8000th episode.
Kara Skinner — a test accommodations center coordinator from San Diego, California
Beth Kitts — a history professor from Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Kevin Boettcher — a university administrator from Binghamton, New York (whose 3-day cash winnings total $59,402)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin | $4,000 | $6,400 | $8,000 |
$14,001
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,000
16 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Beth | $1,600 | $3,400 | $7,000 |
$2
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,000
13 R, 3 W |
| Kara | $2,800 | $6,000 | $11,800 |
$17,800
New champion: $17,800 |
$16,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| HORROR MOVIES | 5-LETTER WORDS | A DAY ENDING IN Y | BOOKS FOR YOUNGER READERS | SALUTE TO 8,000 | GUT FEELING |
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$200
[26]
2017 saw the 8th film in the "Saw" franchise, & 3 additional letters were needed for this, its title
Jigsaw
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$200
[4]
Mr. Spock was big into this, the science behind being justified by reason
logic
Beth
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$200
[18]
1998's Belfast Agreement is also named for this spring holy day
Good Friday
Kevin
Beth
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$200
[10]
Emily Elizabeth & this large colorful canine have many adventures in works by Norman Bridwell
Clifford (the Big Red Dog)
Kara
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$200
[13]
This largest seal, which can weigh 8,000 pounds, is named for another large mammal
the elephant seal
Kevin
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$400
[29]
The stomach is the middle man between this, aka the gullet, & the small intestine
the esophagus
Kevin
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$400
[25]
This 1931 film had the tagline "A monster science created but could not destroy!"
Frankenstein
Kara
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$400
[5]
Pertaining to Benedict XVI or Boniface VIII
papal
Kevin
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$400
[19]
In a commercial Chris Sullivan gives voice to "Guess what day it is!... Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike! What day is it, Mike?"--this day
hump day (Wednesday)
Kara
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$400
[16]
She wrote the classics "Ramona the Pest" & "Beezus & Ramona"
Beverly Cleary
Kara
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$400
[23]
In 2018 Diana Taurasi became the first 8,000-point scorer in the history of this league
the WNBA
Kevin
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$600
[17]
Originally, the formula of this tummy soother was pepsin, zinc salts, oil of wintergreen, salol & a colorant to make it pink
Pepto-Bismol
Beth
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$600
[3]
Doris tries to play on this board alone (totally against the rules) & learns the "Origin of Evil" in a 2016 movie
a Ouija board
Beth
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$800
[7]
This word denoting being simple or guileless is from Old French for "natural"; we hope you're not...
naive
Kara
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$600
[20]
Laissez les bons temps rouler, y'all! Mardi Gras translates to this
Fat Tuesday
Kara
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$600
[15]
In Kipling's "The Jungle Book", this mongoose faces off against 2 cobras to protect his human family
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Kevin
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$600
[28]
The M.I.T. Agelab estimates that this period of your life will last about 8,000 days--don't run out of savings
retirement
Kara
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$800
[11]
The stomach secretes gastrin, a hormone that in turn helps you secrete this acid that kills bacteria in your food
hydrochloric acid
Kara
|
|
$800
[1]
In 1990 Christine Elise battled this homicidal doll; in 2019 it was Aubrey Plaza
Chucky
Kevin
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DD
$1,000
[8]
These were 2 types of columns in Ancient Greece
Doric & Ionic
Kara
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$800
[24]
In a song by The Cure, "Thursday I don't care about you, it's..." this title
"Friday I'm In Love"
Kevin
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$800
[9]
Mary Pope Osborne has taken kids all through history as Jack & Annie travel in this magic structure
the magic tree house
Beth
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$800
[21]
Measured at the equator, this distance is just a bit under 8,000 miles
the diameter of the Earth
Kara
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$1,000
[12]
Catch these waves, the rhythmical pumping that moves chyme toward the pylorus
peristaltic waves
|
|
$1,000
[2]
This Australian actress starred in the 2018 horror "Hereditary" about a family with dark secrets
(Toni) Collette
Kevin
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$1,000
[6]
Thisblock wedged under a wheel comes in handy when changing a tire
chock
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$1,000
[27]
During WWI the U.S. Food Administration called for this alliterative, vegetarian day
Meatless Mondays
Kevin
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$1,000
[14]
Milo learns about time from a watchdog named Tock after driving through this mysterious title object
The Phantom Tollbooth
Kevin
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$1,000
[22]
As per its name, this seat of Pitkin County, Colorado has lots of trees--they release the oxygen humans need at 8,000 feet
Aspen
Beth
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— |
| FEAT OF (HENRY) CLAY | '90s NO. 1 HITS | WORDS ABOUT WORDS | ADAPTATIONS | SAINTS ON THE MAP | "CRO"-POURRI |
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$400
[1]
Henry Clay is famous for helping forge these historic deals, like the Missouri one & the one of 1850
compromises
Beth
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$400
[25]
Wham! He had a No. 1 hit as he was "Praying For Time" in 1990
George Michael
Beth
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$400
[30]
As in scientific classification, a nomenclator is someone who assigns these
names
Beth
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$400
[21]
This Margaret Atwood novel was adapted by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in 2018
The Handmaid's Tale
Kara
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$400
[29]
It's where to go to groove to the Twin Cities Jazz Festival
St. Paul
Beth
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$400
[20]
The name of this miracle of modern invention is partly from the French for "hook"
Velcro
Kara
|
|
$800
[2]
Clay was one of the founders of the American Colonization Society, which helped create this African nation
Liberia
Beth
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$800
[24]
She was "Coming Out Of The Dark" sans Miami Sound Machine in 1991
Gloria Estefan
Beth
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$800
[22]
As its name suggests, a pangram uses all of these at least once in one sentence
letters of the alphabet
Kara
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$800
[12]
Depictedhereis Carlo Gozzi, whose play "The Love of"these was turned into an opera by Prokofiev
The Love of Three Oranges
|
$800
[28]
Napoleon lived at the Briars Pavilion & then at Longwood on this island in the South Atlantic
Saint Helena
Kara
|
$800
[17]
This prying tool is so named because one end looks like a beak
a crowbar
Kara
|
|
$1,200
[3]
Clay held this congressional leadership post for 10 years, longer than anyone else in the 19th century
Speaker of the House
Kevin
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$1,200
[5]
In 1995 this female trio was chasing "Waterfalls"
TLC
Kevin
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$1,200
[13]
Paranym is another word for this, a word substituted for a more unpleasant one
a euphemism
Kevin
|
$1,200
[9]
This 1910 E.M. Forster work about the Schlegels & Wilcoxes was filmed in 1992 by James Ivory & adapted for TV in 2017
Howards End
Kevin
Beth
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$1,200
[14]
An island country in the Lesser Antilles is a package deal: this saint & the Grenadines
Saint Vincent
Kara
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$1,200
[16]
Remains of an early form of man were found in a French cave with this name
Cro-Magnon
Beth
Kara
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$1,600
[26]
According to Andrew Jackson, Clay's "corrupt bargain" was the sec. of state job for helping make this man president
John Quincy Adams
Beth
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$1,600
[4]
In 1998, she hit Number One with "Doo Wop (That Thing)" her first solo single
Lauryn Hill
Kara
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$1,600
[7]
It's a word that tells people you're in a group; in the Bible those who said "sib" instead of "shib" were slaughtered
a shibboleth
Kevin
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$1,600
[10]
WhenthisTV & film scribe was adapting "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the stage, he kept getting disappointed in Atticus
Aaron Sorkin
Kara
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$2,000
[15]
A church in this suburb of Paris has the tombs of 12 centuries of French kings
Saint-Denis
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$1,600
[18]
Thisflower is often seen in thespring
a crocus
Kevin
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$2,000
[27]
When he died in 1852, Clay became the first American to lie in state in this part of the Capitol building
the rotunda
Beth
Kara
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$2,000
[6]
In 1997 this late rapper had "Mo Money Mo Problems"
the Notorious B.I.G.
Kara
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DD
$6,000
[8]
2-word term for a common language for speakers of different tongues; it was once an actual language quoted by Moliere
lingua franca
Kevin
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$2,000
[11]
To stop violence, women take a vow of abstinence in Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq", a retelling of this Greek comedy
Lysistrata
Kevin
|
DD
$5,000
[23]
The Pony Express went from this Missouri city to Sacramento, California
St. Joseph
Kara
|
$2,000
[19]
When a politician appoints his friends to positions they are unqualified for, it's called this
cronyism
Kara
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Some parts were translated from a 15th century Syrian manuscript when this work was introduced to Europe around 1700
One Thousand and One Nights