Cris Pannullo game 14.
Tarun Narasimhan — a data scientist from San Francisco, California
Megan Burr — a manager of film acquisitions originally from Guntersville, Alabama
Cris Pannullo — a customer success operations manager from Ocean City, New Jersey (whose 13-day cash winnings total $416,102)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cris | $13,200 | $16,200 | $46,600 |
$71,821
14-day champion: $487,923 |
$32,200
35 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W |
| Megan | $0 | $1,400 | $5,000 |
$3,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,000
11 R, 2 W |
| Tarun | $-1,600 | $600 | $3,400 |
$5,001
2nd place: $2,000 |
$3,400
8 R, 3 W |
| CHARACTER ACTORS | 20th CENTURY CAMPAIGN SLOGANS | REVENGE LIT | NEAR THE FRONT OF THE DICTIONARY | CAR ACCESSORIES | IT'S A THANKSGIVING MIRACLE! |
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$200
[23]
Bill Campplayed the janitor who teaches a girl to play chess, on this streaming show
The Queen's Gambit
Tarun
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$200
[30]
Voters were told "He's the one"
Nixon
Megan
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$200
[27]
In a Dumas novel, this hero plots his revenge on the men who put him in prison for a crime he did not commit
The Count of Monte Cristo (Edmond Dantes)
Megan
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$200
[25]
To desert a vessel
abandon
Cris
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$200
[15]
Snow tires are cool, but sometimes you need a little more traction, like cables or these that can come with tensioners
chains
Cris
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$200
[28]
Cousin Eddie didn't eat all of this turkey day fave, though Bon Appétit's "classic herb & fennel" recipe turned out mwah!
stuffing
Cris
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$400
[19]
The Olivier & Tony-nominated Colman Domingo plays Victor Strand on the AMC zombie spin-off show
Fear the Walking Dead
Cris
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$400
[26]
"Not just peanuts" & "A leader, for a change" for his 1976 campaign
Carter
Megan
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$400
[21]
At the end of this epic poem by Virgil, the hero kills Turnus in an act of vengeance
the Aeneid
Cris
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$400
[24]
It's any substance that increases the rate at which a fire burns
accelerant
Tarun
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$400
[29]
A stick-on mirror that augments your side mirror can help minimize this 2-word liability with a hard-to-see name
a blind spot
Cris
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$400
[17]
We got through our annual viewing of this 1990 film even with a contrarian uncle rooting for "Wet Bandits" Joe Pesci & Daniel Stern
Home Alone
Cris
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$600
[18]
You may know Fred Melamedfrom "The Morning Show", "Superstore" or this Disney+ show with the Scarlet Witch & family
WandaVision
Megan
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$600
[7]
In 1988 this reverend & Democratic hopeful reminded us to "Keep hope alive"
(Jesse) Jackson
Cris
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$600
[10]
Divorced herself, Olivia Goldsmith wrote this novel about a group of women plotting against their ex-husbands
The First Wives Club
Cris
Tarun
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$800
[11]
To be "taken" this can mean to be caught by surprise or to have your ship's sails filled with wind from the wrong direction
aback
Cris
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$600
[22]
Kieba's coccyx seat cushion is made from this type of "foam" whose name suggests it recognizes your posterior
memory
Tarun
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$600
[13]
Grandma made it in time even after missing her connecting flight at George Bush Intercontinental in this city
Houston
Cris
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$800
[1]
Lance Reddickplayed a cop on "The Wire" & on this Amazon Prime drama as Chief Irvin Irving
Bosch
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$800
[5]
"Dew it with" him in 1948 did not lead to victory
Dewey
Cris
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$800
[8]
In Charles Portis' novel, Mattie wants a man with this title 2-word quality as she avenges her dad's murder & finds Rooster Cogburn
True Grit
Cris
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$1,000
[4]
Genus Haliotis, it's an edible marine mollusk with a beautiful shell
abalone
Cris
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$800
[20]
A travel road kit is sweet, like the one from this beginning-of-the-phone-book organization that's been around since 1902
AAA
Cris
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$800
[12]
Sorry to say it's a miracle, fans of this NFL team, but they won! That's big, what with their 37-43-2 all-time record on the day
the Lions
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$1,000
[2]
Thisveteran of TV comedy & time travel movies picks up a big gun in the 2021 action film "Nobody"
(Christopher) Lloyd
Cris
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$1,000
[6]
His mid-century second term bid used the slogan "Peace, progress & prosperity"
Eisenhower
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$1,000
[9]
In "An Act of Vengeance" by this Chilean author, Dulce Rosa plots for 30 years, gets her chance & things turn out different
(Isabel) Allende
Cris
Tarun
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DD
$5,000
[14]
From Latin for "proverb", it's a saying that expresses a common observation, like "a penny saved is a penny earned"
adage
Cris
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$1,000
[16]
A tracker for lost keys uses an app & this "colorful" technology to find them
Bluetooth
Tarun
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$1,000
[3]
We somehow avoided politics, except dad ranting about this president; we get it, dad, he blew it letting South Carolina secede
Buchanan
Cris
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| HISTORICAL FICTION | SIMPLY GORGES | BIOLOGY | STARS OF OSCARS BEST PICTURE | TAKE THE FIFTH | DOUBLE-T WORDS |
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$400
[26]
About 60 years after the event, this "Robinson Crusoe" author wrote "a Journal of the Plague Year" based on real accounts
Defoe
Tarun
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$400
[27]
With nearly 25,000, this country has more large dams than any other, like the one at Three Gorges
China
Cris
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$400
[30]
Discovered around 1915, bacteriophages are bacteria-eating types of these other tiny disease-causing agents
viruses
Cris
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$400
[24]
Tom Hanks &Robin Wright ran away with the win
Forrest Gump
Megan
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$400
[29]
A rhyme about Guy Fawkes & his Gunpowder Plot beseeches, "Remember, remember" the fifth of this month
November
Megan
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$400
[14]
In basketball FGA can be short for field goal these, made or not--good try, James Harden!
attempt
Tarun
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$800
[25]
Eva preserves the real identities of Jewish children during the Holocaust in Kristin Harmel's "The Book of Lost" these
Names
Megan
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$800
[17]
Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania is where this archaeologist husband-&-wife team made many important hominid fossil discoveries
(Louis & Mary) Leakey
Cris
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$800
[16]
In hibernating bears this rate slows much more than a drop in body temp would explain, with heart rate going from 55 to 14
their metabolic rate
Tarun
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$800
[23]
Think about Russell Crowe &Jennifer Connelly
A Beautiful Mind
Tarun
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$800
[28]
Secrecy & sabotage are activities of any wartime faction known as the fifth this
column
Cris
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$800
[13]
The second of the 2 things mentioned earlier in a sentence
the latter
Megan
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$1,200
[4]
Marie Benedict tells of Mileva Maric, a physicist in her own right, who lived in her husband's shadow in "The Other" this surname
Einstein
Megan
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$1,200
[1]
The Carnarvon Gorge northwest of Brisbane in this state right above New South Wales is a great place to see Aboriginal art
Queensland
Cris
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$1,200
[6]
Wind-dispersedseedsare named for types of flying craft; maple seeds are this type that spins to get farther from the tree
a helicopter
Cris
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$1,200
[18]
Ralph Fiennes flew to victory with Juliette Binoche
The English Patient
Cris
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$1,200
[15]
A fifth of alcohol, as I'm sure you are all aware, equals 750 of these units
milliliter
Cris
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$1,200
[12]
In the movie "White Nights", Mikhail Baryshnikov does a 3,960-degree turn, 11 of these spins in a row
a pirouette
Cris
Megan
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$1,600
[3]
In "Memoirs of" this, the narrator refers to her "noh smile" that "resembles a noh mask whose features are frozen"
a geisha
Cris
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$1,600
[2]
Water roars down 270 feet through Devil's Gorge, the highest of the cataracts that make up this spot on the Brazil-Argentina border
Iguazú
Cris
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$1,600
[5]
A villanelle is a type of poem; this is a structure in a cell with a specific function, like mitochondria or vacuoles
an organelle
Cris
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$1,600
[10]
Crime did pay for Leonardo DiCaprio & Jack Nicholson
The Departed
Cris
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$1,600
[9]
Traditional news media are said to be the "fourth" this, while nontraditional media are the "fifth"
estate
Megan
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$1,600
[11]
The double T is exactly in the middle of this adjective meaning nervous & easily frightened word
skittish
Megan
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DD
$5,000
[8]
Min Jin Lee's novel about a Korean immigrant family in Japan is named for this upright Japanese game using small metal balls
pachinko
Cris
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$2,000
[7]
Black River Gorges National Park is in this Indian Ocean island nation where the dodo once lived
Mauritius
Cris
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DD
$9,000
[19]
In the cell cycle, it follows metaphase; alphabetically, it comes first
anaphase
Cris
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$2,000
[22]
Gene Hackman & Roy Scheider copped out
The French Connection
Tarun
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$2,000
[21]
In 1980 South Korea's president Chun Doo-hwan us here d in this; France did the same with its government back in 1958
the Fifth Republic
Cris
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$2,000
[20]
In "Jane Eyre", Mr. Rochester is "not fond of the" this "of children", a synonym for "chatter" that also has a double T
prattling
Megan
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To aid transport in poorer nations, in the 1920s grads of this college built makeshift buggies celebrated in their fight song
Georgia Tech