Adriana Harmeyer game 7.
Shira Gluck — a rabbi from Jersey City, New Jersey
Benjamin Nelson — a theater producer originally from Sturgis, South Dakota
Adriana Harmeyer — an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana (whose 6-day cash winnings total $136,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adriana | $1,000 | $4,800 | $18,800 |
$19,600
7-day champion: $155,700 |
$18,800
26 R, 3 W |
| Benjamin | $1,200 | $2,400 | $8,000 |
$7,099
2nd place: $3,000 |
$7,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Shira | $1,200 | $3,000 | $8,900 |
$6,000
3rd place: $2,000 |
$12,000
13 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| HISTORIC TELEGRAMS | I GOT A BEEF WITH YOU | PLAYING WITH MOVIE DOLLS | TRAVEL & TOURISM | ONE LETTER SAYS IT ALL | ANIMAL PLANET |
|
$200
[19]
A telegram to Washington in 1898 announced this "blown up in Havana Harbor at nine forty tonight and destroyed"
the Maine
Benjamin
|
$200
[30]
I want to be a part of it, this steak, this steak, confusingly also called Kansas City
New York (strip steak)
Adriana
|
$200
[1]
This "Toy Story" lawman: "the word I'm searching for, I can't say because there's preschool toys present"
Woody
Adriana
|
$200
[28]
London's transport museum offers a tour of Charing Cross then afternoon this at the Clermont with delicious scones
tea
Adriana
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$200
[11]
Monetarily, a Ben Franklin in hand means you have a this-note
a C-note
Benjamin
|
$200
[26]
Deep in the Mariana Trench, you'll find theoctopusnamed for this film pachyderm that uses its ears to help it fly--I mean swim
Dumbo
Benjamin
|
|
$400
[18]
In 1967 Muhammad Ali sent a telegram to him at the Birmingham County Jail: "Hope that you are comfortable not suffering"
Martin Luther King Jr.
Adriana
|
$400
[29]
A porterhouse has a larger amount of the tenderloin than this smaller, letter-perfect steak
a T-bone
Shira
|
$400
[2]
This red-haired, blue-eyed killer doll has a wife named Tiffany; unbelievably, they have a child
Chucky
Benjamin
|
$400
[27]
With some buildings about a century old, Pretoriuskop Rest Camp has hosted many on this kind of trip with a name from Swahili
safari
Adriana
|
$400
[21]
Europeans get weird toward the end of the alphabet:There's "zed" & this letter that's "I grec" in French
Y
Shira
|
$400
[25]
The antlers of these largest deer can be palmate, meaning shaped like an open hand
moose
Adriana
|
|
$600
[5]
Urged to give up a fast, he replied in 1924, "Am fasting to live not die unless God wills otherwise. Don't worry"
Gandhi
Shira
|
$600
[15]
Some wagyu cattle are fed beer & grain & given regular massages & sold as this type of prized, well-marbled beef
Kobe
Benjamin
|
$600
[17]
Doll, action figure, whatever... this military guy got title billing & "Retaliation" in a 2013 film with Dwayne Johnson
G.I. Joe
Adriana
|
$600
[4]
Feeling thirsty? After your one-hour canal tour of Amsterdam, stop at this, Europe's No. 1 brewer, for another tour & a beer
Heineken
Adriana
Shira
|
$600
[14]
Two traditional letter-named football formations are theT&this one that can also have "power" before it
an I formation (the power I)
|
$600
[8]
The red variety of butterfly from West Africa seenherehas this name, like a light, engineless aircraft
a glider
Adriana
|
|
DD
$600
[6]
Him to president Truman in 1950: "The State Department harbors a nest of Communists and Communist sympathizers"
Joseph McCarthy
Shira
|
$800
[20]
Amarillo's Big Texan restaurant is famed for a 72-ounce steak--that's 4 1/2 pounds of "top" this, y'all!
sirloin
Adriana
|
$800
[16]
Before he was Ken, Ryan Gosling got into the world of dolls, making a new friend as this title guy paired with "the Real Girl"
Lars
Adriana
|
$800
[3]
In Spain, rent a car & follow the path of scenes in this novel, including the Cave of Montesinos & the windmills of Consuegra
Don Quixote
Shira
|
$800
[12]
50 degrees F. equals 283.15 degrees this
K
Adriana
|
$800
[24]
These hoofed animals can be "odd-toed" like the rhino, or "even-toed" like the antelope
ungulates
Benjamin
|
|
$1,000
[7]
In 1909 he sent the message "Stars and stripes nailed to North Pole"
Robert Peary
Adriana
Benjamin
|
$1,000
[22]
I say, do be a love & prepare my flank steak this "British" way; tenderize the meat by marinating, then thinly slice across the grain
a London broil
|
$1,000
[9]
Horrors! We're "Conjuring" up this doll who was introduced in a 2013 film & "comes home" 6 years later
Annabelle
Benjamin
|
$1,000
[10]
If you're vacationing in Rimini, Italy, it's a 50-minute ride on a shuttle bus into this country
San Marino
Adriana
|
$1,000
[13]
To a guy like Julius Caesar, it was 500
D
Shira
|
$1,000
[23]
Thesebirds fly well enough but excel in the water where they can dive 200 feet down
puffins
Shira
|
| 4-LETTER WORLD CITIES | HARD STUFF | WOMEN IN THE BIBLE | MUSIC OF THE '60s | LITERARY TERMS | DOUBLE "R" WORDS |
|
$400
[18]
The Great Sphinx of this city stands near the Great Pyramid
Giza
Adriana
|
$400
[30]
The "hard" type of this beverage is typically made from apple juice, but you can also use peach or pear juice
cider
Adriana
|
$400
[13]
This widow with a Bible book named after her remarries but remains devoted to her first mother-in-law Naomi
Ruth
Shira
|
$400
[11]
Marvin Gaye's first No. 1 hit, it got new life when it was used in a commercial for California raisins in the 1980s
"I Heard It Through The Grapevine"
Adriana
|
$400
[20]
From Latin for "play on words", it's an indirect or implied reference
an allusion
|
$400
[21]
A pen for livestock
corral
Adriana
|
|
$800
[16]
Give peace a chance at the Nobel Peace Center in this world capital
Oslo
Shira
|
$800
[29]
You could say this Hollywood, Florida Hotel & Casino is really lit, especially at night
the Hard Rock
Benjamin
|
$800
[12]
In Acts 17 a woman named Damaris was receptive to a sermon in Athens by this apostle of Tarsus
Paul
Shira
|
$800
[6]
This Aretha Franklin song says, "For five long years I thought you were my man but I found out I'm just a link in your chain"
"Chain Of Fools"
Shira
|
$800
[19]
It can be exhausting rooting for this type of protagonist who lacks conventional merits, like Ignatius Reilly
an antihero
Adriana
|
$800
[22]
In some places, a couple can get a divorce based on these differences when they can't agree upon much
irreconcilable
Adriana
|
|
$1,200
[15]
Here's a lovely view of this capital on the Aare River
Bern
Benjamin
|
$1,200
[17]
Dentists warn against chewing ice, as it can crack the teeth & damage this hard outer layer that covers them
enamel
Benjamin
|
$1,200
[3]
The daughter of Herodias requested this gruesome gift from King Herod
the head of John the Baptist
Adriana
|
$1,200
[10]
The Sherman brothers of Disney fame wrote this song of young love that mentions "peaches & cream" & "lips like strawberry wine"
"You're Sixteen"
|
$1,200
[9]
It's a poem lamenting a death; Toi Derricotte wrote a moving one "For My Husband"
an elegy
|
$1,200
[23]
This bird of Australia is sometimes called the "bushman's clock", since it's heard early in the morning & at sunset
a kookaburra
Adriana
|
|
$2,000
[2]
In ancient times this city in Yemen was a trading port for incense & spices
Aden
Adriana
Shira
|
$1,600
[28]
Hardening of the arteries is also known by this 7-syllable medical word
arteriosclerosis
Adriana
|
$1,600
[4]
This queen states, "If I perish, I perish" after agreeing to find a way to derail a murderous decree instigated by Haman
Esther
Shira
|
$1,600
[7]
This top 5 hit by The Mamas & The Papas was written on a cold winter night in Manhattan
"California Dreamin'"
Adriana
|
$1,600
[14]
Penumbral term for hinting at things to come in a work of fiction
foreshadowing
Adriana
|
$1,600
[24]
From the Latin for "talkative", it can mean given to excessive talk about trivial matters
garrulous
Adriana
|
|
DD
$2,400
[1]
Golda Meir & the dancer Nijinsky were both born in this city when it was still part of Russia
Kyiv (Kiev)
Benjamin
|
$2,000
[27]
Rubies & sapphires are varieties of this mineral, the hardest known after diamond
corundum
|
$2,000
[5]
Jacob marries Leah after 7 years of hard labor for her dad; after 7 more years of work, he marries this sister of Leah
Rachel
Adriana
|
$2,000
[8]
This folk trio had a 1969 Top 10 hit with "Leaving On A Jet Plane"
Peter, Paul and Mary
Adriana
|
DD
$2,500
[26]
Not always marked by 3 dots, it's the omission of words that are understood in context
ellipsis
Shira
|
$2,000
[25]
The world's leading seaweed extract, it's used in chocolate milk to keep the chocolate in suspension
carrageenan
Shira
|
Challenged in a courtroom that same year, 1925's Butler Act in Tennessee outlawed this activity & wasn't repealed until 1967
teaching evolution