Troy Meyer game 1.
Hillary Kotler — a childcare professional from Columbia, Maryland
Troy Meyer — a music executive from Tampa, Florida
Erin Portman — a high school English teacher from Naperville, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $31,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erin | $3,200 | $6,800 | $13,600 |
$27,199
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Troy | $4,800 | $6,600 | $27,600 |
$27,600
New champion: $27,600 |
$22,600
26 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Hillary | $0 | $-800 | $11,200 |
$1,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| WHEN IN ANCIENT ROME | IT'S ABOUT TIME | THE ACTOR'S MIDDLE INITIAL | ENDS IN "ION" | LEARNING | THE ROPES |
|
$200
[16]
As a patrician, you could not do this with a plebeian until 445 B.C.'s Lex Canuleia
marry
Troy
|
$200
[19]
Jainism views time as one of these, with 12 spokes corresponding to eras
a wheel
Troy
|
$200
[21]
Samuel Jackson, walkin' the Earth
L.
Erin
|
$200
[22]
A gut feeling regarding one's child is commonly referred to as maternal instinct or "mother's" this
intuition
Erin
|
$200
[24]
khanacademy.org offers courses in the "linear" type of this, including topics like vectors & matrix transformations
algebra
Erin
|
$200
[26]
Scout's honor--bowline & clove hitch are 2 types of these
knots
Hillary
|
|
$400
[17]
You could go to the July 23 festival of this sea god & hit his temple in the Circus Flaminius
Neptune
Erin
|
$400
[20]
The Piraha people of the Amazon have limited conjugation of verbs, which as a result lack these time-indicating properties
tenses
Troy
|
$400
[15]
The versatile Sterling Brown
K.
Troy
|
$400
[4]
Place where you'd hear thefollowing
an auction
Hillary
|
$400
[13]
"The Chicago Manual of Style" is online to help you format footnotes & these, from the Greek for "book writing"
bibliography
Erin
|
$400
[30]
Each December the Apollo Theater holds a holiday classic contest for this type of jump roping
Double Dutch
Erin
|
|
$600
[9]
Guess you couldn't be a gladiator judge if you were one of the Roman men who cut this off to avoid military service
a thumb
Troy
|
$600
[10]
"Time is a measure of motion and of being moved", said this student of Plato
Aristotle
Troy
|
$600
[5]
Edward Robinson, ya mugs
G.
Troy
|
$600
[1]
Some people just refer to it as a green onion
a scallion
Erin
|
$600
[14]
This job-finding & networking website, "the world's largest professional network", provides new skills via its learning section
LinkedIn
Hillary
|
$600
[29]
Mountain climbing ropes are often made of this synthetic material invented by DuPont in the 1930s
nylon
Erin
|
|
$800
[6]
The first stop when you went to these was the apodyterium & if you were rich enough, you brought a slave to watch your clothes
the baths
Troy
|
$800
[11]
In "The Tempest", Antonio says, "What's past is" this, also a word meaning preface
prologue
Troy
|
$800
[7]
Mr. Angela Bassett, Courtney Vance
B.
Troy
|
$800
[2]
Thistype of therapy may help those suffering from back pain & even kidney stones
inversion
Erin
Troy
|
$800
[25]
This author's Master Class sessions offer a case study of his novel "The Graveyard Book"
(Neil) Gaiman
Erin
|
$800
[28]
One of the 6 simple machines, it can use downward force on the rope, not a spinning crank, to hoist a load
a pulley
Erin
|
|
$1,000
[18]
On Sept. 2, 44 B.C. you could take in the first of his 14 Philippic orations; he sure did love to orate, until it got him executed
Cicero
Troy
|
$1,000
[12]
This word follows "space-time" to describe the 4-dimensional universe suggested by relativity theory
continuum
Troy
|
$1,000
[8]
Daniel Travanti, singin' the "Hill Street Blues"
J.
Hillary
|
DD
$1,400
[3]
Zymology is the scientific study of this process, as in winemaking
fermentation
Erin
|
$1,000
[23]
Want to learn French? Maybe try this, named for a rock found in Egypt in 1799
Rosetta Stone
Troy
|
$1,000
[27]
These strong ropes seenheregive support to the mast; it's also an old word for another supporter--a corset
stays
Troy
Hillary
|
| THE SERIES' AUTHOR | STATE CAPITALS | EAT YOUR VEGGIES | ALL IN THE FAMILY | SELF-REFERENTIAL BEATLES | ACRONYMS |
|
$400
[30]
The "Twilight" saga
(Stephenie) Meyer
Hillary
|
$400
[4]
Helena is the seat of Lewis & Clark County as well as the capital of this state
Montana
Troy
|
$400
[28]
Les epinards is French for this vegetable
spinach
Erin
|
$400
[13]
Thisaviation pioneer outlived his brother Wilbur by more than 35 years
Orville Wright
Troy
|
$400
[11]
John's "How Do You Sleep?" told us "The only thing you done was" this song where Paul's troubles seemed so far away
"Yesterday"
Hillary
|
$400
[21]
You may recall it's the "M" in ROM, as in CD-ROM
memory
Troy
|
|
$800
[29]
The first 5 books of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Douglas Adams
Troy
|
$800
[27]
This Iowa capital began as a fort in 1843 & the Women's Army Corps began there a century later
Des Moines
Erin
|
$800
[24]
Spruce up a salad with slices of the watermelon type of this
a radish
Erin
|
$1,200
[10]
The daughter of Boston Mayor John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, shebecame the matriarch of a political dynasty
Rose Kennedy
Hillary
|
$800
[1]
"See how they fly like Lucy in the sky, see how they run" in this song, goo goo g'joob
"I Am The Walrus"
Hillary
|
$800
[22]
This weapon that delivers an electric shock is an acronym made from the name of fictional character Tom Swift
TASER
Troy
|
|
$1,200
[14]
The "Fifty Shades" trilogy
(E.L.) James
Troy
|
$1,200
[26]
This city of 200,000 stands near where the Coosa & Tallapoosa Rivers merge to form the Alabama River
Montgomery
Troy
|
$1,200
[19]
Not surprisingly, Georgia's state vegetable is this sweet yellow onion that first took root in Georgia some 90 years ago
Vidalia
Hillary
|
$1,600
[6]
Last name of the first prime minister of India; a child & grandchild also held the job
Nehru
Troy
|
$1,200
[2]
"There's nothing you can know that isn't known", like adding "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah" to the end of this song
"All You Need Is Love"
Hillary
|
$1,200
[23]
When setting goals, be SMART--the S stands for this, so not vague & general
specific
Erin
|
|
$1,600
[8]
The Southern Vampire Mysteries, featuring Sookie Stackhouse
(Charlaine) Harris
Erin
Troy
|
$1,600
[25]
The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center serves residents of this capital that hosted the 1st Whig Party convention in 1839
Harrisburg
Troy
|
$1,600
[17]
This variety of squash seenherehas a body part in its name
a crookneck
Erin
|
$2,000
[7]
Following their birth in 1934, these Canadian quintuplets became a media sensation
Dionne
Troy
|
$1,600
[3]
"Glass Onion" begins, "I told you about" this title spot, "you know the place where nothing is real"
Strawberry Fields
Erin
|
$1,600
[15]
NAIRU is the lowest possible rate of this in an economy before it starts to lead to inflation
unemployment
|
|
$2,000
[9]
The "Outlander" series
Gabaldon
Troy
|
DD
$7,000
[5]
The Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce is found in this New England state capital
Augusta
Troy
|
$2,000
[18]
These root veggies that look like creamy white carrots are in the same family & are often roasted or boiled & mashed
parsnips
Erin
|
DD
$4,800
[20]
"Good Brother, Bad Brother" is a dual biography of this assassin & his actor/brother Edwin
John Wilkes Booth
Hillary
|
$2,000
[12]
"I'm The Greatest" had Ringo sing, "Yes, my name is" him, "the one and only" singer in Sgt. Pepper's band
Billy Shears
Hillary
|
$2,000
[16]
Pronounced like a word for a small boat, it's a room where intelligence material can be read without a security risk
a SCIF
|
Like Sir Thomas More, 3 16th century English queens are buried at this location
the Tower of London