Rachel Lindgren game 5.
Jeff Machusko — a data analyst from Centennial, Colorado
Rosie Jonker — a literary agent from New York, New York
Rachel Lindgren — a fire lookout from Bend, Oregon (whose 4-day cash winnings total $65,199)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rachel | $3,600 | $5,200 | $10,800 |
$10,800
5-day champion: $75,999 |
$10,800
15 R, 1 W |
| Rosie | $2,600 | $2,800 | $13,800 |
$5,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,000
22 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jeff | $1,200 | $-800 | $5,200 |
$2,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,800
7 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| THE QUOTABLE WILL ROGERS | 3-LETTER WORDS | BAND OF BROTHERS & SISTERS | TRAIN TIME | FOUND MY PLACE IN THE BOOK | CRAYOLA COLORS |
|
$200
[26]
"My ancestors didn't come over" on this, "but they met the boat"
the Mayflower
Rosie
|
$200
[1]
Term for an angry crowd in the street
a mob
Rosie
|
$200
[12]
Brian, Carl & Dennis Wilson
The Beach Boys
Rosie
|
$200
[11]
Before this term meant 2 sports games played back to back, it meant a train pulled by 2 locomotives together
a double-header
Rosie
|
$200
[21]
Jhumpa Lahiri's novel "The Namesake" follows a family moving from Calcutta to this collegey Boston-area city
Cambridge
|
$200
[6]
In 1993 consumers were asked to name new colors & came up with this "mountains' majesty"
purple mountains' majesty
Rachel
|
|
$600
[28]
A frequent opening line, "All I know is" this
"All I know is what I read in the papers"
|
$400
[2]
It's the deadly species seen here, notorious since ancient times
an asp
Rachel
|
$400
[13]
Ann & Nancy Wilson
Heart
Rosie
|
$400
[15]
Richard Nixon grew up dreaming of being a train engineer; in 1970 he signed this national railroad into existence
Amtrak
Rosie
|
$400
[22]
This author left her familiar prairie settings for New Mexico in "Death Comes for the Archbishop"
Willa Cather
Rosie
Jeff
|
$400
[7]
In 1996 the 100 billionth Crayola was molded in this color, the top prize at many a state fair
blue ribbon
Rosie
Jeff
|
|
$800
[29]
"The country is bigger than" this financial center--"if they don't believe it, show 'em the map"
Wall Street
Rosie
|
$600
[3]
A church bench
a pew
Rachel
|
$600
[14]
Kevin, Joe & Nick
the Jonas Brothers
Rachel
|
$600
[18]
In the 1800s inventions like this man's improved steam engine were adapted for trains
James Watt
Jeff
|
$600
[23]
"Snow Falling in Spring" is Moying Li's memoir of growing up in China during this late 1960s tumult
the Cultural Revolution
Rachel
Rosie
|
$600
[8]
In 1990 Crayola retired this color, a synonym for "corn"
maize
Jeff
|
|
$1,000
[30]
"I never met" one of these
"I never met a man I didn't like"
Jeff
|
$800
[4]
Thispopular Jamaican music stye from the late 1950s predates reggae
ska
Rosie
|
$800
[16]
Country music's Kimberly, Reid & Neil
The Band Perry
Rosie
|
$800
[19]
World War II aircraft engineer Tadanao Miki later designed the Shinkansen, AKA this train
the bullet train
Rosie
|
$800
[24]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A Patricia Highsmith novel takes us all around Rome--here's where Freddie Miles is killed, & here, at the Europa hotel, is where this "Talented" title character hides out as Dickie Greenleaf
the talented Mr. Ripley
Rosie
|
$800
[9]
The original 1903 box of 8 crayons contained black, brown, blue, red, violet, yellow, green & this fruit
orange
Rachel
|
|
DD
$2,000
[27]
This then 96-member institution "opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation"
the United States Senate
Rosie
|
$1,000
[5]
This verb means to fit a vessel with sails, Cap'n
rig
Rachel
|
$1,000
[17]
Scottish twins Craig & Charlie Reid, who "would walk 500 miles"
The Proclaimers
Rachel
|
$1,000
[20]
In 1873, Eli Janney patented the knuckle version of this special semi-automatic train car connector
a coupler
Rosie
|
$1,000
[25]
"Even Silence Has an End" by Ingrid Betancourt tells of 6 years as a captive of the FARC organization in this country
Colombia
|
$1,000
[10]
Burnt umber was discontinued; burnt this was spared in 2003 thanks to votes from thousands of fans
sienna
Jeff
|
| 3-NAME THE AUTHOR | HISTORIC BOYCOTTS | RHYMING TERMS | THE PRODUCERS | HEAVENS | TIBET SEE |
|
$400
[3]
"Kidnapped"
Robert Louis Stevenson
Rachel
|
$400
[26]
Her 1955 arrest led to a boycott in Montgomery that left buses running three-quarter empty for over a year
Rosa Parks
Rachel
|
$400
[1]
Rhyming phrase for a hairstyle that looks like it's a result of just waking up
bed head
Jeff
|
$400
[16]
T Bone Burnett produced music for this TV series created by his wife Callie Khouri about rival country stars
Nashville
Rosie
|
$400
[6]
Happiness due to the ignorance of your problems puts you in this person's "paradise"
the fool's paradise
Rosie
|
$400
[19]
Hereis a different kind of string cheese--cheese from this local bovine is sometimes served rock hard
a yak
Rachel
|
|
$800
[12]
"The Deerslayer"
James Fenimore Cooper
Rosie
|
$800
[29]
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan led the U.S. & 60 other nations to boycott the summer Olympics of this year
1980
|
$800
[2]
In his play "Geneva", George Bernard Shaw used this hyphenated term for illicit or surreptitious sexual activity
hanky-panky
Rosie
|
$800
[17]
The 2005 biography "Lion of Hollywood" tells the story of this legendary producer, the second "M" in MGM
(Louis B.) Mayer
Jeff
|
$800
[7]
A Pennsylvania rescue farm with this alliterative name rescues hoofed animals, porcine or not
Hog Heaven
Rachel
|
$800
[20]
Here's a view of this Tibetan capital city, about 12,000 feet above sea level
Lhasa
Rachel
|
|
$1,600
[14]
"The Maine Woods", published posthumously in 1864
Henry David Thoreau
|
$1,200
[25]
After the shah gave a British company a monopoly in 1891 Iranians boycotted this vice
tobacco
Rosie
|
$1,200
[4]
It instructs, "You put your right foot in, you put your right foot out"
the hokey-pokey
Jeff
|
$1,200
[18]
In 2017 Shawn Ryan, creator of the L.A. cop show "The Shield", produced this CBS reboot with Shemar Moore
S.W.A.T.
Rachel
Rosie
|
$1,200
[9]
Fats Domino sang, "Just Molly & me, & baby makes 3, we're happy in" this place
my blue heaven
|
$1,200
[21]
Inside Tibetanprayer wheelsare scrolls of om mani padme hum, one of these repeated Sanskrit prayers
a mantra
Rachel
|
|
$2,000
[15]
"The Magician of Lublin"
Isaac Bashevis Singer
|
$1,600
[30]
In 1894 the U.S. transport system slowed as the American Railway Union supported a boycott of this company
Pullman
|
DD
$2,000
[5]
Greek term for the unwashed masses
the hoi polloi
Jeff
|
$1,600
[23]
"You be illin'" if you don't know that in 1986 Rick Rubin produced a Top 5 hit for this rap trio with "Walk This Way"
Run-DMC
Jeff
|
$1,600
[10]
These heavenly gates are one route to climb Oregon's Mount Hood
the Pearly Gates
|
$1,600
[22]
Tibetans can spend weeks making these circular diagrams of the cosmos in sand, then they sweep it all up
a mandala
Rosie
|
|
DD
$3,000
[13]
"Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out"
Louisa May Alcott
Rosie
|
$2,000
[28]
The 1767 Townshend Acts taxed imports to America from Britain; a boycott by colonists got the taxes lifted on everything but this
tea
Rosie
|
$2,000
[8]
This phrase meaning "raring to go" could describe a horse that's warmed up & ready to run
hot to trot
Rachel
|
$2,000
[24]
After leaving Amblin Entertainment, Frank Marshall & this wife produced "Seabiscuit" & "The Bourne Identity"
Kathleen Kennedy
|
$2,000
[11]
The Heavens, a gabled section above the stage, provides shade & allows for overhead effects in this theatre
the Globe
Rosie
|
$2,000
[27]
The Tashi Lhunpo monasteryis headed by this lama, traditionally number two to the Dalai Lama
the Panchen Lama
|
In an 1889 letter to his brother, he wrote, “I wouldn’t exactly have chosen madness if there had been a choice”
Vincent van Gogh