Steven Olson game 3.
Justin Ames — an employment attorney from Jersey City, New Jersey
Hester Bass — a writer from Santa Fe, New Mexico
Steven Olson — a band director from Princeton, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $46,406)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steven | $7,200 | $11,200 | $27,800 |
$10,683
3-day champion: $57,089 |
$19,800
27 R (including 3 DDs), 3 W |
| Hester | $3,400 | $3,600 | $3,200 |
$700
3rd place: $2,000 |
$3,200
9 R, 3 W |
| Justin | $1,600 | $2,400 | $4,000 |
$1,599
2nd place: $3,000 |
$4,000
10 R, 4 W |
| THE ANSWER IS 42! | ____ING BOOK TITLES | "G" TO "G" | THE PRE-FAME CELEBRITY AT WORK | AROUND ALABAMA | NAVY SEALS |
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$200
[25]
In his all-too-short career, this late actor played Jackie Robinson in the film "42"
(Chadwick) Boseman
Steven
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$200
[10]
Book 2 of "The Hunger Games":"____ Fire"
Catching
Justin
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$200
[28]
To play this musical instrument with a Javanese name, you whack it with a soft mallet
gong
Steven
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$200
[30]
He was working as a carpenter for Francis Ford Coppola when George Lucas came by, about to cast "Star Wars"; that worked out
Harrison Ford
Hester
Justin
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$200
[27]
With millions made there, Albertville is "capital of the world" for these, which we love when our house is burning & hate when parking
fire hydrant
Steven
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$200
[29]
(Chris Pratt presents the clue.) My character in "The Terminal List: Dark Wolf" is trained as one of these long-range warfare specialists, like best-selling author & former SEAL Chris Kyle
sniper
Steven
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$400
[24]
The Broadway musical adaptation of "42nd Street" included this sleepy, soothing song "of Broadway"
a "Lullaby"
Hester
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$400
[4]
Set in Yoknapatawpha County:"As I Lay ____ "
Dying
Steven
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$400
[13]
When does pushing air from your lungs through a tube into molten sand equal a vase? When you're an artisan practicing this craft
glassblowing
Steven
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$400
[22]
Terry Crews worked for real as a courtroom sketch artist before becoming a TV cop on this N.Y.-set sitcom
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Hester
Justin
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$400
[8]
Home to the Tigers, this college town founded in 1836 has a name inspired by Oliver Goldsmith's poem "The Deserted Village"
Auburn
Steven
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$400
[26]
(Taylor Kitsch presents the clue.) SEALs use the term "insertion" to describe the process of entry in a mission zone; whether from thewateror viaparachute, helicopteror theground, this paired term refers to the process of getting back out
extraction
Steven
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$600
[16]
In this board game invented by French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse in 1957, there are 42 territories to conquer & defend
Risk
Steven
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$600
[3]
A classic of Australian lit & basis for a 1975 film: "Picnic at ____ Rock"
Hanging
Hester
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$600
[12]
The business end of a hot air balloon, for example, or a person who won't shut up
a gasbag
Justin
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$600
[21]
(D'Arcy Carden presents the clue.) As a struggling actor, I was a full-time nanny for the three daughters of this man; later, I worked for him again when I played Natalie on "Barry", which he co-created
(Bill) Hader
Justin
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$600
[5]
This National Forest in the center of the state shares its name with a NASCAR superspeedway nearby
Talladega
Steven
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$600
[17]
(Chris Pratt presents the clue.) My character in "The Terminal List: Dark Wolf" carries aweaponinscribed "LLTB", a SEAL slogan meaning "long live" this type of close sibling-like fellowship
the brotherhood
Steven
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$800
[15]
In a Shakespeare play, the potion taken by this character is meant to make her appear dead for 42 hours
Juliet
Steven
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$800
[1]
By Shirley Jackson: "The ____ of Hill House"
Haunting
Steven
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$800
[11]
It's the sound liquid makes when being poured from a bottle
glug
Justin
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$800
[20]
We come to this actress with 5 Oscar nominations for magic--her magic fingers, apparently, as a young massage therapist
Nicole Kidman
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$800
[6]
In 1919, the city of Enterprise erected a monument to this pest that forced its farmers to shift to growing different crops
the boll weevil
Hester
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$800
[18]
(Chris Pratt presents the clue.) Though SEAL team members jokingly call their gold pin "The Budweiser", they're proud of thesymbolcomposed of an eagle, an anchor, a pistol & this 3-pronged spear, its official name
trident
Steven
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DD
$3,600
[14]
The first of their kind, they were printed in Mainz, Germany in the 15th century with Latin text in 42-line columns
the Gutenberg Bible
Steven
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$1,000
[2]
Joan Didion's bestselling memoir of love & grief:"The Year of Magical ____"
Thinking
Steven
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$1,000
[9]
Edgar Allan Poe won $100 in a newspaper contest for a short story about this title insect
the gold bug
Hester
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$1,000
[23]
Before providing "Beauty And A Beat" with Justin Bieber, this Trinidad-born singer provided seafood waitressing at Red Lobster
Nicki Minaj
Justin
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$1,000
[7]
Once occupied by the French, Alabama's southernmost point is on this island that has a name like an heir to the French throne
Dauphin (Island)
Hester
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$1,000
[19]
(Taylor Kitsch presents the clue.) A U.S. Navydestroyeris named for SEALDon McFaul, who died protecting a wounded teammate with his own body while under fire during a 1989 mission to take out the private escape jet of this Panamanian strongman
Noriega
Justin
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| ANCIENT HISTORY | EW, DAVID! | 9-LETTER WORDS | COMPOSERS | DISCOVERY | A SONG ON YOUR LIPS |
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$400
[25]
The Great Pyramid in this modern-day Egyptian city was built in the 26th century B.C.; it's still standing today
Giza
Hester
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$400
[26]
According to Josephus, Saul had a price for his daughter's hand--600 heads of these enemies, & future King David delivered
Philistines
Steven
|
$400
[27]
This word for an exact copy was shortened to become the name of an office machine also called a telecopier
facsimile
Steven
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$800
[16]
Andrew Lloyd Webber unmasked "Love Never Dies", his sequel to this musical
The Phantom of the Opera
Steven
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$800
[21]
Big ups to the Bedouin shepherd who discovered the first of these manuscripts in a cave south of Jericho in 1947
the Dead Sea Scrolls
Justin
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$800
[14]
"Kissy face, kissy face sent to your phone, but I'm tryna kiss your lips for real", says "Apt.", a 2024 collab of Rosé & him
Bruno Mars
Steven
|
|
$800
[18]
This Latin-named era of relative tranquility ended with the death of Marcus Aurelius & the ascension of his non-tranquil son
Pax Romana
Steven
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$800
[23]
Michael C. Hall played David Fisher, who spent a lot of time with dead bodies & embalming fluid on this series
Six Feet Under
Steven
Hester
Justin
|
$800
[22]
This word for an omen of future events is etymologically related to "harbor"
a harbinger
Justin
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$1,200
[12]
Ferde Groféused a wind machine & a thunder sheet to emulate nature in this suite that was inspired by a desert trip
(the) Grand Canyon ( Suite )
Steven
|
DD
$1,000
[7]
Since its discovery by James Clark Ross in 1831, this location has migrated steadily toward Russia
the magnetic north pole
Steven
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$1,200
[20]
In a Meghan Trainor hit, "if" this is happening, "then you're lyin', lyin', lyin"'
your lips are movin'
Justin
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|
$1,200
[5]
Construction on the Great Pyramidat this Mesoamerican city, also a brand of hot sauce, began around 200 B.C. & lasted 1,000 years
Cholula
Hester
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$1,200
[1]
David Balfour suffers illness, exposure & hunger as he travels across the highlands in "Kidnapped" by this author
Stevenson
Justin
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$1,200
[13]
Beckett & Ionesco are preeminent contributors to what's known as this style of drama
absurdist
|
$1,600
[9]
Said to be in league with the devil, this composer of "24 Capricci" for solo violin wasn't buried in holy ground until 5 years after death
Paganini
Steven
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$1,200
[3]
Henry Hudson set sail on the Discovery in 1610, hoping to discover this route to Asia but he discovered no such discovery
Northwest Passage
Steven
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$1,600
[19]
Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go's & Terry Hall of The Specials co-wrote this song after a clandestine romance
"Our Lips Are Sealed"
|
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$1,600
[6]
Honored in the monument seen here, this fallen king led a small but scrappy group of Spartans in the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae
Leonidas
Steven
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$1,600
[2]
It's gross that David Seville keeps a trio of these rodents in the house, as they can carry plague & hantavirus
the Chipmunks
Hester
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$1,600
[10]
What's that clamor? It's this noisy word that comes from the Greek for "bad sound"
cacophony
Steven
Justin
|
DD
$8,000
[4]
Plaques on neighboring London houses honor Jimi Hendrix & this German-born composer, a much earlier resident
Handel
Steven
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$2,000
[15]
It's a bird, it's a dinosaur, it's this Jurassic fossil discovered in Solnhofen, Germany; many say it proved Darwin right
Archaeopteryx
Hester
|
$2,000
[17]
"She Don't Use Jelly" was a 1993 hit for this group, perfect for the category
The Flaming Lips
|
|
$2,000
[24]
This word can mean "submissive" but is also the name of 3 uprisings that shook Rome; Plutarch called the last the "War of Spartacus"
servile
|
$2,000
[11]
This character hears "the squeaking & scuffling of the old grey rats down in the cellars" of Murdstone & Grinby's warehouse
David Copperfield
Steven
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$2,000
[8]
The Latin for "to close" gives us this word for a blockage found in dentistry & pathology
an occlusion
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Realizing he couldn't draw horses, the man behind this 1963 book drew the title characters purely from his imagination
Where the Wild Things Are