Laura Faddah game 7.
Herb Jeong — a retired pension administrator from San Francisco, California
Megan Riddell — a human resources data analyst from Linthicum, Maryland
Laura Faddah — a manager from Memphis, Tennessee (whose 6-day cash winnings total $79,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laura | $1,600 | $3,400 | $10,000 |
$8,000
7-day champion: $87,400 |
$11,800
18 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Megan | $1,800 | $1,800 | $1,400 |
$1,452
3rd place: $2,000 |
$3,400
10 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Herb | $1,000 | $400 | $3,200 |
$2,900
2nd place: $3,000 |
$5,200
9 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| STARTS & ENDS WITH "O" | HODGEPODGE | CUPS & GLASSES | F. SCOTT FITZGERALD | THE LAST TYCOON | THIS SIDE OF PARODIES |
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$200
[1]
Founded by King Harald Hardrada around 1050, it's home to more than 1 million people
Oslo
Laura
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$200
[6]
At age 14 in 1976, Romanian athlete Nadia Comăneciwas the first Olympic gymnast to receive one of these perfect scores
a ten
Laura
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$200
[30]
It's a cylindrical glass cup with an acrobatic name; back in the day, it had a pointed bottom & couldn't be set down without it rolling
a tumbler
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$200
[18]
F. Scott Fitzgerald was named for this man, a lyricist of note
Francis Scott Key
Megan
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$200
[24]
In 2007 a Time magazine cover story called this News Corporation founder "The Last Tycoon"
(Rupert) Murdoch
Laura
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$200
[25]
Roger Rees was the no-goodnik Sheriff of Rottingham in this comedy subtitled "Men in Tights"
Robin Hood
Megan
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$400
[2]
This type of work takes its name from a chapel in Rome where musical performances were held in the 16th century
oratorio
Megan
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$400
[7]
The most popular TV show in the early 1950s, this sitcom pioneered the use of 3 cameras to film in front of a live audience
I Love Lucy
Laura
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$400
[13]
Rather than regular glasses, many hip bars use this type of canning jar named for a 19th century American tinsmith
a Mason jar
Laura
|
$400
[10]
A disastrous trip from Lyon to Paris was one bump in Fitzgerald's relationship with this other American author
Hemingway
Herb
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$400
[23]
This newspaper tycoon brought a Cistercian monastery over from Spain but couldn't put it together again
Hearst
Herb
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$400
[26]
This title Swiss mountain girl is "Mad" in a 2022 parody & takes revenge against an evil cheese tyrant
Heidi
Megan
|
|
$600
[3]
In Spanish this palindromic word means "eye" or in slang, "watch out!"
ojo
Laura
|
$600
[8]
First performed in 1892, "The Nutcracker" was the last of this composer's ballets
Tchaikovsky
Megan
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$600
[14]
This Toby Keith song is named for a beer pong perennial invented by Robert L. Hulseman
"Red Solo Cup"
Laura
|
$600
[9]
In one of Scott's stories, a protagonist says his father has one of these "as big as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel"
a diamond
|
$800
[21]
Known as "The Commodore", he bought a boat in 1810 & began ferrying folks between Staten Island & NYC
Vanderbilt
Laura
Megan
|
$600
[19]
In this film Dewey Cox' Dylan phase includes the lyric "mailboxes drip like lampposts in the twisted birth canal of the Coliseum"
Walk Hard
|
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$800
[4]
Shopping for ingredients in the marinade for souvlaki? Don't forget this essential herb
oregano
Herb
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$800
[11]
Founded in 2003, this auto company is named for an 1884 immigrant to the United States
Tesla
Herb
|
$800
[15]
In the late 12th century, Robert de Boron drew from the Gospel of Nicodemus to tell the tale of this holy vessel
the Grail
Megan
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$800
[16]
Fitzgerald paired these young ladies of his day with "Philosophers" for an alliterative book title
flappers
|
$1,000
[22]
This Greek shipping tycoon died not too far from the water at 63 Boulevard Victor Hugo, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Onassis
Megan
|
$800
[27]
The high school in "Not Another Teen Movie" is named for this '80s director whose films provided fodder for the parody
(John) Hughes
Laura
|
|
$1,000
[5]
A word coined in the 1960s, it's the segment of music heard here... making a nice capper to my clue reading
outro
Herb
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$1,000
[12]
"Democracy Dies in Darkness" is the slogan of this newspaper
The Washington Post
|
$1,000
[29]
Thistype of glass bears the name of a cocktail made with lemon juice, sugar & fizzy water
a collins glass
Herb
|
$1,000
[17]
Paying her respects over Scott's body, this Round Table wit quoted a line from "The Great Gatsby" that's too salty for us to say
Dorothy Parker
Megan
|
DD
$2,000
[20]
Jay Gould was so unscrupulously wealthy he could be the prototypical this, with a criminal & a noble title in the name
a robber baron
Megan
|
$1,000
[28]
The sequel to this "Top Gun" parody was "Part Deux"
Hot Shots!
|
| SHOPPING FOR SOUVENIRS | SCIENCE | MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM GEOGRAPHY | THE "D.C." UNIVERSE | DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS | THE DREADED LESSER-KNOWN OPERA CATEGORY |
|
$400
[6]
From France, how about some of these French-named pouches filled with dried lavender
sachets
Megan
Herb
|
$400
[15]
The surface of our star is peppered with these planet-sized blemishes that have a central dark area called an umbra
a sunspot
Herb
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$400
[23]
The Jumbo Shrimp try not to get eaten by Jaguars in this Florida city just south of the Georgia border
Jacksonville
Laura
|
$400
[21]
He got into the MCU as Iron Man's sidekick Colonel Rhodes, aka Iron Patriot
Don Cheadle
|
$400
[16]
Aka "ring-tailed bandits", these animals are known to unscrew jars, untie knots & defeat locks
a raccoon
Megan
|
$800
[17]
Known more for his Marches, he composed the comic opera "El Capitan" about competing Spanish viceroys in Peru
Sousa
Laura
|
|
$800
[7]
Throughout Norway, you'll find souvenir shops with figurines of these mythical beings
trolls
Laura
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$800
[2]
In a Newtonian law, "F" is for attractive force & "G" is for this constant
gravity
Laura
|
$800
[11]
The Southern League's Rocket City Trash Pandas play in Madison but were formerly the Bears of this other Alabama "M" city
Mobile
Laura
Megan
|
$800
[1]
Sheplayed the intrepid Janet on "The Good Place"
D'Arcy Carden
|
$800
[12]
Job held by Tom Brady & Sir Henry Morgan
a Buccaneer
Laura
Herb
|
$1,200
[20]
Originally performed by both female & castrato sopranos, Francesco Veracini's "Rosalinda" was based on this Shakespeare comedy
As You Like It
|
|
$1,200
[8]
Some call it liquid gold & in Morocco you can get thereal deal; your silky shiny hair will thank you
argan oil
Laura
Megan
|
$1,600
[4]
These clotting agents form in giant bone marrow cells called megakaryocytes
platelets
Laura
|
$1,200
[24]
The Sod Poodles are very good boys for this Texas panhandle city whose soil color gives it its Spanish name, meaning "yellow"
Amarillo
Laura
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$1,200
[18]
"Rock, Roll & Remember" is a memoir by this man who began hosting "Bandstand" at Philadelphia's WFIL-TV in 1956
Dick Clark
Herb
|
$1,600
[14]
A woman's name begins this verb that means to indulge or pamper excessively
to mollycoddle
|
— |
|
$1,600
[9]
In India & nearby regions, you can pick up this type of shawl or scarf made from the wool of a certain cashmere goat
a pashmina
Laura
|
DD
$1,800
[3]
Gymnosperms like the pine tree reproduce via these organs also called strobili
cones
Laura
|
$1,600
[25]
It's easy for the Space Cowboys to see the parent club, the Astros--the team plays for this "sweet" city in Houston's metro area
Sugar Land
Laura
|
$1,600
[22]
In "First Man", Ryan Gosling reunited with this"La La Land" director to tell the story of Neil Armstrong
Damien Chazelle
|
DD
$2,000
[13]
This synonym for clown comes from the Italian for "puff out the cheeks"
a buffoon
Herb
|
— |
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$2,000
[10]
From Venice, hop a boat to this nearby island & buy some authentic glass of the same name--maybe avase
Murano
|
$2,000
[5]
No. 12 on the periodic table, it's the third-most plentiful structural metal in the world after aluminum & iron
magnesium
|
$2,000
[26]
The Rumble Ponies horse around in this SUNY city south of Syracuse whose name should bing a bell
Binghamton
Laura
|
$2,000
[27]
This late, great actor was an amoral, sexist boss in "Nine to Five" & again in "Tootsie"
Dabney Coleman
Herb
|
$2,000
[19]
In Matthew 22 Jesus is confronted by members of the Pharisees & by this sect
the Sadducees
Laura
|
— |
In his very first appearance by name, this character comes downstairs "bump-bump-bump on the back of his head"
Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Bear)