Sean McShane game 2.
Ellen McRae — a Realtor from Falls Church, Virginia
Brett Myer — a writer from Los Angeles, California
Sean McShane — a nonprofit membership associate originally from West Islip, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sean | $6,000 | $7,400 | $28,600 |
$32,600
2-day champion: $53,200 |
$25,400
28 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Brett | $1,000 | $4,000 | $11,200 |
$11,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,200
12 R, 1 W |
| Ellen | $-200 | $1,400 | $4,600 |
$8,600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,000
11 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| 4 FUNERALS & ANOTHER FUNERAL | SOUNDS | PLACE"O" | 2-SYLLABLE WORDS | PLAYING SANTA | FOOD AS YOU MIGHT SAY IT |
|
$200
[23]
There was crying for her as hundreds of thousands of Argentines visited her casket in 1952; about a dozen died in the crush
Eva Perón
Ellen
|
$200
[21]
It's a fun activity for kids at the shore, especially once they learn the ideal 20-degree angle
skipping stones
Brett
|
$200
[2]
You gotta pay your bills in this port city about 20 miles southeast of Niagara Falls
Buffalo
Ellen
|
$200
[11]
What wedidto the words in the video & the most exciting part of a trip or event
highlight
Brett
Ellen
|
$200
[20]
People magazine called Edmund Gwenn "the gold standard for cinematic Santa Clauses" after he worked up a "Miracle on" this
34th Street
Ellen
|
$200
[1]
It's got buns, hon:the untidy Jose
a sloppy joe
Ellen
|
|
$400
[24]
Here's a photo from the 1888 funeral of this kaiser, the first of his name, who passed just short of his 91st birthday
Wilhelm
Brett
|
$400
[22]
Theybecame electric, as opposed to earlier mechanical ones, on the 1947 Humpty Dumpty pinball machine
flippers
Sean
Ellen
|
$400
[3]
The seat of Lucas County in Ohio, this city lies along the southwestern tip of Lake Erie
Toledo
Sean
|
$400
[15]
During violent winter storms, penguins gather for protection in a tightly packed group called this, just like in football
a huddle
Sean
|
$400
[19]
After committing what some might deem accidental homicide in a 1994 film, this actor re-suited up in 2022 in "The Santa Clauses" on TV
Tim Allen
Sean
|
$400
[4]
In the ice cream aisle:lithic lane
rocky road
Sean
|
|
$600
[25]
47 years after the OK Corral, his pallbearers in L.A. included silent movie Western star Tom Mix & a former mayor of Tombstone
(Wyatt) Earp
Brett
|
$600
[28]
As in an old kitchen-based catchphrase meaning things are going well, "Now we're" doing this
cooking with gas
Sean
Brett
|
$800
[9]
In 1876 it was a frontier town of 600 people; today this North Dakota city has around 125,000
Fargo
Brett
|
$600
[14]
In biology, it's a thin outer layer of a cell; osmosis is the passage of a fluid through a semipermeable one
a membrane
Sean
|
$600
[18]
Saaannta! I know him! & it was the late, great Ed Asner who played the role in this 2003 film
Elf
Brett
|
$600
[5]
Southern fried fun:silence, curs!
hush puppies
Sean
|
|
$800
[26]
In 1852 the procession of this victorious Waterloo general's bespoke hearse had a million onlookers on its way to St. Paul's
(the Duke of) Wellington
Sean
Ellen
|
$800
[29]
It's the title of a novel by E.B. White & the sound heard here
The Trumpet of the Swan
|
$1,000
[10]
This country highlightedhereformerly declared its independence in 2008 but some EU members did not recognize it
Kosovo
Sean
|
$800
[13]
This wedge-shaped piece is at the summit of an arch & holds the rest of the pieces in place
a keystone
Sean
|
$800
[17]
A poster for "Bad Santa 2" had this thespian face down on a bar above the tagline "Giving the holidays another shot"
Billy Bob Thornton
Sean
|
$800
[6]
A hero in the South:destitute lad
a po' boy
Sean
|
|
$1,000
[27]
On March 29, 1827 20,000 attended the funeral of this German composer; Franz Schubert was a torchbearer
Beethoven
Sean
|
$1,000
[30]
This artillery piece, a type of smallcannon, was the nickname of baseball player Howie Moss
a howitzer
Brett
|
DD
$1,400
[8]
Only Greenland & New Guinea are larger islands in size than this one in the Pacific
Borneo
Ellen
|
$1,000
[12]
An electromagnetic emanation around living things; a red one means you are energetic
an aura
Sean
|
$1,000
[16]
Vince Vaughn was older brother Fred Claus to this actor as Nicholas
Paul Giamatti
Sean
|
$1,000
[7]
Tiramisu turf:dame digits
ladyfingers
Ellen
|
| SPANISH ART & ARTISTS | CITY SPEAK | OIL THINGS CONSIDERED | YOU GET LETTERS | CHEMISTRY | THAT'S SOME OF WHAT SHE WROTE |
|
$400
[28]
Aged almost 90, Picasso painted himself as one of these before a huge crowd, holding a sword as if it were a paintbrush
a bullfighter
Ellen
|
$400
[2]
It precedes broil, seen here, or fog
London
Sean
|
$400
[22]
After Jed Clampett discovered oil on his Appalachian property, he loaded up his family & moved to this more affluent locale
Beverly Hills
Brett
|
$400
[20]
You get an adjacent letter if you don't know it's the 7th letter of the English alphabet
G
|
$400
[29]
When this gloomy outlook follows "electro", it refers to the ability of an atom to attract electron pairs
electronegativity
|
$400
[1]
Her resumé includes 2 novels published 55 years apart & a 1983 essay about the history of Alabama
Harper Lee
Sean
|
|
$800
[27]
Francisco de Zurbarán liked to paint Francis, his namesake; the patched robe shows Franciscan monks' vow of this
poverty
Sean
|
$800
[3]
It precedes man, seen here, or opera
Peking (Beijing)
|
$800
[21]
The 2016 EP "Coconut Oil" was the first major label release for this Big Grrrl rap & pop artist
Lizzo
|
$800
[19]
In French, W has this name, which makes more sense
double-V
Brett
|
$800
[30]
A cup of instant coffee is a solution & adding water is this process, the opposite of concentration
dilution
Sean
|
$800
[15]
Written in 1991, "The Kitchen God's Wife" drew on her experiences as the Americanized daughter of a Chinese mother
Amy Tan
Sean
|
|
$1,600
[11]
It's an old Spanish word for a pretty young woman; Goya painted several, including some "on a Balcony"
a maja
|
$1,200
[4]
Fern or cream pie
Boston
Sean
|
$1,200
[14]
Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil!" was the basis for this movie that won Daniel Day-Lewis an Oscar
There Will Be Blood
Ellen
|
$1,200
[18]
Our letter K comes from this Greek one
kappa
Sean
|
$1,200
[26]
In chemistry it describes a substance that evaporates readily; it's the V in mVOC, smelly compounds produced by molds
volatile
Sean
|
$1,200
[9]
In addition to her numerous books for younger readers like "Superfudge", she wrote a few for adults, including "Wifey" in 1978
Judy Blume
Sean
|
|
$2,000
[10]
The title of this 1656 group portrait by Velazquez means "the ladies in waiting"
Las Meninas
|
$1,600
[5]
Syndrome (coined in the 1970s)
Stockholm
Ellen
|
$1,600
[13]
Forever seeking to kidnap his sweetheart, Oil Can Harry was a villainous cat adversary of this rodent superhero
Mighty Mouse
Sean
|
$1,600
[17]
Many Brits put an "intrusive" one between words that end with a vowel sound & words that start with one
an "R"
Sean
Ellen
|
$2,000
[23]
Named for their 2 constituent elements, these compounds such as propane & octane are often used for fuel
hydrocarbons
Sean
|
$1,600
[8]
"To Be Young, Gifted and Black" by this playwright was performed Off-Broadway after cancer took her far too young at 34
(Lorraine) Hansberry
Ellen
|
|
DD
$3,000
[25]
In the 1570s this immigrant from Crete painted "The Disrobing of Christ" for the cathedral of Toledo, Spain
El Greco
Sean
|
$2,000
[6]
Biennale(founded 1895)
Venice
Brett
|
$2,000
[12]
"Beds Are Burning" was the biggest U.S. hit for this political-minded Australian band
Midnight Oil
Brett
|
$2,000
[16]
Now often confused with F, the "long" form of this lowercase letter disappeared from English in the 1800s
an "S"
Sean
|
DD
$3,000
[24]
Orpiment, formula As2S3was a longtime aid to painters as a yellow pigment, but not now, due to this, the As
arsenic
Sean
|
$2,000
[7]
From a Bengali family, she won a 2000 Pulitzer for exploring the immigrant life in "Interpreter of Maladies"
Lahiri
Brett
|
Demonstrating the dignity & humanity of Black Americans, he sat for 160 known photographs, the most of any American in the 19th century
Frederick Douglass