Ben Goldstein game 2.
Jonathan Belford — a television researcher originally from Garland, Texas
Mary Kate Gliedt — a nonprofit director from Kansas City, Missouri
Ben Goldstein — a content marketing strategist from Dexter, Michigan (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,198)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben | $3,400 | $4,000 | $10,000 |
$9,000
2-day champion: $15,198 |
$10,800
18 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mary Kate | $1,200 | $400 | $100 |
$0
2nd place: $2,000 |
$1,600
9 R, 6 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Jonathan | $800 | $2,200 | $-600 |
$-600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$-600
11 R, 8 W |
| IT'S A SPECIAL DAY | TV | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM | ON THE STATE'S LONGEST WESTERN BORDER | GETTING AN EYEFUL |
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$200
[28]
Made a U.S. federal holiday in 2021, it's also known as Black Independence Day
Juneteenth
Mary Kate
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$200
[15]
After her daytime talk show ended, shespent some time on "The View", & in 2022 she made a cameo on the reboot of "A League of Their Own"
(Rosie) O'Donnell
Ben
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$200
[16]
Aesop knows it's a short narrative often making an edifying point
a fable
Ben
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$200
[27]
Among the fastest tortoises, this variety with a flattened shell bears the name of a breakfast food
a pancake (tortoise)
Ben
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$200
[30]
On New Mexico's
Arizona
Jonathan
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$200
[26]
A call for an act of retribution, it's No. 196 in the 18th century B.C. code of Hammurabi
eye for an eye
Ben
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$400
[19]
Every March brings a holiday in Iran on the date in 1951 when the country nationalized this industry
the oil industry
Jonathan
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$400
[8]
A classic TV show's opening narration says, "That's the signpost up ahead! Your next stop..." this title
The Twilight Zone
Ben
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$400
[4]
It's what someone who buys & resells stolen goods is called
a fence
Ben
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$400
[13]
The ribbon moray species of this fish is born male but later changes its color & its sex
an eel
Ben
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$400
[29]
On New Hampshire's
Vermont
Jonathan
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$400
[9]
This term for someone sleuthing for a fee came from the first letter of "investigator"
private eye
Ben
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$600
[20]
This U.S. territory celebrates Flag Day on April 17, the day in 1900 that Old Glory was raised in Fagatogo on Tutuila Island
American Samoa
Jonathan
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$600
[5]
Before he starred on "Castle" & "The Rookie", he was Captain Mal Reynolds on "Firefly"
(Nathan) Fillion
Mary Kate
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$600
[1]
It's a person with a habit of texting, "OMG! Sorry I can't make it! I forgot I have a thing. We should totally hang out soon though"
a flake
Mary Kate
Jonathan
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$600
[14]
Living up to their name, the African springboks seenhereare a variety of this horned mammal
a gazelle (an antelope)
Jonathan
|
$600
[23]
On Georgia's
Alabama
Jonathan
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$600
[10]
This one of the leading acts in 1960s blue-eyed soul is pictured here
The Righteous Brothers
Ben
|
|
$800
[21]
Jerusalem's November 29 Street is named for the day in 1947 the U.N. voted to partition this British-controlled land
Palestine
Jonathan
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$800
[6]
Not-Tom-Hanks on "Bosom Buddies", this late actor became a regular on "Newhart" & guested on "Girls"
Peter Scolari
Jonathan
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$800
[2]
"You give me" this in a song originally recorded by "Little Willie" John
fever
Ben
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$800
[17]
We hate to let a season pass with no mention of Alex Trebek's favorite animal, this 750-lb. Arctic ruminant with curved horns
a musk ox
Jonathan
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$800
[24]
On North Dakota's
Montana
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$800
[11]
When a storm reaches hurricane strength, an "eye" appears in the covering shield of these clouds, from Latin for "curl"
cirrus clouds
|
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$1,000
[22]
If you're in Peru in June, head to Cuzco on the 24th for Inti Raymi, "Sun Festival" in this language
Quechuan
Mary Kate
|
$1,000
[7]
"The Newsroom" is just one of the fast-talking showshehas created
Sorkin
Ben
|
DD
$800
[3]
It's a genus of tree that can be grown as a houseplant such as the fiddle-leaf fig
Ficus
Ben
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$1,000
[18]
As with flamingos, the scarlet species of this bird of South America gets its color from the crustaceans that it eats
an ibis
Jonathan
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$1,000
[25]
On Ark--on that of Arkansas
Oklahoma
Jonathan
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$1,000
[12]
Used for more than 100 years, this standardeye chartbears the name of the Dutch ophthalmologist who developed it
the Snellen chart
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| FIRST SPEECHES IN SHAKESPEARE | RANDOM FACTS | WHAT AN IDIOM! | GENERAL ASSEMBLY | WEIGHTS & MEASURES | LET'S MAKE A MOVIE CROSSOVER! |
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$400
[6]
"From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean"
Romeo and Juliet
Mary Kate
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$400
[10]
In 1974 a horde of terra cotta warriors were found at the resting place of the man who made himself this country's first emperor
China
Jonathan
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$400
[17]
It means to willfullyignoreobvious danger signs
bury your head in the sand
Ben
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$400
[26]
After his victory at Waterloo, he said, "I hope to God that I have fought my last battle. It is a bad thing to always be fighting"
the Duke of Wellington
Jonathan
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$400
[20]
The size of a digital video is measured in these units whose name combines "picture" & "element"
a pixel
Mary Kate
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$400
[18]
A natural pair! A character who fought Ivan Drago & Clubber Lang "&" a moose who took on Jason Alexander's Boris Badenov
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Jonathan
|
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$800
[5]
"Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, assume the port of Mars"
Henry V
Ben
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$800
[1]
Google's recent entry into the world of A.I. has this name just like a poet of yore
Bard
Ben
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$800
[14]
If you're "in for a penny", you're also in for one of these British units
a pound
Mary Kate
|
DD
$500
[27]
In absentia he was sentenced to death in 1940, weeks after a London radio speech in which he asked the French to keep fighting
Charles de Gaulle
Mary Kate
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$800
[21]
This Swede initially had 0 degrees as the boiling point of water & 100 degrees for the melting point of snow on his temperature scale
Celsius
Ben
Jonathan
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$800
[2]
Disney meets Kurosawa: An animated 1937 title woman "& the" title septet led by Takashi Shimura
Snow White and the Seven Samurai
Ben
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|
DD
$1,000
[7]
"Take but good note & you shall see in him the triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool"
Antony and Cleopatra
Mary Kate
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$1,200
[9]
The stock market crash of 1929 led to the creation of this regulatory body in 1934
the SEC
Ben
Jonathan
|
$1,200
[12]
If you are impoverished, you are as poor as this rodent
a church mouse
Mary Kate
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$800
[25]
At Columbia, S.C.'s state house, bronze stars mark the spots where shells from this general's cannons once hit
Sherman
Mary Kate
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$1,200
[22]
This ancient measure was based on the length from elbow to middle finger tip
a cubit
Mary Kate
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$1,200
[3]
You stay classy, Kali! A 2004 San Diego news anchorman "&" a 1984 Indiana Jones title structure
Ron Burgundy & the Temple of Doom
|
|
$1,600
[8]
"It did always seem so to us: but now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes he values most"
King Lear
Jonathan
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$1,600
[11]
Pope Francis was selected for the big job by one of these special assemblies of the College of Cardinals
a conclave
Mary Kate
|
$1,600
[13]
You can be as mad as a hatter or as mad as this, also a character in "Alice in Wonderland"
March Hare
Ben
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$1,600
[28]
Subutai, a general of this people, was devastating Europe in the 13th c. when he was called back for an election for a new great khan
the Mongols
Ben
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$1,600
[23]
A knot equals one of these, a bit over 6,000 feet, per hour
nautical mile
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$1,600
[4]
An Alan Rickman "Die Hard" villain "wants those detonators" from a title Great Dane of 2002!
Hans Gruber and Scooby-Doo
Mary Kate
|
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$2,000
[16]
"My brother Jaques he keeps at school, & report speaks goldenly of his profit"
As You Like It
|
$2,000
[29]
Thegreen cometthat visited Earth in 2023 was thought to come from this cloud named for a Dutch astronomer
the Oort
|
$2,000
[15]
In a 1696 play, a character says, if I get a patent "I shall be as rich as" this proverbially rolling-in-it king
Croesus
Jonathan
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$2,000
[30]
Though this brother of Claudius & father of Caligula campaigned near the Rhine, that's not where he got his familiar name
Germanicus
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$2,000
[24]
Parsec, an astronomical unit of length, is a portmanteau of this word & "second"
parallax
Mary Kate
|
$2,000
[19]
Masks are compared when a "Friday the 13th" icon "takes on" a Robin Williams woman who enjoys a cake moisturizer
Jason Meets Mrs. Doubtfire
Ben
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In 2022 Jeff Bezos awarded her $100 million to give to charitable causes because "she gives with her heart"
Dolly Parton