Alan Lin game 5.
Kevin McCarthy — a postal clerk from Lincoln, Rhode Island
Rachel Snyder — a writer from Grand Rapids, Michigan
Alan Lin — a software engineer from Santa Barbara, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $84,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alan | $400 | $4,000 | $21,400 |
$24,400
5-day champion: $108,800 |
$24,000
28 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Rachel | $800 | $3,400 | $9,000 |
$2,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,000
12 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Kevin | $1,200 | $3,400 | $7,800 |
$9,001
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,800
15 R, 5 W |
| CELEBRITY FRAGRANCES | LIT-POURRI | THE WIDE WORLD OF SPOTS | WHAT COLOR IS YOUR BUSINESS? | FIRST & "TEN" | WE'RE GOING LONG |
|
$200
[17]
She has a whole line of fragrances including JLove & Glow
Jennifer Lopez
Kevin
|
$200
[15]
The Bayeux Tapestry's lower borders cryptically depict several of his fables, including the Fox & the Crow
Aesop
Alan
|
$200
[18]
This breed of dog is pure white when born; the spots appear about a month later
Dalmatians
Alan
|
$200
[20]
Cooking steak since 1964:____ Angus
Black
Alan
|
$200
[6]
Its origins trace to a medieval French game called jeu de paume
tennis
Kevin
|
$200
[1]
9,900 miles lie between these capitals of Austria & Australia
Vienna and Canberra
Alan
|
|
$400
[16]
23 is one of the sporty men's fragrances from this sports legend who wore that number
Michael Jordan
Rachel
|
$400
[11]
In "The Grapes of Wrath", this family takes a road trip from Oklahoma to California
the Joad family
Alan
|
$400
[19]
Some cars' side mirrors have detection systems specifically for this
a blind spot
Kevin
|
$400
[24]
A hotel chain:____ Roof Inn
Red
Alan
|
$400
[7]
Inflammation of the Achilles
tendinitis
Alan
|
$400
[2]
Guinness recognizes this 7-part Proust work as the longest novel
In Search of Lost Time (or Remembrance of Things Past )
Alan
|
|
$600
[26]
Gold & Heat are his & her fragrances from this music power couple
Jay-Z & Beyoncé
Kevin
|
$600
[12]
This character "took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed (Alice) in a languid, sleepy voice"
the Caterpillar
Alan
Kevin
|
$600
[23]
This classic Hasbro game has 2 or more players work with 24 spots on the floor
Twister
Rachel
|
$600
[28]
Offering frothy fruit drinks:____ Julius
Orange
Rachel
|
$600
[8]
hud.gov has a page on their rights in each state
tenants
Kevin
|
$600
[3]
The male kudu has up to 5-foot horns, the longest of any of these hoofed mammals
antelope
Alan
|
|
$800
[29]
Launched in 2016, this singer & rapper's Trini Girl fragrance is named for her Trinidadian roots
Nicki Minaj
Alan
|
$800
[13]
He worked at the Custom House in Salem in the 1840s; "The Custom House" is an essay at the start of one of his novels
(Nathaniel) Hawthorne
Alan
|
$800
[22]
They can be found on the skin of sun worshipers of all ages & have nothing to do with the internal organ in their name
liver spots
Alan
|
$800
[25]
Helping home chefs:____ Apron
Blue
|
$800
[9]
Persistent or stubborn, like good D
tenacity
Kevin
|
$800
[4]
The ileum is the longest portion of this 20-foot internal organ
the small intestines
Rachel
Kevin
|
|
$1,000
[30]
Shortly before her death, she launched a fragrance called Violet Eyes
Liz Taylor
Kevin
|
DD
$4,000
[14]
In a Stowe novel he tells Uncle Tom, "I'm your church now...you've got to be as I say"
Simon Legree
Alan
|
$1,000
[21]
This 3-word feature of Jupiter is at its smallest ever recorded, having shrunk from 3 Earths to 1 Earth wide
the Big Red Spot
Alan
|
$1,000
[27]
Tart frozen yogurt from Los Angeles:____berry
Pink
Rachel
|
$1,000
[10]
Capable of being maintained or supported, like an opinion
tenable
Alan
|
$1,000
[5]
In China the world's longest bridge spans 102 miles along the high-speed railway between Beijing & this port city
Shanghai
Kevin
|
| LITTLE MYTH SUNSHINE | ANNUAL EVENTS | I AM A CATEGORY | CLUES ACROSS OHIO | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR | IN COMMUNICADO |
|
$400
[14]
Him, him, sis boom bah, him being this Egyptian sun god who also took some time to, you know, create everything
Ra
Rachel
Kevin
|
$400
[1]
On May 1 Uruguay celebrates Dia de los Trabajadores, which corresponds to this September holiday in the USA
Labor Day
Rachel
|
$400
[25]
"I am he as you are he as you are me" is the first line of this Beatles song
"I Am The Walrus"
Alan
|
$400
[26]
(I'm Tricia Macke of Fox19 NOW.) The ribs of the Montgomery Inn are a Cincinnati-area tradition; in 2013thisthen Speaker of the House sent some to President Obama for his birthday
(John) Boehner
Kevin
|
$400
[10]
U.S. forces along with the Cubans wrested control of this bay from the Spanish in June 1898; we've been there ever since
Guantánamo
Alan
|
$400
[4]
Be master of your this 6-letter term, another word for realm
domain
Kevin
|
|
$800
[3]
To this people war & sun god Huitzilopochtli was the brother of Quetzalcoatl
the Aztec
Kevin
|
$800
[2]
Each August, Wales holds the World Championships of Snorkelinginthis3-letter type of place
a bog
Alan
|
$800
[11]
A 2015 documentary about David Prowse, the actor who played Darth Vader, has this 4-word title
I Am Your Father
Alan
|
$800
[30]
(Hi, I'm Jerry Henderson from WTOL 11.) One of minor league baseball's best-known teams, the Mud Hens of this Ohio city, got their unusual nickname in 1896 from the duck-like birds in a nearby marsh
Toledo
Rachel
Kevin
|
$800
[24]
While Teddy Roosevelt did indeed saddle up in Cuba, most of this group of men under his charge fought on foot
the Rough Riders
Alan
|
$800
[5]
A member of a specially trained military unit used for surprise hit-&-run raids
a commando
Kevin
|
|
$1,200
[12]
The name of this Norse sun goddess & sister of Mani, the moon, is also Spanish for "sun"
Sol
Rachel
|
$1,600
[9]
The British palace called this Court puts on the world's biggest flower show, with a soccer-field-sized floralmarquee
Hampton
Kevin
|
$1,200
[16]
"My mother was worried about me, but the Taliban had never come for a girl", says the memoir "I Am" her
Malala
Alan
|
$1,200
[29]
(Hi, I'm Chris Tanaka from Cleveland 19.) In Cleveland you can visit the house where Ralphie & his family lived in this perennial holiday film favorite & even buy a decoder pin in the gift shop
A Christmas Story
Rachel
|
$1,200
[21]
Around 3,000 Americans lost their lives in the war, most to typhoid & this fever rather than combat
yellow fever
Alan
|
$1,200
[6]
Title for a Muslim religious leader
imam
Alan
|
|
$1,600
[17]
Gnowee lights & climbs the sky in search of her son, lost in the dark, as a goddess of this Australian people
the Aborigines
Rachel
|
DD
$2,000
[15]
Each year on Easter, Manhattan's Fifth Avenue is host to a festival honoring these head coverings
bonnets
Rachel
|
$1,600
[18]
In a 1960 film Kirk Douglas & Tony Curtis stand & Tony declares, "I'm" him
Spartacus
Alan
|
$1,600
[28]
(Hi, I'm Ty Batemon from NBC Lima.) In 2006 this native of Lima, Ohio became at age 23 the youngest starting quarterback to win a Super Bowl
Ben Roethlisberger
|
$2,000
[23]
In 1898 William Day gave up this Cabinet post to John Hay & went with Senator George Gray to negotiate a treaty
Secretary of State
Alan
|
$1,600
[7]
This metallic element is paired with nickel in a type of battery
cadmium
Kevin
|
|
$2,000
[19]
Ekhi is a personification of the sun of this people of the Spanish Pyrenees
the Basques
Alan
|
$2,000
[13]
A holiday in Puerto Rico commemorating the visit of the Magi isn't Three Magi Day but Three this Day
Kings
Kevin
|
$2,000
[20]
This classic young adult novel by Robert Cormier gets its title from an allusion to the song "The Farmer in the Dell"
I Am the Cheese
Kevin
|
$2,000
[27]
(Hi, I'm Mike Davis from 10TV.) The topiary park in Columbus is best known for a piece based on "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" by this French painter
(Georges) Seurat
Alan
|
DD
$3,000
[22]
When the U.S. captured this Pacific island, the Spanish Marines stationed there were unaware they were at war
Guam
Alan
|
$2,000
[8]
This word from the Latin means a small amount & often precedes "of decorum"
modicum
Rachel
|
"The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life"
The Wealth of Nations