Ryan Hemmel game 4.
Ben Ring — an accountant originally from Allentown, Pennsylvania
Tracy Arwari — a college administrator originally from Newport News, Virginia
Ryan Hemmel — a legal technology professional from Los Angeles, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $78,203)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan | $5,400 | $6,600 | $25,800 |
$26,323
4-day champion: $104,526 |
$20,600
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Tracy | $-400 | $300 | $4,100 |
$1,599
2nd place: $2,000 |
$4,400
10 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ben! | $1,600 | $2,600 | $6,600 |
$442
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,600
14 R, 4 W |
| ANNUAL EVENTS | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES | THE BIRDS & THE BEES | MULTICOLORED | SPORTS JOES | YIDDISH |
|
$200
[13]
In fall grab your beer stein & head to Munich for this 2-week-long celebration
Oktoberfest
Ben!
|
$200
[15]
"Thin Man" author Samuel Hammett
Dashiell
Tracy
|
$200
[26]
Big bird, indeed! One of these can grow to over 8 feet tall
an ostrich
Tracy
|
$200
[16]
The Ottoman Empire wanted the Red Cross to be named this in the Islamic world, & eventually, it happened
the Red Crescent
Tracy
|
$200
[5]
He was MVP of Super Bowl III
(Joe) Namath
Ryan
|
$200
[25]
There's no guilt in knowing that "gelt" is this; you'll receive some with a correct response
money
Tracy
|
|
$400
[11]
An annual competition for solvers of these began in 1978; points were given for correct letters in the grids
crossword puzzles
Ryan
|
$400
[7]
Novelist Edna Proulx
Annie
|
DD
$500
[27]
Mason & carpenter bees are classified as this type that practices social distancing full time
solitary bees
Tracy
|
$400
[17]
Someone cowardly has one of these "down his back", often "a mile wide"
a yellow streak
Ryan
|
$400
[4]
He was MVP of Super Bowl XXIV
Joe Montana
Ben!
|
$400
[24]
Sometimes in the middle of the night I'll head to the kitchen & do some of this, from the Yiddish for "snacking"
noshing
|
|
$600
[8]
Lyon'sFête des Lumièresis held around December the 8th, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception which celebrates her
the Virgin Mary
Ryan
|
$600
[6]
Western scribe Pearl Grey
Zane
Tracy
|
$600
[28]
Seen here is the roseate species of this bird, named for the shape of itsbeak
the spoonbill
Tracy
|
$600
[18]
This colorful group won over 8% of the vote in Germany in 1987
the Greens
Ben!
|
$600
[3]
He was world heavyweight champ from 1937 to 1949
(Joe) Louis
Ryan
|
$600
[23]
This verb means to haul or move with effort
to schlep
Ben!
|
|
$800
[9]
The Empire Polo Club in Indio, California hosts this annual music festival as well as the Stagecoach Festival
Coachella
Ryan
|
$800
[10]
Pulitzer winner Arch Whitehead
Colson
|
$800
[29]
The peregrine species of this bird is known to dive at 200 miles per hour
a falcon
Ryan
|
$800
[19]
The Marcels sang of this celestial body, "you saw me standing alone, without a dream in my heart"
a blue moon
Ben!
|
$800
[2]
The Yankees retired his No. 5 in 1952
DiMaggio
Ryan
|
$800
[22]
The opening to "Laverne & Shirley" used these 2 Yiddish words, one meaning an oaf, the other, an unlucky person
schlemiel & schlimazel
|
|
$1,000
[12]
From mid-March to mid-May, Keukenhof Gardens in the Netherlands hosts an annual festival of these flowers
tulips
Ryan
|
$1,000
[14]
The dramatic Johan Strindberg
August
Ryan
|
$1,000
[30]
About 4 times larger than a honeybee, the rare Wallace's giantis native to this country's North Moluccas Islands
Indonesia
|
$1,000
[20]
Someone who is incredibly shy can be a wallflower or one of these purple plants
a shrinking violet
|
$1,000
[1]
In 2011 he battled a vocal cord virus while doing play-by-play for FOX
Joe Buck
Ben!
|
$1,000
[21]
This word for cheap & shoddily made goods now usually refers to cheap or shoddily made entertainment
schlock
Ben!
|
| GEOGRAPHY | IT CAME FROM CROWDFUNDING! | 3 C's | WORDS IN THE SONG | HAVING AN ARGUMENT | A ROYAL PAIN |
|
$400
[1]
New Hampshire shares a 58-mile border with this Canadian province
Quebec
Ben!
|
$400
[23]
Before it was an Emmy-winning TV show, this was a one-woman show Phoebe Waller-Bridge partially funded on Kickstarter
Fleabag
Ryan
Ben!
|
$400
[6]
Adjective meaning so small it can't be seen with the naked eye
microscopic
Ben!
|
$400
[8]
"I just met you & this is crazy, but here's my number"
"Call Me Maybe"
Ryan
|
$400
[30]
"My car has started every day. So my car will start today" is an example of this type of argument, the counterpart of deductive
inductive
Ben!
|
$400
[16]
His mummy revealed that this "boy king" of Ancient Egypt had a cleft palate, foot deformities, malaria & a busted leg
King Tut
Ryan
|
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
One of the 2 landlocked South American nations; both have Spanish & Guarani as official languages
(1 of) Paraguay (or Bolivia)
Tracy
|
$800
[22]
A Kickstarter success was the card game called "Exploding" these cute little animals; laser pointers can defuse them
kittens
Tracy
|
$800
[7]
3-"c" word for the thin red feature on top of a rooster's head
cockscomb
Tracy
|
$800
[9]
"But I didn't shoot the deputy"
"I Shot The Sheriff"
Ben!
|
$1,200
[28]
To do this to "the question" is a logical error in argument, but now it's often used to mean simply "bring up the question"
to beg
Ryan
|
$800
[25]
The madness of this king, perhaps caused by porphyria, a buildup of natural chemicals, ended on Jan. 29, 1820
King George III
Ben!
|
|
$1,200
[4]
Port cities on this sea include Makhachkala, Russia & Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan
the Caspian Sea
Tracy
|
$1,200
[21]
This Kristen Bell detective show was on UPN & The CW before it was a Kickstarter-funded movie; season 4 was on Hulu
Veronica Mars
Tracy
|
$1,200
[13]
It's a pastoral letter written by the pope on matters of doctrine
encyclical
|
$1,200
[10]
"I wanna feel the heat with somebody"
"I Wanna Dance With Somebody"
Ryan
Tracy
|
$1,600
[27]
An argument a fortiori, from Latin for this comparative word, is like "If turtles are slow, turtles in molasses must also be slow"
stronger
|
$1,200
[17]
This Siberian peasant helped ease the suffering of the czar's hemophiliac son
Rasputin
Ryan
|
|
$1,600
[3]
Home of the Dalai Lama until he fled the Chinese occupation in 1959, Potala Palace towers over this city
Lhasa
Ben!
|
$1,600
[20]
This meal-replacement drink isn't made from people but sounds like a "green" sci-fi food that was
Soylent
Ryan
|
$1,600
[14]
In Italian cuisine, this preparation of thinly sliced beef makes for appetizing appetizers
carpaccio
Ryan
Ben!
|
$1,600
[11]
"Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane"
"I Wanna Be Sedated"
Ben!
|
$2,000
[26]
This Latin phrase once meant arguing by appealing to someone's personal feelings; now it means an irrelevant personal attack
ad hominem
Ryan
|
$1,600
[18]
In 336 B.C. Pausanias, a young Macedonian, killed this king; no trial--the assassin got killed on the spot
Philip (II)
Ryan
|
|
$2,000
[2]
This nation's 81 provinces include Batman, Van & Hatay
Turkey
Ben!
|
$2,000
[24]
Long after he was "Rockin' In The Free World", this singer raised more than $6 million for Pono, his music player
Neil Young
Ben!
|
$2,000
[15]
Adjective for a letdown, like the end of "The Epic of Gilgamesh"--the hero's quest for a magic plant... ends without it
anticlimactic
Ryan
|
$2,000
[12]
"It's a black fly in your Chardonnay"
"Ironic"
Ryan
|
DD
$6,000
[29]
Senator, 2 minutes for this segment of a debate, to attack elements of the prior argument such as its assumptions or its relevance
a rebuttal
Ryan
|
$2,000
[19]
In 2012 some Spaniards were not sympathetic to this 74-year-old king who injured his hip on an elephant-hunting expedition
Juan Carlos
|
In the original script for this 1975 film, the title object was finally found in London's Harrods department store
Monty Python and the Holy Grail