Alex DeFrank game 4.
Adam Silverman — a scientist from Arlington, Massachusetts
Ann Velenchik — an economics professor from Brookline, Massachusetts
Alex DeFrank — an inventory specialist from Brooklyn, New York (whose 3-day cash winnings total $75,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex | $5,000 | $8,000 | $37,400 |
$26,800
4-day champion: $102,400 |
$27,600
32 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W |
| Ann | $2,200 | $4,400 | $6,000 |
$6,000
3rd place: $2,000 |
$6,000
9 R, 2 W |
| Adam | $1,400 | $3,000 | $13,000 |
$13,000
2nd place: $3,000 |
$13,000
15 R, 1 W |
| 10 POINTS FOR SLITHERIN' | "STICK" UP | MOVIES BY DECADE | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES | TALKIN' 'BOUT MY GENERATION | THE WHO? |
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$200
[14]
When it lacks a shell, a snail relative is generally called this
a slug
Ann
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$200
[27]
Long before its use in gaming, it was slang for a baseball bat
a joystick
Adam
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$200
[26]
"Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom"
the 1980s
Alex
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$200
[30]
A film about St. Francis is "Fratello sole, sorella luna"; Fratello & Sorella are brother & sister, sole & luna are these
sun & moon
Adam
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$200
[9]
Increasing the population more than 50% starting the year after WWII ended through 1964 was how this 2-word gen got its name
the Baby Boomers
Ann
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$200
[25]
Who indeed! He wrote, "My town is called Who-ville, for I am a who and we Whos are all thankful and grateful to you"
Dr. Seuss
Alex
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$400
[13]
Darwin did an in-depth study on these commonplace annelids; one species can grow to 11 feet in length!
earthworms
Alex
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$400
[3]
It's the term for a cocktail stirrer, often with a little ball on one end
a swizzle stick
Alex
|
$400
[19]
"Good Will Hunting"
the 1990s
Adam
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$400
[29]
Meaning "my soulmate", "mi media naranja" is literally my half this fruit for which many parts of Spain are famous
oranges
Alex
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$400
[10]
Covering births from 1965 to 1980 & obviously the best generation, it's aka the MTV generation, but that's just too many letters
Generation X
Alex
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$400
[2]
She's the who who led her party to a landslide victory in 1983, winning a 144-seat majority & retaining her Downing St. address
Thatcher
Alex
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$600
[12]
One vowel off from the name of a stinky mammal, this lizard likes to burrow & live in the ground
a skink
Alex
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$600
[15]
Something that provides stability or the insect seen here
a walking stick
Alex
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$600
[18]
"Zootopia"
the 2010s
Alex
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$600
[22]
Gyaku-Gire, the anger of one who's in the wrong, is also a Panda trading card in this world that sometimes outsells Pokémon
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Ann
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$600
[24]
Those born from 1997 to 2010 like Greta Thunberg & Jenna Ortega are letter-perfect as this generation
Gen Z
Alex
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$600
[6]
Why, he's the 19th century genius who made a major invention & also started the Volta Bureau for the Deaf
Alexander Graham Bell
Alex
Adam
|
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$800
[11]
Despite the name, this type of arthropod comes up a bit short, usually maxing out at only 200 pairs of feet
a millipede
Alex
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$800
[5]
At the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, you can enjoy a meal at this tavern with the same name as the one in the books
Three Broomsticks
Adam
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$800
[17]
"The Guns of Navarone"
the 1960s
Alex
Adam
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$800
[21]
Sometimes delicate, sometimes decadent, artof the period before & even after 1900 is called Fin de siècle, or end of this
the century
Alex
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$800
[28]
1981 to 1996 kids are called these; a 2017 business book has the alliterative title "Motivating" them
Millennials
Ann
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$800
[7]
Who, what, where, when:Catherine the Great, becoming empress, this then Russian capital, July 9, 1762
St. Petersburg
Ann
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|
DD
$1,000
[1]
There are many types of these, named for how they move; only one is an American rattlesnake, so it's the one used as an insult in Westerns
sidewinders
Alex
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$1,000
[4]
Often occurring in kids, this "colorful" fracture happens when a bone bends & cracks, instead of separating totally
greenstick
Ann
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$1,000
[16]
"Sergeant York"
the 1940s
Ann
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$1,000
[20]
"Not for all the butter in Småland" is the Swedish equivalent of this English phrase involving an Asian country
not for all the tea in China
Ann
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$1,000
[23]
A Tom Brokaw book title defined this group that covers those born from 1901 to 1927
the Greatest Generation
Alex
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$1,000
[8]
"Who am I? Why am I here?", asked James Stockdale, the running mate of this then independent candidate at a VP debate in 1992
Perot
Alex
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| TAKE TIME FOR BOOKS | OLYMPIC HOST CITY ATTRACTIONS | BALLET & OPERA | POP CULTURE ANATOMY | EMBASSIES IN WASHINGTON | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS |
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$400
[28]
This physicist followed up "A Brief History of Time" a few years later with "A Briefer History of Time"
Stephen Hawking
Adam
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$400
[20]
The Spandau Citadel &the Tiergarten
Berlin
Alex
|
$400
[29]
Gertrude Stein fêted Teresa of Avila & others, working with Virgil Thomson on the opera titled "Four" of these "in Three Acts"
saints
Alex
|
$400
[30]
He first appeared in the short film "Frog Baseball" alongside his compatriot-in-crass Beavis
Butt-Head
Alex
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$400
[27]
In Oct. 2023 its ambassador & former PM Kevin Rudd naturally threw a barbie for the opening of its new D.C. embassy
Australia
Adam
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$400
[24]
From the Latin for "blot out", it's what you want the authorities to do to the records of that crime you committed years ago
expunge
Ann
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$800
[11]
"The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" was the second novel by this author to feature his holistic detective Dirk Gently
Douglas Adams
Adam
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$800
[19]
The Holmenkollen Ski Museum &the Munch Art Museum
Oslo
Alex
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$800
[4]
Not only do the Snow King & Queen turn up in this popular ballet, the Mouse King also makes an appearance
The Nutcracker
Adam
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$800
[26]
"Rolling Stone" called the members of this band "five brainy lads" & lauded "Hail to the Thief" as an "anxious digi-rock masterpiece"
Radiohead
Alex
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$800
[22]
Gardiner Hubbard, a founder of this world-spanning society, once owned the present-day Hungarian embassy
the National Geographic Society
Ann
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$800
[25]
A day on which night & day are of the same length
equinox
Alex
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$1,200
[7]
"A Time to Kill", John Grisham's novel about a murder trial in the South, takes its title from this Bible book
Ecclesiastes
Adam
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$1,200
[15]
Casa Vicens Gaudí &the Palace of Catalan Music
Barcelona
Adam
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$1,200
[3]
This Virgil work inspired the opera "Les Troyens" by Hector Berlioz
The Aeneid
Alex
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$1,200
[13]
In 2024 Idris Elba voiced this title character in a Paramount+ show set in the Sonic the Hedgehog universe
Knuckles
Alex
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$1,200
[23]
Where did this president live after the Brits trashed the White House? A complex called The Seven Buildings, where Mexico'sembassyis now
Madison
Alex
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$1,200
[8]
Add an "E" to a word for a wife or husband & you get this verb you use when you adopt a cause
espouse
Adam
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$1,600
[6]
Proust's "À la recherche du temps perdu" is sometimes translated, very literally, as this
In Search of Lost Time
Alex
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$2,000
[18]
Juventus Stadium &the Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile
Torino
Alex
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$2,000
[1]
"The Fallen Woman" in Italian, this opera centers on the courtesan Violetta
La traviata
Alex
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$1,600
[14]
Inthiscolorfully named 2023 Netflix show, Maya Erskine voices Mizu, a female warrior bent on revenge in feudal Japan
Blue Eye Samurai
|
$1,600
[16]
The sons of this late architect designed the Chinese embassy
I.M. Pei
Alex
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$1,600
[9]
Beginning with an early month abbreviation, it means "feverish"
febrile
Adam
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$2,000
[5]
In H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine", an explorer travels to the future & meets 2 races: the Eloi & these subterranean workers
the Morlocks
Adam
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DD
$6,000
[17]
The Leonard Cohen Mural &Place des Arts
Montreal
Alex
|
DD
$7,000
[2]
This German composed "Ritterballett", or "Knight's Ballet", while he was still living in Bonn
Beethoven
Alex
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$2,000
[21]
Jennifer Lawrence received her first Oscar nomination for Best Actress as Ree in this film set in the Ozarks
Winter's Bone
Alex
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$2,000
[12]
France's embassy has a reception room named for this Frenchman whose 1831-32 visit led to a classic book on American democracy
de Tocqueville
Ann
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$2,000
[10]
This word for a hero or upright person is the term for one of Charlemagne's legendary champions
a paladin
Adam
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Named for an 1807 battle & valiant in one 8 years later, Copenhagen was this man's steed; society ladies donned strands of his hair
the Duke of Wellington