Ben Goldstein game 6.
Ron Nurwisah — an editor originally from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Donna Matturri — a librarian from Columbus, Ohio
Ben Goldstein — a content marketing strategist from Dexter, Michigan (whose 5-day cash winnings total $49,298)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben | $2,800 | $5,000 | $16,200 |
$4,700
2nd place: $2,000 |
$16,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Donna | $1,200 | $2,600 | $11,400 |
$17,400
New champion: $17,400 |
$11,400
14 R, 0 W |
| Ron | $4,000 | $2,400 | $13,800 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$15,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| REMEMBER BASEBALL? | BOOKS & AUTHORS | ANIMAL CHANGE A LETTER | WHO REIGNED IN ENGLAND WHEN... | I LEARNED IT ONSCHOOLHOUSE ROCK | KIDS OF THE '70s, REJOICE! |
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$200
[30]
Remember 1969, when these New Yorkers became the first expansion team to win a World Series?
the Mets
Ben
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$200
[7]
In this novel, Holden Caulfield observes, "All morons hate it when you call them a moron"
The Catcher in the Rye
Ben
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$200
[29]
Thesetwo creatures are only one letter different but not really similar otherwise
lion & loon
Ron
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$200
[16]
Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe; what an age
Elizabeth I
Ron
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$200
[21]
"Rubbin' a comb with wool or fur... strokin' a cat to make it purr, you're building up" this
static electricity
Ben
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$200
[15]
The groovy girl seenherebrings back the '70s with some serious flair with this style of pants
bell-bottoms
Donna
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$400
[23]
How about 1941, when this guy also known as "Joltin' Joe" had a 56-game hit streak?
(Joe) DiMaggio
Ben
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$400
[6]
A mouse named Mr. Jingles does some time in prison in this Stephen King book
The Green Mile
Donna
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$400
[12]
A "gruff" quadruped of fable switches a letter, becoming an insect pest
goat & gnat
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$400
[20]
Alaska was admitted to the Union
Elizabeth II
Ben
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$400
[22]
"You mean even if the whole Congress says you should be a law, the president can still say no?"; "Yes, that's called" this; go Bill go!
a veto
Ron
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$400
[8]
"Aaaay!" This "Happy Days" character was the epitome of cool in the '70s (by way of the '50s)
Fonzie (Arthur Fonzarelli)
Ben
|
|
$600
[4]
Who can forget 1972, when the first of these led to the cancellation of 86 games that were never rescheduled?
(the players') strike
Ron
|
$600
[1]
In books by Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson's first name is short for this one from mythology
Perseus
Ben
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$600
[13]
Change the first letter of a burrowing insectivore & you get a mouselike rodent
mole & vole
Ron
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$600
[19]
The shooting started in the Boer War
Victoria
Ron
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$600
[24]
These parts of speech"(Hey!) show excitement! (Yow!) or emotion! (Ouch!)"
interjections
Donna
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$600
[9]
It wouldn't be the '70s without this type of carpeting seen here; yeah, baby
a shag rug
Donna
|
|
$800
[5]
We all recall 1884, when Kentuckian Pete Browning used the first bat nicknamed this
a Louisville Slugger
Ben
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$800
[2]
Richard Parker is actually a 450-pound Bengal tiger in this novel by Yann Martel
Life of Pi
Ron
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$800
[27]
Change a letter from the official state fish of Massachusetts & you get a mostly docile ruminant
cod & cow
Ben
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$800
[18]
Lewis & Clark went on their big walkabout
George III
Donna
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$800
[25]
This begins--& sadly, I can't sing it--"We the people, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice"
the Preamble to the United States Constitution
|
$800
[10]
In '72, this tennis-like Atari video game debuted & kids went crazy--such cool graphics! They'll never get better than that!
Pong
Ben
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|
$1,000
[14]
Surely you recall 1867, when Candy Cummings is credited with debuting this first breaking pitch
a curveball
Ron
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$1,000
[3]
In "Night", his harrowing account of the Holocaust, he wrote, "I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name"
(Elie) Wiesel
Ron
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$1,000
[28]
Change the vowel in the name of a smelly mammal & you get a slithery lizard
skunk & skink
Ben
|
DD
$2,800
[17]
Michelangelo finished painting the Sistine Chapel after 4 years... contractors, am I right?
Henry VIII
Ron
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$1,000
[26]
This man "made a deal with Napoleon: how'd you like to sell a mile or 2 (or 3, or a hundred, or a thousand)"?
(Thomas) Jefferson
Ron
|
$1,000
[11]
Panda-panda! In 1972 to the delight of U.S. kids, this panda & her mate Hsing-Hsing arrived at the Smithsonian National Zoo
Ling-Ling
|
| AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS | QUI"ZZ"ICAL | ON BROADWAY | A CHEMISTRY TEST | MUSICAL ACT ETYMOLOGY | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER GEOGRAPHY |
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$400
[18]
He made history in November 2008 when, as The New York Times reported, he swept away "the last racial barrier in American politics"
Barack Obama
Donna
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$400
[8]
Used by birds to help grind up ingested food, this internal organ is an enlargement of the alimentary canal
gizzards
Donna
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$400
[22]
A 2022 revival of this play broke ground with Wendell Pierce as the first Black man to play Willy Loman on Broadway
Death of a Salesman
Ben
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$400
[23]
World Book says it is "a poisonous, yellowish-green gas with a strong, unpleasant odor", so let's treat our pool with it
chlorine
Ben
|
$400
[9]
Curtis Jackson shares this nickname with a NYC stickup man who allegedly made bank in a dice game after starting with half a dollar
50 Cent
Ben
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$400
[27]
The Royal Albert Dock is an attraction in this Merseyside seaport city of England
Liverpool
Donna
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|
$800
[6]
Ruth Simmons, the first African-American Ivy League president, led this Rhode Island school from 2001 to 2012
Brown
Ben
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$800
[5]
On Jan. 27, 1958 this "family steak house" opened in Culver City, California with $50 in the cash register
Sizzler
Ben
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$800
[21]
"Topdog /Underdog" is about 2 brothers: Lincoln & this name sadly associated with Lincoln, given to them as a joke by their dad
Booth
Donna
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$800
[24]
It's your density... I mean, destiny to know the formula for density is d=M/V, with M & V standing for these 2 things
mass & volume
Ron
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$800
[12]
Dave Grohl said that he got the name for this band while reading books about UFOs
the Foo Fighters
Donna
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$800
[26]
Portuguese is the official language of this resource-rich nation of southwest Africa
Angola
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$1,200
[15]
The first African-American Rhodes Scholar, Alain Locke was later hailed as "the father of" this NYC creative movement
the Harlem Renaissance
Ron
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$1,200
[2]
Chips of marble or other stone can be used in this type of flooring
terrazzo
Ron
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$1,200
[13]
In 2023 this choreographer's show "Dancin"' returned to Broadway in all its finger- & hip-wiggling glory
(Bob) Fosse
Ron
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$1,200
[28]
A solution with a pH of less than 7 is an acid, which will turn this paper red
litmus
Donna
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$1,200
[7]
Although not French, "Pompeii" singer Dan Smith named his band this; his birthday is July 14
Bastille
Donna
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$1,200
[1]
Driving I-40 from Winslow to Kingman, you might want to stop in this city & maybe take in the Museum of Northern Arizona
Flagstaff
|
|
$1,600
[16]
For her supporting role in "Gone with the Wind", she was the first African-American performer to win an Oscar
Hattie McDaniel
Ben
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$1,600
[3]
This word comes before "mast" to mean the mast usually third from the front on a sailing ship
mizzen
Ben
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$1,600
[20]
Born Tomas Straussler, he titled his play "Leopoldstadt" after Vienna's Jewish Quarter
Tom Stoppard
Donna
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$1,600
[29]
In the Haber process, magnetite is used as one of these, any substance that speeds up a chemical reaction
a catalyst
Ben
|
DD
$1,600
[10]
Karen O said this name of her band comes from "a New York City... reaction to everything"
the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Ben
|
$2,000
[25]
This temple complex on the right bank of the Nile occupies part of the site of the ruins of ancient Thebes
Karnak
Ron
|
|
$2,000
[17]
Inspired by Nichelle Nichols & her "Star Trek" character, she became the first African-American woman in space
(Mae) Jemison
Ron
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$2,000
[4]
Mentioned in the book of Daniel as the son of Nebuchadnezzar, this ruler was killed during the fall of Babylon in 539 B.C.
Belshazzar
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$2,000
[19]
Thisplaywright seen on opening night of "The Cripple of Inishmaan" has more recently made a movie with a similar title
Martin McDonagh
Donna
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$2,000
[30]
On this scale that measures resistance of a smooth surface to scratching, talc is at the bottom at 1
the Mohs scale
|
$2,000
[11]
The rock band The Airborne Toxic Event got its name from this Don DeLillo novel that became a movie in 2022
White Noise
Ben
|
DD
$3,000
[14]
It flows over 1,300 miles from highlands near Brazil across Venezuela to the Atlantic
the Orinoco
Ron
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At age 9 in 1883 she moved west, where she met Annie Pavelka, a young pioneer on whom she would later model a title character
Willa Cather