Megan Wachspress game 3.
Sarah Borrelli — an attorney from Hamilton, Montana
Steve Ruiz — a doctoral student from Gilbert, Arizona
Megan Wachspress — an attorney from Berkeley, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $28,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Megan | $2,200 | $6,600 | $11,800 |
$5,601
3-day champion: $34,402 |
$11,200
14 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Steve | $3,400 | $6,600 | $16,200 |
$5,599
2nd place: $2,000 |
$16,200
20 R, 0 W |
| Sarah | $1,400 | $2,600 | $13,400 |
$3,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,200
18 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS | ALL ALLITERATIVE FAMILIAR PHRASES | CLASSIC LIT | HORROR MOVIES | GET OUT | THE "O" MEN |
|
$200
[1]
Her self-portrait titled "Diego & I" sold for $34.9 million at a 2021 auction, a record for her
Frida Kahlo
Megan
|
$200
[19]
To be near the end is to be "on your" these anatomical items
last legs
Megan
|
$200
[14]
"The Jungle Book" contains a story about Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, one of these animals who protects his human family
a mongoose
Sarah
|
$200
[11]
"The Babysitter Murders" became this 1978 film introducing Michael Myers
Halloween
Steve
|
$200
[26]
Get out & elect this group that helps set what kids are taught; the National Assoc. of them says voter turnout often runs under 10%
a school board
Sarah
|
$200
[5]
Done with manufacturing wagons, he set up an elevator shop in Yonkers in 1853 & business just went up from there
Otis
Sarah
|
|
$600
[3]
Dancers were a favorite subject of this artist as in his 1879 work shown here
Degas
Megan
|
$400
[20]
Influence from one's equals
peer pressure
Megan
|
$400
[15]
Herman Melville dedicated "Moby Dick" to this New Englander who had mentored him
Hawthorne
Sarah
|
$400
[12]
A masked killer known as Ghostface torments teens in this 1996 horror film & its 2022 outing
Scream
Megan
Steve
|
$400
[27]
Get out to the West Coast for Bottlerock, a festival of big music acts & wine tasting in this California valley
Napa Valley
Sarah
|
$400
[6]
Later a shipping magnate, this businessman whose middle name was Socrates made his first million by age 25 dealing tobacco
Onassis
Steve
|
|
$800
[4]
In the 1930s Picasso often represented himself in his work as this mythical creature, half man & half bull
a Minotaur
Steve
|
$600
[21]
Fascinated by the famous
starstruck
Steve
|
$600
[16]
In "Oliver Twist", precocious pickpocket Jack Dawkins is better known by this nickname
the Artful Dodger
Sarah
|
$600
[13]
Sammy Davis Jr.'s cover of a song from "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" plays before the start of this 2021 scarefest
the Candyman
Sarah
|
$600
[28]
Get out and play the combo gamefoot volley, invented in this country that's a powerhouse in soccer & beach volleyball
Brazil
Megan
|
$600
[7]
Dining out as Ron Swanson on "Parks & Rec", he introduced the "turf & turf. It's a 16-ounce T-bone & a 24-ounce porterhouse"
Nick Offerman
Steve
|
|
DD
$1,000
[2]
Kehinde Wiley has jasmine (to represent Hawaii) & chrysanthemums (Chicago's official flower) in his portrait of this man
Barack Obama
Megan
|
$800
[22]
Per the Farmers' Almanac, the hot period from July 3 to August 11
the dog days
Steve
|
$800
[17]
His 1789 book "Songs of Innocence" fittingly includes "The Lamb"
Blake
Megan
|
$800
[24]
In a 2017 horror film he starred as Chris Washington, trying to "Get Out" of the Armitage home
Daniel Kaluuya
Steve
|
$800
[29]
Get out there & meet someone, then 7 minutes later meet someone else in this system invented by an L.A. rabbi in the 1990s
speed dating
Megan
|
$800
[8]
More than just a mantra homophone, this German has a unit of electrical resistance named for him
Ohm
Megan
|
|
$1,000
[9]
This New Englander showed the struggle between humans & nature in seascapes like "Fog Warning" & "The Herring Net"
Homer
Steve
|
$1,000
[23]
Thrown around by a storm; it's in the poem on the Statue of Liberty
tempest-tost
|
$1,000
[18]
The title of this semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin comes from a traditional hymn
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Megan
|
$1,000
[25]
The spawn of Satan is given this first name & is raised by an ambassador in "The Omen"
Damien
Steve
|
$1,000
[30]
Get out in your garden and plant this, every part of which can be used in cooking
fennel
Megan
|
$1,000
[10]
Rossini called this Prussian-born composer "our little Mozart of the Champs-Élysées"
Jacques Offenbach
|
| WHO WAS WHERE, WHEN | PLACES IN THE USA | IT'S ALL RELATIVITY | CLASSIC CARS | EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSES | FROM "B" TO "I" |
|
$400
[21]
On May 5, 1960 Khrushchev informed the Supreme Soviet this alphanumeric U.S. plane had been shot down over the USSR 4 days earlier
the U2
Steve
|
$400
[16]
The world's largest stand of ponderosa pines is near Flagstaff in Coconino National Forest in this state
Arizona
Steve
|
$400
[11]
In 1916 astronomer Karl Schwarzschild used relativistic equations to predict the existence of these inescapable bodies
a black hole
Steve
|
$400
[26]
This 8-letter avian word describes the doors on the 1954 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL coupe
gullwing
Steve
|
$400
[6]
In this Disney flick one of the title characters has an enchanted rose that he keeps under glass
Beauty and the Beast
Sarah
|
$400
[1]
A 1960 hit song described it as "itsy bitsy" & "teenie weenie"
a bikini
Steve
|
|
$800
[22]
Despite a generous retirement plan of 2 million francs a year & this island as his own, Napoleon returned to France on March 1, 1815
Elba
Sarah
|
$800
[17]
An Idaho city gave its name to ageysert here called these "Springs"; it was Beer Springs but went non-alcoholic
Soda Springs
Megan
Sarah
|
$800
[12]
On Dec. 24, 2021 this physicist tweeted, "Maybe Santa's reindeer are stationary, & it is we who fly past them"
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Sarah
|
$800
[27]
Company founder & namesake Enzo had to give approval in order for someone to purchase one of its 250 GTOs
Ferrari
Sarah
|
$800
[7]
She starred in the movie "The Rose" & had a No. 3 hit with the title song in 1980
Bette Midler
|
$800
[2]
Babies in Bologna
bambini
Sarah
|
|
$1,200
[23]
Harlon Block, Michael Strank, Ira Hayes & 3 other servicemen were famously pictured on this island on Feb. 23, 1945
Iwo Jima
Steve
|
$1,600
[19]
Sheffield, Alabama is home to these "Shoals", the studio where "Wild Horses" & "Old Time Rock & Roll" were recorded
Muscle Shoals
|
$1,200
[13]
Einstein first stated the concept now summed up in this formula, just 5 symbols, in a short paper often called an afterthought
E=MC 2
Sarah
|
$1,200
[28]
In 2018 this doozy of an American car sold for $22 million; previous owners include Gary Cooper
a Duesenberg
Sarah
|
$1,200
[8]
This woman shot a metaphoric arrow of love into now-husband Kit Harington & as Ygritte, a real one into Kit's Jon Snow
Rose Leslie
Steve
|
$1,200
[3]
This Greek musical instrument resembles a mandolin
a bouzouki
|
|
$1,600
[24]
France's National Assembly got "The Declaration of the Rights of Man & of the Citizen" from this military hero on July 11, 1789
Lafayette
Sarah
|
DD
$2,000
[18]
A favorite restaurant of Joe Biden's is Piccolina Toscana in this Delaware city, his longtime home
Wilmington
Sarah
|
$2,000
[15]
This hyphenated term linking 3 dimensions with a fourth is a key concept in relativistic theory
the space-time continuum
Megan
|
$1,600
[29]
In "The Spy Who Loved Me", James Bond had esprit with this carmaker's Esprit--it converted into a submarine
a Lotus
Sarah
|
$1,600
[9]
Seen here, this daughter of a movie swashbuckler is an actor in her own right
Lily-Rose Depp
Steve
|
$1,600
[4]
Native to Africa, this hound dog is also known to be barkless
a Basenji
Steve
|
|
$2,000
[25]
He was inaugurated as president on Nov. 3, 1970 in Chile but 3 years later, fell in a military coup
Allende
Megan
|
$2,000
[20]
This Oregon State University city is about 40 miles down the Willamette from Eugene
Corvallis
Megan
Steve
|
DD
$4,000
[14]
Nobel winner Kip Thorne made sure the science was right in "Interstellar", about a trip through one of these relativistic tunnels
a wormhole
Sarah
|
$2,000
[30]
Here'sa real beauty from the 1960s, this hyphenated British make's 3000
an Austin-Healey
Sarah
|
$2,000
[10]
The song "Everything's Coming Up Roses" is from this musical about Rose Lee
Gypsy
Megan
|
$2,000
[5]
It's a decorative mark or jewel in the middle of the forehead traditionally worn by married Hindu women
a bindi
Megan
|
Published in 1991, this novel, the first in a series, has been described as "historical fiction with a Moebius twist"
Outlander