Austin Rogers game 11.
Sarah Favorite — a graduate student and health data specialist from Williston, North Dakota
Chris Cardinal — a software entrepreneur from Phoenix, Arizona
Austin Rogers — a bartender from New York, New York (whose 10-day cash winnings total $365,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin | $2,800 | $6,000 | $26,300 |
$29,300
11-day champion: $394,700 |
$24,200
26 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Chris | $600 | $3,400 | $11,200 |
$11,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,200
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Sarah | $800 | $600 | $2,200 |
$4,300
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,200
8 R, 3 W |
| EXPLORING THE WORLD | FIRST NAMES IN THE DICTIONARY | 2017 MOVIE TAGLINES | CHURCHILL, FDR OR STALIN | TRANS"PO"TATION | THE WRITING STUFF |
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$200
[2]
(Sven Lindblad gives the clue.) My first visit to Lindblad Cove, which was named after my father who in 1966 led the first tourist expedition to this continent, it moved me deeply with its beauty & family history
Antarctica
Chris
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$200
[14]
Drawing, sculpture or painting, for example
art
Austin
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$200
[1]
"Experience the tale as old as time"
Beauty and the Beast
Sarah
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$200
[17]
He was Caucasian by birth & birthplace
Stalin
Austin
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$200
[9]
It's granted to the race car driver with the best qualifying time
pole position
Austin
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$200
[22]
"Passing away" is this kind of term, an indirect substitute for something harsh or offensive
a euphemism
Chris
|
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$400
[3]
(Sven Lindblad gives the clue.) On some of the 50 trips I've made to these islands, my kids accompanied me; seeing them interact with the wildlife there illustrates the term "giant tortoise"
the Galápagos Islands
Chris
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$400
[30]
When speaking, brief to the point of rudeness
curt
Sarah
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$400
[5]
"The future of justice begins with her"
Wonder Woman
Austin
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$400
[18]
He died last
Churchill
Austin
Chris
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$400
[10]
A British submarine & a doomed fictional ocean liner shared this mythological name
Poseidon
Sarah
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$400
[23]
"Uneven" 2-word term for an early version; Jefferson used it about one pass at the Declaration of Independence
a rough draft
Chris
|
|
$600
[4]
(Sven Lindblad gives the clue.) Local fishermen have made areas where they used to fish off-limits in order to bolster the ecosystem making the diving experience off this Mexican peninsula the most spectacular I've ever had
Baja California
Austin
Chris
Sarah
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$600
[29]
Thisherb is a traditional symbol of remembrance
rosemary
Chris
|
$600
[6]
"Welcome to the secret world inside your phone"
The Emoji Movie
Chris
|
$600
[19]
He had 6 children
FDR
Chris
Sarah
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$600
[11]
A runabout is a small type of this, usually with an outboard or stern-driven engine
powerboat
|
$600
[24]
Aunt Grace wants 1 more copy; good thing you put out your poems using P.O.D., short for this
printing on demand
Chris
|
|
$800
[12]
(Sven Lindblad gives the clue.) My journeys have taken me to Camp Leakey, a research facility which fights to rescue & protect the orangutan in its endangered habitat on this island shared by Indonesia, Malaysia & Brunei
Borneo
Sarah
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$800
[28]
To force open a window, as with the short crowbar of the same name
jimmy
Austin
|
$800
[7]
"Kevin has 23 distinct personalities. The 24th is about to be unleashed"
Split
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$800
[20]
He originally trained for the priesthood
Stalin
Austin
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$1,000
[16]
Sea planes are called this type of plane when using special buoyant landing gear
a pontoon plane
Austin
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$800
[26]
Add a dose of this quality to your novel, the incongruity between what was expected & what actually occurs
irony
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|
$1,000
[13]
(Sven Lindblad gives the clue.) The rule of thumb for explorers is to not approach wildlife too closely as they can become fearful & angry... but on a lucky day in this Scandinavian nation's Svalbard archipelago a small herd of walrus seemingly welcomed me
Norway
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$1,000
[27]
It's paired with coo to mean whisper endearments
bill
|
$1,000
[8]
"Just because you're invited, doesn't mean you're welcome"
Get Out
|
$1,000
[21]
He was an avid stamp collector
FDR
Chris
|
DD
$1,400
[15]
Its first venture transported an 1860 message from President Buchanan to California gov. John Downey
the Pony Express
Austin
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$1,000
[25]
Orson Scott Card said this is never solved by "writing through it" because you haven't solved the original problem
writer's block
Chris
|
| ZOOLOGY | 19th CENTURY SPORTS | THE NEWSPAPER GAME | IN DISPENSABLE | A KNIGHT | AT THE OPERA |
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$400
[18]
The pouch of this water bird can hold up to 3 gallons, 2 to 3 times what its stomach can hold
the pelican
Chris
|
$400
[10]
In 1878 the annual regatta between these 2 schools moved to the Thames River in Connecticut
Yale & Harvard
Chris
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$400
[9]
This national paper color codes its sections; the Life section is in purple
USA Today
Austin
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$400
[6]
A bony column
spine
Austin
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$400
[24]
Sir Galahad was the illegitimate son of this other knight
Lancelot
Sarah
|
$400
[1]
Act I of a Mozart opera begins with this character fleeing the home of Donna Anna after trying to seduce her
Don Giovanni
Sarah
|
|
$800
[20]
Throw that baby shower quick! Of mammals, this American marsupial has the shortest gestation, 12-13 days
the opossum
Austin
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$800
[12]
Seen here is this man, who in 1891 came up with a new sport
Naismith
Austin
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$800
[16]
Nautical term for the list of editors, owners & staff
the masthead
Chris
|
$800
[7]
A vehicle with 2 sets of wings
biplane
Austin
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$800
[25]
As well as being a knight, Sir Dagonet held this amusing other job at court
a jester
Austin
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$800
[2]
With a river in its title, this first opera of the "Ring" cycle features Flosshilde & 2 other river maidens
Das Rheingold
|
|
$1,200
[21]
These desert arachnids bear live young that crawl onto their mothers' backs & stay there weeks to nourish
a scorpion
Sarah
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$1,200
[13]
On June 6, 1892 he became the first president to attend a major league baseball game while in office
Benjamin Harrison
Austin
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$1,200
[11]
The Lagniappe is a helpful section in this city's Times-Picayune
New Orleans
Austin
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$1,200
[8]
To make possible or easy, perhaps a bad habit
enable
Chris
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$1,200
[26]
Sir Gawain, a knight & nephew of King Arthur, battled this verdant foe
the Green Knight
Austin
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$1,200
[3]
We hope you don't sleep through this Reginald de Koven folk opera based on an American story from 1820
Rip Van Winkle
Austin
|
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$1,600
[22]
The indri is the largest of these primates of which the ring-tailed species is better known
lemurs
Austin
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$1,600
[14]
On Nov. 12, 1892, $500 from this city's Allegheny Athletic Assn. made Pudge Heffelfinger the 1st known pro football player
Pittsburgh
Austin
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$1,600
[17]
When fact-checking politics, the Washington Post has a 1 to 4 scale of illustrations of this character from an 1881 work
Pinocchio
Austin
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$1,600
[29]
In heraldry, colors have special names; the black on the shield seenhereis called this
sable
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$1,600
[27]
This knight of the Round Table first shows up questing for the Holy Grail in a 12th century work
Parsifal (or Sir Percival)
Austin
|
$1,600
[4]
(I am Placido Domingo.) The Duke of Mantua sings one of the most famous arias of all time in this opera named for a hunchbacked court jester"La donna è mobile / Qual piuma al vento / Muta d'accento..."
Rigoletto
Sarah
|
|
DD
$3,500
[23]
On rare occasions this Arctic cetacean can grow 2 spiral tusks
a narwhal
Austin
|
$2,000
[15]
In 1895 this Rhode Island city's country club held the first US. Open Golf Championships won by Horace Rawlins
Newport
Austin
|
DD
$5,000
[19]
A newspaper founded in London in 1855 was named for this, then the hottest new communication technology
the telegraph
Chris
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$2,000
[30]
Fired a gun from a hidden position
snipe
Austin
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$2,000
[28]
Sir Safir was a Christian knight of this descent, a French word for Arabs & Muslims during the Crusades
Saracen
Sarah
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$2,000
[5]
In the opera "Boris Godunov", Fyodor is the real son of the czar & Grigory is this "false" character
the false Dimitri
|
The protagonist of this novel "was fairly sure that his age was 39, and he believed that he had been born in 1944 or 1945"
Nineteen Eighty-Four