Mehal Shah game 2.
Holly Luo — a product designer originally from San Diego, California
Jack Altman — a law student from New York, New York
Mehal Shah — a software engineer from Seattle, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,799)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mehal! | $2,200 | $4,000 | $37,600 |
$36,263
2-day champion: $46,062 |
$24,200
27 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jack | $1,600 | $2,200 | $7,400 |
$9,801
2nd place: $3,000 |
$7,400
12 R, 1 W |
| Holly | $3,600 | $3,000 | $9,800 |
$4,799
3rd place: $2,000 |
$9,800
13 R, 3 W |
| LEONARDO DA VINCI | NONFICTION | OTHER NAMES FOR THE CITY | CLASSIC TV THEME SONGS | ECONOMICS | COHAB VOCAB |
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$200
[8]
Leonardo's 1473renderingof Arno River Valley is considered by some the first of these artistic depictions of natural scenery
a landscape
Holly
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$200
[28]
This Southerner went nonfiction with "The Innocent Man", about 2 men wrongly convicted
John Grisham
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$200
[26]
"The Athens of the South" & "Music City"
Nashville
Mehal!
Holly
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$200
[21]
"Here's the story of a lovely lady who was bringing up 3 very lovely girls"
The Brady Bunch
Mehal!
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$200
[20]
The Economist publishes an index named for this fast food sandwich that helps determine if national currencies are undervalued
a Big Mac
Mehal!
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$200
[30]
It's good before moving in together to set these, which can also be natural features like rivers that function as borders
a boundary
Jack
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$400
[10]
Left-handed & not wishing to smudge the ink as he went, Leonardo used this form of writing, named for something used in reading it
mirror writing
Holly
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$400
[29]
Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow" delves into "Mass" this "in the Age of Colorblindness"
Incarceration
Mehal!
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$400
[27]
George Carlin called this capital of Delaware "The City that Means Well"
Dover
Mehal!
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$400
[22]
"The mate was a mighty sailing man, the skipper brave & sure"
Gilligan's Island
Mehal!
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$400
[19]
This "elemental" levy is slapped on a business that generates pollution through emissions
a carbon tax
Mehal!
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$400
[16]
Punning on something edible, this type of "list" comes before "... the dishes", "... the laundry", etc.
honey-do
Jack
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$600
[12]
Not to find a killer but to broaden his knowledge of anatomy, Leonardo performed many of these &drewwhat he discovered
an autopsy
Mehal!
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$600
[18]
"Brave New Words" is a new book about A.I. & education from this man famous for his nonprofit "Academy"
Khan
Holly
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$600
[5]
You can't miss out on "The Big 'O"' aka this city just north of the Platte River
Omaha
Mehal!
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$600
[23]
"Love & marriage, love & marriage, go together like a horse & carriage"
Married... with Children
Mehal!
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$600
[6]
Not just for us lowly citizens, these types of ratings are issued to companies & nations by S&P global & moody's
credit ratings
Mehal!
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$600
[15]
A censorious old phrase for a boyfriend & girlfriend sharing a home, or a book about cohabitation in Victorian times
living in sin
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$800
[9]
Starting out as anapprenticeto the artist Verrocchioas a teen, Leonardo may have been a model for his statue of this biblical slayer
David
Mehal!
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$1,000
[17]
The arrival of birds from Polynesia to the raft of this ethnologist is a great moment in his 1950 book
Thor Heyerdahl
Mehal!
Holly
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$800
[1]
In Michigan, it's "A2"
Ann Arbor
Jack
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$800
[24]
"In your satin tights, fighting for your rights and the ol' Red White and Blue"
Wonder Woman
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$800
[3]
The Latin for "death" gives us this term for the lessening of the value of assets or debts over a period of time
amortization
Jack
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$800
[14]
You may add this word to your "vv"ocabulary, as in "let's ____ up the chores"
divvy
Mehal!
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$1,000
[11]
In his portrait of Ginevra de' Benci, Leonardo blended tones to soften sharpoutlines, a method known by this smoky Italian name
sfumato
Holly
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DD
$2,200
[7]
"Battle of Ink & Ice" details the legendary feud between Frederick Cook & this other explorer
Robert Peary
Mehal!
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$1,000
[4]
This city on Florida's West Coast: "The Big Guava" & "Cigar City"
Tampa
Mehal!
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$1,000
[25]
"'Cause I'm the unknown stuntman that made Redford such a star"
The Fall Guy
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$1,000
[2]
In 1913, this British economist published "Indian Currency and Finance", then got into government work, which is so him-sian
Keynes
Holly
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$1,000
[13]
Before big-time success, Roger Taylor & Freddie Mercury of Queen shared an apartment, so Brit-wise, they were these
flatmates
Holly
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| NORSE MYTH | 21st CENTURY CINEMA | SILENT P | A LITTLE MATH, A LITTLE SCIENCE | HAVE FUN | STORMING THE CASTLE |
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$400
[11]
This Norse god kept an eye on his wife Frigg, who herself presided over marriage
Odin
Jack
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$400
[19]
Barry Jenkins & Mahershala Aliboth won Oscars for this A24 film about Chiron, who has a tough go of it in Miami
Moonlight
Jack
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$400
[24]
It's another way to refer to the United States Marines
Corps
Jack
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$400
[5]
It means to express a fraction in a more basic form, like simplifying 365/730 to 1/2
reduce
Jack
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$400
[30]
Pirates, science & outer space are popular themes for this type of place where you solve puzzles to get out
an escape room
Jack
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$400
[17]
Unable to capture Osaka Castle, Tokugawa Ieyasu made peace--then filled in these, redeclared war & took the castle
moats
Mehal!
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$800
[13]
Not just a hamlet in New York, it's the site of slain warriors where the same unfortunate boar is eaten & resurrected daily
Valhalla
Holly
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$800
[23]
The "W" in Wall-e's name stands for this, which he's dealing with all around him on Earth
waste
Mehal!
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$800
[25]
To the untrained eye it might be hard to tell the difference between eczema & this skin disease
psoriasis
Holly
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$800
[4]
Bone up! This element is alphabetically next after cadmium
calcium
Holly
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$800
[29]
Have fun at this ballpark when you go see the Baltimore Orioles play home games
Camden Yards
Jack
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$800
[18]
Aries was the Roman word for this device used to assault many a castle
a battering ram
Mehal!
Jack
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$1,200
[16]
Thought invincible, Balder got the kiss of death after getting hit with a sprig of this shrub, the one thing that could do the job
a mistletoe
Mehal!
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$1,200
[15]
In this 2004 film Kate Winslet plays Clementine, who hires Lacuna Inc. to help her forget some things
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Mehal!
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$1,200
[22]
In slang, these mean proof of supposed wrongdoing, usually in the form of screen caps; now "show me" them!
receipts
Jack
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$1,200
[3]
It's a number that represents the power to which a base is to be raised
exponent
Holly
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$1,200
[28]
We love this Hasbro game in which players must complete lists of words beginning with the same letter
Scattergories
Mehal!
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$1,200
[8]
A Jacobite force failed to take this castle in 1715, the ladder they brought turned out to be too short to scale the ramparts
Edinburgh Castle
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$2,000
[14]
As "Watchman of the Gods", he could see 100 leagues; another skill was the ability to hear grass grow, for some reason
Heimdall
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$1,600
[6]
This Werner Herzog documentary follows activist Timothy Treadwell, who lost his life to a bear in 2003
Grizzly Man
Mehal!
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$1,600
[21]
"Flat Earthism" is often grouped under this branch of not-accepted knowledge
pseudoscience
Holly
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$1,600
[2]
The energy an object has by virtue of its motion is this kind, from Greek for "moving"
kinetic
Holly
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$1,600
[27]
Head to Munich & drink some suds at this festival whose origins date back to 1810
Oktoberfest
Mehal!
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$2,000
[9]
In the event of a surprise attack, defenders could quickly lower this heavy grate
a portcullis
Mehal!
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|
DD
$5,600
[7]
The 9 realms include Alfheim, home of the light elves, Nidavellir, home of the dwarves & this, home to us puny ol' mortals
Midgard
Mehal!
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$2,000
[12]
This dystopian film from Alfonso Cuarón follows Clive Owen as he escorts a pregnant woman through unfriendly terrain
Children of Men
Mehal!
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$2,000
[20]
She's the mortal-born goddess of the soul & wife of Eros
Psyche
Mehal!
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$2,000
[1]
2 sides of an angle meet at this 6-letter point
vertex
Holly
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$2,000
[26]
A slice of Europe in the Middle East, the Louvre has a satellite location in this emirate
Abu Dhabi
Jack
Holly
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DD
$13,200
[10]
Now meaning to secretly weaken, it originally meant to tunnel below a fortification in order to collapse the walls
undermine
Mehal!
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Following student unrest in 1968, in 1970 the University of this city was divided into 13 smaller ones
Paris