Alex DeFrank game 1.
Jamie Hare — a library worker from Decatur, Georgia
Alex DeFrank — an inventory specialist from Brooklyn, New York
Jack Goldfisher — a screenwriter and director from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $32,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack | $2,800 | $4,200 | $6,200 |
$8,400
3rd place: $2,000 |
$6,200
15 R, 3 W |
| Alex | $4,800 | $14,400 | $26,400 |
$42,401
New champion: $42,401 |
$20,200
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Jamie | $400 | $1,200 | $21,200 |
$26,401
2nd place: $3,000 |
$14,000
15 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| YESTERDAY'S NEWS | ALLITERATION | WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THAT POTATO? | MID-ATLANTIC TRAVEL | VIRGINIA & MARY-LAND | NEW JERSEY |
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$200
[9]
Devastated by the Persians in 480 B.C., this present world capital was soon rebuilt bigger & better than ever
Athens
Jamie
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$200
[4]
Before "gorgeous" it means an absolute knockout; before "date", an absolute final cutoff time
drop-dead
Jack
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$200
[7]
Master distiller Waldemar Durakiewicz makes potatoes into the Chopin brand of this
vodka
Jack
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$200
[14]
Glenn Miller vanished in 1944, but he has a headstone here in Virginia & his Army Air Forces Orchestra has a memorial too
Arlington
Alex
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$200
[15]
July 22 is the feast day of this woman who according to Mark was the first person to see Christ risen
Mary Magdalene
Jamie
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$200
[12]
No. 5 on his jersey but number one in my heart! Thanks for my Jayden Daniels gear; rooting for this D.C. team now!
the Commanders
Jack
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$400
[28]
In 962 Pope John XII--to repeat, the pope--crowned the ruler of what would be this empire that ended about 850 years later
the Holy Roman Empire
Alex
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$400
[29]
An old, unsolved investigation, especially for TV's Lilly Rush of the Philadelphia Police Department
cold case
Alex
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$400
[30]
Fictional astronaut Mark Watney grew & ate potatoes here, or he wouldn't have survived
Mars
Jack
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$400
[21]
This university is home to a Greek Revivalbuildingcalled Old College & maybe someday the Joe Biden Presidential Library
the University of Delaware
Alex
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$400
[19]
Virginia Madsen got a Supporting Actress Oscar nomination as Paul Giamatti's love interest in this 2004 film
Sideways
Jack
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$400
[18]
In 1997 Bud Selig retired the number 42 in honor of this man, but you can look sharp in a licensed version of his jersey
Robinson
Jack
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$800
[11]
Last name of Christopher, for whom a flag of the Revolutionary War era is named; Chris' grandson James made a big 1853 land buy
Gadsden
Alex
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$600
[2]
Online motorcyclist forums have exchanges about how women can avoid this post-ride issue without getting a buzz cut
helmet hair
Jack
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$600
[6]
At this position, 1980s Minor Leaguer Dave Bresnahan threw a potato into left field & tagged the bamboozled runner at home
catcher
Alex
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$600
[10]
"New Jersey" or "Hackensack" can precede this rural-sounding name for the area where the NFL's Jets & Giants play at home
the Meadowlands
Jack
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$600
[20]
The story of Ann Rutledge, Abe's first love, was exaggerated by a biographer who hated this woman & called her "a she wolf"
Mary Todd Lincoln
Jamie
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$600
[13]
Love my new jersey for this Seattle NHL team; the logo does kind of look like a sea monster
Kraken
Alex
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$1,000
[27]
Spain's king quickly began ridding the nation of the authoritarian policies of this man after his death in 1975
Franco
Jamie
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$800
[3]
Friar Tuck is exceptionally jolly even among this entourage of Robin Hood's
the Merry Men
Alex
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$800
[25]
The NP, this railroad through Idaho, used a skewer through the middle to cook enormousbaked potatoesto diner's delight
the Northern Pacific
Jack
Jamie
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$800
[16]
Once the "Lumber Capital of the World", this Penn. city hosts the Little League World Series, in which the bats ain't lumber
Williamsport
Alex
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$800
[23]
Virginia Dare, the first English child born in America, was part of this colony whose members mysteriously disappeared
Roanoke
Alex
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$800
[1]
To go with my Pele jersey, I've got the jersey of this other one-named Brazilian legend; she now has a FIFA award named after her
Marta
Alex
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|
DD
$6,800
[26]
During the American revolution, one German state made about 13 years of tax revenue by renting out soldiers known as these
Hessian mercenaries
Alex
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$1,000
[5]
In a 1963 case in Massachusetts, 2 of 3 people playing this not-exactly-a-game were convicted of manslaughter in the death of the 3rd
Russian roulette
Jack
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$1,000
[8]
Born in 1949, he had humble culinary beginnings peeling potatoes in an Austrian hotel, but L.A. beckoned
Wolfgang Puck
Alex
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$1,000
[22]
The Pacific has Orange County, the Mid-Atlantic has this Maryland O.C., known for its beaches & boardwalk
Ocean City
Jamie
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$1,000
[24]
Founded in 1964, the reproductive biology research foundation became the institute named for William Masters & this woman
(Virginia) Johnson
Jamie
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$1,000
[17]
Though this NBA team only played its first 6 seasons in the Great White North, its clawmark scratched jerseys of the '90s are lit
the Grizzlies
Jack
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| WRITERS IN BOOKS | IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK | AROUND THE SOLAR SYSTEM | INN THE CITY | CELEBRITY HOMETOWNS | TRIPLE RHYME TIME |
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$400
[5]
Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe has this title job & muses, "Athletes... are happy to let their actions speak for them"
sportswriter
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$400
[10]
Perhaps its Mutianyu section would chat with its neighboring Jiankou section
the Great Wall of China
Alex
Jamie
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$400
[7]
The energy of our sun comes from this type of nuclear reaction deep inside the core, where temperatures can reach 15 mil. kelvin
fusion
Jamie
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$400
[30]
At a "Manor" near Nairobi, the Rothschild's type of this creature occasionally rubbernecks into the hotel
a giraffe
Alex
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$400
[17]
Born in San Francisco, he grew up mainly in nearby Piedmont but returned as SFPD detective Harry Callahan
Clint Eastwood
Alex
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$400
[26]
An after hours rendezvous for the fisherman's amorous nightcrawlers
a late bait date
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$800
[4]
Played by Jeffrey Wright on film, the author hero of Percival Everett's "Erasure" has this last name, like a great Black novelist
Ellison
Jamie
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$800
[11]
The remnants of this might reminisce about the big party that started there November 9, 1989
the Berlin Wall
Alex
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$800
[8]
A potentially hazardous asteroid that passes closer to the Sun than Mercury bears the name of this high flyer of Greek myth
Icarus
Alex
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$800
[29]
Home to Penn & Teller, this Vegas hotel shares its name with a South American city
Rio
Jack
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$800
[18]
In "Fast Car", she sang, "Any place is better... got nothing to lose"--she may have meant the East Side of Cleveland
Chapman
Jack
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$800
[27]
A basketball slam from an inebriated abbot
a drunk monk dunk
Jack
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$1,200
[3]
Novelist Greer Garrison is on this island in "The Perfect Couple" by Elin Hilderbrand, who says she's done setting books there
Nantucket
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$1,200
[24]
Hadrian's Wall might tell you about theboar symbolof the 20th this, one of the military units that built it
(Roman) Legion
Alex
Jamie
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$1,200
[23]
The New Horizons spacecraft flew by this object in 2015 & also got a good look at its satellite, Charon
Pluto
Jamie
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$1,200
[28]
Founded in 1855, this hotel in Boston created the bread rolls that bear its name
Parker House
Alex
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$1,200
[19]
(W. Kamau Bell presents the clue.) A very personal episode of "United Shades of America" was about a city I consider home, this one in Alabama whose Black history also includes being home to Hank Aaron & Laverne Cox& the arrival of the last slave ship to the U.S.
Mobile
Alex
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$1,200
[21]
An uncomplicated skin blemish in a cheek depression
a simple pimple dimple (a simple pimple)
Alex
|
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$2,000
[1]
White writer Vivaldo has an affair with Ida, a Black woman, & there's gay love too in this author's 1962 novel "Another Country"
(James) Baldwin
Jamie
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$1,600
[25]
The "Peace Walls" of Belfast would probably say they'd be happy to be dismantled with the end of the violent era known as this
The Troubles
Jack
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$2,000
[20]
The outer edge where the solar wind meets the interstellar medium is called this, from words meaning "sun stop"
heliopause
Alex
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$1,600
[22]
A hotel in Geneva named for this French way of saying "England" overlooks Jet d'Eau, one of the world's tallest fountains
Angleterre
Jack
Jamie
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$1,600
[13]
Springs Valley Community High School in French Lick, Indiana is on a road now named for this basketball star
Bird
Jack
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$1,600
[15]
To take pains to forgo a marathon sponsored by Attila
shun Hun run
Alex
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|
DD
$3,200
[2]
In 1976, "Lady Oracle", about writer Joan Foster, was reviewed as "the most cheerful novel" by this Canadian woman
(Margaret) Atwood
Jamie
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$2,000
[9]
I'd love to hear the walls of Babylon's take on how accurately thegateof this goddess had been reconstructed
Ishtar
Jamie
|
DD
$7,200
[6]
Jupiter's moon Ganymede is the solar system's largest; this appropriately named moon of Saturn is a close second
Titan
Jamie
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$2,000
[16]
Named for a British statesman, this hotel in Singapore was established by Persian-Armenian brothers
the Raffles
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$2,000
[12]
He had a good time taking his TV co-workers Katy Perry & Lionel Richie home to Leesburg, Georgia
Luke Bryan
Jack
Alex
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$2,000
[14]
A secret agent's award-winning costume
spy's prize disguise
Alex
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A review of this musical noted "sacrilege" & said it was "blasphemous" but "its heart is as pure as... a Rodgers & Hammerstein show"
The Book of Mormon