Amy Hummel game 3.
Matt Mawhinney — a democracy entrepreneur originally from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Dan Byrne — a consultant from Lilburn, Georgia
Amy Hummel — an ER doctor from Milwaukee, Wisconsin (whose 2-day cash winnings total $37,695)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amy | $3,000 | $5,400 | $17,700 |
$20,500
3-day champion: $58,195 |
$17,200
22 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Dan | $3,200 | $6,600 | $10,200 |
$20,399
2nd place: $3,000 |
$10,200
15 R, 2 W |
| Matt | $1,200 | $800 | $4,000 |
$2
3rd place: $2,000 |
$3,200
13 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| HUSBANDS & WIVES | JAPANESE CITIES | LAWFUL QUOTATIONS | PLURALIZE, PLEASE | FORE & AFTER | THE LIGHTNING ROUND |
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$200
[30]
How modern! Queen Victoria proposed to him on October 15, 1839
(Prince) Albert
Amy
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$200
[28]
Known for beer, Sapporo got world attention when it hosted this event February 3-13, 1972
the Winter Olympics
Dan
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$200
[9]
In a 1697 play Colley Cibber wrote that this "is eleven points in the law"
possession
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$200
[25]
Sheep(5 letters... you know, like moose is 5 letters)
sheep
Amy
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$200
[4]
After winning this Augusta, Georgia tournament 4 times, Arnold Palmer wrote the Encyclopedia Britannica's entry on it
the Masters
Amy
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$200
[18]
Usually copper, it can physically protect a structure & metaphorically describe someone used to divert an attack from another
a lightning rod
Amy
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$400
[29]
This power couple appealed to los descamisados (the shirtless ones) in 1940s Argentina
Eva Perón & Juan Perón
Matt
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$400
[27]
Home to the Atsuta Shrine, said to be almost 2,000 years old, Nagoya is found on this largest Japanese island
Honshu
Dan
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$400
[10]
In 1966 The Bobby Fuller Four sang, "I'm breakin' rocks in the hot sun, I fought the law &" this happened
the law won
Dan
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$400
[24]
Hoof(6 letters)
hooves
Dan
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$400
[14]
After golf swing innovator Harry Vardon died in 1937, this organization named an annual trophy for him
the PGA
Dan
Matt
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$400
[23]
A French courtier wrote that this American "snatched the lightning shaft from heaven and the scepter from tyrants"
Benjamin Franklin
Matt
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$600
[7]
In 1935 the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to a husband & wife, the son-in-law & daughter of this Nobel prize-winning couple
Pierre & Marie Curie
Amy
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$600
[26]
Matsuyama is a historical center for this type of poem & has postboxes where you can drop your own to be reviewed by experts
haikus
Matt
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$600
[11]
Kipling called "the laws of" this place "many and mighty"
the jungle
Amy
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$600
[3]
Sarcophagus(10 letters)
sarcophagi
Dan
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$600
[15]
After retiring at the age of 28 in 1930, golf great Bobby Jones joined the Army & landed in Normandy on this date, D-Day plus one
June 7, 1944
Dan
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$600
[22]
If you want to catch lightning on a bottle, shop for this sports drink created in 1965
Gatorade
Dan
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|
DD
$1,000
[6]
Powhatan & Virginia's governor both gave their permission for this pair to marry
Pocahontas & John Rolfe
Amy
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$800
[5]
For more than a century, Kamakura served as the capital of Japan & as the seat of power of these military rulers
Shoguns
Amy
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$800
[2]
Named for an aerospace engineer, it says that if something can go wrong, it will
Murphy's law
Amy
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$800
[1]
Passer-by(9 letters)
passers-by
Matt
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$800
[16]
After 10 straight U.S. victories, this U.S. v. Britain match was changed to U.S. v. Europe in 1979
the Ryder Cup
Dan
Matt
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$800
[21]
A party of 2, these are Santa's 2 reindeer whose names mean "thunder" & "lightning"
Donner & Blitzen
Amy
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$1,000
[8]
Lee Krasner was married to this fellow abstract expressionistuntil his death in a 1956 car crash
Jackson Pollock
Dan
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$1,000
[20]
In the 13th century the port of Fukuoka witnessed this "divine wind" that scattered & sank a fleet of invading Mongols
kamikaze
Matt
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$1,000
[12]
This Supreme Court justice known as the "Great Dissenter" said, "Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law"
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Amy
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$1,000
[13]
Appendix(10 letters, none of them X)
appendices
Dan
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$1,000
[17]
In April 2023, this Spaniard shot a round of 61 at the Mexico Open; in December, he signed with LIV Golf for a reported $500 million
Jon Rahm
Dan
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$1,000
[19]
"Spark Ranger" Roy Sullivan got zapped at Shenandoah Natl. Park in this "colorful" mountain range; over time, Roy took 6 more hits
the Blue Ridge Mountains
Amy
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| POETRY FOR THEE | BURIED AT ARLINGTON | SCIENCE STUFF | POP CULTURE INITIALS | BEEP-BOOP-BEEP | "R" 2 "D" 2 |
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$400
[29]
Words that rhyme in this poem include bore, shore, implore, Lenore & door, & there is at least one "-more"
"The Raven"
Amy
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$400
[13]
In 1968 this former Attorney General & presidential candidate was laid to rest near his brother
Bobby Kennedy
Matt
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$400
[27]
It's the 4-letter word for the force that keeps an airplane in the air
lift
Matt
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$400
[16]
Founded in 1972 by Time Inc., the company known by these 3 letters set cable on fire with "The Sopranos" & "Sex & the City"
HBO
Amy
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$400
[28]
This animated star was censored in 1934 when she starred in "Red Hot Mamma" & Hays Code enforcement really began
Betty Boop
Amy
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$800
[26]
It's a container with a perforated top for sprinkling flour or sugar
a dredger
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$800
[24]
Xanadu, your neon lights will shine for you as the location of this ruler's "stately pleasure-dome"
Kublai Khan
Matt
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$800
[12]
Lieutenant Kara Hultgreenwas this military branch's first female combat pilot & died flying an F-14 Tomcat
the Navy
Dan
Matt
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$800
[8]
With supplies like dry ice, you can make a simple type of this chamber in which particles like the positron & muon were first seen
a cloud chamber
Matt
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$800
[20]
Playing himself in "J.C.V.D.", this international superstar kicked around in Belgium
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Matt
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$800
[25]
Before becoming mayor of New York City, Eric Adams was a BP, or beep, meaning he was a president of one of these in the city
a borough
Amy
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$1,200
[9]
It's the name of the creature seenherethat fits the category
a dromedary
Matt
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$1,200
[23]
It's kind of a shame Lewis Carroll is not alive to rewrite this piece & rhyme "bandersnatch" with "Cumberbatch"
"Jabberwocky"
Dan
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DD
$1,500
[6]
Interred in 1993, this Howard University law school grad led the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund early in his career
Thurgood Marshall
Amy
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$1,600
[5]
A 2010 Nobel for work on graphene, this super-thin type of material? Writers have been creating that type of character for years
a two-dimensional material
Amy
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$1,200
[14]
The initials in the movie & TV title "M*A*S*H" stood for this, where they worked
Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
Amy
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$1,200
[1]
In 1957 this first Russian satellite gave us the "beep heard round the world" & the Space Age was on
Sputnik
Matt
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$1,600
[10]
This 9-letter instruction often comes after a text or email so that you'll ignore it
disregard
Amy
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$1,600
[21]
Whitman got tired of this somewhat cheesy 1865 elegy for Lincoln & wrote another, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
"O Captain! My Captain!"
Matt
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$1,600
[3]
Abe's eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, served in this national defense post for two presidents, but today rests in peace at Arlington
Secretary of War
Matt
|
DD
$2,000
[2]
The hormones raging in you right now were secreted by this system of ductless glands
the endocrine system
Matt
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$1,600
[15]
It's faster to say these 3 letters than Maya Arulpragasam, whose stage name honors a cousin who disappeared
M.I.A.
Dan
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$1,600
[17]
BOOP stands for bronchiolitis obliterans organizing this, an inflammation of lung tissue
pneumonia
Amy
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$2,000
[11]
Ways you might have lost your seat in Congress: defeated, expelled, or this, meaning the maps were changed on you
redistricted
Dan
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$2,000
[22]
Ginsberg "saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness" in this primal scream of a poem
"Howl"
Amy
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$2,000
[4]
In uniform, he developed an inoculation against encephalitis; later, live-virus polio vaccine, opposing Salk's approach
Sabin
Amy
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$2,000
[7]
Wasps& crickets, not just movie monsters have this dedicated egg-laying organ
the ovipositor
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$2,000
[19]
Ryan Reynolds & Jeff Bridges starred in this film, playing lawmen dispensing justice from beyond the grave
R.I.P.D.
Dan
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$2,000
[18]
The Boops boops fishis used for food & is a bioindicator for this type of pollution, named for being less than 5 millimeters long
microplastic
Amy
Matt
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At 14,410', it's one of North America's highest volcanoes; a Puyallup name for it can be translated to "bring the water"
Mount Rainier