Matt Amodio game 35.
Anthony Christopher-Smith — a social worker from Newark, New Jersey
Angie Vroom Givant — a writer from La Crescenta, California
Matt Amodio — a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut (whose 34-day cash winnings total $1,350,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $9,400 | $12,600 | $39,000 |
$50,000
35-day champion: $1,400,801 |
$29,800
35 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Angie | $-400 | $600 | $2,400 |
$4,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,800
6 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Anthony | $3,800 | $5,200 | $11,200 |
$17,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| ARITHMETALK | IN SEARCH OF ALIEN LIFE | IT'S A PROCESS | THAT'S A DIFFERENT PREPOSITION | THEIR '90s HIT ALBUM | "H" IS FOR HISTORY |
|
$200
[27]
In an "improper" one of these, the numerator is greater than the denominator
fraction
Anthony
|
$200
[26]
As the name suggests, the $100 million Breakthrough Listen is a project to detect this type of signal from distant planets
radio
Matt
|
$200
[21]
Chester Carlson's photocopying process was rejected by over 20 companies before this one bought it & made him rich
Xerox
Matt
|
$200
[29]
It can mean "beside" or be a prefix with -stander
by
Angie
|
$200
[30]
According to Rolling Stone, the best album of the decade:"Nevermind"
Nirvana
Anthony
|
$200
[28]
Hehelped make the Teamsters the USA's largest labor union, but his whereabouts are a mystery
Hoffa
Matt
|
|
$400
[23]
In the expression 25, 2 is the base & 5 is this, the power to which 2 is raised
the exponent
Angie
|
$400
[22]
The area around a star where conditions are "just right" for life is called this zone, after a fairy tale girl
Goldilocks
Matt
|
$400
[20]
The Fifth Amendment guarantees that no person shall be "deprived of life, liberty, or property, without" this
due process
Angie
|
$400
[25]
The OED calls this synonym of "between" that starts with the same 4 letters "somewhat archaic"
betwixt
Matt
|
$400
[24]
"Mama Said Knock You Out"
LL Cool J
Anthony
|
$400
[15]
On Oct. 14, 1066 King Harold was killed at this battle
Hastings
Matt
Angie
|
|
$600
[16]
The fundamental theorem of arithmetic says all composite numbers can be expressed as a product of these, e.g. 65 = 5 x 13
prime numbers
Anthony
|
$600
[19]
A purported UFO crash in this southwest city in 1947 has spawned great interest & an annual festival
Roswell
Matt
|
$800
[4]
In the Catholic church, this part of the canonization process gives the holy person the title "blessed"
beatification
Anthony
|
$600
[17]
Longfellow didn't begin a poem "Beneath a spreading chestnut-tree", but this synonym
under
Matt
|
$600
[18]
1992's Grammy-winning Album of the Year: this Brit's"Unplugged"
Clapton
Matt
|
$600
[14]
This abolitionist wrote "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic", the semiofficial song of the Union Army
(Julia Ward) Howe
Anthony
|
|
$800
[12]
The counting numbers beginning 1, 2, 3... are also known as these alliterative "numbers"
natural
Matt
|
$800
[11]
A British project to develop a spacecraft capable of reaching a nearby star within 50 years is named for this mythic Greek flyer
Icarus
Matt
|
$1,000
[3]
In the 1830s this Frenchman developed a new photo process that cut exposure time from 8 hours to less than 30 minutes
Daguerre
Anthony
|
$800
[10]
To Cicero it could mean around a place, as in "____ forum"; to us, it means around a time
circa
Matt
|
$800
[13]
"Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"
Smashing Pumpkins
Matt
|
$800
[6]
In 1825 Charles X of France finally recognized this nation, 21 years after it declared its independence
Haiti
Matt
|
|
$1,000
[8]
This law of addition says x + y = y + x
commutative
Matt
|
$1,000
[2]
A theoretical basis of alien life is this 2nd most common element in Earth's crust; scientists have made enzymes bond it to carbon
silicon
Matt
|
DD
$1,400
[5]
Darwin wrote that he called a process this "or survival of the fittest"
natural selection
Anthony
|
$1,000
[7]
"During" switches to this when it comes before a predicate phrase like "walking the dog"
while
Matt
|
$1,000
[9]
"Vitalogy", featuring "Better Man"
Pearl Jam
Matt
|
$1,000
[1]
As many as 30,000 of these German mercenaries fought during the American Revolution & some were with Cornwallis when he surrendered
Hessians
Matt
|
| HERE COMES THE SONNET | THE AMERIC-ANNS | CULT MOVIES | I BEFORE E AFTER C | THAT'S GRAND! | CANYONS |
|
$400
[26]
Shakespeare's Sonnet 153 notes the "love-kindling fire" of this Roman god & where he "got new fire--my mistress' eyes"
Cupid
Matt
Angie
Anthony
|
$400
[29]
In 2008 Ann Dunwoody became the first woman promoted to the rank of full or 4-star this
general
Anthony
|
$400
[28]
The wild musical fun of this cult classic features Meat Loaf, Susan Sarandon & Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Matt
|
$400
[30]
This word meaning really old is in the full name of St. Andrews Golf Club, open for 18-hole play since 1764
Ancient
Anthony
|
$400
[24]
Since 1925 the showcase of country music known as the Grand Ole Opry has been broadcast from this city
Nashville
Matt
|
$400
[27]
Cotahuasi Canyon in this Andean nation is more than 11,000' deep; it's a 7-hour hike down to the town of Quechualla at its bottom
Peru
Matt
Angie
Anthony
|
|
$1,200
[3]
The immortal John Donne wrote, "One short sleep past, we wake eternally and" this "shall be no more"
death
Matt
|
$800
[21]
In 1986 Ann Bancroft (not the actress) left Ellesmere Island & 56 days later became the 1st woman to cross the ice to this point
North Pole
Matt
|
$800
[22]
A moody crime drama involving a robbery gone wrong, "The Drop" stars this TV mob boss in his final film
Gandolfini
Matt
Angie
|
$800
[25]
One of the letters in a BSEE degree
Science
Matt
|
$800
[23]
In 1939 this Pasadena event had child star Shirley Temple as its 50th anniversary grand marshal; she did the honors again in 1989
the Tournament of Roses
Anthony
|
$800
[20]
The Todra Gorge in these mountains is a popular attraction in Morocco
Atlas
Matt
|
|
$1,600
[2]
In 1816, after reading George Chapman's translations, Keats wrote "On First Looking into Chapman's" this poet
Homer
Matt
|
$1,200
[12]
In the 18th century "Mother Ann" Lee was a big mover in this offshoot of the Quakers whose name rhymes with Quakers
Shakers
Matt
|
$1,200
[19]
An angry girlfriend, a mutant baby & a man with big hair all add up to "Eraserhead", this surreal director's first feature film
Lynch
Matt
|
$1,200
[18]
It can be a type of small apartment or a measure of results versus costs
efficiency
Angie
|
$1,200
[8]
Dating from 1880, this renowned liqueur is made with fine cognac & the essence of bitter oranges
Grand Marnier
Matt
|
$1,200
[9]
Seen here Waimea Canyon, on this Hawaiian Garden Isle, is nicknamed the Grand Canyon of the Pacific
Kauai
Matt
|
|
$2,000
[1]
This "Tintern Abbey" man implored, "Scorn not the sonnet; critic, you have frowned, mindless of its just honours"
Wordsworth
Matt
|
$1,600
[11]
John Allen & Elisha Rumsey were both married to women named Ann when they founded this city amidst some groves in 1824
Ann Arbor
Angie
Anthony
|
$1,600
[14]
Visions of a man in a strange rabbit suit convince Jake Gyllenhaal to commit dangerous crimes in this film
Donnie Darko
Matt
|
$1,600
[17]
Term for someone like J.P. Morgan who invests in businesses on a large scale
a financier
|
$2,000
[7]
Civil War drummer & bugler Albert Woolson, who died in 1956 at age 109, was the last member of this organization, the G.A.R.
the Grand Army of the Republic
Anthony
|
$1,600
[4]
Mexico's rugged Barranca del Cobre (Copper Canyon) is found in these "mother" mountains in Chihuahua state
Sierra Madre
Angie
|
|
DD
$10,000
[15]
"...With the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life" are a few of the ways this woman loves thee
(Elizabeth Barrett) Browning
Matt
|
$2,000
[13]
The University of Hawaii's Ann Dunham Soetoro Endowment honors a noted anthropologist, this man's mother
Barack Obama
Anthony
|
$2,000
[6]
"Tell Your Children" was an alternate title of this 1936 film that purports to show the dangers of using marijuana
Reefer Madness
Anthony
|
$2,000
[16]
Drop the last letter from a biological term to get this word meaning "coined money"
specie
|
DD
$2,200
[5]
The head of state of this small nation is Grand Duke Henri
Luxembourg
Angie
|
$2,000
[10]
A canyon with 600-foot walls in Australia's Bungle Bungle Range bears the name of this small, spiny monotreme
echidna
Matt
|
This phrase relating nutrition & health was popularized by fruit scientist J.T. Stinson at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair
an apple a day keeps the doctor away