Matt Amodio game 31.
Adriana Granados — a student advisor from Fontana, California
Daniel Pecoraro — a nonprofit manager and tour guide from Brooklyn, New York
Matt Amodio — a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut (whose 30-day cash winnings total $1,107,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $10,400 | $12,400 | $42,600 |
$50,600
31-day champion: $1,158,001 |
$31,200
36 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W |
| Daniel | $2,200 | $5,000 | $15,000 |
$5,378
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,000
17 R, 2 W |
| Adriana | $0 | $600 | $1,800 |
$1,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,800
4 R, 1 W |
| I CAN NAME THAT NO. 1 '80s HIT | THE NON-COASTAL U.S. | WEBCAMS | 3-LETTER VERBS | MONKEY | BUSINESS |
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$200
[28]
"Here's a little song I wrote, you might want to sing it note for note"
"Don't Worry, Be Happy"
Adriana
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$200
[27]
Things to do in this city include seeing its mint that opened in 1906 & taking in a game at Coors Field
Denver
Adriana
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$200
[29]
Via a webcam in the north of Scotland, keep an eye out for this legendary creature in its watery abode
the Loch Ness Monster
Daniel
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$200
[26]
To solemnly pledge to undertake an action
vow
Matt
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$200
[30]
Unknown to science until 2007, the Lesula monkey was discovered in this Democratic Republic of Central Africa
DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Matt
|
$200
[21]
There are 3 of the same vowel in this term for the exclusive control of a product or service by one business or group
a monopoly
Adriana
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$400
[22]
"It's the thrill of the fight, rising up to the challenge of our rival"
"Eye Of The Tiger"
Matt
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$400
[23]
This state is the nation's least populous at just under 600,000
Wyoming
Matt
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$400
[25]
In 2017 more than 14 million people tuned in live on the day that April, one of these creatures, gave birth
giraffe
Matt
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$400
[17]
To deplete something's energy or weaken it gradually
sap
Daniel
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$400
[24]
The bellow of this Western Hemisphere dweller is described as deafening, so we're seeing the monkey, not hearing it
howler
Matt
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$400
[20]
Under this "liability", a shareholder cannot lose more money than they've invested in a company
limited
Daniel
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$600
[18]
"You know I feel so dirty when they start talking cute, I wanna tell her that I love her but the point is probably moot"
"Jessie's Girl"
Daniel
|
$800
[2]
This large national memorial that's about 25 miles southwest of Rapid City, South Dakota was named for a New York lawyer
Mount Rushmore
Matt
|
$600
[16]
In 2019 a webcam captured the fire that collapsed this 850-year-old cathedral's spire & roof
Notre Dame
Daniel
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$600
[14]
To clear a pool table by hitting all the balls in the pockets in a row
run
Matt
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$600
[15]
Like a group of Girl or Boy Scouts, a group of monkeys is known as this & can have as many as 800 members
troop
Matt
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$600
[19]
This type of account book listing debts & credits dates back at least to the Renaissance as shown here
a ledger
Daniel
|
|
$800
[13]
"There's a choice we're making, we're saving our own lives, it's true we'll make a better day, just you and me"
"We Are The World"
Daniel
|
$1,000
[1]
Not to be confused with the Boston area's Mass Ave, Mass Street is a center of University of Kansas life in this city
Lawrence
Daniel
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$800
[11]
In 2021 this "hot spot" on Sicily put on quite a show for viewers of its webcam
Mount Etna
Daniel
|
$800
[9]
To tell an insignificant or childish lie
fib
Matt
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$800
[12]
Spider monkeys are susceptible to this Anopheles mosquito-borne disease & are used in lab studies to combat it
malaria
Matt
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$800
[5]
From the Latin for "untouchable", it's a term for assets such as patents, logos or customer love
intangible
Daniel
|
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$1,000
[10]
"Did you ever know that you're my hero? & everything I would like to be, I can fly higher than an eagle, for you are the... "
"Wind Beneath My Wings"
Daniel
|
DD
$3,800
[8]
Oh, for an ocean breeze! In August 2020 the average high in this southwestern capital city was 111 degrees Fahrenheit
Phoenix
Matt
|
$1,000
[6]
Look out for sharks on an underwater cam 34 miles off the coast of this state's Cape Fear
North Carolina
Matt
|
$1,000
[3]
To add additional unjustified expenses to an account
pad
Matt
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$1,000
[4]
This shy & reclusive monkey seenherelives in equatorial rain forest & is known for its colorful face
a mandrill
Daniel
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$1,000
[7]
The 2017 tax bill changed things for these businesses so-named because their revenue goes right to the tax returns of owners
pass-through
Matt
|
| SEE, IT STARTS WITH "CL" | IN THE TV KITCHEN | EUROPEAN HISTORY | I NOMINATE YOU FOR A NOBEL PRIZE! | SOUTHERN LITERATURE | CITY WORDS |
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$400
[30]
The early Renoir seenhereis titled this type of space "in the Woods"
Clearing
Matt
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$400
[27]
Though this "Master Chef" judge was brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, his language isn't exactly Shakespearean
(Gordon) Ramsay
Matt
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$400
[28]
With a 72-year reign over France from 1643 to 1715, he's the longest-ruling king in European history
Louis XIV
Matt
Adriana
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$400
[26]
How sweet! In 1919 Max Planck & this other German physicist nominated each other for Nobel prizes
Einstein
Matt
Daniel
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$400
[25]
Inspired by the author's hometown of Monroeville, Maycomb, Alabama is the setting for this 1960 classic
To Kill a Mockingbird
Matt
|
$400
[29]
Harmony, the opposite of discord
concord
Matt
|
|
$800
[24]
As it reaches into the sky, it makes sense for the highestpeakin Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains to be named for this object
clouds
Matt
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$800
[19]
After taking things "One Day at a Time" in the '80s, she started doing her "Home Cooking" on the Food Network
Bertinelli
Matt
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$800
[10]
Seen here is a tsunami map of the great earthquake of this European capital that took place in 1755
Lisbon
Matt
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$800
[22]
Pearl Buck, W.H. Auden & C.S. Lewis all nominated this "North of Boston" poet for Literature, but he never won
(Robert) Frost
Daniel
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$800
[21]
14-year-old Lily finds her way to Tiburon, S.C. & the Boatwright sisters in Sue Monk Kidd's "The Secret Life of" these
Bees
Matt
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$800
[23]
A hanging sculpture moved by air currents
mobile
Matt
|
|
$1,200
[20]
Bunratty Castle, the most complete one in Ireland, is one of the many attractions of this county
Clare
Matt
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$1,200
[2]
Because of Pillsbury this competition show from across the pond has a slightly different title for U.S. viewing
Great British Bake Off
Matt
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$1,200
[5]
After the second of these wars between Carthage & Rome, Spain was divided into provinces called Hispania Ulterior & Citerior
Punic Wars
Matt
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$1,600
[11]
It might ring a bell that 33 people nominated this Russian for the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1901; he won it in 1904
(Ivan) Pavlov
Matt
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$1,200
[17]
Colson Whitehead's novel about these "Boys" is based on abuse & worse at a real reform school in the Jim Crow Era
Nickel
Matt
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$1,200
[18]
A flat-topped landform wider than a butte
mesa
Daniel
|
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$1,600
[9]
Artists often depicted this muse of history keeping her records
Clio
Matt
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$1,600
[1]
In 2021 this actor went "Searching for Italy" on CNN, enjoying family kitchens & some amazing scenery
Stanley Tucci
Adriana
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$1,600
[3]
In 2011, Czechs observed a period ofmourningafter the death of this president, poet & playwright
(Václav) Havel
Matt
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$2,000
[14]
When Luigi Pirandello won in 1934, he was nominated by this countryman, a 1909 winner for physics
Marconi
Daniel
|
$2,000
[13]
Originally in a Savannah cemetery, a mysterious statue called "Bird Girl" appears on the cover of this John Berendt bestseller
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Matt
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$1,600
[8]
A luminous event in the upper atmosphere
aurora
Daniel
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$2,000
[15]
It's basically acherry pie with a fancy French name
clafoutis
Daniel
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$2,000
[16]
Mariska Hargitay & Michelle Obama have been guests on Ina Garten's show called this, also an Ava Gardner title role
Barefoot Contessa
Matt
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$2,000
[6]
A famous one of these 4-letter groups assembled at Worms in 1521
a diet
Daniel
|
DD
$5,000
[12]
In 1962 JFK nominated this first lady from an earlier administration for the Nobel Peace Prize
Eleanor Roosevelt
Matt
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DD
$6,000
[4]
Set in rural Georgia, this novel told in the form of letters won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Color Purple
Matt
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$2,000
[7]
A dessert of biscuit or ladyfinger with cream filling
a charlotte
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The Hippocrene Spring, sacred to the Muses, was so named because this offspring of Medusa brought it into being
Pegasus