2019 All-Star Games final match, game 2.
Alan Lin — a software engineer from Riverside, California
Pam Mueller — a think tank researcher from Culver City, California
Colby Burnett — a college counselor from Chicago, Illinois
David Madden — an academic competition director from Ridgewood, New Jersey
Brad Rutter — an actor and producer from Los Angeles, California
Larissa Kelly — an editor for academic competitions from Richmond, California
Monica Thieu — a Ph.D. student in psychology from New York, New York
Ken Jennings — a writer from Seattle, Washington
Matt Jackson — a digital fundraising professional from Washington, D.C.
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team Ken | $3,200 | $3,800 | $16,200 | $16,200 |
$16,200
Monica |
| Team Brad | $4,400 | $7,400 | $34,000 | $34,000 |
$22,000
David |
| Team Colby | $1,800 | $4,000 | $9,600 | $16,601 |
$9,600
Alan |
| WORD HISTORY | PODCASTS | MUSES | A NASDAQ FACT | "M"INENT | DOMAIN |
|
$200
[23]
Gaelic for "water of life" gave us this word for a drink you might have with a little water
whiskey
Monica
|
$200
[30]
Professor Steven Levitt looks at his field a bit differently, so the podcast he's on isn't "Economics" but this
Freakonomics
Alan
|
$200
[24]
An observatory in Switzerland has the name Urania, the muse of this scientific pursuit
astronomy
Monica
|
$200
[29]
On the NASDAQ you can find this state in front of Capital Bancshares, Roadhouse & Instruments
Texas
Alan
|
$200
[21]
When this man entreated the Lord, the plague of flies departed from Egypt
Moses
Alan
|
$200
[27]
At the beginning of the 13th century, this Mongol leader established a postal service to link his domains
Genghis Khan
David
|
|
$400
[22]
You can thank Ottoman imports for the name of this bird that was once confused with the guinea fowl
turkey
David
|
$400
[25]
It's fitting that WBEZ in this city produced the biographical podcast "Making Obama"
Chicago
Alan
|
$400
[8]
Orpheus' song saved sailors from the singing of these sea nymphs whose mother was one of the muses
the sirens
Monica
|
$400
[28]
This car company has a facility called Gigafactory 1, designed to reduce battery cell costs in a big way
Tesla
Alan
|
$400
[20]
He was the director of the FBI from 2001 to 2013
(Robert) Mueller
Monica
|
$400
[26]
Though expelled from the area in 1912, China continued to consider this region part of its domain & invaded in 1950
Tibet
David
|
|
$600
[9]
It was originally a string, perhaps to help find your way in a labyrinth; then it was a piece of evidence that helps solve a crime
a clue
Monica
|
$600
[10]
This former HLN host takes on the misdeeds of the day on her "Crime Stories" podcast
Nancy Grace
Monica
|
$600
[7]
In Rome Polymnia was the goddess of this--a form of theatrical farce, not a guy in whiteface "trapped" in a "box"
mime
Monica
|
$600
[19]
It's time to get alphanumerically lubricated with this company that in its early days fought rust on Atlas missiles
WD-40
Monica
|
$600
[1]
Without his famous partner, he published an "Investigation of Sexual Regeneration in Elderly Women"
(William) Masters
Monica
|
$600
[4]
It's the country-code top-level internet domain for Putin's domain
.ru
David
|
|
$800
[13]
The word "companion" refers to anyone with whom you'd eat this food item, literally
bread
Monica
|
$800
[11]
This conference series also has a podcast of talks between smart people & its head honcho Chris Anderson
TED
Monica
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
Thalia, the muse of bucolic poetry, carries the staff of these workers
shepherds
David
|
$800
[18]
The French Toast Slugger is on the menu of this NASDAQ-listed diner chain
Denny's
Monica
Alan
|
$800
[2]
2 of her 14 books are the Man Booker prize-winning "Wolf Hall" & its sequel in her Thomas Cromwell series
(Hilary) Mantel
Alan
|
$800
[15]
Marie-Therese renounced her father's lands on marrying Louis XIV, but Louis said some were his because this wasn't paid
a dowry
David
|
|
$1,000
[14]
A borrowing from the French gave us this -ism, the concern for the welfare of others, as opposed to egoism
altruism
David
|
$1,000
[12]
No rainbow, but this PBS host & "Roots" actor reads short fiction on his podcast
(LeVar) Burton
Alan
|
$1,000
[6]
This muse whose name is also a musical instrument was eldest & preeminent among the muses
Calliope
David
|
$1,000
[17]
In 2002, less than 3 years after this JFK-based airline began operations, it had an IPO on NASDAQ & was worth $1.8 billion
JetBlue
David
|
$1,000
[3]
Attorney General in the 1980s, in 2015 he was still enraging liberals with attacks on Obamacare
Edwin Meese
|
$1,000
[16]
His first whupping of a Persian army, at the Granicus River, let him expand his domain into Asia Minor
Alexander the Great
David
|
| WRITERS ON THE STORM | COLONIAL AMERICA | STARS | POP MUSIC ACROSS THE DECADES | TO THE LIGHTHOUSE | ALL "THUMB"S |
|
$400
[30]
Lindsay Starck writes of a minister & his spouse who face a flood of Biblical proportions in this man's "Wife"
Noah
Ken
|
$400
[29]
A 1682 law in this colony guaranteed freedom of worship; not just for Quakers
Pennsylvania
Brad
|
$400
[20]
In the double star Cygnus X-1, a blue supergiant orbits one of these, which is eating it alive
a black hole
Ken
|
$400
[26]
Now you try... & you try... & you try...& you try to name this Rolling Stones song that was No. 1 for 4 weeks in 1965
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
Brad
|
$400
[28]
In the red--Venetian red, to be exact--is the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse, the tallest in this state
Florida
Brad
|
$400
[14]
This kind of "sketch" can be a snapshot in words
a thumbnail
Ken
|
|
$800
[1]
Very cold weather descends on 2 WASPy New England families in the 1970s in this Rick Moody novel
Ice Storm
Ken
|
$800
[12]
7 years was usually the maximum length of this period of learning one's trade from a craftsman
apprenticeship
Brad
|
$800
[21]
The most distant star ever seen is for some reason named for this boy who got too close to the sun
Icarus
Ken
|
$800
[25]
In 1984 this band scored a Top 10 with "New Moon On Monday"; now test your re-fle-fle-fle-flexes
Duran Duran
Pam
|
$800
[27]
With close to 130, including Cheboygan Crib & Isle Royale, this state has the most lighthouses
Michigan
Pam
|
$800
[15]
3-word term for a rough guideline
a rule of thumb
Ken
|
|
$1,200
[2]
In a Melville story a salesman tries to sell a copper type of this title item in the middle of a thunderstorm
a lightning rod
|
$1,200
[9]
The New England Company changed its name to this & founded a colony in 1630
the Massachusetts Bay Company
Brad
|
$1,200
[22]
The sun's absolute this, its brightness if viewed from a distance of 10 parsecs, is 4.8
magnitude
Brad
|
$1,200
[4]
In a 1999 smash, this letter-perfect group didn't want "your number", didn't want "to meet you" & didn't want no scrubs
TLC
Ken
|
$1,200
[7]
The Portland Head Lightin this state is said to be the most photographed lighthouse in the United States
Maine
Brad
|
$1,200
[16]
Numeric dual approval from Siskel & Ebert
two thumbs up
Brad
|
|
$1,600
[3]
In a Poe story a fisherman is pulled into this Norwegian whirlpool by a hurricane
the maelstrom
Brad
|
$2,000
[11]
Evangelist George Whitefield was one of the rousing figures of the "Great" this
Awakening
Ken
|
$1,600
[23]
Appropriately, the name of this nearest star to the sun is from the Latin for "nearest"
Proxima Centauri
Brad
|
$1,600
[6]
This punk band's 1976 self-titled debut album included "Blitzkrieg Bop"
the Ramones
Brad
|
$2,000
[19]
The iconic lighthouse seenhereis in the fishing village of Peggy's Cove in this Atlantic province of Canada
Nova Scotia
|
$1,600
[17]
I'll talk! No need to tighten these torture devices
thumbscrews
Ken
|
|
$2,000
[5]
The first novel by this "Burr" & "Lincoln" author is called "Williwaw", after a windstorm off Alaska
(Gore) Vidal
Pam
|
DD
$10,000
[10]
The 1764 Sugar Act taxed molasses imports to help pay for this recently concluded war
the French and Indian War
Brad
|
$2,000
[24]
Merope & Sterope are sister stars in M45, this Greek-named cluster
the Pleiades
Ken
|
$2,000
[13]
Time to get your grunge on with this band whose tunes include "Man In The Box", "Rooster" & "Would?"
Alice in Chains
Pam
|
DD
$5,000
[8]
The ancient lighthouse on this island was so well known that the island's name became a synonym for lighthouse
Pharos
Brad
|
$2,000
[18]
In "Macbeth" these 6 words precede "something wicked this way comes"
"by the pricking of my thumbs"
Ken
|
Total of the numbers of the amendments banning state-sponsored official religion, ending slavery & repealing Prohibition
35