Maureen O'Neil game 3.
Sallie Bieterman — an actor and museum educator originally from Seattle, Washington
Shelley Vinyard — an environmental advocate from Washington, D.C.
Maureen O'Neil — an executive assistant from Rye Beach, New Hampshire (whose 2-day cash winnings total $21,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maureen | $4,400 | $3,800 | $9,000 |
$18,000
3-day champion: $39,000 |
$9,000
13 R, 1 W |
| Shelley | $1,000 | $3,200 | $8,800 |
$4,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,800
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Sallie | $1,400 | $200 | $1,500 |
$1,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,000
10 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| IN RECENT NEWS | LITERARY CHARACTER SPOILERS | FURNITURE | 3-LETTER MOVIE TITLES | THE APOLLO PROGRAM | "CAT" GOT YOUR TONGUE |
|
$200
[27]
A little birdy told us Parag Agrawal took over as CEO of this tech company in late 2021
Twitter
Maureen
|
$200
[15]
We'd say this title arachnid in a 1952 E.B. White tale went off to live on a farm, buuut...
Charlotte
Sallie
|
$200
[1]
It's said you can be "nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of" these, but you can relax in one on a summer evening
rocking chair
Sallie
|
$200
[12]
To seek out the bird of his dreams, a domesticated avian travels to Brazil
Rio
Sallie
|
$400
[22]
A combat pilot during the Korean War, about 20 years later, hebecame the second man on the Moon
Buzz Aldrin
|
$400
[14]
Mixing animals: a wolf whistle is one type of this unwanted outburst
a catcall
Maureen
|
|
$400
[26]
Pres. Biden tried to move Manchins to pass this alliterative plan that would pay for child care & fight climate change
the Build Back Better Act
Shelley
|
$400
[21]
"He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage" & also very dead on the floor, but man, that portrait nearby looked fantastic!
Dorian Gray
Shelley
|
$400
[28]
Baby may be under pressure to get a good nap in this, smaller than a crib or cradle, if you buy the $2,800 one from Aristot
a bassinet
Shelley
|
$400
[11]
A boy wakes up to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult
Big
Maureen
|
$600
[23]
On Christmas Eve 1968, the Apollo 8 crew read aloud from this book of the Bible, as it is foundational for not just Christians
Genesis
Sallie
|
$600
[13]
This is a very agile home invader
a cat burglar
Maureen
|
|
$600
[3]
2021 saw this nation sever its 55-year-old ties to Queen Elizabeth II & then as a new republic, titled Rihanna a "national hero"
Barbados
Maureen
|
$800
[20]
"The arm seized a loaf of bread and carried it off" & spoiler, he doesn't even get to eat it! What he does get is 19 years in prison
Jean Valjean
Maureen
Sallie
|
$600
[5]
In the 16th century, French gave us this word for an ornate, free-standing wardrobe, a great place to keep linens & towels
an armoire
Maureen
Sallie
|
$600
[8]
A man must choose between his girlfriend & his stuffed animal
Ted
Sallie
|
$800
[24]
This powerful rocket with a planetary name lifted the manned Apollo missions towards the Moon
the Saturn V
Shelley
|
$800
[18]
Models have turned this word for a narrow platform into a verb
catwalk
Shelley
|
|
$800
[4]
In 2021 Magdalena Andersson became the 1st female P.M. of this nation, quit after a few hours, then reclaimed the job days later
Sweden
|
$1,000
[2]
Gatsby says this woman is "leaving you"; Tom replies, "Nonsense", & Tom is correct
Daisy Buchanan
Shelley
|
$800
[6]
Oh, my heavens, I am positively swooning, kindly direct me to this appropriately named furniture here, good person
a fainting couch
Sallie
|
$800
[9]
A New Orleans district attorney investigates an assassination
JFK
Maureen
|
$1,000
[25]
Apollo 16 landed in mountainous Moon terrain, in highlands named for this French 17th century philosopher
Descartes
|
$1,000
[17]
If a person has made you one of these, you've become an unwitting accomplice
a cat's paw
|
|
$1,000
[19]
This longtime Kansas senator & nominee for president passed away at the age of 98 & lay in state at the Capitol
(Bob) Dole
Shelley
|
DD
$1,400
[16]
She is promised to Robert Canler, but the man also called Lord Greystoke asks, "If you were free, would you marry me?" Yep! in a later book
Jane (Porter)
Sallie
|
$1,000
[7]
This other name for a sideboard comes from the Italian, & would you take out the dishes from it, please?
a credenza
|
$1,000
[10]
A retired CIA assassin reunites with his old team to expose a conspiracy
Red
Maureen
|
— | — |
| SO THAT'S WHAT THEY LOOKED LIKE | NAMES IN POP CULTURE | FROM THE STATE SONG | 3 CONSECUTIVE CONSONANTS | DYNASTIES OF CHINA | EPONYMOUS BODY PARTS |
|
$400
[25]
Hereis this legal scholar presenting the report of the commission he led, to LBJ on September 24, 1964
Warren
Maureen
|
$400
[26]
This character on "Dawson's Creek" was named after the heroine of "Little Women"
Joey
Maureen
|
$800
[3]
"Out by the Truckee's silvery rills... right in the heart of the golden west"
Nevada
|
$800
[7]
It's a journey to a shrine or holy place like the Golden Temple in India
a pilgrimage
Sallie
|
DD
$500
[22]
Living during a time of conflict in the Zhou dynasty gave Sun Tzu plenty of material to write this treatise
The Art of War
Sallie
|
$800
[13]
The circle of Willis at the base of the brain joins several of these, like the carotid
arteries
Shelley
|
|
$1,200
[18]
Take alookat & alistento Scott Joplin, the genius who created this classic song
"The Entertainer"
Shelley
|
$800
[19]
He said he chose the name The Smiths because "it's time that the ordinary folk of the world showed their faces"
Morrissey
Sallie
|
$1,200
[1]
"Home of the Montezuma, with fiery heart aglow"
New Mexico
Maureen
|
$1,200
[8]
This word is part of the official names of Cambodia & Denmark
Kingdom
Shelley
|
$800
[20]
The first recorded dynasty, the Shang, emerged 1600 B.C. & produced works like the Tiger vase, seen here, during this metallic age
the Bronze Age
Sallie
|
$1,200
[14]
The crypts of Lieberkühn can be found in the duodenum, the first part of this tube out of the stomach
small intestines
Shelley
|
|
$1,600
[24]
Perhaps thinking it would be fun to run a newspaper, this man took over the San Francisco Examiner in 1887
Hearst
Maureen
|
$1,200
[10]
Lenny Lipton, future 3D glasses inventor, wrote the poem about this "Magic Dragon" & says drugs were not in his mind
Puff
Shelley
|
$1,600
[2]
"Here they heard the words, 'This is the place!"'
Utah
Maureen
|
$1,600
[9]
From Yiddish, it means to make small talk or chat someone up
to schmooze
Sallie
|
$1,200
[21]
Around 1000 A.D. during the Song dynasty, neo-this ancient philosophy was introduced as official doctrine
Confucianism
|
$1,600
[15]
Located in the brain's frontal lobe, Broca's areahas functions linked to this very human activity
speech
|
|
$2,000
[6]
Thisma them atician, a 1994 Nobel Prize winner in economics, became the world's most famous game theorist
John Nash
|
$1,600
[11]
Named after Rembrandt's son, Titus Welliver plays this TV cop with the same name as another painter
Bosch
|
$2,000
[4]
"From yonder Mississippi's stream, to where Missouri's waters gleam... see yonder fields of tasseled corn"
Iowa
Shelley
|
$2,000
[17]
It's the 14-letter term for the arrangement of sedimentary rocks in distinct layers, as seen here
stratification
|
$2,000
[23]
This 3-letter dynasty ruled from around 200 B.C. to 200 A.D. & saw the invention of paper & the introduction of Buddhism
the Han dynasty
|
$2,000
[16]
Named for an Italian anatomist, the organ of Corti is a hearing receptor found in this spiral-shaped part of the inner ear
the cochlea
Shelley
|
|
DD
$4,000
[5]
After a lifetime of farming, this woman was nearly 80 when a collector bought 15 of her artworks in 1938
Grandma Moses
Shelley
|
$2,000
[12]
He's the adorable Mogwai from "Gremlins" who's voiced by Howie Mandel
Gizmo
|
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Her epitaph, from a 1925 poem by her, ends, "She knows that her dust is very pretty"; "dust" was in another she wrote for herself
Dorothy Parker