Adriana Harmeyer game 1.
Brian O'Shea — a gifted specialist and teacher from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Adriana Harmeyer — an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana
Abby Mann — a digital scholarship librarian from Normal, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abby | $800 | $4,800 | $12,400 |
$15,400
2nd place: $3,000 |
$12,400
17 R, 3 W |
| Adriana | $800 | $3,800 | $16,200 |
$26,200
New champion: $26,200 |
$13,600
18 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Brian | $2,200 | $4,600 | $-1,000 |
$-1,000
3rd place: $2,000 |
$5,000
14 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| LOUISIANA PARISH NAMES | NOVELS | THIS & THAT | DON'T STOP RETRIEVIN' | CLASSIC RAP LYRICS | CHANGE THE S TO AN N |
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$200
[29]
This region of Canada where the Cajuns originated & got their name
Acadia
Adriana
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$200
[10]
"The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock", begins this novel by William Golding
Lord of the Flies
Brian
|
$200
[6]
This dwarf planet's 4 lesser-known moons are Nix, Styx, Hydra & Kerberos
Pluto
Brian
|
$200
[26]
The NBA uses this name for a stat that could also be "retrievals"; in a 1960 game, Wilt Chamberlain had an amazing 55
rebounds
Brian
|
$200
[20]
"Also known for the Flintstone Flop, Tammy D gettin' biz on the crop, Beastie Boys known to let the beat... mmm..." this!
drop
Abby
|
$200
[12]
A wind-catching canvas on a ship loses its S & tacks on an N to be this hardware item
a sail & a nail
Abby
Adriana
|
|
$400
[7]
This French aristocrat who heroically aided the American Revolution
Lafayette
Brian
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$400
[9]
His fourth novel, "The Sound and the Fury", is often seen as his breakthrough into genius
William Faulkner
Abby
|
$400
[11]
This "Great" Egyptian of the 19th dynasty had an epic 66-year reign
Ramses the Great
Adriana
|
$400
[23]
Next up after Neil, this Moon missiongrabbed a camera from the "Surveyor 3" probe that had arrived 2 1/2 years before
Apollo 12
Abby
Brian
|
$400
[4]
Biggie knew "It's like the more money we come across, the more" these "we see"
problems
Brian
|
$400
[13]
A word meaning not as much drops an S & subs in the N to be an eye part
less & lens
Adriana
|
|
$600
[15]
This title of a French duke; note there's no "New" in theparishname
Orleans
Adriana
Brian
|
$600
[1]
This Dickens title character comes from a venerable family, as "at least one Chuzzlewit came over with William the Conqueror"
Martin Chuzzlewit
Abby
|
$600
[27]
This George Gershwin opera that premiered in 1935 features the song "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin"'
Porgy and Bess
Abby
|
$600
[8]
It describes a loan co. taking a car back because of non-payments or when a spirit takes control of a body for a second time
repossession
Abby
|
$600
[5]
He rapped, "Today I didn't even have to use my AK, I gotta say it was a good day"
Ice Cube
Abby
Brian
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$600
[14]
The bottom of an object used as support subs in N for S to be someone who makes a nightmare "of my existence"
base & bane
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|
DD
$1,000
[18]
This 230,000-square-mile peninsula of southwestern Europe
Iberia
Adriana
|
$800
[2]
A revenge plan claims the life of the Vicomte de Valmont in this 1782 novel of scheming lovers
Dangerous Liaisons
|
$800
[28]
The Airedale seenhereis known as the king of this family of dogs, of which it's the largest
terriers
Brian
|
$800
[24]
The popularity of this dog breed was boosted in 1975 when one named Liberty gave birth to 9 puppies in the White House
a Golden Retriever
Abby
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$800
[21]
Naughty By Nature hit the Top 10 with the musical question, "You down with" this? & also provided an answer: "Yeah, you know me"
O.P.P.
Brian
|
$800
[17]
The S bows out of a word meaning to replace an actor in a role & N is the new star in a word meaning to disavow testimony
recast & recant
Adriana
|
|
$1,000
[30]
Last name of this "beautiful looking" general who commanded the attack on Fort Sumter in 1861
Beauregard
|
$1,000
[3]
This Willa Cather book about folks in a new land says, "The absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing" things
O Pioneers!
Brian
|
$1,000
[19]
In legend, a beautiful water spirit known as Lorelei lures sailors to their destruction on this river
the Rhine
Abby
|
$1,000
[25]
In a 1930 novel Mr. Cairo asks Sam Spade to retrieve this "statuette, the black figure of a bird"
the Maltese Falcon
Brian
|
$1,000
[22]
In "California Love": "Now let me welcome everybody to the Wild Wild West, a state that's untouchable like" this lawman
Eliot Ness
Abby
|
$1,000
[16]
A tricky plan intended to deceive switches the S for an N to be a character in a Viking alphabet
ruse & rune
Adriana
|
| WHITE HOUSE WEDDINGS | "M"USIC | SHALL WE SCIENCE? | COOKBOOKS | ALLITERATIVE TV | THIS IS FINE |
|
$400
[6]
At her wedding to Nicholas Longworth in 1906, Alice Roosevelt cut the wedding cake by grabbing this from a military aide
a sword
Adriana
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$400
[7]
Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 is a mouthful; this nickname for the piece is not
the Moonlight Sonata
Abby
|
$400
[27]
Fundamental discoveries about how cancer cells proliferate came from study of the baker's type of this organism
yeast
Abby
|
$400
[8]
The alliterative this "from Scratch" features tastes & treats from Denmark, Norway & Sweden
Scandinavia
Adriana
|
$400
[1]
Tom Selleck is Commissioner Frank Reagan on this NYPD-centric show
Blue Bloods
Adriana
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$400
[30]
I'm doin' okay... you remember the ol' idiom, "fair to" this
middling
Abby
|
|
$800
[17]
3 weddings took place during his administration: daughter Jessie in 1913, daughter Nellie in 1914 & niece Alice in 1918
Wilson
Brian
|
$800
[9]
Derived from the rumba, it's a dance of Cuban origin as well as the style of music for the dance
the mambo
Abby
|
$800
[15]
Around 1960, she observed a chimp she named David Greybeard using blades of stiff grass to extract termites from holes
Jane Goodall
Abby
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$800
[11]
Gabriel "Gator" Guilbeau, a chef & caterer for this TV drama, put together a "Dutton Ranch Family Cookbook"
Yellowstone
Adriana
|
$800
[2]
Her character on "Misfits of Science" had telekinetic powers, something she lacked as friend Monica
Courteney Cox
Adriana
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$800
[28]
How do I feel? Comme ci, comme ça, you know... this-this
so-so
Adriana
|
|
$1,200
[18]
The first outdoor ceremony was Tricia Nixon's in 1971 in this picturesque spot outside the West Wing
the Rose Garden
Brian
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$1,200
[10]
This Austrian composer converted from Judaism to Catholicism to get the job as musical director of the Vienna Court Opera
Mahler
Abby
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$1,200
[16]
Even a burrowing mammal with poor vision could see this is a standard unit of measuring big amounts of small entities like atoms
mole
Adriana
|
$1,200
[14]
Erika Council's "Still We Rise" is "A Love Letter to" these Southern staples often served with gravy
biscuits
Brian
|
$1,200
[3]
The Satin Dolls strip club on New Jersey Route 17 became this spot on an HBO series
the Bada Bing
|
$1,200
[22]
Showing one's indifference, this interjection is called a "bleating" sound & defined as "be it as it may" in a 1928 dictionary
meh
Brian
|
|
$2,000
[20]
In 1994, Nicole, daughter of this California senator, got a White House wedding; the groom was Tony Rodham, Hillary Clinton's brother
(Barbara) Boxer
Brian
|
$2,000
[13]
Here's the title waltz from this operetta by Franz Lehár
The Merry Widow waltz
Abby
|
$1,600
[26]
An Indonesian volcanospews blue; that's the color you get when this element meets oxygen & produces this dioxide
sulfur
Adriana
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$1,600
[24]
"Plant-Based India" includes recipes for crispy masala dosa & these stews made with legumes like lentils & chickpeas
dal
Abby
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$1,600
[4]
"I am the danger... I am the one who knocks!" said this antihero of an acclaimed (& alliterative) AMC series
Walter White
Adriana
Brian
|
$1,600
[23]
Everything is just this, meaning pleasant & also a Bowie album with some "Changes"
hunky dory
Abby
Adriana
|
|
DD
$6,000
[19]
The 1st ceremony was in 1812 when Lucy Payne Washington, this first lady's sister, married Supreme Court Justice Thomas Todd
Dolley Madison
Brian
|
DD
$4,000
[12]
Some say this voice ranges between the notes A3 & A5, but it's more about the color
mezzo-soprano
Adriana
|
$2,000
[21]
He was at the University of Manchester when he proposed his planetary model of the atom in 1911
Rutherford
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$2,000
[25]
"Modern Comfort Food" & "Go-To Dinners" are among her Barefoot Contessa cookbooks
Ina Garten
Adriana
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$2,000
[5]
About Kendall, this "Succession" character says their dad "wished that mom gave birth to a can opener... then it would be useful"
Roman Roy
|
$2,000
[29]
In the lingo of the 1930s or so, it's an adjective meaning fine & dandy or a noun meaning a dressed-up gentleman
a swell
Brian
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This city attracted thousands of visitors even before a new shrine to a murder victim was dedicated there July 7, 1220
Canterbury