Laura Faddah game 1.
Laura Faddah — a manager from Memphis, Tennessee
Neal Bowling — a journeyman lineman from Mackinaw, Illinois
Eric Weldon-Schilling — a bar manager and sommelier from Houston, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric | $2,800 | $3,400 | $10,000 |
$0
3rd place: $2,000 |
$7,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Neal | $-600 | $400 | $9,800 |
$2,800
2nd place: $3,000 |
$9,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Laura | $2,200 | $6,400 | $13,600 |
$11,200
New champion: $11,200 |
$13,600
15 R, 0 W |
| U.S. HISTORY | 500 QUESTIONS | 3-LETTER, 3-LETTER | "B" MOVIES | POETIC WOMEN | POTENT POTABLE RHYME TIME |
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$200
[10]
In 1839 it replaced Vandalia as Illinois' capital
Springfield
Eric
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$200
[16]
In many states, the difference between these 2 types of larceny is if money or goods worth $500 or more is stolen in the crime
grand larcency & petty larcency
Laura
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$200
[15]
It comes between "ready" & "go" in a preparatory phrase
get set
Eric
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$200
[21]
Feathered friends become foes & attack in this Hitchcock horror that starred Tippi Hedren & Rod Taylor
The Birds
Neal
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$200
[26]
The "Envelope Poems" of this 19th century New Englander are named for what she scribbled on
Emily Dickinson
Laura
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$200
[1]
A bubbly locomotive
a champagne train
Eric
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$400
[11]
The 20th Amendment, which moved the presidential inauguration up from March to January, has this "avian" nickname
Lame Duck
Neal
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$400
[17]
It's what the letters stand for in the S&P 500, an index thought by many investors to be the best measure of the stock market
Standard & Poor's
Laura
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$400
[22]
In collegiate parlance, they're the first 2 words of the acronym BMOC
big man
Eric
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$400
[6]
"Lads do football or boxing or wrestling, not friggin' ballet" is a line in this film
Billy Elliot
Laura
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$400
[27]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning asked, "How do I love thee?", then answered her own question starting with these 5 words
let me count the ways
Laura
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$400
[2]
A timepiece fueled by Lagavulin or Balvenie
a Scotch watch
Eric
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$600
[12]
Located in Wyoming & of volcanic origin, it was the first U.S. national monument to be established
Devils Tower
Eric
Neal
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$600
[18]
In a Dr. Seuss story about bullying, this young boy is somehow wearing 500 hats on his head
Bartholomew Cubbins
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$600
[23]
This Fred Astaire/ Ginger Rogers movie title is also something that completes a spiffy men's outfit
Top Hat
Eric
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$600
[7]
This2022 fast-moving action film takes place aboard the imaginary Nippon Speed Line
Bullet Train
Neal
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$600
[28]
A painter & a poet in her own right, Frieda Hughesstill finds herself living in the shadow of herparents, Ted Hughes & her
Sylvia Plath
Eric
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$600
[3]
Entomb the fortified Spanish wine
bury the sherry
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|
DD
$1,000
[13]
During his tenure as chief justice of the United States, he swore in 5 presidents, including Andrew Jackson
John Marshall
Neal
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$800
[19]
The title of this quirky 2009 film referred to the length of a romance with Zooey Deschanel, not a season
(500) Days of Summer
Neal
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$800
[24]
It's a hyphenated adjective meaning "understated"; in recent slang it's an adverb too, as in "He ____ wants to go out with you"
low-key
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$800
[8]
In a junkyard, a young woman discovers a battle-scarred & broken Autobot in this transformative action adventure
Bumblebee
Laura
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$800
[29]
In "First Fig" she wrote, "My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night"
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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$800
[4]
A bat-logo rum brand soiree
a Bacardi party
Eric
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$1,000
[14]
On October 10, 1973, heresigned as vice president & pleaded no contest to one count of income tax evasion
Spiro Agnew
Eric
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$1,000
[20]
One of his rags-to-riches stories is called "Five Hundred Dollars: Or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret"
Horatio Alger
Eric
Laura
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$1,000
[25]
Nothing to do with a sober marathon, it's a term for a rehearsal or practice
a dry run
Laura
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$1,000
[9]
"The monster demands a mate" is a tagline forthis1935 sequel starring Elsa Lanchester
Bride of Frankenstein
Eric
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$1,000
[30]
Thispoet who wrote "The New Colossus" has been called one of the first successful Jewish-American authors
Emma Lazarus
Laura
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$1,000
[5]
A Mexican beer in the setting where Romeo & Juliet loved & lost
a Corona Verona (Verona Corona)
Laura
|
| A WORD IN A SHAKESPEARE PLAY TITLE | BOOMERS | THE SCIENCE FARE | WRITE FOR TV | GO JUMP IN THE OCEAN | INITIALS FROM GREEK GOD TO ROMAN GOD |
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$400
[20]
As a holiday it celebrates the halfway point of a harvest season
Midsummer
Eric
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$400
[8]
Famous people named Al born in NYC in 1954 who at one point lost more than 100 pounds include Al Roker & this minister & activist
Al Sharpton
Laura
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$400
[13]
In 2019 officials at this New Mexico lab announced a $13 billion plan to ramp up production of plutonium cores
Los Alamos
Eric
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$400
[3]
Richard Price wrote gritty novels like "Ladies' Man" before writing for this Baltimore-set HBO show
The Wire
Eric
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$400
[2]
If you want to get a book off the Barents Shelf, you'll have to jump into this ocean
the Arctic Ocean
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$400
[1]
E to C:As mommy, Aphrodite was out & Venus was in for these 2 li'l guys
Eros & Cupid
|
|
$800
[21]
The short-tailed variety of this insectivore uses toxic saliva to immobilize prey
a shrew
Neal
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$800
[9]
In 1970 Annie Leibovitz got her 1st photo assignment from this magazine & boomer Bible: Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane
Rolling Stone
Neal
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$800
[14]
Julius Rosenwaldof the Sears company raised millions to convert a World's Fair building to a Science & Industry museumin this city
Chicago
Neal
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$800
[4]
David Benioff wrote "City of Thieves" then co-created this fantasy show that ran from 2011 to 2019
Game of Thrones
Neal
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$800
[18]
Way down on the ocean floor, the process of subduction creates these, like the Java & Aleutian ones
trenches
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$800
[27]
H to M:When the gods absolutely, positively needed something delivered overnight (or sooner!), they were the dudes to call
Hermes & Mercury
Neal
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$1,600
[23]
Pitching for the Yankees, Tommy John once committed 3 of these on one play
errors
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$1,200
[10]
Astronaut Kathryn Sullivan spent lots of time in orbit & was fittingly born on the day of the Bobby Thomson home run known as this
the "Shot Heard 'Round the World"
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$1,200
[15]
Back in 1989, this 3-letter drug was the only one approved for use against AIDS & it cost a shocking $8,000 per year
AZT
Laura
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$1,200
[5]
This TV show began as a script written by Michael Crichton about 24 hours in a hospital
ER
Neal
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$1,200
[19]
Also known as the Ganga Trough, the Swatch of No Ground is a haven for whales in this alliterative bay
the Bay of Bengal
|
$1,200
[28]
D to B:With these 2, come for fruitfulness & vegetation, but stay for the wine & ecstasy
Dionysus & Bacchus
Eric
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$2,000
[24]
Woman: "I'm Beatrice Reiner. I stop at the hotel"; Groucho: "I'm Ronald Kornblow. I stop at" this
nothing
Neal
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$1,600
[11]
As well as "Sin City", he's famous for creating "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns", but was a Superboy fan as a boomer kid
(Frank) Miller
Neal
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$1,600
[16]
Completed in 2003, this effort of mapping 3 billion base pairs of DNA in Homo sapiens cost about $2.7 billion
the Human Genome Project
Laura
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$1,600
[6]
This "Speed-the-plow" playwright & "House of Games" screenwriter also wrote the TV movie "Phil Spector"
David Mamet
Neal
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$1,600
[25]
The North Atlantic Gyre has 4 parts: the North Atlantic Current, the Canary Current, the North Equatorial Current & this warm flow
the Gulf Stream
Eric
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$2,000
[30]
A to M:A word to the wise--they were equal opportunity as war goddesses
Athena to Minerva
Neal
Laura
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DD
$3,000
[22]
Sir, please come back to the restaurant--instead of the customer copy, you kept the slip marked this "copy"
merchant
Neal
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$2,000
[12]
Oversized steel versions of inflatable pool toys are one consumer culture-influenced series by this artist
Jeff Koons
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$2,000
[17]
Itslaunch date--December 25, 2021; its cost at time of launch--$10 billion
the James Webb (Space) Telescope
Eric
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$2,000
[7]
Crime writer Walter Mosleylent his pen tothisFX series about South Central drug dealer Franklin Saint
Snowfall
Neal
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$2,000
[26]
Named for an English explorer, this passage connects the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans south of South America
the Drake Passage
Laura
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DD
$4,600
[29]
H to J:These chief goddesses had their jealous moments in both civilizations
Hera & Juno
Eric
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It's the only team to play in the Super Bowl before Neil Armstrong's Moon walk that has not been back to the Big Game since
the Jets