Matt Amodio game 33.
Samantha Wells — a graduate student from Urbana, Illinois
Thomas Dai — a Ph.D. student from Cambridge, Massachusetts
Matt Amodio — a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut (whose 32-day cash winnings total $1,212,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $6,800 | $10,400 | $35,400 |
$55,400
33-day champion: $1,267,801 |
$35,200
41 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Thomas | $2,200 | $2,600 | $2,200 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,200
6 R, 3 W |
| Samantha | $1,800 | $2,000 | $5,200 |
$4,700
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,200
6 R, 0 W |
| 1871--150 YEARS AGO | SOME FUN & GAMES | SPIN CYCLE | GERUNDS | FOR YOUR REFERENCE | WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE |
|
$200
[29]
In Brooklyn this impresario opened his circus, calling it a traveling museum, menagerie, caravan & hippodrome
(P.T.) Barnum
Matt
|
$200
[30]
In blackjack this alliterative phrase means betting your original amount again & getting just one more card
doubling (double) down
Matt
|
$200
[22]
You'll also need handsticks if you're buying these to spin in your juggling act, as Senor Wences did
plates
Matt
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$200
[27]
Julia Child called the book titled "Joy of" this "a fundamental resource"
Cooking
Samantha
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$200
[26]
"Cyrus, epirus, papyrus, virus" is an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of these
Rhymes
Thomas
|
$200
[28]
2018:"Ant-Man andthe ____ "
Wasp
Matt
Thomas
|
|
$400
[19]
William Woods Holden of North Carolina became the USA's first governor removed from office via this process
impeachment
Matt
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$400
[20]
You open an imaginary curtain to indicate the category is a play title in this game; first word...!
Charades
Matt
|
$400
[21]
A spin is named for Denise Biellmann, a Swiss star in this sport
figure skating
Thomas
|
$400
[23]
Of all sad words of tongue or sign, the saddest are "We no longer validate" this
parking
Matt
|
$400
[24]
John was the first name of this Massachusetts bookseller who published his first volume of quotations in 1855
(John) Bartlett
Matt
|
$400
[25]
2018:"The Girl in____ ____ ____"
the Spider's Web
Matt
|
|
$600
[15]
March 21 saw the first meeting of a united Germany's Reichstag, or parliament, with this man as the first chancellor
Bismarck
Matt
|
$600
[17]
The heads of 4 amphibious ungulates gobble up marbles in this Hasbro game
Hungry Hungry Hippos
Matt
|
$600
[18]
A story says Babe Ruth's eyesight was so good he could read the label on one of these records of his day named for its RPM
78
Matt
|
$600
[11]
A recital of a literary work, or a service performed by a psychic
a reading
Thomas
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$600
[16]
The first book with this repetitive title was published in London in 1849; today it's followed by "in Dentistry", among many others
Who's Who
|
$600
[9]
1938, a Disney"Silly Symphony":"____ and the Flame"
Moth
Matt
|
|
$800
[13]
This reporter for the New York Herald seenheremade his way to Lake Tanganyika & a memorable encounter
(Henry Morton) Stanley
Matt
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$800
[7]
Based on a Mongol attack on Japan in 1274,"Ghost of Tshushima"has you battle as one of these & struggle to live to their code
a samurai
Thomas
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$800
[12]
In the movie "White Nights", Mikhail Baryshnikov does a 3,960-degree turn, 11 in a row of these
pirouettes
Matt
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$800
[10]
Freefalling & the canopy ride are segments of this activity
skydiving
Matt
Thomas
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$800
[14]
He divided the contents of his first thesaurus into 6 classes, just as his hero Linnaeus had done with animals
Roget
Matt
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$800
[8]
2002, desert battles in the ancient world:"The ____ King"
Scorpion
Samantha
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|
DD
$1,000
[1]
This performance space that seats more than 5,000 was opened by Queen Victoria
Royal Albert Hall
Matt
|
$1,000
[5]
A "red snake" bet in this wheel game winds through 3 columns from 1 to 34
roulette
Matt
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$1,000
[4]
Labs use this machine that spins fluids to do your hematocrit, or blood analysis
centrifuge
Matt
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$1,000
[3]
Involving papers to be kept as a record, it's the process of delivering claims to a court
a filing
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$1,000
[2]
"Do not break sentences in two" & "use the active voice" were among William Strunk's original these title principles
Elements of Style
Matt
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$1,000
[6]
1958, remade in 1986:"The ____"
Fly
Samantha
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| CITIES OF IRELAND | SCIENCE | THE BANDS THEY FRONTED | NAME CALLING | THAT'S A BIG BOOK | ALLITERATION |
|
$400
[28]
The name of this capital means "black pool", referring to the dark waters of the River Liffey
Dublin
Thomas
Samantha
|
$400
[13]
Stannite is a sulfide ore of copper, iron & this metal
tin
Matt
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$400
[29]
David Lee Roth
Van Halen
Matt
|
$400
[27]
This man adapted Charles Barbier's night writing code into a writing system for the blind
Braille
Matt
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$400
[1]
If you're not a fan of long, long fiction, this 1862 Victor Hugo work will make you... what's the word... unhappy? Wretched?
Les Misérables
Matt
|
$400
[30]
This kids' game, this kids' game, send a response right over by knowing it's a team line-breaking game
Red Rover
Matt
|
|
$800
[14]
Galway is home to a national theater dedicated to works in the language called Irish this
Gaelic
Matt
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$800
[12]
For butterflies, the pupa is the third stage in this process
metamorphosis
Samantha
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$800
[26]
Since the '70s & right through today:Belinda Carlisle
Go-Go's
Matt
|
$800
[24]
This large Howitzer was named for the woman who once owned the Krupp Armaments Company
Big Bertha
Matt
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$1,200
[5]
Might seem that way, but it won't take a hundred years to read this 1974 James Michener bestseller about the American West
Centennial
Matt
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$800
[23]
Drew Brees, who didn't put on pads until high school, started an organization to promote this coed, non-contact game
flag football
Matt
|
|
$1,200
[8]
It was a long way to this city for the English King John, who built a castle there when he was governor
Tipperary
Matt
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$1,200
[7]
Also called thrombocytes, these cell fragments found in the blood are involved in clotting
platelets
Matt
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$1,200
[25]
Until they broke up in 1980:Robert Plant
Led Zeppelin
Matt
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$1,200
[22]
Creator of TV's "Fargo", Noah Hawley won this mystery award named for a certain Poe-et
Edgar
Matt
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$1,600
[4]
There's a synonym for "dreary" in the title, then 67 chapters of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce court action in this Dickens work
Bleak House
Thomas
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$1,200
[19]
To have fun, to enjoy oneself; a character in Shakespeare "must" do this "with the duchess' gold"
make merry
|
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$1,600
[3]
Archaeologists in Cork found Viking artifacts that threaten to shatter this city's "oldest in Ireland" status like its crystal
Waterford
Matt
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$1,600
[2]
Astronomers recently found a cluster of these cosmic bodies & think their collisions were the source of gravitational waves
black holes
Matt
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$1,600
[21]
Before launching a solo country career:Darius Rucker
Hootie & the Blowfish
Matt
|
$2,000
[16]
Disraeli was among those who called this man's carriages "the gondolas of London"
(Joseph) Hansom
Matt
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$2,000
[6]
Book 10 of this Thomas Malory work has 88 chapters, & there are 21 books--just sayin'
Le Morte d'Arthur
Matt
|
$1,600
[18]
The middlehorsehas this condition, kind of the opposite of bow-legged
knock-knee
Thomas
|
|
$2,000
[10]
A town called Drogheda sits on this river that lends its name to a decisive 1690 battle
Boyne
Matt
|
$2,000
[9]
It's the common term for animals of the order Lagomorpha
rabbits
Matt
|
$2,000
[20]
As a teen:Ricky Martin
Menudo
|
DD
$5,000
[15]
Around 1860 this man blazed a trail from Kansas & established a trading post in Oklahoma Territory
Jesse Chisholm
Matt
|
DD
$6,000
[11]
"Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit" is the first of this poem's more than 10,000 lines
Paradise Lost
Matt
|
$2,000
[17]
A folktale tells of a hungry man who convinces people he can make a tasty pot of this, then gets them to add actual food
stone soup
Samantha
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The April 26, 1906 edition of The Call, a newspaper in this city, reported on the heroic death of hoseman James O'Neil
San Francisco