Matt Amodio game 29.
Angélica Wilcox — an AV service support team lead from Kansas City, Kansas
Justin Stanley — a data scientist from Vancourver, Washington
Matt Amodio — a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut (whose 28-day cash winnings total $1,004,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $5,600 | $7,000 | $28,000 |
$33,000
29-day champion: $1,037,001 |
$24,600
30 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Justin | $0 | $3,200 | $7,600 |
$5,899
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,600
10 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Angélica | $-1,000 | $0 | $2,800 |
$13
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,400
9 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| SO YOU JUST BOWLED A STRIKE | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS | MOVIE TAGLINES | THEY'RE SORT OF A BIG DEAL | SUFFRAGETTE | "CITY" |
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$200
[30]
Try to match Usain Bolt's famous victory pose, also a move in dancehall culture from this, his home country
Jamaica
Matt
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$200
[26]
It's the longtime member of the percussion section heard here
a triangle
Justin
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$200
[22]
2018:"If they hear you, they hunt you"
A Quiet Place
Justin
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$200
[29]
General & colonel are higher up in the army, but an informal title is this rank "of industry"
captain
Angélica
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$200
[23]
Carrie Chapman Cattled the battle for Tennessee's decisive ratification of the 19th Amendment; this city hasbronzedher & four other leaders
Nashville
Matt
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$200
[27]
In 1789 it became the first capital of the United States under the Constitution
New York City
Matt
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$400
[28]
The "reverse" one of these 2-word actions involves bending the elbow to retract the clenched item
a fist pump
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$400
[25]
Louisiana's state quarter features this brass wind instrument to honor the state's jazz heritage
a trumpet
Angélica
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$600
[19]
1995: "Five criminals. One lineup. No coincidence"
The Usual Suspects
Matt
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$400
[16]
A Japanese word for "squad leader" gives us the alliterative term "head" this
honcho
Angélica
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$400
[14]
A vocal critic of Mussolini's 1935 invasion, suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst is buried in this Ethiopian capital
Addis Ababa
Matt
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$400
[15]
Its flag features 2 big keys that are mentioned in the New Testament
Vatican City
Matt
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$600
[20]
Nothing wrong with the chest-shimmying victory walk of Bill Murray as bowler Ernie McCracken in this movie
Kingpin
Justin
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$600
[24]
A punning song title from Talking Heads is "Sax And" these instruments
Violins
Matt
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$800
[17]
1967: "They're young... they're in love... and they kill people"
Bonnie and Clyde
Matt
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$600
[13]
"The whole" this tortilla-&-sauce food item evolved into "the big" one for somebody in charge
enchilada
Matt
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$600
[11]
Eliza Sproat Turner was a leader in the 1876 woman's congress, held appropriately in this city
Philadelphia
Matt
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$600
[12]
Seen here, Liberation Tower in this city was named for the liberation of its emirate in the 1990s
Kuwait City
Matt
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$800
[18]
As with meeting the queen of England, men may bow & women may do this to their bowling league teammates
curtsy
Justin
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$800
[6]
An engineer named Robert Moog developed this instrument in the 1960s
(an electronic) synthesizer
Matt
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$1,000
[4]
1955: "Teenage terror torn from today's headlines"
Rebel Without a Cause
Angélica
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$800
[10]
Once applied to nobility, this word from Latin for "great" now means a powerful business leader
magnate
Matt
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$800
[8]
Later guillotined, Olympe de Gouges wrote a document of women's rights in 1791, addressing it to this queen
Marie Antoinette
Matt
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$800
[9]
It was built on the site of Tenochtitlan, razed some years before
Mexico City
Matt
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$1,000
[7]
Any number of dances will work, such as this one named for Mr. Fresh
the Dougie
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$1,000
[5]
An orchestral one of these African instruments looks like a xylophone mounted on legs
a marimba
Angélica
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DD
$1,400
[21]
1985:"He's the only kid ever to get into trouble before he was born"
Back to the Future
Justin
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$1,000
[3]
When it means a ski slope feature, this word comes from German; spelled the same & referring to an executive, it comes from Urdu
mogul
Matt
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$1,000
[1]
At this New York place in 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton read the Declaration of Sentiments, modeled on a 1776 document
Seneca Falls
Matt
Angélica
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$1,000
[2]
Soon after the discovery of the Comstock Lode 15 miles to the northeast, its economy grew rapidly
Carson City
Matt
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| AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING | TALK ABOUT THAT WEATHER | ELECTORAL COLLEGE COLLAGE | IT'S A SAIL-EBRATION | DAYTIME TV | A 9-LETTER "N"OUN |
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$400
[24]
This word for pretending to be white is the title of a 1929 novel & the subject of the 2020 bestseller "The Vanishing Half"
passing
Angélica
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$400
[27]
Water moving at 9 feet per second is typical in this alliterative & sudden fast-moving event
a flash flood
Justin
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$400
[28]
It's the only state with more than 50 votes in the Electoral College
California
Matt
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$400
[29]
228 sailing ships, 53 naval vessels & assorted ships from 40+ countries sailed across New York Harbor to celebrate this big birthday
the Bicentennial
Justin
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$400
[25]
Hoda Kotb & Jenna Bush Hager are part of this morning show that's been on since 1952
Today
Matt
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$400
[30]
This fruit may sometimes appear on a peach tree
nectarine
Matt
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$800
[10]
"Singin' and Swingin and "Gettin' Merry like Christmas" is the title of her third autobiography
Maya Angelou
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$800
[23]
Heads up! According to the Natl. Severe Storms Laboratory, hail with a diameter of 4 1/2 inches is comparable in size to this fruit
grapefruit
Justin
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$800
[22]
Electoral votes are tallied in Congress, with this official declaring the results; in 1961 Nixon announced his own loss to Kennedy
the vice president
Angélica
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$800
[26]
Workers cheered as this ship was launched seamlessly on May 31, 1911 from a Belfast shipyard; its maiden voyage didn't go as well
the Titanic
Justin
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$800
[18]
Winning the 2020 Daytime Emmy for Best Entertainment Talk Show host was this newcomer & pop singer
Kelly Clarkson
Angélica
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$800
[19]
This word for a new word actually goes back to the 18th century
neologism
Angélica
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$1,200
[5]
He was the first African American to receive a Harvard Ph.D. & his book of essays "The Souls of Black Folk" was published in 1903
(W.E.B.) Du Bois
Matt
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$1,200
[8]
Scientists still don't fully understand this rare phenomenon that has reportedly even made its wayinsideof houses
ball lightning
Matt
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$1,200
[20]
In 2020 it was the only one of the 4 "I" states to go Democratic, casting its 20 votes for Biden
Illinois
Matt
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$1,200
[21]
A report that this ship was going to be broken up led Oliver Wendell Holmes to celebrate it in a poem
the Constitution
Matt
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$1,200
[2]
This long-running soap opera centers on the daytime dramas of the Abbott & Newman clans
The Young and the Restless
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$1,200
[3]
Name shared by the first operational stealth aircraft & a nocturnal bird, their prey never sees eitheronecoming
Nighthawk
Matt
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$1,600
[4]
A troubled lifelong friendship between 2 women is at the heart of this Nobel Prize winner's novel "Sula"
Morrison
Matt
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$1,600
[7]
It's the 10-letter term for a column of rapidly swirling air occurring over a lake or ocean
waterspout
Matt
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DD
$2,000
[1]
Electors who don't vote for their state's pick are called this "less"; in 2020 the Supreme Court said states may remove them
faithless
Angélica
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$2,000
[15]
This country celebrates the Bluenose, a schooner that dominated 1920s international racing, by depicting it on their dime
Canada
Matt
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$1,600
[17]
Judge Marilyn Milian wields the gavel on this show originally presided over by Judge Wapner
The People's Court
Justin
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$1,600
[11]
It's a feeling of sentimental yearning for the past
nostalgia
Matt
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$2,000
[6]
The first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize, this Chicago poet was featured on a 2012stamp
Gwendolyn Brooks
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$2,000
[9]
In 1985 this western state saw record low & high temperatures: -69 degrees at Peter Sinks & 117 in St. George
Utah
Matt
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$2,000
[14]
Maine & this Midwestern state are the 2 that don't have winner-take-all electoral vote policies
Nebraska
Matt
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DD
$5,000
[13]
In 1944 Margaret Truman broke a bottle against the hull of this battleship during its christening
Missouri
Matt
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$2,000
[16]
A 2020 episode title of his show was "My Husband Blames Me for his Drug Use"
Dr. Phil
Justin
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$2,000
[12]
Seen here is the current version of the new castle that gives this Swiss city its name
Neuchâtel
Matt
Angélica
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A new studio album in 2020 gave him a Top 5 album in 6 consecutive decades, his first in 1975
(Bruce) Springsteen