J!Buzz: Jeopardy Team Lego Minifigures.
Amanda Berofsky — a quality assurance analyst from Waterford, Michigan
Rebecca Glass — an administrator from New York, New York
Gavin Mulligan — a software engineer from Parker, Colorado (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gavin | $1,000 | $1,800 | $4,600 |
$2
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,600
12 R, 6 W |
| Rebecca =) | $400 | $4,000 | $4,800 |
$300
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Amanda | $1,400 | $2,600 | $7,800 |
$5,999
New champion: $5,999 |
$7,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| AFTER THE CABINET | MOVIE NUMBERS | LITERATURE IN ACTION | HOMONYMS | CAPITAL CITY HOTELS | LEGO |
|
$200
[19]
After his fifth heart attack, he co-wrote a book with his doctor called "Heart: An American Medical Odyssey"
Dick Cheney
Rebecca =)
|
$200
[1]
A sequel:"____ Jump Street"
22
Amanda
|
$200
[8]
The action-packed Book 7 of this ancient poem features the duel of Hector & Ajax
the Iliad
Rebecca =)
|
$200
[10]
An oceangoing vacation, or a type of low-altitude guided missile
a cruise
Rebecca =)
|
$200
[3]
Hotel Neos Olympos, Electra Hotel
Athens
Amanda
|
$200
[26]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Lego Systems in Enfield, CT.) A carpenter, Ole Kirk Christiansen, founded Lego in the 1930s to make wooden toys; he coined the company name from the words "leg godt", "play well" in this, his native language
Danish
Gavin
|
|
$400
[20]
In 1945 ex-Attorney General Robert Jackson served as chief U.S. prosecutor in this German city
Nuremberg
Rebecca =)
|
$400
[2]
James Franco on the cutting edge:"____ Hours"
127
Rebecca =)
Amanda
|
$400
[9]
This Vietnam vet & action hero sprang form the pages of "First Blood" by David Morrell
Rambo
Amanda
|
$400
[14]
To move clumsily through water, or the type of flatfishes that includes the halibut
to flounder
|
$400
[4]
Isis Hotel, Ramses Hilton
Cairo
Amanda
|
$400
[27]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Lego Systems in Enfield, CT.) Popular sets from the building series include such landmarks as Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower &this World Heritage Site & masterpiece of Indian architecture
the Taj Mahal
Amanda
|
|
$600
[21]
Ex-Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers had a stormy tenure as president of this university
Harvard
Rebecca =)
|
$600
[16]
Gerard Depardieu is Italian?:"____: Conquest of Paradise"
1492
Rebecca =)
|
$600
[11]
Like Michael Crichton, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a thriller with this title about a land inhabited by dinosaurs
The Lost World
Gavin
Rebecca =)
|
$600
[15]
One who takes care of horses, or to prepare an employee for advancement
a groom
Gavin
|
$600
[5]
Hotel Peter I, Hotel Soyuz
Moscow
Amanda
|
$600
[28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Lego Systems in Enfield, CT.) In 2016 NASA's Juno probe completed its 5-year voyage to Jupiter; on board is aminifigureof this 17th-century Italian, telescope in hand
Galileo
Gavin
|
|
$800
[22]
(Presidential daughter Jenna Bush Hager delivers the clue.) Secretary of War under Garfield & Arthur, this son of Abraham Lincoln was also minister to Britain & ran the Pullman Company after the founder's death
Robert Todd Lincoln
|
$800
[17]
Hai, Keanu plays Kai:"____ Ronin"
47
Rebecca =)
|
$800
[12]
"The Last of the Mohicans" takes place against the backdrop of this 18th century war
the French and Indian War
Gavin
|
$800
[24]
Track a pray or quarry, or the petiole of a leaf
stalk
|
$800
[6]
Hotel Adlon Kempinski, Hotel California am Kurfurstendamm
Berlin
Amanda
|
$800
[29]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Lego Systems in Enfield, CT.) In 2015, Lego Group inaugurated its own off-shore wind farm & every employee was given amodel wind farm kit, symbolizing the company's stated goal of being 100% based on this type of energy by 2020
renewable energy
Amanda
|
|
DD
$1,000
[23]
Her 2012 memoir details her family's experiences in Europe during World War II & the Holocaust
Madeleine Albright
Rebecca =)
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$1,000
[18]
That's a lot of nail polish:"The ____ Fingers of Dr. T"
5000
|
$1,000
[13]
Brian Garfield's wife had her purse stolen, so Brian wrote this novel about a vigilante whose wife has been murdered
Death Wish
Gavin
|
$1,000
[25]
A flock of geese in flight, or a length of thread or yarn wound in a loose coil
a skein
Gavin
|
$1,000
[7]
The Balmoral, Nira Caledonia
Edinburgh
Rebecca =)
|
$1,000
[30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Lego Systems in Enfield, CT.) The Mindstorms construction kit, which allows children to build & program their own robotic devices, grew out of the company's longstanding partnership with the famous Media Lab of this Cambridge, Massachusetts school
MIT
Gavin
|
| AFTER THE CABERNET | ANCIENT BABYLON | ART & ARTISTS | ALL THE SINGLES LADIES | 16th CENTURY BOOKSHELF | IT'S "TWIN"s! |
|
$400
[26]
The Stag's Leap cab was awesome; now it's time for this course--I'll start with the Roncal & then some chevre
the cheese course
Gavin
|
$400
[17]
This Babylonian king laid down the law & go things going for the empire around 1792 B.C.
Hammurabi
Rebecca =)
|
$400
[5]
If this ancient statue was a real woman, her measurements would be 51-38-47
the Venus de Milo
Rebecca =)
|
$400
[10]
She performed her hits "Rise" & "Roar" at the 2016 Democratic National Convention
Katy Perry
Amanda
|
$400
[2]
Look that up in your Calepino? In 1502 Ambrogio Calepino compiled "Cornucopiae", a Latin one of these
a dictionary
Gavin
Amanda
|
$400
[1]
They shared one zygote
identical twins
Rebecca =)
|
|
$800
[27]
Like our cultured European brethren, we choose to have this roughage course after the entree & red wines
salad
Gavin
|
$1,200
[19]
An Oxford researcher says this terraced marvel that helped make Babylon famous was actually in Assyria
the Hanging Gardens
Gavin
Rebecca =)
|
$800
[6]
In 2001 Artist Alma Lopez caused protest with her depiction of this woman in a swimsuit
the Virgin Mary
Amanda
|
$800
[11]
This No. 1 single by Madonna namechecks Greta Garbo & Marilyn Monroe, among others
"Vogue"
Gavin
|
$800
[3]
A story of revenge, Thomas Kyd's play "The Spanish Tragedy" influenced this Shakespeare play from 1600
Hamlet
Gavin
Rebecca =)
|
$800
[22]
Ervin Santana was their 2016 opening day starter
the Minnesota Twins
Amanda
|
|
$1,600
[28]
To cleanse the palate after the filet & silver oak, it's this black currant sorbet, also found after "Creme de"
cassis
Gavin
|
$1,600
[20]
Thisoverworked Babyloniangoddessof war & fertility was also the goddess of rain & thunderstorms
Ishtar
|
$1,200
[7]
Winslow Homer often depicted the coast of Maine in this type of painting, also the title of an Edward Albee play
seascape
|
$1,200
[12]
Leskanich is the last name of this woman who fronted the Waves & was "Walking On Sunshine"
Katrina
Amanda
|
$1,200
[4]
Before "The Faerie Queene", he wrote a series of poems called "The Shepheardes Calender"
(Edmund) Spenser
Rebecca =)
|
$1,200
[23]
You go on ahead--I'll just sit a minute, got this momentary pain in my knee
a twinge
Gavin
|
| — |
DD
$2,000
[18]
A trading hub and cultural center, the city of Babylon was located on the banks of this river
the Euphrates
Rebecca =)
|
DD
$2,000
[8]
Andre Breton called the art of this fellow 20th c. artist "the most hallucinatory known until now"
(Salvador) Dali
Amanda
|
$1,600
[13]
"Cheap Thrills" was a No. 1 hit for this woman not seen here
Sia (Furler)
Gavin
|
$1,600
[16]
This author became a monk but broke his vows to study medicine & pen his masterpiece "Gargantua and Pantagruel"
Rabelais
|
$1,600
[24]
T Magazine said one risks looking like an elderly aunt when wearing this, a cardigan with a matching short-sleeve sweater
a twinset
Amanda
|
| — |
$2,000
[21]
Some scholars identify etemenanki, one of these Babylonian structures, as the Tower of Babel
a ziggurat
Rebecca =)
|
$2,000
[9]
Not sure if it's ready for Playboy, but one of this painter's "Nude"s is seen here
Marcel Duchamp
Rebecca =)
|
$2,000
[14]
She had 3 singles in Billboard's Top 10 during one week in 2014: "Problem", "Break Free" & "Bang Bang"
Ariana Grande
Rebecca =)
Amanda
|
$2,000
[15]
This author of "Lives of the Artists" has been credited with introducing the term "Renaissance" around 1550
Vasari
Rebecca =)
|
$2,000
[25]
The 1904 book that introduced them says "There were four... now that sounds funny, doesn't it?"
the Bobbsey Twins
Gavin
|
Named for a saint & built in 1348, Vaclavske Namesti is the main square & center of cultural life in this capital city
Prague