Mehal Shah game 1.
Mehal Shah — a software engineer from Seattle, Washington
Elizabeth Little — a writer from Los Angeles, California
Mikey McCullough — a librarian from Baltimore, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mikey | $600 | $2,400 | $7,600 |
$2,600
3rd place: $2,000 |
$7,600
10 R, 2 W |
| Elizabeth | $3,000 | $4,600 | $3,800 |
$3,800
2nd place: $3,000 |
$7,800
11 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mehal! | $5,400 | $7,600 | $12,800 |
$9,799
New champion: $9,799 |
$13,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| 21st CENTURY MOVIE MOMENTS | ROAD TRIP | IN THE ZEITGEIST | TAROT-A-GO-GO | STOCK SYMBOLS | GLADIATORS |
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$200
[10]
A street brawl between rival news teams was to be cut from the script of this comedy; it quickly escalated into an iconic scene
Anchorman
Mehal!
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$200
[27]
Visiting Germany? Remember, there actually are speed limits on about 30% of this road network
the Autobahn
Mehal!
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$200
[20]
An early one of these golf devices was a nail or peg with a rubber ring attached
a tee
Mehal!
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$200
[15]
A trump card, the High Priestess is also known as the Papess, or female this
Pope
Mikey
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$200
[30]
Get the door. It's DPZ, this chain that expanded from one location in 1960 to more than 20,000 today
Domino's Pizza
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$200
[28]
(Connie Nielsen presents the clue.) The most successful gladiator revolt began in a brutal gladiator school; the captives escaped using knives & spits from the school's kitchen & soon this man became their leader
Spartacus
Mehal!
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$400
[11]
Somehow Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh made tossing a coin seem malevolent in this film
No Country for Old Men
Elizabeth
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$400
[26]
Crossing the continental divide at Logan Pass, Mt., Going-to-the-Sun Road is the major route through this national park
Glacier
Mehal!
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$400
[19]
It's a cousin to rigatoni but usually with a smooth surface
ziti
Mehal!
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$400
[1]
The tarot suit known as wands, rods or batons equates to this suit in the modern playing card deck
clubs
Mehal!
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$400
[29]
This cloud storage & file-transfer provider goes by DBX
Dropbox
Elizabeth
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$400
[6]
(Connie Nielsen presents the clue.) The wealthy got to see the bloodshed & bravery close up from thelowest levelof the Coliseum; it had this Latin word for a platform you stand on that some use for what you're standing behind
a podium
Mikey
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$600
[12]
Melissa McCarthy's memorable moments in this 2011 film include hitting on an air marshal on a flight to Vegas for a bachelorette party
Bridesmaids
Mehal!
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$600
[25]
No visit to Paris is complete without a stroll along this avenue that runs from the Place de la Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe
the Champs-Élysées
Elizabeth
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$600
[16]
A soap brand, or hearty enjoyment, perhaps for life
Zest
Elizabeth
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$600
[7]
Not necessarily a bad thing, the character on this card is often portrayed riding a white horse or holding a sickle
Death
Elizabeth
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$600
[23]
Grab a BUD, this hyphenated beverage giant
Anheuser-Busch
Mehal!
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$600
[5]
(Connie Nielsen presents the clue.) Romans won the love of the people with gladiator shows; in 46 B.C., this conqueror of Gaul put on a gory extravaganza & also introduced to Rome the giraffe, later used in the combats
Julius Caesar
Mehal!
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$800
[13]
"Another Day Of Sun" was a song-and-dance number on a ramp from the 105 to 110 freeway inthis2016 film
La La Land
Mehal!
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DD
$1,000
[2]
The southernmost portion of U.S. Highway 1, the Overseas Highwayruns about 100 miles between these two islands
Key West & Key Largo
Mehal!
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$800
[17]
It can be the grounds for legal action or the main point of something, if you get the...
gist
Mikey
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$800
[8]
If this tarot card also known as "Le Pendu" is upside down when drawn, the namesake figure on it appears upright
the Hanged Man
Mikey
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$800
[22]
CVS is, well, CVS; CVX is this energy giant
Chevron
Mehal!
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$800
[4]
(Connie Nielsen presents the clue.) Another "Gladiator II" cast member from the original film is Derek Jacobi, who famously starred in a miniseries as this emperor, the only one known to have been told, "Those about to die salute you"
Claudius
Mikey
Mehal!
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$1,000
[14]
What does "I drink your milkshake" have to do with oil? Drainage, we learn from Daniel Day-Lewis in this 2007 film
There Will Be Blood
Elizabeth
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$1,000
[24]
A 150-mile route known as the Pilgrims Way connects Winchester with this other English cathedral city
Canterbury
Mikey
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$1,000
[18]
In proofreading it means to "let it stand" & ignore a previous correction
stet
Mehal!
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$1,000
[9]
The tarot deck is divided into the Major & Minor this, a Latin plural meaning "secrets"
Arcana
Elizabeth
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$1,000
[21]
The price of this, CRWD, dropped about $50 a share in the week after a July 2024 computer outage
CrowdStrike
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$1,000
[3]
(Connie Nielsen presents the clue.) Maybe you think, "If it was me, I'd play dead"; no, the god Mercurywould enter with a branding iron to make sure you weren't faking & then this ferryman of Hades would hit you with the hammer he carried in Etruscan myth
Charon
Mehal!
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| ANIMAL PLANET | A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC | MMM, LEFTOVERS | A CAPITAL HAPPENING | 3 OF THE SAME LETTER | AUTHORS' EPITAPHS |
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$400
[28]
Reaching two inches in length, the world's largest wasp, the Northern Giantthis, is a deadly predator of honeybees
a hornet
Mehal!
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$400
[27]
"The walls were shaking, the earth was quaking" in this AC/DC Top 40 hit
"You Shook Me All Night Long"
Elizabeth
Mehal!
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$400
[24]
Dairy is big in this state that has a cow & a big block of cheese on its state quarter
Wisconsin
Elizabeth
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$400
[22]
In 1976 possession of less than 30 grams of cannabis was decriminalized & coffee shops in this city were never the same
Amsterdam
Mikey
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$800
[26]
A law enacted by a legislature
a statute
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$800
[8]
The P. stood for Phillips & he's in the Phillips family plot in Providence under the inscription "I am Providence"
H.P. Lovecraft
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$800
[1]
With a lung capacity 3 times that of domestic cattle, they come in handy on Himalayan expeditions
a yak
Elizabeth
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$800
[19]
This singer admitted that some of the foreign-sounding words in his 1983 song "All Night Long" were gibberish
Richie
Mehal!
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$800
[23]
This American cook was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 2000
(Julia) Child
Mikey
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$800
[21]
In 1927 the International Piano Competition named for him began in Warsaw
Chopin
Mehal!
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$1,200
[5]
Blessings on these fact checkers; we heart ours!
researchers
Mikey
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DD
$800
[20]
Her East Sussex grave says, "Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O death! The waves broke on the shore"
Virginia Woolf
Mehal!
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$1,200
[11]
North America's fastest land animal, itgets its name from the backward-curving projections on its head
the pronghorn
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$1,200
[2]
The name of this 2024 song by Post Malone & Taylor Swift sounds just like a popular video game
"Fortnight"
Elizabeth
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$1,200
[13]
In 1606 Guy Fawkes went to the gallows near this building he had tried to blow up with 36 barrels of gunpowder the year before
Parliament
Elizabeth
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$1,200
[16]
In 1944 construction of Kemal Atatürk's mausoleum began in this city & lasted 9 years
Ankara
Mehal!
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$2,000
[7]
Of or relating to the smallest independent units of living matter
cellular
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$1,200
[9]
This author of "Goodnight Moon" is described on her tombstone as "writer of songs and nonsense"
Brown
Mehal!
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$1,600
[10]
Manatees can weigh as much as 3,000 pounds; these Indo-Pacific relatives top out around 1,000
a dugong
Mehal!
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$1,600
[3]
Ring in as soon as possible if you know that this rapper collabed with Skrillex on "Wild For The Night"
A$AP Rocky
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$1,600
[14]
September 10 is St. Barloc's Day but is unlikely to have a parade, since St. Barloc was a well-known one of these recluses
a hermit
Mikey
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$1,600
[17]
2011 protests in Cairo led to the ouster of this longtime president on February 11
Mubarak
Mikey
Mehal!
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DD
$4,000
[6]
To fail to see something, or in another sense, a spot where you can see for miles
overlook
Elizabeth
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$2,000
[25]
A quote from his "The Deer Park" about the importance of continual growth adorns the grave of this controversial American novelist
Norman Mailer
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$2,000
[12]
The cnidarians include jellyfish &this stinging animal named for its fancied resemblance to an old-time fighting ship
a Portuguese man o' war
Mikey
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$2,000
[4]
"Fight Night" was a 2014 hit for this trio of Quavo, Offset & the late Takeoff
Migos
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$2,000
[15]
In 1879 in Mannheim, this inventor completed work on his 2-stroke gasoline engine
Karl Benz
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$2,000
[18]
It was formally divided into municipalities of Thon Buri & Krung Thep in 1937
Bangkok
Mehal!
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Ovid says he "toppled, beating wild with naked arms the unsustaining air... shrieking for succour from his sire"
Icarus