Mattea Roach game 6.
Zhe Lu — a software engineer from Boston, Massachusetts
Leah Q. Pence — a social studies teacher from Woodstock, Georgia
Mattea Roach — a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 5-day cash winnings total $117,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mattea | $7,600 | $9,600 | $25,400 |
$30,800
6-day champion: $148,000 |
$23,000
32 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Leah | $800 | $-200 | $7,800 |
$12,856
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,800
8 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Zhe | $1,600 | $2,600 | $5,800 |
$1,900
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,800
12 R, 4 W |
| ROCK ART | MEDICINE | GAME CHANGERS | FASHION | AMAZON PRIME | EVERYTHING FROM MOD TO MUD |
|
$200
[11]
"Help" is a 2005 print by this man who played drums on "Help!" 40 years earlier
Ringo Starr
Mattea
|
$200
[19]
In 1959 methicillin was one of the first medications introduced to cope with bacteria resistant to these drugs
antibiotics
Mattea
|
$200
[16]
A 15th century rule change transformed the weakest chess piece to this one, the strongest on the board
the queen
Mattea
|
$200
[1]
Long flowy dresses are typical of boho fashion, boho being short for this
bohemian
Mattea
|
$200
[26]
The Amazon River basin is home to stands of this "national" nut tree; the nuts are big in protein & the oil, big in shampoos
Brazil nuts
Mattea
|
$200
[6]
A rule by royals; Saudi Arabia has an absolute one
monarchy
Zhe
|
|
$400
[12]
Andy Warhol's cover for The Velvet Underground's 1967 debut album featured one of these fruits with a peelable sticker
a banana
Mattea
|
$400
[22]
The A1C test measures average blood sugar over the past 3 months; at 5.7% you're pre-this, at 6.5 you're this
diabetic
Mattea
|
$400
[17]
In 1990 this classic card game was included as part of Windows 3.0, turning millions of casual computer users into gamers
solitaire
Mattea
|
$400
[2]
Often seen on the front of a hoodie, this type of pocket resembles a certain animal's pouch
a kangaroo pocket
Mattea
|
$400
[27]
Let this alliterative Amazon water creature light up your night... & despite its name, it's a knifefish
an electric eel
Zhe
|
$400
[7]
Buzzfeed examined "Why" this synonym for damp "is the Worst Word Ever"
moist
Mattea
|
|
$600
[13]
Lithographs by this late disco queen include "Jazzman" & "Hard for the Money"
Donna Summer
Mattea
|
$600
[23]
Iatrogenic is the term for a medical problem caused by the act of one of these, with maybe a lawsuit as a consequence
a doctor
Zhe
|
$600
[18]
In 1875 a British army lieutenant modified a form of pool to create this very British billiards game
snooker
Zhe
|
$600
[3]
1980s fashion included wearing these accessories seenhereoutside the ballet studio
leg warmers
Mattea
|
$600
[28]
Iquitos, the world's largest city that can't be reached by road, is on the Amazon in this nation on Chile's northern border
Peru
Zhe
|
$600
[8]
This group of animals includes squid as well as shellfish
mollusks
Zhe
|
|
$800
[14]
For the cover of a 2019 album, this "Truth Hurts" singer posed nude against a simple black backdrop
Lizzo
Leah
|
$800
[24]
A patient is often put on a ventilator in a procedure called endotracheal this -ation
intubation
Mattea
|
$800
[20]
This card game scored with pegs on a board evolved from an earlier one called Noddy
cribbage
Mattea
Leah
|
$800
[4]
This winter coat echoes the name of a deadly sushi fish
a puffer jacket (coat)
Mattea
|
$800
[29]
Seen floating on the Amazon is Victoria amazonica, the largest one of these; its pads can be six feet wide
a water lily
Leah
|
$800
[9]
Angora goat fabric
mohair
Zhe
|
|
$1,000
[15]
She's painted the covers for many of her own albums, including "Ladies of the Canyon" & "Both Sides Now"
Joni Mitchell
Mattea
|
$1,000
[25]
Thomas Hodgkin's paper on "morbid appearances of the absorbent glands & spleen" described this type of cancer
Hodgkin's lymphoma
Mattea
Leah
Zhe
|
$1,000
[21]
In 2019 season 10 of this online survival game ended with a giant asteroid blowing up its virtual island, leaving a black hole
Fortnite
|
DD
$2,000
[5]
This portmanteau word is used of casual clothes for exercise & for just hanging out
athleisure
Mattea
|
$1,000
[30]
The Casiquiare River connects 2 major river systems, the Amazon & this 1,300-mile one
the Orinoco
Zhe
|
$1,000
[10]
It's Spanish for "young guy"
muchacho
Mattea
|
| ROCK ART | NEW TOMERRIAM WEBSTER | THE ACTOR'S MOVIE LINE | I HAVE A PLAN | HALLS OF FAME | A CHRISTIE MYSTERY |
|
$400
[7]
A mysteriousanimalin France's famed Lascaux Cave is known as this, even though it has two horns, not one
unicorn
Zhe
|
$400
[2]
Withdrawing support from those who have erred in the eyes of the world leads to this alliterative phenomenon
cancel culture
Mattea
|
$400
[18]
In a movie sequel:"Yo, Adrian, I did it!"
Sylvester Stallone
Mattea
|
$400
[12]
G. Gordon Liddy's 1972 Gemstone plan included kidnapping & prostitutes; it was scaled back but a remaining part led to this scandal
Watergate
Mattea
|
$400
[24]
Seen here, this organization's General Assembly Hall accommodates nearly 200 delegations
the United Nations
Mattea
|
$400
[8]
(Hugh Laurie presents the clue.) A train that was snowbound in Turkey for 10 days in 1929 & the 1932 kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby helped inspire the plot of this, one of Agatha Christie's greatest novels
Murder on the Orient Express
Leah
|
|
$800
[9]
The black paint used in figures on the ceiling of Spain's Altamira Cave is mostly this stuff, radiocarbon-dated to 14,000 years ago
charcoal
Zhe
|
$800
[3]
Spectral phrase for the place to prepare food that is consumed elsewhere
a ghost kitchen
Mattea
|
$800
[1]
In 2018: "I am not king of all people. I am king of Wakanda"
Chadwick Boseman
Mattea
|
$800
[13]
In 1960 PM Ikeda planned to double Japan's national income by 1970, with annual this of 7.8%; it was 10% & income doubled early
GDP (annual growth)
Leah
|
$800
[25]
Teenaged Yo-Yo Ma must have practiced, practiced, practiced to play his debut recital here, May 6, 1971
Carnegie Hall
Mattea
|
$800
[22]
(Lucy Boynton presents the clue.) Because she worked as a nurse & later as a pharmacy dispenser, Christie frequently used poison as the murder weapon in her writing--strychnine, cyanide, & very often this one, as it would have been easy to obtain in her day as rat poison
arsenic
Zhe
|
|
$1,200
[14]
Rock art depicting an animal's skeleton & internal organs is said to be in this electromagnetic-named style
X-ray
Zhe
|
$1,200
[4]
This peanut butter & marshmallow creme sandwich has been around for a long time, but only made it into Merriam-Webster's in 2021
a fluffernutter
Mattea
|
$1,200
[10]
To Tom Cruise:"Shut up, just shut up. You had me at hello"
Renée Zellweger
Leah
|
$1,200
[19]
Winfield Scott's Anaconda plan was to strangle the Confederacy by means of these efforts to stop up the enemy's ports
blockades
Mattea
|
$1,200
[26]
We'd like to reflect on the fact that the treaty ending World War I was signed in this room in the Palace of Versailles
the Hall of Mirrors
Zhe
|
$1,200
[23]
(Lucy Boynton presents the clue.) Agatha Christie wrote 12 novels & 20 short stories featuring this woman & regretted making her so old at the outset; she would have been well over 100 by the time Christie finished writing about her
Miss Marple
Mattea
|
|
$1,600
[15]
Though arid today, Libya's Messak plateau in this desert has prehistoric images of hippos & crocodiles
the Sahara
Leah
|
$1,600
[5]
It's the 4-letter abbreviation for the pleasant tingling sensation that starts on the scalp in response to certain stimuli
ASMR
Mattea
|
$1,600
[11]
In 2005:"I wish I knew how to quit you"
Jake Gyllenhaal
Mattea
Zhe
|
$2,000
[21]
The 1791 plan for Washington, D.C. with diagonal axes over a more conventional grid was named for this Paris-born man
(Pierre) L'Enfant
Zhe
|
$1,600
[29]
This temperance advocate took in battered women at Hatchet Hall, her Arkansas home
Carrie Nation
|
$1,600
[27]
(Will Poulter presents the clue.) This courtroom drama that hinges on the testimony of the mistress of the accused murderer has been adapted for stage & screen, & in 2014 was performed in an actual English courtroom
Witness for the Prosecution
|
|
DD
$2,000
[16]
A national monument in New Mexico is named for its many these, from Greek for "rock" & "carvings"
petroglyphs
Leah
|
$2,000
[6]
This Danish concept comparable to coziness has become a U.S. trend; it includes good food, coffee & a warm place to gather
hygge
Leah
|
$2,000
[17]
Her in a 1950 classic:"I am big, it's the pictures that got small"
Gloria Swanson
Mattea
|
DD
$3,000
[20]
In 1990 the Shatalin plan for moving the USSR to a free market was too radical even for this reformer who ousted Shatalin
Gorbachev
Mattea
|
— |
$2,000
[28]
(Hugh Laurie presents the clue.) The amateur sleuths featured in myadaptationof "Why Didn't They Ask Evans", Bobby Jones & Frankie Derwent, have a lot in common with the detectives Christie enjoyed writing about the most, the Beresfords--Tommy & his wife Prudence, nicknamed this, slang for a British coin
Tuppence
|
The 1964 article that gave this term its current use noted the "menace that haunts the Atlantic off our southeastern coast"
the Bermuda Triangle