Mattea Roach game 5.Ken Jennings hosts.
Michael Wolman — a marketing manager from Austin, Texas
Vanessa McCombs — a college instructor from Manassas, Virginia
Mattea Roach — a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 4-day cash winnings total $104,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mattea | $3,200 | $7,000 | $10,200 |
$12,600
5-day champion: $117,200 |
$10,200
20 R, 3 W |
| Vanessa | $800 | $600 | $2,600 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,600
9 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Michael | $3,600 | $5,200 | $12,600 |
$4,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,200
15 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR | PURPLE REIGN | IT'S A FACT | IN MOM'S FREE TIME | 2-WORD ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS | SYMPHON"E"s |
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$200
[1]
Let's Czech in with this capital where Smetana & Dvorak both lived
Prague
Vanessa
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$200
[21]
You love this big purple dinosaur of public TV (& he loves you)
Barney
Mattea
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[30]
Parade reported that taking this type of picture now causes "more deaths than shark attacks"
a selfie
Mattea
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$200
[9]
Susan Casey, one of the 1st politicians to call herself this kind of "mom", wasn't kidding--her son Conor became a star MLS striker
a soccer mom
Mattea
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$200
[7]
An easy target, or what we have here
a sitting duck
Michael
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[6]
Haydn's No. 38 is also known as this symphony, from the way muted violins repeat the sound of non-muted ones
the Echo symphony
Mattea
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[2]
Originally, this city founded by King Harald was east of the Aker River but after a 1624 fire, ended up moving further west
Oslo
Mattea
Michael
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$400
[22]
Commonly dried, black Corinth is a purple & often seedless variety of this fruit
a grape
Mattea
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$400
[25]
Competing against 19-year-olds, this Jamaican was 16 when he set a junior world record in the 200 meters at 20.13 seconds
Usain Bolt
Mattea
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$400
[17]
Detroit mom Evelyn Overton started making this dessert & turned it into a "Factory"
cheesecake
Mattea
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$400
[10]
We won't string you along; it's this game
Cat's Cradle
Michael
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[11]
Inspired by his uprooted family, Alan Hovhaness' 1st symphony is titled this, a period of forced absence from one's homeland
Exile
Michael
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DD
$400
[5]
Something to sink your teeth into... a signed document by Vlad the Impaler in 1459 is the first written appearance of this capital
Bucharest
Michael
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$600
[23]
This team went to the Super Bowl 4 times in the 1970s; purple never reigned & they haven't been back
the Vikings
Michael
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$600
[27]
The name for this part of your nose comes from the Latin for "fence"
the septum
Mattea
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$600
[18]
Tired of little heads going thunk, a daycare staff wanted something to prop kids up; Susan Henderson created this pillow
the Boppy
Mattea
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$600
[16]
It means stocks are on the rise & investors are rushing to buy
a bull market
Mattea
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$600
[8]
London's orchestra of the Age of this plays Bach & Mozart on vintage 18th century instruments
Enlightenment
Vanessa
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$600
[3]
Completed in the 1490s, Nydegg Church is a landmark in this city, capital of both its nation & its same-named Canton
Bern
Mattea
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$800
[26]
1980s moviegoers were moved by this film that was "introducing Whoopi Goldberg as Celie"
The Color Purple
Vanessa
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$800
[28]
The Roman equivalent of this Greek goddess is Minerva
Athena
Mattea
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[19]
Themotherof this 4-time Oscar-winning actress was a birth control activist & is seen here with Margaret Sanger
Katharine Hepburn
Mattea
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$800
[14]
It's a fishy phrase for something that is deliberately misleading or distracts attention
a red herring
Mattea
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$800
[12]
Works by this eminent Sir Edward include 2 symphonies as well as the "Enigma Variations"
Elgar
Michael
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$800
[4]
Not Moscow but this capital 300 miles north of the Black Sea is the "mother of Rus cities"
Kyiv
Michael
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$1,000
[24]
New Hampshire's state flower is thepurple lilac& its state bird is the purple this
a purple finch
Vanessa
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$1,000
[29]
This yellow gastropod named for its resemblance to a fruit can move about 6 inches per minute
a banana slug
Michael
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$1,000
[20]
In 2016 Wisconsin mom Kristin Garvey made the first yard sign with these 5 words preceding various affirmations
in this house we believe
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$1,000
[15]
It's a possession that's too expensive to maintain, or a rummage sale, often for a worthy cause
a white elephant
Mattea
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$1,000
[13]
Disillusioned with Napoleon, Beethoven changed the title of his landmark 3rd symphony from "Bonaparte" to this
Eroica
Michael
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| THE ORIGIN TRAIL | CHEMICAL ELEMENTS | METAPHORS | LITERATURE | DOUBLE PRESIDENTIAL NAMERS | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY |
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[12]
These dogs were originally trained as water dogs & their name is related to the small pools of water they splashed in
Poodles
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$400
[14]
The balloons in one Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade use about 400,000 cubic feet of this gas
helium
Michael
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$400
[1]
You may find yourself on an emotional one of these, such as Maverick at Cedar Point
a roller coaster
Vanessa
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$400
[6]
Michel Tournier's "Friday, or the Other Island" is a modern retelling of this 18th century novel
Robinson Crusoe
Vanessa
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$400
[11]
17 & 20:This British-raised actor who played Peter Parker again in a 2021 surprise
Andrew Garfield
Mattea
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$800
[25]
In 1921 New Orleans became the first city in the U.S. to declare a historic district, this one
the French Quarter
Michael
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$800
[13]
In the 1790s, Old East, still aresidence hallwas the entire campus of the University of North Carolina in this city
Chapel Hill
Michael
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$800
[21]
As a gas, oxygen is colorless, but in liquid form it's this color
blue
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$800
[2]
Everyday metaphors include the instruction not to tackle problems prematurely, let's do this "when we come to it"
cross that bridge
Mattea
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$1,200
[8]
"Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris introduced this female telepath & a community of Louisiana vampires
Sookie Stackhouse
Vanessa
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$800
[16]
43 & 35:This actor, an Oscar winner for "Cool Hand Luke" & a sidekick in "The Naked Gun"
George Kennedy
Mattea
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$1,200
[19]
Full of tricks & treats, All Hallows' Eve has its origins in this Celtic festival
Samhain
Vanessa
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$1,200
[22]
Electric vehicles have brought cash to Chile, a land with large reserves of this lightest metal element, used in batteries
lithium
Mattea
Michael
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$1,200
[3]
British Jew Israel Zangwill used this term for the U.S. as a vessel where all peoples mix; his son moved to El Paso & became part of it
a melting pot
Mattea
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$1,600
[9]
Mr. Scratch is bested by a New Hampshire orator in this story by Stephen Vincent Benet
"The Devil and Daniel Webster"
Vanessa
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$1,200
[15]
37 &18 & borrowing Jimmy Carter's middle initial, this actor
Richard E. Grant
Vanessa
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$1,600
[20]
Legend says this, outside Tokyo, was created in the year 286 B.C. by an earthquake
Mount Fuji
Michael
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$1,600
[23]
The element actinium & its symbol are both first alphabetically; this element & its symbol are last
zirconium
Mattea
Vanessa
Michael
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$1,600
[4]
Based on a 1955 speech by a Fed head, slowing the economy is known as taking this away just as the party is getting started
the punch bowl
Michael
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DD
$2,000
[7]
With works like "Redgauntlet" & "Kenilworth", this U.K. author created the historical novel in the 19th century
Sir Walter Scott
Vanessa
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$1,600
[18]
22 & 1:This superstar saxophonist, Jr.
Grover Washington Jr.
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DD
$5,000
[24]
Atomic number 100, this radioactive element is named for the scientist who directed the first controlled fission chain reaction
fermium
Michael
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$2,000
[5]
To blame bad news on the one who told you; the last name of Chicago policeman William meant it was literally done to him in 1901
shoot the Messenger
Vanessa
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$2,000
[10]
At the end of this first F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Amory Blaine is lonely, broke & traveling back to Princeton on foot
This Side of Paradise
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$2,000
[17]
42 & 5:This pioneer of bluegrass music
Bill Monroe
Mattea
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Oxford's word of the year for 2021 was this 3-letter one, short for a word that goes back to the Latin for "cow"
vax