Hunter Appler game 3.WE ASKED: Artist Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Anna Kata — a graduate student in public health from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Rick Doyon — a higher education administrator from Somerville, Massachusetts
Hunter Appler — an attorney originally from Mount Airy, North Carolina (whose 2-day cash winnings total $44,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter | $1,200 | $3,200 | $13,400 |
$26,799
3-day champion: $71,400 |
$14,400
19 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Rick | $1,000 | $1,800 | $14,600 |
$2,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$16,600
19 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Anna | $-400 | $400 | $-1,200 |
$-1,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$800
5 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| WORD ORIGINS | JAPANESE CITIES | AWARDS | HERE'S TO 50 GREAT YEARS | THAT'S MY DEPARTMENT! | BASKET WEAVING |
|
$200
[1]
This place where alcoholic drinks are sold is derived from a slightly shorter, "fashionable" French word
saloon
Rick
Anna
|
$200
[22]
Yes, that's a roller coaster passing through the centerless Big O Ferris wheel in this capital of Japan
Tokyo
Rick
|
$200
[17]
(I'm Lin-Manuel Miranda.) In 2008Iwon a Tony for Best Original Score for my musical "In the Heights"; that is, Washington Heights, far uptown in this borough
Manhattan
Hunter
Rick
|
$200
[7]
1650:The 787-carat Great Mogul Diamond is found in a mine in this country
India
Rick
Anna
|
$200
[12]
Cordell Hull, John Kerry, George P. Shultz
State
Hunter
|
$800
[3]
This ancient Basque sport uses a weaved basketlike glove called a cesta & a ball called a pelota
jai alai
Hunter
|
|
$400
[2]
From Latin for "cleanse", it's the place where one's soul is cleansed before entering heaven
purgatory
Anna
|
$800
[24]
Koromo got this new name in 1959 to reflect the importance of its major employer, an auto manufacturer
Toyota
Anna
|
$400
[18]
2012's Best Original Screenplay Oscar went to him for "Django Unchained"
Quentin Tarantino
Rick
|
$400
[8]
1350:In the great battle of Les Espagnols sur Mer, an English fleet defeats one from this nation
Spain
Hunter
|
$400
[13]
Andrew W. Mellon, Henry M. Paulson, George P. Shultz
Treasury
Rick
|
$1,000
[25]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents.) In basket weaving, the weft is a moving horizontal fiber; & this other 4-letter word refers to avertical stationary fiber
warp
Hunter
|
|
$600
[4]
Often eaten with eggs at breakfast, it comes from Latin for "dry" or "parch"
toast
Rick
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
This city was home to the royal family for 1,074 years, from the Heian Period to the Meiji Restoration
Kyoto
Rick
|
$600
[19]
In 1962 Don Drysdale won the Cy Young Award; the next year it was this Dodgers teammate
Sandy Koufax
Rick
|
$600
[9]
1850:Henry Clay, the "Great" this-"er", gets Congress to adopt this
Compromise
Hunter
|
$600
[14]
Robert Reich, Elaine Chao, George P. Shultz
Labor
Rick
|
— |
|
$800
[5]
From a word for "apple", it's a bag of aromatic substances placed in a dresser drawer
pomander
Hunter
Anna
|
— |
$800
[20]
From 2000 through 2003 this fast-moving, fast-talking political drama won the Drama Series Emmy
The West Wing
Hunter
|
$800
[10]
1950:In Boston "Fats" Pino & 10 accomplices pull off the "Great" this company "Robbery"
Brink's
Rick
|
$800
[15]
Shirley Hufstedler, William Bennett, Margaret Spellings
Education
Rick
|
— |
|
$1,000
[6]
In Dutch it meant "household effects"; its meaning as goods taken by force during a war dates to the 1640s
plunder
Hunter
Rick
|
— |
$1,000
[21]
This stammering comedian with "new" in his name won the 1960 Best New Artist Grammy
Bob Newhart
|
$1,000
[11]
1250:The death of Frederick II ushers in the "Great" this, from the Latin for "between" & "reign"
Interregnum
Hunter
|
$1,000
[16]
J. Sterling Morton, Earl Butz, Mike Espy
Agriculture
Rick
|
— |
| THESPIANISTS | RELIGIOUS LANDMARKS | ITALIAN FOOD | "OO" IN THE MIDDLE, SORRY | VICTORIAN VERSE | LADIES & GENTLEMEN... THE BEETLES! |
|
$400
[6]
Dude! He played Jack Baker, one half of "The Fabulous" piano-playing "Baker Boys"
Jeff Bridges
Rick
|
$400
[13]
Salt Lake City structure where you'll find an 11,000-pipe organ
Tabernacle
Hunter
|
$400
[19]
Caprino, usually made from the milk of this animal, is a soft cheese that will highlight your spinach omelet
a goat
Hunter
Rick
|
$400
[9]
Chess piece that fits the category
a rook
Hunter
|
$400
[27]
"Though I've belted you an' flayed you, by the livin' Gawd that made you, you're a better man than I am", this character
Gunga Din
Hunter
|
$400
[2]
In the late 1800s this "fly away home" beetle was brought in to save California's citrus crops from insect pests
ladybug
Anna
|
|
$800
[7]
Goodness, gracious, Dennis Quaid pounded the ivories in this 1989 biopic; catch Alec Baldwin as Jimmy Swaggart
Great Balls of Fire!
Rick
|
$800
[14]
The chimeras have a greatviewof Paris from this cathedral that they decorate
Notre Dame
Rick
|
$800
[20]
This Italian ice cream is denser than regular ice cream & has less butterfat
gelato
Rick
|
$800
[10]
Time to give us this time of day
noon
Hunter
|
DD
$1,000
[28]
This musician character claimed to have a secret charm that he chiefly used "on creatures that do people harm"
the Pied Piper of Hamelin
Hunter
|
$1,200
[24]
Consisting of 3 segments, each with a pair of legs, this forms the middle of a beetle's body
the thorax
Anna
|
|
$1,200
[8]
Adrien Brody's performance as "The Pianist" helped this controversial director win an Oscar
(Roman) Polanski
Hunter
|
$1,200
[16]
This small shrine, the cube-shaped structure towards which Muslims orient themselves & pray, is in the Great Mosque
the Kaaba
Hunter
Anna
|
$1,200
[21]
Thistiny rice-shapedpasta whose name means "barley" is often used in soups
orzo
Hunter
|
$1,200
[11]
To secure a ship by cables
moor
Rick
|
$1,200
[29]
"In silver armour", this Tennyson knight "saw the grail, the Holy Grail, descend upon the shrine"
Galahad
|
$1,600
[25]
The male of the American this beetle is a dark brown scarab, about 1 inch long, with a single upright horn
a rhinoceros
Hunter
|
|
$1,600
[12]
As the mute Ada McGrath, this actress went to New Zealand with "The Piano" in 1993
Holly Hunter
Hunter
|
$1,600
[17]
On a trip to Yangon in this country, visit the Shwedagon Pagoda, said to enshrine strands of Buddha's hair
Myanmar (Burma accepted)
Rick
|
$1,600
[22]
Spaghetti alle vongole is spaghetti served with these shellfish
clams
|
$1,600
[5]
If you're "in" this furrow, you're doing very well
the groove
Rick
|
$2,000
[4]
A.E. Housman hadn't visited Shropshire when he used it in the title of this 1896 collection
A Shropshire Lad
|
DD
$2,000
[3]
This type of beetle with a biblical name is one of the largest, growing about 5 inches long & weighing 3 1/2 oz.
a Goliath beetle
Anna
|
|
$2,000
[15]
He played Bobby Dupea, a classical pianist turned oil rigger, a man who ordered a chicken salad sandwich, hold the chicken
Jack Nicholson
Rick
|
$2,000
[18]
Sri Harmandir Sahib, or the Golden Temple, in the Punjab city of Amritsar, is a holy site in this religion
Sikh
Rick
|
$2,000
[23]
This bread salad is made with bread soaked in water, onions, tomatoes, basil, olive oil, vinegar & seasonings
panzanella
|
$2,000
[1]
Profession of J.P.F. Blanchard, the first man to see Philadelphia from the air
a balloonist
Hunter
|
— |
$2,000
[26]
Totaling about 8,000 species, this beetle gets its name from the sound it makes when it jumps
click
Rick
|
Of his greatest accomplishment, he humbly remarked, "Pilots... take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle"
Neil Armstrong