Isaac Hirsch game 1.
Dana Keane — an attorney from Sarasota, Florida
Isaac Hirsch — a customer support team lead from Burbank, California
Kelly Proulx — a non-profit communications director from Billerica, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kelly | $1,600 | $3,600 | $8,000 |
$7,000
2nd place: $3,000 |
$8,000
13 R, 1 W |
| Isaac | $2,800 | $4,000 | $19,800 |
$19,185
New champion: $19,185 |
$22,000
24 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Dana | $2,200 | $3,900 | $8,300 |
$300
3rd place: $2,000 |
$9,800
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| PICTURE THE HIT SONG | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY | A LONELY WORD | THE NAME DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING | READ 'EM & WEEP | MELTDOWN |
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$200
[8]
Sia lit up the charts with this song
"Chandelier"
Isaac
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$200
[22]
The A.M.A. fought against these 2 federal programs, 1 for the elderly & 1 for the poor, before they were enacted in 1965
Medicare & Medicaid
Kelly
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$200
[13]
A monastery courtyard is in this word meaning "shut in alone"
cloistered
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$200
[21]
George Eastman said the letter K "had been a favorite with me", thus he created this name for his camera out of thin air
Kodak
Dana
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$200
[30]
This novel by Emily Brontë tells of the doomed love between Cathy & Heathcliff
Wuthering Heights
Kelly
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$200
[28]
A historical nickname for America, or a chain of fondue restaurants
The Melting Pot
Kelly
|
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$400
[5]
A Wham! classic
"Last Christmas"
Isaac
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$400
[23]
On August 25, 1921 the U.S. signed a treaty restoring friendly relations with this country
Germany
Isaac
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$400
[12]
Seclusion, maybe "One Hundred Years of" it
solitude
Kelly
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$400
[20]
The name of this technology that allows local area networks to operate without wiring or cables just sounds cool--that's all
Wi-Fi
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$400
[29]
Mitch Albom still had more to learn from his dying college professor in "Tuesdays with" him
Morrie
Dana
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$400
[26]
In 1776, a statue of this royal was toppled in New York City & pieces of it melted down to make bullets for the Continental Army
George III
Isaac
|
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$600
[4]
Dolly Parton wore it proudly
a "Coat Of Many Colors"
Dana
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$600
[9]
Ratified in 1933 the Twentieth (or "Lame Duck") Amendment moved up the date of this event
the inauguration of a new president
Isaac
|
$600
[1]
Delta's program for this type of "minor" offers a trackable wristband for the youngster traveling solo
unaccompanied
Kelly
|
$600
[17]
Originally, the cartons of this luxury ice cream featured a map of Denmark although its name wasn't Danish, it was made up
Häagen-Dazs
Kelly
|
$600
[14]
A wolf infected with this viral disease attacks Old Yeller, so Travis makes the heart-wrenching decision to put down his dog (sob!)
rabies
Kelly
|
$600
[24]
In the last 50 years, some glaciers in Glacier National Park in this state have lost more than 80% of their ice
Montana
Isaac
Dana
|
|
$800
[6]
A No. 1 for Boyz II Men
"On Bended Knee"
Dana
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$800
[10]
The ACLU secured this attorney to defend John Scopes in 1925
Clarence Darrow
Dana
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$800
[2]
This word for a person who lives away from others is in the name of the creature here
a hermit
Isaac
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$800
[18]
In the mid-1990s Colombian Alberto Perez created this dance exercise class that uses Latin & world rhythms
Zumba
Kelly
|
$800
[15]
You know that Hazel & Augustus have cancer in this Y.A. novel, but Augustus' death is still a gut punch
The Fault in Our Stars
Isaac
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$1,000
[27]
At about -38 degrees Fahrenheit, it has the lowest melting point of any metallic element
mercury
Dana
|
|
$1,000
[7]
Luther Vandross' tribute to his own dad
"Dance With My Father"
|
$1,000
[11]
In 1948 the U.S. was one of the 21 western hemisphere nations that banded together as the OAS, this
the Organization of American States
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$1,000
[3]
Meaning grief or sadness, it precedes "Row" in a song by Bob Dylan & "Angels" in a book by Jack Kerouac
Desolation
|
$1,000
[19]
Infomercials in the 1980s touted the quality of these kitchen knives with a "Japanese" name; they were actually made in Ohio
Ginsu
Dana
|
$1,000
[16]
Charlie Gordon & a white mouse are both--guinea pigs? Lab rats?--the subjects of an IQ-boosting surgery that ends sadly in this novel
Flowers for Algernon
Isaac
|
DD
$1,500
[25]
In Exodus 32 this was fashioned out of melted-down jewelry
a golden calf
Dana
|
| SCIENCE STUFF | PROCLAMATIONS | "GR"8 WORDS | PAINTINGS | DON'T GO, JASON | WATERFALLS |
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$400
[26]
In mitosis, a parent cell gives birth to 2 identical cells; in this process, one cell divides into 4, each with half its chromosomes
meiosis
Isaac
|
$400
[16]
In Leviticus, God says every 50th year, proclaim this "throughout all the land"; someone decided to put those words on a bell
liberty
Isaac
|
$400
[5]
A tip
gratuity
Dana
|
$400
[24]
He said a Camembert cheese that turned soft & gooey inspired the melting watches in his "Persistence of Memory"
Dalí
Isaac
|
$400
[6]
In a memorable "SNL" digital short, Fred Armisen shoots this cast member to the strains of Imogen Heap's "Hide And Seek"
Sudeikis
Isaac
|
$400
[22]
You need to obtain a permit to see Havasu Fallsat the bottom of this American landmark
the Grand Canyon
Isaac
|
|
$800
[13]
This fact should stick to you:cobalt & samarium are used to make the permanent type of these
magnets
Isaac
|
$800
[15]
This event for Edward VIII was proclaimed in May 1936, with the big day slated for May 1937; it never happened
coronation
Dana
|
$800
[4]
Foliage used for decoration
greenery
Kelly
Dana
|
$800
[23]
About this painting, Edward Hopper said, "Unconsciously... I was painting the loneliness of a large city"
Nighthawks
Isaac
|
$800
[21]
Playing the evil Gideon in this Edgar Wright flick, Jason Schwartzman gets his head kicked in; K-O, Cera Cera
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Kelly
Isaac
|
$800
[27]
Tugela Fallsin the the Royal Natal National Park of this nation has a total drop of 3,110 feet
South Africa
|
|
$1,200
[12]
On the electromagnetic spectrum, these waves come between radio & infrared & can be as small as 1 mm in length
microwaves
Dana
|
$1,600
[18]
Alarmed as Americans were recruited to aid revolutionary France, George Washington issued a proclamation of this position
neutrality
Isaac
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$1,200
[2]
With Walt Disney's help, Roald Dahl published his first book in 1943, about these creatures who cause damage to aircraft
gremlins
Isaac
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$1,600
[11]
Full of life & lust, the center panel of this famed triptych by Hieronymus Bosch gives it its title
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Isaac
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$1,200
[7]
This Yankees owner is overcome with grief thinking Jason Alexander's character George has seen his last days on "Seinfeld"
Steinbrenner
Kelly
|
$1,200
[28]
In 1969 American engineers reduced an American section of these waterfalls to a mere trickle to study rockfalls
Niagara
Dana
|
|
$1,600
[14]
In a 1662 work Robert Boyle referred to this, measured in millibars, as "the spring of the air"
air pressure
Kelly
|
$2,000
[19]
Manitoba was roiled by an 1814 proclamation forbidding food exports & named for this native-named dried meat
pemmican
Isaac
|
$1,600
[1]
It's the degree of inclination or the rate of ascent or descent of a highway
gradient
Dana
|
$2,000
[20]
Raphael brought together great scientists, mathematicians & philosophers in this fresco, an allegory of knowledge
The School of Athens
Isaac
|
$1,600
[8]
Jason Segel met his fate early on in this apocalyptic 2013 comedy, falling into a fiery pit right after Rihanna
This Is the End
Isaac
|
$1,600
[29]
A series of famous namesake cataracts on this river is located 11 miles above its confluence with the Parana River
the Iguazu River
|
|
$2,000
[25]
In 2012, the IUPAC gave the symbol Lv to element 116 in honor of this California lab that helped discover it
Livermore Lab
Isaac
|
DD
$4,000
[17]
Screening "Pillow Talk", Cincinnati proclaimed Sept. 27, 2017 this repetitive occasion to honor a beloved star & hometown girl
Doris Day Day
Isaac
|
$2,000
[3]
In "To Helen", Edgar Allan Poe wrote, "To the glory that was Greece, and the" this "that was Rome"
grandeur
Kelly
|
DD
$3,000
[10]
Following all of the publicity from a 2013 novel, this painting was moved to a larger gallery at the Mauritshuis in The Hague
The Goldfinch
Isaac
|
$2,000
[9]
Playing him on "Game of Thrones", Jason Momoa went too soon, leaving his Khaleesi bereft
Khal Drogo
Isaac
|
$2,000
[30]
A Yosemite fall with a wispy ribbon of water that flutters in the air like diaphanous cloth bears the name of this marital wear
a bridal veil
Kelly
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In the 16th century, she changed the "EW" in her family name to a "U" to help her new French in-laws spell it more easily
Mary, Queen of Scots (Mary Stuart)