2023 Second Chance competition week 1, final game 1.
Hari Parameswaran — a hardware engineer from Cupertino, California
Jill Tucker — an operations manager from Mulino, Oregon
David Maybury — a magnetics engineer originally from Richmond, Virginia
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
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| David!. | $6,800 | $9,400 | $17,000 | $6,728 |
$17,000
25 R, 2 W |
| Jill | $600 | $2,800 | $13,600 | $19,600 |
$10,600
15 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Hari | $800 | $2,200 | $9,600 | $1,600 |
$9,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
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$200
[26]
Founded at the end of Reconstruction, Nicodemus in this "Sunflower State" was the 1st Black settlement west of the Mississippi
Kansas
Hari
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$200
[25]
2021 Pro Bowlers at this position included Josh Allen, Russell Wilson &Patrick Mahomes
quarterback
David!.
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$200
[23]
After catching 417 passes for the Bengals, Cris Collinsworth grabbed a law degree from the univ. of this city
Cincinnati
David!.
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$200
[12]
The monkey puzzle tree has its roots in this dino period 200 million years ago
Jurassic
Hari
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$200
[29]
Roger Federer: "Growing up, Diego Maradona... inspired me. Now (this Argentine) can inspire future generations"
Lionel Messi
Jill
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$200
[30]
The intended recipient of a letter
the addressee
David!.
Jill
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$400
[27]
In 1872 the Union general this D.C. HBCU was named for wrote about "the cosmopolitan character of the university"
Howard
Jill
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$400
[24]
Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor, of this NFC East team: "Let's go out there like a bunch of crazed dogs & have some fun"
the New York Giants
David!.
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$400
[22]
Buchtel College, opened in 1872, is now called the university of this "Rubber Capital of the World"
Akron
Hari
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$400
[11]
Seen here, honey bees fill small baskets of specialized hairs on their hind legs with this powder
pollen
David!.
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$400
[19]
This novelist "was able to describe the attack on him" in 2022 "as he was speaking about the U.S. as a safe place for exiled writers"
Salman Rushdie
Jill
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$400
[28]
4-syllable adjective meaning within the range of anticipation
foreseeable
David!.
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$600
[3]
Thisfamous orator said his time as president of the failing Freedman's Bank was like being married to a corpse
Frederick Douglass
Hari
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$600
[5]
Video games bearing the name of this late legendary NFL coach & broadcaster have made over $7 billion in sales
Madden
Jill
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$600
[21]
"X" marks the spot at this Jesuit Catholic university that officially went co-ed in 1969
Xavier
David!.
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$600
[10]
Biologists prefer "transitional form" instead of this 2-word term for an intermediate species connecting, say, humans & apes
a missing link
David!.
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$600
[7]
In other movie roles or as "The Queen of Wakanda, we believe in you because you believe in yourself"
Angela Bassett
David!.
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$600
[15]
"See" is right in the middle of this old-timey word meaning to beg or implore
beseech
David!.
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$800
[4]
General Sickles called these folks "Northern people, who... have settled within the Southern states since the war"
carpetbaggers
David!.
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$800
[2]
He went 36-44 as head coach of the Browns; he's had a bit more success in New England
Bill Belichick
Jill
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DD
$1,000
[20]
In 2012 this Ohio univ. opened its May 4 Visitors Center to place a 1970 event in historical, political & social context
Kent State
Jill
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$800
[8]
This spiny, globular "sea" creature has an apparatus called Aristotle's lantern that lets it scrape algae from rocks & munch away
an (sea) urchin
David!.
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$800
[13]
He "has been on the Supreme Court for 17 years. But in 2022, he cemented his legacy"
Samuel Alito
Jill
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$800
[16]
Absolutely boiling with unexpressed anger
seething
Hari
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$1,000
[6]
In 2023, USS Chancellorsville was renamed after this Black Civil War hero & Reconstruction-era congressman
Robert Smalls
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$1,000
[1]
Last name of the man who said, "Better to have died as a small boy than to fumble" but whose trophy carries the ball with one hand
Heisman
David!.
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$1,000
[17]
Shows at Eva Marie Saint Theatre are cursed if Alice the ghost isn't invited by the stage manager at BGSU, this state university
Bowling Green State University
David!.
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$1,000
[9]
The nictitating membrane on a crocodile that helps it see underwater is often called the third this
an eyelid
David!.
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$1,000
[14]
She's the only one "to serve as the president's Chief Economic Adviser, the Vice Chair & Chair of the Fed" & Treasury Secretary
Janet Yellen
David!.
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$1,000
[18]
Tiny pungent plant part used in the New Testament as a symbol of faith
a mustard seed
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$400
[29]
Oaks from the Loire region's Forest of Bercé were selected to rebuild the spire of this place that was damaged in 2019
the Cathedral of Notre Dame
Jill
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$400
[28]
Caroll Spinney was the original puppeteer for both Oscar the Grouch & this feathered resident of "Sesame Street"
Big Bird
David!.
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$400
[5]
Provincetown & Barnstable are on this Bay State peninsula
Cape Cod
David!.
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$400
[30]
In "Spottie Ottie Dopaliscious" , André 3000 says the drama at the club is "reminiscent of Charles", this 19th century author
Dickens
Jill
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$400
[27]
MLK, 1963: "Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude ____"
an awakening
David!.
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$400
[17]
Alliterative term for writing full of exaggerated pathos
purple prose
David!.
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$800
[25]
This Bronx building has been called "The House that George Built"; it's next to where "The House that Ruth Built" once was
Yankee Stadium
Jill
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$800
[24]
Thisplaywright's "Biloxi Blues" came to Broadway in 1985
Neil Simon
Jill
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$800
[4]
In 1434 it supplanted Angkor Thom as the Khmer capital
Phnom Penh
David!.
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$800
[21]
A 2Pac alter ego & a Waka Flocka flame album both allude to this Italian author of "The Prince"
Machiavelli
Hari
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$800
[26]
Barack Obama, 2004: "I believe that we can give our middle class relief and provide ____ families with a road to opportunity"
working
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$800
[18]
Sanguinary term for an aristocrat
a blue blood
David!.
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$1,200
[9]
This"Great" structure in Djenné, Mali is rebuilt every year by the community
the Great Mosque
Hari
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$1,200
[23]
The last name of this Giants great includes "Cove", & a cove where home run balls splash down is named for him
McCovey
Jill
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$1,200
[3]
This California place is home to Piedras Blancas Light Station &, of course, Hearst Castle
San Simeon
Hari
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$1,200
[20]
Sharing a name with a 1920s Harlem Renaissance book, "The Blacker The Berry" is a song off this rapper's "To Pimp a Butterfly"
Kendrick Lamar
Hari
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$1,200
[22]
Abe Lincoln, 1863: "It is altogether ____ and proper that we should do this"
fitting
David!.
Jill
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$1,200
[19]
Vespula alascensis is one species of this picnic-pestering wasp
a yellowjacket
Hari
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$1,600
[8]
"All the gods" were welcome when this Roman building was rebuilt by Hadrian between 118 & 125 A.D.
the Pantheon
Hari
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$1,600
[6]
She's seenherearound the time she released "Under the Pink", one the most influential albums of the '90s
Tori Amos
David!.
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$2,000
[1]
This waterway forms about 400 miles of the border between Minnesota & North Dakota
the Red River of the North
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$1,600
[14]
This rapper & "Law & Order: SVU" actor titled his spoken word track "Soul on Ice" after Eldridge Cleaver's memoir
Ice-T
Jill
Hari
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$1,600
[15]
Referring to the United States, JFK's Moon speech: "This nation's own scientific manpower is ____every 12 years"
doubling
David!.
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$1,600
[13]
The House Un-American Activities Committee inspired Hollywood to create one of these registers of disapproval
a blacklist
Hari
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$2,000
[7]
People like Loula Williams aided in the reconstruction of the Greenwood area of this Okla. city after a race massacre in 1921
Tulsa
David!.
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DD
$4,800
[11]
John Ford directed the Oscar-winning 1942 documentary "Battle of" this locale at which Ford himself was wounded
(Battle of) Midway
Jill
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DD
$2,200
[2]
Called Stingray Harbour by James Cook in 1770, it was renamed for the abundance of new plants found there
Botany Bay
Hari
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$2,000
[10]
On "Call Me If You Get Lost", Tyler, the Creator takes on this last name of a 19th c. French poet & also of a Lemony Snicket family
Baudelaire
Jill
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$2,000
[16]
Emmeline Pankhurst: "To the shame of the British government, they set the example... of____ sane, resisting human beings by force"
feeding
Hari
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$2,000
[12]
To gloss over errors to free one from blame, or to keep the other team scoreless
to whitewash
David!.
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In English, name of 1 of the 2 4-letter capitals with the same first & last letter, one in the N. & one in the S. Hemisphere
Apia or Oslo