Tom Devlin game 1.
Tom Devlin — an attorney from Washington, D.C.
Elyse Erdman — a director of social media originally from Hershey, Pennsylvania
Dargan Ware — an attorney and writer from Bessemer, Alabama (whose 2-day cash winnings total $47,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dargan | $1,200 | $3,800 | $31,800 |
$8,600
2nd place: $3,000 |
$16,600
21 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Elyse | $600 | $600 | $1,000 |
$1,000
3rd place: $2,000 |
$1,000
4 R, 2 W |
| Tom | $12,000 | $15,600 | $27,200 |
$22,599
New champion: $22,599 |
$23,400
30 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| WORLD LANDMARKS | CRUDITÉS | WORDS FOR THE PEOPLE | THIS, THAT & THE OTHER THING | MOVIE PREQUELS | AUTUMN LEAVES |
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$200
[22]
An oracle might predict you'll enjoythisUNESCO-approved archaeological site in Greece
Delphi
Dargan
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$200
[30]
To conceal the existence of new radar tech, the U.K. government spread a myth that eating these improved pilot eyesight
carrots
Tom
|
$200
[23]
Family-wealthy Delaware governor Pete Du Pont once used "Joe" this beer purchase to mean the typical voter in his state
six-pack
Tom
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$200
[25]
It's still around online:Bed Bath & ____
Beyond
Dargan
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$200
[28]
Thisprequel to "Monsters, Inc." shows how Mike & Sully met in school & became unlikely friends
Monsters University
Elyse
Tom
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$200
[29]
November 9, 1918:This deposed leader leaves Germany & seeks asylum in the Netherlands, where he remains until his death
(Kaiser) Wilhelm
Elyse
Tom
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$400
[21]
The Cu Chi Tunnelsin this country are still there & atourist sitedespite Operation Crimp, an attempt to destroy them
Vietnam
Dargan
|
$400
[24]
The crunchy green stalks of this parsley cousin are what we usually eat, though the seeds can add flavor to soups & pickles
celery
Dargan
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$400
[20]
From Latin for "producers of offspring", this class was tasked with makin' babies; later, Marx tasked them with revolution
the proletariat
Dargan
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$400
[15]
Tennis umpire's traditional concluding announcement:"game, set, ____"
match
Tom
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$400
[27]
Afilmsubtitled "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" takes place 64 years prior to the other four films in this series
The Hunger Games
Dargan
|
$400
[26]
October 4, 1883:This train leaves Paris on its maiden journey, bound for Constantinople; no one aboard is murdered
the Orient Express
Tom
|
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$600
[1]
10,000 worshipers can fit into the prayer hall of the Abuja National one of these in Nigeria
a mosque
Tom
|
$600
[14]
These peppery root vegetables in the mustard family are low in calories & a favorite food of Fraggles
radishes
Dargan
Elyse
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$800
[2]
After Occupy Wall Street's 1-year anniversary, Tom Morello co-wrote a song called "We Are" this numerical group
the 99%
Tom
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$600
[6]
Freud's 3 personality components:id, ego & ____
superego
Tom
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$600
[9]
Set amongst Comanches in the Great Plains, this prequel to "Predator" takes place in the early 1700s
Prey
Dargan
|
$600
[16]
Oct. 31, 1967:This royal lady departs on her last ocean voyage, leaving Southampton & docking in Long Beach
the Queen Mary
Dargan
|
|
$800
[4]
Oh dam! Oh dam! Oh dam! Construction of this 600' tall dam just west of Yichang began in 1994 & its reservoir may have caused earthquakes
the Three Gorges Dam
Tom
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$800
[3]
In "Big" Tom Hanks comically chewed the kernels off this, which is eaten whole, not off the cob
baby corn
Dargan
Tom
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$1,000
[12]
An Emma Lazarus poem includes the line "Give me your tired, your poor, your" these "yearning to breathe free"
huddled masses
Dargan
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$800
[5]
Dumas' 3 Musketeers:Athos, Aramis & ____
Porthos
Tom
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$800
[8]
"Puss in Boots", with this actor voicing the title feline, was a spin-off of "Shrek 2", as well as a prequel
Banderas
Tom
|
$800
[17]
November 14, 1889:This journalist leaves New York to break a record set by Phileas Fogg (who's fictional, BTW)
(Nellie) Bly
Tom
|
|
$1,000
[13]
The totem poles at Brockton Point are an attraction in this Canadian province
British Columbia
Tom
|
$1,000
[19]
This tuber with a name beginning with "J" is also known as the Mexican turnip & packs a watery crunch
jicama
Tom
|
DD
$4,400
[7]
This word for the rabble is classified 4F; Fs are half its letters
riffraff
Tom
|
$1,000
[11]
Bones of the ear:malleus, incus & ____
stapes
Tom
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$1,000
[10]
A prequel to "The Mummy", this filmgave Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson his first starring role
The Scorpion King
Dargan
|
$1,000
[18]
October 10, 1973:This former governor of Maryland takes leave of the vice presidency, though not by choice
Agnew
Tom
|
| THE PRESIDENT'S PRESENTS | CELEBRITIES | STARTS WITH A DOUBLED VOWEL | SCIENCE | IN DA CLUB | GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN' |
|
$400
[21]
In an 1861 letter, King Mongkut of Siam offered the prez a herd of these animals described as having "great size & strength"
elephants
Elyse
|
$400
[1]
She found success in "Ray" & "She Hate Me" before a bout of "Scandal"
Kerry Washington
Elyse
|
$400
[27]
This interjection used when making a mistake means the same thing when you add "WH" to the front of it
oops
Dargan
|
$400
[28]
The pineal gland in the brain secretes this "sleep hormone" into the fluid around the brain & spinal cord
melatonin
Elyse
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$400
[29]
This "Club" known for all-inclusive vacation packages got its start on islands around the body of water it's named for
Club Med
Tom
|
$400
[30]
Dantès is thrown into the water inside of a burial shroud before finding treasure on an uninhabited island in this novel
The Count of Monte Cristo
Tom
|
|
$800
[20]
A remark by this first lady about a panda logo to Zhou Enlai led to Ling Ling & Hsing Hsing being a thing thing in D.C.
Pat Nixon
Dargan
|
$800
[2]
At "SNL50: The Anniversary Special" this pop star told Paul Simon that she wasn't alive in 1976 & joked her parents weren't either
(Sabrina) Carpenter
Dargan
Tom
|
$800
[24]
Some think this animal was a basis for depictions of the Egyptian god Set
an aardvark
Tom
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$800
[12]
Beavers, wolves & ochre sea stars are examples of this ecological niche named for an important element in an arch
a keystone species
Dargan
|
$800
[25]
Cannon Club, Cap & Gown & Tiger Inn are among the eating clubs at this Ivy League school
Princeton
Tom
|
$800
[26]
In this novel by Twain & Warner that lent its name to a time period, the Hawkins fam tries to get rich by hook or by crook
The Gilded Age
Dargan
|
|
$1,200
[9]
In the '90s, the prez of Indonesia gave George H.W. Bush one of these monitor lizards with toxic saliva; Bush gave it to a zoo
a Komodo dragon
Dargan
|
$1,200
[13]
Characters played by this actress include Maria, Anthea & Snow White
Rachel Zegler
|
$1,200
[6]
This adjective comes before "Moan" in the name of a Duke Ellington piece
eerie
Tom
|
$1,200
[5]
It does take a rocket scientist to calculate this minimum speed required to break free from a planet's gravity
escape velocity
Tom
|
$1,600
[16]
You went down 18 stone steps to enter this club, the home of The Beatles, at 10 Matthew Street in Liverpool
the Cavern Club
Tom
|
$1,600
[18]
A couple die trying to keep a briefcase chock full of cash from a drug deal gone bad in this novel by Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men
Dargan
|
|
$1,600
[10]
Received in 1880, the president's Resolute Desk was a gift from Queen Victoria to this sitting president
Hayes
Dargan
|
$1,600
[22]
In 2019 this Oscar-winning British actress curated a photography exhibition called "Orlando"
Tilda Swinton
Tom
|
$1,600
[3]
A cell from which an ovum develops
an oocyte
Tom
|
$1,600
[4]
The day honoring this unit of measure in chemistry is celebrated on October 23, since Avogadro's number is 6.02 times 1023
the mole
Tom
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$2,000
[17]
The musical "Cabaret" welcomes you to this club in Berlin
the Kit Kat Club
Dargan
|
$2,000
[19]
In "Double Indemnity" by this author, Walter Huff thinks an accidental death insurance policy can result in a true daily double
James M. Cain
|
|
$2,000
[11]
After the 1943 conference of this coastal city, Winston Churchill painted a mosque in Marrakesh & gifted the work to FDR
Casablanca
Tom
|
$2,000
[23]
It's the B-H-heavy alliterative stage name of Danielle Bregoli, the "Cash Me Outside" girl
Bhad Bhabie
Tom
|
$2,000
[8]
In French, this city of Western Germany is known as Aix-la-Chapelle
Aachen
Dargan
|
$2,000
[7]
Chemists know that if you're not part of the solution, you're part of this, the solid sediment that falls out of solution
precipitate (precipitation)
Tom
|
DD
$9,000
[15]
Founded in 1892, it originally focused on the conservation of some of California's mountains
the Sierra Club
Dargan
|
DD
$8,600
[14]
Harry Jones is a grifter after a payday who takes an interminable doze in this work, Philip Marlowe's 1st full-length appearance
The Big Sleep
Dargan
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When area codes were introduced, 3 very populous areas got the ones quickest to dial: these 3 codes
212, 213, 312