Amy Schneider game 12.
Jessica Morgan — a writer from Pasadena, California
Sinnott Martin — an attorney from New Orleans, Louisiana
Amy Schneider — an engineering manager from Oakland, California (whose 11-day cash winnings total $421,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amy | $3,400 | $7,800 | $36,800 |
$61,800
12-day champion: $483,000 |
$28,800
33 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Sinnott | $800 | $3,200 | $4,800 |
$8,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,200
13 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jessica | $1,800 | $3,800 | $3,000 |
$1,100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,000
7 R, 2 W |
| IT'S TOO CROWDED | EXAM TIME | FICTION | FUNNY LADIES | AIN'T THAT AMERICA | FOR "U" & "ME" |
|
$200
[21]
800,000 people gathered in a field in Krakow to watch the televised Vatican funeral for this man in 2005
Pope John Paul II
Amy
|
$200
[11]
A task on a recent one in New York State was to draft a memo regarding sovereign immunity under a tort claims law
a bar exam
Amy
|
$200
[6]
In "A Christmas Carol", this man's ghost is the first of 4 to appear to Scrooge
Marley
Amy
|
$200
[1]
The showbiz career of this beloved funny lady has spanned more than 80 years
Betty White
Jessica
|
$200
[16]
The Levi Coffin Housein Indiana was a stop on this system, that defied the Fugitive Slave Act
the Underground Railroad
Sinnott
|
$200
[22]
This adjective describes 100% agreement, like a boxing decision
unanimous
Sinnott
|
|
$400
[30]
A million fans endured stifling Madrid heat to celebrate Spain's 2010 victory in this international competition
the World Cup
Amy
|
$400
[12]
In the 1950s half of U.S. hospital deaths were followed by a postmortem exam, also called this; now it's under 10%
an autopsy
Sinnott
|
$400
[7]
He wrote short stories like "Sonny's Blues" & novels like "Go Tell It on the Mountain"
Baldwin
Amy
|
$400
[2]
Long before "Grace and Frankie", she starred opposite Jane Fonda & Dolly Parton in the movie "9 to 5"
Tomlin
Amy
|
$400
[20]
By 1962 this doc's injected vaccine helped reduce polio cases in the U.S. from more than 50,000 a year to fewer than 1,000
Salk
Jessica
|
$400
[24]
Trees can live in this highway-dividing "strip"
the median
Amy
|
|
$600
[29]
On New Year's Eve 1994, 4.2 million showed up for fireworks & a free Rod Stewart concert on Copacabana Beach in this city
Rio de Janeiro
Sinnott
|
$600
[13]
These exams are required for many Ph.D. degrees; for a Stanford history doctorate, you take them in your third year
oral exams
Sinnott
|
$800
[9]
This novel about a canine says, "A monster came to the small town of Castle Rock"
Cujo
Sinnott
|
$600
[3]
Order in the court! Ifsheever tires of being funny, she has a law degree from the University of New South Wales to fall back on
(Rebel) Wilson
Amy
|
$600
[19]
It was a tempest in this govt. scandal, so large that Senate committees & a special commission looked into it from 1922 to 1928
Teapot Dome
Jessica
|
$600
[25]
To criticize harshly, perhaps about interweaving hair a bit higher
upbraid
Amy
|
|
$800
[28]
In 2019 tens of millions gathered to bathe in sacred rivers for Kumbh Mela, a festival of this religion
Hinduism
Sinnott
|
$800
[14]
To do your taxes, look for someone who passed this 3-letter exam first standardized in 1917
the CPA exam
Jessica
|
$1,000
[10]
Jack Schaefer wrote about the cowboy life in this novel with a 1-name title; come back!
Shane
Jessica
|
$800
[4]
The name of this original "SNL" cast member lives on in the name of a cancer support organization
Radner
Jessica
|
$800
[18]
Katherine Johnson was such a genius she made sure the computer was correct in planning the 1962 flight of Friendship 7 for this astronaut
John Glenn
Sinnott
|
$800
[26]
A Quaker place of worship noted for simplicity, like Philadelphia's Arch Streetone
a meeting house
Amy
|
|
$1,000
[23]
Millions lined the streets of New York for the June 2019 LGBTQ parade that was part of "World" this
Pride
Amy
|
$1,000
[15]
Mydriatic eye drops do this to help in an eye exam
dilate your pupils
Sinnott
|
DD
$1,600
[8]
Emily is imprisoned in a gloomy castle--that tells you "The Mysteries of Udolpho" is a classic of this big 1790s genre
gothic fiction (a gothic romance)
Amy
|
$1,000
[5]
She'swon Emmys for voicing Lois Griffin on "Family Guy", & for her role as Susie Myerson on "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"
Alex Borstein
Sinnott
Jessica
|
$1,000
[17]
The 1968 Democratic National Convention became a battleground despite this mayor's promise of law & order
Daley
Amy
|
$1,000
[27]
There are 3 U's in this word meaning smug or insincere in an oily way
unctuous
Jessica
|
| FROM THE GREEK | LET THERE BE ART & MUSIC | SAILING THE BLACK SEA | "T" FOR... | POP CULTURE-POURRI | WORDS IN ELEMENTS |
|
$400
[16]
This word for a place of eternal rest is from a Greek word for "sleeping place"
cemetery
Amy
Sinnott
|
$400
[26]
Pavarotti took this Neapolitan song whose title means "my own sun" to new heights
"'O Sole Mio"
Amy
|
$400
[6]
This mythological hero & his Argonauts sailed the Black Sea in antiquity
Jason
Amy
|
$400
[5]
Lionel Richie was born in this Alabama city & graduated from its famed institute
Tuskegee
Amy
|
$400
[25]
In 2021 Jon Batiste recalled his own piano teacher in accepting the Best Score Oscar for this animated film about a music educator
Soul
Amy
|
$400
[11]
Br:this possessive pronoun
mine
Amy
|
|
$800
[17]
"O, beware, my lord, of" this! From the Greek for "zeal"
jealousy
Amy
Jessica
|
$800
[27]
Nearly 2,200 years old & carved from marble, she's from Melos but resides in Paris; she now has a tough time shaking hands
Venus de Milo
Sinnott
|
$800
[7]
Woof! A small shark called the spiny this abounds in the Black Sea
dogfish
Amy
|
$800
[4]
This twisting force is measured in newton-meters
torque
Amy
|
$800
[24]
On April 1, 1963 ABC premiered this soap opera & NBC launched a similar rival, "The Doctors"
General Hospital
Sinnott
|
$800
[12]
Si:this, a symbol for a program on your computer desktop
an icon
Amy
|
|
$1,200
[18]
From Greek for "thick-skinned ", this word is sometimes used for an elephant or a hippo
pachyderm
Amy
|
$1,200
[28]
The song with this Latin title was one of the few pieces Schubert got published in his lifetime & has been popular since
"Ave Maria"
|
$1,200
[8]
Russia's Black Sea coast includes this resort city that was established in 1896 & made international headlines in the winter of 2014
Sochi
Sinnott
|
$1,200
[3]
This board game has a Pop-O-Matic dice roller
Trouble
Amy
|
$1,200
[23]
Conservatorship hearings in L.A. in 2021 attracted supporters of the movement known by this 2-word hashtag
Free Britney
Amy
|
$1,200
[13]
Hg:this term for a mean or scroungy dog
a cur
Amy
|
|
$1,600
[19]
How words are put together to form phrases & sentences, it's from the Greek for "arrange together"
syntax
Sinnott
|
$1,600
[29]
The title characters of this 1936 Prokofiev work are represented by strings & French horns, respectively
Peter and the Wolf
Amy
|
$2,000
[10]
This mountain range, a dividing line between Asia & Europe, runs from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea
the Caucasus
Amy
|
$1,600
[2]
Seen here, this shell is named for a son of Poseidon
a triton
|
$1,600
[22]
First name of Mr. Youssef, who plays the title character in a Hulu series he also created
Ramy
|
$1,600
[14]
Mn:this Asian art form
manga
Amy
|
|
$2,000
[20]
You get an "A" if you know that this 5-letter word from Greek refers to God's love for man & Christians' love for others
agape
Sinnott
|
$2,000
[30]
This New Yorker incorporatedgraffitiinto his work, & was a celebrity in the art world when he died at age 27 in 1988
Basquiat
Amy
|
DD
$4,400
[9]
It's alphabetically last of the countries that border the Black Sea
Ukraine
Sinnott
|
$2,000
[1]
A member of the Dravidian family, it's an official language of the Indian territory of Puducherry
Tamil
Amy
|
$2,000
[21]
A landmark in video game music is Koji Kondo's score for this "Legend of Zelda" edition with an instrument in the title
The Ocarina of Time
Amy
|
DD
$9,000
[15]
I:this allfather
Odin
Amy
|
Bismarck Tribune correspondent Mark Kellogg died June 25, 1876 while on a field assignment covering this man
(General George) Custer