Ben Chan game 9.
Nancy Duran — a marketing copywriter from Stowe, Vermont
Joe Lasser — an astronautical engineer originally from Colfax, Illinois
Ben Chan — a philosophy professor from Green Bay, Wisconsin (whose 8-day cash winnings total $227,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben! | $7,800 | $8,400 | $20,800 |
$24,800
9-day champion: $252,600 |
$18,600
25 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Joe | $-200 | $1,400 | $7,600 |
$7,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| Nancy | $-800 | $-400 | $3,600 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,600
6 R, 3 W |
| ART IMITATING LIFE | AMERICANA | ASSISTING THE DETECTIVE | BOOK-POURRI | IF THERE WAS A PROBLEM | "YO", I'LL SOLVE IT |
|
$200
[30]
German artist Max Beckmann produced a contemporarypaintingof this tragedy
the sinking of the Titanic
Joe
|
$200
[29]
In 2010, tens of thousands celebrated Earth Day onthisD.C. area, America's front lawn
the National Mall
Ben!
|
$200
[20]
This young sleuth from dozens of books gets into adventures with her friends Bess & George &, sometimes, the Hardy Boys
Nancy Drew
Joe
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$200
[16]
In a book by Thomas Harris, Clarice Starling notes a hockey mask & a Kansas gallows vest used to restrain this serial killer
Hannibal Lecter
Ben!
|
$200
[28]
This "king of the tyrant lizards" was a heavyweight at up to 15,000 pounds but did have a problem throwing jabs
T. rex ( Tyrannosaurus rex )
Ben!
|
$200
[10]
To sing like a Swiss mountaineer... wanna become a legend & give it a shot?
yodel
Ben!
|
|
$400
[18]
This historical work depicts the December 25, 1776 prelude to an attack on some Hessians in Trenton
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Nancy
|
$400
[17]
This word can mean "little kids" or a snack that they love; in 2021 Sonic sold 4.1 billion of the crunchy little morsels
tots
Ben!
|
$400
[19]
On a BBC show Mrs. McCarthy is the parish secretary who often helps this priest solve cases
Father Brown
Ben!
|
$400
[15]
(John Green presents the clue.) I co-created Crash Course, which offers dozens of free educationalvideoson YouTube, & in one video titled "Don't Reanimate Corpses!", I talk about the Romantic movement in English lit &this novel in particular
Frankenstein
|
$400
[24]
Ford spent $250 million ahead of the 1957 debut of this car; let's just say it didn't live up to expectations
the Edsel
Joe
|
$400
[11]
It's the weapon seen here, if you get our point
a bayonet
Ben!
|
|
$800
[4]
A patron himself, Toulouse-Lautrec often painted this bawdy establishment, "red windmill" in French
Moulin Rouge
Joe
|
$600
[5]
Cary Grant tells proud Oklahoma City resident Ralph Bellamy that if OKC gets dull, "you can always go... to" this city 100 miles away
Tulsa
Ben!
|
$600
[27]
This TV series had Detective Steve McGarrett saying to his sidekick, "Book 'em, Danno"
Hawaii Five-O
Joe
|
$600
[3]
The author of "Roots", Alex Haley, earlier collaborated on the autobiography of this activist
Malcolm X
Ben!
|
$600
[21]
Solve for x:3x - 2y = 11, when y=2
5
Ben!
Joe
|
$600
[12]
This type of carnivorous canine is found in all states but Hawaii
a coyote
Ben!
|
|
$1,000
[8]
This sculptor & painter of Western life took on Yankee football with the 1890 painting "Touchdown Yale vs. Princeton"
Frederic Remington
Joe
|
$800
[6]
This building in Pelham, Mass. has been used for meetings since 1743; maybe you can fight it, unlike the city version
Town Hall
Ben!
|
$800
[26]
The prettiest & toughest girl in the 5th grade, Sally Kimball is pal & bodyguard to this brainy boy detective
Encyclopedia Brown
Ben!
|
$800
[1]
An almost 12-year-old girl, last name Simon, is mentioned in the title of this classic by Judy Blume
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Ben!
Joe
Nancy
|
$800
[23]
One symptom of trouble with this finger-shaped pouch is sudden pain near the navel that shifts to the lower right abdomen
the appendix
Joe
|
$800
[13]
It's the less-than-flattering 5-letter term for a naïve, rural locale
a yokel
Joe
|
|
DD
$2,800
[9]
Jan Willem Pieneman's painting of this 1815 event was to go to the Duke of Wellington, but stayed in Holland
the Battle of Waterloo
Ben!
|
$1,000
[7]
A 19th century flirtation device, this type of bonnet was named for the way it would extend, protrude, to be precise, this verb beyond the face
a poke bonnet
|
$1,000
[25]
Both Inspector Clouseau & the Green Hornet are helped by men called this (although they spelled their names differently)
Cato/Kato
Nancy
|
$1,000
[2]
This novel set in the 1920s asks, "'What do you know about Lady Brett Ashley, Jake?"'
The Sun Also Rises
|
$1,000
[22]
Louis XIV deals with a family "problem" (well, for Louis, anyway) by giving Philippe the title headwear in this Dumas novel
The Man in the Iron Mask
Ben!
Nancy
|
$1,000
[14]
From Spanish, it's a water-carved gully found primarily in the U.S. Southwest
an arroyo
Ben!
|
| HISTORIC PEOPLE | A LOSS FOR WORDS | POP CULTURE 2003 | VACATION SPOTS | RICE PUDDING | WALKING IN A REDWOOD FOREST |
|
$400
[21]
Thiswoman who had more than a casual relationship to the presidency wasawardedthe Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002
Nancy Reagan
Joe
|
$400
[24]
You are "in" this color if you're insolvent; try & fix that, will you?
the red
Joe
|
$400
[23]
The final episode of "Dawson's Creek" killed off Jen, played by her
Michelle Williams
Joe
|
$400
[28]
Mahalia Jackson & Duke Ellington headlined the first edition of this southern city's famed Jazz Fest in 1970
New Orleans
Ben!
|
$400
[29]
The type of rice named for & used for this food is short grain rice that's treated with vinegar, then fanned
sushi
Ben!
|
$800
[27]
A 2022 study noted the wandering type of this tailed amphibian can parachute some 300 feet down from a redwood tree
a salamander
Joe
Nancy
|
|
$800
[20]
Thisman won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize for nonviolent struggle for free trade unions & human rights in Poland
Walesa
Ben!
|
$800
[26]
When it means squandering time or money, this donut is usually followed by "away"
frittered
Ben!
|
$800
[22]
Ann Coulter & Chris Rock both appeared on the 2003 premiere episode of this current Bill Maher series
Real Time with Bill Maher
|
$800
[1]
The North & South Kaibab Trails lead down to the Colorado River along the rims of this wonder
the Grand Canyon
Joe
|
$800
[25]
A shout-out from "Best American" these literary works made Joyce Carol Oates abandon her Rice University PhD in favor of writing
short stories
Nancy
|
$1,200
[14]
What's 8 inches long, yellow & eating dead plants by your feet? Perhaps it's this slug named for a fruit
banana slug
Joe
|
|
$1,200
[6]
In 1780, this earl won big against Horatio Gates in South Carolina; we can't talk of what happened about a year later at Yorktown
Cornwallis
Ben!
|
$1,200
[5]
Not jettisoned overboard on purpose, this term refers to any wreckage on the water's surface lost from a boat
flotsam
Nancy
|
$1,600
[3]
I'm going to Wichita to tell you Spin magazine's Top Album of the Year was their "Elephant"
The White Stripes
Joe
|
$1,200
[17]
"Shattering Beauty" is the title of a 2023 exhibit at the Murano Museum of this in Venice
Glass
Nancy
|
$1,200
[12]
Tenley Albright, who used the sport to train her muscles after this disease, was the heroine of young figure skater Condoleezza Rice
polio
Ben!
|
$1,600
[15]
Growing alongside redwoods is this "bay" tree, linked to triumph by the ancients & used by the Pomo people for medicinal purposes
a (bay) laurel
Ben!
|
|
$1,600
[7]
Seen here this Lakota leader who resisted U.S. government incursions in search of gold, got his name from a site in the sky, also seen here
Red Cloud
|
$1,600
[9]
This 11-letter word for a period of mourning after a loss comes from an old word for "steal"
bereavement
|
$2,000
[4]
This hero of books by Patrick O'Brian came to cinemas in the person of Russell Crowe
Jack Aubrey
|
$1,600
[16]
Let's visit the historic temples & beautiful beaches of Kuta & Jimbaran on this Indonesian island
Bali
Nancy
|
$1,600
[11]
"A lot of shoes, a lot of rice" in this old song about a wedding that doesn't end in happily ever after
"Makin' Whoopee"
|
DD
$2,000
[19]
A national monument in Marin County known for old growth redwoods is named after this conservationist
Muir
Ben!
|
|
$2,000
[8]
Like John Harvard & John Marshall, this John who founded Methodism has an American university named for him
Wesley
Ben!
|
$2,000
[10]
On film, Tom Hanks was on the "Road" to it, meaning spiritual loss or ruin
Perdition
Joe
|
DD
$2,200
[2]
In this film, the emperor of Japan wants Algren (Tom Cruise) to modernize his army but Algren deeply respects the old ways
The Last Samurai
Joe
|
$2,000
[18]
In springtime, let's hit the Texas trail named for this state flower
the bluebonnet
Ben!
|
$2,000
[13]
In 2008, Jens Stoltenberg, P.M. of this country, placed rice as the inaugural deposit in the Svalbard Seed Vault
Norway
Joe
|
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The original 1900 printing of this book was in a pale green dust jacket stamped in a vivid jewel tone of green
The Wizard of Oz ( The Wonderful Wizard of Oz )