Stella Trout game 1.
Stella Trout — a software engineer originally from Houston, Texas
Peter Vorissis — a writer and teacher from Los Angeles, California
Geoff Barnes — an analyst from Washington, D.C. (whose 3-day cash winnings total $44,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geoff | $6,200 | $7,400 | $10,600 |
$21,199
2nd place: $3,000 |
$9,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Peter | $1,000 | $2,400 | $3,600 |
$1
3rd place: $2,000 |
$3,600
9 R, 4 W |
| Stella | $2,800 | $2,800 | $25,800 |
$28,800
New champion: $28,800 |
$21,600
22 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| ALL KINDS OF PHRASES | 21st CENTURY NEWS | A DOUBLE SHOT OF WHISKEY | ME & JEFF DANIELS GOT A HISTORY | DOWNTOWN NEAR FIFTH STREET | EVERYBODY'S AT THE "BAR" |
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$200
[25]
This phrase meaning to exaggerate involves increasing the size of a mound made by a burrowing animal
making a mountain out of a mole hill
Peter
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$200
[28]
A media player, a music manager & later an online store all-in-one, this computer app was released on January 9, 2001
iTunes
Peter
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$200
[30]
If you don't know that Connemara & Tipperary are this type of whiskey, you need to travel more--& drink more
Irish whiskey
Geoff
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$200
[22]
I laugh every time I think about Jeff Daniels showing class & sophistication inthis1994 comedy
Dumb and Dumber
Stella
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$200
[29]
The "Fifth Street" in Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" is presumably 5th Ave. in this city, not far from the Johnny Cash museum on 3rd
Nashville
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$200
[19]
This kind of place to eat; Southern Living magazine says a "restaurant" has printed menus; a "joint", chalkboard ones
a barbecue restaurant (joint)
Geoff
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$400
[13]
Originally referring to Matthew, Mark, Luke & John's work, this 2-word phrase has come to mean anything believed unreservedly
the gospel truth
Stella
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$400
[27]
In 2024 a rebel attack lasting less than 2 weeks ended the 50-year dictatorship of this family in Syria
Assad
Geoff
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$400
[5]
A double of the 101 proof from this brand named for an undomesticated fowl? OK, I'm not driving... or standing
Wild Turkey
Geoff
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$400
[20]
I, too, have a terrible fear of spiders, so I related to Jeff Daniels in this film that defined the fear of spiders
Arachnophobia
Stella
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$400
[24]
A historic bridge on SW Fifth Street crosses this major river of Des Moines, Iowa named for a ring-tailed critter
the Raccoon (River)
Geoff
Stella
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$400
[14]
Truefitt & Hill, called the world's oldest of these; they use shaving brushes & sell them, too
barbers (a barbershop)
Geoff
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$600
[12]
With & without "monster", it's how Shakespeare described jealousy
green-eyed
Stella
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$600
[26]
The first African American to win the Best Actress Oscar, she won in 2002 for her nuanced work in the film "Monster's Ball"
Halle Berry
Geoff
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$600
[4]
North-of-the-border whiskies include Caribou Crossing & this other "C.C." named for its popularity in social establishments
Canadian Club
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$600
[18]
Me & Jeff go all the way back to when he played Flap Horton, Debra Winger's cheating husband, in this weepy 1983 film
Terms of Endearment
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$600
[23]
It's still near 5th Street, but the former Sun Devil Stadium in this city is now Mountain America Stadium, for a credit union
Tempe
Geoff
Peter
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$600
[3]
This communal building event once common on the American frontier & now mainly associated with the Amish
a barn raising
Geoff
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$800
[9]
On a plane, it's something flight attendants do to the doors; on the ice, it's a penalty involving a hit with a stick
to cross-check(ing)
Geoff
Peter
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$800
[11]
In 2009 this US Airways pilot miraculously landed an Airbus A320 & its 150 passengers in the Hudson River
Sullenberger (Sully)
Peter
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$1,000
[7]
Bill Samuels created this bourbon; wife Margie came up with the red wax & the name meaning a manufacturing symbol
Maker's Mark
Stella
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$800
[17]
Jeff was quietly poignant as the soda jerk whose black-&-white world is rocked by seeing a book of art in color in this 1998 film
Pleasantville
Peter
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$800
[21]
The Fifth Streetthese, as in architecture, not beeping & pinging games, are a landmark of downtown Cleveland
Arcades
Peter
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$800
[2]
Thisnew-ish sports & entertainment venue found at Atlantic & Flatbush Avenues
Barclays Center
Stella
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$1,000
[8]
An incomprehensible religious glossolalia gives us this phrase
speaking in tongues
Peter
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$1,000
[10]
In 2022, this rover with a determined name put the first sample of Martian rock in a new depot for possible return to Earth
Perseverance
Geoff
Stella
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DD
$2,000
[6]
Glenfiddich & Glenlivet are famous scotches of this type, meaning produced from the barley of just one distillery
single malt
Geoff
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$1,000
[16]
Jeff nailed it as this ex-FBI director in a miniseries based on his memoir "A Higher Loyalty"; the G-man himself gave J.D. high marks
James Comey
Stella
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$1,000
[15]
Home to fabulous condos, marinas & Joe's Stone Crab, So Fi or South of 5th is an area of this 2-word Florida place
South Beach (Miami Beach)
Stella
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$1,000
[1]
One of these stores, a chain revived by CEO James Daunt in recent years
Barnes & Noble
Geoff
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| THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM | LIFE IS A 5-LETTER WORD | SAY "NO" MORE | 20th CENTURY POETRY | ANCIENT HISTORY | FROM THE KIDZ BOP VERSION |
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$400
[27]
Charges of sexism & colonialism have been made against the kids' books featuring this title elephant king, but his suits are fab
Babar
Geoff
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$400
[25]
The name of this venomous snake can also mean a toxic person or, in old jazz slang, a marijuana user
a viper
Stella
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$400
[26]
It's a whim or personal inclination, maybe to try something
a notion
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$800
[18]
"may i feel said he" is a rarity among the works of this poet for the use of [collective gasp] a capital letter
e.e. cummings
Geoff
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$800
[6]
In the late Roman republic this governing body of a few hundred had 2 main groups, the Populares & the more elitist Optimates
a senate
Peter
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$800
[23]
By her:"Starships were meant to fly / Hands up & touch the sky / Let's do this one last time, can't stop / We're Kidz Bop"
Nicki Minaj
Stella
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$800
[22]
The 326 B.C. Battle of Hydaspes had this leader & his Macedonian troops facing an unfamiliar foe in Porus' army:war elephants
Alexander the Great
Geoff
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$800
[24]
Masked or blue-faced is one type of this seabird with not the most dignified name
booby
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$800
[10]
There's a business specialty in this popular translation of the Latin saying "de gustibus non est disputandum"
there's no accounting for taste
Peter
Stella
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$1,200
[16]
Beige flags of this T.S. Eliot principal include rolled trouser bottoms & indecision about peach consumption
J. Alfred Prufrock
Stella
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$1,200
[5]
Aka the Book of Changes, this Chinese text used for divination may date as far back as the Zhou Dynasty of 1045 B.C.
the I Ching
Stella
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$1,200
[21]
This song:"My life is a movie / Bull ridin' & bougie / Cowboy hat from Gucci / Wrangler like on TV"
"Old Town Road"
Geoff
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$1,200
[15]
He made friends with Tantor the elephant & "where the way was clear", he "rode, perched high upon Tantor's mighty back"
Tarzan
Peter
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$1,600
[11]
Thistree in the genus Fagus is noted for its smooth graybark& small ediblenuts
a beech tree
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$1,200
[1]
A peripatetic person, or a member of a peripatetic people
a nomad
Stella
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$2,000
[2]
Thisalliterative Pulitzer winner revised her poem "Poetry" multiple times, but not the first line--"I too dislike it"
Marianne Moore
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$1,600
[4]
c. 3000 B.C. this Mesopotamian civilization created cuneiform script & used it for both governmental & everyday things
the Sumerians
Stella
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$1,600
[20]
This song:"Only got 20 dollars in my pocket... looking for a come up / This is really awesome"
"Thrift Shop"
Stella
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$1,600
[13]
Theelephant symbolof the Republican Party dates back to an 1870s cartoon by this man
Nast
Stella
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$2,000
[12]
The Scotch type of this, sharing the name of something in a closet at home, is ornamental but can be a problem as an invader
broom
Peter
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$1,600
[8]
In biology, it's a system for giving names to organisms
nomenclature
Stella
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DD
$4,000
[3]
Ezra Pound was partial to these poetic works defined as divisions of a long poem; he wrote 117 of them
the cantos
Stella
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$2,000
[7]
The city today known as Amarna was made the capital of Egypt around 1348 B.C. & dedicated to this newly favored god
Aten
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$2,000
[19]
By this artist on "Truth Hurts":"You coulda had a good friend, noncommittal"
Lizzo
Peter
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$2,000
[14]
This bestseller by Sara Gruen is about circus life during the Great Depression
Water for Elephants
Stella
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DD
$3,000
[17]
Out West, Theodore Roosevelt had a "half-melancholy feeling as I gazed upon these" beasts of a "nearly vanished race"
bison
Stella
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$2,000
[9]
A fungus that makes some grapes perfect for winemaking goes by this distinguished name
noble rot
Stella
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In April 2018 an MLB game was postponed after ice falling from this structure punctured the roof of Rogers Centre
the CN Tower