WE ASKED: Michael Steele.
Allison Totura — a research microbiologist from Frederick, Maryland
Hobie Barnes — a consultant from Glendale, California
Justin Bender — a technical engineer from Boulder, Colorado (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justin | $200 | $4,800 | $17,000 |
$1,199
2-day champion: $20,799 |
$14,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Hobie | $2,800 | $6,600 | $16,600 |
$600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$16,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Allison | $2,200 | $1,400 | $13,200 |
$400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,800
12 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| WHERE IS IT? | SKY LINES | CLASSIC FILM MUSIC | A SPELLING BEE | ORGANIZATIONS | CONDIMENTS |
|
$200
[1]
The Challenger Deep:this ocean
the Pacific
Allison
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$200
[21]
This James Bond movie theme says "When it crumbles, we will stand tall, face it all together"
"Skyfall"
Allison
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$200
[9]
This classic film introduced "If Only I Had A Brain"
The Wizard of Oz
Justin
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$200
[4]
Adjective for lines that are the same distance apart at every point along their whole length
P-A-R-A-L-L-E-L
Justin
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$400
[23]
Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia & Venezuela are the founding members of this group that was established in 1960
OPEC
Justin
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$400
[3]
This Asian sauce staple usually has gluten because it's made with wheat; made without, it's called tamari
soy sauce
Hobie
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$400
[12]
Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall:this capital
Taipei
Justin
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$400
[2]
This T.S. Eliot "Love" poem begins, "Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky"
"The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock"
|
$400
[7]
We have "A New Hope" you'll name this composer of the 1977 soundtrack cuts "Imperial Attack" & "Cantina Band"
John Williams
Hobie
|
$400
[5]
You get one of these as a record for paying a bill; don't forget the silent letter
R-E-C-E-I-P-T
Justin
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$600
[24]
(I'm Michael Steele.) As chairperson of the RNC, this group, from 2009 to 2011, I helped raise nearly $200 million for political causes & candidates
the Republican National Committee
Hobie
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$600
[16]
Some 2nd grade students came up with the idea to make tortilla chips & this dip the official state snack of Texas
salsa
Justin
|
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$600
[13]
Goya's "The Third of May 1808":this museum
the Prado
Allison
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$600
[14]
This title Chekhov relative is told, "We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds"
Uncle Vanya
Hobie
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$600
[8]
She not only provided the voice of Mrs. Potts in 1991's "Beauty & the Beast", she sang the title song as well
Angela Lansbury
Hobie
|
$600
[6]
A chest of drawers, or a government agency within a cabinet department
B-U-R-E-A-U
Allison
|
$1,000
[26]
This organization named for a pollster who died in 1984 has a web-based archive of opinion polls
Gallup
Justin
|
$800
[17]
The song "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies mentions this hot Japanese condiment
wasabi
Justin
|
|
$800
[27]
The MGM Grand Hotel & Casino:this county
Clark County
Hobie
|
$800
[15]
In this novel, Betty Smith wrote, "No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky"
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Allison
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$800
[10]
"Man In Motion" heated up this 1985 Brat Pack coming of age story
St. Elmo's Fire
Hobie
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$800
[19]
It's the sea that surrounds Jamaica & Cuba
C-A-R-I-B-B-E-A-N
Justin
|
DD
$1,400
[25]
This organization began with a 1971 protest against offshore nuclear testing
Greenpeace
Hobie
|
$1,000
[18]
This Indian condiment can be made sweet or spicy & is seen here atop naan bread
chutney
Justin
|
|
$1,000
[28]
K2:this mountain system (that's the "K")
the Karakoram
Allison
|
$1,000
[22]
She gave us the lesser-known "O beautiful for halcyon skies" as well as "O beautiful for spacious skies"
Katharine Lee Bates
|
$1,000
[11]
"It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" made easy work of winning the Oscar for Original Song for this 2005 film
Hustle and Flow
Justin
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$1,000
[20]
Tagalog is a principal language of this country made up of more than 7,000 islands
P-H-I-L-I-P-P-I-N-E-S
Hobie
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| 1812: THE WAR & MORE | THEY COME IN THREES | EARTH SCIENCE | ANTE "MER"IDIAN | A SAMANTHA BEE | UNREAL ESTATE |
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$400
[29]
Formerly the Orleans Territory, it became the 18th state
Louisiana
Allison
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$400
[18]
This Kellogg's trio look pretty spry, considering they turned 80 in 2013
Snap, Crackle and Pop
Justin
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$400
[28]
Way back in the 2nd century A.D., Chinese scholar Zhang Heng made a device called a seismoscope to detect these
earthquakes
Hobie
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$400
[12]
Working merely for money, whether a hired gun or not
mercenary
Hobie
|
$400
[13]
Elizabeth Montgomery had viewers in a spell as the magical Samantha Stephens on this classic sitcom
Bewitched
Justin
|
$800
[24]
Garrison Keillor writes that this town "is the seat of Tiny Mist County"
Lake Wobegon
Justin
|
|
$800
[26]
The U.S. frigate Constitution's defeat of the Guerriere in 1812 earned it this famous nickname
Old Ironsides
Allison
|
$800
[5]
This California law could jail you for life if you commit a third felony
three strikes
Justin
|
$800
[1]
Ancient Greek for "slope" gives us this weather word much in the news for the way it's changing
climate
Justin
|
$800
[8]
To enter traffic
merge
Hobie
|
$800
[14]
Before going "Full Frontal", Samantha Bee was a correspondent for this Comedy Central series
The Daily Show
Justin
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$1,200
[19]
Most of this 1909 book by Frances Hodgson Burnett is set at Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire
The Secret Garden
Allison
|
|
$1,200
[21]
Support of the Luddites was part of this poet's first speech before Britain's House of Lords
(Lord) Byron
Justin
Allison
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$1,200
[6]
Until WWII, this candy bar had 3 pieces in one package, flavored chocolate, vanilla & strawberry; now it's all chocolate
Three Musketeers
|
$1,200
[2]
It's Earth's 25-mile-deep surface layer
the crust
Allison
|
$1,200
[9]
Elemental term for "fickle"
mercurial
Justin
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$1,200
[15]
Samantha, the operating system in this 2013 film, shares a name with Samantha Morton, who was its original voice
Her
Hobie
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$1,600
[20]
In 1900 Mark Twain wrote a story about "The Man Who Corrupted" this honest & upright burg
Hadleyburg
|
|
$2,000
[27]
This Shawnee chief fought for the British & led Native American allies but was killed in battle the next year
Tecumseh
|
$1,600
[7]
This name for 3 wars between Rome & Carthage comes from Latin for "Phoenician"
the Punic Wars
Justin
|
$1,600
[3]
The 3 major rock classes are igneous, sedimentary & this, formed by changes to the other 2 types
metamorphic
Justin
|
$1,600
[10]
The Caribbean islands gave us this dance for couples
the merengue
Hobie
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$1,600
[16]
After her years as Kelly Bundy, she played the amnesiac title character of "Samantha Who?"
Christina Applegate
Hobie
|
$2,000
[23]
A sheep farmer & his girlfriend Arowhena escape in a balloon from this land created by Samuel Butler
Erewhon
|
|
DD
$5,000
[22]
This 11-letter political word entered our vocabulary after Massachusetts' governor signed a redistricting bill
gerrymander
Allison
|
DD
$5,000
[25]
In Greek & Roman myth, 3 goddesses who determined human destinies were called these, a synonym for destinies
Fates
Justin
|
$2,000
[4]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) When the sun & moon align, their gravitational forces work together to produce big springs tides at right angles; the forces partly cancel each other, producing these smaller amplitude tides
neap tides
Allison
|
$2,000
[11]
It can precede bank or Marine
merchant
Hobie
|
$2,000
[17]
She played the lusty Samantha Jones on "Sex & the City"
Kim Cattrall
Hobie
|
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Peter the Great designed Russia's flag based on the tricolor flag of this nation where he'd gone to learn shipbuilding
the Netherlands