Josh Hill game 5.
Andrew Lai — a medical student from East Lansing, Michigan
Hermine Vermeij — a librarian from Tarzana, California
Josh Hill — a network engineer from North Little Rock, Arkansas (whose 4-day cash winnings total $102,530)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh | $3,200 | $8,400 | $21,995 |
$14,789
5-day champion: $117,319 |
$21,400
27 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Hermine | $3,000 | $3,800 | $14,600 |
$6,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,600
17 R, 1 W |
| Andrew | $1,000 | $3,800 | $11,400 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| ILLINOIS AT 200 | MUSICAL GROUPS | NAMING MY BABY GIRL FOR GRANDPA | I READ YOU LOUD & CLEAR! | IT'S CHAOS | BE KIND |
|
$200
[7]
Illinois has 63 miles of coastline along this Great Lake
Lake Michigan
Josh
|
$200
[1]
They've got Method Man:The Wu-Tang ____
Clan
Hermine
|
$200
[6]
If this is Grandpa's name, Charlotte & Caroline are female versions
Charles
Andrew
|
$200
[8]
"Tarzan... placed his foot upon the neck of his vanquished enemy, and... loud through the forest rang the fierce, wild cry"
Burroughs
Josh
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$200
[9]
A haphazard mix of voices, or the Biblical tower noted for that
Babel
Josh
|
$200
[10]
This redheaded royal co-founded an AIDS charity in Lesotho as a tribute to his late mother
Prince Harry
Josh
|
|
$400
[12]
Completed in 1973, it was the world's tallest building until 1996
Willis Tower (or Sears Tower)
Josh
|
$400
[2]
Full of "Everyday People":Sly & the ____ Stone
Family
Hermine
|
$400
[14]
Grandpa is Vernon, so try this name (TV partner to Shirley) possibly derived from it
Laverne
Andrew
|
$400
[16]
"'What remains?' cried Ivanhoe. 'Glory, maiden, glory!'"
(Sir Walter) Scott
Josh
|
$400
[11]
This unsystematic political system is from the Greek for "without a ruler"
anarchy
Andrew
|
$400
[20]
Aid for wounded & mentally ill post-9/11 combat vets is given by the fund named for this shortened U.S. Marine Corps motto
Semper Fi
Josh
|
|
$800
[15]
Nauvoo briefly became Illinois' largest city after this Mormon leader & his followers began settling there in 1839
(Joseph) Smith
Josh
|
$600
[3]
Don't fear them:Blue Oyster ____
Cult
Hermine
|
$600
[17]
This name! This name! This name! This '70s sitcom name came from the same source Mark did
Marcia
Josh
|
$600
[19]
"'It's a wonderful knocker!--here's the turkey, hallo! Whoop! How are you! Merry Christmas!'"
Dickens
Josh
Hermine
|
$600
[23]
It's pure this in here! This, being where all demons live, not cute black-&-white bamboo eaters
pandemonium
Hermine
|
$600
[26]
To aid the homeless, give to key-shaped "parking meters" on the aptly named Wisconsin Avenue in this city
Milwaukee
Josh
|
|
$1,000
[18]
In 1942 at the University of Chicago, this Italian-American achieved the first controlled nuclear chain reaction
Enrico Fermi
Josh
|
$800
[4]
Rap group with Luther Campbell:2 Live ____
Crew
Hermine
|
$800
[21]
This first name of model Nemcova works if Grandpa is Peter
Petra
Hermine
|
$800
[27]
"'Objection!' shouted Mitty's attorney. 'We have shown that the defendant could not have fired the shot'"
(James) Thurber
Josh
|
$800
[24]
To muddle up, or a RWDO EZPZUL created in 1954
a Jumble
Andrew
|
$800
[28]
This org.'s red kettle began in 1891 as a repurposed crab pot at a ferry landing in San Francisco
the Salvation Army
Josh
|
|
DD
$1,200
[13]
This official slogan of Illinois honors a man who moved there at age 21
the land of Lincoln
Josh
|
$1,000
[5]
It was a reality that they gave us a "Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy":Bad ____
Company
Hermine
|
$1,000
[22]
If his name is this, French for "reborn", just add an extra "E" at the end
René
|
$1,000
[29]
"'Only two kinds of daughters,' she shouted in Chinese. 'Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!'"
Tan
Josh
Andrew
|
$1,000
[25]
A scene of wild confusion, perhaps in the asylum dating back to the early 1400s
bedlam
Andrew
|
$1,000
[30]
Be generous when tossing coins into this fountain--it guarantees a return to Rome & is collected & donated to charity
Trevi Fountain
Josh
|
| QUESTIONABLE TELEVISION | SCIENCE | ART & ARTISTS | FOREIGN FORMER FORTS | GARDENING | "END" GAME |
|
$400
[1]
In the 1960s N.Y. police car 54 & Scooby-Doo were asked this question in show titles
"Where are you?"
Josh
|
$400
[3]
Dispersion is the breaking of light via a prism into these visible wavelengths
colors
Josh
|
DD
$5
[24]
A category in the World Beard & Moustache Championships honors this 20th century artist's 'stache
Salvador Dali
Josh
|
$400
[9]
This Manitoba city was Fort Rouge, Fort Gibraltar & Fort Garry before they just gave up & named it for the nearby lake
Winnipeg
Andrew
|
$400
[4]
Herbs like basil will grow in soil that's lightly acidic or lightly alkaline, but it's best if this level is between 5.5 & 6.5
the pH
Josh
|
$400
[5]
One of a pair is seen here
a bookend
Hermine
|
|
$800
[18]
On a PBS game show for kids, this title question was sung a cappella at the beginning of every episode--did they ever find her?
"Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?"
Hermine
|
$800
[13]
The seif type of this sand formation develops parallel to the prevailing wind
a sand dune
Josh
|
$400
[2]
This word for an artwork made of 3 panels comes from the Greek for "three tablets"
a triptych
Andrew
|
$800
[10]
Bangalore in this country began as a mud fort, later upgraded to stone
India
Andrew
|
$800
[17]
Available at most gardening stores, these beneficial beetles can help rid your garden of aphids & other destructive insects
ladybugs
Hermine
|
$800
[6]
These hormones released by the brain act as natural painkillers & can also bring about feelings of euphoria
endorphins
Hermine
|
|
$1,200
[19]
On NBC & then TLC, a genealogy show has asked celebrities this title question
"Who do you think you are?"
|
$1,600
[23]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) Dropping a penny into an already full glass of water doesn't cause it to spill because this elastic property at the rim contains the displaced volume
surface tension
Josh
|
$800
[14]
Whistler gave musical titles to his paintings; twilight & night scenes were called this, from the French for "night"
a Nocturne
Josh
|
$1,200
[11]
A fort named Khadzhibey on this sea became the Ukrainian city of Odessa
the Black Sea
Hermine
|
$1,200
[25]
Bigger than seeds, they store plants' food in winter; plant some in fall & you'll see snowdrops in spring
bulbs
Hermine
|
$1,200
[7]
Completes the proverb "What can't be cured must be ____"
endured
Hermine
|
|
$1,600
[20]
Contestants on this game show didn't forget their dialogue--they were asking panelists to guess their occupations
What's My Line?
Hermine
|
$2,000
[28]
A meteor about as bright as Venus in the sky has this 8-letter incendiary name
a fireball
Josh
|
$1,200
[30]
An 1876 review in Le Figaro called an exhibit of this movement "an appalling spectacle" & the artists "lunatics"
Impressionism
Hermine
|
$1,600
[15]
Fort Faithful on the Silk Road became Almaty, once capital of this country--very nice!
Kazakhstan
Josh
|
$1,600
[26]
Thisflower with an avian name is a colorful addition to any garden
a bird-of-paradise
Hermine
|
$1,600
[8]
It means native to a particular people or place
endemic
Josh
|
|
$2,000
[21]
John Quiñones asks this title question on ABC by taping staged hypothetical situations with hidden cameras
"What would you do?"
Andrew
|
DD
$4,000
[22]
A unit of atomic mass, a dalton is defined as 1/12th the mass of the "12" isotope of this element
carbon
Andrew
|
$2,000
[29]
Jean-Francois Millet gave dignity to the peasantry in works like the one seen here, called this, a person who strews seed
The Sower
|
$2,000
[16]
The French fort Lamy was upgraded to N'Djamena after this country became independent
Chad
Josh
|
$2,000
[27]
Divide your orchids to do this, from the Latin for "multiply from layers"
propagate
|
$2,000
[12]
In math you find the difference by subtracting the subtrahend from this
the minuend
Josh
|
In November 1836 this writer got a letter naming him to the Most Serene Order of Cuckolds; in February 1837 he was dead
Alexander Pushkin