Alan Lin game 2.
Meike Olin — a retired insurance broker from Wilmington, North Carolina
Dan Atherton — a fundraising data analyst from Quincy, Massachusetts
Alan Lin — a software engineer from Santa Barbara, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alan | $800 | $4,200 | $16,000 |
$12,000
2-day champion: $36,000 |
$10,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Dan | $400 | $4,200 | $18,600 |
$3,199
2nd place: $2,000 |
$18,600
20 R, 2 W |
| Meike | $4,200 | $5,400 | $17,000 |
$1,999
3rd place: $1,000 |
$15,600
19 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| SIMILARLY NAMED SCHOOLS | TV ROLES THEN & NOW | SPEAKING OF TONGUES | DOG BREED NAMES | THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH | WE'VE GOT CONTRACTIONS |
|
$200
[16]
Lake Forest College is near Chicago; change one letter to get this North Carolina university
Wake Forest
Dan
|
$200
[1]
"Ugly Betty" & "Superstore" employee Amy
America Ferrera
Alan
|
$200
[11]
After a trip to San Francisco's Panama Pacific Exposition in 1915, this bell's tongue, or clapper, was immobilized
the Liberty Bell
Alan
|
$200
[6]
This sporting dog of Germany was selectively bred by Grand Duke Karl August of Weimar, thus its name
Weimaraner
Meike
|
$200
[26]
James Marshall made his big find in this year, one year before the biggest rush of fortune seekers
1848
Alan
|
$200
[21]
You shall know this contraction for "shall not"
shan't
Alan
|
|
$400
[17]
Northwestern University is in Evanston, Illinois; this private school was founded in Boston in 1898
Northeastern
Alan
|
$400
[2]
"Blossom" & Amy on "The Big Bang Theory"
Mayim Bialik
Alan
Meike
|
$400
[12]
A loop sewn on top can help keep the tongue in one of these from moving around
a shoe
Dan
|
$400
[7]
The Border type of this dog takes its name from its origin near the English-Scottish border
a (border) collie
Dan
Meike
|
$400
[27]
This businessman famously made heavy duty work pants for gold rush miners using tent canvas & then denim
Levi Strauss
Meike
|
$400
[22]
"Jabberwocky" begins with this contraction, followed by "brillig"
'twas
Dan
|
|
$600
[18]
It's about a 2-hour drive northeast from Wesleyan in Connecticut to this Seven Sisters college in Massachusetts
Wellesley
Alan
|
$600
[3]
Al Bundy & Jay Pritchett
Ed O'Neill
Dan
|
$600
[13]
This Kiss bass player once published a men's lifestyle magazine called Tongue
Gene Simmons
Meike
|
$600
[8]
Some say the name of this dog from Africa is the plural of mosenji, Lingala for "native"
basenji
Meike
|
$800
[29]
Last name of George, who came to California for gold and built a family fortune that included a publishing empire
Hearst
Dan
|
$600
[23]
It's the twice-used contraction in our national anthem
o'er
Dan
|
|
$800
[19]
It's back to Chicago for DePaul, a Catholic university; DeDeDeuws in Greencastle in this Midwestern state
Indiana
Dan
|
$800
[4]
Virginia Chance of "Raising Hope" & "Real O'Neal" Eileen
Martha Plimpton
|
$800
[14]
In "Othello" Iago praises her: "She that was ever fair, and never proud, had tongue at will, and yet was never loud"
Desdemona
Alan
|
$1,000
[10]
This "royal dog of Egypt" was named for an ancient city in Arabia
the saluki
Dan
|
$1,000
[28]
This California city on a river of the same name grew rapidly during the rush & became the western end of the Pony Express
Sacramento
Alan
|
$800
[24]
Use this contraction to respond to Her Majesty the British queen
ma'am
Meike
|
|
$1,000
[20]
This Boston college of music sounds like a university town just north of Oakland
Berklee
Alan
|
$1,000
[5]
Dr. Steven Kiley on "Marcus Welby, M.D." & John on "Life in Pieces"
James Brolin
Meike
|
$1,000
[15]
This politician was known as the "silver-tongued orator of the Platte"
William Jennings Bryan
|
DD
$1,800
[9]
This breed's name tells us that it's the bearded dog from the Tibetan capital
a Lhasa apso
Meike
|
— |
$1,000
[25]
It's the literary 3-letter way to say "always"
e'er
Dan
|
| POETS & POETRY | THE OFFICE | COMEDY FILMS OF THE 1970s | EAT THIS VERB | "D" IN GEOGRAPHY | SHE'S GOT CONTRACTIONS |
|
$400
[26]
Amy Lowell, reviewing "North of Boston", said, "Not only is " his "work New England in subject, it is so in technique"
Robert Frost
Alan
|
$400
[21]
Comments based on gender that create a hostile work environment equal this illegal thing
sexual harassment
Alan
|
$400
[1]
In this 1970 film Hot Lips tells Colonel Blake, "This isn't a hospital. It's an insane asylum!"
MASH
Meike
|
$400
[12]
This verb meaning to eat fast is usually associated with turkeys
gobble
Meike
|
$400
[7]
In 2010 new species of bacteria were found at the bottom of this "lifeless" lake between Israel & Jordan
the Dead Sea
Alan
|
$400
[6]
The "Mommy docs" 5-1-1 rule says if contractions are every 5 mins., for about 1 min., over this time span... get to the hospital
one hour
Meike
|
|
$1,200
[28]
It's thought that Poe's child bride Virginia Clemm inspired this poem of his about a maiden in a kingdom by the sea
"Annabel Lee"
Alan
|
$800
[22]
The Office Depot website has a section called this "room" with offerings like lollipops, pretzels & of course coffee
the break room
Meike
|
$800
[2]
In "The Jerk" this comedian treats Bernadette Peters to "pizza in a cup"
Steve Martin
Dan
|
$800
[13]
This 2-word alliterative phrase means to eat with others, even if there's no loaf
break bread
Meike
|
$800
[8]
4 world capitals, including Budapest, lie on the banks of this river
the Danube
Dan
|
$800
[17]
The injection of lidocaine & other drugs into the lumbar spine, this anesthetic takes about 20 minutes to be fully effective
an epidural
Dan
|
|
$1,600
[29]
"The Song of Hiawatha" says, "From the water-fall he named her" this, "Laughing Water"
Minnehaha
Alan
|
$1,200
[23]
Be on time at meetings with this 2004-2015 head coach of the NFL's Giants who says on time means 5 minutes early
(Tom) Coughlin
Dan
|
$1,200
[3]
During the decade, Peter Sellers played this comedy role in 3 sequels
Inspector Clouseau
Alan
Dan
|
$1,200
[14]
Enjoy a snack, Yiddish style
nosh
Meike
|
$1,200
[9]
A popular hiking destination, the summit of this crater just beyond Waikiki was used as a military lookout in the 20th century
Diamond Head
Meike
|
$1,200
[18]
An army-entering event or a baby-exiting one, this delivery process might involve prostaglandin E
induction
Dan
Meike
|
|
$2,000
[30]
Yeats:"I will arise and go now, and go to" this place
Innisfree
|
$1,600
[24]
Unlike in school, in business if you're sent to this person's office, you visit an owner or part owner of the company
principal
Dan
|
$1,600
[4]
Harvey Korman had a villainous turn as Hedley Lamarr in this Mel Brooks Western
Blazing Saddles
Dan
|
$1,600
[15]
Body part verb for what the person seenhereis about to do to the food approaching his mouth
gum it
Meike
|
DD
$2,000
[10]
At its narrowest point, this Turkish strait between the Sea of Marmara & the Aegean Sea is only a mile wide
the Dardanelles
Meike
|
$1,600
[19]
It's the process by which the cervix opens, to 10 centimeters when it's complete
dilation
Dan
|
|
DD
$6,600
[27]
In "Inferno" Dante called him "my master... from whom alone I took the style whose beauty has done me honor"
Virgil
Alan
|
$2,000
[25]
A 2013 survey found average office space cost by this common measure was $36 in San Francisco, $11 in Chattanooga
by square foot
Dan
|
$2,000
[5]
Graham Chapman played a reluctant messiah in this 1979 Monty Python spoof
Life of Brian
Dan
|
$2,000
[16]
It's a fancy 3-syallable word for "chew"
masticate
Dan
|
$2,000
[11]
This African nation was once called French Somaliland & then the French Territory of the Afars & Issas
Djibouti
Meike
|
$2,000
[20]
Usually starting after week 20, these 2-name contractions are basically the uterus practicing for the real thing
Braxton Hicks
Meike
|
This numeric group was the subject of an April 20, 1959 Time magazine article titled "Rendezvous with Destiny"
the Mercury Seven