Amar Kakirde game 5.
Steve Miller — a retired medical transcriptionist from Eugene, Oregon
Abby Mann — a digital scholarship librarian from Normal, Illinois
Amar Kakirde — a graduate student from Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey (whose 4-day cash winnings total $55,899)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amar | $2,600 | $8,600 | $14,200 |
$1
3rd place: $2,000 |
$12,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Abby | $3,800 | $3,000 | $8,200 |
$5,200
New champion: $5,200 |
$8,200
12 R, 2 W |
| Steve | $-200 | $1,400 | $15,400 |
$2,399
2nd place: $3,000 |
$11,800
18 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| EUROPEAN HISTORY | DEFINING LAW | DOING A NUMBER ON YOU | SOUNDS LIKE A BOY BAND | DO BUG US | THINK "SMALL" |
|
$200
[23]
Disturbances in Dijon in 1788 were early signals of this event that really got going in 1789
the French Revolution
Amar
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$200
[30]
This association is "an organization of members of the legal profession", & it's time for you to pass it
the Bar
Abby
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$200
[29]
The right spot to smack on a Heinz bottle is this number to get the ketchup flowing at a brisk .028 mph
57
Steve
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$200
[27]
As Nick Lachey surely knows, it's sorta kinda around the normal body temperature
98 degrees
Steve
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$200
[28]
When anorchid bee visits its namesake flowerto collect the scent, the orchid briefly traps thebee& packs it with sacs of this
pollen
Amar
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$200
[9]
19-year-old George Washington caught this disease, which left him with a scarred face for the rest of his life
smallpox
Steve
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$400
[3]
This name of seafaring warriors of around the year 1000 is from a Scandinavian word for "pirate"
Viking
Abby
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$400
[7]
This aforethought is "the requisite mental state for common-law murder", including the intent to inflict grievous bodily harm
malice
Steve
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$400
[20]
A 42-foot rocking chair in Missouri & the original McDonald's site in California are not far off this route
Route 66
Amar
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$400
[26]
Is it this abbreviation for filming people filming people, or a K-pop band with Jin & Suga?
BTS
|
$400
[24]
In rising water, these tiny ants, named for their burning sting, form a living life raft with their waxy, waterproof bodies
fire ants
Amar
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$400
[10]
In "The Pajama Game", "Why don't you stop all this" trivial chat; "I've got something better for your lips to do"
small talk
Amar
|
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$600
[4]
Symbolizing this new dualmonarchy, in 1868, Empress Elisabeth, or Sissi, traveled to have her youngest be born a Buda baby
Austro-Hungarian (Austria-Hungary)
Amar
Abby
|
$600
[1]
"A solemn declaration, accompanied by a swearing to God... that one's statement is true"
an oath
Amar
Steve
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$600
[18]
You can just do the math to get this number of batters faced by a Major League Baseball pitcher who threw a perfect game
27
Steve
|
$600
[25]
It's an idiom for working well together, like Chris Kirkpatrick on a tandem bicycle with Justin Timberlake
in sync
Steve
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$600
[11]
A bug in the "click" family of this insect can snap its thorax to flip into the air & right itself
a beetle
Steve
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$600
[13]
A surprising cost, as in "fixing up the house will cost a..." this; there's debate on how much it is, which I'll settle: $2.77 mil.
small fortune
Amar
Abby
|
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$800
[5]
In politics it's someone who firmly supports one side; in WWII history, it refers to anti-Nazi resistance fighters
a partisan
Amar
Steve
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$800
[2]
This witness "is biased against the examining party, is unwilling to testify, or is identified with an adverse party"
a hostile witness
Abby
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$1,000
[19]
"Paradise Lost" & the "Aeneid" are divided into this many "books"
12
Abby
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$800
[21]
Donnie Wahlberg & Joey McIntyre are these children who just came to the neighborhood & now we gotta show them the ropes
the new kids on the block
Amar
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$800
[12]
Monarch butterflies flock to this poisonous "weed"; they're immune, so absorbing the toxins makes them an unpleasant meal
milkweed
Abby
|
$800
[14]
John Mellencamp was referring to Seymour, Indiana when he sang, "I was born in" this
small town
Abby
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$1,000
[6]
In 346 B.C., Athens made the Peace of Philocrates with this northern kingdom soon to spread to empire size
Macedonia
Amar
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$1,000
[8]
Alliterative item "given to a court... to guarantee that the defendant will duly appear in court in the future"
a bail bond
Abby
|
DD
$3,000
[17]
In the presidential election of 1956, Eisenhower carried 41 states & Stevenson, this many
7
Amar
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$1,000
[22]
A bar mitzvah marks this transition from childhood to adulthood; I wonder if Nathan Morris & Shawn Stockman had one
boys to men
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$1,000
[16]
These pinhead-sized crop pests like to specialize; apple, cabbage, pea & rose are just a few of the varieties
aphids
Amar
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$1,000
[15]
In a poker game, the player to the left of the dealer makes this mandatory bet before the cards are seen
small blind
Amar
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| CANADIAN CITIES | NONFICTION BOOKS BY SUBTITLE | WEAPON NAMES | WHAT DO YOU MEASURE? | MOVIES WITH LITTLE DIALOGUE | SPILL THE "T" |
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$400
[10]
Dickens called this walled city the Gibraltar of North America
Quebec City
Amar
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$400
[14]
"The Uncensored History of 'Saturday Night Live"' (the first 4 words after the cold open)
Live from New York
Amar
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$400
[5]
In 1841, an Arkansas newspaper credited Jim Black as the creator of this knife, named for another JB
a Bowie knife
Amar
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$400
[20]
In math; a protractor
degrees (of an angle)
Amar
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$400
[30]
In this 2018 film, John Krasinski & his family are forced to use sign language to avoid being heard by blind creatures that hunt by sound
A Quiet Place
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$400
[27]
Hereare some pre-adult frogs in this larval stage
tadpole
Abby
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$800
[9]
The Diefenbaker Canada Centre in Saskatoon is named for Canada's 13th this
prime minister
Amar
Steve
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$800
[13]
"E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest" (made into a TV miniseries)
Band of Brothers
Steve
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$800
[4]
Popular with gangsters & soldiers alike, the submachine gun nicknamed this was invented by John T. Thompson
a Tommy gun
Steve
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$800
[19]
A pluviometer; the amount of this over a specific period of time
rainfall
Steve
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$800
[24]
Brand recognition for FedEx skyrocketed after being featured in this 2000 Tom Hanks film
Cast Away
Steve
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$800
[26]
It's an 11-letter synonym for earthly
terrestrial
Abby
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$1,200
[6]
Opened in 1908 A.D., the Empress Hotelis a landmark in this BC capital
Victoria
Steve
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$1,600
[12]
"From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail" (about an 1,100-mile solo hike)
Wild
Abby
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$1,600
[2]
Last name of British major Henry, who in the late 1700s invented a shell that burst into deadly little fragments
Shrapnel
Amar
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$1,200
[16]
The Stanford-Binet test & the Wechsler Scale
intelligence
Abby
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$1,200
[25]
Classical music compositions in this Stanley Kubrick film include "The Blue Danube" & "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
2001: A Space Odyssey
Abby
|
$1,200
[22]
Jack Black could tell you it means cohesive, relentless, unwilling to accept defeat
tenacious
Steve
|
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$1,600
[7]
Thishill in Ottawa is the site of Canada's House of Commons
Parliament Hill
|
$2,000
[15]
"A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis" (helped make J.D. Vance a U.S. senator)
Hillbilly Elegy
Amar
|
DD
$2,000
[1]
In 1939, Artem Mikoyan & Mikhail Gurevich headed a design bureau that has turned out generations of these fighter planes
MiGs
Steve
|
$1,600
[17]
An anemometer
wind speed
Steve
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$1,600
[28]
"There are no clean getaways" was a tagline for this 2011 Ryan Gosling film
Drive
|
$1,600
[21]
It can mean to shorten by cutting off a part, such as by dropping digits after the decimal point
to truncate
|
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$2,000
[8]
This provincial capital sits about 60 miles north of Minnesota
Winnipeg
|
DD
$4,000
[11]
"A True Story of Men Against the Sea"(the North Atlantic's Grand Banks)
The Perfect Storm
Steve
|
$2,000
[3]
The Ruger brand started in 1949 with a pistol of this caliber, used for plinking
.22
Steve
|
$2,000
[18]
An ebulliometer; this, in liquids
the boiling point
Steve
|
$2,000
[29]
Utah's Bluejohn Canyon, where hiker Aron Ralston lost an arm, was used as a location for this movie about Aron
127 Hours
|
$2,000
[23]
Not exactly a science, it's a needless repetition of an idea using different words, like close proximity or frozen ice
tautology
Amar
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On the 2022 Bicentennial of his birth, the body of this man was exhumed & DNA used to determine his genetic afflictions
Gregor Mendel