Will Riley game 3.
Eddie Kass — a double bassist from Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Chelsea Carter — a creative director from Pasadena, California
Will Riley — an engineer originally from Houston, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $45,602)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Will! | $3,600 | $6,000 | $12,200 |
$8,801
3-day champion: $54,403 |
$15,200
16 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Chelsea | $1,400 | $4,400 | $4,400 |
$8,799
2nd place: $3,000 |
$4,400
10 R, 1 W |
| Eddie | $4,200 | $2,800 | $13,800 |
$2,800
3rd place: $2,000 |
$18,200
21 R, 2 W (including 2 DDs) |
| REMEMBER DECEMBER | THE "NEW" WORLD | PRISON LINGO | LITERARY AGENTS | THE NAME OF THE GAME | THAT'S A CHRISTMAS MOVIE |
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$200
[30]
This song heard often in December was once called "One Horse Open Sleigh" & was written for Thanksgiving
"Jingle Bells"
Chelsea
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$200
[17]
350,000 cubic feet of granite from this state was quarried to build the Library of Congress
New Hampshire
Chelsea
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$200
[18]
As heard in "The Shawshank Redemption", new inmates are called these, since they are "out of water" & in a new environment
fish(es)
Will!
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$200
[27]
Elmore Leonard created Joe LaBrava, an ex-one of these agents with memories of "Mrs. Truman's Living Room"
Secret Service agent
Will!
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$200
[21]
Choose word or phrase; have foe try to guess, letter by letter; invent wheel-based game show based on it (oops, too late!)
hangman
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$200
[3]
All due respect to Mr. Willis, but "now I have a machine gun ho-ho-ho"? & taking place during a holiday party? It's a Christmas movie!
Die Hard
Eddie
|
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$400
[22]
During the winter solstice each December, this spot on the Earth is tilted 23.4 degrees away from the Sun
the North Pole
Eddie
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$400
[12]
Of the 45 species of brilliantly plumedbirds of paradise, this biodiverse island is home to all but a few
New Guinea
Eddie
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$400
[26]
"Flying" one of these isn't a hobby glamorized in "Mary Poppins" but a secret message passed between prisoners
a kite
Chelsea
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$400
[5]
Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Agent" is Verloc, who executes a plan to implicate these anti-all-government types
anarchists
Eddie
|
$400
[15]
54 blocks; remove; re-stack, repeat
Jenga
Eddie
|
$600
[28]
Chevy Chase learned a metal plate in Cousin Eddie's head made him forget who he was for a bit after using a microwave in this comedy
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Chelsea
|
|
$600
[14]
Not just self-adulation, but beauty & youth are associated with the name of this birth flower for December
a narcissus
Eddie
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$600
[10]
It's Canada's only officially bilingual province; English & le français have equal status
New Brunswick
Eddie
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$600
[4]
"Orange Is the New Black" mentions this 3-letter acronym for solitary confinement that sounds like an apparel item
the SHU
|
$600
[6]
She begins "Song of Solomon" with a life insurance agent determined to fly from the roof of Mercy Hospital
Morrison
Chelsea
|
$600
[20]
Meet, then escort Ellie to safety; see what's left of the U.S.; encounter a whole bunch of unsafe stuff
The Last of Us
Chelsea
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$800
[2]
The tagline tothis1996 Christmas comedy with Arnold Schwarzenegger was "Two dads, one toy, no prisoners"
Jingle All the Way
Chelsea
|
|
$800
[13]
The shammash, a "servant" candle, is used to light the other 8 on this candle holder seen in Jewish windows
a menorah
Will!
|
$800
[1]
World capital that's home to the sandstone arch seen here, a British war monument completed in 1931
New Delhi
Eddie
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$800
[8]
A LAPL exhibit on prisoners' inventions included a DIY tool used to boil water called this, like a barbed insect organ
a stinger
Eddie
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$800
[7]
A landed proprietor in Russia himself, he wrote a tale of "A Landed Proprietor" in which a land agent has ruined a poor serf
Tolstoy
Will!
|
$800
[19]
144 tiles; chow down; dragons & flowers & wind, oh my!
mahjong
Eddie
|
$1,000
[29]
It's all in the cards in this movie: "Just because it's Christmas... (and at Christmas you tell the truth)... to me, you are perfect"
Love Actually
Chelsea
|
|
$1,000
[24]
The most popular of the Roman festivals, this December celebration of much merrymaking was dedicated to the god of agriculture
Saturnalia
Will!
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$1,000
[11]
Whatever you do, don't bring coal to this British city on the River Tyne--it already has a whole idiom's worth
Newcastle
Will!
|
$1,000
[9]
Some inmates have used this Aztecan language for coded conversations in prison (macuahuitl could mean shiv for instance)
Nahuatl
Will!
|
$1,000
[16]
2025 is the centennial year of this conservative thinker who was recruited by the CIA & created fictional spy Blackford Oakes
William F. Buckley Jr.
Will!
|
$1,000
[25]
Go through phases, including movement & shooting; unit coherency is crucial; 40K reasons to leave your lover
Warhammer ( 40,000 )
|
DD
$2,600
[23]
In this 2003 movie, we learned "They tried using gnomes & trolls, but the gnomes drank too much"
Elf
Eddie
|
| CIVIL WAR ERA GEOGRAPHY | PAINTINGS | BROADWAY NUMBER, PLEASE | FROM THE FRENCH | MAKE YOUR OWN WES ANDERSON MOVIE TITLE | MED. ABBREV. |
|
$400
[21]
For this state to enter the Union, it had to telegraph its constitution to D.C. from Carson City, then the longest wire ever sent
Nevada
Will!
|
$400
[5]
In 1994 this iconic Edvard Munch painting was stolen from a museum in Oslo; makes me just want to...; luckily it was recovered
The Scream
Chelsea
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$400
[6]
"A Chorus Line":"____ singular sensation, every little step she takes"
1
Eddie
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$400
[28]
You're a winner, baby! Specifically this 8-letter winner of a game or battle
champion
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$400
[8]
The+ the largest city on the Tagus River+ a coffee drink, the basis of cappuccino
The Lisbon Espresso
Eddie
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$1,200
[24]
On a medical chart, a DNR order stands for this
do not resuscitate
Eddie
|
|
$800
[20]
Despite a blockade, this Alabama port city continued to function until 1864 when a battle nearby was won by a federal naval force
Mobile
Will!
|
$800
[1]
Though better known for his Tahitian paintings, this Frenchman also did a "Still Life with Three Puppies"
Gauguin
Eddie
|
$800
[7]
"Guys & Dolls":"Call it hell, call it heaven, but it's a probable 12 to ____ that the guy's only doing it for some doll"
7
|
$800
[13]
This type of close watch or security comes from the French for "to watch over"
surveillance
Eddie
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$800
[14]
The+ North Africa's barren waste+ a short office communication from Latin for "to be remembered"
The Sahara Memo
Will!
|
$1,600
[23]
CSF is short for this, withdrawn in a lumbar puncture
cerebrospinal fluid
Will!
|
|
$1,200
[15]
Confederate General Thomas Jackson got his "Stonewall" nickname from standing firm at the first battle of this Virginia stream
Bull Run
Will!
Eddie
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$1,200
[2]
9 figures from classical mythology, including Flora & Venus, appear in an orange grove in this Botticelli work
Primavera ( Spring )
Will!
Eddie
|
$1,200
[9]
"Chess":"Oh, I'm the arbiter. I know the score. From square one I'll be watching all ____"
64
|
$1,200
[12]
Whew! The tumor is this non-cancerous type, a borrowing from French & ultimately partly from Latin for "well"
benign
Chelsea
|
$1,200
[25]
The+ a bellicose ancient city also called Lacedaemon+ a ballroom dance by definition for 4 couples
The Sparta Quadrille
|
$2,000
[22]
Antibodies are also called these, Ig for short
immunoglobulins
Will!
|
|
$2,000
[19]
Lincoln was nominated for president in 1860 in the Wigwam, a wooden structure at what's now Lake & Wacker in this city
Chicago
Will!
|
$1,600
[3]
1891's "The Circus" was this pointillist's last painting before his untimely death
Seurat
Eddie
|
$1,600
[16]
"Les Mis":"And so Javert, you see it's true. This man bears no more guilt than you. Who am I? ____"
24601
Eddie
|
DD
$1,800
[10]
The originally French word for this deadly natural phenomenon was influenced by a French word for "descent"
avalanche
Eddie
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$1,600
[26]
The + "Citizen Kane" director+ high-in-the-forest apple juice brand+ book of maps
The Orson Welles Tree Top Atlas
Chelsea
Eddie
|
— |
|
DD
$3,000
[18]
This city on a bend in the Mississippi River was called "The Gibraltar of the West"; the Union captured it in 1863
Vicksburg
Will!
|
$2,000
[4]
In the 1890s, Monetpaintedsome 30 views of thecathedralin this Normandy capital at different times of day
Rouen
Eddie
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$2,000
[17]
"Rent":"____ minutes, how do you measure a year in the life?"
525,600
Will!
|
$2,000
[11]
The word "dictator" is from Latin; this other "D" word for a similar type of absolute ruler is borrowed from French
a despot
Will!
|
$2,000
[27]
The+ adjective meaning regarding a sheep+ a Palm Beach presidential home+ an agreement that puts an end to a war
The Ovine Mar-a-Lago Treaty
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— |
The son of a former serf buys this title area for 90,000 rubles above the mortgage
The Cherry Orchard