WE ASKED: Al Franken.
Hunter Manchak — a product director from Washington, D.C.
Doug Hartman — a consulting engineer from Virginia Beach, Virginia
Debbi Hopkins — an administrative assistant from Charleston, South Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debbi | $600 | $2,200 | $5,400 |
$3,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,000
10 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Doug | $4,200 | $8,800 | $12,400 |
$12,400
New champion: $12,400 |
$10,400
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Hunter | $1,600 | $1,800 | $6,200 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,200
19 R, 6 W |
| HERE COMES THE SUN | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE | FRUITS & VEGETABLES | "Z" IS THE FIRST LETTER | WAR STARS | MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU |
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$200
[11]
Of next Tuesday, in 10 million years or in 5 billion years, it's when the Sun is scheduled to become a red giant
5 billion years
Hunter
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$200
[21]
In Genesis 15 this man leaves the Euphrates city of Ur to found a new nation
Abraham
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$200
[1]
Maltaise sauce is made by adding the juice from the blood variety of this fruit to hollandaise sauce
an orange
Hunter
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$200
[16]
This brand is the official ice resurfacing machine of the NHL
Zamboni
Hunter
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$200
[22]
Cottage cheese was part of Michael Fassbender's Spartan diet to prep for this movie set at Thermopylae
300
Debbi
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$200
[6]
Long associated with bloodshed, this fourth planet from the Sun was called Nergal by the Babylonians
Mars
Hunter
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$400
[12]
Energized particles from fusion in the Sun escape through the corona & create this, not literally a breeze
a solar wind
Hunter
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$400
[27]
Acts 9 is about a journey to this city by Saul, later Paul, that doesn't turn out as planned
Damascus
Debbi
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$400
[2]
Hungarian wax is the hot variety of sweet banana these
peppers
Debbi
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$400
[17]
Often used to describe comedians, it's a synonym for "crazy"
zany
Doug
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$400
[23]
A young woman secretly takes her father's place in the Chinese army & becomes a great heroine in this Disney film
Mulan
Doug
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$400
[7]
In free fall, many skydivers assume the position named for this fourth Greek letter
delta
Doug
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$600
[13]
"H" is for this model of our solar system that puts the Sun at the center
heliocentric
Hunter
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$600
[28]
Built by King Omri as his capital, Samariais found in what's now often called this directional region
the West Bank
Hunter
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$600
[3]
More accurately called crisphead lettuce, it grows in tight, dense heads similar to cabbage
iceberg lettuce
Debbi
Doug
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$600
[18]
You can tour the campus of this online shoe retailer in downtown Las Vegas
Zappos
Hunter
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$600
[24]
Agu is a child soldier in an African Civil War in this film that earned Idris Elba a Golden Globe nomination
Beasts of No Nation
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$600
[8]
In 1965 "Stop! In The Name Of Love" was this girl group's fourth straight No. 1 song
the Supremes
Doug
|
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$800
[14]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) Taking tens of thousands of years to rise to the Sun's surface & then a mere eight minutes to reach us, they are the most basic light particles
photons
Doug
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$800
[29]
Several towns have been suggested for this Galilee locale where nuptials & miracles took place
Cana
Debbi
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$800
[4]
This small green vegetable native to Mexico is the essential ingredient in salsa verde
a tomatillo
Debbi
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$800
[19]
It follows "cubic" in the name of an artificial crystal that resembles a diamond
zirconia
Doug
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$800
[25]
As the first female trainee in the Navy's elite SEAL program, Demi Moore is determined to succeed in this film
G.I. Jane
Hunter
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$800
[9]
A leading oil & petrochemical center, this metropolis is the fourth-largest city in the United States
Houston
Doug
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$1,000
[15]
From the Greek for "light" comes this visible layer of the sun, some 300 miles thick
the photosphere
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$1,000
[30]
The Phoenician city of Sidon was home to this wicked queen of the First Book of Kings
Jezebel
Debbi
Hunter
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$1,000
[5]
Not as popular as the ruby red, the Duncan is believed to be the oldest variety of this fruit in the United States
a grapefruit
Doug
|
DD
$3,000
[20]
This outermost layer of a citrus rind contains the color & the flavor
zest
Doug
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$1,000
[26]
As General Kuribayashi, Ken Watanabe led the defense of an isolated Pacific island in this 2006 movie
Letters from Iwo Jima
Hunter
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$1,000
[10]
Robert Schumann called this man's 1807 Fourth Symphony "a slender Greek maiden between two Norse giants"
Beethoven
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| HISTORICAL TO-DO LISTS | A BETTE MIDLER MEDLEY | SENATE COMMITTEES | PREFECTURES OF JAPAN | 8-LETTER WORDS | BOOKS BY MEN |
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[1]
July 12, 1543:Get married today. 6thtime is the charm!
Henry VIII
Hunter
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[23]
In 1989 Bette scored a No. 1 hit with this song that says, "I can fly higher than an eagle, for you are the..."
"Wind Beneath My Wings"
Hunter
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$400
[20]
(I'm Senator Al Franken.) As a non-lawyer, I'm in the minority on this Senate committee that's much in the news for its key role in the Supreme Court confirmation process
the Judiciary Committee
Hunter
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$400
[11]
In 2016 Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit this capital of the prefecture of the same name
Hiroshima
Hunter
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$400
[6]
You use it to squeeze into your Guccis; as a verb it means to squeeze into a small space
shoehorn
Hunter
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$400
[19]
The title of this book continues "and What Alice Found There"
Through the Looking Glass
Doug
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$800
[2]
July 20, 1969:Become second guy to walk on Moon; celebrate communion there
Buzz Aldrin
Hunter
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$800
[26]
In 2017 Bette is set to star in a Broadway revival of this musical in which she'll play the matchmaking Mrs. Levi
Hello Dolly
Hunter
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$800
[21]
At help.senate.gov HELP stands for Health, Education, Labor & these, which some laborers get after they retire
Pensions
Doug
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$800
[12]
The winter Olympics were held in Nagano Prefecture in this year
1998
Hunter
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$800
[7]
This type of vinegar is made from white Trebbiano grape juice heated & aged in wooden barrels
balsamic
Debbi
Hunter
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$800
[15]
He peeped at Polynesian life in 1846's "Typee", his first book
(Herman) Melville
Debbi
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$1,200
[3]
Sept. 5, 1666:Begin plan to rebuild post-Great Fire London; hand in to King in a week or so
Christopher Wren
Debbi
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$1,200
[27]
On a recent concert tour, Bette sang "I Put A Spell On You" dressed as Winifred from this movie
Hocus Pocus
Doug
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$1,200
[22]
Reviewing Medicare on an "almost annual basis", this committee deals with "matters relating to older Americans"
the Special Committee on Aging
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$1,200
[13]
The Karate Kid's teacher might know the name of this prefecture of Honshu that forms Sendai Bay
Miyagi
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$1,200
[10]
This synonym for sophisticated comes from the French for "of good lineage"
debonair
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$1,200
[18]
The idea of this Joyce novel is that history is cyclic; the book begins with a sentence that is unfinished on the last page
Finnegans Wake
Debbi
Hunter
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$1,600
[4]
Sept. 3, 1928:Discover mold juice... No, penicillin, that's a better name
(Alexander) Fleming
Doug
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— |
$1,600
[24]
The Select Committee on these deals with gifts & conflicts of interest
Ethics
Hunter
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$1,600
[14]
This prefecture's name is also the name of the popular breed seenherethat originated in its mountains
Akita
Debbi
|
DD
$2,000
[8]
When a professor has this adjective after his name, it means he's retired but retains an honorary title & often, free parking
emeritus
Debbi
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DD
$2,000
[16]
Michael Herr wrote in "Dispatches", "I think that" this place "was what we had instead of happy childhoods"
Vietnam
Debbi
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$2,000
[5]
June 22, 1611:Make sure mutineers don't set me & my son adrift in the bay named for me; uh-oh
Henry Hudson
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— |
$2,000
[25]
The Senate committee on these "Affairs" also includes natives from Hawaii & Alaska
Indian Affairs
Doug
Hunter
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— |
$2,000
[9]
The Latin for "wave" gives us this verb meaning to move in a wavelike motion
undulate
Hunter
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$2,000
[17]
In a novel title, F. Scott Fitzgerald paired them with the "Damned"
The Beautiful
Hunter
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She once said that death "is no more than passing from one room into another" but "in that other room, I shall be able to see"
Helen Keller