Suresh Krishnan game 7.
Neilay Amin — a psychiatrist from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Holly Hassel — an English professor from Fargo, North Dakota
Suresh Krishnan — a networking engineer from Suwanee, Georgia (whose 6-day cash winnings total $96,595)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suresh | $0 | $2,000 | $5,200 |
$5,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,200
12 R, 4 W |
| Holly | $2,600 | $5,200 | $12,000 |
$10,500
New champion: $10,500 |
$11,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Neilay | $-800 | $800 | $12,400 |
$799
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
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$200
[1]
Scotiabank Arena is the home of this city's basketball team, the talk of the town in 2019
Toronto
Neilay
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$200
[6]
In "Go Set a Watchman", a grown-up Scout from this novel revisits her childhood home in Maycomb, Alabama
To Kill a Mockingbird
Holly
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$200
[11]
A sacred oath; in Catholicism, one can be for chastity, poverty or obedience
a vow
Holly
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$200
[21]
This full name for the animal seenhererefers to a facial feature
the duck-billed platypus
Neilay
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$200
[26]
Devout Muslims fast in the daylight hours during this holy month, the ninth on the Islamic calendar
Ramadan
Holly
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$200
[16]
"It's fun to stay at the YMCA... you can hang out with all the boys"
the Village People
Suresh
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$400
[2]
This nearly 2,000-mile-long river leaves the territory of the same name & crosses the border near Eagle, Alaska
the Yukon
Suresh
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$400
[7]
This sport unites a remote Nordic community in Fredrik Backman's heartwarming bestseller "Beartown"
hockey
Neilay
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$400
[12]
Before singing "He's my brother", The Hollies noted that "He ain't" this
heavy
Holly
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$400
[22]
Take a listen to this woodwind
an oboe
Holly
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$400
[27]
Decoration Day is another name for this May observance
Memorial Day
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$400
[17]
"So it's not just gonna happen like that, 'cause I ain't no hollaback girl"
Gwen Stefani
Neilay
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$600
[3]
A man-made lake on Mount Royal has a good Canadian name, after this rodent that workmen found traces of
Beaver Lake
Suresh
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$600
[8]
Book 3 of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels is "The Cardinal of" this place
The Cardinal of the Kremlin
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$600
[13]
The Duke of Sussex is familiar with this verb meaning to pester a military foe with repeated attacks
harry
Neilay
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$600
[23]
It's the company behind Illustrator, Acrobat & Photoshop
Adobe
Holly
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$800
[29]
The Hebrew name of this festival that often falls in March means "lots", which were cast as part of a plot against the Jews
Purim
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$600
[18]
"Oh let me be your sledgehammer, this will be my testimony"
Peter Gabriel
Holly
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$800
[4]
To beat the cold, much of downtown in this Olympic city in Alberta is connected by enclosed walkways 15' above the ground called the Plus 15
Calgary
Neilay
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$800
[9]
This Kazuo Ishiguro novel is narrated by Stevens, longtime head butler at Darlington Hall
The Remains of the Day
Holly
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$800
[14]
The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet, it can also mean a very small amount
iota
Neilay
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$800
[24]
Jesus was said to be born fully formed, so he looks like a littlemanin works called the "Throne of" this quality he shares with Solomon
Wisdom
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$1,000
[30]
In England, November 5 is Bonfire Night or his day, commemorating the failed Gunpowder Plot
Guy Fawkes Day
Neilay
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$800
[19]
"You're hot then you're cold, you're yes then you're no, you're in then you're out"
Katy Perry
Suresh
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$1,000
[5]
In 1925 a joint U.S.-Canadian team became the first to summit this 20,000-foot-high mountain
Mount Logan
Suresh
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$1,000
[10]
Her "Everything I Never Told You" is a moving novel of a Chinese-American family in Ohio dealing with the loss of a child
Celeste Ng
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$1,000
[15]
Meaning to improve or perfect a skill, it comes from the Middle English for whetstone
hone
Holly
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$1,000
[25]
On Sept. 2, 1945 Japan formally surrendered & ended World War II aboard this battleship
the Missouri
Suresh
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DD
$1,600
[28]
The liturgical season of Lent begins on this holy day in the middle of the week
Ash Wednesday
Holly
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$1,000
[20]
"However far away I will always love you / However long I stay I will always love you / Whatever words I say..."
The Cure
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$400
[1]
India's Mahabodhi Temple Complex, one of the 4 holy sites related to this man's life
Buddha
Suresh
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$400
[6]
In basketball, the 5 basic positions are power forward, small forward, shooting guard, point guard & this one
center
Neilay
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$400
[11]
Genghis Khan of this empire discarded lineage-based hierarchies & promoted officers in his army based on merit
Mongolian
Neilay
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$400
[17]
This Colombian-born actress played Gloria Delgado-Pritchett on "Modern Family" for 11 seasons
Vergara
Suresh
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$400
[16]
Most of us do this several times a day, but it's also the most common tuberculosis symptom
coughing
Holly
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$400
[22]
This Scandinavian first name that's big in baby carriers means "bear"
Bjorn
Suresh
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$800
[2]
The archaeological site of this ancient city on Turkey's Mound of Hisarlik
Troy
Suresh
Neilay
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$800
[7]
The Bible's Torah or Pentateuch is also known as "the 5 books of" this personage
Moses
Neilay
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$800
[12]
Tikal, Coba & Uxmal were all cities of this Mesoamerican empire
(the) Maya(n) (Empire)
Neilay
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$800
[27]
This actress said she was inspired by Bob Fosse & Siouxsie Sioux & '80s goth dancers for her viral "Wednesday" dance
(Jenna) Ortega
Neilay
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$800
[18]
Vitamin B12 shots may be needed if you have the pernicious type of this disease where red blood cells are deficient in hemoglobin
anemia
Neilay
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$800
[23]
Here's this sizzling dish; now all we need are the tortillas
fajitas
Neilay
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$1,200
[3]
The Great these towns of Europe, including Bath, Baden-Baden & the Belgian one that originated the name
Spa
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$1,200
[8]
Julius was the real first name of this one of the 5 Marx Brothers
Groucho
Holly
Neilay
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$1,200
[13]
The medieval empire of Mansa Musa I shares its name with this modern country & also included Timbuktu
Mali
Neilay
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$1,200
[28]
In a 2001 biopic, this actor seenhereplayed Nuyorican poet & playwright Miguel Piñero
(Benjamin) Bratt
Holly
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$1,600
[20]
Your largest salivary glands, they get swollen in cases of mumps
the parotid glands
Neilay
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$1,600
[25]
Thisversatile cheese is not Swiss; it's from Norway
Jarlsberg
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$1,600
[4]
Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, also known by this name found on a waterway in Venice
the Grand Canal
Suresh
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$1,600
[9]
Roughly triangular & surrounded by water, it's the westernmost of New York City's 5 boroughs
Staten Island
Suresh
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$1,600
[14]
Philip II of this empire defeated the Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite unit of paired lovers, at the Battle of Chaeronea
Macedonia
Suresh
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$1,600
[29]
After watching "The Last of Us", Jon Favreau said this actor cornered the "protective father archetype" market
(Pedro) Pascal
Neilay
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$2,000
[21]
In "Shutter Island", set in 1954, psychiatrist Ben Kingsley has hopes for this anti-psychotic the FDA approved that year
Thorazine
Neilay
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$2,000
[26]
A feminine inner personality called the anima is central to this type of analysis named for a famous psychologist
Jungian
Suresh
Holly
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$2,000
[5]
The sacred island of Okinoshima off this southernmost of Japan's main islands
Kyushu
Suresh
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$2,000
[10]
Counterparts to Moscow composers like Tchaikovsky, "The Five" were St. Petersburgers Cui, Balakirev, Borodin, Mussorgsky & him
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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$2,000
[15]
This Chinese dynasty that ruled from 1368 to 1644 imported blue pigment from Persia for its famous porcelain
Ming
Suresh
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$2,000
[30]
This actor who starred in "Summer of Sam" & "Spawn" also voiced Bruno in "Encanto", but we don't talk about that
Leguizamo
Holly
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DD
$4,800
[19]
This word has multiple meanings, as in: I was ____ to a cardiologist because I had ____ pain in my teeth from my heart issues
referred
Neilay
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DD
$4,000
[24]
The name of this fictional character in many tales is followed by -ismo in a Spanish word for womanizing
Don Juan
Neilay
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He debuted on TV in 1967; the show's creator wanted someone from behind the Iron Curtain to be on "our side"
Chekov