Liam Starnes game 2.
Maja Vlajnic — a senior data and policy specialist from Fredericksburg, Virginia
Bob Callen — a retired librarian from Lexington, Kentucky
Liam Starnes — an undergraduate student from Barrington, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $32,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liam | $2,400 | $3,395 | $12,790 |
$20,401
2-day champion: $52,802 |
$10,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Bob | $3,200 | $4,800 | $15,200 |
$4,819
3rd place: $2,000 |
$15,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Maja | $4,000 | $5,800 | $10,200 |
$20,300
2nd place: $3,000 |
$10,200
14 R, 1 W |
| SCIENCE FICTION | CELEBRITY GODPARENTS | STATE NICKNAMES | DISNEY DWARF ROLL CALL | MAKEUP THROUGH HISTORY | "WA", "WA"! |
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$200
[16]
Mark Watney in this novel says, "I don't want to come off as arrogant here, but I'm the best botanist on the planet"
The Martian
Liam
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DD
$5
[27]
He & TV co-star Bryan Cranston had more than a chemical bond & he made Bryan Godfather to his son Rydin
Aaron Paul
Liam
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$200
[20]
Admitted to the union in 1876, it's appropriately "the Centennial state"
Colorado
Bob
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$200
[29]
Coach Rivers in the NBA or young Ms. McStuffins in animation
Doc
Liam
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$200
[28]
What's been called the oldest type of this makeup is a 4,000-year-old "tube" in Iran that contains bright red hematite
lipstick
Maja
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$200
[26]
To flip-flop, or a big breakfast staple
waffle
Liam
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$400
[11]
The title refers to cataclysms that can last for years in N.K. Jemisin's Hugo Award winner "The Fifth" this (4 is more standard)
Season
Maja
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$200
[30]
The "circle of life" is expansive for this superstar, Godfather to 2 Beckhams, Sean Lennon & Elizabeth Hurley's son Damian
Elton John
Bob
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$400
[19]
Meant to distinguish Alabama from the rest of the South, it went on the state's license plates in 1955
the Heart of Dixie
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$400
[23]
It preceded Cat for a meme-orable feline who had the "Worst Christmas ever"
Grumpy
Liam
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$400
[24]
Also called blush, this type of makeup with a French name was made using red beet juice in the Victorian era
rouge
Bob
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$400
[25]
You need strong legs & lungs to live in the type of building called, say, a fifth floor this
a walk-up
Maja
|
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$600
[8]
Also known as Melange, this mystical substance created by Arrakis' sandworms helps in space navigation
Spice
Maja
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$400
[22]
Tyler Perry's wait, I'm a Godfather? premiered as this couple chose Mr. P. for daughter Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor
Prince Harry & Meghan Markle
Maja
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$600
[6]
"The Panhandle State", it has 2--the eastern one is home to Harpers Ferry & in the northern one, you'll find a huge teapot
West Virginia
Maja
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$600
[9]
Having rhinitis or taking snuff will make you this
Sneezy
Liam
Bob
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$600
[15]
Lead was originally an ingredient in the white foundation called oshiroi used by these women whose apprentices are called maiko
geishas
Bob
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$600
[13]
It can be a gentle way to transmit an odor, or the odor itself
waft
Liam
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$800
[5]
"The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" & "The Minority Report" are works from this writer whose middle name was Kindred
Philip K. Dick
Liam
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$600
[12]
Perhaps this country music legend gave goddaughter Miley Cyrus a "Coat Of Many Colors"
Dolly Parton
Maja
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$800
[3]
Florida is "The Sunshine State"; Oregon is this, also starting with "Sun"--it's often amazing at Ecola State Park
(the) Sunset (State)
Liam
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$800
[7]
Aw shucks, I don't want to draw any attention to myself, but I'll tell you it's the longest dwarf name
Bashful
Liam
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$800
[14]
During the time of Marie Antoinette, faux beauty marks concealed blemishes caused by this disease aka Variola major
smallpox
Maja
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$800
[17]
Once a way to protect walls, todayit's used to give a room more eye appeal
wainscoting
Bob
|
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$1,000
[10]
After the "bugs" attack Buenos Aires, Johnnie Rico is off to Klendathu for revenge in this classic
Starship Troopers
Bob
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$800
[21]
Kieran Culkin's plan of succession was to make this woman, who played his sister Shiv, godmother to son Wilder Wolf
Sarah Snook
Maja
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$1,000
[1]
"The Beef State", it's home to more cattle than people, with its 6 million cows outnumbering humans 3 to 1
Nebraska
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$1,000
[4]
In a Hemingway short story title, it described the short life of Francis Macomber
Happy
Bob
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$1,000
[2]
Used in ancient Egypt, this 4-letter makeup that darkens the edges of the eyes comes to English from Arabic
kohl
Maja
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$1,000
[18]
A Polynesian woman, or a female surfer
a wahine
|
| SCIENCE FACTS | ANAGRAMS | DEAR DIARY | "X" MEN | AFRICAN HISTORY | THAT'S SO GANGSTER (MOVIE) |
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$400
[7]
It's a structure made of DNA found in the cell nucleus; the hermit crab has 254, we have 46
chromosomes
Bob
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$400
[19]
Prosperity, or government aid:FREE LAW
welfare
Liam
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$400
[30]
Appointments in his handwritten engagement diary for June 5, 1940 include "12:30 cabinet" & "6:30 the king"
Churchill
Bob
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$400
[26]
Regarding his performance of the national anthem at Woodstock, he told Dick Cavett, "I'm American, so I played it"
(Jimi) Hendrix
Bob
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$400
[24]
In 1952 Oliver Tambo & this man created South Africa's first Black law practice
Nelson Mandela
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$400
[28]
In "Scarface", Tony Montanarises to wealth dealing this drug but goes down in a hail of bullets
cocaine
Bob
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|
$800
[6]
In late 2024 this Spanish-named weather event brought colder-than-normal waters to the central equatorial Pacific
La Niña
Liam
Bob
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$800
[18]
A rat poison:CHINS ENTRY
strychnine
Bob
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$800
[29]
A 1906 entry by her: "Pierre is sleeping his last sleep beneath the earth... I am working in the laboratory... it is all I can do"
Marie Curie
Bob
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$800
[25]
George Washington really dug this guy, making him chief of artillery in the Continental Army & later, the first Secretary of War
Knox
Liam
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$800
[22]
The Zulu & the Swahili came from this proto-ethnic group that began emigrating from West Africa to the south & east
the Bantu
Liam
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$800
[27]
As Ray Liotta explains, the title of this Martin Scorsese film is mob slang for fellow gangsters
Goodfellas
Maja
|
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$1,200
[4]
A fingerprint scan is one form of this automated tech that measures physiological characteristics
biometrics
Bob
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$1,200
[15]
Big monkey with a pink & blue butt:RIND MALL
a mandrill
Maja
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$1,200
[12]
Ronald Reagan's presidential diary records a 2-minute meeting with this Iran-Contra Lt. Col. Nov. 25, 1986, the day he was fired
Ollie North
Bob
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$1,200
[11]
His last novel "Island" envisions a Pacific island utopia--a far cry from the dystopian novel for which he's best known
(Aldous) Huxley
Bob
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$1,600
[1]
An effort with help from Jimmy Carter reduced African cases of the disease named for this parasite from 840,000 to 14
the Guinea worm
Maja
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$1,200
[9]
This 1991 film about gang violence in South Central L.A. helped popularize a slang contraction for an inner-city area
Boyz n the Hood
|
|
$1,600
[3]
Entanglement of magnetic fluids on the Sun can lead to solar these that can knock out satellites
flares
Liam
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$1,600
[16]
One who amorally takes advantage of what comes along:POOP IN TRUST
an opportunist
Liam
|
DD
$1,200
[13]
In 1922 Virginia Woolf recorded being bored by this new novel her friend "Tom" Eliot thought was "on a par with 'War and Peace"'
Ulysses
Bob
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$1,600
[23]
This Spanish missionary & saint, also an O.G. Jesuit, was instrumental in bringing Christianity to Asia
(Francis) Xavier
Liam
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$2,000
[21]
Anti-govt. protests known as the Arab Spring began in this North African country in 2010 & soon swept across the region
Tunisia
Liam
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$1,600
[8]
In "The Godfather", Robert Duvall plays a savvy Corleone family member with this title, Italian for "counselor"
consigliere
Bob
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$2,000
[5]
In 1774 chemist Johan Gahn was working with the mineral pyrolusite & found himself speaking this new element, No. 25
manganese
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$2,000
[17]
Guess his name:IMP TURNS SKILLET
Rumpelstiltskin
Maja
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$2,000
[14]
Hisfinal diary entry, March 29, 1912, says, "Outside the door of the tent, it remains a scene of whirling drift"
Robert Scott
Liam
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$2,000
[20]
Hewrote "Parade's End", informed by his own experience in World War I, where he fought in the Battle of the Somme
Ford Madox Ford
|
DD
$3,395
[2]
In 1970 Biafra, a breakaway land of the Igbo people, capitulated to this country's central government, ending a Civil War
Nigeria
Liam
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$2,000
[10]
This Japanese word for gangsters is the title of a 1974 Robert Mitchum movie
yakuza
Maja
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This country has 2 capitals, is bounded by 5 other countries & has 37 official languages
Bolivia