Ray Lalonde game 8.
Bobby Freitas — a middle school teacher from Long Beach, California
Sarah Schmeer — an executive assistant from Portland, Oregon
Ray Lalonde — a scenic artist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 7-day cash winnings total $192,700)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ray | $6,200 | $7,000 | $21,600 |
$26,600
8-day champion: $219,300 |
$18,800
25 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Sarah | $2,200 | $4,400 | $11,600 |
$23,100
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,200
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Bobby | $1,600 | $3,400 | $3,400 |
$200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,400
13 R, 5 W |
| WORD PUZZLES | THE 18th CENTURY | THE OFFICE | VACATION ISLES | APPS & WEBSITES | REMEMBER THE ALAMO BOWL |
|
$200
[6]
How about a nice healthy cup of this?SOUI⊃
split pea soup
Bobby
|
$200
[12]
She came to power in Russia in a 1762 coup against her husband, who was soon dead with the official cause as hemorrhoids
Catherine the Great
Sarah
|
$200
[13]
Software such as Greetly can replace this person, like Ellie Kemper's character Erin on "The Office"
a receptionist
Ray
|
$200
[18]
Lovely Santorini, part of the Cyclades, lies off the southeastern coast of Greece in this sea
the Aegean
Bobby
|
$200
[26]
Sales for the last 3 months of 2020 for this video conferencing co. were up 370% from the same time in 2019, for... reasons
Zoom
Ray
|
$200
[21]
College football's Alamo Bowl is held annually at the Alamodome in this city
San Antonio
Bobby
|
|
$400
[5]
A legendary outlawHOROBOD
Robin Hood
Ray
|
$400
[11]
The original this singing "club" began with some English guys who sang madrigals after dinner in the 1780s
glee club
Sarah
|
$400
[27]
A platonic female best friend & confidante to a co-worker; it was the title of a 1930 book & movie
The Office Wife
Ray
Sarah
Bobby
|
$400
[17]
Locals in Bali call Mount Agungthe this body part of the world; must be an outie
navel
Ray
|
$400
[25]
It's not your grandma's Western Union (stop) it's "a new era of messaging" (stop) are you getting the idea (we'll stop)
Telegram
|
$400
[20]
Since 2010 the Alamo Bowl has matched 2 of the top teams from these "12" conferences
the Pac-12 & the Big 12
Bobby
|
|
$600
[4]
Take a hike & take along some of this snackRIALT
trail mix
Sarah
|
$600
[1]
6 men arrived in what's now Yemen in 1762 on Europe's first scientific expedition to this peninsula; one made it back home
the Arabian Peninsula
Bobby
|
$600
[28]
A popular office snack is the granola bar made since 1975 & named for this place we think is between Death Valley & Silicon Valley
Nature Valley
|
$600
[14]
Ischia is a winey, picturesque island at the entrance to this bay, near the southern Italian city with the same name as the bay
(the Bay of) Naples
Ray
|
$600
[24]
It was founded in 1998 as Confinity but soon went by this name instead of something like Reimbursafriend or Dollar-a-Buddy
PayPal
Ray
Bobby
|
$600
[8]
At the 2012 Alamo Bowl, the Texas defense put the bag on Oregon State's quarterback with 10 of these
sacks
Ray
|
|
$800
[2]
New drivers may find it challengingGNIKCAB
backing up
Ray
|
$1,000
[10]
The French loved the fur hat Ben Franklinwore to cover his boils & compared him to this Swiss-born philosopher of a state of nature
Rousseau
Ray
|
$800
[29]
Labor Day 2022 was a dividing line for several big companies when WFH became RTO, short for this
return to office
Sarah
|
$800
[15]
It pairs with Caicos in the name of a group of sunny isles southeast of the Bahamas
Turks
Ray
|
$800
[22]
An "SNL" "ad" for this company included, "I'd never live in North Carolina, but if I did, I could buy a big, gross mansion"
Zillow
Sarah
|
$800
[7]
In 2011 the Bears of this Waco school just up the road scored an Alamo Bowl record 67 points to beat Washington
Baylor
Bobby
|
|
$1,000
[3]
It was a hit for Stevie WonderM1Y L1I1F1E
"For Once In My Life"
Sarah
|
DD
$1,800
[9]
Early works on popular science appeared, like one on this British scientist "For the Ladies, or Dialogues on Light & Colors"
Newton
Ray
|
$1,000
[30]
Term for a group meeting to assess a completed project, or for an art exhibit covering a painter's whole career
a retrospective
Sarah
|
$1,000
[16]
Northernmost of the main Hawaiian islands is this lush 5-letter isle also known as "The Garden Isle"
Kauai
Sarah
|
$1,000
[23]
The stars aligned, & by the end of 2021, this platform reported it had 244 million cumulative reviews
Yelp
Sarah
Bobby
|
$1,000
[19]
Before he was a 2010 Super Bowl MVP for New Orleans, this QB was a 1998 Alamo Bowl MVP for Purdue
Drew Brees
Bobby
|
| SOUNDS LIKE A UNIVERSITY | STAGE MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS | AFRICA | YOUR ELEMENTAL HIT PARADE | WRITE PLACE | WRONG TIME |
|
$400
[27]
Anthracite+fence opening
coal gate
Ray
|
$400
[8]
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up, not me!"
Peter Pan
Ray
|
$400
[29]
Firestone has long been an economic anchor of Liberia, running a 120,000-acre plantation for this product
rubber
Ray
|
$400
[30]
A mood stabilizer, it comes in at a helpful No. 3 (but it didn't crack the Top 40 for Nirvana)
lithium
Sarah
|
$400
[25]
Colm Tóibín's "Bad Blood" documented the people & politics of this island
Ireland
Bobby
|
$400
[23]
The Latin for "slow" gives us this adjective, what you don't want to be deemed when you arrive at school
tardy
Sarah
|
|
$800
[26]
Cereal grain+12th letter of the alphabet
corn L
|
$800
[7]
"I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty, oily, greasy, fleecy"
Hair
Sarah
|
$800
[28]
Head to Tunisia to visit the ruins of this city whose name means "new town", founded around 800 B.C.
Carthage
Ray
|
$800
[24]
Not great for use in water pipes, this element joins the parade at No. 82
lead
Ray
|
$800
[13]
This 19th century author & satirist wrote the travel book "Roughing It" about spending time out West & away from the Civil War
Twain
Bobby
|
$800
[22]
You're so out of touch with societal mores, you're this; now time for the same-named bourbon cocktail
old-fashioned
Ray
|
|
$1,200
[19]
Like a road with half the traffic going in one direction & half in the opposite
two-lane
Bobby
|
$1,200
[4]
"Hodel, oh Hodel, have I made a match for you! He's handsome, he's young! Alright, he's 62"
Fiddler on the Roof
Ray
|
$1,600
[10]
These non-Muslims make up the second-largest religious group in Egypt
the Copts
Ray
|
$1,200
[1]
Know it's No. 83 & used in fire-detection equipment & you'll be taking care of this, every day! Taking care of this, every way!
bismuth
Ray
|
$1,200
[12]
In "Double Vision", writer John Knowles recounts traveling to Jordan & stumbling upon David Lean directing this epic film
Lawrence of Arabia
Bobby
|
$1,200
[16]
Founded to combat polio, the March of Dimes today tries to combat this type of birth
premature birth
Sarah
|
|
$1,600
[20]
Dietary fiber+gambling cubes
bran dice
Bobby
|
$1,600
[5]
"There is a sucker born every minute, each time the second hand sweeps to the top like dandelions up they pop"
Barnum
Ray
Sarah
Bobby
|
$2,000
[11]
The name of a whole country was countrified from the name of this coastal desert of southwest Africa
the Namib
Ray
|
$1,600
[2]
Grandpa's hip enough to know nothing can replace this metal at No. 22
titanium
Ray
Bobby
|
$1,600
[14]
This classic 1934 novel opens, "I am living at the Villa Borghese", Henry Miller's name for Paris'Villa Seurat
Tropic of Cancer
|
$2,000
[18]
Unripe fruit can be called this, which may also refer to your brand of juvenile humor
immature
Bobby
|
|
$2,000
[21]
Black table spice+a unit of force
pepper dyne
Ray
|
$2,000
[6]
"Little more speed, little more rope, little more wind, little more hope, gotta get this stupid kite to fly"
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Ray
|
DD
$3,000
[9]
Battlefields of this war include Spioenkop in the Kwazulu-Natal province
the Boer War
Ray
|
$2,000
[3]
Just out of the Hot 100 at 102 comes this element named for a very rich Swede
nobelium
Ray
|
$2,000
[15]
In his travel journals, Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote of taking this hyphenated railway, which played very loud Russian music
the Trans-Siberian Railway
Sarah
|
DD
$4,000
[17]
This idiom applies literally if you promise to pay 10 bucks on Tuesday & show up with 9 on Wednesday
a day late & a dollar short
Sarah
|
In a reunion over 40 years in the making, Dolly Parton appeared as an angel named Agnes in the final episode of this comedy in 2022
Grace and Frankie