2023-2024 Second Chance competition week 2, final game 2.
Christopher Pennant — a sports journalist and announcer from Chicago, Illinois (subtotal of $16,000)
Xanni Brown — a postdoctoral researcher originally from Cincinnati, Ohio (subtotal of $29,600)
Greg Czaja — a cardiologist from San Diego, California (subtotal of $35,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greg | $1,200 | $3,000 | $10,600 | $10,600 |
$8,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Xanni | $3,800 | $8,200 | $13,800 | $27,600 |
$10,400
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Christopher | $4,600 | $5,000 | $8,600 | $0 |
$8,600
15 R, 3 W |
| HAUNTING LITERATURE | NATIVE AMERICANS | MOVIES BY GOOGLE SEARCH | PEOPLE | IT'S AN EX-CAR FOR A REASON | CROSSWORD CLUES "C" |
|
$200
[30]
Scrooge hears from this man that even after being dead for 7 years, he found "no rest, no peace. incessant torture of remorse"
Jacob Marley
Greg
Christopher
|
$200
[26]
Mescalero Apaches refer to this big predator as "my grandfather" & forbid bringing its claws or skins onto their reservation
bears
Xanni
|
$200
[29]
"Kansas to Emerald City distance in miles, no traffic"; "red slippers from witch, curse?"; "winged monkeys unionized?"
The Wizard of Oz
Greg
|
$200
[27]
Crop scientistM.S. Swamina than helped end famine in this country & was known as the father of its green revolution
India
Christopher
|
$200
[19]
The Corvair from this make that also gave us the Corvette got bad PR from being declared "unsafe at any speed"
Chevrolet (Chevy)
Greg
|
$200
[28]
A container like the Igloo Party Bar(6 letters)
a cooler
Greg
|
|
$400
[5]
The ghost of Delbert Grady advises Jack Torrance on family matters in this novel; that does not work out well for anybody
The Shining
Christopher
|
$400
[25]
The people of Red Mountain are battling to protect their Nev. homeland at Thacker Pass from an open-pit mine for this battery element
lithium
Greg
|
$400
[14]
"Makeup that makes you look like a rock"; "Panem child labor laws"; "are these berries I found poisonous?"
The Hunger Games
Greg
|
$400
[24]
Gavin Newsom appointed Laphonza Butler to take this woman's seat in the U.S. Senate after her death at age 90
Dianne Feinstein
Xanni
|
$400
[20]
This company's underpowered energy crisis-era Mustang II is, per Motor Trend, "the Mustang everyone loves to hate"
Ford
Christopher
|
$600
[11]
A merchant of Gouda(12 letters)
a cheesemonger
Christopher
|
|
$600
[18]
The ghost of Catherine haunts Heathcliff until he himself exits the land of the living in this 1847 novel
Wuthering Heights
Greg
|
$600
[17]
For 1968 actions at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, in 2022Dwight Birdwellbecame the most recent of the 33 recipients of this
the Medal of Honor
Greg
|
$600
[2]
"Vegas flight for bachelorette but cheap"; "stomach hurts trying on dresses, why?"; "'Hold On' by Wilson Phillips lyrics"
Bridesmaids
Christopher
|
$600
[8]
Ernie Barnes' 1976 painting "The Sugar Shack" was used in the credits of this dyn-o-mite '70s sitcom
Good Times
Christopher
|
$600
[22]
J.D. Power: "Even budget buyers have their standards, so as 2021 dawns", this "Grand" Dodge "is finally going to the last roundup"
the Grand Caravan
Christopher
|
$800
[12]
An official rebuke in Congress(7 letters)
a censure
Christopher
|
|
$800
[6]
In a sequel, this character plays for the New Orleans Saints, crashes the Exxon Valdez & sees the ghost of Jenny, his childhood friend
Forrest Gump
Christopher
|
$800
[1]
Mohawk "Skywalkers" helped build much of Manhattan's skyline & this bridge to Fort Lee, New Jersey
the George Washington Bridge
Christopher
|
$800
[3]
"How to get rid of fairy tale creatures in swamp", "can you cook waffles if you have hooves?", "donkey-dragon power couples"
Shrek
Greg
|
$800
[9]
CUT is the Beverly Hills steakhouse of this celebrity chef seen here
Wolfgang Puck
Xanni
|
$800
[21]
An auto writer found the Aztek from this GM brand looked "like a Transformer figure based on a Dust Buster"
Pontiac
Greg
|
$1,000
[15]
A squid or nautilus(10 letters)
a cephalopod
Xanni
|
|
$1,000
[7]
166 ghosts, one the president's son, exist in a sort of pre-afterlife in George Saunders' "Lincoln in" this space
the Bardo
Xanni
Christopher
|
$1,000
[4]
Thunderbird Park in Victoria, B.C. is renowned for its collection of these monumental carvings, some more than 40 feet high
totem poles
Christopher
|
$1,000
[13]
"Cabbie weekly salary"; "Charles Palantine campaign woman name"
Taxi Driver
|
$1,000
[10]
She first gained fame for her Vietnam Veterans Memorial; more recently she designed New York City's Museum of Chinese in America
Maya Lin
Xanni
|
$1,000
[23]
Road & Track said this 3-letter brand's Gremlin, launched on April Fools' Day 1970, "stretched the definition of car"
AMC (American Motors)
Greg
Christopher
|
DD
$3,800
[16]
Ohio hoopster or offhand attitude(8 letters)
Cavalier
Xanni
|
| RELIGION | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS | RETIRED | MISHEARD LYRICS | LONG TIME | KNOW SEA |
|
$400
[30]
In Hinduism, it's the law of cause & effect by which one's actions influence one's present & future lives
karma
Xanni
|
$400
[14]
Idiomatically, you don't wanna be naked like this feathered fellow seen here
a jaybird
|
$400
[24]
With 23, this NBA team has retired the most uniform numbers, including Kevin Garnett's No. 5 & Larry Bird's No. 33
the Boston Celtics
Greg
|
$400
[27]
This Beatles song has a lot of levels, but it's "a girl with kaleidoscope eyes" rather than "a girl with colitis goes by"
"Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"
Greg
|
$400
[29]
The Era of Good Feelings reigned from 1815 to 1825, more or less lining up with this president's two terms
Monroe
Xanni
|
$400
[28]
This peninsular nation is surrounded by 4 seas, including the Ligurian & the Tyrrhenian
Italy
Greg
|
|
$1,200
[6]
The name of this religion means "way of the gods", or kami
Shinto
|
$800
[26]
There's a body part in this term for a legislative provision directing funds to specific projects
an earmark
Xanni
|
$800
[23]
This Ben & Jerry's flavor, vanilla ice cream with a nutty brittle, was sent up the Amazon river in 1999
Rainforest Crunch
|
$800
[15]
Many have sung along to the radio, "I left my brains down in" here
Africa
|
$800
[19]
Arising in Aquitaine in the 10th century, the Pax Dei, which translates as this, aimed to protect pilgrims & others from violence
Peace of God
Greg
|
$1,200
[3]
The Gulf of Finland, bordered by Finland, Russia & Estonia, is an arm of this sea
the Baltic Sea
Greg
Xanni
|
|
$1,600
[4]
A Christian doctrine says that humans are born in this 2-word fallen state
original sin
Greg
|
$1,200
[21]
Going all the way from A to C, this scientific term means not associated with living organisms
abiotic
|
$1,200
[7]
In 1990 Crayola's first group of crayons to be permanently retired included lemon yellow & this "raw" brown
umber
|
$1,200
[16]
A classic by this singer turns out not to be about a hip minister called "the reverend blue jeans"
Neil Diamond
|
$1,200
[10]
The Mesolithic is part of this prehistoric stage of human development, centered on the use of material-specific tools
the Stone Age
Xanni
|
$1,600
[1]
Travel southwest from this country across the Sulu Sea & you'll hit Malaysia
the Philippines
Greg
Christopher
|
|
$2,000
[5]
In Judaism the high holy days begin with this 2-day observance & end with Yom Kippur
Rosh Hashanah
Greg
|
$1,600
[13]
This murder tool, a thin wire with handles, allows one to get up close & personal when strangulation is the goal
a garrote
Christopher
|
$1,600
[8]
2 of the 3 Space Shuttles that were retired in 2011, ending the 30-year Space Shuttle program
(2 of) Endeavour , Discovery or Atlantis
Greg
|
$1,600
[17]
We're glad to say that in a 2008 hit, this band did not sing about "dyslexics on fire"
Kings of Leon
Christopher
|
$1,600
[11]
Humanism was an integral part of this period in Europe sometimes said to have ended with Rome's fall in 1527
the Renaissance
Xanni
|
$2,000
[2]
Both the cute critter seen here& a sea off Antarctica have this 7-letter name, after a British explorer
Weddell
|
|
DD
$3,000
[25]
Perun was the thunder god of the ancient Slavs, Perundan was this day of the week
Thursday
Greg
|
$2,000
[22]
"U" do this & you howl like a wolf or hoot like an owl
ululate
Christopher
|
$2,000
[9]
Alphabetically, the list of retired hurricane names in the Atlantic runs from Agnes (1972) to this "W"oman (2005)
Wilma
|
$2,000
[18]
This Juice Newton plea to a departing lover does not ask, "Just brush my teeth before you leave me, baby"
"Just call me angel of the morning"
Xanni
|
$2,000
[12]
Mao's Red Guards shut down schools & attacked thinkers during this decade-long period in China's history
the Cultural Revolution
Xanni
|
DD
$6,200
[20]
There are 19 active volcanoes in this sea, including ones on Saba & Montserrat
the Caribbean Sea
Greg
|
213 feet wide, this late 18th c. European structure has 5 portals, the middle of which was--at first--for royals only
the Brandenburg Gate