2023-2024 Second Chance competition week 2, final game 1.
Christopher Pennant — a sports journalist and announcer from Chicago, Illinois
Xanni Brown — a postdoctoral researcher originally from Cincinnati, Ohio
Greg Czaja — a cardiologist from San Diego, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greg | $3,000 | $11,800 | $20,200 | $35,200 |
$15,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Xanni | $4,600 | $4,800 | $17,600 | $29,600 |
$13,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Christopher | $1,000 | $2,600 | $10,200 | $16,000 |
$9,800
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| BEGINS WITH "S" | FEATURES OF THE PLANET | GIRL DINNER | FINANCE TERMS | TV WRITERS | CANADIAN POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS |
|
$200
[23]
This word follows for heaven's, for goodness' or for Pete's
sake
Xanni
|
$200
[28]
Gale Crater, found to have evidence of past water
Mars
Christopher
|
$200
[29]
Start girl dinner off with this spicy vodka cocktail that can be made with V-8, tomato juice or even Clamato
a Bloody Mary
Greg
|
$200
[30]
Wearable term for the process of getting full rights to assets you've earned as an employee
vesting
Greg
|
$200
[27]
Noah Kloor has written for "The Mandalorian" as well as "The Book of" this "Star Wars" bounty hunter
Boba Fett
Greg
|
$200
[20]
Some areas in the south have mild weather year-round:BC
British Columbia
Greg
|
|
$400
[22]
Thishyphenated slang for a glance expressing disapproval has a body organ in it
side-eye
Greg
|
$600
[4]
Aphrodite Terra, a highland area the size of a continent along the equator
Venus
Xanni
|
$400
[24]
Thinly sliced filet mignon is flambéed tableside in the classic dish steak her
Diane
Greg
|
$400
[25]
Differing by a number & a letter, a 403(B) has been called the lesser-known cousin of this retirement plan
a 401(k)
Christopher
|
$400
[26]
FYI, Bill Diamond & Korby Siamis were 2 of the talented writers behind this series with Candice Bergen as the title TV journalist
Murphy Brown
Greg
|
$400
[19]
Rich in mineral resources:YT
the Yukon Territory
Christopher
|
|
$600
[3]
This portmanteau word describes a holiday you take at home
a staycation
Greg
|
$800
[1]
Loxahatchee River Battlefield Park... hold on, that's in Florida; the planet? A slightly oval 10,000-mile-wide reddish storm system
Jupiter
Greg
|
$600
[12]
Margherita pizza reflects the colors of the Italian flag: red tomatoes, white cheese & these green leaves maybe from boy dinner
basil
Xanni
|
$600
[7]
2-word phrase for the profits made from selling an asset like your house or your Alexander Ovechkin rookie card
capital gains
|
$600
[18]
Joshua Allen Griffith co-wrote the finale of the miniseries "Mrs. America", about the failed effort to pass this amendment
the Equal Rights Amendment
Christopher
|
$600
[8]
Its nicknames include "Million-Acre Farm" & "Spud Island":PE
Prince Edward Island
Xanni
|
|
$800
[6]
The name of a film genre set in ancient times pairs this weapon & footwear as seen here
sword & sandals
Greg
|
$1,000
[2]
Its unique tilt ensures 21-year winters for each pole; we'll throw in that Cupid is an inner moon
Uranus
Xanni
Christopher
|
$800
[11]
You'll definitely wanna finish things off with these delicate sponge cakes, either on their own or in a Charlotte
ladyfingers
Greg
|
$800
[15]
This acronym that precedes "score" is named for a corporation that pioneered a method for calculating credit scores
FICO
Xanni
|
$800
[14]
Writers like Matt Groening & Michael Saikin brought us this animated Netflix series, sort of an anti-fairy tale
Disenchantment
Christopher
|
$800
[9]
This territory stretches across much of the Canadian Arctic:NU
Nunavut
Christopher
|
|
$1,000
[5]
An ancient Greek word for "slanderer" became this word for a self-seeking flatterer
a sycophant
Xanni
|
DD
$5,200
[21]
The remains of the MESSENGER probe, as of April 30, 2015
Mercury
Greg
|
$1,000
[13]
Girl dinner includes girldessert--crêpes her, in an orange butter sauce doused in Grand Marnier & set ablaze
crêpes Suzette
Xanni
|
$1,000
[16]
The Invesco this letter times 3 is an ETF that tracks the NASDAQ 100 index
QQQ
Greg
|
$1,000
[17]
Ben Edlund & Susan Hurwitz Arneson put words into the mouth of this title blue superhero, as well as his sidekick Arthur
The Tick
Greg
|
$1,000
[10]
Its 2 main parts are separated by the Strait of Belle Isle:NL
Newfoundland & Labrador
Xanni
|
| LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES | IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER | WORDS ON THE MAP | A MASTER-FUL CATEGORY | MOVIE SCORES | GLAD-JECTIVES |
|
$400
[21]
In Graham Greene's "The Quiet American" an operative is sent to this onetime capital to help against Vietnamese Communists
Saigon
Xanni
|
$400
[27]
The prizes bearing his name were first awarded on December 10, 1901, the fifth anniversary of his death
Nobel
Greg
|
$400
[26]
It's a circle of the Earth that passes through both poles; the one through Greenwich is considered "prime"
a meridian
Xanni
|
$400
[2]
A playing card begins this idiom that ends "master of none"
jack of all trades
Xanni
|
$400
[30]
(Hans Zimmer presents the clue.) In "Inception", we dug into the French Archives for the original of this singer's "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien", a melodic backbone for the film & a cue for characters to wake up from dreaming
(Edith) Piaf
Greg
|
$400
[28]
"'Twas the Night Before Christmas" described St. Nicholas as "a right" this "old elf"
jolly
Greg
|
|
$800
[29]
Robert Southey's poem "The Battle of Blenheim" recounts a 1704 victory at Blenheim during this war over who would be king of Spain
the War of Spanish Succession
Christopher
|
$800
[19]
The Mayflower spent several weeks at Provincetown before arriving in Plymouth Harbor in December of this year
1620
Greg
Xanni
|
$800
[11]
On a National Weather Service map, T.S. indicates this possible precursor to a hurricane
a tropical storm
Greg
|
$800
[24]
The "father of" this type of dance is Wm. Henry Lane, aka Master Juba, who used African-derived rhythms & elements of the Irish jig
tap dance
|
$800
[20]
The pioneering Philip Glass scored 2002's "The Hours", a film concerned with this equally avant-garde novelist
Virginia Woolf
|
$800
[16]
This 7-letter adjective can mean happy or able to float on liquid
buoyant
Greg
|
|
$1,200
[4]
A writer becomes infatuated with a boy & his family in 1912's "Death in Venice" by this author
(Thomas) Mann
Greg
Xanni
|
$1,200
[1]
Full of humor, weather predictions & practical advice, it was first published in December 1732 under a pseudonym
Poor Richard's Almanack
Greg
|
$1,200
[8]
A contour is a line on a map that connects points that have equal this
altitude
Greg
|
$1,200
[15]
The classic anti-drug song "White Lines" by Grandmaster Melle Mel was fittingly remixed for this 2023 film
Cocaine Bear
|
$1,200
[17]
(Hans Zimmer presents the clue.) One of the few Spielberg films not scored by the great John Williams was this 2015 movie, in which my friend, the masterful composer, Thomas Newman, enhanced the Cold War drama through his craft
Bridge of Spies
Christopher
|
$1,200
[12]
This cheery adjective literally means "pertaining to Jupiter"
jovial
Greg
|
|
$1,600
[3]
"City Primeval" by Elmore Leonard takes place in the author's longtime home, this Midwest city
Detroit
|
$1,600
[5]
Far from home, Pedro Ibecame the first emperor of this country on December 1, 1822
Brazil
Greg
|
$1,600
[9]
The Mercator is one variety of this method in which the curved surface of the earth is portrayed on a flat surface
a projection
Xanni
|
DD
$2,000
[25]
A room in this museum is home to manyworksby the anonymous 15th century artist called "The Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet"
the Rijksmuseum
Christopher
|
$1,600
[22]
Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood has scored several of this director's films, like "There Will Be Blood" & "Licorice Pizza"
Paul Thomas Anderson
Christopher
|
$1,600
[13]
Add "-ation" to the end of this adjective meaning happy & you get a stage of canonization
beatific
|
|
DD
$6,000
[7]
In a Thomas Hardy tale, a man sells his wife & child; the wife later seeks him out in this city where he has become the mayor
Casterbridge
Xanni
|
$2,000
[6]
4 murderous knights came calling on him in Canterbury Cathedral December 29, 1170
Thomas à Becket
Xanni
Christopher
|
$2,000
[10]
According to the "Rand McNally 2024 Large Scale Road Atlas" map of Arizona, one this equals about 20 these
an inch & a mile
Xanni
|
$2,000
[18]
A 2009 biography about this pair was subtitled "The Couple Who Taught America How to Love"
Masters & Johnson
Christopher
|
$2,000
[23]
(Hans Zimmer presents the clue.) An all-time great for me was Giorgio Moroder's haunting score forthis1978 Alan Parker drama about a prisoner in a hopeless situation in a Turkish jail
the Midnight Express
Christopher
|
$2,000
[14]
"Humor" us & tell us of this happy word whose name derives from the Latin for "blood"
sanguine
Xanni
|
In 2023, shortly after his death, his name was added to a Brazilian dictionary to describe one who's superior or out of the ordinary
Pelé