Jon Eisenman game 3.
Robert D'Emilio — a writer from Ridgewood, New York
Jacob Farrell — a strategy consultant from Washington, D.C.
Jon Eisenman — an attorney from Los Angeles, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $45,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jon | $3,000 | $5,200 | $19,600 |
$19,200
3-day champion: $64,300 |
$19,600
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Jacob | $2,400 | $4,000 | $3,500 |
$1,500
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,200
12 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Robert | $800 | $4,200 | $6,200 |
$5,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,200
12 R, 2 W |
| CHAPTER 13 | COLLEGE SPORTS | "F" WORDS | CASINO ROYALE | ON JULY 4th | THE RED, WHITE & BLUE |
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$200
[3]
"The young Lord Greystoke was indeed a strange and warlike figure"
Tarzan
Robert
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$200
[10]
In college football's title game in 2017, Clemson sent this SEC team home red-faced, 35-31
Alabama (or the Crimson Tide)
Jacob
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$200
[9]
This pita filler is a popular street food all over the world
falafel
Jacob
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$200
[8]
Great Falls, Montana boasts a casino named for this highest poker hand
a royal flush
Robert
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$200
[20]
On July 4, 1966 Congress created a commission for this event, but it only lasted 8 years, not the full 10
a bicentennial
Jon
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$200
[26]
This 1968 release includes the classics "Rocky Raccoon" & "Helter Skelter"
the White Album
Jacob
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$400
[4]
"There are five-and-twenty guineas in this bag. Give it to your master, Pip"
Great Expectations
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$400
[11]
Since 1950 Omaha has hosted what might be called the summer classic, the college version of this baseball event
the World Series
Jon
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$400
[15]
It's the part of the fiddle indicated here
the fingerboard
Jacob
Robert
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$400
[7]
It modestly bills itself as "a modern day Roman empire that will dazzle you with unparalleled excitement"
Caesar's Palace
Jon
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$400
[21]
Yankee Doodle Dandy Malia Obama was born July 4, 1998 in this city
Chicago
Robert
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$400
[27]
There's no Norwegian blue, but theblue hyacinthspecies of this type of parrot does have beautiful plumage
a macaw
Jon
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|
$600
[5]
"Thorin! Balin! Oin! Gloin! Fili! Kili!... The light's gone out!"
The Hobbit
Jon
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$600
[12]
(I'm Anderson Cooper.) While at Yale I was this member of the crew team who's responsible for steering the boat & for directing the speed & rhythm of the rowers
the coxswain
Jacob
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$600
[16]
A boxer weighing no more than 126 pounds
a featherweight
Jacob
|
DD
$600
[1]
Gary, Indiana's Majestic Star Casino has a royal view of this Great Lake
Lake Michigan
Jon
|
$600
[22]
Discovered by British explorers in 1584, this N.C. island would later witness a series of strange disappearances
Roanoke
Robert
|
$600
[28]
Famous for the coffee grown there, the Blue Mountains are the highest range on this Caribbean island
Jamaica
Robert
|
|
$800
[18]
"Ma said, 'You won't be no burden. Each'll help each, an' we'll all git to California'"
The Grapes of Wrath
Jacob
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$800
[13]
Shortly after she dominated the 2016 Olympics, she set 2 Stanford pool records at her first home swim meet
Katie Ledecky
Jacob
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$800
[17]
In the event of a water landing, your seat will act as this "device" (hopefully!)
a flotation device
Robert
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$800
[2]
Sink your sword into a filet at the Camelot Steakhouse in this Vegas hotel & casino
Excalibur
Robert
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$800
[23]
In 1187's Battle of Hattin, this Muslim general's army defeated the Crusaders & then took Jerusalem
Saladin
Jon
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$800
[29]
In 1965 astronaut Ed White took the USA's first space walk during the 4th mission of this pre-Apollo program
Gemini
Jon
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|
$1,000
[25]
"The Hispaniola was rolling scuppers under in the ocean swell"
Treasure Island
Jon
|
$1,000
[14]
Fundamentally, Tim Duncan was a Demon Deacon hooping it up for this school, as was Chris Paul
Wake Forest
Jacob
|
$1,000
[19]
A rapid, simultaneous discharge of bullets or missiles
a fusillade
Jon
|
$1,000
[6]
You can use this "Royal" company founded in 1969 to sail to King's Casino on Antigua
Royal Caribbean
Jon
|
$1,000
[24]
Rescuing 103 hostages captured by terrorists, in 1976 Israeli commandos raided an airport in this Ugandan city
Entebbe
Robert
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$1,000
[30]
Thishomespun announcer did radio play-by-play for Cincinnati, Brooklyn & the New York Yankees
Red Barber
|
| RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE | INLANDER | LOOK AT THOSE CURVES | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY | 1960s POP MUSIC | NEW WORDS IN THEMERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY |
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$400
[14]
The Cape type of this rodent can weigh nearly 70 pounds, with 12-inch quills
a porcupine
Jon
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$400
[8]
When he was born in Greene County, Tennessee in 1786, this frontiersman was just prince of the wild frontier
Davy Crockett
Jacob
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$400
[16]
A curve winding around a fixed center point; some staircases are built that way
a spiral
Robert
|
$400
[17]
Hokkaido & this Japanese island are separated by only about 12 miles across the Tsugaru Strait
Honshu
Jon
|
$400
[28]
This Temptations hit begins, "I've got sunshine on a cloudy day, when it's cold outside I've got the month of May"
"My Girl"
Jon
|
$1,200
[20]
From ice hockey we get this numerical term for the space between the goalie's legs
five-hole
Jacob
|
|
$800
[13]
Trees breathed easier after 7.5-ft. Castoroides, a species of this with huge gnawing teeth, went extinct in the Pleistocene
a beaver
Jon
|
$800
[9]
Before he & his bros. bought the Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1907, John of this last name was born in 1866 in McGregor, Iowa
Ringling
Robert
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$800
[15]
The vanishing of memories that aren't reinforced in graphed in not the learning curve but the this-ing curve
the forgetting curve
Jon
|
$800
[18]
About a mile off the mainland, Iran's Qeshm Island is the largest in this strait
the Strait of Hormuz
Jon
Jacob
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$800
[27]
In the 1966 song"That's Life", this "Chairman of the Board" explains what it all means
Frank Sinatra
Jon
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$2,000
[22]
This 16-letter word refers to a person who is 110 years old or older
a supercentenarian
|
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$1,200
[5]
The recently discovered Laotian giant this rodentcan reach 42 inches in length
a flying squirrel
Jon
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$1,200
[10]
This longtime Cosmo editor was still a single girl when she was born in Green Forest, Arkansas in 1922
Helen Gurley Brown
Robert
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DD
$1,200
[3]
Most latitude & longitude lines curve on the gnomonic type of this, a way to map the round Earth on a flat surface
projection
Jacob
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$1,200
[1]
The Mu Us Desert in north central China lies within a bend of this long river
the Yellow River
Jacob
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$1,200
[26]
This Iron Butterfly hit was first titled "In The Garden Of Eden"; intoxication & slurring of the words led to the change
"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"
Jon
|
DD
$2,500
[21]
The neurological condition prosopagnosia is often called this blindness, for what isn't recognized
face blindness
Jacob
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|
$1,600
[7]
AKA the carpincho, or water pig, it can weigh 145 pounds or more
the capybara
Robert
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$1,600
[11]
Born in Indianapolis in 1903, he was named Public Enemy No. 1 on his 31st (& last) birthday in 1934
John Dillinger
Jon
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$1,600
[4]
A curve is named for this 17th c. French philosopher & geometer who challenged Pierre de Fermat to find its tangent
René Descartes
|
$1,600
[2]
You'll find Muscat, capital of this Arab country, on the gulf of this Arab country
Oman
Jacob
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$1,600
[25]
Roger McGuinn & David Crosby formed this folk-rock band in Los Angeles in 1964
The Byrds
Jon
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— |
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$2,000
[6]
AKA the coypu, this "river rat" that has spread from South America to the U.S. can weigh nearly 40 pounds
a nutria
Jon
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$2,000
[12]
Named Bradley at birth in Oklahoma in 1987, in 2017 she had her prison sentence commuted by President Obama
Chelsea Manning
Jon
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$2,000
[23]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows the Lorenz curve on the monitor.) On the Lorenz curve, the horizontal axis indicates households poorest to richest, and the vertical shows the percentage of wealth held--both in cumulative numbers; a saggiercurveindicates greater this in income distribution
inequality
Jon
|
$2,000
[19]
This country's highest mountain, Kinabalu, rises 13,435 feet in the state of Sabah on Borneo
Malaysia
Jacob
Robert
|
$2,000
[24]
The top female solo act of the 1960s, she began the decade with "Sweet Nothin's" & "I'm Sorry"
Brenda Lee
|
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A 2016 biography of a children's author is titled "In the Great Green Room", a line from this classic book
Goodnight Moon