Courtney Shah game 2.Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to Odyssey Atlanta.
Xiao Stroming — a homemaker from Kildeer, Illinois
Jay Morris — a senior client consultant from San Rafael, California
Courtney Shah — a community college instructor from Portland, Oregon (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Courtney | $1,800 | $5,200 | $13,200 |
$23,700
2-day champion: $39,100 |
$12,000
22 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Jay | $4,000 | $3,800 | $11,800 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,800
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Xiao | $600 | $1,400 | $7,000 |
$799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,000
9 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER | A NON-ALCOHOLIC CATEGORY | POP CULTURE RELATIVES? | SO CLOSE... | HERE'S YOUR CONSTELLATION PRIZE |
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$200
[1]
These are named Khufu, Khafre & Menkaure, to correspond to the pharaohs whom they were built to honor
the Pyramids
Jay
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$200
[25]
A religious ceremony & an inflated vehicle part
tire & rite
Courtney
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$200
[24]
As a machine, this 3-letter word doesn't pair with tonic; it removes seeds from cotton
a gin
Courtney
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$200
[10]
Movie characters cross over when a fedora-wearing archaeologist from 1981 sweeps a title diarist from 2001 off her feet
Indiana & Bridget Jones
Courtney
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$200
[11]
Not necessarily lawbreakers, close friends can be described as being "thick as" these
thieves
Courtney
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$200
[23]
Gotta fly now! Of course Aquila, this bird, had the stuff to make it in the starry night
an eagle
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$400
[6]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Great Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary.) Here in Budapest is a memorial to the more than half million Hungarian Jews who perished in the Holocaust; appropriately, the tree with the names of victims inscribed on its leaves is of this 2-word mournful variety
a weeping willow
Courtney
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$400
[27]
4,840 square yards of land & a type of athletic contest
acre & race
Xiao
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$400
[18]
There is absolutely no brandy in this cereal company's Apple Jacks
Kellogg's
Xiao
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$400
[4]
It's pretty obvious Captain America's alter ego & the man with a TV "Neighborhood" are both superheroes, so maybe cousins too?
Steve & Fred Rogers
Jay
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$400
[12]
There's a car part in this repetitive term that describes automobiles in gridlock
bumper to bumper
Jay
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$400
[19]
You, the ram with the Golden Fleece, strong work! You're in the heavens now as this constellation
Aries
Courtney
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$600
[7]
There's a memorial tower to this inventor at Menlo Park, New Jersey, site of his lab
Edison
Jay
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$600
[28]
A small unit of measure & a lower part of your face
inch & chin
Courtney
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$600
[17]
Fra Angelico created many of these plaster wall paintings, but none were done using hazelnut liqueur
a fresco
Courtney
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$600
[3]
The diva who sang "Love Takes Time", comes on down! & hangs out with the host of "The Price is Right"
Mariah & Drew Carey
|
$800
[14]
It'sthe alliterative contest-ending evidence seen here
a photo finish
Courtney
Jay
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$600
[20]
Congrats, Sagitta! As one of these projectiles used by Hercules or Cupid, your place in the heavens is secured
an arrow
Courtney
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$800
[9]
Hanoi is home to this leader's mausoleum; visitors can see his preserved remains lying in a glass coffin
Ho Chi Minh
Xiao
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$800
[29]
Slang for a look, as in "take a ____ at this", & the exposure to risk
gander & danger
Courtney
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$800
[8]
Without the help of melon liqueur, in 1989 Midori Ito became the first Asian world champion in this winter sport
figure skating
Courtney
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$800
[2]
We'd actually love to see a wacky family sitcom with Al Pacino's "Scarface" character & Miley Cyrus' TV one
Tony Hannah Montana
Xiao
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$1,000
[15]
We're so close, we're separated by one of these tiny units equal to .1 nanometer & named for a Swedish physicist
an angstrom
|
$800
[21]
Jason put in a good word for Vela, so you can hop on up there as the sail of this ship
the Argo
Jay
|
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$1,000
[26]
A memorial to this president in a square across from the White House includes enemy cannons he captured in 1818
(Andrew) Jackson
Courtney
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$1,000
[30]
Thesetwo creatures
a hare & a rhea
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$1,000
[16]
In Germany, jägermeisters were in charge of regulating this pastime, not handing out shots
hunting
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$1,000
[5]
The 2 "Property Brothers" could help Steve Carell's "Office" role set up a new plasma TV in his condo (we need all 3 names)
Jonathan, Drew & Michael Scott
Courtney
Xiao
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DD
$1,600
[13]
One of these of "the first kind" means seeing a UFO in some sort of detail
a close encounter
Jay
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$1,000
[22]
Our favorite Greek god of medicine, take your place in the sky as Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer
Aesculapius
Courtney
Jay
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| PAST LIVES | MEDITERRANEAN GEOGRAPHY | LIT-POURRI | AVIATION | FORE! NO, 5 GOLF MOVIES | OK, YOU CAN "BOO"! |
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$400
[11]
Benedict Arnold co-led this militia from Vermont that had less than a hundred men when it took Fort Ticonderoga in 1775
the Green Mountain Boys
Jay
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$400
[25]
Smaller than its neighbors, this northernmost African nation has a coastline that long attracted conquerors
Tunisia
Courtney
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$400
[10]
His follow-up to "A Christmas Carol" was "The Chimes", a "story of some bells that rang an old year out and a new year in"
(Charles) Dickens
Courtney
|
$400
[26]
This airline founded in 1932 in Anchorage was the first U.S. one to have online ticket sales
Alaska Air
Courtney
|
$400
[5]
A golfer isn't in the swing of things, so a mystical caddy played by Will Smith helps out in "The Legend of" him
Bagger Vance
Xiao
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$400
[20]
When something comes back at you figuratively or literally, mate
boomerang
Courtney
|
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$800
[13]
One obituary said, "He is believed to have lived on the top floor of the Xanadu Princess Hotel in Freeport, Bahamas since 1973"
(Howard) Hughes
Jay
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$1,200
[22]
The harbor town of Portofinois in the region known as the Italianthis, on the Ligurian Sea
Riviera
Jay
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$1,200
[7]
Sara Crewe is the title lass in this beloved children's book by Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Little Princess
Courtney
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$800
[27]
Around 1295 Marco Polo reported witnessing these used to carry men aloft in China
kites
Jay
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$800
[1]
In "Caddyshack", he says, "Cinderella story, outta no where. A former greenskeeper... about to become the Masters champion"
Bill Murray
Courtney
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$800
[16]
Footwear name for a frontier cemetery
Boot Hill
|
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$1,200
[17]
Emilio Mola is credited with this 2-word ordinal phrase for a group working undercover to aid an enemy of their nation
fifth column
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$1,600
[23]
Thisnation of the western part of the Balkan Peninsula sits opposite Italy on the Strait of Otranto
Albania
|
$1,600
[8]
In this novel by Edith Wharton, the title character & Mattie Silver crash their sled in the woods
Ethan Frome
Jay
|
$1,200
[28]
Wind & clouds are 2 things pilots use to determine this "altitude" where they'll level off
cruising
Jay
|
$1,200
[2]
In 1930 he became golf's first winner of the grand slam; Jim Caviezel portrayed his "Stroke of Genius" in a 2004 film
(Bobby) Jones
Xiao
|
$1,200
[15]
This 2-syllable sports exclamation took off when Stuart Scott used it on ESPN
boo-yah!
Courtney
|
|
$1,600
[18]
Last name of father & son John & Washington, who teamed up to build the Cincinnati-Covington Bridge & then the Brooklyn
Roebling
|
DD
$2,000
[21]
8 miles wide at its narrowest, this strait separates Europe & Africa
the Strait of Gibraltar
Courtney
|
DD
$2,000
[6]
Gandhi said this 1849 essay by Henry David Thoreau "left a deep impression upon me"
Civil Disobedience
Xiao
|
— |
$1,600
[3]
In "Tin Cup", this actor finally makes it over the water to take a memorable 12 on the final hole
(Kevin) Costner
Jay
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$1,600
[12]
Adjective for rude & thoughtless behavior
boorish
Courtney
|
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$2,000
[19]
In 1947 Fidel Castro joined an attempt to invade this nearby island nation & overthrow General Rafael Trujillo
the Dominican Republic
Courtney
|
$2,000
[24]
Between 1832 & 1947 Greece more than doubled its size; Macedonia & this largest island were added to its territory in 1913
Crete
Xiao
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$2,000
[9]
The Pen/Faulkner Award, for American fiction, has twice gone to this man--for "Billy Bathgate" & "The March"
E.L. Doctorow
Xiao
|
— |
$2,000
[4]
The 1953 golf comedy saw this man play "The Caddy" to his cool friend Dean Martin
(Jerry) Lewis
Xiao
|
$2,000
[14]
This type of search uses modifiers like "and", "not" & "or"
Boolean
Jay
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A blue pigment & a shade of blue popular in shirts are named for these, the 2 opposing nations in an 1870-71 war
France & Prussia