Ryan Manton game 2.
Mike McComb — a project manager originally from Dearborn, Michigan
Brooke Levine — a workforce manager from Old Bridge, New Jersey
Ryan Manton — a systems administrator from Columbus, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,178)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan | $2,800 | $6,800 | $21,600 |
$21,600
2-day champion: $43,778 |
$16,800
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Brooke | $800 | $200 | $600 |
$1,200
3rd place: $2,000 |
$600
3 R, 2 W |
| Mike! | $1,600 | $3,200 | $10,000 |
$10,000
2nd place: $3,000 |
$13,400
18 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| 19th CENTURY CULTURE TRIP | LUNAR FEATURES | TOYS & GAMES | AIRPORTS | NAME THE CLASSIC BAND: A READING | FAMILIAR PHRASES |
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$200
[21]
Johnny Appleseed gained fame bringing apples to the frontier, most of which were used to make this "hard" drink
hard cider
Ryan
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$200
[23]
India's Chandrayaan-3 landed near the Moon's South Pole & searched for this resource, hiding in shadowed craters
water
Ryan
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$200
[24]
Players in this board game once navigated the Molasses Swamp & Ice Cream Floats on a rainbow path
Candy Land
Ryan
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$200
[26]
It's the main airport serving London, & also the busiest
Heathrow
Mike!
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$200
[29]
"Young man, there's a place you can go / I said, young man, when you're short on your dough"
the Village People
Ryan
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$200
[30]
No one knows where this exclamation of surprise came from but it probably was not inspired by Mrs. Ross or by Davy Crockett's rifle
heaven's to Betsy
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$400
[20]
In 1801 Alexander Hamilton launched this Big Apple paper that didn't have a Page Six yet
The New York Post
Ryan
Mike!
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$400
[22]
The dividing line between day & night on the Moon is called "the twilight zone" or this word, like the title of a 1984 Ahnold film
the terminator
Ryan
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$400
[13]
Undealt playing cards in this game are placed in a pile known as the ocean or the pool
Go Fish
Mike!
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$400
[25]
Not surprisingly passengers are greeted with live jazz music at the New Orleans airport named for this jazz great
Louis Armstrong
Ryan
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$400
[28]
"If everybody had an ocean / Across the USA / Then everybody'd be surfin' / Like Californ-eye-ay"
The Beach Boys
Ryan
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$400
[16]
It's what "amor vincit omnia" translates to
love conquers all
Mike!
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$600
[17]
Charles Willson Peale was in the group that excavated one of these toothy behemoths & painted thescenecirca 1806
a mastodon
Ryan
Brooke
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$800
[14]
A mountain on the Moonis named for computer programmer Melba Ray Mouton, & is called this Latin word Mouton
Mons
Ryan
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$600
[5]
This foam product was advertised as "the world's first indoor ball"
Nerf
Mike!
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$600
[7]
In 2023 this Boston airport & gateway to New England celebrated its 100th anniversary
Logan
Ryan
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$600
[27]
"But your teacher preaches class like you're some kind of jerk / You gotta fight! / For your right! / To paaaaaar-tay!"
the Beastie Boys
Mike!
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$600
[10]
The Bible tells us, "For wisdom is better than" these gems "and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it"
rubies
Ryan
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$800
[19]
In 1808 he registered the North River Steamboat of Clermont, & a new age was upon us
Fulton
Ryan
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DD
$1,000
[6]
Nearly 30% of the Moon's near side is made of this igneous rock; its holes were formed by gas bubbles captured as lava cooled
basalt
Mike!
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$800
[11]
This "game that ties you up in knots" became a hit when Johnny Carson played it with Eva Gabor on "The Tonight Show" in 1966
Twister
Mike!
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$800
[9]
This capital's Schiphol Airport boasts a library, a park & an art museum
Amsterdam
Mike!
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$800
[4]
"Stop! In the name of love / Before you break my heart / Stop! In the name of love / Before you break my heart / Think it over"
The Supremes
Brooke
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$800
[2]
Don't draw premature conclusions is the meaning of "one" of these birds "does not make a summer", attributed to Aristotle
a swallow
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$1,000
[18]
For Easter 1885 Czar Alexander III asked this jeweler to make a gift for the czarina; voilà, an enameled egg with jewels inside
Fabergé
Ryan
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$1,000
[15]
An impressive crater 53 miles in diameter in the Southern Highlands of the Moonis named for this eccentric 16th century Dane
Tycho Brahe
Ryan
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$1,000
[12]
This 3-D viewer was introduced at the 1939 World's Fair but hit it big in the 1950s when it acquired the rights to Disney characters
View-Master
Mike!
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$1,000
[8]
The King Abdulaziz Airport in this country has a special hajj terminal & a separate terminal for the royal family
Saudi Arabia
Ryan
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$1,000
[3]
"Drivin' down your freeways / Midnight alleys roam / Cops in cars / The topless bars / Never saw a woman / So alone... L.A. woman"
The Doors
Mike!
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$1,000
[1]
Dating back to Chaucer, it's sort of the canine equivalent of "don't rock the boat"
let sleeping dogs lie
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| SIR WALTER RALEIGH | AVIAN POETRY | THE NAME GAME | FILM-POURRI | AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL | "C" TO SHINING "C" |
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$400
[30]
From 1600 to 1603 Raleigh served as governor of this largest of the Channel Islands, improving its defenses
Jersey
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$400
[11]
Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote, "I know why" this "sings, ah me, when his wing is bruised and his bosom sore"
the caged bird
Ryan
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$400
[5]
Going up to number XXIII, more popes have been of this name than any other
John
Mike!
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$400
[10]
David Oyelowo starred as him in the 2014 biopic "Selma"
Martin Luther King Jr.
Brooke
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$400
[22]
In spring, California comes alive with these, the state flower
poppies
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$400
[17]
It's a palindromic word meaning relating to cities
civic
Ryan
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$800
[29]
As a teenager, Raleigh fought with these French Protestants against the Catholics in France
the Huguenots
Mike!
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$1,200
[24]
10 of her 1,800 poems were published in her lifetime; one was "These Are the Days When Birds Come Back--"
Dickinson
Ryan
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$800
[1]
Angus Young said this "Highway To Hell" rockbandtook its name from the label on a sewing machine
AC/DC
Mike!
|
$800
[9]
That's Colin Farrell under layers of silicone as this baddie in "The Batman"
the Penguin
Ryan
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$800
[21]
900 feet wide with a 212-foot drop, Shoshone Falls in this state has been called the "Niagara of the West"
Idaho
Mike!
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$800
[16]
Named for a town on the Charente River, it's twice-distilled wine that's been aged in oak
Cognac
Mike!
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$1,200
[28]
In "I'm So Tired" The Beatles curse Raleigh for his role in bringing this substance to England
tobacco
Mike!
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$1,600
[23]
Like Coleridge, French poet Charles Baudelaire wrote about these birds, calling them "skyborn kings"
an albatross
Ryan
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$1,200
[2]
The ancient Greek philosopher Aristocles is better known by this name possibly derived from his broad physique
Plato
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$1,200
[6]
Director Martin Scorsese said that Robert De Niro improvised this 4-word line in "Taxi Driver"
you talkin' to me
Mike!
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$1,200
[20]
This Vermont town, the ski capital of the East, is also famous for its fall foliage
Stowe, Vermont
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$1,200
[13]
It precedes "Pride" in a '90s film where Dan Aykroyd & Daniel Stern kidnap a star Utah Jazz player
Celtic
Mike!
|
|
$1,600
[27]
In 1617, while lying ill aboard ship off South America, Raleigh sent his men up this river in search of a gold mine in Guiana
the Orinoco
Ryan
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$2,000
[12]
This American poet began his 1943 poem "Come In", "As I came to the edge of the woods, thrush music--hark!"
Frost
Mike!
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$1,600
[3]
This middle name of President Warren Harding was also the name of a first century rabbi mentioned in the Bible
Gamaliel
Ryan
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$2,000
[8]
Thisreal-life couple starred as the bickering George & Martha in 1966's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton
Brooke
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$1,600
[19]
You can drive from Yellowstone to the national park named for these "Grand" mountains in under 30 minutes
the Tetons
Ryan
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$1,600
[14]
Being in this "state" often involves a lack of movement & communication
catatonic
Mike!
|
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$2,000
[26]
In this work Edmund Spenser used Raleigh as a model for Timias, a squire who woos the "heavenly born" Belphoebe
The Faerie Queene
|
DD
$5,600
[25]
The narrator asks this title bird to "leave my loneliness unbroken!--quit the bust above my door!"
the raven
Ryan
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$2,000
[4]
"Rid" is a Scandinavian root meaning "beautiful", as in Ingrid & this name of the Swedish princess seen here
Astrid
|
DD
$2,400
[7]
A script called "Night Skies" about long-fingered aliens led to both "Poltergeist" this other 1980s hit
E.T.
Mike!
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$2,000
[18]
Named for a surveyor & flowing from the Juneau Icefield, this 13-mile-long glacier often features ice caves to explore
the Mendenhall Glacier
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$2,000
[15]
These jars preserved the viscera of a dead person in Ancient Egypt
canopic jars
Brooke
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The first British sitcom to win a Best Comedy Golden Globe, it was remade in a U.S. version that had almost 15 times as many episodes
The Office