Suresh Krishnan game 3.
Allison Strekal — a nonprofit development director from Missoula, Montana
David Ford — a sales manager from Pasadena, Maryland
Suresh Krishnan — a networking engineer from Suwanee, Georgia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $21,099)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suresh | $2,400 | $2,400 | $12,800 |
$17,100
3-day champion: $38,199 |
$8,000
13 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| David | $200 | $1,200 | $4,400 |
$200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,000
10 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Allison | $3,800 | $7,000 | $17,000 |
$8,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$17,000
22 R, 3 W |
| HISTORY HYSTERIA | 2 PARTS MAKE A WHOLE | CATCH OF THE DAY | SILENT LETTER WORDS | LATE NIGHT TALKING | HAIRY STYLES |
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$200
[1]
On June 10, 1692 Bridget Bishop was hanged on Gallows Hill in this Mass. place; Bridget would be far from the last
Salem
David
Allison
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$200
[21]
Proverbial place "where the heart is"+a railroad station = this D.I.Y. chain (you must build the response)
the Home Depot
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$200
[14]
Unlike its half-ton cousins with colors in their names, the stripe type of this game fish weighs no more than a few hundred pounds
a marlin
David
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$200
[16]
It's just a pterm for a ptremendous pterosaur
pterodactyl
Allison
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$200
[8]
Lady Gaga & James Corden were "belting it out with their seat belts on" in this classic "Late Late Show" segment
Carpool Karaoke
Allison
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$200
[6]
The center part was big in this decade, when the photoherewas taken
the '90s
Allison
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$400
[2]
400 people danced uncontrollably for days, some until death, in 1518's dancing plague in Strasbourg in this country
France
Suresh
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$400
[22]
Adobe's web content-delivering "player" + another term for the mafia = a group that performs & then disperses quickly
a Flash mob
Allison
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$400
[15]
Catch the fish called a giant black sea this off Santa Monica Pier & you have to release it or find an aquarium that wants it
a bass
David
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$400
[17]
Lambeth or Staten Island, for example
a borough
David
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$400
[9]
This host's Top Ten rejected "Jeopardy!" categories included "Things that Ooze", "Doorknob Lore" & "Moist Things"
(David) Letterman
Suresh
Allison
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$400
[7]
Big in the '60s, a Beatle haircut is also called by this rhyming name
a mop top
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$800
[4]
In 1950 this senator said 205 Communists worked in the state department but later testifying in the Senate, couldn't document one
McCarthy
Suresh
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$600
[23]
14-year Texas governor Perry+to spin over & over across a surface = this meme we will never give up
a Rickroll
David
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$600
[26]
Japan's Children's Day is celebrated with images of this fish, which, according to legend, gained strength from swimming upstream
a carp (koi)
Allison
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$600
[18]
Kim Kardashian's 4th kid, or a sacred song
Psalm
Allison
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$600
[10]
45 million tuned in to the 1969 live, on-stage "Tonight Show" wedding of Tiny Tim & Miss Vicki, hosted by this legend
Johnny Carson
David
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$600
[13]
In the 1940s, women wore victory these, a synonym for curls, but also a popular airplane maneuver
rolls
Suresh
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DD
$1,000
[3]
On the Daily News' Oct. 31, 1938 front page: "Fake radio 'war' stirs terror through U.S.", with a picture of this actor
Orson Welles
Suresh
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$800
[24]
Proverbially patient person+Monsieur Cézanne = this state capital
Saint Paul
Allison
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$800
[27]
The ling tastes like this fish, & "ling" precedes its name in the name of another fish
cod
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$800
[19]
The OED's first citation for this surfing slang for a challenging wave goes back to 1977
gnarly
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$800
[11]
On this Jimmy Kimmel bit, Allison Janney read, "Allison Janney looks like a substitute teacher everyone hates"
"Celebrities Read Mean Tweets"
Allison
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$800
[28]
This short style named for its origin among rowers was popular with '50s guys
a crew cut
Allison
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$1,000
[5]
In 1483 he was made Grand Inquisitor for Castile & León & by 1498, an estimated 2,000 people had been burned at the stake
Torquemada
Allison
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$1,000
[25]
One of Santa's reindeer+a festive social gathering = this doomed group of American pioneers
the Donner Party
Allison
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$1,000
[30]
It's the name of the Floridian fish seen here, a corruption of the Spanish "palometa" or a document that might let you catch it
a permit
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$1,000
[20]
This word with a rare silent "Q" can mean a resinous varnish
lacquer
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$1,000
[12]
In the '90s Conan O'Brien first peered into the future in a bit called "In the Year" this... which was still recurring in 2003
2000
Allison
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$1,000
[29]
Popular in the 1900s & 1910s, abun on top of a pompadourwas known as cottage this, afterbreadthat looked similar
loaf
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| YES, YOU CANAL | LITERATURE | A "MID" CATEGORY | ROMANCING THE STONES | IMPOSTORS | BIG & LIL POP CULTURE |
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$400
[26]
Hydraulic lifts on the Canal du Centre are tourist attractions in this country's Walloon region
Belgium
Suresh
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$400
[20]
The medieval Muslim text "Alive, the Son of Awake", about a man on a deserted island, is a likely inspiration for this 1719 work
Robinson Crusoe
Allison
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$400
[1]
It describes air heavy with water vapor
humid
David
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$400
[15]
This ruler gave his second wife Marie-Louise a necklace with 234 diamonds after the birth of their son in 1811
Napoleon
David
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$400
[10]
Dressed as a line judge, Barry Bremen snuck onto the field at this sporting event in Jan. 1981; his 1982 effort as a chicken failed
the Super Bowl
David
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$400
[5]
Ryan Gosling & Christian Bale see bad times ahead in this 2015 movie about mortgage banking & more
The Big Short
Suresh
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$800
[27]
It's a tight squeeze getting by in this country's Corinth Canal, but seems like fun
Greece
Suresh
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$800
[21]
This writer known for robotic laws (which might come in handy soon) wrote his "Lucky Starr" series as Paul French
Asimov
Suresh
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$800
[2]
This word means just a speck, a little bit, un poquito
a smidgen
Allison
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$800
[16]
On the set of "High Society", this actress wore her actual engagement ring from Prince Rainier
Grace Kelly
David
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$800
[11]
Around 1902 Cassie Chadwick swindled banks & investors who believed she was the daughter of this steel tycoon
Andrew Carnegie
David
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$800
[6]
Seen here, Lil Rel Howery eased the tension a bit as Daniel Kaluuya's wisecracking bud in this 2017 horror film
Get Out
Suresh
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$1,600
[29]
The Moscow Canal links Russia's capital to this big river
the Volga
Suresh
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$1,200
[22]
In the 1920s "Along the Road" was a travel book by this writer; he'd write about a different kind of trip in "The Doors of Perception"
Huxley
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$1,200
[3]
Pitcher Randy Johnson once said this act of giving a batter pause "is not in hitting a guy. It's the fear of it"
intimidation
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$1,200
[17]
Suitors of this queen of Ithaca brought her a necklace & a golden chain with amber beads
Penelope
Allison
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$1,200
[12]
In this memoir Frank W. Abagnale poses as a pilot & muses, "Books are judged by their covers... &... I was an immediate best seller"
Catch Me If You Can
Allison
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$1,200
[7]
On "Parks & Rec" this 4-legged phenom was Pawnee's biggest star; Andy sang "5,000 Candles In The Wind" at his memorial
Li'l Sebastian
Allison
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$2,000
[30]
Welland Canal, which connects Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, is a major part of this 2,300-mile-long navigation route
the St. Lawrence Seaway
David
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$1,600
[23]
Chapters in this debut novel by Zadie Smith include "Two Families", "Molars" & "Of Mice & Memory"
White Teeth
Allison
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DD
$1,600
[4]
Karl Marx wrote, "Force is the" this "of every old society pregnant with a new one"
midwife
David
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$1,600
[18]
Sapphires like the one in Princess Diana's engagement ring bear this former name for Sri Lanka, where they were found
Ceylon
Suresh
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$1,600
[13]
After the French Revolution, people all around the world claimed to be the "Lost" this, the son of Marie-Antoinette
the (Lost) Dauphin
Suresh
Allison
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$1,600
[8]
Before "Everything Everywhere All at Once", Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert directed "Turn Down for What" by DJ Snake &this rapper
Lil Jon
Allison
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DD
$5,600
[28]
In 1913 the L.A. Times noted an event celebrated at this site would "be known as the 'wedding of the oceans"'
the Panama Canal
Suresh
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$2,000
[24]
"The Overstory" by this author is partially set during the Pacific Northwest timber wars
Richard Powers
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$2,000
[25]
This plural-sounding word for the area seenhereis an adverb, as in “There was fierce fighting”
amidships
Allison
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$2,000
[19]
Mary of Burgundy got a diamond ring with the letter "M" on it from this future emperor; it was the first initial for both
Maximilian
Allison
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$2,000
[14]
Though insisting it was part of Japan, George Psalmanazar made 18th c. London believe he was from Taiwan, then called this
Formosa
Suresh
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$2,000
[9]
Al Capp created this comic strip set in good ol' Dogpatch
Li'l Abner
Suresh
Allison
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What is dubbed "the world's first initial public offering" took place in 1602 in this current European capital
Amsterdam