Margaret Shelton game 5.Maureen O'Neil game 1.
Clay Cooper — an SAT and ACT tutor from Las Vegas, Nevada
Maureen O'Neil — an executive assistant from Rye Beach, New Hampshire
Margaret Shelton — a homemaker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (whose 4-day cash winnings total $79,700)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret | $600 | $3,200 | $12,300 |
$0
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Maureen | $3,800 | $6,600 | $10,200 |
$2,200
New champion: $2,200 |
$10,200
18 R, 2 W |
| Clay | $1,600 | $2,600 | $-2,400 |
$-2,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$-400
13 R (including 1 DD), 8 W (including 1 DD) |
| MOUNTAINS | FRENCH COOKING TERMS | 3-LETTER INITIALISMS | PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME | FROM BOOK TO TV | PHRASE FARMING |
|
$200
[26]
According to a Japanese proverb, "He who climbs" this mountain "once is a wise man, he who climbs it twice is a fool"
Mount Fuji
Margaret
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$200
[1]
Bavarois, a creamy custard, refers to a region in this country
Germany
Maureen
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$200
[16]
Big Blue is the nickname of this Fortune 500 company
IBM
Maureen
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$200
[8]
Ulysses' angry tirades
Grant's rants
Clay
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$200
[11]
In this novel & the TV series based on it, Beth Harmon pictures a chessboard on the ceiling above her in bed at night
The Queen's Gambit
Clay
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$200
[21]
You'll be waitin' a mighty long time, or "'til" this idiomatic return of certain bovines
until the cows come home
Maureen
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$400
[27]
Ben Nevis in this country is the highest mountain of the British Isles
Scotland
Maureen
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$400
[2]
"À la meunière" is cooking in the tradition of this worker's wife; she would have had access to a bunch of flour
a miller's wife
Margaret
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$400
[17]
The emoji seenhereis commonly used in place of this exclamation of astonishment that actually goes back to the early 1900s
OMG (Oh, my God)
Clay
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$400
[6]
Gerald's bladed weapons
Ford's swords
Maureen
|
$600
[13]
Tony Hale plays the rich benefactor who recruits a group of gifted orphans to take part in this "Mysterious" society
The Mysterious Benedict Society
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$400
[22]
Judging good against bad is "separating" these 2 threshed farm items
the wheat from the chaff
Maureen
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$600
[28]
Bring a chair and enjoy the view of this famous mountain that overlooks Cape Town
Table Mountain
Maureen
|
$600
[3]
From a French word meaning "to scrape" we get this term for a preparation of breadcrumbs & cheese
a gratin
|
$600
[18]
The electric i4 is one of its ultimate driving machines
BMW
Clay
|
$600
[7]
Eisenhower's scares
Ike's yikes (Dwight's frights)
Maureen
|
$800
[14]
John Cusack & Zoe Kravitz played the record store owner in the film & TV adaptations of this novel by Nick Hornby
High Fidelity
Maureen
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$600
[23]
This porcine phrase means you're being offered something but its real value is being hidden
a pig in a poke
|
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$800
[29]
These 2 highest mountains of Hawaii with similar names differ in height by just over 100 feet
Mauna Loa & Mauna Kea
Margaret
|
$800
[4]
A silent "X" comes at the end of this sautéed vegetable mix seen here, thought to be named for a duke whose cook popularized it
a mirepoix
Margaret
Clay
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$800
[19]
Garmin is a leader in this technology that keeps you on track, wherever you go
GPS
Margaret
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$800
[9]
Jimmy's official founding documents
Carter's charters
Maureen
|
DD
$1,000
[12]
A nonfiction book subtitled "The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City" inspired this HBO series
Boardwalk Empire
Clay
|
$800
[24]
"Resist placing each of one's ova within a single receptacle" is another way to put this phrase of warning
don't put all your eggs in one basket
Margaret
|
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$1,000
[30]
Referring to its shape, this peak on which Brazil's Christ the Redeemer Statue stands has a name meaning "hunchback"
Mount Corcovado
Clay
|
$1,000
[5]
Place your steak in a sealed bag in heated water & you're cooking like the pros via this "under vacuum" method
sous vide
Maureen
|
$1,000
[20]
Managed by Caltech for NASA, this facility was originally created in the 1930s for rocket research
the JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Clay
|
$1,000
[10]
William Howard's vertical gold mine passages
Taft's shafts
Margaret
|
$1,000
[15]
This 2021 miniseries based on a Beth Macy book goes from big pharma boardrooms to the struggles of opioid addicts
Dopesick
Clay
|
$1,000
[25]
An Apple commercial where a rural fellow finds a lost iPhone is a reference to this idiom
finding a needle in a haystack
Maureen
|
| TOWERS | SINGLE-NAMED CELEBRITIES | THAT'S JUST SCIENCE, MAN | THE IDEAS OF MARCH | Y IS THE SECOND LETTER | BIOGRAPHIES |
|
$400
[11]
The Elizabeth Tower in London houses this large bell
Big Ben
Maureen
|
$400
[16]
In 2020 a super deluxe edition of his "Sign o' the Times" was released with 63 previously unreleased tracks
Prince
Margaret
|
$400
[21]
The ratio of an object's velocity to the velocity of sound in the same medium is named for this physicist
Mach
Clay
|
$800
[3]
In 1918 Congress thought March 31 was the moment to first spring forward to this
daylight savings time
Clay
|
$1,600
[2]
In Matthew 2:11 it's presented as a gift, along with gold & frankincense
myrrh
Maureen
|
$1,200
[10]
Jennet Conant's "A Covert Affair" tells of this female chef's time in the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA
Julia Child
Margaret
|
|
$800
[12]
About 1,200 feet, the Fernsehturm TV Tower in this capital was built in the 1960s to showcase the socialist system
Berlin
Clay
|
$800
[17]
Time magazine named this Brazilian soccer great one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century
Pelé
Clay
|
$800
[22]
Make your bones naming this complex of bones seen here
the pelvis
Margaret
|
$1,200
[4]
Folks in what's now this state thought March 2, 1836 was a good day to declare independence from Mexico
Texas
Maureen
Clay
|
$2,000
[7]
From the Latin for "viper", it's a dragon used in heraldry, like the image seen here
a wyvern
Maureen
Clay
|
$1,600
[9]
Thisman, considered by some Britain's greatest soldier is the focus of the biography subtitled "The Iron Duke"
the Duke of Wellington
Maureen
|
|
$1,200
[13]
Constructed in 1348, the 220-foot Galata Tower in this city overlooks the Golden Horn
Istanbul
Clay
|
$1,200
[18]
She showed a more serious side in the movie "The Farewell", in which she returns to China to visit her ailing grandmother
Awkwafina
Maureen
|
$1,600
[24]
With 1 being the softest on the Mohs scale of hardness, this substance consisting primarily of silica is the index mineral for 7
quartz
|
$1,600
[5]
The government of Reza Pahlavi chose March 21, 1935 as the day for changing the country's name from this to this
Persia to Iran
Maureen
Clay
|
DD
$2,600
[1]
Deposits of this mineral make up the white sands of White Sands National Park
gypsum
Clay
|
$2,000
[8]
William Feaver does some psychoanalyzing in his 2-volume "The Lives of" this British artist who died in 2011
Lucian Freud
|
|
$1,600
[14]
Once part of the defenses of the city of Lisbon, the 16th century Belém Towerwas built on the north bank of this river
the Tagus
Margaret
Clay
|
$1,600
[19]
He was a favorite of Jackie Kennedy & Bill Blass called him "the quintessential American designer"
Halston
Margaret
|
$2,000
[25]
This outermost region of the Sun's atmosphere is warmish--2 million kelvin
the corona
Margaret
Clay
|
$2,000
[6]
To him, at his aunt's farm in Massachusetts, March 16, 1926 was the right time to launch the first liquid-fueled rocket
Goddard
Clay
|
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$2,000
[15]
One of the tallest buildings in the world, the Makkah Royal Clock Tower, is part of a complex adjacent to this holy site
the Great Mosque in Mecca
Margaret
Maureen
|
$2,000
[20]
At 66, this supermodel was stunning at the 2021 Met Gala, her outfit called "A Ray of Light After All the Darkness"
Iman
|
DD
$3,500
[23]
Before moving to Gemini & Taurus, the summer solstice used to be in this constellation, hence the name of a geographic line
Cancer
Margaret
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A small river connects these 2 lakes that combined form close to 10% of their country's area
Lake Nicaragua & Lake Managua