Amar Kakirde game 1.
Amar Kakirde — a graduate student from Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey
Ellen Klages — a writer from San Francisco, California
Chris D'Amico — a verifications specialist from Lakewood, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris | $2,800 | $6,800 | $6,800 |
$4,800
2nd place: $3,000 |
$13,000
24 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Ellen | $600 | $-400 | $2,000 |
$1,930
3rd place: $2,000 |
$2,000
5 R, 4 W |
| Amar | $3,400 | $4,800 | $15,600 |
$16,600
New champion: $16,600 |
$12,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| PUERTO RICANS | THE DRAMA OF TELEVISION | IN THE WEEDS | ENDS IN "ITE" | ROCK ME | AMADEUS |
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$200
[6]
Famous people born in this capital of Puerto Rico include Raul Julia & Bernie Williams
San Juan
Ellen
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$200
[28]
Dr. Melfi asked this patient, "What line of work are you in?"; "Waste management consultant"; well...
Tony Soprano
Chris
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$200
[27]
The flowers of this yard weed, also known as wild endive & puffball, can be used to produce a pale yellow dye
a dandelion
Chris
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$200
[29]
Watch your head! The largest one of these space rocks discovered on Earth was 9 feet long & weighed an estimated 60 tons
a meteorite
Chris
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$200
[30]
Though steeped in history, it's really a bit underwhelming when you seeit
Plymouth Rock
Chris
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$200
[25]
Of Mozart's several middle names, Theophilus got Latinized to Amadeus, both meaning "love of" or "loved by" him
God
Amar
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$400
[5]
The Borinqueneers, the U.S. Army's only all-Hispanic unit, served with distinction at the Chosin Reservoir during this war
the Korean War
Amar
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$400
[8]
When naming the actor who played Saul Goodman, a seriously criminal lawyer, better callhim
Odenkirk
Chris
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$400
[11]
The world record for number of leaves on a stem of this, Trifolium repens, is 56 found in Japan in 2009; that's 14 times the luck!
a shamrock (clover)
Chris
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$400
[26]
In math this type of set has a countable number of elements
finite
Amar
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DD
$200
[23]
This sacred shrine in Jerusalem covers the spot from which Muhammad is said to have ascended to heaven
the Dome of the Rock
Chris
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$400
[24]
Long before the Sondheim show, Mozart composed his lively serenade called this
Eine kleine Nachtmusik ( A Little Night Music )
Chris
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$600
[2]
The stage name of this Latin trap rapper was inspired by an Easter costume he hated wearing as a kid
Bad Bunny
Amar
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$600
[7]
Here's the truth--life is murder for Madeline Martha MacKenzie & Bonnie Carlson on this drama adapted from a bestseller
Big Little Lies
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$600
[15]
A brown Crayola color is named for this plant that blows down the streets of Western towns
a tumbleweed
Chris
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$600
[12]
Plumbago is another name for this form of carbon
graphite
Chris
Ellen
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$400
[17]
Because of the angle, you literally have to bend over backwards to kiss this, set in an Irish castle near Cork
the Blarney Stone
Chris
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$600
[20]
Mozart created the role of the Queen of the Night in this opera for his sister-in-law Josepha Hofer
The Magic Flute
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$800
[3]
On "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" chef Benny Ojeda used a baseball bat tomashplantains & pork to create this Puerto Rican dish
mofongo
Amar
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$800
[9]
Taraji P. Henson came in like a Lyon & faced the music as Terrence Howard's ex-wife Cookie on this drama
Empire
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$800
[18]
The common type of this weed, genus ambrosia, can set off hay fever symptoms
ragweed
Chris
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$800
[13]
A famous slogan found in the "Communist Manifesto" & on Karl Marx' gravestone ends with this word
unite
Chris
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$600
[1]
Seen as a symbol of strength, this limestone formation has long been seen in the logo of Prudential
the Rock of Gibraltar
Amar
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$800
[21]
In Vienna Mozart struck up a friendship with this composer whom like others, he affectionately called "Papa"
Haydn
Chris
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$1,000
[4]
Taking over from C. Everett Koop in 1990, Dr. Antonia Novello was both the 1st woman & 1st Hispanic Amer. to hold this govt. job
surgeon general
Amar
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$1,000
[10]
David Boreanaz led this elite title Navy unit wherever they had to go... CBS, then Paramount+, CBS & back to Paramount+
SEAL Team
Ellen
Amar
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$1,000
[19]
Milk, Russian & bull are types of this prickly stemmed weed
thistles
Ellen
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$1,000
[14]
It's a follower of Islam's second-largest branch
a Shiite
Amar
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$800
[16]
A huge boot-shapedrockis one of the formations on the promontory of Northern Ireland called "The Giant's" this
Causeway
Amar
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$1,000
[22]
Ironically, Mozart was working on one of these masses for the dead during his final illness & died with it unfinished
a requiem
Chris
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| IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION! | TREATIES | MEDICAL CROSSWORD CLUES | BEGINS WITH A SILENT LETTER | BOOKS FROM THE LAST FEW YEARS | FICTIONAL MOVIE SPORTS TEAMS |
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$400
[30]
This 1985 educational computer game features the title globetrotting female antagonist
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
Amar
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$400
[17]
In the 1929 Lateran Treaty signed by Cardinal Pietro Gasparri & this man, Italy recognized the sovereignty of Vatican City
"Il Duce" (Mussolini)
Ellen
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$400
[1]
Adjective meaning delivered to the blood in vein(11 letters)
intravenous
Chris
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$400
[12]
Boxers' records list wins, losses & how many of the former were by this
knockout
Chris
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$400
[14]
Jesmyn Ward's "Salvage the Bones" finds a poor Gulf coast family riding out this 2005 disaster & its aftermath
Katrina
Ellen
Amar
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$400
[26]
To become a Rockford Peach in this film, Geena Davis had to audition by throwing a baseball to Penny Marshall
A League of Their Own
Chris
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$800
[21]
Edward Albee won his first Tony for this 1962 drama in which marital arguments are blood sport
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Chris
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$800
[7]
In 1192 Saladin & this English king far from home signed the Treaty of Jaffa, ending the Third Crusade
Richard Lionheart
Amar
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$800
[28]
Avian name for varicella (10 letters)
chickenpox
Ellen
Amar
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$800
[27]
Gina McCarthy, Biden's first climate advisor, was also called his climate this, meaning one who has great authority
czar
Chris
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$800
[18]
Author Curtis Sittenfeld wonders what would've happened if Hillary never married Bill in the novel titled this maiden name
Rodham
Chris
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$800
[25]
A lead character in "Whip It" is Babe Ruthless, a jammer on the Hurl Scouts team in this sport
roller derby
Chris
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$1,200
[13]
The website for the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame included this oft-asked query when discussing the Lone Ranger
Who was that masked man?
Ellen
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$1,600
[8]
In 1846 the U.S. & Great Britain signed the Treaty of Oregon establishing this parallel as the main intl. boundary in the Pacific NW
the 49th
Chris
Amar
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$1,200
[2]
Nether region tubes named for an Italian(9 letters)
Fallopian
Amar
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$1,200
[4]
Johann Zoffany must have felt his time running out when he painted a circa 1776 "Self-Portrait with" this timekeeping item "& Skull"
Hourglass
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$1,200
[15]
There are an infinite number of books in "The Midnight" this, a 2020 bestseller by Matt Haig
Library
Amar
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$1,200
[22]
The Charlestown Chiefs hockey team in this 1977 Paul Newman film was based on the Johnstown Jets & some of its players
Slap Shot
Chris
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$2,000
[20]
In Matthew 27 in the King James Version, Jesus cries out, "My God, my God", then this anguished question
why hast thou forsaken me
Chris
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$2,000
[9]
In the 1742 Treaty of Breslau, this Austrian archduchess gave most of the Silesian duchies to Prussia
Maria Theresa
Amar
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$1,600
[10]
To find the issue the doc samples some tissue(6 letters)
biopsy
Amar
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$1,600
[5]
The white-tailed type of this animal was nearly hunted to extinction in the 1800s, but has slowly recovered
a gnu
Chris
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$1,600
[16]
This 2021 Andy Weir book about a plucky astronaut sounds like it may be a long shot
Project Hail Mary
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$1,600
[23]
Adam Sandler played him, "The Waterboy" for the Mud Dogs of South Central Louisiana State
Bobby Boucher
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DD
$6,000
[19]
In a relatively famous play, this 4-word question precedes "Deny thy father & refuse thy name"
Wherefore art thou Romeo
Chris
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DD
$4,000
[3]
France restored this tiny principality's independence in an 1861 treaty & a customs union was established 4 years later
Monaco
Amar
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$2,000
[11]
Type of shock from a severe allergic reaction (12 letters)
anaphylactic
Ellen
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$2,000
[6]
Poet Emma Lazarus used this adjective in describing the "refuse of your teeming shore"
wretched
Chris
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$2,000
[29]
Good times for this author: his Emmett-Till-haunted "The Trees" won praise & "Erasure" became the film "American Fiction"
Percival Everett
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$2,000
[24]
Not Gene Hackman but this man as his alcoholic assistant coach with the Hickory High Huskers was Oscar-nominated for "Hoosiers"
Dennis Hopper
Chris
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About 70% of its people can speak Portuguese; about 20% can speak Umbundu, 8% Kikongo & 8% Kimbundu
Angola