Paul Trifiletti game 6.
Laurie Amster-Burton — a help desk specialist from Seattle, Washington
Jessica Babbitt — a personal stylist from Austin, Texas
Paul Trifiletti — an attorney from Athens, Georgia (whose 5-day cash winnings total $106,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul | $1,800 | $5,600 | $11,200 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Jessica | $2,200 | $600 | $11,700 |
$23,398
New champion: $23,398 |
$14,200
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Laurie | $2,400 | $4,000 | $7,000 |
$7,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| PUT THAT SINGER'S NAME ON A POST OFFICE! | HOME DECOR BASICS | PUNNY JOB LOSS REASONS | THEIR FINAL NOVEL | GOLD RUSH | REQUIEM FOR A SKYLINE |
|
$200
[23]
This pianist may have had "Georgia On My Mind" but the post office named for him is in Los Angeles
(Ray) Charles
Paul
|
$200
[9]
Mix a batch of this 50% lighter than the original, another batch 150% darker--& voila! colors that complement each other
paint
Jessica
|
$200
[6]
My wife tried to get ahead in eyeglass manufacturing, but failed impressively by "making" this "of herself"
a spectacle
Laurie
|
$200
[12]
"The Mystery of Edwin Drood"
(Charles) Dickens
Jessica
Laurie
|
$200
[18]
This flour brand is named for the top prize that it won at an 1880 exhibition
Gold Medal
Paul
|
$200
[1]
In November of 1972, the Kingdomewas dedicated in this West Coast city. In March 2000, the Kingdome wasdemolishedin this West Coast city
Seattle
Paul
|
|
$400
[24]
It's not New York, New York but Hoboken, Hoboken that has a P.O. named for this native son & crooning legend
Sinatra
Paul
|
$400
[10]
Associated with the decor of recent college grads, it's a Japanese-style filled mattress used for seating or as a bed
a futon
Jessica
|
$400
[7]
My cousin wanted to become a hairstylist, but didn't have the skill; she just couldn't do this 2-word idiom
cut it
Jessica
|
$400
[13]
"Jude the Obscure"
(Thomas) Hardy
Laurie
|
$400
[19]
The AKC says this "is an exceptionally intelligent breed" & boasted "the first three dogs to earn AKC Obedience Champion titles"
a golden retriever
Jessica
|
$400
[2]
In 1978, New Jersey's Marlborough-Blenheim Hotelgot checked out to make way for a casino in this city
Atlantic City
Paul
|
|
$600
[25]
Buck Owens got P.O.ed in 2007 after 17 years hosting this country music show in which an animated donkey brayed the title
Hee Haw
Laurie
|
$600
[11]
A recess in a wall often used to display sculpture, the term can also be used for the role an animal plays in nature
a niche
Laurie
|
$600
[8]
My dad worked for the IRS for a while, but his nerves became shot--the job was "too" this 6-letter word
taxing
Paul
|
$600
[14]
"Lady Chatterley's Lover"
Lawrence
Laurie
|
$600
[20]
The Ohio River begins at the western tip of the "Golden Triangle" in this city
Pittsburgh
Paul
|
$600
[3]
Sunset Boulevard isn't the same since the bulldozer came for the home and playground of many movie stars called the Garden of this
the Garden of Allah
|
| — |
$800
[27]
Fit the houseplant to the room: the peace lily is suggested for the laundry room as it takes spores of this out of the air
mold
Paul
|
$800
[17]
My granddad quit dentistry because he said going to the office was "like" this excruciating 2-word idiom
pulling teeth
Paul
|
$800
[15]
"Hornblower During the Crisis"
Forester
Laurie
|
$800
[21]
Oil is also known by this "colorful" 2-word phrase, followed by "Texas tea" in an old sitcom theme
black gold
Paul
|
DD
$600
[4]
Northwestern University's old Prentice Women's Hospital, an example of Brutalist architecture, was demoed in 2013-2014 in this big city
Chicago
Paul
|
| — |
$1,000
[26]
The spiraling design known as this work seenhereon a wall adds elegance to furniture, too
scrollwork
Jessica
|
— |
$1,000
[16]
"You Can't Go Home Again"
Thomas Wolfe
Laurie
|
$1,000
[22]
These 3 stone-cold sisters of Greek myth who were less than photogenic had bronze hands & golden wings
the Gorgons
Jessica
|
$1,000
[5]
Demolished in 1999, the Jorba Labsnear Madrid was often called this general 6-letter term for a sacred building in China
a pagoda
Jessica
|
| NAME THAT INSECT | A YEAR ENDING IN 0 | ISLAND NATIONS | FOE PAs | PEOPLE | SHOULD BE IN THE FOREST |
|
$400
[26]
Poets write of the evening "song" of this grasshopper relative, as in Archibald Lampman's "The homely" this "gossips at my feet"
a cricket
Paul
|
$400
[11]
It was the first full year of the Great Depression
1930
Paul
|
$400
[12]
Called "the fairest isle that eyes have beheld" by Columbus, this island nation is the birthplace of Usain Bolt
Jamaica
Jessica
|
$400
[16]
In a 1980 sequel this bad guy cuts off his son's hand & then says, "I am your father"
Darth Vader
Laurie
|
$400
[1]
She was Columbia Law School's first female tenured professor & the Supreme Court's second female justice
Ginsburg
Paul
|
$400
[7]
Quality attributed to a perfectly proportioned face
symmetry
Jessica
|
|
$800
[27]
In French this insect is a "coccinelle" & usually rouge avec points noirs (red with black spots)
a ladybug
Jessica
|
$800
[21]
The Boston Massacre left 5 dead & several injured
1770
Paul
|
$800
[13]
The flag of Barbados features the trident of this sea god on a yellow stripe representing the country's beaches
Neptune
Laurie
|
$800
[25]
In "The Great Santini", this Oscar winner plays a macho dad who menaces his family
Robert Duvall
|
$800
[2]
This Facebook bigwig wrote "Option B" about life after the sudden death of her husband
(Sheryl) Sandberg
Laurie
|
$800
[6]
"Follow Me!" is a motto of this part of the army that fights on foot
the infantry
Jessica
|
|
$1,200
[28]
One variety of this insect from Australia can grow up to 2 feet long
a stick bug
|
$1,600
[23]
Rome hosted the Summer Olympics
1960
Paul
|
$1,200
[15]
Animals unique to Madagascar include lemurs, tenrecs, and certain species of these reptiles
chameleons
|
$1,200
[18]
In a Wes Anderson movie, it's the last name of Royal, whose brilliant kids have major daddy issues
Tenenbaum
Jessica
|
$1,200
[8]
(Alex Trebek presents from the Harvard Lampoon Building in Cambridge, Massachusetts.) As editor of the "Harvard Lampoon" in the 1970shehad the last word; today he hosts "The Last Word" on MSNBC
Lawrence O'Donnell
|
$1,200
[3]
The Ten Commandments warn against this type of worship
idolatry
Jessica
|
| — |
$2,000
[24]
19 years after his death, Napoleon's remains were returned to France where he was given a state funeral & a new resting place
1840
|
$2,000
[22]
The red & white of its flag are the colors of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, who ruled this country from 1530 to 1798
Malta
Paul
|
$1,600
[17]
The Overlook Hotel was the site where this actor murderously chased his son around a snowy maze in a 1980 movie
Jack Nicholson
Jessica
|
$1,600
[9]
Katia Beauchamp & Hayley Barna are the co-founders of this monthly beauty subscription service
Birchbox
Jessica
|
$1,600
[4]
Completely insufficient, as in a meager sum
paltry
Jessica
|
| — |
DD
$3,000
[14]
The Environmental Protection agency was established
1970
Laurie
|
DD
$2,500
[20]
Religion is important in Tonga; around 1/3 of the population is of this Christian denomination they call Free Wesleyan
Methodist
Jessica
|
$2,000
[19]
In this spoof of music biopics, John C. Reilly as Dewey Cox is repeatedly told by his father, "The wrong kid died!"
Walk Hard
Jessica
|
$2,000
[10]
This Brit, seen here, invented a little thing called the World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee
|
$2,000
[5]
6 functions of an angle, including sine & cosine, are used in this branch of math
trigonometry
Jessica
Laurie
|
A 1964 essay coined this 2-word term for "artistically serious" comic books & endorsed it over "illustories" & "picto-fiction"
graphic novels