Mattea Roach game 18.
Manav Jain — an undergraduate student from Clemson, South Carolina
Renée Russell — a branch office administrator from Baltimore, Maryland
Mattea Roach — a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 17-day cash winnings total $396,182)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mattea | $5,000 | $9,800 | $22,600 |
$42,001
18-day champion: $438,183 |
$22,200
30 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Renée | $200 | $5,200 | $21,000 |
$1,201
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,000
17 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Manav | $2,400 | $3,000 | $600 |
$500
3rd place: $1,000 |
$600
4 R, 2 W |
| OLD YORK | MOVIES"!" | POETS & POETRY | IRON | LANDMARKS | RHYMES WITH THESE |
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$200
[6]
Ivar the Boneless showed some spine when he led these Scandinavians on raids of York in the 9th century
the Vikings
Renée
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$200
[7]
Pierce Brosnan & Meryl Streep sang "SOS" on the soundtrack of this 2008 film
Mamma Mia!
Mattea
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$200
[22]
Joy Harjo's "When the World as We Knew It Ended" refers to this date when "two towers... went down, swallowed by a fire dragon"
9/11
Mattea
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$200
[28]
It's the "beastly" name for iron obtained directly from a blast furnace & poured into molds
pig iron
Mattea
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$200
[1]
These falls along the Zambezi River are about twice as wide & twice as deep as Niagara Falls
the Victoria Falls
Mattea
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$200
[17]
2 parallel ropes attach to a horizontal bar to make up this acrobatic apparatus
trapeze
Mattea
|
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$400
[8]
After this king won at Hastings, York was "seething with discontent"; he would soon march in & build 2 castles there
William the Conqueror
Mattea
|
$400
[14]
Looks like Steve McCroskey picked the wrong week to quit smoking, drinking, amphetamines & sniffing glue in this 1980 comedy
Airplane!
Mattea
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$400
[23]
In an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem, this "burns at both ends; it will not last the night"
a candle
Mattea
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$400
[26]
Fittingly, the iron type of these objects, like the 60-ton Hoba one in Africa seen here, is made up mostly of iron
a meteorite
Renée
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$400
[2]
A national trail in England stretches 84 miles from Newcastle to the Solway Firth along the line of this great fortification
Hadrian's Wall
Mattea
|
$400
[18]
To breathe with difficulty & with a whistling sound
wheeze
Mattea
|
|
$600
[9]
York came to be when members of Rome's Ninth this set up camp & called it Eboracum
Ninth Legion
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$600
[15]
Steve Martin, Chevy Chase & Martin Short, collectively; now turn your head & cough
Three Amigos!
Manav
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$600
[24]
Poems by him include "Harlem", "Crossing Jordan" & "The Weary Blues"
Langston Hughes
Manav
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$800
[16]
This symbol for the chemical element comes from the word for "iron" in Latin
Fe
Mattea
|
$600
[3]
The 2,700-foot Burj Khalifain this city is quite impressive--check it out
Dubai
Mattea
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$600
[19]
To identify someone vile or unethical, "ball" or "bag" can follow this word
sleaze
Mattea
|
|
$800
[10]
After battling the Picts in 305, this "Great" man was proclaimed emperor of Rome in York
Constantine
Mattea
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$800
[12]
Tom Hanks wrote & directed this 1996 film about a band of one-hit wonders
That Thing You Do!
Manav
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$800
[29]
One of Joseph Brodsky's best-known poems is "Elegy for" this "Death Be Not Proud" poet
John Donne
Renée
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$1,000
[25]
Thomas Paine got the 1st patent for an iron bridge, to span this river that meets the Delaware at Philadelphia--it was never built
the Schuylkill
Renée
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$800
[4]
For a great view of Rio & Guanabara Bay, take a cable car to the summit of this Brazilian peak
Sugarloaf
|
$800
[20]
Idiomatically, these may "fall on deaf ears"
pleas
Renée
|
|
$1,000
[11]
York's Franciscan Order of Greyfriars was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538 as part of this period of religious upheaval
the Reformation
Manav
|
$1,000
[13]
What the Dickens?! Mark Lester wanted a little more out of life in the title role of this 1968 film
Oliver!
Mattea
|
$1,000
[30]
A poem by Stevie Smith says, "I was much further out than you thought and not waving but" doing this
drowning
Mattea
|
DD
$2,000
[27]
At about 1,000 feet, it was the tallest iron structure in the world when it was completed in 1889
the Eiffel Tower
Renée
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$1,000
[5]
Finn McCool, sort of the Irish Paul Bunyan, was said to have built this as a bridge to a Scottish island
Giant's Causeway
Mattea
|
$1,000
[21]
It's an ornate decoration just below a building's roof
a frieze
Mattea
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| PHILOSOPHY | CELEBRITY SIBLING SURNAMES | DOUBLE DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS | NORTH AMERICA | CATCHING YOU SHORT | BALLET & OPERA |
|
$400
[2]
Plato thought there were ideal entities called forms; this pupil disagreed in his book "Metaphysics"
Aristotle
Mattea
|
$400
[22]
Of Britney & Jamie Lynn
Spears
Renée
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$400
[15]
Of course, there's a pumpkin spice version of this icy cold blended beverage from Starbucks
a Frappuccino
Mattea
|
$400
[7]
Tj for short, this Mexican border city is home to an estimated 2 million people
Tijuana
Renée
|
$400
[8]
Per lifehack.org, "repeat the information (loudly if possible)" is one of "7 Simple Ways" to improve this type of retention
short-term memory
Mattea
Renée
|
$800
[27]
Siegfried threatens at least 2 characters with a crossbow in this ballet... what a bird brain!
Swan Lake
Mattea
|
|
$800
[3]
Medieval questions about these: not how many fit on a pin but do they have free will? & with no bodies, can they have knowledge?
angels
Mattea
Manav
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$800
[23]
Of actresses Rooney & Kate
Mara
Mattea
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$800
[18]
Hiccup in "How to Train Your Dragon" gives his dragon this name, but soon after gets a better look inside its mouth
Toothless
Renée
|
$800
[11]
This U.S. commonwealth flies the flag seen here
Puerto Rico
Mattea
|
$800
[9]
In early 2021 short selling had led to $20 billion in losses by investors in this retailer serving your Funko & PlayStation needs
GameStop
Renée
|
$1,200
[28]
Tonio the clown introduces this opera; at the end, the audience is told that the comedy is over
Pagliacci
Mattea
|
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$1,200
[4]
Qualia are events in this realm, one of the 2 in Descartes' dualist philosophy
the mind
Mattea
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$1,200
[24]
Of the sisters seen here
Deschanel
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$1,200
[19]
Slightly different from accounting, it's the work of those that track & record money transactions
bookkeeping
Renée
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$1,200
[12]
Donated by a governor general of Canada in the 1890s, it's the oldest trophy won by pro athletes in North America
the Stanley Cup
Renée
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$1,200
[10]
"The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" is in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 collection of short works called "Tales of" this era
the Jazz Age
Mattea
|
$1,600
[29]
An opera with hitmen? I'm in! This Verdi title jester wants revenge on the Duke of Mantua & hires Sparafucile to kill him
Rigoletto
|
|
DD
$2,000
[5]
It's the philosophical study of art & of the judgments of art & beauty
aesthetics
Mattea
|
$1,600
[1]
Of British singer Lily & brother Alfie from "Game of Thrones"
Allen
Mattea
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$1,600
[20]
A tenant under contract is considered one of these
a lessee
Renée
|
$1,600
[16]
Preceding the Aztec as the dominant force in Central Mexico, from about 900 to 1200, were this people whose name also ended tec
the Toltec
Mattea
Manav
|
$1,600
[13]
You might only need a 500-foot-long runway to land an aircraft with STOL short for this
short take off & landing
|
$2,000
[30]
Early in Act 2 in an Adolphe Adam classic ballet, Hilarion mourns at the grave of this title woman
Giselle
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$2,000
[6]
In works like "Philosophical Investigations", this Vienna-born thinker showed how thought is shaped by our language
Wittgenstein
Mattea
|
$2,000
[25]
Of football coaches Jim & John seen here
Harbaugh
Renée
|
$2,000
[21]
Ooh la la, chicken is sautéed & then stewed to make this French-named dish
fricassée
Renée
|
$2,000
[17]
Unique to North America is this large moth that only lives for a week or two after leaving the cocoon
a luna moth
|
$2,000
[14]
Charlemagne's dad, this man III was called "the Short"; Charlemagne's kid also got the name
Pepin the Short
|
DD
$5,000
[26]
M-m-m-my Verona! On February 9, 1965 Nureyev & Fonteyn danced this ever-doomed couple in London
Romeo & Juliet
Renée
|
Aptly, members of a Black family in this novel have biblical names: Pilate, Hagar & the title one, an ancestor of the protagonist
Song of Solomon