2023-2024 Second Chance competition week 4, semifinal game 2.
Denise Carlon — an attorney from Seaside Heights, New Jersey
Michael Vallely — a program analyst from Cleveland, Ohio
Roy Camara — a grocery specialist from Crawfordville, Florida
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roy | $0 | $3,000 | $24,200 |
$27,201
Finalist |
$16,200
28 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Michael | $800 | $4,000 | $3,200 |
$3,200
3rd place: $2,000 |
$3,200
10 R, 4 W |
| Denise | $3,400 | $4,400 | $13,600 |
$24,001
2nd place: $3,000 |
$13,600
13 R, 1 W |
| TEX & THE CITY | NATIONAL ANIMALS | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS | YOU GET NOTHING! YOU LOSE! | U.S. MONEY | ONE-MAN BAND |
|
$200
[26]
Luke Short killed Jim Courtright in an 1887 duel in the streets of this Texas town, now half of the Dallas "Metroplex"
Fort Worth
Roy
|
$200
[30]
The Inagua wilderness of the Bahamas holds some 50,000 of these long-legged scarlet avians, the national bird
flamingos
Roy
|
$200
[29]
It's the less-than-enthusiastic sound delivered here
a raspberry
Roy
|
$200
[27]
In the Bible, this person "looked back... and she became a pillar of salt"
Lot's wife
Roy
|
$200
[28]
The $1 bill features one of these structures topped by an all-seeing eye
a pyramid
Michael
|
$200
[5]
"Maybe I'm Amazed" he solo-recorded his 1970 solo debut mainly at his house in St. John's Wood; OK, maybe I'm not--he was a Beatle
McCartney
Roy
|
|
$400
[19]
The capital of Texas Zoo is naturally located in... Cedar Creek, a few minutes east of this city
Austin
Roy
|
$400
[14]
Denmark has a national this, the small tortoiseshell; with a 2-inch wingspan, it starts visiting flowers in early spring
a butterfly
Roy
|
$400
[24]
Half the world (divided by the equator) or half the brain
hemisphere
Roy
|
$400
[23]
After scheming to turn European postage stamps into $15 million worth of fraud, hewas arrested in 1920 & went to prison
Charles Ponzi
|
$400
[25]
The Feds still issue bills of this denomination but in a much smaller quantity than the others
$2 bill
Michael
|
$400
[7]
In 1983 Rolling Stone examined "The Secret Life of America's Sexiest One-Man Band"; now "Let's Go Crazy" & name him
Prince
Denise
|
|
$600
[18]
The first 4 WNBA titles went to the Comets of this city
Houston
Michael
|
$600
[12]
This big mammal is the national animal of Bangladesh, & please be specific
a Bengal tiger
Roy
|
$600
[22]
They say this, the spirit & manners of knighthood, "is not dead", so it's okay to be courteous
chivalry
Roy
|
$600
[3]
Full house! Not a bad Texas hold'em hand, but not so fast! I've got this hand--not a royal or straight flush, but I still win
four of a kind
Roy
|
$600
[4]
In the late 18th century, the first U.S. coins were minted in this city, the capital at the time
Philadelphia
Denise
|
$600
[8]
In 1989, he"Let Love Rule" as basically a one-man band on that debut album, and he's been "Sittin' On Top Of The World" ever since
Lenny Kravitz
Denise
|
|
$1,000
[17]
This "colorful" southernmost city in Texas gets tourism help from nearby Boca Chica Beach
Brownsville
Michael
|
$800
[6]
Canada's national horse is the Canadian horse; think a little harder to name this, a national symbol since 1975
a beaver
Roy
Denise
|
$800
[20]
It describes raccoons & bats & comes from the Latin for "of the night"
nocturnal
Roy
|
$800
[2]
In 1864, this general got generally trounced in the presidential election, losing the Electoral College to Abe, 212 to 21
McClellan
Michael
|
$800
[1]
The highest U.S. denomination ever issued,$100,000 gold certificates, were not meant for public use, but for use by these
banks
Roy
|
$800
[9]
Many have played in this "Head Like a Hole" band but Trent Reznorwas the only official member until Atticus Ross got the call in 2016
Nine Inch Nails
Roy
|
|
DD
$3,600
[15]
This city of over one million is named for a man born in 1195
San Antonio
Roy
|
$1,000
[13]
It's the national bird of Bolivia, Chile, Colombia & Ecuador
a (Andean) condor
Michael
Denise
|
$1,000
[16]
A term for a medieval philosopher like Thomas Aquinas, or a large children's book publisher
scholastic
Michael
|
$1,000
[11]
Placed neck-deep in water that would recede as he tried to quench his thirst, this king gave his name to a word meaning tease
Tantalus
Roy
|
$1,000
[10]
Part of the Treasury Department, the U.S. bureau of these 2 activities can produce over $500 million in notes in a day
engraving & printing
Michael
|
$1,000
[21]
Whenhewas 15, he went out on tour with his dad, a guitar god; later he recorded solo for Mammoth WVH
Wolfgang Van Halen
Denise
|
| WORD HISTORIES | BOOKS & AUTHORS | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES & TV SHOWS | ONE MAN, BANNED |
|
$400
[27]
Once it meant cunning or ingenuity; now it's a motor
engine
|
$400
[28]
This author of "Charlotte's Web" also wrote a monthly column for Harper's called "One Man's Meat"
(E.B.) White
Roy
|
$400
[30]
In 2018 the U.S. moved its embassy to this city from Tel Aviv, where it had been since the late 1960s
Jerusalem
Roy
|
$400
[12]
From a Kikuyu word for "white mountain", it's an east African country & the first name of TV's Barris, creator of "black-ish"
Kenya
Roy
|
$400
[4]
(I'm Ellie Kemper.) Growing up, I wanted to be a nun due in part to my love of this 1965 movie about a young woman at an Austrian convent
The Sound of Music
Michael
|
$400
[29]
A Jacobite was a supporter of this exiled Stuart king who had to lay low after the Glorious Revolution
James II
Roy
Michael
|
|
$800
[22]
From the 16th to 18th centuries, it went from meaning move suddenly to meaning try playfully to attract someone
flirt
Roy
|
$800
[5]
The 11th & last short story in Annie Proulx' collection "Close Range" is titled this peak
"Brokeback Mountain"
Michael
|
$800
[26]
A treaty signed at the 1815 congress of this city established a balance of power in Europe following the Napoleonic Wars
Vienna
Michael
|
$800
[25]
Many boys in Latin America have names of the big archangels: Gabriel, Rafael & this Spanish name
Miguel
Roy
|
$800
[8]
This writer & director said his Oscar-winning film might not exist if there was no "Candyman"
Jordan Peele
Denise
|
$800
[24]
Dante was truly a Guelf on the shelf as his exile from this city of his birth would prove
Florence
Roy
Michael
Denise
|
|
$1,200
[21]
An adjective meaning gigantic, it came into English in the 1700s to describe huge elephant-like bones found in Siberia
mammoth
Roy
|
$1,200
[2]
Thisscribe who wrote "Mystic River" grew up in Dorchester. Massachusetts
Dennis Lehane
Roy
|
$1,600
[19]
In 1958 the United Nations defined these geographic areas as extending about 14 miles from a country's coast
territorial waters
Roy
|
$1,200
[7]
The Ukrainian-American dancer & TV star seenherehas this first name that means "greatest"
Maksim
Denise
|
$1,200
[9]
Taylor Swift named her cat Olivia Benson, after a character on this drama, one of her favorite TV shows
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Denise
|
$1,200
[23]
Thispolitician, who passed away in 2023, was banned from office in 2013, but remained the head of Forza Italia
Berlusconi
Roy
|
|
$1,600
[20]
In the mid-1800s it meant a movable board at the back of a wagon; in the mid-1900s it came to describe a type of celebration
a tailgate
Denise
|
$1,600
[1]
In this 1955 novel the title character impersonates Dickie Greenleaf
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Roy
|
$2,000
[17]
In 2023, China gathered friendlyworld leadersfor the 10th anniversary of BRI, this initiative of projects in the developing world
the Belt and Road Initiative
|
$1,600
[3]
Malik is Arabic for this high title, but don't call yourself Malik al-Amlak, or this of these--vainglory makes Allah angry
king
Michael
Denise
|
$1,600
[10]
Issa Rae said that this Lisa Bonet series, a spin-off from "The Cosby Show", made her want to go to college
A Different World
Denise
|
$2,000
[15]
Yevgeny was the first name of this late mercenary leader who fled to Belarus after gaining Putin's ire in 2023
Yevgeny Prigozhin
|
|
$2,000
[18]
This synonym for jeans comes from the name of a blue cloth that originated in India
dungarees
Roy
|
$2,000
[6]
He was a newspaperman for the Chicago Daily Globe before penning "An American Tragedy"
Dreiser
Roy
|
DD
$6,200
[14]
The 5 founding members of this organization in 1960 included Saudi Arabia, Iran & Venezuela
OPEC
Roy
|
$2,000
[16]
This French version of a girls' name important in the New Testament is also given to boys, like the Marquis de Lafayette
Marie
|
$2,000
[11]
Thiscreator of "Yellowstone" cited "Unforgiven" as a favorite for destroying our notion of a Western
(Taylor) Sheridan
Denise
|
DD
$8,200
[13]
The 1521 Edict of Worms banned his writings & declared him a heretic
Martin Luther
Roy
|
Since it has caused spacecraft to malfunction, a region called the South Atlantic Anomaly is known as this area "of space"
Bermuda Triangle