Scott Riccardi game 13.
Jeff Hague — a firefighter from Carmel, Indiana
Anna Ciamporcero — a stay-at-home mom from Ridgefield, Connecticut
Scott Riccardi — an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (whose 12-day cash winnings total $312,501)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott | $4,000 | $5,400 | $35,400 |
$50,400
13-day champion: $362,901 |
$30,200
30 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Anna! | $400 | $400 | $4,800 |
$3,000
2nd place: $3,000 |
$4,800
11 R, 4 W |
| Jeff | $2,200 | $2,200 | $4,600 |
$200
3rd place: $2,000 |
$6,600
12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| SHAKESPEAREAN SETTINGS | PEOPLE WORKING OUT SOME ISSUES | WOMEN | VEGETARIAN TALK | HIT THE ROAD | SWITCHING SPORTS |
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$200
[29]
Act II, scene i:"An orchard beside the house of Brutus", where plotting may or may not occur
Julius Caesar
Scott
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$200
[27]
Bort breaks out the big guns & tries to make 'em bigger, doing dips to hit these muscles with 3 heads at the back of the upper arm
the triceps
Jeff
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$200
[26]
On a Clara Bow film, director Dorothy Arzner used a prototype of this portable device to record dialogue in the early sound era
a boom mic
Anna!
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$200
[25]
This last name that now more often precedes cracker used to precede -ism as a synonym for vegetarianism
Graham
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$200
[28]
Parade magazine once answered this age-old question with "to show the armadillo it was possible"
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Scott
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$200
[30]
(Adam Sandler presents the clue.) Many questioned the move when hewent from the NBA to minor league baseball, but his manager, the legendary Terry Francona, saidhe could have made the majors if he'd stuck with it
Michael Jordan
Jeff
|
|
$400
[21]
Act IV, Scene i:In "Friar Lawrence's cell", a vial changes hands... ooooops
Romeo and Juliet
Jeff
|
$400
[23]
Tiffany says she's going on a fun run of exactly 3.1068559 miles, or this many kilometers... or do a triathlon! Y'know, either/or!
a 5K
Jeff
|
$600
[11]
Shedidn't seem bothered to be named to a job President Trump hopes to eliminate--Secretary of Education
McMahon
Scott
|
$400
[24]
Before the 1944 coinage of this word, someone who abstained from dairy products as well as meat was a "strict vegetarian"
a vegan
Anna!
|
$400
[19]
Mainstream advertising is sometimes reduced to this Big Apple thoroughfare
Madison Ave.
Scott
|
$400
[7]
(Adam Sandler presents the clue.) At the 2018 Olympics, Ester Ledeckásurprised the world & herself with gold in this super-skiing event & then went on to another victory insnowboarding, her specialty; not the differentest of sports, but still good
super-G
Scott
|
|
$600
[1]
Act I, Scene IV: "London. The Tower", featuring 1st & 2nd murderer
Richard III
Scott
Anna!
|
$600
[16]
Kaden's gonna smoke these muscles highlighted here with some pull-downs & the traditional pull-ups & chin-ups, bro
lats
Scott
|
$800
[12]
Thisfeminist's time undercover as a Playboy bunny in the '60s became aTV movie with Kirstie Alley in the '80s
Steinem
Jeff
|
$600
[3]
You might think of this nut-based liquid as a recent invention, but the term's been around since the 1300s
almond milk
Jeff
|
$600
[15]
This rhyming phrase could be translated as "You have to conform to the way I'm doing things or get on the I-10"
my way or the highway
Scott
|
$600
[6]
(Adam Sandler presents the clue.) Back in the '80s, as heclimbed wallsfor the Royals & flattened defenders as a Raider, he was the definition of a two-sport superstar
Bo Jackson
Jeff
|
|
$800
[8]
"The scene, an uninhabited island", but it's very much habited
The Tempest
Anna!
|
$800
[17]
Maria lifts the bar off the floor & then pushes it overhead to do the 2 movements in this Olympic weightlifting event
the clean & jerk
Jeff
|
$1,000
[14]
She fell on ice in 1866, tweaked her back real bad, recovered with help from Jesus' words & went on to found Christian Science
Mary Baker Eddy
Scott
|
$800
[2]
It's from Chinese words meaning "rotten beans"; enjoy!
tofu
Anna!
|
$800
[18]
In an Elton John song, it's "where the dogs of society howl"
the Yellow Brick Road
Anna!
|
$800
[5]
(Adam Sandler presents the clue.) Looking for a new kind of boing in her career, at age 20, Krysta Palmerswitched from trampoline to diving & won an Olympic medal off this, three meters up--that's high enough for me
springboard diving
Anna!
Jeff
|
|
$1,000
[10]
Reasonably enough, for the whole play it's "Athens and neighbourhood"
Timon of Athens
|
$1,000
[13]
This 5-letter type of exercise for your pelvic floor can help Horst with incontinence & other things (sorry to out you on that, Horst)
kegel
Scott
|
DD
$2,000
[22]
This fashion house whose name is a female first name has mainly been led by women, like Stella McCartney & now Chemena Kamali
Chloé
Jeff
|
$1,000
[9]
This word for a person who chooses to subsist on apples, oranges, pears & the like dates to the 1890s
a fruitarian
Scott
Anna!
|
$1,000
[20]
St. Paul's conversion to Christianity gave us this idiom that now refers to any kind of turning point
the road to Damascus
Anna!
|
$1,000
[4]
(Adam Sandler presents the clue.) "I Keek a Touchdown"--that's the memoir of Garo Yepremian, who played soccer overseas & helped to establish soccer style place-kicking as part of this undefeated NFL team
the ('72) Miami Dolphins
Jeff
|
| A YEAR-O WITH A ZERO IN IT | CITIES IN PROXIMITY | NONFICTION | STAND-UP SPECIALISTS | LOTS OF KNOTS | HEY "EU"! |
|
$400
[27]
On August 29, 2005 a storm surge from this hurricane rose more than 26 feet, devastating Biloxi & Gulfport
Katrina
Anna!
|
$400
[28]
It's the "FW" in the Texas airport code DFW
Fort Worth
Anna!
|
$400
[1]
Tom Reiss' "The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, & the Real Count of Monte Cristo" is a bio of this author's dad
Dumas
Scott
|
$400
[29]
(Phoebe Robinson presents the clue.) I talk about mentally prepping to watch civil rights movies in my stand-up special titled "Sorry," this Underground Railroad pioneer
Harriet Tubman
Scott
|
$400
[4]
Sadly, Pizza Hut no longer offers the pie it described as "knot your average pizza", with 16 of these appetizers on the crust
garlic knots
Scott
Anna!
|
$400
[30]
In this funeral oration for the late Jimmy Carter, President Biden said he "did justly, loved mercy, walked humbly"
a eulogy
Scott
|
|
$800
[13]
In 1502 he succeeded his uncle Ahuitzotl, becoming the 9th emperor of the Aztecs
Montezuma
Scott
|
$800
[26]
The Ambassador Bridge connects Windsor to this Midwest city
Detroit
Jeff
|
$800
[24]
"Thrive" is a self-help book by this Greek-American who co-founded a website now run by Buzzfeed
Huffington
Scott
|
$800
[23]
Amy Lau on the miniseries "Beef", she stood out on specials "Hard Knock Wife" & "Baby Cobra"
Ali Wong
Scott
|
$800
[25]
Known to tie itself into knots, the beauty-challengedhagfishis sometimes called a slime one of these fish, on account of its shape
an eel
Scott
|
$800
[22]
Types of geometry include this & non-this
Euclidian
Anna!
|
|
$1,600
[14]
Founded in 1602 in Amsterdam, this trading company made it through 2 aughts, but missed a 3rd, dissolving in 1799
the Dutch East India Company
Scott
|
$1,200
[16]
In the Keystone State, Wilkes-Barre is a twin to this electric city & birthplace of Joe Biden
Scranton
Anna!
|
$1,200
[8]
4 marriages, but it's been "The Lonely Life" in a memoir by this star of "Jezebel" & "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"
(Bette) Davis
Scott
|
$1,200
[5]
This "Bupkis" star's Netflix specials include "Alive from New York" & "The Best Friends"
Davidson
Scott
|
$1,200
[19]
Going by its name, this heavy metal band slides along a rope to be adjusted
Slipknot
Scott
|
$1,200
[3]
Ear pressure can often be relieved by yawning or swallowing, which opens up these tubes
Eustachian tubes
Anna!
|
|
$2,000
[15]
On February 24, 1803 the Supreme Court declared an act of Congress to be unconstitutional for the first time in this landmark case
Marbury v. Madison
Scott
|
$1,600
[17]
Thesebustling twin cities might be collectively called Islamapindi
Islamabad & Rawalpindi
Scott
|
$2,000
[12]
This Siddhartha Mukherjee book with a royal title is a history of cancer treatment & research
The Emperor of All Maladies
Jeff
|
$1,600
[10]
Famously the voice of a charming rat on film, he was "Talking for Clapping" in a 2016 stand-up special
Oswalt
Scott
|
$1,600
[20]
In navigation, a knot is equal to one of these per hour
a nautical mile
Scott
|
$1,600
[6]
It takes 3 tricks to win a hand in this card game, once one of the most popular games in America
euchre
Jeff
|
|
DD
$4,000
[2]
The war of this started in its alliterative way in 1701 after Charles II had to go & die all childless & stuff
the (War of) Spanish Succession
Scott
|
$2,000
[18]
Canots rapides are boats that connect these 2 Francophone African capitals
Kinshasa & Brazzaville
Scott
|
DD
$4,000
[9]
This memoir begins with a relative from Nairobi breaking the news about a fatal car accident
Dreams from My Father
Scott
|
$2,000
[11]
His stand-up specials include "It's Pimpin' Pimpin"' & "Kattpacalypse"
(Katt) Williams
Scott
|
$2,000
[21]
Decorative symbols of interconnection, Celtic knots appear throughout this manuscript named for an Irish abbey
the Book of Kells
Jeff
|
$2,000
[7]
The honeymoon didn't last long for Orpheus & this nymph who died from a snakebite shortly after the wedding
Eurydice
Scott
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A 17th c. English translation of the "Aeneid" rhymes "my soul remains" & "perpetual pains" with this 2-word place
the Elysian Plains