Sean McShane game 1.
Kris Anne Bonifacio — a website manager from Raleigh, North Carolina
Sean McShane — a nonprofit membership associate originally from West Islip, New York
Matthew Ott — an accountant originally from Boston, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,197)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew | $1,800 | $3,400 | $9,400 |
$9,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,800
11 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Sean | $4,400 | $8,600 | $23,600 |
$20,600
New champion: $20,600 |
$21,800
27 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Kris Anne | $800 | $2,600 | $4,000 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,600
10 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| BEN FRANKLIN | TRUE GRIME | WITH A SONG IN YOUR BRAIN | LOST FOR WORDS | OUTBREAKS | THE MOVIE'S TITLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES |
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$200
[4]
In his native Boston, Ben wrote that the kids of status-seeking parents come out of this college as blockheads
Harvard
Sean
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$200
[30]
As a noun, it's earth for growing plants; as a verb, it means to stain
soil
Sean
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$200
[1]
This word for a song's main tune is from the Greek for "song"
a melody
Matthew
Sean
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$200
[16]
If you're neglected, you may fall through these; in 2020 President Obama said our health systems allow it to happen to the poor
the cracks
Sean
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$200
[21]
This paralytic disease peaked in the U.S. in the 1950s, closing swimming pools & movie theaters
polio
Kris Anne
|
$200
[10]
Who ya gonna call in China? "Super Power Dare Die Team"
the Ghostbusters
Sean
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$400
[5]
As royally appointed deputy this 2-word job, Ben got mail from Charleston to Boston by road instead of by ship via London
Postmaster General
Sean
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$400
[29]
It can precede "of the earth", but a "Men in Black" tagline was "protecting the Earth from the" this "of the universe"
scum
Kris Anne
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$400
[2]
Originally a song meant to be danced to, today it means a song telling a romantic or sentimental story
a ballad
Matthew
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$400
[17]
Buccaneers abandoned people on islands this way that begins with a color
marooned
Kris Anne
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$400
[22]
Isaac Newton was at home for 2 years waiting out this infectious fever
the (bubonic) plague
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$400
[11]
"Vaselina" was the word in Mexico
Grease
|
|
$600
[6]
Ben's discoveries led to the lightning rod & to the end of the electrocution of more than a hundred of these colleagues of Quasimodo
bell ringers
Sean
|
$600
[28]
It means boggy or swampy ground; as a verb it's what happened to the wagon that got stuckt here
a mire (mired)
Sean
|
$600
[3]
To sing in a slow, soft voice, like Bing Crosby
to croon
Sean
|
$600
[18]
This piscine phrase describes someone lost in a new environment
a fish out of water
Sean
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$600
[23]
In 1918 & 1919 20-50 million worldwide perished from this, so named for the country where it was widely reported
the Spanish flu
Matthew
|
$600
[12]
Nice spoiler, Mexico! Geena Davis & Susan Sarandon had "An Unexpected End"
Thelma & Louise
Sean
|
|
$800
[7]
An edit Ben made for Thomas Jefferson changed "we hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable" to this, rational instead of religious
self-evident
Matthew
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$800
[27]
Stinking this is a type of disease caused by parasitic fungi on plants; an indecent magazine is said to contain it, too
smut
Sean
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$1,000
[9]
Publishing company Hal Leonard offers "the world's premier destination for digital" this loose-printed music; kind of an oxymoron
sheet music
Sean
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$800
[19]
This Latin word follows "in" to describe someone not in attendance
absentia
Sean
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$800
[24]
A 19th century pandemic of this water-borne disease began in the delta region of the Ganges River
cholera
Kris Anne
|
$800
[13]
China enjoyed "A Very Powerful Whale Runs to Heaven"
Free Willy
Kris Anne
|
|
$1,000
[15]
When a friend asked if the Constitution set up a republic or a monarchy, Ben replied, "A republic" followed by these 5 words
if you can keep it
|
$1,000
[26]
A scandal may do this to your reputation; it's also a word for a discoloration caused by oxidation on some metals
tarnish
Sean
|
DD
$1,400
[8]
The pleasing combination of simultaneously sounded notes, it was composer Arnold Schoenberg's last word
harmony
Matthew
|
$1,000
[20]
During World War I you didn't want to get lost in this area between opposing trenches
no man's land
Matthew
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$1,000
[25]
Variola major is the virus that causes this acute infectious disease
smallpox
|
$1,000
[14]
Japan got right down to it for a Nevada-set film: "I'm Drunk & You're a Prostitute"
Leaving Las Vegas
Matthew
Sean
|
| 19th CENTURY LITERATURE | CHICAGO TV | "Y-U" | NO GOOD | LOW DOWN | SEW & SEW |
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$400
[30]
The hero of this Stevenson novel finds himself on a ship he had no intention of sailing on--yup, he's been this title
Kidnapped
Sean
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$400
[29]
Of surgeon, chef or hit man, it's the profession of Carmy, who returns to his home city to ply his trade in "The Bear"
chef
Kris Anne
|
$400
[9]
An entire tree used to be burned at Christmastime, but now it's just this in the fireplace
a yule log
Sean
|
$400
[16]
This Chicago man's operation had $100 million in annual revenue; in 2020s instead of 1920s dollars, that's about $1.8 billion
Al Capone
Sean
|
$400
[10]
With Low Country ingenuity, in 1932 the Dutch built a 20-mile-long one of these to cut off the Zuider Zee & create a whole new province
a dike
|
$400
[15]
Dating back hundreds of years is the simple fastener known as a hook & this body part
an eye
Sean
|
|
$800
[24]
A work by James Fenimore Cooper sometimes called the first espionage novel has this simple title
The Spy
Kris Anne
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$800
[28]
In the HBO version of this novel, Rose Leslie is Art Institute student Clare, involved with a chronologically nonlinear guy
The Time Traveler's Wife
|
$800
[8]
First name of famed Soviets Gagarin & Andropov
Yuri
Matthew
|
$800
[17]
In 1992 this ex-leader of Panama was convicted of cocaine trafficking, among other things
Noriega
Matthew
|
$800
[11]
The lower California peninsula also goes by this other name
Baja California
Sean
|
$800
[23]
Thisstitch, named for obvious reasons, is often used to finish the edges & prevent fraying
a zigzag stitch
Kris Anne
|
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$1,200
[3]
This oldest member of the 3 Musketeers in Dumas' novel is revealed to be the Comte de la Fere
Athos
|
$1,200
[22]
In NBC's "One Chicago" program block, it comes between "Chicago Med" & "Chicago P.D."
Chicago Fire
Sean
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$1,200
[7]
This desert plant seenhereis actually part of the asparagus family
a yucca
Sean
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$1,200
[18]
It's the last name of Massachusetts crime boss Whitey & his brother William, a long-serving president of the state senate
Bulger
Sean
|
$1,600
[13]
This body of water, the lowest point on Earth, is part of a rift valley formed by lowering of the Earth's crust, not by erosion
the Dead Sea
Sean
|
$1,200
[27]
An old adage that's helpful when preparing your fabric is do this "twice, cut once"
measure
Matthew
|
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$2,000
[21]
The Duke of Ferrara is the possibly murderous narrator of this Robert Browning poem
My Last Duchess
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$1,600
[1]
On this sitcom, cousins from different worlds Larry & Balki worked for the Chicago Chronicle newspaper
Perfect Strangers
Matthew
|
$1,600
[6]
Its neighbors include Alaska to the west & British Columbia to the south
the Yukon
Sean
|
$1,600
[19]
One of Time's "Top 10 Real-Life Mob Bosses", this 1980s Medellín cartel man was said to burn $2 million to stay warm when on the run
Escobar
Matthew
|
$2,000
[14]
In Scotland, the Lowlands can refer to the valley lying in the basins between the River Forth & this other river to the south
the Clyde
|
$1,600
[26]
Hereare some of these sewing machine necessities with an assortment of thread
a bobbin
Sean
|
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DD
$4,600
[4]
This Englishwoman wrote 1823's "Valperga"; her first novel also had a one-word title but is more famous
Mary Shelley
Kris Anne
|
$2,000
[2]
"The Chi" about kids & adults on the South Side, was created by this actress, seen with castmate Alex Hibbert
Lena Waithe
Kris Anne
|
$2,000
[5]
One glamping option is a nice one of these huts from central Asia
a yurt
Sean
|
$2,000
[20]
Vincent Gigante long feigned insanity, walking NYC in his pajamas & earning this mafia-related nickname; lose the opening "G" sound
"The Oddfather"
|
DD
$3,000
[12]
The "lower 48" refers to U.S. states that are this, a 10-letter word meaning "in contact"
contiguous
Sean
|
$2,000
[25]
It's to use long, temporary stitches to hold something together, not to keep it moist
to baste
Kris Anne
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Originally, this 3-word phrase referred to when a doctor or apothecary substituted one medicine for another
quid pro quo