Hunter Appler game 2.
Mark Adams — a health benefits advisor from Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Peggy Szymeczek — a retired civil servant from Gilbert, Arizona
Hunter Appler — an attorney originally from Mount Airy, North Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter | $4,400 | $10,000 | $20,000 |
$19,800
2-day champion: $44,601 |
$19,200
28 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Peggy | $600 | $3,200 | $4,400 |
$2,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 8 W |
| Mark | $3,000 | $3,400 | $9,200 |
$9,158
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,800
12 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| PUNNY LITERARY TITLES | TAKE A LETTER | MINOR ROLES, MAJOR MOTION PICTURE | "BEE" MINE | BEVERLY HILLS | A JASON |
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$200
[16]
A small round pastry causes a blackout in deepest Africa in this Joseph Conrad narrative
Tart of Darkness
Hunter
Peggy
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$200
[8]
Ailing in 1923, this Soviet leader wrote to his comrades, "Find a way to remove Stalin" as general secretary
Lenin
Hunter
|
$200
[27]
French trapper No. 1, pregnant Pawnee woman
The Revenant
Mark
|
$200
[1]
To take the most direct route is to "make" one of these
a beeline
Hunter
|
$200
[4]
In 1907 Lomitas, Elevado, Carmelita, Crescent, Canon & this shopping drive were the city's first streets
Rodeo
Hunter
|
$200
[14]
In a Greek myth--& not a Tyler Perry film--Jason hooks up with this enchantress
Medea
Hunter
|
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$400
[17]
Dostoyevsky's story of ingrained dirt & guilt
Grime and Punishment
Hunter
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$400
[9]
In 1820 this British poet invited John Keats to "pass the winter" with him in Italy & "take up your residence with us"
Shelley
Hunter
|
$400
[28]
Chinese flight director, NASA break room worker
The Martian
Hunter
|
$400
[2]
Minimally attired attractive men with large muscles (like me & Johnny, poolside)
beefcake
Hunter
|
$400
[5]
Perhaps because he never met a man he didn't like, he was liked enough to be Beverly Hills' first honorary mayor
Will Rogers
Peggy
|
$400
[15]
If you'll "Walk This Way", you'll find Jason Mizell was known as Jam Master Jay in this '80s rap trio
Run-D.M.C.
Mark
|
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$600
[18]
William Golding's fable of rendered hog fat for insects marooned on an island
Lard of the Flies
Peggy
Mark
|
$800
[11]
Being lonely, in 1939 he wrote to Simone de Beauvoir, "far from you I measure the nothingness of the flesh"
Sartre
Hunter
|
$600
[13]
Cardinal Law, Boston Globe security guard
Spotlight
Hunter
Peggy
|
$600
[3]
Brewing a batch of Budweiser beer takes about 30 days & involves milling, mashing & this type of aging
beechwood
Mark
|
$600
[24]
Lenny Kravitz let love rule along with Maria McKee & this Guns N' Roses guitarist as classmates at B.H. high school
Slash
Hunter
|
$600
[21]
Jason Bourne has his (false) identity stolen in "The Bourne Supremacy" by this author
Robert Ludlum
Peggy
|
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$800
[19]
W. Somerset Maugham's chronicle about a beauty salon that specializes in dyeing hair pale yellow
Of Human Blondeage
|
$1,000
[12]
In a 1964 letter made public in 2015, he calls Islam "an already proven solution to the race problem"
Malcolm X
Mark
|
$800
[29]
U2 pilot, Allen Dulles
Bridge of Spies
Peggy
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$800
[6]
Seen here, it's about 5/8ths domestic cattle & 3/8ths bison
a beefalo
Peggy
|
$800
[25]
Pre-1906, the land was a planned North African-themed area called this country that Bing & Bob took a "Road to"
Morocco
Peggy
|
$800
[22]
In 2016 this Giants defensive end sued ESPN for tweeting his medical record concerning the loss of his finger
Jason Pierre-Paul
Mark
|
|
$1,000
[20]
Cooper's historical fiction about the final batch of rum cocktails
The Last of the Mojitos
Hunter
|
DD
$1,400
[10]
In 1430 she wrote a letter of support to the town of Reims saying that if it was under siege, "I will be with you shortly"
Joan of Arc
Hunter
|
$1,000
[30]
War rig war boy, ripsaw driver
Mad Max: Fury Road
Hunter
|
$1,000
[7]
Second-in-command to Satan in "Paradise Lost"
Beelzebub
Mark
|
$1,000
[26]
Last name of infamous brothers Lyle & Erik, who murdered their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989
Menendez
Hunter
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$1,000
[23]
Jason Chaffetz was chief of staff to former gov. Jon Huntsman before repping the 3rd District of this state
Utah
Hunter
|
| STOCKS | BRITISH HISTORY | 11-LETTER WORDS | COWBOY SONGS | ASTRONOMY | WORLD "G"EOGRAPHY |
|
$400
[14]
Commodities are traded in a "pit"; stocks, on one of these structural elements
a floor
Peggy
Mark
|
$400
[20]
The site of many coronations, this religious edifice was dedicated December 28, 1065
Westminster Abbey
Hunter
|
$400
[6]
DDT is a deadly one of these bug killers
insecticide
Peggy
Mark
|
$400
[18]
In a Sons of the Pioneers song, "I'll keep rolling along... drifting along with the tumbling" these
the tumbleweeds
Peggy
|
$400
[2]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) Planets become nearly spherical in part because rotation helps round off the edges after dense molten matter is pulled towards the center by this force
gravity
Hunter
|
$400
[1]
In India's West Bengal state & in Bangladesh, this great river is known as the Padma
the Ganges
Hunter
|
|
$1,200
[27]
Beastly term for underperforming stocks; a bargain-hunting investment fund is called these "of the Dow"
Dogs of the Dow
Peggy
|
$1,200
[23]
In 1840 the U.K. post office issued the world's first postage stamps, the 2 Penny Blue & the Penny this
the Penny Black
Peggy
Mark
|
$800
[10]
It's the designated recipient of funds from an insurance policy or trust
beneficiary
Hunter
|
$800
[19]
"I'm an old cowhand from" this river was written by non-old cowhand Johnny Mercer
Rio Grande
Hunter
|
$800
[8]
One of the finest meteor showers each year is the one radiating from near Castor & Pollux in Dec. in this constellation
Gemini
Peggy
Mark
|
$1,200
[5]
This island in the English Channel is home to a breed of cattle known for its rich milk
Guernsey
Hunter
|
|
$1,600
[24]
A stock order of less than 100 shares, or a 2-word term for our writers
an odd lot
|
$1,600
[21]
Saxon realms established in Englandincludedthis"sex"y kingdom
Wessex
Mark
|
$1,200
[11]
It's the socially valuable vehicleseen here
Bloodmobile
Hunter
|
$1,200
[28]
In 1939 this movie cowboy recorded "Back In The Saddle Again", a song that later became the theme of his TV series
Gene Autry
Peggy
Mark
|
$1,200
[9]
In July 2015, one of these said to contain $5.4 trillion in precious metals passed within 1.5 million miles of earth
an asteroid
Hunter
|
$1,600
[26]
In 1997 oil production began in the Hibernia oil field in this area of underwater plateaus off eastern Canada
Grand Banks
|
|
$2,000
[7]
Times of conflict raise the prices of "war babies" like this defense & aerospace company, symbol LMT
Lockheed Martin
Hunter
|
$2,000
[22]
Signaling change, Tony Blair ended his first speech as party leader with these 2 words, followed by "New Britain"
New Labour
Mark
|
$1,600
[12]
One who lives in a residential area on the outskirts of a city, having barbecues & tending the lawn
suburbanite
Hunter
|
$1,600
[17]
"Come along boys and listen to my tale, I'll tell you of my troubles on" this old cattle trail
the "Old Chisholm Trail"
Peggy
|
$2,000
[3]
Aldebaran, from the Arabic for "follower", is so named because it follows this cluster of 7 sisters in the sky
the Pleiades
Peggy
|
DD
$2,000
[4]
Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands, lies on this island that gained notoriety in World War II
Guadalcanal
Peggy
|
| — | — |
$2,000
[13]
It's the controversial practice of cutting into a living body for physiological knowledge
vivisection
Hunter
|
$2,000
[16]
In "Felina", the "Breaking Bad" finale, this Marty Robbins hit echoed the events in the episode
"El Paso"
Mark
|
DD
$5,000
[15]
The elevation above the horizon of this star in Ursa Minor is equal to the observer's latitude
Polaris
Mark
|
$2,000
[25]
For its vibrant creative scene, this 2nd-largest Austrian city has been designated a "City of Design" by UNESCO
Graz
Hunter
Peggy
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A 2014 bestseller, in 1853 it was called "more extraordinary" than "Uncle Tom's Cabin" because "it is only a simply unvarnished tale"
Twelve Years a Slave