Alison Betts game 6.
Marko Saric — a math professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Rob Blumenstein — a paralegal originally from Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Alison Betts — a writer and creative executive originally from San Jose, California (whose 5-day cash winnings total $121,500)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alison | $2,600 | $5,000 | $11,000 |
$2,500
2nd place: $3,000 |
$12,800
19 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Rob | $3,400 | $3,600 | $9,600 |
$41
3rd place: $2,000 |
$7,600
10 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Marko | $1,000 | $4,400 | $12,900 |
$3,799
New champion: $3,799 |
$11,200
22 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| AT THE START OF THE SPORT | SECOND CITIES | ALL UP IN YOUR BUSINESS | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER | CROSSWORD CLUES "R" | PATIENCE |
|
$200
[25]
Nomi-No-Sukune, considered the founder of this form of wrestling, is said to have won its first bout in 23 B.C.
sumo wrestling
Rob
|
$200
[27]
The Castle of Good Hope dates to the 1660s in this city in South Africa
Cape Town
Marko
|
$200
[28]
It's the company that made the 717 for mass passengers as well as the F-22 Raptor for very, very specific passengers
Boeing
Alison
|
$200
[30]
This character who married Melanie instead of Scarlett O'Hara was said to have been based on Doc Holliday
Ashley (Wilkes)
Alison
|
$200
[26]
Dial-up phone(6 letters)
rotary
Marko
|
$200
[29]
For most, birthdays come once a year, except for those born on this date, who in a way, get older slower than the rest of us
February 29th
Marko
|
|
$400
[17]
In 1883 an Englishman patented equipment for playing a form of this "indoors, say upon a billiard or dining table"
table tennis
Alison
|
$400
[22]
It's home to the Borsa Italiana Stock Exchange
Milan
Alison
|
$400
[24]
Told, "Take it to the house" in an ad for this co. that "knows home improvement", Christian McCaffrey says, "I will, that's where I live"
Lowe's
|
$400
[6]
A 2023 movie was titled "The Three Musketeers--Part I:" this newcomer to Paris in the original 1844 novel
D'Artagnan
Marko
|
$400
[23]
Type of sporting dog that makes fetch happen(9 letters)
a retriever
Marko
|
$400
[11]
Walter Mischel devised a test of kids' ability to delay gratification: eat one of these treats now, or be patient & get 2
marshmallows
Alison
|
|
$600
[18]
Discovered in a pond in Scotland, the oldest known stone for this sport is inscribed with the date 1511
curling
Alison
|
$600
[16]
Froindlichst sells meatless patties in this German city on the Elbe
Hamburg
Marko
|
$600
[13]
The split-adjusted share price of the 1986 IPO of this graphics software co. was 17 cents but here's an update; in 2023 it hit $634
Adobe
Alison
|
$600
[4]
A handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, she lives in the home of the commander & his bitter wife Serena Joy
Offred
Rob
|
$600
[7]
TR's cavalry in the Spanish-American War (5 letters,6 letters)
Rough Riders
Marko
|
$600
[21]
Sculptor Gutzon Borglum chose this landmark for its solid granite rock face; it would take 14 years for it to be completed
Mount Rushmore
Alison
|
|
$800
[19]
Long said to have invented baseball, this military man didn't, but he was definitely at Fort Sumter when the first shots were fired
Doubleday
Marko
|
$800
[8]
This world capital is home to the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations
Ankara
Alison
|
$800
[12]
After the investment bank of these brothers went Chapter 11 in 2008, retirement plans & investment funds took a $700 bil. hit
the Lehman Brothers
Alison
|
$800
[3]
This fairy in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" causes no end of trouble with his mischievous deeds
Puck
Marko
|
$800
[1]
Numbers game(8 letters)
roulette
Rob
|
$800
[15]
On July 4, 1795 Paul Revere & Sam Adams buried one of these; a 1652 shilling was in the contents dug up 220 years later
a time capsule
Alison
Marko
|
|
$1,000
[20]
These landmark boxing rules are named for the British nobleman who sponsored their 1867 publication
the Queensberry rules
Marko
|
DD
$1,800
[9]
The historic site Pedra do Sal in this second city has been called "the birthplace of samba"
Rio de Janeiro
Alison
|
$1,000
[10]
This massive holding co. was not named for a single crowbar but from the 1929 merger of a Dutch co. with one run by British brothers
Unilever
Marko
|
$1,000
[5]
In "1984", Julia meets with this man secretly, bringing him contraband chocolate & stirring forgotten memories
Winston Smith
Rob
Marko
|
$1,000
[2]
Japanese healing technique(5 letters)
reiki
Alison
|
$1,000
[14]
Disappointed in March 1942, this military man said, "I shall return"; happier on Oct. 20, 1944, he said, "I have returned"
MacArthur
Rob
|
| BOOKS IN HISTORY | MEDALS & DECORATIONS | 9-LETTER WORDS | ACTING UP AT JUILLIARD | BIBLICAL GARB | PATIENTS |
|
$400
[30]
Intellectuals change society in "What Is to Be Done?", an 1863 novel by Chernyshevsky that planted the seeds of this 1917 event
the Russian Revolution
Alison
|
$400
[24]
An Olympic gold medal is required to be at least 92.5% this metal & plated with a minimum of 6 grams of gold
silver
Marko
|
$400
[22]
Fountains, Roman candles & ground spinners are types of these
fireworks
Marko
|
$400
[27]
Not long after graduating with Group 19 in 1990, this woman hit Broadway in "Six Degrees of Separation"
Laura Linney
|
$400
[25]
At Jericho, this leader was told to "loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy"
Joshua
Rob
|
$400
[28]
Barney Clark lived 112 days after becoming the first recipient of a permanent artificial this in 1982
an artificial heart
Rob
|
|
$800
[29]
Alfred Thayer Mahan changed military thinking with his 1890 work on this type of power that he said had made Britain dominant
sea power (the Navy)
Marko
|
$800
[23]
Luminaries who have received this oldest U.S. military award still presented include Rod Serling & Sgt. Stubby the dog
the Purple Heart
Alison
|
$800
[4]
Let's take a pregnant pause for this term of 3 months
trimester
Alison
|
$800
[15]
Group 1 included David Ogden Stiers, Patti Lu Pone & him, far from stupid as an Oscar winner for "A Fish Called Wanda"
(Kevin) Kline
Marko
|
$800
[18]
"Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to" this friend & future king of Israel
David
Alison
|
$800
[16]
In movies like "The Notebook", they're a cinematic technique; in PTSD patients, they're memories so vivid it's like reliving the event
flashbacks
Alison
|
|
$1,600
[13]
This 5-word phrase about people in a different income bracket from you is the title of an 1890 Jacob Riis expose of NYC's slums
how the other half lives
Marko
|
$1,200
[7]
Cuba's Order of Playa Giron, a beach near this bay, commemorates the 1961 victory over anti-Communist invaders
the Bay of Pigs
Alison
Marko
|
$1,200
[3]
Found in Motrin, it's derived from propionic acid
ibuprofen
Rob
|
$1,200
[17]
Thismember of Group 30 in 2001 saw his career take off "Marvelously" as Falcon
(Anthony) Mackie
Marko
|
$1,200
[12]
For interpreting the handwriting on the wall, he was clothed "with scarlet" & given "a chain of gold about his neck"
Daniel
Marko
|
$1,200
[11]
On July 6, 1885 Louis Pasteur took a bite out of this disease with a new vaccination for 9-year-old victim Joseph Meister
rabies
Alison
|
|
$2,000
[14]
This Dutch scholar put out a 1516 translation of the Bible that made it more accessible & helped lead to the Reformation
Erasmus
Marko
|
$1,600
[8]
In 1912 Norway's King Haakon awarded this explorer & his crew the South Pole Medal
Amundsen
Marko
|
$2,000
[1]
You could "transcend blockchain barriers" at 2023's Icon Hyperbuild, this type of event for computer programmers
a hackathon
|
$1,600
[20]
A Tony for "King Hedley II" & an Oscar for "Fences" are part of this Group 22 woman's EGOT
Viola Davis
Marko
|
$1,600
[19]
John the Baptist wore a garment made of the hair of this animal while in the wilderness & eating "locusts and wild honey"
camel hair
|
$1,600
[5]
A precursor to this compound, L-DOPA was used by Oliver Sacks to help bring Leonard L. out of 30 years of a coma-like condition
dopamine
Rob
Marko
|
|
DD
$2,900
[6]
Economist F.A. Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" came out in 1944 when this woman was at Oxford & was a huge influence on her later policies
(Margaret) Thatcher
Marko
|
$2,000
[9]
The Netherlands' Order of the House of Orange in 1905 & the Bronze Cross in 1940 were both created by this queen
Wilhelmina
Alison
Marko
|
DD
$3,600
[2]
This verb can mean to create through skill, or to construct a lie or forgery
fabricate
Rob
|
$2,000
[26]
Alum Robin Williams set up a scholarship won by this woman, who made it from Group 32 to the lead in "Zero Dark Thirty"
Jessica Chastain
|
$2,000
[21]
In several verses this uncomfortable goat hair fabric is worn with ashes as a sign of mourning
sackcloth
Rob
Marko
|
$2,000
[10]
Taken from her unknowingly, the immortal line of He La cells were named in honor of this woman who died of cancer in 1951
Henrietta Lacks
Alison
|
Until Alabama became the 22nd state, this one was first alphabetically
Connecticut