Josh Saak game 4.Matt Amodio game 1.Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to Be The Match.
Matt Amodio — a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut
Elizabeth Devereaux — a middle school teacher from Lawrence, Kansas
Josh Saak — a traffic engineer from Boise, Idaho (whose 3-day cash winnings total $66,405)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh | $2,600 | $5,000 | $19,800 |
$24,805
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,000
19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Elizabeth | $2,200 | $3,400 | $12,400 |
$270
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Matt | $4,200 | $7,400 | $20,200 |
$40,400
New champion: $40,400 |
$19,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| MED SCHOOL | SING "OUT" | EXODUS TELLS US... | 2 LETTERS, 3 LETTERS | 15 MINUTES OR LESS | WE GUARANTEE IT |
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$200
[18]
Traditionally taken upon graduating, the modern version of this vow no longer acknowledges Apollo or Asclepius
the Hippocratic Oath
Elizabeth
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$200
[15]
Ed Sheeran won 2015 Song of the Year & Best Solo Pop Performance Grammys for this ruminative tune
"Thinking Out Loud"
Elizabeth
Matt
|
$200
[28]
The Egyptians made thechildrenof Israel to serve, made their lives bitter with hard bondage in mortar & in this
brick
Josh
Elizabeth
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$200
[23]
Put rocks in a drink to serve it this way
on ice
Elizabeth
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$200
[29]
Nic Cage & Angelina Jolie make cars disappear in this title length of time in a 2000 film
60 seconds
Matt
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$200
[30]
"For years politicians have promised" this, Nixon said in 1969--"I'm the first one to be able to deliver it"
the Moon
Josh
Matt
|
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$400
[1]
510 or above (out of a possible 528) is a good score to aim for when you take this 4-letter medical school admissions test
the MCAT
Elizabeth
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$400
[5]
In a 2018 Top 10 tune by The Weeknd, this request to a lover precedes "my name"
call out
|
$400
[27]
"God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of" this body of water
the Red Sea
Elizabeth
Matt
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$400
[6]
A proverb says getting here "early" will help make you robust, rich & smart
to bed
Josh
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$400
[2]
A skilled pro in this job that's done about once a year can take care of one Merino in 3 minutes
a sheep shearer
Josh
|
$400
[7]
Herbert Hoover ran ads in the 1920s promising one of these "for every pot"
a chicken
Elizabeth
|
|
$600
[16]
Third-year students typically begin clinical these to gain experience in many specialties for a few weeks to a few months
rotations
Elizabeth
Matt
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$600
[10]
In 2004 indie rockers Franz Ferdinand declared, "You say you don't know; I say" this title
"Take Me Out"
Matt
|
$600
[26]
"And the Lord said unto Moses", this man "thy brother shall be thy prophet"
Aaron
Matt
|
$600
[3]
This exclamation of enthusiasm or surprise is an interjection followed by a young male
Oh, boy!
Matt
|
$600
[25]
Roger Bannister made history by becoming the first person to do this in less than 4 minutes
run a mile
Matt
|
$600
[8]
In 1964 this Republican candidate promised to end the draft, saying: "The military forces need trained volunteers"
Goldwater
Matt
|
|
$800
[4]
WCC for short, this "colorful" rite of passage for new med students originated at schools like the Univ. of Chicago & Columbia around 1990
a white coat ceremony
Josh
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$800
[9]
Bruno Mars sang, "You make me feel like I've been" this title "for too long"
"Locked Out Of Heaven"
Elizabeth
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$1,000
[20]
"Thou shalt not bear" these 2 words "against thy neighbour"
false witness
Matt
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$800
[12]
Dictionaries that say it expresses dismay & frustration don't quite capture the spirit of this borrowing from Yiddish
oy vey
Matt
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$800
[13]
A fighting penalty in the NHL can net you this much time in the penalty box--just like in the name of a band!
5 minutes
Elizabeth
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$800
[24]
This party that existed from 1848 to 1854 also fittingly promised "free speech, free labor and free men"
the Free-Soil Party
Josh
|
|
$1,000
[22]
As opposed to M.D.s, some students become D.O.s, doctors of this type of medicine
osteopathic doctors
Josh
|
$1,000
[17]
"We can" do this "and get it straight or say goodnight", sang The Beatles in a 1966 No. 1 hit
"We Can Work It Out"
Josh
|
DD
$1,800
[11]
"I will smite all thy borders with" these creatures: "and the river shall bring forth" them "abundantly"
frogs
Matt
|
$1,000
[19]
To Longfellow's Paul Revere, the signal shownheremeant this
by sea
Matt
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$1,000
[14]
For plutonium-228, this interval of time of decay is thought to be about 1.1 seconds
a half-life
Josh
|
$1,000
[21]
"You shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold", said this man in a fiery 1896 speech
Bryan
Matt
|
| EUROPEAN PENINSULAS | BIRDING | MATH IN THE OLD DAYS | THEY'VE GOT AN EGOT | BOOKS OF 1990 | YOU "PIC" IT |
|
$400
[11]
2 nations make up this peninsula whose name is related to that of its Ebro River
the Iberian Peninsula
Josh
|
$400
[28]
The highest-rated these for bird-watching include the Bushnell Legend Ultra HD
binoculars
Josh
|
$400
[12]
The Mayans were using this by the 4th century; the concept of that number didn't make it to Europe until the 1200s or so
zero
Elizabeth
|
$400
[29]
This composer's EGOT includes Tonys for "Evita", "Cats" & "Sunset Boulevard"
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Josh
|
$400
[19]
Alan Moore's dystopian look at a near-future England is called "V for" this
Vendetta
Elizabeth
|
$800
[10]
A Washington State congressman & a friend invented this tennis-like sport in 1965 to entertain their bored families
Pickleball
Josh
|
|
$800
[5]
This 10,400-square-mile peninsula sits between the Black Sea & the sea of Azov
the Crimean Peninsula
Josh
|
$800
[3]
A good beginner's sighting is this largest North American thrush, with its red breast & "cheerio, cheery-up" song
a robin
Josh
|
$800
[4]
An ancient Hindu text calculates the square root of this integer as 1.4142156, which is correct to 5 decimal places
2
Josh
|
$800
[7]
Composer Robert Lopez won both a Grammy & an Oscar for this song from "Frozen"
"Let It Go"
Elizabeth
|
$800
[9]
"The Bourne Identity" & "The Bourne Supremacy" were followed in 1990 by this third entry in the series
The Bourne Ultimatum
Josh
|
$1,200
[22]
Molded jelly made from meat or fish stock
aspic
Elizabeth
|
|
$1,600
[2]
Cape Apostolos Andreas is the easternmost part of this island nation's Karpaz Peninsula, which stretches towards Turkey
Cyprus
Josh
|
$1,200
[27]
birdwatchingdaily.com listed this majestic endangered raptor as a North American bird birdwatchers most want to see
a California condor
Josh
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$1,600
[13]
The Babylonians used base 60, which could be counted on 5 fingers of one hand & the 12 these on 4 fingers of the other
the knuckles
|
$1,200
[8]
For "The Producers", he's won an Oscar, 2 Grammys & 3 Tonys
Mel Brooks
Josh
|
$1,200
[18]
"Barbarians at the Gate" is an expose of the fall of this giant food company behind brands like Oreo & Ritz
Nabisco
Elizabeth
|
$1,600
[23]
These jars used by Ancient Egyptian embalmers got their name from an ancient city
canopic
Matt
|
|
$2,000
[15]
Schleswig & Holstein in northern Germany are at the southern end of this peninsula
Jutland
Matt
|
$1,600
[26]
In 1934 Roger Tory Peterson put out this 2-word type of book "to the Birds", the first of many used by birders
a field guide
Elizabeth
|
$2,000
[14]
Some think Ancient Egyptiansrepresentedfractionsusing symbols from the eye of this falcon god
Horus
Matt
|
$1,600
[20]
Whoopi Goldberg won Emmys for "The View" & for hosting a documentary about this "Gone with the Wind" actress
(Hattie) McDaniel
Josh
Matt
|
$1,600
[17]
This Maeve Binchy novel is about a group of pals attending a Dublin university
Circle of Friends
Matt
|
$2,000
[24]
Now meaning trifling, it was originally used in Louisiana & elsewhere in the South to refer to a coin of little value
picayune
Matt
|
|
DD
$3,400
[1]
The name of this French region that protrudes into the Atlantic has a name related to the land to its north
Brittany
Elizabeth
|
$2,000
[25]
For many birders, their pride & joy is this alliterative "list", a personal history of all bird species they've encountered
a life list
|
DD
$6,000
[6]
Their numerals weren't handy for arithmetic, so ancient Romans did most of their calculating on this device
an abacus
Josh
|
$2,000
[21]
Nov. 8, 2014 was a great day-o for this singer & actor who received an honorary Oscar for his humanitarian work
Belafonte
Josh
|
$2,000
[16]
1990 saw the release of "Postmortem", Patricia Cornwell's first novel featuring this crime-solving medical examiner
Scarpetta
Matt
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Some devotees of this emperor who died in 1975 trace his lineage to King Solomon & the Queen of Sheba
Haile Selassie