Eric Ahasic game 6.
Lisa Hernson — a banking director from New York, New York
Mazin Omer — a student from Toledo, Ohio
Eric Ahasic — a meteorologist from Minneapolis, Minnesota (whose 5-day cash winnings total $133,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric | $3,000 | $6,800 | $29,400 |
$26,800
6-day champion: $160,601 |
$21,200
26 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Mazin | $2,000 | $2,800 | $9,200 |
$401
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,200
18 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Lisa | $-600 | $-200 | $200 |
$400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$200
7 R, 4 W |
| HUNGARY | BOOK TITLE REFERENCES | KNIGHT AFTER KNIGHT | PRE HISTORIC | TEXTING, TEXTING | ONE, TWO |
|
$200
[16]
Under a treaty following WWI, Hungary lost about 2/3 of its territory, including Transylvania, to this country
Romania
Mazin
|
$200
[13]
Per an Alice Walker novel, God will be mad if you don't notice it in a field
the color purple
Mazin
|
$200
[21]
In 2014 Prince William knighted this Oscar winner's "left foot", & the rest of him, too
Daniel Day-Lewis
Lisa
|
$200
[10]
To rest in a big way for a few months starting around December
hibernate
Eric
|
$200
[12]
In Oregon a first offense for texting while doing this can be a class B violation & a $1,000 fine
driving
Mazin
|
$200
[24]
In 2014 Jennifer Garner began wondering about the contents of your wallet in ads for this company
Capital One
Eric
|
|
$400
[3]
Hungary's Ferenc Puskas, "The Galloping Major", was one of the first international superstars of this sport
soccer
Mazin
|
$400
[4]
Luke Castellan (not Percy Jackson), who stole Zeus' master bolt
a lightning thief
Mazin
|
$400
[17]
To honor his father, this starherewas knighted in his birth name, so he's Sir Maurice Micklewhite
Michael Caine
Mazin
Lisa
|
$400
[11]
Check out an example of these; you don't have to translate them, though
hieroglyphics
Lisa
|
$400
[8]
Although it's been said many times, many ways, in Dec. 1992 a 22-year-old software engineer sent these 2 words in the very 1st text
Merry Christmas
Eric
|
$400
[26]
A tree-dweller, the 2-toed this mammal sleeps about 15 hours a day & can take an entire month to digest some food items
a sloth
Eric
|
|
$600
[1]
An important river of Central Europe & Hungary, the Tisza is a tributary of this much longer river
the Danube
Eric
|
$800
[6]
In a novel by Khaled Hosseini, a boy named Hassan
The Kite Runner
Mazin
Lisa
|
$600
[22]
After captaining the Enterprise on TV in the '90s, this actor would get called "Sir" for another reason in 2010
Patrick Stewart
Mazin
|
$600
[18]
A set of people who rob on a public road, or in a more fun sense, a side project for Willie Nelson & 3 other legends
highwaymen
Eric
|
$600
[14]
Online at damnyou this: "How's your day going?"; "Awful. I have a bad case of the manboobs" (followed by) "Omg. The Mondays!"
Autocorrect
|
$600
[27]
"Shave & a haircut, 2 bits"?! Sounds like quite the bargain, as 2 bits is usually worth this amount of money
a quarter
Mazin
|
|
$800
[2]
The beautiful Tokaj region in the northeast is world famous for its production of this, like Tokaji Aszu
wine
Lisa
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
The murder of Linnet Doyle aboard the Karnak, a steamer
Death on the Nile
Mazin
|
$800
[25]
In 1998 Queen Elizabeth knighted this piano-playing singer, though his first & last names got reversed when he was introduced
(Sir) Elton John
Eric
|
$800
[19]
From the Latin for "gap", it describes the break a TV show takes when it goes out of production for a few weeks
hiatus
Lisa
|
$800
[15]
MMS, this message service, lets you attach that cute video of your toddler singing "Poker Face" in a text to grandma
Multimedia
Eric
|
$800
[28]
The basic movement in this numeric Lone Star State dance is "quick-quick, slow, slow"
a (Texas) two-step
Eric
|
|
$1,000
[9]
In 1988, 43 years after his death in self-exile in New York, this composer's remains were returned to his beloved Hungary
Bartók
Eric
Lisa
|
$1,000
[7]
In a Paulo Coelho novel, a 200-year-old who can transform base metals into gold
The Alchemist
Mazin
|
$1,000
[30]
Though too frail to kneel, this 85-year-old silent film star was tapped in 1975, just a few miles from where he grew up in poverty
Chaplin
Eric
|
$1,000
[20]
This hairy adjective is extremely close to historic in the dictionary
hirsute
Eric
|
$1,000
[23]
ATEOTD, in texting lingo, ATEOTD is short for this
at the end of the day
Mazin
|
$1,000
[29]
In 1934 John Dillinger got a very unwanted birthday present, this 4-word designation & soon, a $10,000 reward on his head
Public Enemy Number One
Eric
Lisa
|
| U.S. HISTORY | ASTRONOMY | BIBLICAL WOMEN | FINANCE BROS | ROCK DOCS | DECIPHER OUR TOP-SECRET CODE PART II |
|
$400
[16]
In 1915 the Revenue Cutter Service & the Life-Saving Service merged to create this branch of the military
the Coast Guard
Eric
|
$400
[17]
Because they orbit between the Earth & Sun, these are known as the 2 "inferior" planets
Mercury & Venus
Eric
|
$400
[24]
The woman who found the baby Moses floating in a basket in the river is identified in Exodus only as this person's daughter
Pharaoh
Eric
|
$400
[18]
Anderson Brothers Bank was founded in 1933 in the depths of this to give desperately needed support to South Carolina farmers
the Great Depression
Mazin
|
$400
[1]
Hofstra linguistics Prof Robert Leonard sang at this 1969 concert, where he & his band Sha Na Na opened for their pal Jimi Hendrix
Woodstock
Mazin
|
$400
[26]
One possible answer:14-15
no
|
|
$800
[7]
The Dorr Rebellion in 1842 was directed against the government of this "Ocean State"
Rhode Island
Mazin
|
$800
[9]
65 times the size of the Sun, Canopus, the second-brightest star in the sky, is a yellow-white one of these
giant
|
$800
[25]
David's wife & Solomon's mother, she had formerly been married to Uriah the Hittite
Bathsheba
Eric
|
$800
[8]
In September 2008 Lehman Brothers, with $639 billion in assets, filed the largest one of these in U.S. history
bankruptcy
Eric
|
$800
[2]
Can't get much more metal than Runhild Gammelsaeter, who sang for the band called this god's Hammer & has a PhD from the U. of Oslo
Thor
Mazin
|
$800
[27]
Precious commodity:7-15-12-4
gold
Lisa
|
|
$1,200
[4]
In 1912, the U.S. flag gained its 47th & 48th stars after these two neighbors, highlighted here, joined the Union
Arizona & New Mexico
Mazin
|
$1,200
[10]
It's the second smallest of the solar system's 8 major planets
Mars
Eric
Mazin
|
$1,600
[22]
This matriarch was the mother of Esau & Jacob
Rebecca
Mazin
|
$1,200
[12]
A philanthropic fund was created in 1940 by these brothers--John 3rd, Laurance, Winthrop, Nelson & David
the Rockefellers
Eric
|
$1,200
[3]
"I'm just a sucker with no self-esteem" sang Dexter Holland, a molecular biology PhD who's the lead singer of this band
The Offspring
Eric
Mazin
|
$1,200
[28]
This little light in a gas-powered appliance:16-9-12-15-20
pilot
Eric
|
|
$1,600
[5]
In 1973 this retired Chief Justice returned to California to swear in Tom Bradley, the first Black mayor of Los Angeles
(Earl) Warren
Mazin
|
$2,000
[21]
Astronomers use this, the difference in an object's direction when observed from 2 points, to measure distance
parallax
Mazin
|
$2,000
[23]
The name of this queen who vowed to have the prophet Elijah killed has come to mean an immoral woman
Jezebel
Eric
Mazin
|
$1,600
[13]
The fabulous Baker Boys, Julian & Felix, run a hedge fund specializing in this 7-letter sector of new drug development
biotech
|
$1,600
[19]
After playing guitar with Lou Reed & Nico in this influential '60s band, Sterling Morrison earned a PhD in medieval studies
The Velvet Underground
Lisa
|
$1,600
[29]
A reddish brown:21-13-2-5-18
umber
|
|
$2,000
[6]
Known as "Mother", she emigrated from Italy in 1889 & in 1946 she became the first U.S. citizen to be declared a saint
(Mother) Cabrini
Eric
|
DD
$6,000
[11]
Blown back by this, a comet's ion tail points almost directly away from the Sun
the solar wind
Eric
|
DD
$5,000
[15]
This dancer who in Matthew 14 is referred to as "the daughter of Herodias" is better known by this name
Salome
Eric
|
$2,000
[14]
Founded by French freres, this financial advising & asset managing giant is LAZ on the New York Stock Exchange
Lazard
Eric
|
$2,000
[20]
4-time "Jeopardy!" champ Jackie Fuchs has a J.D. from Harvard; as Jackie Fox, she played bass in this all-female Joan Jett band
The Runaways
Eric
Lisa
|
$2,000
[30]
Vascular plant part: 24-25-12-5-13
xylem
Mazin
|
Buster Keaton considered her the tops in her field &, in fact, was one of her early mentors
Lucille Ball