Emma Boettcher game 2.
Liz Neal — a graphic designer from Astoria, New York
Matthew Swanson — a Ph.D student from Los Angeles, California
Emma Boettcher — a user experience librarian from Chicago, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $46,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emma | $11,400 | $14,200 | $24,600 |
$24,600
2-day champion: $71,401 |
$20,800
27 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Matthew | $0 | $3,000 | $11,000 |
$19,201
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,200
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Liz | $2,800 | $3,200 | $9,600 |
$7,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,600
10 R, 0 W |
| THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS | VWLLSS BBL BKS | TURNING AROUND THE INSULT | COMMON BLONDES | WE BORDER GERMANY | THE PARKER HOUSE: A HOTEL IN HISTORY |
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$200
[29]
In 1705 Cotton Mather thought the bones of these mammoth relatives were really pre-flood human giants
mastodons
Matthew
|
$200
[5]
XDS
Exodus
Emma
|
$200
[25]
A Major League Baseball team bears this name, once a derogatory term for Northerners
Yankees
Emma
|
$200
[26]
Sarah Michelle Gellar, James Marsters: this undead TV classic
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Emma
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$200
[27]
We're neutral on the subject of 15,000'-foot Dufourspitze in the Pennine Alps, this nation's highest peak
Switzerland
Emma
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$400
[28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Omni Parker House hotel.) The restaurant at the Parker House, specifically here at table 40, is one of a few places claiming to be where these two, a future President and First Lady, got engaged
JFK and Jackie Kennedy
Emma
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$400
[23]
In 2007 this society went on the record: we did not find a gigantic human skeleton in India
National Geographic Society
|
$400
[4]
CTS
Acts
Emma
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$400
[24]
A National Hockey League team bears this name, once a derogatory term for Canadians
Canucks
Liz
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$400
[14]
Jennifer Aniston, Owen Wilson, a cute yellow lab: this 2008 film
Marley & Me
Emma
|
$400
[17]
It has a total area of about 1,000 square miles; oh, you're in Grand Duchy now!
Luxembourg
Emma
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$600
[21]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Omni Parker House hotel.) Founded in 1855 and meeting on the last Saturday of the month at the Parker House, the Saturday Club included local literary giants like Whittier, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and this American scholar transcendentalist
Emerson
Emma
|
|
$600
[22]
Found by miners of this, aka bat poop, it's bat poop crazy that the artifacts of Lovelock Cave led to a legend of red-headed giants
guano
Matthew
|
$600
[3]
CCLSSTS
Ecclesiastes
Emma
|
$600
[18]
Not everyone was fond of the Jayhawkers when they were a guerrilla group from this state
Kansas
Matthew
|
$600
[8]
Maureen McCormick, Susan Olsen, Florence Henderson: this TV show that premiered in 1969
The Brady Bunch
Emma
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$600
[16]
This nation reclaimed about 1/3 of its land from the sea by pumping out water, making new areas called polders
the Netherlands
Matthew
|
$800
[20]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Omni Parker House hotel.) Working as a baker making Parker House rolls here at the hotel in 1912 was this future communist world leader
Ho Chi Minh
|
|
$800
[12]
Seen here is one of the Texas Giants; they were listed up to eight feet, but this showman used a ruler that wasn't a full 12 inches
P. T. Barnum
Emma
|
$800
[2]
PHSNS
Ephesians
Emma
|
$800
[15]
Once a derisive term, this 7-letter dialect is now arguably the most famous British accent
Cockney
Emma
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$800
[7]
Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern: This Monterey-set HBO series
Big Little Lies
Liz
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$1,000
[9]
Outdoorsy vacationers enjoy the thinly populated Baltic Lakes region in the northern part of this nation
Poland
Emma
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$1,000
[19]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Omni Parker House hotel.) Moving to Boston in 1941, he found work here as a busboy; busted for burglary, he'd convert to Islam in prison and emerged with this new name
Malcolm X
Matthew
|
|
$1,000
[11]
In 1520 this Portuguese explorer reported he encountered 8-foot natives in South America he called patagones
Magellan
Emma
|
$1,000
[1]
BDH
Obadiah
Emma
|
$1,000
[13]
This onetime insult referencing a famous product of Wisconsin is now a word of pride
Cheesehead
Liz
|
$1,000
[6]
Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable: this 1953 film with an instructional title
How to Marry a Millionaire
Liz
|
DD
$4,600
[10]
A peninsula, 406 nearby islands & other possessions make up this nation
Denmark
Emma
|
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| ALPHANUMERICS | OUR FOUNDING MOTHERS | SMOOTH SAILING IN SONG | PARASITIC PLANTS | LITERARY GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES | INTERNAL RHYME VERBS |
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$400
[29]
Talk about primo & to the point! It was the alpanumeric license plate--London's first--issued December 1903
A1
Matthew
|
$400
[12]
This New Kent County, Virginia woman was the public face of a 1780 campaign to raise money for troop supplies
Martha Washington
|
$400
[24]
"Somewhere" this smooth transoceanic tune from Bobby Darin provided the title of a movie about his life
"Beyond The Sea"
Emma
Matthew
|
$400
[30]
A hemiparasite that makes food but steals water & nutrients, this plant is better known for Christmas kissing
mistletoe
Liz
|
$400
[28]
L.A. is this "of Angels"; the Shadowhunters live in Cassandra Clare's this "of Glass"
City
Matthew
|
$400
[3]
Hyphenated verb meaning to quaff an entire beer in one go
chug-a-lug
|
|
$800
[26]
2 inclined & opposed banks of 4 cylinders is this type of internal combustion engine
V-8
Emma
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$800
[7]
Dolley Madison was a hero of this war for her actions during the burning of the White House
the War of 1812
Matthew
|
$800
[23]
"I'm On A Boat" smoothly paired T-Pain with this comedy musical trio
Lonely Island
Liz
|
$800
[27]
In a chain of parasitism, the love vine feeds on galls, the tissue swellings made by these bee relatives, which feed on oak trees
wasps
Emma
|
$800
[20]
"The Asphalt" this is about the mean streets where a jewel heist is going down
Jungle
Matthew
|
$800
[13]
This gathering of Native Americans is also a verb meaning "to confer"
powwow
Liz
|
|
$1,200
[11]
Suze Orman said never borrow against this retirement plan; you'll play double taxes on the money you borrow
401(k)
Liz
|
$1,200
[4]
1998 DNA tests showed Jefferson to be the likely dad of some of the kids of this woman
Sally Hemmings
Emma
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$1,200
[22]
"Come Sail Away" was a '70s top 10 hit from this band with a name out of Greek mythology
Styx
Liz
|
$1,200
[25]
With a smell like rotting meat, it'sthe largest flower in the world but has no other plant parts like roots or leaves.
(stinking) corpse flower
Emma
|
$1,600
[1]
In "The Beggar's Opera", "every night would kiss and play if with me you'd fondly stray" these 3 words "and far away"
over the hills
Emma
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$1,200
[14]
To keep going on the same course, or to stay at the same weight
maintain
Emma
|
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$1,600
[10]
The building site of the Millennium Dome, aka this alphanumeric arena, skirts the Prime Meridian along the Thames
O2
Matthew
|
$1,600
[5]
Though his wife was mentally ill & occasionally violent, this Virginia orator refused to institutionalize her
Patrick Henry
Emma
|
$1,600
[8]
"Sailing, takes me away" to this mellow singer who also did the best that he could do with "Arthur's Theme"
Christopher Cross
|
$1,600
[21]
Colorful flowers called these "paint brushes" steal nutrients from perennial grasses
Indian paint brushes
Emma
|
$2,000
[2]
This Jean Rhys novel is about the early life of the madwoman in the attic from "Jane Eyre"
Wide Sargasso Sea
Emma
|
$1,600
[15]
From the Chinese, it means to show excessive subservience
kowtow
Matthew
|
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$2,000
[17]
This plastic explosive needs a shock to go boom; match-lit, it burns slowly, & was used by Vietnam soldiers as a cooking fire
C-4
Matthew
|
$2,000
[6]
Julia, nee Stockton, bore 13 children with this best-known physician & second-best-known Benjamin of the Revolution
Benjamin Rush
Emma
|
$2,000
[9]
Prior to "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", this singer took a smooth trip around "Christian Island"
Gordon Lightfoot
|
DD
$6,000
[18]
Trifolium is the genus of this plant grown as livestock feed & sometimes damaged by the parasitic plant dodder
clover
Matthew
|
DD
$6,000
[16]
In this novel by Cormac McCarthy, a man finds $2 million in cash
No Country for Old Men
Matthew
|
$2,000
[19]
To spend time with the rich & famous
hobnob
Liz
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This European country is still an hour ahead of GMT, a move made in 1940 to be on the same time as Nazi Germany
Spain