Amanda Tholke — a criminal defense attorney from Cincinnati, Ohio
Nick Petrilli — a casino surveillance manager from Binghamton, New York
Dargan Ware — an attorney and writer from Bessemer, Alabama (whose 1-day cash winnings total $26,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dargan | $3,800 | $6,400 | $21,200 |
$21,601
2-day champion: $47,801 |
$17,600
22 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Nick | $2,400 | $1,000 | $4,200 |
$4,200
2nd place: $3,000 |
$7,000
12 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Amanda | $2,800 | $3,600 | $10,800 |
$0
3rd place: $2,000 |
$12,800
17 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
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$200
[29]
In Pasadena, California, 1001 this Drive is the site of a very bigbuildingof the same name
the Rose Bowl
Amanda
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$200
[28]
By Stephen King:"The ____ Half" &"The ____ Tower"
Dark
Amanda
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$200
[27]
Paronomasia is a fancy word for this type of wordplay
a pun
Dargan
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$200
[30]
Nautiluses are different from other living cephalopods in still having this protective feature be external
their shell
Dargan
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$200
[25]
The 1973 Lincoln Continental Mark IV introduced this, which unlike a sunroof was made of tinted glass
a moonroof
Nick
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$200
[15]
(I'm David Ortiz.) My Red Sox were facing elimination by the Yankees when Ihita 12th inning homer to win Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS as we overcame the hex known as "the curse of"this man
Babe Ruth
Amanda
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$400
[22]
Foritsability to seemingly rise from the dead, the Rose of Jerichois also known as this plant
the resurrection plant
Dargan
Nick
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$400
[16]
1897:"The ____ Man" &1952:no "The", just ____ "Man"
Invisible
Nick
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$400
[26]
Slang for a tattoo
ink
Dargan
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$400
[23]
These pinnipeds have been hunted for their blubber, hides & tusks, used as ivory
walruses
Nick
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$400
[24]
Adaptive this setting automatically adjusts a car's speed to safely follow vehicles in front of it
cruise control
Amanda
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$400
[14]
(I'm Ken Rosenthal.)Don Larsenhad a career record of just 81 wins & 91 losses; but in 1956, against a stacked Brooklyn line-up that included five future Hall of Famers, hebecame the first & still the only pitcher to toss one of these gems in the World Series--27 Dodgers up, 27 Dodgers down
a perfect game
Amanda
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$600
[1]
This band's long-delayed 2008 album "Chinese Democracy" racked up an estimated $13 million in production costs
Guns N' Roses
Dargan
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$600
[4]
"Sarah, ____ and ____"
Plain & Tall
Dargan
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$600
[7]
Betty Grable was popular as this type of girl featured on posters during World War II
pin-up
Dargan
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$600
[10]
These big South American rodents have become popular in Japan, partly due to their habit of straight chilling in hot springs
capybara
Nick
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$600
[20]
Despite the name, you're probably better off just stepping on one of these platforms
running boards
Dargan
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$600
[13]
(I'm Derek Jeter.) I've gotten all kinds of praise for making the flipplayto the plate to cut down Jeremy Giambiin the 2001 ALDS, but it wouldn't have mattered without a great catch & tag by this All-Star catcher, my Yankees teammate for 17 seasons & 5 World Series titles
Posada
Amanda
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$800
[2]
Striptease artist Gypsy Rose Leewas a major star of this daring form of entertainment with a French name
burlesque
Amanda
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$800
[5]
A Pulitzer Prize winner:"____ Dove"
Lonesome
Amanda
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$800
[8]
Carnations are part of this family of flowers
(the) pink (family)
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$800
[21]
Stag, rhinoceros & elephant are not just animals in themselves, but also species of this insect in the order Coleoptera
beetles
Nick
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$1,000
[19]
Driving a muscle car? [engine revving] You'll want one of these gauges that displays engine revolutions per minute
a tachometer
Dargan
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$800
[12]
(Joe Davis & John Smoltz present the clue.) In Game 1 of the 1988 World Series, Kirk Gibson's dramatic game-winning homer gave us iconic calls from two broadcasting legends: on radio, Jack Buck's "I don't believe what I just saw", & on television, "She is gone" from this late legend
Vin Scully
Nick
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$1,000
[3]
Common in Gothic architecture, the rose type of this is also called the wheel type
a window
Dargan
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$1,000
[6]
By Margaret Atwood:"The ____ Assassin"
Blind
Dargan
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$1,000
[9]
Shorthand for a type of bond, or last name of Paul, an Oscar winner in the '30s as Louis Pasteur
muni
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$1,000
[18]
Poaching these small songbirds is illegal in France, where they were formerly eaten as a delicacy
Ortolan
Dargan
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DD
$2,800
[17]
Found on many cars manufactured after 2002, the LATCH system provides secure attachment points for these
(child) car seats
Nick
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$1,000
[11]
(I'm Alex Rodriguez.) Acclaimed as the greatest defensive third baseman ever, this16-time Gold Glove winner dominated the 1970 postseason, hitting .583 in the ALCS before leading the Orioles to a World Series title with a red-hotbat& spectacularplayin the field
Brooks Robinson
Nick
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$400
[26]
Maybe going from Aesop to Zeno, the Pinakes was one of these registers of the library's contents, from Greek for "list"
a catalog
Dargan
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$400
[25]
In "Quick Change" Bill Murray robs a bank dressed as this, described by police as "average height... red nose, blue hair"
a clown
Dargan
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$400
[30]
Pay your respects to Queen Hatshepsut, who died around 1460 B.C., at Cairo's hall devoted to these relics, 20 in all
mummies
Amanda
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$400
[29]
There's nothing funny about it; 1 of 4 fundamental fluids of the body to the ancients; can also mean to indulge a whim
a humor
Dargan
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$400
[21]
Not in the family vault, but all by myself on anisland, like the one on England's Althorp Estate, where this woman rests
Princess Diana
Amanda
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$400
[28]
James Fenimore Cooper took his leatherstockinged hero to "The Prairie", "natural meadows" that lie "west of" this river
the Mississippi
Amanda
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|
$800
[14]
Library scholar Eratosthenes was one of the first to study these integers divisible only by themselves & 1
prime numbers
Nick
|
$800
[24]
Do a quick headcount & you'll have a clue tothis1960 film about a casino robbery
Ocean's 11
Amanda
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$800
[23]
Historians wonder, was Queen Joan of Castile really mad? Or en Español, ¿Estaba realmente Juana this word?
loca
Dargan
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$800
[22]
Nickname of a Japanese plane introduced in 1940; Leonardo da Pisa called it "Zephirum"
Zero
Nick
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$800
[20]
Not at St. Peter's, said Pope Francis, but at St. Mary Major, which also has the Holy this where baby Jesus napped
Crib
Dargan
Nick
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$800
[27]
Like "The Streets of Laredo", the song "Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie" is also known as "The Dying" this prairie guy
cowboy
Amanda
|
|
$1,200
[11]
Librarian Apollonius of Rhodes wrote an epic about this group led by Jason intended for the highbrow Alexandrians
the Argonauts
Amanda
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$1,200
[3]
A memorable scene in "Dog Day Afternoon" features hapless bank robber Al Pacino shouting the name of this New York prison
Attica
Nick
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$1,200
[6]
In 1916, Charles I of Austria also had this country's lastcoronation; it was filmed by future director of "Casablanca", Michael Curtiz
Hungary
Dargan
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$1,200
[7]
A confused state; precedes "tremens" in a form of withdrawal
delirium
Dargan
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$1,600
[18]
Not in a country I ever set foot in, like this institutionfounder, moved to D.C. 75 years after his death
Smithson
Amanda
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$1,200
[10]
In the early 1880s De Smet, Dakota Territory was the home of this family in prairie lit: Charles, Caroline & their 3 girls
the Ingalls
Nick
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$1,600
[12]
According to Seneca, "40,000 books of Alexandria burned" after this Roman general started a fire in 48 B.C.
Julius Caesar
Dargan
Nick
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$1,600
[1]
Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson & Jimmy Carter rob banks in this movie; well, guys wearing their masks do
Point Break
Nick
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$1,600
[4]
Thisfuture queen's marriage to a German just 20 years after World War II got her in Dutch, but she & her husband became very popular
Beatrix
Dargan
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$1,600
[8]
A woman who likes the chisme or gossip, like the matchmaker in "Fiddler on the Roof", but ends with an "A", not an "E"
a yenta
Amanda
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$2,000
[19]
Model & muse Kiki de this artistic area on the Left Bank--not in the cemetery of the same name but in the Paris suburb of Thiais
Montparnasse
Amanda
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$1,600
[15]
Last season we went for the eastern- & westernmost of Canada's 3 Prairie provinces, Manitoba & Alberta; time for this middle one
Saskatchewan
Dargan
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|
DD
$2,000
[13]
One story goes that the library rented the works of these 3 dramatists from the Athenian archives & kept the originals
Sophocles, Euripedes & Aeschylus
Amanda
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$2,000
[2]
Jeff Bridges will not abide Chris Pine & Ben Foster robbing branches of a Texas bank in this 2016 film
Hell or High Water
Dargan
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$2,000
[5]
In 2019, a former flight attendantmarried King Vajiralongkorn & became Queen Suthida of this Asian country
Thailand
Dargan
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$2,000
[9]
An "all-seeing" prison design proposed by Jeremy Bentham; a design likened to a honeycomb
a panopticon
Dargan
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DD
$4,800
[17]
Not in a ballpark or on a polo field but on a golf course, like this famous first wife who died in 2022 & ended up in Bedminster, N.J.
Ivana Trump
Dargan
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$2,000
[16]
Kansas has a Natl. Preserve of this "prairie" that once covered 170 million acres; how high exactly, you ask? Up to 8 feet
tallgrass prairie
Dargan
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A 1984 trip to Normandy inspired this journalist to write a book that popularized a term for an era of Americans
Tom Brokaw