Pranjal Vachaspati game 5.Showdedicated"In memory of our friend and colleaguePhil Wayne".
Anthony Szabo — an office manager from Portland, Oregon
Kathy Krebs — a Realtor from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pranjal Vachaspati — a Ph.D. student originally from Shaker Heights, Ohio (whose 4-day cash winnings total $89,188)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pranjal | $2,600 | $8,600 | $22,500 |
$32,500
5-day champion: $121,688 |
$24,600
27 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Kathy | $-400 | $1,800 | $-600 |
$-600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$-600
9 R, 5 W |
| Anthony | $2,500 | $1,900 | $5,900 |
$11,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,400
12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| WHO MAKES IT? | 7-LETTER WORDS | DUCK DAY AFTERNOON | VICE PRESIDENTS | "M"PLACEMENT | THE MAGIC OF LAIKA ANIMATION |
|
$200
[2]
Doublemint gum
Wrigley's
Anthony
|
$200
[15]
"It takes" this, a group of houses in a rural area, smaller than a town
a village
Anthony
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$200
[26]
This "off a duck's back" denotes something that has little to no effect
water
Pranjal
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$200
[9]
During his long Senate career, he continued to live in Delaware, commuting daily to Washington via Amtrak
Biden
Pranjal
|
$200
[29]
Under a military dictatorship, Burma changed its name to this
Myanmar
Anthony
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$200
[30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Laika Animation Studios.) Laika Animation brings to life its magical worlds through the masterful use of this two-word classic animation technique that sounds like two opposite things
stop motion
Pranjal
|
|
$400
[3]
Post-it notes
3M
Anthony
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$400
[16]
Term for a man who has not remarried after his wife passed away
a widower
Kathy
|
$400
[28]
This Looney Tunes duck attributes his constantly being shot in the episode "Rabbit Seasoning" to "pronoun trouble"
Daffy Duck
Kathy
|
DD
$500
[12]
He was the first vice president to assume the presidency upon the assassination of a president
Andrew Johnson
Anthony
|
$400
[25]
This capital of Uruguay lies on the Rio de la Plata
Montevideo
Pranjal
|
$400
[11]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Laika Animation Studios.) It's the "L.A." in "L.A.V.s", videos recorded by Laika animators walking through the scenes themselves beforehand, for a reference when animating later
live action
Anthony
|
|
$600
[4]
Classic Yellow Mustard
French's
Pranjal
Kathy
Anthony
|
$600
[17]
A group called The String this made a tribute CD to Coldplay (which is also one)
a quartet
Pranjal
|
$600
[8]
The existence of this creaturehas been cited as proof that God has a sense of humor
the duck-billed platypus
Anthony
|
$600
[13]
In 1981 he was ordered to pay Maryland $250,000 to compensate for bribes taken while governor & vice president
Agnew
Anthony
|
$600
[6]
This nation shares its name with a region of Greece
Macedonia
Pranjal
|
$600
[23]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Laika Animation Studios.) As Beetle and Monkey, Oscar winners Matthew McConaughey and this Best Actress winner for 2003 give voice to characters in Laika's upcoming adventure, "Kubo and the Two Strings"
Charlize Theron
Kathy
|
|
$800
[5]
420 Series Backhoe Loaders
Caterpillar
Pranjal
Kathy
|
$800
[10]
To keep going, or to uphold a lawyer's legal objection
sustain
Pranjal
|
$800
[19]
French term that completes the name of a king that Martha Stewart makes with zest--& juice: duck...
à l'orange
Kathy
Anthony
|
$800
[7]
He was Massachusetts' favorite son candidate for president in 1920 but settled for vice president
Coolidge
Pranjal
|
$800
[18]
The 19th century Pabst mansion is now a museum in this city
Milwaukee
Pranjal
|
$800
[24]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Laika Animation Studios.) Each puppet incorporates a steel, articulating, interior skeleton, detailed hand-made costumes, and a multitude of faces and expressions, computer-designed and outputted from this state-of-the-art device
a 3D printer
Pranjal
|
|
$1,000
[1]
Preference hair color
L'Oreal
Kathy
|
$1,000
[21]
Term for a violent cyclone in the Western Pacific
a typhoon
Pranjal
|
$1,000
[20]
2 years before "Sexual Perversity in Chicago", this bleeper-bleepin' playwright came up with bleepin' "Duck Variations"
David Mamet
|
$1,000
[14]
The second vice president from his state, he was born in Ceylon...Ceylon, Minnesota, that is
Walter Mondale
|
$1,000
[22]
This country's 2 main regions are separated by some 640 miles of the South China Sea
Malaysia
Pranjal
|
$1,000
[27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Laika Animation Studios.) Needing to shoot 24 precise movements per second results in only about 4 seconds of film a week per animator, it's no surprise it can take up to two and a half years to produce films like this Laika Oscar-nominated feature, based on a work by Neil Gaiman
Coraline
Pranjal
|
| ANATOMICALLY TITLED LIT | SPORTS NICKNAMES | STATE FLOWERS | TECH TALK | ADD "S" TO THE START OF THE WORD | HOLY MOSES! |
|
$400
[1]
A London bank job is at the heart of "The Red-Headed League", the second short story with this detective
Sherlock Holmes
Pranjal
Kathy
|
$400
[6]
Football coach Paul Bryant got this nickname after wrestling one at the age of 13
bear
Kathy
|
$400
[25]
This "kissing" shrub became a state symbol of Oklahoma in 1893, 14 years before statehood
mistletoe
Kathy
|
$400
[15]
Mozilla's web browser was called Phoenix, then Firebird, then this
Firefox
Kathy
|
$400
[24]
Non-magical "Harry Potter" folk illegally import an "S" to make this word
smuggle
Anthony
|
$800
[22]
At the age of 3 months, Moses got bulrushed down this river
the Nile
Pranjal
|
|
$800
[2]
"The Fist of God" in Frederick Forsyth's thriller is a potential one of these held by a dictator
a nuclear weapon
Pranjal
|
$2,000
[26]
The Purple People Eaters were this NFL team's defensive line of the late 1960s & '70s
the Vikings
Anthony
|
$800
[23]
The Rocky Mountain Columbine, Colorado's state flower, was discovered in 1820 on the slopes of this man's "peak"
Pike
Pranjal
|
$800
[16]
The abbreviated name of this file format used for digital photos comes from the group that created it in the 1980s
JPEG
Pranjal
|
$800
[5]
A word following "ready, willing &" becomes this weasel-like animal
a sable
Pranjal
|
$1,200
[9]
He was Moses' big brother
Aaron
Kathy
|
|
$1,200
[7]
In Emile Zola's "The Belly of Paris", wrongly accused Florent Quenu escapes this island prison & returns to France
Devil's Island
Pranjal
|
— |
$1,200
[3]
Children of this "Mountain State" voted to make the rhododendron the state flower & the legislature obliged
West Virginia
Pranjal
Kathy
|
$1,200
[21]
Here's the logo of this wireless technology
Bluetooth
Anthony
|
$1,200
[17]
To choose by vote; with an "S" in front, you get this related word meaning to choose in preference to another
select
Pranjal
|
$2,000
[20]
Mounts that Moses summited include Sinai & this one from which he got a look at the promised land
Pisgah
|
|
$1,600
[14]
"City of Bones" is the first book in this fantasy series about teenage demon hunters in New York City
The Mortal Instruments
|
— |
$2,000
[18]
This daisy, Maryland's state flower, is a pioneer plant, meaning that it is one of the first to grow in a new field
the black-eyed Susan
|
$1,600
[4]
It isn't minted or printed--it's "mined" by a computer algorithm in blocks called "rewards"
Bitcoin
Pranjal
Kathy
|
$1,600
[8]
A European viper, front-loaded with an "S", gets a little more depressed as this word
sadder
Pranjal
Anthony
|
DD
$7,500
[10]
When Moses confronts the pharaoh, these 4 words follow "Thus saith the Lord God of Israel"
let my people go
Pranjal
|
|
$2,000
[12]
Joseph Campbell's landmark study of comparative mythology was titled "The Hero with" these
a thousand faces
Pranjal
|
— |
DD
$7,000
[11]
Arizona's state flower is the white blossom found near the top of the stems & "arms" of this giant cactus
the saguaro
Pranjal
|
$2,000
[13]
To transfer large computer files, it might be useful to use a special FTP, a "file transfer" this
protocol
Anthony
|
$2,000
[19]
A word meaning to analyze a sentence in terms of grammar becomes this word meaning meager or scant
sparse
Pranjal
|
— |
Tuskegee Institute president Robert Moton couldn't sit with the other speakers at its 1922 dedication
the Lincoln Memorial