Steven Olson game 4.
Jaedon Jerue — a 7th grade math teacher from Danville, Illinois
Natalie Shapero — an English professor from Los Angeles, California
Steven Olson — a band director from Princeton, Illinois (whose 3-day cash winnings total $57,089)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steven | $3,400 | $6,800 | $17,200 |
$17,293
4-day champion: $74,382 |
$20,800
28 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Natalie | $3,600 | $5,600 | $8,000 |
$14,000
2nd place: $3,000 |
$8,000
11 R, 0 W |
| Jaedon | $1,400 | $2,200 | $6,400 |
$4,799
3rd place: $2,000 |
$6,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| A PHRASE IN HISTORY | COUNTRY MUSIC | 4-LETTER HOMOPHONES | STREET SMARTS | FELLAS IN NOVELLAS | STEWS OF THE WORLD |
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$200
[30]
At the end of 1940 FDR said there will be no bottlenecks in U.S. aid to Britain, as we must be "the great arsenal of" this
democracy
Steven
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$200
[29]
Dolly Parton sang this name, this name, this name, this naaaaame, "I'm begging of you please don't take my man"
Jolene
Natalie
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$200
[28]
Lines of seats&got up from bed
rows/rose
Steven
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$200
[26]
The Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building & the Apollo Theater are along125th Streetin this neighborhood
Harlem
Steven
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$200
[25]
The hero of Daniel Keyes' "Flowers for Algernon" is a 30-something factory worker; the title character is one of these furry fellas
a mouse
Jaedon
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$200
[27]
One of Walt Disney's favorite foods was this all-American stew with deep Mexican roots; he ate it from the can & con carne
chili
Jaedon
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$400
[14]
After a defeat in battle, French king Francis I is quoted, "All is lost save" this, one-third of the West Point motto
honor
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$400
[17]
"Before He Cheats" by this singer was the CMA's Single of the Year in 2007; she'd soon become a fixture on that award show
Carrie Underwood
Jaedon
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$400
[6]
24-hour periods&to stun
days/daze
Jaedon
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$400
[15]
Check out Preservation Hall on St. Peter & Cafe Beignet on Decatur in this lovely NOLA area
French Quarter
Steven
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$400
[7]
Hot-blooded Don José has some jealousy issues in this 1845 Prosper Mérimée novella; it inspired a Bizet opera of the same name
Carmen
Steven
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$400
[19]
Elmer Fudd could tell you that it's the traditional main ingredient in hasenpfeffer
rabbit
Steven
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$800
[1]
The Romans offered besieged cities mercy but not if murum aries attigisset, this has "touched the wall"
the (battering) ram
Steven
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$600
[20]
In 1971, 3 of the 5 Grammy Country Song nominees were written by this late master, not yet a movie actor
Kris Kristofferson
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$600
[5]
A price&the open-air event you might go to after paying
fare/fair
Natalie
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$600
[16]
Find the New Daisy Theatre & Rum Boogie Cafe's blues hall while carousing through this street in Memphis
Beale
Steven
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$600
[9]
A magistrate refers to the Frenchman Meursault as "Monsieur Antichrist"; Albert Camus opts for this title designation
the Stranger
Steven
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$600
[10]
Paprika-heavy Pörkölt is the heartier cousin of this Hungarian dish whose name can also mean a jumble
goulash
Natalie
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DD
$1,000
[2]
Conquistador Cortés told the Aztecs, "We Spaniards suffer from a disease of the heart that only" this substance "can cure"
gold
Steven
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$800
[24]
For Willie Nelson, "the life I love is makin' music with my friends" when the legend was in this title touring situation
on the road again
Steven
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$800
[4]
To wander&a city about 15 miles from Utica, New York
roam/Rome
Natalie
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$800
[8]
Brattle Street & John F. Kennedy Street both lead to this square in Cambridge where you'll find the Coop flagship store
Harvard (Square)
Natalie
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$800
[11]
In this Steinbeck "gem", a diver named Kino learns to be careful what one wishes for
The Pearl
Steven
Natalie
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$800
[21]
The name of this Cuban dish of stewed shredded beef means "old clothes" & may refer to its tattered appearance
ropa vieja
Natalie
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$1,000
[13]
Historian Estelle Paranque places 1547, when the boy Edward VI succeeded Henry VIII, as the year these 8 words caught on
the king is dead, long live the king
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$1,000
[23]
With tunes like "Whiskey And You" & "Tennessee Whiskey", no surprise this singer-songwriter co-founded Traveller Whiskey
Chris Stapleton
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$1,000
[3]
Took to the air&a vent that carries smoke
flew/flue
Steven
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$1,000
[18]
"Experience" this Las Vegas street by losing nuggets at the Golden Nugget or billions at Binion's
Fremont (Street)
Steven
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$1,000
[12]
For this title dead guy in a Leo Tolstoy novella, the unlikely cause of his death is hanging curtains
Ivan Ilyich
Jaedon
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$1,000
[22]
Budae-jiigai, or army base stew, is a comfort food dish that originated in the 20th century in this country
South Korea
Natalie
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| GEOGRAPHIC NAME GAME | "V"OCABULARY | FILMS OUT OF HISTORY | ON THE SILK ROAD | MARINE BIOLOGY | DO YOU LIKE PHOTOGRAPHY? |
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$400
[24]
Stretching from the Red Sea to the Atlantic, it gets its name from the Arabic for "desert"
Sahara
Jaedon
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$400
[22]
Disease-spreading rats & mice & cockroaches, oh my!
vermin
Natalie
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$400
[28]
Adrien Brody won an Oscar for playing the Chopin-loving Wladyslaw Szpilman in this film
The Pianist
Natalie
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$400
[27]
As silk went west from China on the road, gold, Christianity & this 13th century Venetian explorer went east
Marco Polo
Steven
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$400
[26]
Kathleen Drew-Baker is known as "Mother of the Sea" in Japan due to her pioneering work in the cultivation of this sushi substance
nori (seaweed)
Steven
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$400
[30]
To a "shooter", a news camera operator, the "sticks" are this important accessory
a tripod
Steven
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$800
[21]
Though its name has changed slightly, this Jamaican bay's name was once the Spanish for "butter bay"
Montego
Steven
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$800
[11]
It's a 9-letter word for the entryway in a church where literature & bulletin boards are found
vestibule
Steven
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$800
[19]
(Omar J. Dorsey presents the clue.) Alongside David Oyelowo, who played Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I portrayed another lion of the civil rights era, Reverend James "Shackdaddy" Orange, inthis2014 movie
Selma
Steven
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$800
[15]
Trade routes go way back; the Indian goddess seenherewas found at this famous Roman archaeological site
Pompeii
Jaedon
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$800
[20]
Whales' closest living relatives are these semi-aquatic mammals of Africa; they had a common ancestor that lived 55 million years ago
hippo
Steven
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$800
[29]
Old-timey photos may be tintypes, but the predecessor to modern prints used gelatin & usually salts of this precious metal
silver
Jaedon
|
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$1,200
[1]
Maurice of Nassau lent his name to this island of the Indian Ocean
Mauritius
Steven
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$1,200
[8]
Insert 2 letters into a word meaning to disappear to get this term meaning to defeat in battle
vanquish (from vanish)
Steven
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$1,200
[16]
The decades-longhuntfor Osama bin Laden was chronicled in this Oscar-winning film
Zero Dark Thirty
Jaedon
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$1,200
[6]
Part of the southern route is still a highway connecting Pakistan & China, named for this mountain range NW of the Himalayas
Karakoram
Steven
Jaedon
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$1,200
[9]
Despite living in salty or brackish water, this large marine mammal of the order Sirenia relies heavily on fresh water for hydration
manatee
Steven
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$1,200
[12]
Many professional photographers today use a digital SLR, short for this type of camera
single lens reflex
|
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$1,600
[3]
Literally "the harbor", this port city on the English Channel offers ferry service across "La Manche"
Le Havre
Steven
Jaedon
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$1,600
[7]
It's used to describe a liquid that's thick & sticky
viscous
Steven
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$1,600
[17]
This Christopher Nolan film from 2017 saw Barry Keoghan spending a lot of time in a boat off the coast of France
Dunkirk
Natalie
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$1,600
[2]
A major stop in this country was Samarkand, "stone city"; its modern capital Tashkent means the same thing
Uzbekistan
Jaedon
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$1,600
[10]
In the Billion-this bivalve Project, they're being restored to N.Y. Harbor to help with water quality, storm surges & more
oysters
Steven
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$1,600
[25]
The focal ratio, also called the f-stop, is the ratio of the focal length to the diameter of this opening in a camera
aperture
Steven
|
|
DD
$2,200
[4]
Magellan named this southern archipelago after the fires he saw while passing through
Tierra del Fuego
Jaedon
|
DD
$4,000
[14]
Used for heart conditions & high blood pressure, it's any medication designed to widen the blood vessels
vasodilator
Steven
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$2,000
[18]
More than $13 million was spent on this 1962 David Lean epic that re-created the town of Aqaba on a beach in southern Spain
Lawrence of Arabia
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$2,000
[5]
This Poe poem tells of the Central Asian emperor also known as Timur who controlled much of the route
"Tamerlane"
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$2,000
[13]
The fish seenhereis commonly called this hyphenated military rank due to its stripes' resemblance to grade insignia
the sergeant-major
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$2,000
[23]
In the late 1830s, this Frenchman refined a photographic process to require less than an hour of exposure
Daguerre
Steven
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A 2011 email said, "On September 17, we want to see 20,000 people... set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and" these 3 words
occupy Wall Street