Austin Rogers game 5.
Bonnie Leih — an administrative assistant from Plumas Lake, California
Veryl Gambino — a prosecutor from Berwyn, Illinois
Austin Rogers — a bartender from New York, New York (whose 4-day cash winnings total $123,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin | $3,400 | $5,000 | $42,800 |
$65,600
5-day champion: $188,700 |
$23,400
26 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Veryl | $1,600 | $6,600 | $9,400 |
$6,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Bonnie | $-200 | $2,800 | $2,400 |
$2,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,400
10 R, 5 W |
| WELCOME BACK, U.S. SUPREME COURT | IRREGULAR VERBS | IT'S AN HONOR TO BE NOMINATED | TRAVEL & TOURISM | BUNNIES | LEAP YEARS |
|
$200
[9]
Get used to it, Gorsuch! By tradition this justice takes the notes, answers the phone & gets the door
the newest Supreme Court justice
Veryl
|
$200
[2]
Meaning "roused from sleep", it has a new adjectival meaning referring to social awareness
woke
Austin
|
$200
[8]
She would know--she's got 20 Oscar nominations, most recently for "Florence Foster Jenkins"
Meryl Streep
Bonnie
|
$200
[18]
Fans of this movie series can tour the London locales used in the filming, including the one seen here
the Harry Potter movies
Veryl
|
$200
[1]
Slow & steady wins the race between opposites in Aesop's tale of these 2
the tortoise and the hare
Veryl
|
$200
[4]
May 10:The Centennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia
1876
Austin
|
|
$400
[10]
Each justice gets 4 of these helpers who may hope to rise to the court themselves, as young Stephen Breyer did
law clerks
Veryl
|
$400
[27]
When summoned, Lurch of "The Addams Family" would use this 2-word phrase including an irregular verb
you rang?
|
$400
[23]
Hehad 8 competitive acting nominations and took home an honorary award in 2003
Peter O'Toole
Austin
|
$400
[17]
Several varieties of orchids can be seen while hiking the Inca trail from Cuzco to this "lost city"
Machu Picchu
Austin
|
$400
[3]
From the Latin for "chest", it's a coop or pen specifically for rabbits
a hutch
Veryl
Bonnie
|
$400
[5]
October 14:U.N. & Chinese forces begin the Battle of Triangle Hill in Korea
1952
Veryl
|
|
$600
[11]
Thank her, the first female dean of Harvard Law, for getting a froyo machine installed in the cafeteria
Elena Kagan
Bonnie
|
$600
[28]
In the King James Version of the Bible, Arphaxad did it to Salah, Salah to Eber, Eber to Peleg...
begat
Veryl
|
$600
[24]
Nominated for 12 acting Oscars, she had back-to-back wins for "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" & "The Lion in Winter"
Katharine Hepburn
Veryl
|
$800
[20]
A snowman named Bonhomme is the official representative of this Canadian city's Winter Carnival
Quebec City
Austin
|
$600
[14]
There goes this kind of bunny, allowing us to see how it gets its name
a cottontail
Austin
|
$600
[6]
December 20:South Carolina secedes from the Union
1860
Austin
|
|
$800
[12]
It's not Pig Latin you're hearing, it's this word from Old French threepeated by the marshal each time court begins
oyez, oyez, oyez
Veryl
|
$800
[29]
It's the past tense of the verb that comes before "and ye shall find"
sought
Austin
Veryl
|
$800
[25]
Out of 5 Lead Actor nominations, he got 2 wins in a row, for 1993 & 1994
Tom Hanks
Austin
|
$1,000
[21]
For a panoramic view of this European capital, take the funicular up to the top of Lycabettus Hill, its highest point
Athens
Veryl
|
$800
[15]
It was the occupation of both Deborah Harry in 1973 & Gloria Steinem (undercover) in 1963
a Playboy Bunny
Austin
|
$800
[7]
August 31:Brazil's Senate impeaches Dilma Rousseff
2016
Bonnie
|
|
$1,000
[13]
In 1790 this Sec. of State made fun of British wigs, putting an end to any thought of our justices wearing them
Thomas Jefferson
Austin
Bonnie
|
— |
$1,000
[26]
At her death she had just completed the costumes for "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid"; they did not earn her a 36th nomination
Edith Head
Bonnie
|
DD
$1,800
[19]
This Alabama city's National Voting Rights Museum includes exhibits on Martin Luther King & Jesse Jackson
Selma
Veryl
|
$1,000
[16]
Rabbit and Piglet hatch a plot to unbounce Tigger in Chapter VII of "The House At" this place
Pooh Corner
Bonnie
|
$1,000
[22]
January 24:Apple's Macintosh computer goes on sale
1984
Bonnie
|
| HISTORY OF MEDICINE WITH DR. OZ | HISPANIC AMERICANS | WHAT THE "L"? | THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS | LEAP YEARS |
|
$400
[1]
(Dr. Oz presents the clue.) Realizing those who'd had cowpox didn't contract smallpox, Edward Jenner saw causality & took material from thearmof a dairy maid who had cowpox, making the first of these recorded in Western medicine
an inoculation (or a vaccine)
Austin
|
$400
[2]
In 1962 this man co-founded the Natl. Farm Workers Assoc. to help workers earn more than sub-poverty-level wages
Cesar Chavez
Veryl
|
$400
[3]
In a BLT sandwich
lettuce
Bonnie
|
$400
[7]
"The Adventures of Pinocchio"
Italian
Austin
|
$400
[14]
A tabor is a small one of these with a soft calfskin head & one or more snares
a drum
Austin
|
$400
[12]
With a 26' 5 1/2" leap right in der Fuehrer's face, Jesse Owens took the long jump gold medal at this city's 1936 Olympics
Berlin
Veryl
|
|
$800
[4]
(Dr. Oz presents the clue.) Alexander Fleming happened to leave a Petri dish of staphylococci sitting around & found the bacteria had been killed by mold thus leading to the discovery of this antibiotic that has saved millions of lives
penicillin
Austin
|
$800
[5]
This senator & presidential candidate was born in Canada but moved to Houston around age 4
(Ted) Cruz
Veryl
|
$800
[6]
In the text abbreviation ROFL
laughing
Austin
|
$800
[8]
"Anna Karenina"
Russian
Austin
|
$800
[15]
His most famous violin, the Messiah, was given to the Ashmolean Museum on the condition that it would never be played again
Stradivarius
Bonnie
|
$800
[13]
In 1932 this "Babe" set a record in the women's high jump that stood for 7 years
Didrikson
Austin
|
|
$1,200
[16]
(Dr. Oz presents the clue.) Believing that bacteria caused infection & death, this British surgeon performed an 1877 operation under controlled antiseptic conditions, revolutionizing medicine
(Joseph) Lister
Veryl
|
$1,200
[27]
Mexican-born chemist Mario Jose Molina helped find that CFCs, these, damaged the ozone layer in our upper atmosphere
chlorofluorocarbons
Bonnie
|
$1,200
[21]
In the ACLU, a group that loves the U.S. Constitution
liberties
Bonnie
|
$1,600
[10]
"Kiss of the Spider Woman"
Spanish
Veryl
|
$1,200
[18]
The cor anglais, or English horn, is in the family named for this double-reed instrument
the oboe
Austin
|
$1,200
[23]
In 1987 this alliterative woman, Flo Jo's sister-in-law, tied the world long jump record
Jackie Joyner
Austin
|
|
$1,600
[17]
(Dr. Oz presents the clue.) Hippocrates thought the body was ruled by blood, phlegm, yellow & black bile, each associated with a season & with one of the 4 elements... health depended on a balance of the 4 liquids known as these
humors
Austin
|
— |
$1,600
[22]
In the ALA, whose ALSC gives the Caldecott Medal
library
Austin
Veryl
Bonnie
|
$2,000
[11]
"Death in Venice"
German
|
$2,000
[20]
The song "My Dog Has Fleas" is often used to tune its 4 strings, G-C-E-A
a ukulele
Austin
|
$1,600
[24]
In 1968 the high jump was revolutionized by the new technique alliteratively called the Fosburythis
flop
Austin
|
|
$2,000
[28]
(Dr. Oz presents the clue.) Many patients died from the first blood transplants of the 17th century, but the ABO blood system of 1901 & this one from 1940 named for a species of monkey have made them routine medical procedures
rhesus
Bonnie
|
— |
$2,000
[26]
In the legal abbreviation LLC--both Ls, please
limited liability
Austin
|
DD
$6,500
[9]
"From the Earth to the Moon"
French
Austin
|
DD
$15,700
[19]
German for "play of bells", it has 2 rows of metal bars with the upper row corresponding to the black keys on a piano
a glockenspiel
Austin
|
$2,000
[25]
The world high jump record of 8 feet 1/2 inch was set in 1993 by Javier Sotomayor of this country
Cuba
Bonnie
|
This artist from Iowa once said, "All the really good ideas I'd ever had came to me while I was milking a cow"
Grant Wood