Ben Chan game 2.
Liz Jensen — a stay-at-home mom from Metuchen, New Jersey
Peter Early — a settlement consultant from Windham, New Hampshire
Ben Chan — a philosophy professor from Green Bay, Wisconsin (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben! | $6,800 | $10,200 | $27,200 |
$30,000
2-day champion: $46,001 |
$23,000
22 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W |
| Peter | $4,000 | $6,000 | $6,400 |
$4,484
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,400
16 R, 1 W |
| Liz | $400 | $800 | $6,000 |
$11,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,000
13 R, 4 W |
| THE SCENIC SOUTHWEST | LETTER PERFECT | IN THE AIR TONIGHT | FOODSTOCK | TRADEMARKED SOUNDS | FISH OUT OF WATER |
|
$200
[23]
Thisriver cutting through the Grand Canyon at sunrise makes for a truly majestic view
the Colorado
Ben!
|
$200
[15]
During World Wars I & II, German submarines were known as these boats
U-boats
Liz
|
$200
[26]
Earth's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen & oxygen, but the next most abundant gas is this one, symbol Ar
argon
Peter
|
$200
[8]
Jerry Garcia's big pink breakfast citrus fruit jam band was there
the Grapefruit-ful Dead (the Grapefruit Dead)
Peter
|
$200
[10]
A lion roaring is a trademark of this movie studio
MGM
Peter
|
$200
[20]
The vernal equinox now lies in this zodiac constellation
Pisces
Liz
|
|
$400
[24]
When visiting the southwest's Monument Valley, be respectful of this tribe upon whose land the ancient site sits
Navajo
|
$400
[16]
Boy bands BTS & GOT7 are big names in the music genre called this pop
K-pop
Peter
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$400
[27]
Air pollution caused by burning coal led to the "Great" this of 1952, which killed about 12,000 Londoners
(the Great) Smog
Ben!
|
$400
[7]
The third guy in the "Our House" quartet converted to Judaism & it was Yiddish snacking for all
Crosby, Stills, Nosh & Young
Peter
|
$400
[25]
This basketball team trademarked the song "Sweet Georgia Brown"
the Harlem Globetrotters
Liz
|
$400
[21]
"Mega size mega flavor", boasts the megabites version of this Pepperidge Farms snack cracker
Goldfish
Liz
|
|
$600
[2]
Volcanic cinder cones are a feature of the national monument called El Malpais, whose name means this, like a region of South Dakota
the Badlands
Peter
|
$600
[17]
It's the symbol for the very first element on the periodic table
H
Peter
|
$600
[28]
On rare occasions, these, perhaps from the Leonids, can break the sound barrier
meteors
Ben!
|
$600
[3]
An Italian meat-filled pasta square became the Indian sitar virtuoso
Ravioli Shankar
Ben!
|
$600
[9]
This TV network has trademarked "the ticking sound of a stopwatch"
CBS
Liz
|
$800
[12]
In the alliterative Mattel game called this "Panic", players must avoid a feeding frenzy to claim victory
Piranha Panic
Peter
|
|
$800
[1]
This national park in Utah with spectacular views shares a name with a hill of ancient Jerusalem
Zion
Liz
|
$800
[18]
Nuts, seeds & plant oils are good sources of this fat-soluble vitamin, with a recommended daily amount of 15 mg
vitamin E
Ben!
Liz
|
$800
[29]
"C" is for this musical insect; one type shows up in the air in 17-year cycles
cicadas
Peter
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$800
[5]
Bowzer & his doo wop chips--I mean chaps, now covered with gooey cheese & salsa
Sha Nachos Na (Sha Na Nachos)
Peter
|
$800
[11]
This DVR company trademarked the sound here
TiVo
Ben!
|
$1,000
[22]
As Chief Justice, he presided over the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson
(Salmon P.) Chase
Ben!
|
|
$1,000
[4]
Nevada's Valley of Fire State Park is home to petrified trees &these similarly named inscriptions, some 2,000 years old
petroglyphs
Ben!
|
$1,000
[19]
In 2016 Marriott acquired Starwood Hotels, which included this luxury brand that started in New York City
W
Ben!
|
$1,000
[30]
Air turbulence can createlenticular cloudsif the temperature at the crest of the wave reaches this saturation point
the dew point
Ben!
|
$1,000
[6]
"Everyday People" clan now fronted by a plate of mini-cheeseburgers
Sliders and the Family Stone
Peter
|
$1,000
[13]
This fast food chain trademarked a "bong" that is E below middle C
Taco Bell
Ben!
Liz
|
DD
$3,400
[14]
They're the southernmost Major League baseball team
the (Miami) Marlins
Ben!
|
| THE BOOK OF ROMANS | HERE'S A BIT OF EVERYTHING | SECRETARIES OF STATE | TRIPLE "A" | GERMAN LITERATURE | FISH OUT OF WATER ON TV |
|
$400
[20]
Stephen Dando-Collins examined "The Great Fire of Rome: The Fall of the Emperor" him "and His City"
Nero
Peter
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$400
[28]
At 2022's World Cup in Qatar, Ecuador fans chanted, "Queremos cerveza! Queremos cerveza!", or "We want" this! "We want" this!
beer
Peter
|
$400
[22]
Passionately pro-British, 1790s Sec. Timothy Pickering was fired after opposing efforts to end the "quasi-war" with this nation
France
|
$400
[9]
In Hinduism it's the incarnation of a deity
avatar
Liz
|
$400
[10]
In 1929 he published an essay on Freud & won the Nobel Prize; who da this? You da this!
Mann
Peter
|
$400
[14]
On encountering Tower Bridge, this new coaching hire says, "I got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore"
Ted Lasso
Peter
|
|
$800
[29]
"Ovid's Causes" by K. Sara Myers is a study of this poem of many mythic transformations
Metamorphoses
Ben!
Liz
|
$800
[27]
Hereis Winston-Salem's Reynolds Building, finished in 1929, two years before this similar-looking landmark with 80 more floors
the Empire State Building
Ben!
|
$800
[21]
This 1950s anticommunist secretary is memorialized in the name of an airport serving Washington, D.C.
Dulles
Liz
|
$800
[16]
It describes the crazy-sounding "bwah-ha-ha" laughter of many a movie villain
maniacal
Peter
|
$800
[13]
Günter Grass' debut novel was 1959's "Die Blechtrommel", which translates to this instrumental title
The Tin Drum
Liz
|
$800
[15]
Lily Collins stars as this title Chicago marketing exec & by the way, she doesn't speak a lick of French
Emily in Paris
Liz
|
|
$1,200
[7]
Tom Holland (not the actor) covered "The Last Years of the Roman Republic" in a book named for this river Caesar crossed
the Rubicon
Ben!
|
$1,200
[26]
A CBS headline: "Every monk in Thai temple" got this clothing-related consequence "after testing positive for meth"; well... yeah
defrocked
|
$1,200
[5]
Secretary of State for most of the Reagan years, hewas a mentor to future secretary Condoleezza Rice
Shultz
Ben!
|
$1,200
[17]
It's the British word for food to go or a place selling it
takeaway
Liz
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$1,200
[2]
Cornelia Funke sold millions of a trilogy beginning with this book & continuing with "Inkspell" & "Inkdeath"
Inkheart
|
$1,200
[4]
On "Futurama" he's the former pizza boy who has to adjust to things once he's unfrozen after a thousand years
Fry
Ben!
|
|
$2,000
[30]
This 4-letter abbreviation of a Roman slogan is the title of Mary Beard's bestselling history of ancient Rome
SPQR
Ben!
|
$1,600
[25]
San Francisco police detective David Toschi said he interviewed 5,000 people in his search for this letter-writing killer
the Zodiac Killer
Ben!
|
DD
$1,600
[6]
Secretary 1933-1944, Cordell Hull advocated respect for Central & South American nations, a policy known by this friendly nickname
the Good Neighbor Policy
Ben!
|
$1,600
[18]
Adjective found before a lavish "estate", even if not a king's or queen's
palatial
|
$1,600
[1]
After a boat trip in 1775, this Johann-of-all-trades--so many trades!--wrote the lovely poem "On the Lake"
Goethe
Ben!
|
$1,600
[11]
In "Two Weeks to Live", this actress plays Kim Noakes who rejects her survivalist mother to experience the world
Maisie Williams
|
|
DD
$3,000
[8]
Hermann Broch wrote a novel titled "The Death of" this greatest Roman epic poet
Virgil
Ben!
|
$2,000
[24]
Locust Grove in Louisville, where Lewis & Clark & John James Audubon stayed as guests, could be called this, the state song
"My Old Kentucky Home"
Liz
|
$2,000
[23]
Henry Kissinger helped diminish Soviet-U.S. tensions by negotiating the 1975 accords named for this northern European capital
Helsinki
Peter
Liz
|
$2,000
[19]
A spirit of good fellowship or esprit de corps
camaraderie
|
$2,000
[3]
In 1928 "The Threepenny Opera" sang out from composer Kurt Weill & this alliterative writer from Augsburg
Bertolt Brecht
Ben!
|
$2,000
[12]
After getting rich off of some "bubblin' crude", he is told by his kinfolk, "Californy is the place you oughta be"
Jed Clampett
Liz
|
James Cook's account of a 1774 visit here records an object "near 27 feet long, and upwards of 8 feet over the breast or shoulders"
Easter Island