WE ASKED: RuPaul.
Rex Moroux — a commercial real estate broker from Lafayette, Louisiana
Kate Jovin — a social worker from Somerville, Massachusetts
Kristin Robbins — an attorney from Red Bank, New Jersey (whose 2-day cash winnings total $44,994)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kristin | $400 | $3,800 | $12,400 |
$24,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Kate | $4,200 | $8,400 | $14,400 |
$28,799
New champion: $28,799 |
$14,400
20 R, 2 W |
| Rex | $-800 | $200 | $9,000 |
$15,500
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN | PLACES TO STAY IN VEGAS | EUROPEAN HISTORY | FURNITURE | WHAT DO YOU LOVE? | A RuVIEW OF MOVIES |
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$200
[2]
She continues to get thousands of letters each year addressed to her in Verona
Juliet
Rex
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$200
[26]
This casino that naturally contains the Appian Way shops
Caesars Palace
Kristin
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$200
[22]
For the record, this emperor didn't actually fiddle while Rome burned because the fiddle didn't come until centuries later
Nero
Kristin
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$200
[7]
Synonyms for this word include dressing table & excessive pride
vanity
Kate
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$200
[14]
Logophile
words
Rex
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$200
[1]
(Ru Paul presents the clue.) "The Diary of a Mad Black Woman" introduced movie audiences to this character, whom Tyler Perry called "exactly the PG version of" his mother & aunt
Madea
Rex
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$400
[3]
In "The Taming of the Shrew", she's the shrew tamed by Petruchio
Katherine (or Kate)
Kate
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$400
[27]
Here--try the Skyjump, which involves an 800-foot drop above the strip
the Stratosphere
Rex
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$400
[23]
In 1465 the archbishop of Mainz granted this printer an annual pension of grain, wine & clothes
Gutenberg
Kristin
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$400
[8]
It's the botanical name of the piece, whether loose or hinged, that extends a table
a leaf
Kristin
|
$400
[15]
Discophile
records
Rex
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$400
[10]
(Ru Paul presents the clue.) In a twist, Nathan Lane's flamboyant character is out of drag & Gene Hackman's conservative senator is in drag at the end of this film based on "La Cage aux Folles"
The Birdcage
Kate
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$600
[4]
Placed under a magic spell by her husband, this queen falls in love with the donkey-headed Nick Bottom
Titania
Kate
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$600
[28]
'Tis true, my lord, I will lay my head at this hotel & casino that did open in 1990
Excalibur
Rex
|
$800
[16]
After the death of Charles II came the "War of the Spanish" this, 1701 to 1714
succession
Kate
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$600
[9]
The inward curve of the short, heavytable leggave it this name of an animal's proboscis
an elephant's trunk
Kate
|
$600
[19]
Sinophile, all things this country
China
Kate
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$600
[11]
(Ru Paul presents the clue.) The makeup team won an Oscar for its work--4 1/2 hours each day--transforming Robin Williams into this character, whom he based on his real childhood nanny
Mrs. Doubtfire
Kate
|
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$800
[5]
Though King Lear disinherited her, she was the only one of his 3 daughters who remained faithful to him
Cordelia
Kate
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$1,000
[25]
In 1948, after celebrating 58 years as this country's queen, Wilhelmina abdicated in favor of her daughter
the Netherlands
Kate
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$800
[17]
A tambour is a flexible hood used as the lid that gives this type of desk its name
a rolltop
Kate
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$800
[20]
Dendrophile
trees
Kristin
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$800
[12]
(Ru Paul presents the clue.) Billy Wilder hired famed drag artist Barbette to teach Jack Lemmon & Tony Curtis how to move like women for this 1959 film
Some Like It Hot
Kate
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$1,000
[6]
After pledging her love to King Priam's son, she betrays him & takes up with Diomedes
Cressida
Rex
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— |
DD
$1,800
[24]
During France's Reign of Terror, this wax modeler was forced to make death masks of freshly guillotined heads
Madame Tussaud
Kristin
|
$1,000
[18]
American craftsman Gustav Stickley designed the chair seenherein this style named for religious outposts
Mission
Kate
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$1,000
[21]
Ailurophile
cats
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$1,000
[13]
(Ru Paul presents the clue.) John Travolta requested that his Edna Turnbladcharacter be made voluptuous like role models Sophia Loren & Elizabeth Taylor for this film set in 1960s Baltimore
Hairspray
Kate
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$400
[18]
Where to go to see the great Sphinx
Egypt
Kristin
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$400
[3]
"First Lady Sings the Blues" on this D.C.-set melodrama
Scandal
Kristin
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$400
[1]
Material, formal, efficient & final are the 4 types of cause this ancient Greek posited to explain the world
Aristotle
Rex
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$400
[8]
An audible sound of relief from the twins
Gemini sigh
Kristin
Rex
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$400
[13]
For years before his death in 1891, this master of the seagoing novel had a customs job on the river in Manhattan
Melville
Kristin
Rex
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$400
[24]
It's a synonym for "integrate", as a school or workplace
desegregate
Kate
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$800
[19]
East African land named for the 17,000-foot mountain in its middle
Kenya
Kristin
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$800
[4]
On this hacking-centered show, "eps1.1_ones-and-zer0es.mpeg"
Mr. Robot
Kristin
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$800
[2]
According to yoga philosophy, the universe is made up of prakriti, "matter", & purusha, this 6-letter term
spirit
Kate
|
$800
[9]
A very funny person born at the end of January
a hilarious Aquarius
Kate
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$800
[14]
Losing his New Orleans customs job freed up H.L. Hunley to make this type of vessel he named after himself
a submarine
Rex
|
$800
[25]
In 2017 JP Morgan claimed bank bragging rights as it took over the No. 1 spot with $1.31 trillion in total these
deposits
Rex
|
|
$1,200
[20]
This Mediterranean country comprises 5 islands east of Tunisia
Malta
Kate
|
$1,200
[5]
Danger! An episode of this 1960s show was titled "War of the Robots"
Lost in Space
Kate
|
$1,200
[23]
In mid-1800s New England, this idealistic philosophy grew out of the Romantic movement
transcendentalism
Kate
|
$1,200
[10]
Pixies belonging to a springtime zodiac sign
Aries fairies
Kate
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$1,200
[15]
Nathaniel Hawthorne did not excel at the job, briefly working at customhouses in Boston & this hometown
Salem
Kristin
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$1,200
[26]
After years of defueling, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier underwent this removal from service in 2017
decommission
Rex
|
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$2,000
[22]
In 2017 Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties with this emirate on its eastern border
Qatar
Rex
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$1,600
[6]
"Goodnight, Mother" on this show, a prequel of a scary film
Bates Motel
Kristin
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$2,000
[27]
Born into monotheistic Judaism, Baruch Spinoza shifted to this "all is God" belief
pantheism
Rex
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$1,600
[11]
Someone born in a fabulous Brazilian city in early August
a Rio Leo
Kate
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$1,600
[16]
As N.Y.'s customs collector, this future president was the highest-paid public employee in the U.S.--nice, Chet!
Chester A. Arthur
Kristin
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$2,000
[29]
Hackers send thousands of requests to a website in the type of attack called DDOS, or "distributed" this
denial of service
|
|
DD
$3,000
[21]
The CIA World Factbook calls it "the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere"
Haiti
Kristin
|
$2,000
[7]
"Brother, Can You Spare a Brain?" because Liv on this CW show wants to eat it
iZombie
Kristin
|
DD
$4,000
[28]
In the 18th century, this Swiss-French philosopher observed, "Man is born free, and everywhere, he is in chains"
Rousseau
Rex
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$2,000
[12]
Bob Fosse, born June 23
a Cancer dancer
Kristin
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$2,000
[17]
Long after his days exploring with Peary, this man started at the N.Y. customhouse at age 47 as a messenger
Matthew Henson
|
— |
Congress met in June 1778 to sign these but found errors in the official copy; it had to reconvene with a new set in July
the Articles of Confederation