Paolo Pasco game 5.
Susan Harris — a professor from Chicago, Illinois
Alex Rossell Hayes — a political scientist originally from Baltimore, Maryland
Paolo Pasco — a puzzle writer originally from San Diego, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $107,342)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paolo | $8,400 | $10,800 | $28,200 |
$27,174
5-day champion: $134,516 |
$21,600
27 R (including 3 DDs), 0 W |
| Alex | $1,200 | $4,000 | $9,600 |
$9,599
2nd place: $3,000 |
$9,600
18 R, 5 W |
| Susan | $2,600 | $4,200 | $3,400 |
$1
3rd place: $2,000 |
$3,400
7 R, 2 W |
| EUROPEAN HISTORY | IT'S A MYSTERY TO US | WORDS IN FRIENDLINESS | THAT'S QUITE A NOVEL SYNOPSIS | REVENGE | A DISH BEST SERVED COLD |
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$200
[29]
Marshal Tito, born Josip Broz, was president of this country for 27 years; 11 years after his death it began to partition
Yugoslavia
Alex
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$200
[28]
Why do we have this small dead-end tube that connects to the colon? A study said having one may reduce recurring intestinal infection
the appendix
Paolo
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$200
[30]
It means related to the family that contains the Manul or Jaguarundi
feline
Paolo
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$200
[27]
Boy meets girl; boy gets in love triangle with a pal & the girl; boy gets in love rectangle with pal, girl & evil, sentient car
Christine
Susan
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$200
[26]
As John Wick in a 2014 movie, he gets sweet revenge on those who killed his dog
(Keanu) Reeves
Alex
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$200
[25]
To make tartare, you can use steak or this fish; many suggest using the fatty belly called toro
tuna
Paolo
|
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$400
[20]
Known as the "Red Eminence", this man of the cloth was first minister to Louis XIII
Cardinal Richelieu
Susan
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$400
[8]
On Dec. 5, 1945, the 5 Navy planes of Flight 19 took off from Ft. Lauderdale but disappeared in this "geometric" area of the Atlantic
the Bermuda Triangle
Paolo
|
$400
[22]
In the feudal system, a member of the lowest class
a serf
Alex
|
$400
[12]
Houdini & Henry Ford turn up; Coalhouse Walker plays a certain style of piano; somebody oughtta make a musical!
Ragtime
Paolo
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$400
[23]
In this film Wyoming women put a bounty on men who wronged them, leading to Clint Eastwood finding other things to be vengeful for
Unforgiven
Paolo
|
$400
[24]
Ceviche & tiradito are both cool fish dishes that originated in this South American country
Peru
Alex
|
|
$600
[17]
In 1866 this small Alpine nation deployed 80 soldiers as part of the Austro-Prussian War; oddly, 81 returned
Liechtenstein
Alex
|
$600
[1]
If no one's in the room to hear this guy whisper "Rosebud", how do any of the other movie characters know his last words?
Citizen Kane
Paolo
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$600
[16]
Instagram videos of up to 3 minutes
Reels
Paolo
|
$600
[3]
Faulkner used a Shakespearean title; Compson Rashomon; a non-golf caddy
The Sound and the Fury
Susan
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$600
[9]
In "Nobody", he's a hard-hitting dad with a certain set of skills who's hell-bent to get back a stolen kitty cat bracelet
Bob Odenkirk
Paolo
Alex
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$600
[15]
How about this salad of sliced mozzarella, ripe tomatoes & basil that's named for an Italian island
Caprese
Paolo
|
|
$800
[18]
Cervantes fought in the Battle of Lepanto, part of a conflict that saw Venice, Spain & the papacy facing this eastern power
the Ottoman Empire
Paolo
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$800
[6]
In 2023 the kids of convicted skyjacker Richard McCoy II gave evidence to the FBI that pointed at dad being this 1971 criminal of mystery
D.B. Cooper
Paolo
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$1,000
[13]
Robert Cornelius has been credited as taking the first this back in 1839; he used a camera lens fashioned from an opera glass
a selfie
Alex
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$800
[2]
A Toole to win a Pulitzer; New Orleans can be more fun than that; the rota fortunae is a very different wheel! of! fortune!
A Confederacy of Dunces
Paolo
|
$800
[10]
This Park Chan-wook classic from 2003 about an imprisoned man seeking revenge was remade starring Josh Brolin 10 years later
Oldboy
Paolo
|
$800
[14]
Pampushky, Ukrainian garlic rolls, are a traditional accompaniment to this beet soup, a national dish
borscht
Alex
|
|
$1,000
[19]
This 2-region region on the border of Germany & France traded hands 4 times, starting in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War
Alsace-Lorraine
Alex
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$1,000
[7]
The location of "The Concert", a painting by this 17th century Dutchman stolen from the Gardner Museum in 1990, remains a mystery
Vermeer
Susan
|
DD
$2,400
[5]
From the Latin for "unfaithful", it's an unbeliever with respect to a particular religion
an infidel
Paolo
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$1,000
[4]
Full of Neapolitan flavor; Lila & Elena are miglioretti (is that Italian for besties?); like it / don't like it? 3 more books to go
My Brilliant Friend
Paolo
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$1,000
[11]
In this 1991 flick Robert De Niro is mad at Nick Nolte because the latter buried information that might have cleared the former
Cape Fear
Susan
|
$1,000
[21]
The name of this dish, thinly sliced raw beef, honors a Venetian painter whose works used a red the color of raw beef
carpaccio
Susan
|
| U.S. GEOGRAPHY | "GREAT" STUFF | INTERESTING TREES | HODGEPODGE | THANKS FOR THE MEMOIRS | FIERY WORDS & PHRASES |
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$400
[28]
This state's geographic center is 3 miles north of Pierre
South Dakota
Paolo
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$400
[27]
This landmark is sometimes referred to as being "10,000 li" long, a li being equal to about 1/3 of a mile
the Great Wall of China
Paolo
|
$400
[29]
Treeson the island of Socotra named for this mythical creature produce a blood-colored sap that used as varnish for violins
a dragon
|
$400
[30]
Asian, Bosc & Comice are varieties of this
a pear
Alex
|
$400
[26]
"Making It So" is the recent memoir by this actor who has played Merlin, a professor & a Starfleet captain
(Patrick) Stewart
Alex
|
$400
[25]
Dante used this hellish word as a title for the first part of "The Divine Comedy"
inferno
Alex
|
|
$800
[18]
"Valley Isle" is a nickname for this second-largest Hawaiian island
Maui
Alex
Susan
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$1,200
[11]
John Adams (let's show Hercules) & Ben Franklin (Moses parting the sea) had cool rejected ideas for this, to affix to state documents
the Great Seal (of the United States)
Paolo
|
$800
[5]
Often called the world's smallest tree, Salix herbacea, or the dwarf this tree, is found in the tundra & rarely exceeds two and a half inches tall
a willow
Alex
|
$800
[24]
The creator of this logo recalls Phil Knight saying he didn't love it but maybe it will grow on him
the Nike Swoosh
Alex
|
$800
[19]
"My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy" is a memoir by this voice artist still going strong in her best-known role
Cartwright
Paolo
|
$800
[22]
Latin for "fiery" gives us this term for a basic classification of rock
igneous
Paolo
|
|
$1,200
[10]
Thisfertile & scenic valley covers much of Northern Virginia & a little bit of West Virginia
Shenandoah
Alex
|
$1,600
[6]
Don't tell you-know-who that in 2024 the Cherokee name Kuwohi was restored to the Tenn. peak Clingmans Dome in this national park
Great Smoky Mountains
Paolo
|
$1,200
[4]
The anti-cancer drug Taxol was produced from the bark of the Pacific species of this 3-letter tree
a yew
Alex
Susan
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$1,200
[13]
Yielding millions of fossils, this gooey landmark calls itself a "portal to the Ice Age in the heart of Los Angeles"
the La Brea Tar Pits
Susan
|
$1,200
[2]
Piper Kerman's memoir of incarceration had this title, as did the TV show that it spawned
Orange Is the New Black
Alex
|
$1,600
[14]
A conflation fuses things; this word that adds a few letters to the middle burns things
conflagration
Paolo
|
|
$1,600
[12]
This lake whose name comes from Seminole words for "big water" is located at the northern edge of the Everglades
Okeechobee
Alex
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
This 5,000-pound aquatic carnivore can detect one drop of blood in 25 gallons of water
a great white shark
Paolo
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$1,600
[3]
In 1964 Donald Rusk Currey accidentally killed a 5,000-year-old specimen of this gnarly, ancient tree on Wheeler Peak in Eastern Nevada
the bristlecone pine
Alex
|
$1,600
[1]
In 1951, a few years after its introduction, Pope Pius XII called this new fashion item sinful
a bikini
Paolo
|
$1,600
[8]
In "Tell Me Everything", Minka Kelly includes her love of Kitsch--as in Taylor, complicating the set of this TV show
Friday Night Lights
Alex
|
$2,000
[21]
Now an idiom for any irreversible course, this was suggested by Sun Tzu after an army crossed hostile borders
burning your bridges
|
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$2,000
[16]
It's the snow-covered volcanic peak in Northern California seen here, & on soda cans
Mount Shasta
Alex
|
$2,000
[20]
In 1941 artist Jacob Lawrence captioned the first in a series "during the world war there was a" this "north by Southern Negroes"
a Great Migration
Alex
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$2,000
[15]
Thisfig tree, Ficus microcarpa, is known for its aerial roots, which sprout from the branches & down to the soil
a banyan tree
|
$2,000
[17]
It's what the middle initial "P" stood for in the name of financier J.P. Morgan
Pierpont
Paolo
|
$2,000
[9]
"Heartbreaker" is the life story of this lead guitarist seenhereat Tom Petty's side
Mike Campbell
|
DD
$5,000
[7]
A Christian rite begins this phrase for a severe introductory trial
baptism by fire
Paolo
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Upon this man's re-election, Karl Marx called him "the single-minded son of the working class"
Abraham Lincoln