Mattea Roach game 8.
Joe Grodahl — a non-profit and events director from Edina, Minnesota
Kristen Rucki — a high school English teacher from Astoria, New York
Mattea Roach — a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 7-day cash winnings total $168,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mattea | $5,000 | $10,200 | $19,400 |
$14,400
8-day champion: $182,801 |
$20,200
32 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Kristen | $-400 | $1,400 | $3,000 |
$2,250
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,000
10 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Joe | $600 | $2,400 | $2,400 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,400
6 R, 2 W |
| ART, OF WAR | ON ITS FAST FOOD MENU | BIBLICAL TRANSLATIONS | MUSIC FROM THE NECK UP | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY | WHAT EVER |
|
$200
[12]
In "Exodus of Confederates from Atlanta", Kara Walker addssilhouettesto illustrations of this war
the Civil War
Kristen
|
$200
[6]
The 390-calorie Burrito Supreme
Taco Bell
Mattea
|
$200
[11]
In the Common English Bible, the first 3 words of the first verse of this book are "When God began"
Genesis
Mattea
|
$200
[1]
For some reason Willow Smith in 2010 kept telling us she was going to "whip" this "back and forth"
her hair
Mattea
|
$200
[17]
It's a book of maps
an atlas
Mattea
|
$200
[22]
In 2021 a container ship called the Ever Given got stuck in this canal, causing a 6-day maritime traffic jam
the Suez Canal
Mattea
|
|
$400
[13]
One of his greatest & largest paintings was inspired by a newspaper article on the bombing of Guernica
Picasso
Kristen
|
$400
[7]
Sir, this is a this place, & that's a vanilla Frosty
Wendy's
Mattea
|
$400
[27]
In some versions of 1 Timothy, it's the "desire of" this, not the "love of" it, that causes trouble
money
Kristen
|
$400
[2]
Del the Funky Homosapien rapped about this "& Crossbones"
Skull
Mattea
|
$400
[18]
You can thank the Roman goddess of agriculture for this breakfast staple
cereal
Kristen
|
$400
[23]
This battery brand uses a cat in its logo
Eveready
|
|
$600
[14]
The artworkheredepicts this famous venture at the Battle of Balaclava
the Charge of the Light Brigade
Mattea
|
$600
[8]
The original Orange Chicken, & perhaps some sides
Panda Express
Mattea
|
$600
[28]
In one translation, it's a cable, not a camel, that has trouble doing this
passing through the eye of a needle
Mattea
|
$600
[3]
Echo & the Bunnymen sang that they were "like sugar"; in a Meghan Trainor song, they were movin'
lips
Mattea
|
$600
[19]
This day of the week gets its name from the Norse god of thunder
Thursday
Mattea
|
$600
[24]
As Joan Crawford in this movie, Faye Dunaway clarifies things for her daughter: "No wire hangers, ever!"
Mommie Dearest
Mattea
|
|
$800
[15]
Miyamoto Saburo's painting of generals Yamashita & Percival & the British WWII surrender of this island was used as Japanese propaganda
Singapore
Joe
|
$800
[9]
We are amused with a Chocolate Dilly Bar
Dairy Queen
Joe
|
$1,000
[30]
In some translations of Isaiah 40:3, a voice is crying in the desert; in the King James version, it's crying in this
wilderness
Joe
|
$800
[4]
"Heaven, I'm in heaven... when we're out together dancing" this way
cheek to cheek
Mattea
|
$800
[20]
Thick & sweet & prepared from fruit puree like mango or guava, it's a drink fit for the gods
nectar
Mattea
Joe
|
$800
[25]
This brand of American-made grain alcohol is 190 proof
Everclear
Mattea
|
|
$1,000
[16]
2 black granite walls & a sculpture called "The Three Servicemen" are part of this Washington, D.C. memorial
the Vietnam War Memorial
Mattea
|
$1,000
[10]
Tuscani Meaty Marinara Pasta
Pizza Hut
Kristen
Joe
|
DD
$2,000
[29]
Most translations say Lot's wife became one of these, but some use "column" or "statue"
a pillar of salt
Mattea
|
$1,000
[5]
In a Kim Carnes tune the subject of the song has "Greta Garbo stand-off sighs" & this actress' eyes
Bette Davis
Mattea
|
$1,000
[21]
Taken from Roman mythology, it's another name for a drunken orgy
bacchanalia
Kristen
|
$1,000
[26]
Adjective for vast northern forests of evergreen trees; Canada has the largest protected one, bigger than Belgium
a coniferous forest
|
| CELEBRITIES' FIRSTS | GEOGRAPHIC VERSE | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER | ECONOMICS | GREAT NAMES OF SCIENCE | NUMBER WORDS |
|
$400
[18]
The first album she owned was by the Go-Go's andsherecreated their album cover look at the Rock Hall of Fame induction
Drew Barrymore
Kristen
|
$400
[2]
Langston Hughes "heard the singing" of this big river, "muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset"
the Mississippi
Joe
|
$400
[13]
"Notorious RBG"
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Mattea
|
$400
[7]
The Federal Reserve's target rate for this is 2%, but that was majorly exceeded in the late months of 2021
inflation
Mattea
|
$400
[25]
This scientist told an early biographer that "the notion of gravitation came into his mind... occasion'd by the fall of an apple"
Newton
Mattea
|
$400
[1]
This numerical term means open every hour every day
24/7
Mattea
|
|
$800
[19]
Cole Sprouse says he got his first kiss in this type of vehicle & notes you could call it the kiss of death
a hearse
Kristen
|
$800
[3]
A Whitman poem is titled "By Blue" this Great Lake's "Shore"; he could've been in the province of the same name
Ontario
Mattea
|
$800
[14]
"Bossypants"
Tina Fey
Kristen
|
$800
[8]
A monopsony, unlike a monopoly, is a market with only one of these; in a labor market, it can lead to lower wages
only one purchaser (buyer)
Mattea
|
$800
[26]
Astrophysicist Joan Feynmanexplained the science behind these northern & southern light displays, the borealis & the australis
the auroras
Mattea
|
$800
[11]
A 1931 newspaper article: "My Fingers Dialed" this number." 'Information, can you tell me where there is a breadline?"'
411
Joe
|
|
$1,200
[20]
This Harvard grad & future talk show host's first L.A. apartment was at Cochran & 3rd, $380 a month, living on tuna & miracle whip
Conan O'Brien
Mattea
|
$1,200
[4]
Wordsworth wrote of an ascent of Helvellyn, a mountain in this "District" that he called home
the Lake District
Mattea
|
$1,200
[15]
"My Life with the Chimpanzees"
Jane Goodall
Mattea
|
$1,200
[9]
The expenses for a business of changing its prices are called these "costs", what Joe's Diner doesn't want to keep reprinting
menu costs
Joe
|
$1,600
[28]
Daniel of this family gets the credit for the principle that says the pressure of a fluid decreases as its speed increases
Bernoulli
|
$1,600
[24]
This slang number for a certain crop is thought to date to a San Rafael, California high school in the early 1970s
420
Mattea
Kristen
|
|
$1,600
[21]
This rapper, pitchman & friend of Martha Stewart said that in 2020, age 49, he was finally going to go out & vote
Snoop Dogg
Kristen
|
$1,600
[5]
This state's official poem ends, "where the dreamy Wabash River wanders on... through paradise"
Indiana
Mattea
|
$1,600
[16]
"Road to Tara: The Life of" this author
Margaret Mitchell
Mattea
|
$1,600
[10]
A common barrier to trade, it's a government payment to a domestic industry, like the U.S. government's to farmers
a subsidy
Kristen
|
DD
$2,000
[27]
Marie Tharp's discovery of mid-ocean ridges would support continental drift & this theory of continents moving on slabs of rock
plate tectonics
Mattea
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
A book title gave us this shorthand for totalitarianism
1984
Kristen
|
|
$2,000
[22]
John C. Reilly took his first plane ride to Thailand for his first movie, this 1989 Brian de Palma film about soldiers in Vietnam
Casualties of War
Mattea
|
$2,000
[6]
This 19th century British poet & literary critic wrote the poems "East London", "West London" & "Dover Beach"
Matthew Arnold
|
$2,000
[17]
"Power, Privilege and the Post"
Katharine Graham
|
$2,000
[12]
Related to a word meaning "setting on fire", they're defined simply as "perceived benefits that encourage certain behaviors"
incentives
Mattea
|
$2,000
[30]
America's first professional female astronomer, in 1847, shediscovered a new comet, & later became Vassar's first professor of astronomy
Maria Mitchell
|
$2,000
[29]
The last entry in the online Oxford English Dictionary is this U.K. equivalent of 911
999
Mattea
|
The orphaned future Queen Elizabeth I was devoted to this stepmother who died 2 days before Elizabeth's 15th birthday
Catherine Parr