation
Dan
|
$1,000
[5]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Tahiti.) Worn by the ladies of Tahiti, this brightly colored skirt can be tied in many different ways
a pareo
|
| ROME ANTICS | PROLOGUES | "YOUNG" MEN & WOMEN | BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS | MY FIRST CAR | WHAT IS IT? |
|
$400
[15]
If you're running these steps found in Rome, be aware their Italian name is Scalinata della Trinita dei Monti
the Spanish Steps
Buzzy
|
$400
[29]
Cervantes wrote, "But though I seem to be the father, I am the stepfather of" him
Don Quixote
Dan
|
$400
[24]
Back in 1908 one of his ex-wives wrote the expose "Life in Mormon Bondage"
Brigham Young
Buzzy
|
$400
[1]
What could be more fun than "a barrel of" these
monkeys
Buzzy
|
$400
[6]
This Cleveland hoops star had a first car fit for a king--a Hummer that he got while in high school
LeBron James
Riley
|
$400
[30]
Googolplex
a number
Riley
Dan
|
|
$800
[16]
Gen. Mark Clark said that on seeing this in 1944, a G.I. said, "Gee, I didn't know our bombers had done that much damage in Rome"
the Colosseum
Buzzy
|
$800
[28]
"Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote" is the start of this work's general prologue
The Canterbury Tales
Buzzy
|
$800
[25]
He won more Major League Baseball games than any other pitcher
Cy Young
Dan
|
$800
[2]
Here's this phrase, literally
a bull in a china shop
Dan
|
$800
[7]
This comedian's first car was a 1973 Fiat that he undoubtedly used to get coffee with other funny guys
Jerry Seinfeld
Riley
|
$800
[14]
Long snapper (not a fish)
a football player
Buzzy
|
|
$1,200
[17]
The capture of Rome in 1870 was the final phase in the Risorgimento, this important event for Italians
the reunification of Italy
|
$1,600
[21]
In a 1912 preface to this novel, Thomas Hardy admits that the subtitle "A Pure Woman" was "appended at the last moment"
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Dan
|
$1,200
[26]
Seen here, this lovely actress played the title role in the holiday classic "The Bishop's Wife"
Loretta Young
|
$1,200
[3]
To achieve dual goals with a single effort is to do this, perhaps with a pebble--ready, aim, throw!
kill two birds with one stone
Buzzy
|
$1,200
[9]
(I'm NASCAR driver Ryan Newman.) My first car, handed down from my grandpa, was a TR-6 from this sporty British make
Triumph
Buzzy
Dan
|
$1,200
[8]
A spinnaker
a sail
Buzzy
|
|
$1,600
[18]
This Bible book ends with Paul arriving in Rome & starting to preach there
Acts (of the Apostles)
Dan
|
$2,000
[20]
The prologue of this Wilkie Collins novel mentions a yellow diamond, "a famous gem in the native annals of India"
The Moonstone
Dan
|
$1,600
[27]
He got an Oscar nomination for playing Talia Shire's brother in "Rocky"
Burt Young
|
$1,600
[4]
It means as penniless as a rodent at a Christian house of worship
poor as a church mouse
Buzzy
|
$1,600
[10]
Chris Evans, who in 2015 became host of this British auto-based TV show, drove a 1972 Mini 1000 as his first car
Top Gear
Riley
|
$1,600
[12]
The Alekhine Defense
a chess strategy
Dan
|
|
DD
$5,000
[19]
In 2015 this landmark reopened after a 17-month restoration--don't forget to bring coins to throw
the Trevi Fountain
Dan
|
DD
$3,400
[22]
This Shaw play is prefaced by a section called "A Professor of Phonetics"
Pygmalion
Dan
|
$2,000
[23]
She played the replicant Rachael in "Blade Runner"
Sean Young
Buzzy
|
$2,000
[5]
TV & movie Westerns are popularly called these, even if they aren't musical
horse operas
|
$2,000
[11]
Baseball great Mike Piazza had this model Chevy, a Latin word for "new", which it wasn't
Nova
Dan
|
$2,000
[13]
Besnier's prurigo
a skin disease
|
"Escalier" is in the original title of a work by this artist that scandalized New York City's International Exhibition of Modern Art in 1913
Marcel Duchamp