Seth Wilson game 11.
George Lyle — an I.T. security risk analyst from West Lafayette, Indiana
Amy Pistone — a graduate student instructor from Ann Arbor, Michigan
Seth Wilson — a Ph.D. candidate from Chicago, Illinois (whose 10-day cash winnings total $231,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seth | $1,200 | $4,000 | $11,600 |
$13,201
11-day champion: $245,002 |
$11,600
17 R, 3 W |
| Amy | $600 | $0 | $400 |
$798
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,200
10 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| George | $1,200 | $2,600 | $6,600 |
$1,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,200
16 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| BASEBALL IN UNIFORM | WHAT THE CITY NAME MEANS | PRONOUN-CIATION | NOTORIOUS | THE ____ OF ____ | THE FARMER IN THE DELI |
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$200
[1]
Bob Fellerleft the Cleveland Indians for the Navy on December 9, 1941, two days after hearing this news on his way to a contract meeting
the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Amy
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$200
[18]
God's Guidance & Care, Rhode Island
Providence
George
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$200
[9]
In movie titles this pronoun precedes "Came to Dinner" & "Shot Liberty Valance"
who
Amy
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$200
[26]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.) You need more people than there are in the world to keep it going forever, so eventually, there are no new investors to add funds & you get the devastating collapse of the pyramid scheme, named for this Italian man
(Charles) Ponzi
Seth
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$200
[21]
It's where the British Crown Jewels & Regalia are kept
the Tower of London
George
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$200
[7]
As a farmer, I know this deli bread is made from the grain Secale cereale; the same-named whiskey is good too
rye
Amy
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$400
[3]
Say hey & name this Giants outfielder & one-time Army calis then ics instructor
Willie Mays
George
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$400
[2]
Grassy Plain, Georgia
Savannah
Seth
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$400
[10]
"Yourselves" is a 2nd-person plural reflexive pronoun; this word is the 3rd-person type
themselves
Seth
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$400
[4]
One of the 2 types of targets that Ted Kaczynski focused on; they made up the first 3 letters of "Unabomber"
universities (or airplanes)
George
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$400
[20]
According to Genesis 2, it had "every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food"
the Garden of Eden
George
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$400
[8]
Goldcot apricots make a nice filling for my rugela, the singular word for these little pastries, as if you can eat just one
rugelach
|
|
$600
[11]
Seen here as Navy bluejackets are Pee Wee Reese & Phil Rizzuto, two greats at this position
shortstop
Seth
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$600
[14]
Clear Water, Wisconsin
Eau Claire
Seth
George
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$600
[23]
Number that goes pronoun as a substitute for "you" or "I"
one
Amy
George
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$600
[16]
In the 2015 movie "Legend", Tom Hardy played these 1960s twin Cockney gangsters
the Kray brothers
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$600
[22]
During this bloody phase of the French Revolution, thousands of people literally lost their heads
the Reign of Terror
Seth
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$600
[27]
Very nicebeef they smoked into this sliced meat whose name may be from the Greek for "salted"
pastrami
George
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$800
[12]
A burned-outF9 Panther jetwas hauled off a Korean runway after this Red Sox great's 1953 emergency landing
Ted Williams
George
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$800
[15]
Mr. Skinner, Oregon
Eugene
Seth
George
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— |
$800
[5]
Alexander Pichushkin was branded this "Killer" after claiming 61 murders in Russia; he was 3 short of his goal
the Chessboard Killer
|
DD
$600
[24]
This one of the Ancient Wonders was toppled by an earthquake around 225 B.C.
the Colossus of Rhodes
George
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$1,000
[19]
Gotta get me a Danish cow so we can start making this semisoft 7-letter cheese named for a Danish farm
Havarti
|
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$1,000
[13]
During off-seasons in the late '50s & early '60s, this Hall of Famer transformed from a Pirate into a Marine
Roberto Clemente
George
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$1,000
[17]
Ottawa Chief, Michigan
Pontiac
Seth
|
— |
$1,000
[6]
She was one of a handful of known female pirates; her last name meant "pretty" to the Scots
Anne Bonny
|
$1,000
[25]
A character in this comic opera boasts, "I am the very model of a modern major-general"
The Pirates of Penzance
Seth
|
— |
| OCTOBERFEST | TALKIN' TRASH | THE "TIMES" OF YOUR LIFE | DEAD LINES | WHO ORDERED THE MAMMAL? | U.S. MUSEUMS |
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$400
[21]
An international fiesta in Albuquerque, N.M. each October sees hundreds of these rise heavenward
hot-air balloons
George
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$400
[11]
It's a flat-bottomed Chinese ship with square sails
a junk
George
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$400
[10]
Moon Unit Zappa was a technical consultant on the short-lived TV version of these "at Ridgemont High"
Fast Times
Seth
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$400
[1]
"Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail" is a line from this story
A Christmas Carol
Seth
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$400
[27]
Lemurs & tarsiers are members of this order of mammals, just like us
primates
Amy
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$800
[29]
She's in wax at the Hollywood Wax Museum & her "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" gown is at another museum nearby
Marilyn Monroe
Seth
|
|
$800
[20]
This automobile named for the French founder of Detroit had its first test drive on October 17, 1902
Cadillac
Amy
|
$800
[12]
Ignitability & toxicity are 2 criteria that can get the EPA to identify "hazardous" this
waste
Seth
George
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$800
[6]
J.J. , Thelma & Michael were the kids on this dy-no-mite sitcom
Good Times
George
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$800
[2]
Completes the line from "Treasure Island", "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest--yo-ho-ho, and..."
a bottle of rum
Seth
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$800
[23]
The rodents include many kinds of rat &this marsh-dweller with "rat" in its name
a muskrat
Amy
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$1,200
[17]
Not surprisingly, the basement of this building in Washington, D.C. houses a museum of Lincoln memorabilia
Ford's Theatre
Seth
Amy
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$1,200
[19]
On October 5, 2004, these two men, one the incumbent, debated on live TV
Dick Cheney & John Edwards
Seth
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$1,200
[13]
Tossed-away material, or Shirley Manson's band
garbage
Seth
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$1,200
[7]
This numerical song was The Commodores' biggest hit & their first No. 1
"Three Times A Lady"
|
$1,200
[3]
This call to action from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" goes back to a not-so-funny time during the Great Plague
Bring out your dead
George
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$1,600
[24]
The monotremes are one of the oldest orders of mammals & include only the echidna & this unusual animal
a duck-billed platypus
Amy
George
|
$1,600
[16]
The American Museum of Science & Energy, which used to have "atomic" in its name, is in this Tennessee city
Oak Ridge
Seth
George
|
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$1,600
[15]
The Oct. 14, 1066 battle of this port marked the start of William the Conqueror's conquest of England
Hastings
Amy
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$1,600
[14]
Trashy "R" words include refuse & this one that often precedes "heap"
rubbish
Amy
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$1,600
[8]
In the 2007 film "I'm Not There" Mason Jennings sings this classic Bob Dylan tune
"The Times They Are a-Changin'"
Amy
George
|
$1,600
[4]
Camus began this novel, "Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know"
The Stranger
Amy
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$2,000
[25]
The order Sirenia comprises manatees & these other gentle aquatic giants
the dugong
|
$2,000
[22]
The home in which John Paul Jones lived while his ship the Ranger was being built is now a museum in this N.H. city
Portsmouth
|
|
$2,000
[18]
This Polish aristocrat died in October 1779 fighting for the American colonies; Kosciuszko lived until 1817
Casimir Pulaski
Seth
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$2,000
[28]
This word from the French for "to break up" describes scattered remains, ruins, wreckage
debris
George
|
$2,000
[9]
This 1936 Charlie Chaplin film was the last to feature his Little Tramp character
Modern Times
Seth
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DD
$1,600
[5]
He's the hard-boiled detective who silently muses, "You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep"
Philip Marlowe
Amy
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DD
$5,200
[26]
All the living examples of the order Proboscidea are these
elephants
Amy
|
— |
A 4th century traveler gave one of the first descriptions of this day: "All the children... are carried... bearing branches"
Palm Sunday