Last game of Season 33.
Dan Viafore — an audio engineer from Los Angeles, California
Mary Duffy — a games editor from Louisville, Colorado
Shadi Peterman — a high school history teacher from St. Louis, Missouri (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shadi | $200 | $2,800 | $16,200 |
$11,200
2-day champion: $18,000 |
$14,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Mary | $1,800 | $9,000 | $21,000 |
$9,599
2nd place: $2,000 |
$17,000
22 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Dan | $1,400 | $1,200 | $8,400 |
$7,199
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,400
13 R, 1 W |
| HELLO, SUCKER! | STEPHEN KING'S BAD FOLKS | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD | TOYS & GAMES | TV FOR THEE | IN VULNERABLE |
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$200
[4]
At the tequila bar, lick the salt off your hand, drink the shot, then suck on this
the lime (the lemon accepted)
Dan
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$200
[23]
A fan named Annie Wilkes breaks a writer's illusions of safety in this novel
Misery
Dan
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$200
[1]
It's the Hellenic Republic
Greece
Dan
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$200
[11]
The character behind bars in this game is Jake the Jailbird, put there due to the efforts of Officer Edgar Mallory
Monopoly
Dan
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$200
[7]
Anthony Geary won Emmys in 4 different decades for playing Luke on this soap (& Luke wasn't even a doctor!)
General Hospital
Dan
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$200
[18]
A carpenter uses it to measure a horizontal plane
a level
Shadi
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$400
[5]
Completes the title of an 1847 novel featuring "a gush of blood, and a hideous sucking noise": "Varney the..."
vampire
Mary
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$400
[6]
There's "no play" for this character who comes under the influence of evil at the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining"
Jack Torrance
Mary
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$400
[2]
Its 83 divisions include 21 "republics" & 2 "federal cities"
the Russian Federation
Mary
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$400
[12]
In 2013 this educational toy company "jumped" over its competitors by introducing a kids tablet with Wi Fi
LeapFrog
Shadi
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$400
[8]
This host's Top 10 list of "Least Popular Dr. Seuss Books" includes "If I Ran the Knicks"
David Letterman
Mary
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$400
[19]
A smear, or last night after a few too many cocktails
a blur
Shadi
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$600
[14]
The Amer. Academy of Pediatrics says this habit fulfills a need of all infants but around age 5, maybe worry a bit
thumb-sucking
Dan
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$600
[24]
Her mother is the domineering & ultra-religious Margaret White; don't wait up!
Carrie
Mary
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$600
[3]
Formerly Upper Volta, still 2 words
Burkina Faso
Mary
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$600
[13]
2 of the characters in this game are Cutie Cone & Giggly Gumdrop
Candy Land
Mary
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$600
[29]
Jeff & Beau's dad, he starred in "Sea Hunt" on TV & picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue on film in "Airplane!"
Lloyd Bridges
Dan
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$600
[20]
Mr. Ives, or a knot in fabric
Burl
Mary
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$800
[15]
H. Cecil Booth's version of this contraption was used to clean up Westminster Abbey for a coronation in 1902
a vacuum cleaner
Mary
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$800
[16]
An encounter with an amoral politician makes a psychic contemplate murder in this work
The Dead Zone
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$800
[9]
It's greatest width is 7 miles, so a walk from Austria to Switzerland... no problem
Liechtenstein
Shadi
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$1,000
[26]
Created in 1914 & still fun a century later, itwas inspired by watching kids play with simple items like sticks
Tinker Toys
Mary
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$800
[27]
If we rebuilt Steve Austin in 2017 instead of 1974 when this show premiered, the title number would be $30 million
The Six Million Dollar Man
Mary
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$800
[22]
Audacity; you've got a lot of this, pal
nerve
Mary
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$1,000
[25]
The ultimate hitchhikers, these suckerfish attach themselves to other fish, like sharks
remora
Mary
Dan
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$1,000
[17]
It could only be this ageless creepy clown in "It"
Pennywise
Shadi
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$1,000
[10]
This peninsular country's only land border is with Saudi Arabia
Qatar
Shadi
Mary
|
DD
$2,400
[21]
Sales of this game first known as Pretzel got a big boost in 1966 when Eva Gabor & Johnny Carson played it on TV
Twister
Mary
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$1,000
[28]
For fashion & style that's "Trendy@Wendy", check out this host's show
Wendy Williams
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$1,000
[30]
To wash
lave
Shadi
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| WORDS OF WISDOM | MEDICAL "E"s | PLAN | 9 | FROM OUTER SPACE | & OTHER ODD FILMS |
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$400
[3]
A wise man, or the Salvia officinalis in his garden
sage
Shadi
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$400
[6]
Severe otitis media can lead to a perforation of this membrane
the eardrum
Mary
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$400
[12]
The 1821 Plan de Iguala, named for a city in Guerrero, led to this country's independence from Spain
Mexico
Shadi
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$400
[13]
Nine-ball is a standard pro variant of pocket these
billiards
Dan
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$400
[20]
On TV in 1971 Alan Shepard called one of these a "little white pellet that's familiar to millions of Americans"
a golf ball
|
$400
[1]
In "Bubba Ho-Tep" Bruce Campbell plays this "king of rock & roll" who sets off to nab a mummy with a guy who thinks he's JFK
Elvis
Dan
|
|
$800
[4]
"Dis" word means careful to keep things confidential
discreet
Mary
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$800
[5]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows lungs and alveoli on the monitor.) The exchange of carbon dioxide for oxygen takes place in tiny air sacs in the lungs called alveoli; smoking can make breathing difficult by causing thedestructionof alveoli in this chronic lung disease
emphysema
Shadi
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$800
[19]
It completes the palindrome "A man, a plan, a canal--"
Panama
Shadi
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$800
[14]
Ether, time, space, soul & mind team up with these better-known 4 as the 9 substances of the universe in Hinduism
earth, wind (or air), water and fire
Mary
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$1,200
[22]
For Nov. 4, 2008 a county clerk in Texas beamed these traditionally paper items to the ISS; later they were beamed back
(absentee) ballots
Dan
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$800
[2]
Billy Connolly isn't a dog in "Fido", but rather one of these undead minions
a zombie
Shadi
|
|
$1,200
[8]
There's a little mammalian insectivore in this word meaning "sharp in judgment"
shrewd
|
$1,200
[7]
The 2014-15 outbreak of this deadly virus was larger than all previous ones combined
Ebola
Dan
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$1,200
[28]
Named for the city where it began, the Colombo plan was created in 1950 to provide aid to the south of this continent
Asia
Mary
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$1,200
[27]
This Californian was long seen as the swing vote of the nine on the U.S. Supreme Court
Kennedy
Mary
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$1,600
[23]
Hills on Mars are named in memory of people who perished Feb. 1, 2003 on this craft
the Columbia
Mary
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$1,200
[16]
In a recent movie Colin Farrell is given 45 days to find love or he's going to be turned into this title animal
a lobster
Shadi
|
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$1,600
[9]
From Latin for "touch", it's sensitivity & skill in dealing with others
tact
Shadi
Mary
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$1,600
[10]
A runner's high is produced by the release of these hormones, nature's opiates
endorphins
Mary
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$2,000
[29]
The Schlieffen Plan, named for a field marshal who died the year before, was used by Germany at the start of this war
World War I
Dan
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$1,600
[26]
These mythological warrior women served as the 9 handmaidens of Odin
the Valkyrie
Shadi
|
DD
$3,000
[21]
The only U.S. prez to be present at a shuttle launch, he watched John Glenn's return to space after 36 years
Clinton
Shadi
|
$1,600
[15]
As the title character of this film, Jake Gyllenhaal is plagued by visions of a 6-foot rabbit named Frank
Donnie Darko
Shadi
|
|
$2,000
[18]
In math this adjective describes a number expressible as a quotient of 2 integers
rational
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$2,000
[11]
It's the word for a pregnancy that occurs outside the uterus
ectopic
Shadi
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DD
$4,000
[24]
Comrade, the first of these was begun in 1928 & lasted until 1932
a Five-Year Plan
Mary
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$2,000
[25]
The ninth of his name, this French king led the seventh crusade, but was captured in 1250 & had to be ransomed
Louis
Dan
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$2,000
[17]
A favorite of Kubrick's was this 1977 black-&-white David Lynch horror film about a man with an unusual child
Eraserhead
Mary
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The title subject of a 2007 bestseller, it was discovered in Australia where today it's a state emblem
the black swan