Matt Amodio game 21.
Nick Auricchio — a social studies teacher from Mission Viejo, California
Maureen Skehan — a research associate from Baltimore, Maryland
Matt Amodio — a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut (whose 20-day cash winnings total $678,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $10,800 | $11,200 | $41,200 |
$61,200
21-day champion: $740,001 |
$30,000
33 R (including 3 DDs), 3 W |
| Maureen | $4,200 | $7,200 | $7,600 |
$15,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,600
15 R, 1 W |
| Nick | $1,400 | $2,400 | $8,000 |
$8,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,000
9 R, 0 W |
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$200
[20]
Truly on a voyage of self-discovery, this Robert Ludlum character has a realization--"The J was for Jason!"
(Jason) Bourne
Matt
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$200
[26]
Firedamp is a dangerous gas found in seams of this stuff in the mines where it's quarried
coal
Matt
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$200
[29]
A 1908 race riot in Springfield, Illinois helped lead to the founding of this civil rights organization the following year
NAACP
Matt
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$200
[28]
Commercials once featured an actual State Farm employee named this, but now he's played by an actor named Kevin
Jake (from State Farm)
Maureen
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$200
[25]
Hasbro pits red vs. yellow:Connect ____
Connect 4
Maureen
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$200
[30]
A minor car accident that presumably dents a protective device
fender bender
Matt
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$400
[19]
A symbologist & a cryptologist deal with a murder at the Louvre in this novel
The Da Vinci Code
Nick
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$400
[21]
Lachrymator is a more formal word for this class of irritants
tear gas
Matt
Maureen
|
$400
[23]
Troops of younger kids in this organization include Daisies & Brownies
the Girl Scouts
Maureen
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$400
[24]
Progressive's Dr. Rick is a self-help authority who keeps you from doing this ("Did he ask for your help?... you don't know him")
turning into your parents
Maureen
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$400
[17]
The cinematic hunt for bin Laden:"____ Dark ____"
Zero Dark Thirty
Maureen
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$400
[27]
This kids' slang meaning extremely simple is in the 1940 movie "The Long Voyage Home", based on Eugene O'Neill's plays
easy-peasy
Maureen
|
|
$800
[4]
Dunne & Dunne! (Nick & Amy) quite appropriately, part one of this novel is "Boy Loses Girl"
Gone Girl
Matt
|
$600
[11]
It's the alliterative term for a gas that absorbs infrared radiation & re-radiates it back to Earth's surface
a greenhouse gas
Maureen
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$600
[22]
In 2019 David R. Malpass became the president of this global finance organization that's affiliated with the United Nations
the World Bank
Matt
Maureen
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$600
[15]
In 2008 this group of prehistoric pitchmen for GEICO were elected to the Madison Avenue Walk of Fame
(the) Cavemen
Nick
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$600
[16]
Time to get hitched on TLC:"____ Day Fiance"
90
Nick
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$600
[18]
Let's "give 'em the old" this, showy action that causes a distraction
razzle-dazzle
Matt
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$1,000
[3]
Do you wanna build "The Snowman", in which Jo Nesbø sends this inspector with an alliterative name after a Norwegian serial killer
Harry Hole
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$800
[7]
It's the second-most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere; scientists used to think it was No. 3 in the Sun, but now they're not sure
oxygen
Matt
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$800
[12]
Here'sthe logo of this organization
AHA (the American Heart Association)
Matt
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$800
[14]
He's a 5-star insurance pitch cartoon with a big mustache
the General
Nick
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$800
[9]
Actor & OutKast:Andre ____
3000
Maureen
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$800
[8]
This phrase for magic & deception is also a 1993 Bette Midler film title
Hocus Pocus
Maureen
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|
DD
$5,400
[13]
"Marko Ramius of the Soviet navy was dressed for the Arctic conditions normal to the... submarine base" in this book
The Hunt for Red October
Matt
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$1,000
[1]
NH3is this strong-smelling gas; the cleaning fluid is it dissolved in water
ammonia
Maureen
|
$1,000
[6]
Prince Philip was mentored in bird-watching by Peter Scott, the first chairman of the WWF, short for this group
World Wildlife Fund
Matt
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$1,000
[10]
This actor portrays professor Nathaniel Burke, your guide through some bizarre mishaps that were covered by Farmers Insurance
(J.K.) Simmons
Matt
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$1,000
[2]
Groove metal band:____ Finger Death Punch
Five
Matt
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$1,000
[5]
"Let's get down to the" this, the heart of the matter
nitty-gritty
Maureen
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$400
[29]
In between stints as prime minister, this Brit won a medal in 1949 when his shorthorn cow, Gratwicke Beatrice 2nd, turned heads
Churchill
Matt
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$400
[30]
Elizabeth Bishop's poem about this state mentions alligators, sandbars, swamps & mosquitoes
Florida
Matt
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$400
[9]
They're the twice-married Mexican power couple seen here
Kahlo & Rivera
Matt
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$400
[27]
In this family, Henry was a historian; his grandfather & great-grandfather had both been U.S. presidents
Adams
Matt
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$400
[28]
Momiji Nishiya, at 13 the youngest gold medalist since 1936, came down the rail to win gold in the street type of this debuting sport
skateboarding
Maureen
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$400
[26]
This word means drunk
intoxicated
Matt
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|
$800
[21]
In 1892 John Hitz, from Alexander Graham Bell's Institute for the Deaf, gifted her a very special "touch watch"
Helen Keller
Nick
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$800
[22]
Clingmans Dome, the highest point in Tennessee, is also the highest point on this trail that goes from Georgia to Maine
the Appalachian Trail
Nick
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$800
[8]
He painted "Lady with a Fan" during his Rose Period
(Pablo) Picasso
Nick
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$800
[23]
Last name of siblings Albert, Otto, Alfred, Charles & John, who in 1884 started the "World's Greatest Shows" circus
Ringling
Matt
Maureen
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$800
[24]
Not in a driveway but in an arena, a shot by Karlis "Batman" Lasmanis gave Latvia the 1st men's gold in this form of basketball
3 versus 3 (3 on 3)
Matt
|
$800
[25]
It's a more general synonymous term for a vaccination
inoculation
Maureen
|
|
$1,200
[19]
Lewis & Clark really wanted a fur robe from the Chinook; they got it by trading this woman's blue beaded belt
Sacagawea
Matt
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$1,200
[20]
It's the only Great Lake that doesn't cross into Canadian territory
(Lake) Michigan
Matt
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$1,200
[4]
This surrealist painter & printmaker was born in Figueres, Spain in 1904 & died there in 1989
(Salvador) Dalí
Matt
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$1,200
[12]
The members of this "First Family of Jazz" do toot their own horns, with Wynton on trumpet & Branford on sax
Marsalis
Matt
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$1,200
[15]
Not an anthem but Tchaikovsky was played at gold medal ceremonies for the ROC, short for this team, the result of a ban
Russian Olympic Committee
Matt
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$1,200
[7]
It's 4 letters longer than lazy or idle & means the same thing
indolent
Matt
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$1,600
[18]
In 1989 this Japanese emperor was buried with a Mickey Mouse watch he got on a visit to the United States
Hirohito
Nick
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$2,000
[16]
Fittingly, it's from the top of Idaho's He Devil Mountain that this deepest river gorge in North America plunges 8000 feet
Hells Canyon
Matt
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$1,600
[2]
A grave marker for this centenarian says, "Her primitive paintings... preserved the scene of a vanishing countryside"
Grandma Moses
Matt
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$1,600
[11]
Kykuit Estate in New York's Hudson Valley was a "center" of 4 generations of this family's life
the Rockefellers
|
$1,600
[14]
This martial art, born on Okinawa, made its Olympic debut & Ryo Kiyuna, born on Okinawa, won gold
karate
Nick
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$1,600
[6]
In legal speak, it refers to a person guilty of arson or to a device designed to harm people or property by means of fire
incendiary
Matt
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$2,000
[17]
Now restored, aspyglassbelonging to Napoleon was left on this Mediterranean isle after his flight from there
Elba
Matt
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DD
$6,000
[3]
This river flows through Richmond, Virginia as well as a historic colonial settlement that bears its name
(the) James (River)
Matt
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$2,000
[5]
Commenting on hisportraitby this man, Bobby Kennedy said he thought it was marvelous, "but I don't have red spots all over my face"
Lichtenstein
Matt
|
DD
$4,000
[13]
The first 3 doctors who worked at St. Mary's hospital in Rochester, Minnesota all had this last name
Mayo
Matt
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$2,000
[1]
The first Hmong-American Olympian, she won all-around gold in gymnastics
(Suni) Lee
Matt
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$2,000
[10]
This French loanword means indifferent or nonchalant
insouciant
Matt
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In addition to knowing many languages & making up his own, he also taught language at the universities of Leeds & Oxford
J.R.R. Tolkien