2023-2024 Second Chance competition week 3, final game 1.
Randall Rayford — a solar project developer from Houston, Texas
Michael Cavaliere — a consultant from New York, New York
Matt Harvey — a healthcare administrator from Providence, Rhode Island
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $1,000 | $4,200 | $16,200 | $10,000 |
$17,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Michael | $1,200 | $3,600 | $13,200 | $6,600 |
$14,800
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Randall | $0 | $2,400 | $7,600 | $0 |
$7,600
17 R, 4 W |
| BLACK HISTORY YEAR | THIS & THAT | WEIGHT, WEIGHT, DON'T TELL ME | LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS | NYMING -NYMS | OUR MAN ON THE FIELD |
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$200
[7]
Barack Obama quickly resigns from the Senate for a very good reason
2008
Randall
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$200
[25]
Budgies are the first known non-mammals to experience contagious this action, perhaps leading to a nap
yawning
Randall
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$200
[30]
All hail the king! In 1991 Saskatchewan discovered it was home to Scotty, a 42-foot-long, 20,000-pound type of this dinosaur
a T. rex
Randall
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$200
[9]
In this book you'll find "I shall cut off her head and fill her mouth with garlic, and I shall drive a stake through her body"
Dracula
Michael
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$200
[10]
Writers once had some pizzazz using these -nyms! Ben Franklin was Silence Dogood & Washington Irving, Jonathan Oldstyle
a pseudonym
Randall
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$200
[27]
Coming on the pitch in the 60th minute in his Inter Miami regular season debut in 2023, he got his first MLS goal 29 minutes later
Messi
Matt
|
|
$400
[8]
Martin Luther King Jr. gives his immortal "I Have a Dream" speech in D.C.
1963
Michael
Randall
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$400
[24]
In 1993 the Supreme Court said "claims of actual" this from new evidence aren't grounds for appeal--you must have been shafted at trial
innocence
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$400
[26]
Bugs Bunny would've lost his mind after learning Guinness certified that one of these in Minnesota grew to be 22-plus pounds
carrot
Michael
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$400
[5]
In a 17th century classic, he tells the title character, "What we see there are not giants but windmills"
Sancho Panza
Matt
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$400
[19]
In addition to being an acronym, this device that determines an object's distance & velocity is also a palindrome
radar
Randall
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$400
[14]
In addition to being a Hall of Fame running back, Jim Browncould stick it to foes by scoring goals in this sport & Jim's in its Hall, too
lacrosse
Randall
|
|
$600
[11]
Rosa Parks stays seated on mass transit & makes history
1955
Randall
|
$600
[22]
Look at the name MOhandas DEwese for the stage name of this artist who slayed Busy Bee in an early rap battle
Kool Moe Dee
Matt
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$600
[1]
Heavyweight Tyson Fury was 277 pounds for a 2021 fight; this character weighed but 190 against heavyweight Apollo Creed in 1976
Rocky
Michael
|
$600
[4]
It includes, "I had only just gone to my room, when my Mary told me a lady had thrown herself under the train"
Anna Karenina
Michael
|
$600
[17]
A retronym is a new term created to show the difference between new & old forms, like paper book or this rhyming postal term
snail mail
Matt
|
$600
[15]
In 2021 Ryan Crouser heaved a metal sphere 76 feet, 8 1/4 inches, breaking a world record set in this sport before Ryan was born
the shot put
Matt
|
|
$800
[12]
At John Glenn's request, Katherine Johnson verifies the computer's planning of Friendship 7's flight
1962
Randall
|
$800
[6]
Hugh Chisholm edited the 11th edition (1910-11) of this, an edition called the greatest encyclopedia ever
Britannica
Randall
|
$800
[28]
Theseclouds are associated with blue skies, especially the humilis type; they look all fluffy but weigh over a million pounds
cumulus
Randall
|
$1,000
[2]
This Sinclair Lewis guy hears "Preacher... damned if I'm going to watch you seducing the first girl you get your big sweaty hands on"
Elmer Gantry
Michael
|
$800
[16]
A cryptonym is a secret name or code word; this1960s Vietnamese leader had several, including Agent 19
Ho Chi Minh
Matt
|
$800
[20]
In 2023, Corey Seagerwon his 2nd World Series MVP award as this team became champions
the Texas Rangers
Randall
|
|
$1,000
[13]
Just after World War II, Jackie Robinson integrates Major League Baseball
1947
Randall
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$1,000
[23]
Romans, Arabs, Normans etc. have overrun this home of resilient Sicilians that's been called the world's most conquered city
Palermo
|
$1,000
[29]
Fluting on armor reduced weight; in Maximilian armour, a set for fighting weighed just 50 pounds, while a set for this was 100
jousting
Michael
|
DD
$1,600
[3]
The very long opening line of this novel includes the phrase "It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair"
A Tale of Two Cities
Michael
|
$1,000
[18]
Crohn's disease, the Ferris wheel & Parkinson's law (for Burrill, George & C. Northcote, respectively) are these -nyms
eponyms
Matt
|
$1,000
[21]
New Zealand's Jonah Lomu topped ruck.co.uk's list of this sport's 25 best players of all time
rugby
Michael
|
| COUNTRY OVERLAPS | 20th CENTURY POP CULTURE | FAMOUS OBJECTS | ALLITERATION | THE OCEAN | OUR WOMAN IN THE FIELD |
|
$400
[22]
Castro's country swims a few miles north to link up with a former British colony
Cubahamas
Matt
|
$400
[24]
A new kind of hero, shemade her cover debut in "Sensation Comics" in 1942
Wonder Woman
Michael
|
$400
[25]
Edward I, called the "Hammer of the Scots", took this coronation block of theirs south to England in 1296
the Stone of Scone
Matt
|
$400
[27]
She kissed me, then pushed me out the door; talk about these contradictory signals
mixed messages
Matt
|
$400
[28]
The historical average of these Titanic menaces is about 500 entering N. Atlantic shipping lanes, but there are recent 4-digit years
icebergs
Randall
|
$400
[30]
The first woman to win this prize for criticism, Emily Genauer took it (& $1,000!) in 1974 for her writing on art
a Pulitzer
Matt
|
|
$800
[23]
Myanmar's aka slides down the peninsula below Thailand
Burmalaysia
Randall
|
$800
[29]
One of the hottest toys of the late '90s was a plush, red Tickle Me him
Elmo
Michael
|
$1,200
[9]
The National Museum of American History has this great swing bandleader's clarinet, though probably not his corset & pen
(Benny) Goodman
Michael
|
$800
[26]
To get down to discussing the important point; it seems to come from a 19th century folktale about a hunting trip
to talk turkey
|
$800
[13]
Harmonic analysis helps predict the rise & fall of these, but it's tough to account for local variations in shore & seafloor
tides
Michael
Randall
|
$800
[19]
Pretty big in the legal field, shegot judicial appointments from Bush I, Clinton & finally Obama in 2009
Sotomayor
Randall
|
|
$1,200
[12]
Kabul's country safaris to East Africa to meet Dar es Salaam's
Afghanistanzania
Michael
|
$1,200
[7]
It was party time with the introduction of these plastic storage containers, the lids inspired by those of a paint can
Tupperware
Michael
|
$1,600
[8]
The Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin has one of the 21 complete, intact these, from the 1450s
the Gutenberg Bible
Matt
|
$1,200
[10]
Mustarded or not, this L.A. stadium treat has been eaten in Chavez Ravine since the '60s & close to 3 million are sold each year
a Dodger Dog
Randall
|
$1,200
[4]
If you don't want to miss "Krilland Grace", better set your VPR or video "this organism" recorder
plankton
Matt
|
$1,200
[17]
In 1965 Cambridge awarded her a Ph.D. in ethology, the study of animal behavior, 5 years after she began a major chimp study
Jane Goodall
Michael
|
|
$1,600
[2]
North America's second most populous hooks up with South America's second most populous
Mexicolombia
Michael
Randall
|
$1,600
[1]
In 1923, more than 30 years before the talking one, Cecil B. DeMille directed a silent version of this biblical epic
The Ten Commandments
Matt
|
$2,000
[14]
When the president pounds on his desk, it's likely this one, with the determined name of a Britishshipwhose timbers it was made from
the Resolute desk
Matt
|
$1,600
[11]
Old West mom, did your little one burn himself? Administer this stuff made from the fat of the gander
goose grease
|
$2,000
[6]
Underwater canyons are part of the vastsubmarine mountain rangecalled the mid-Atlantic this
the ridge
Matt
Randall
|
$1,600
[18]
In 1977 Sally Ride wrote to NASA, "I am a PhD candidate in" this type of physics & "interested in the Space Shuttle program"
astrophysics
Randall
|
|
$2,000
[3]
A Balkan "black mountain" country vaults over Serbia to meet the former Walachia & Moldavia
Montenegromania
Michael
|
$2,000
[21]
Seen here are twins Pauline & Esther Friedman who doled out advice under the names Abigail Van Buren, aka Dear Abby, & her
Ann Landers
Michael
|
DD
$4,000
[16]
Carbon-14 dating tests in 1988 said the fabric of this had been made roughly between 1260 & 1390, not much earlier
the Shroud of Turin
Matt
|
$2,000
[15]
This alliterative dramatization of Jesus' suffering, performed in Oberammergau since 1634, now goes easier on the Jews
a passion play
Matt
|
DD
$4,000
[5]
A halocline is a zone of ocean water in which this measurement changes rapidly with depth
salinity
Matt
|
$2,000
[20]
This American woman went pro in 1916, founded a dance company in 1926, retired at 70 but choreographed until her death in 1991
Martha Graham
Michael
|
A 2020 edition of this beloved 1911 novel came with a glossary of horticultural terms & a location guide
The Secret Garden