Brendan Liaw game 3.
Matt Askins — an aerospace engineer from Chandler, Arizona
Angela Mustapha — a library specialist from Conway, Arkansas
Brendan Liaw — a recent graduate and stay-at-home son from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (whose 2-day cash winnings total $38,798)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brendan | $3,600 | $5,000 | $19,800 |
$20,600
3-day champion: $59,398 |
$18,200
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Angela | $1,000 | $1,800 | $9,400 |
$8,800
2nd place: $3,000 |
$9,400
13 R, 3 W |
| Matt | $400 | $1,200 | $2,800 |
$2,800
3rd place: $2,000 |
$6,600
10 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| TITLES | TRIPLE TALK SONGS | THE MIDDLE AGES | AROUND THE HOUSE | "B" & "B" | LAST LINES OF THE CHILDREN'S BOOK |
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$200
[24]
Stephen F. Austin organized this military force that patrolled the frontier & later, the Texas border
the Texas Rangers
Brendan
|
$200
[26]
In a song on her "Red" album, she sings, "Stay, stay, stay, I've been loving you for quite some time, time, time"
Taylor Swift
Matt
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$200
[22]
In the romance "Guy of Warwick", the title hero goes on a quest, battles one of these winged creatures & wins true love
a dragon
Angela
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$200
[28]
Accused of witchcraft in 1453, the first person to admit to flying on this household item was a man named Guillaume Edelin
a broom
Angela
|
$200
[20]
The Glenn Miller Orchestra was a leading act in this style
big band
Brendan
|
$200
[30]
"Goodnight starsgoodnight airgoodnight noises everywhere"
Goodnight Moon
Matt
|
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$400
[23]
A DVM, short for this, is someone who can help all creatures great & small
a doctor in veterinary medicine
Angela
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$400
[25]
In an *NSYNC song, "It ain't no lie, I wanna see you out that door, baby" this this this
"Bye Bye Bye"
Brendan
|
$400
[21]
At the Council of Clermont in 1095, Pope Urban II gave a stirring sermon & called for the first of these campaigns
the Crusades
Angela
|
$400
[27]
Also called the accent or side type, these should be within 2" of the height of the sofa they're placed to the left & right of
end tables
Angela
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$400
[19]
Pete Rose & many others have tried to rub away the back line of this to have more time to react to pitches
the batter's box
|
$400
[29]
"Should we tell her about it? Now, what should we do? Well... what would you do if your mother asked you?"
The Cat in the Hat
|
|
$600
[7]
There's a pair of double consonants in this title for the leader of a nunnery
an abbess
Angela
|
$600
[12]
In this song Sabrina Carpenter sings, "Don't bring me to tears when I just did my makeup so nice"
"Please Please Please"
Angela
|
$600
[9]
Still going in London, the Guild of Chandlers using this rendered fat dates to the 1300s; aroma, not a big plus for their candles
tallow
Brendan
|
$600
[15]
Change the first letter in an open area behind a house to get this enclosed area seen here
a catio
Matt
|
$600
[8]
Inspired by "Mean Girls", it's a journal filled with nasty observations about others
a burn book
Angela
|
$600
[18]
"Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and... he was a beautiful butterfly!"
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Brendan
Matt
|
|
$800
[6]
This German title equivalent to an earl came before the name of a famous Zeppelin
Graf
Brendan
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$800
[4]
A No. 1 hit for Destiny's Child, it says, "You're slowly making me pay for things your money should be handling"
"Bills, Bills, Bills"
Brendan
|
$800
[5]
The accounts of his 13th century travels to the East were written down by Rustichello da Pisa
Marco Polo
Matt
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$800
[3]
The Paris grain market, Halle aux blés helped give Thomas Jefferson a passion for these sun-admitting features
skylights
Brendan
Angela
|
$800
[2]
Thisdelicate type of flower is often used in floral arrangements
baby's breath
Brendan
|
DD
$1,000
[16]
"But he never knew that it really was his own bunny, come back to look at the child who had first helped him to be real"
The Velveteen Rabbit
Matt
|
|
$1,000
[1]
"Potent" is within this word for an envoy given full power to negotiate politically
plenipotentiary
Angela
|
$1,000
[14]
This2012 "American Idol" winner with a nearly double-talk name had a triple-talk hit with "Gone, Gone, Gone"
Phillip Phillips
Brendan
|
$1,000
[13]
Thisis another word for a joust, so the knight seen here is going full this, all out
tilt
Brendan
|
$1,000
[11]
Fisher & Paykel pioneered the drawer version of this kitchen appliance
the dishwasher
Angela
Matt
|
$1,000
[10]
Miami & Miami Beach are both on its northern shore
Biscayne Bay (the Bay of Biscayne)
Brendan
|
$1,000
[17]
"All day long they follow the swan boats & eat peanuts. & when night falls they swim to their little island & go to sleep"
Make Way for Ducklings
|
| SUBTITLES | CREATURES OF THE EARTH | OUTDOOR ART | HISTORICAL MOVIES & TV | IN THE DICTIONARY | RUSSIAN BODIES OF WATER |
|
$400
[28]
"Killing Kennedy" is subtitled "The End of" this mythical place
Camelot
Brendan
|
$400
[29]
This rodent's name is from the French for "spiny pig", if you get my point
porcupine
Brendan
|
$400
[30]
His "Girl with Balloon" appeared on a wall outside a London shop in 2002
Banksy
Brendan
|
$400
[26]
The LDS Church says this man was "egregiously mischaracterized" in the streaming tale of 19th century Utah "American Primeval"
Brigham Young
Brendan
|
$400
[24]
Originally from French & from fencing, it's said when someone makes a good point in conversation
touché
Brendan
|
$400
[17]
The Soviet Union polluted the Kara Sea, an arm of this ocean, by dumping large amounts of nuclear waste in it
the Arctic
Brendan
|
|
$800
[11]
Mark Wahlbergwas a mechanic in the movie these ":Age of Extinction"
Transformers
Matt
|
$800
[27]
Like its cousin the echidna, the young of this unusual Aussie monotreme hatch from eggs but nurse from the mother
the platypus
Matt
|
$1,200
[4]
In 1985, Christo & his wife Jeanne-Claude used 450,000 square feet of fabric to wrap this Paris bridge
Pont Neuf
Brendan
|
$800
[25]
Peter Sarsgaard is Roone Arledge, but the footage of Jim McKay is real in "September 5" about a tragedy at this city's Olympics
Munich
Angela
Matt
|
$800
[23]
Meaning "OK", it can be 2 words or one word with only a single "L"--less formal, but good enough for James Joyce
all right (alright)
Angela
|
$800
[16]
One ringed type of this pinniped is found only in Lake Ladoga, Europe's largest lake
a seal
|
|
$1,200
[6]
"Escape" is the title of the Rupert Holmes song whose subtitle mentions this cocktail
piña coladas
Matt
|
$1,600
[2]
From Greek for "first animal", these organisms are among the most ancient life forms on Earth
protozoa
Brendan
|
$1,600
[3]
98 feet tall with a 92-foot arm span, this statue of Jesus overlooks Rio de Janeiro
Christ the Redeemer
Brendan
|
$1,200
[14]
A 2024 movie about this Swiss hero stars Claes Bang, who, given his weapon of choice, should be Claes Twang
William Tell
Brendan
|
$1,200
[22]
This 9-letter word meaning back in America as opposed to overseas entered the language around the time of World War II
stateside
|
$1,200
[9]
Geologist Pyotr Skornyakov was an admirer of this author who created the sled dog Buck, so he named a Russian lake for him
Jack London
Brendan
|
|
$1,600
[1]
"The Triumph & Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" is the subtitle of the 2005 biography called "American" this mythological figure
Prometheus
Matt
|
$2,000
[19]
This largest living lizard has its own national park in Indonesia, which is a good thing, as it can measure more than 10 feet long
the Komodo dragon
Matt
|
$2,000
[10]
He went to work on Mt. Rushmore after deciding that a series of granite spires called the Needles were too thin for sculpting
Borglum
Angela
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$1,600
[8]
A U.S. military raid in Somalia goes horribly wrong in this 2001 film based on real events of 1993
Black Hawk Down
Brendan
|
$1,600
[21]
To sever a link, like to stop phone service; as a noun, it's a gap between 2 entities or people & the stress moves to the first syllable
disconnect
|
$1,600
[5]
Victoria Bay, an inlet of the Sea of Japan, was renamed in 1859 for this early 18th century czar
Peter the Great
Brendan
|
|
$2,000
[12]
"The Imposter" is the apt subtitle of this Molière play
Tartuffe
Angela
|
DD
$4,000
[7]
Structures called osteoderms throughout this mammal's body protect it from predators
the armadillo
Matt
|
DD
$2,400
[18]
Shepard Fairey used a 1967 photo of this athlete to create a 7-story mural outside a Louisville YMCA
Muhammad Ali
Brendan
|
$2,000
[13]
2 recent TV projects have portrayed the 19th century empress of Austria Elisabeth, known by this repetitive name
Sisi
|
$2,000
[20]
This word comes from the name of an editor who toned down Shakespeare, for example making Ophelia's suicide an accident
bowdlerize
Angela
|
$2,000
[15]
This 3-letter river in Russia's European portion was once famed for the Cossacks who had settlements along its course
the Don (River)
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He was born in Fürth, Germany in 1923, shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, & passed away in Connecticut in 2023
(Henry) Kissinger