Alex DeFrank game 2.
Brett Aresco — a writer and content strategist from Fairhope, Alabama
Clare Murray — an articling student from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Alex DeFrank — an inventory specialist from Brooklyn, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $42,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex | $2,200 | $6,600 | $8,800 |
$14,000
2-day champion: $56,401 |
$13,800
26 R, 7 W (including 1 DD) |
| Clare | $600 | $600 | $2,800 |
$0
3rd place: $2,000 |
$6,200
9 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Brett | $4,800 | $7,000 | $9,800 |
$1,800
2nd place: $3,000 |
$9,200
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS | "BAD" ENTERTAINMENT | ALSO A NEW WAVE BAND | COMMON BONDS | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! IT'S A NEBULA! | I SAID WHAT I SAID! |
|
$200
[28]
Google's mobile O.S. is still named for this software company it bought in 2005 for around $50 million
Android
Alex
|
$200
[2]
Bernie Mac & John Ritter can't stop Billy Bob Thornton as a not very jolly Saint Nick in this movie comedy
Bad Santa
Alex
|
$200
[1]
The title of this classic comic strip refers to Dagwood's wife
Blondie
Alex
|
$200
[30]
Libyan, Syrian, Great Victoria
deserts
Alex
Brett
|
$200
[23]
The wandering species of this bird can have a wingspan of 11 feet & reach a half century in human years, not just bird years
albatross
Alex
|
$200
[3]
"We shall fight on the beaches... we shall fight in the fields & in the streets... we shall never surrender"
Churchill
Clare
|
|
$400
[26]
It is unclear how long the receipt was after a $69 billion deal that merged this company with Aetna
CVS
Brett
|
$400
[19]
There's a space in the title of this James Brown song but no space in the same-named title of a Cera/Hill comedy
"Super Bad"
Alex
|
$400
[27]
Slang for TV pundits, perhaps with unending commentary
talking heads
Alex
|
$400
[17]
Cheaters, opera, pince-nez
glasses
Alex
|
$400
[10]
Measurements show this nebula named for an ancient Australian weapon has a temperature barely above absolute zero
the boomerang
Alex
|
$400
[29]
"This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon"
JFK
Brett
|
|
$600
[14]
In 2016 this business networking site got to be a part of Microsoft's network to the tune of some $26.2 billion
LinkedIn
Alex
|
$600
[7]
Vince Vaughncame to TV in 2024 in this Florida-set series
Bad Monkey
|
$600
[24]
In old TV ads, Mr. Whipple said not to do it to Charmin
squeeze
Brett
|
$600
[6]
Gort, Robby, Bender
(fictional) robots
Brett
|
$600
[4]
These eagles that share a name with a derogatory word for a mean wife are monogamous for 30+ years & presumably happy
harpy eagles
Clare
|
$600
[25]
"I... receive (the Nobel Peace Prize) in the name of the hungry... of the crippled, of the blind, of the leprous"
Mother Teresa
Alex
|
|
$800
[20]
In 2017 Amazon acquired this organic & natural food store for $13.7 billion
Whole Foods
Alex
|
$1,000
[11]
This 1954 novel that introduced little Rhoda Penmark, every parent's nightmare, soon came to the stage & screen
The Bad Seed
Clare
|
$800
[18]
Long-range bombers designed in 1948 & first flown 4 years later
B-52s
Alex
|
$800
[12]
Fair trade, gentleman's, prenuptial
agreements
Alex
|
$800
[5]
The Royal Navy's carrier-based version of this fighter plane was known as the "Seafire"
the Spitfire
Brett
|
$800
[22]
"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer... the gross injustice & cruelty to which he is the constant victim"
Douglass
Alex
|
|
$1,000
[15]
In 2003 this drug company merged with Pharmacia so they could psilently partner ptogether pforever
Pfizer
Alex
|
DD
$1,400
[8]
In a 2015 No. 1 hit, "'Cause baby now we've got" this, "You know it used to be mad love"
"Bad Blood"
Brett
|
$1,000
[16]
Here's this group at the beach
A Flock of Seagulls
Brett
|
$1,000
[13]
"Minute","Emperor","of the Flowers"
waltz
Brett
|
$1,000
[21]
The Merope Nebulain this familial open cluster is a reflection nebula, interstellar dust illuminated by a nearby star
the Pleiades (the Seven Sisters)
|
$1,000
[9]
Speaking of himself: "Soldiers, they are dishonoring an innocent man. Vive la France, vive l'armée!"
Dreyfus
Alex
Brett
|
| AROUND THE WORLD | INSTRUMENTS YOU CAN PLAY | FROM A TEEN'S BOOK REPORT | DANCING IN NON-MUSICAL MOVIES | IT'S ALL GREEK ALPHABET TO ME | YVES DROPPING |
|
$400
[22]
The closest country to the United States without sharing a land border is this one only about 2 1/2 miles away
Russia
Clare
|
$400
[23]
Seven foot pedals are used to change the pitches of the nearly four dozen strings on this instrument
a harp
Clare
|
$400
[30]
A cop thinks Dean & Sal might've jacked a Cadillac while driving across the country
On the Road
Alex
|
$400
[26]
This film finds John Travolta & Uma Thurman dancing to "You Never Can Tell" by Chuck Berry
Pulp Fiction
Alex
|
$400
[29]
Break out the rhubarb--March 14 is also known as this
Pi Day
Clare
|
$400
[28]
In 1999 his brand of ready-to-wear biz sold to Gucci for a cool $1 billion, give or take
Yves Saint Laurent
Clare
|
|
$800
[21]
An autonomous region of Spain, this Atlantic archipelago was named for wild dogs once living there, not birds
the Canary Islands
Alex
|
$800
[20]
"Womp womp" is a meme also known as "sad" this musical instrument
trombone
Alex
|
$800
[15]
Edgar Linton reps Thrushcross Grange, has got some serious ducats & is fittin' to rizz up Cathy
Wuthering Heights
Brett
|
$800
[25]
Playing Star-Lord, he serves Ronan the Accuser with an intergalactic dance-off
Chris Pratt
Alex
|
$800
[24]
It's a positively charged subatomic union of 2 protons & 2 neutrons
an alpha particle
Alex
Clare
|
$800
[27]
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier is so formal! Call me the Marquis de this, or George Washington's foreign buddy
Lafayette
Alex
|
|
$1,200
[11]
Thirsty pilgrims visit the Zamzam Well in this city each year to drink waters said to have been tasted by Ishmael & Hagar
Mecca
|
$1,200
[10]
The album titled "True Bluegrass" this 4-string instrument features greats like Bobby Hicks & Kenny Baker
the fiddle
Alex
|
$1,200
[2]
During the Spanish Civil War, Robert Jordan spits some game at a loyalist named María & then faces death like a hero
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Alex
Brett
|
$1,200
[14]
As part of his "Big Adventure", Pee-wee hops on a bar & has a memorable dance to this classic song
"Tequila"
|
$1,200
[1]
In this sci-fi film based on a Richard Matheson novel, Charlton Heston is the only survivor of a deadly plague
The Omega Man
Alex
|
$1,200
[7]
In 1994, 34 years after helping construct Vatican II, Yves Congar was appointed to the College of Cardinals by this pope
Pope St. John Paul II
Clare
|
|
$2,000
[3]
Founded by Columbus' brother in 1496, this island capital is the oldest permanent city in the Americas begun by Europeans
Santo Domingo
Alex
|
$1,600
[9]
In the mid-1800s Vienna had more than 100 companies making these, including Bösendorfer, which is still there
piano
Clare
|
$1,600
[8]
The sigma John "The Savage" can't stand chads like Bernard Marx since they are all so soma-pilled
Brave New World
Alex
|
$1,600
[16]
Wearing a T-shirt that says "Vote for Pedro", this character kills it with his super sweet moves in a 2004 flick
Napoleon Dynamite
Alex
|
$1,600
[6]
This elite U.S. Army unit is primarily involved with counter-terrorism operations abroad
Delta Force
Brett
|
$1,600
[13]
Yves is in the full name of this man, the inventor of 1959's Diving saucer, a small sub used to explore the seafloor
Jacques(-Yves) Cousteau
Brett
|
|
DD
$3,400
[12]
Built by the Portuguese in the 16th century, Fort Jesus was established to protect this Kenyan port city
Mombasa
Clare
|
$2,000
[19]
Köchel 581 is Mozart's quintet using this orchestral woodwind
clarinet
Alex
Clare
|
DD
$5,000
[4]
The people of Uruk hide their kids & hide their wives whenever the title king rolls up & they start glazing Anu to create Enkidu
the Epic of Gilgamesh
Alex
|
$2,000
[17]
The Axe Gang in this Stephen Chow martial arts classic do a memorable little bit of dancing
Kung Fu Hustle
|
$2,000
[5]
St. Anthony was said to have carried one of these, also known as a crux commissa
a tau cross
Alex
|
$2,000
[18]
Fromhisbio, he worked with Edith Piaf, had an affair with Marilyn Monroe, starred in "Z" & was talked about for French president in 1988
Yves Montand
|
Preparing for a course on descriptive geometry & researching the 5 Platonic solids led a professor to invent this
Rubik's Cube