Will Riley game 4.
Francis Boyle — a playwright and teacher from Liberty Township, Ohio
Jennifer Foote — a lawyer from Albuquerque, New Mexico
Will Riley — an engineer originally from Houston, Texas (whose 3-day cash winnings total $54,403)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Will! | $5,800 | $11,200 | $17,000 |
$23,000
4-day champion: $77,403 |
$18,600
26 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jennifer | $1,600 | $2,600 | $3,800 |
$5,800
3rd place: $2,000 |
$3,800
5 R, 0 W |
| Francis | $1,600 | $1,400 | $5,200 |
$6,400
2nd place: $3,000 |
$12,600
18 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| VICTORIAN ENGLAND | AS DEFINED BY MERRIAM-WEBSTER | "& THE" MUSIC PLAYED ON | SUN KISSED | HOW MANY SQUARES CONTAIN... | BICYCLES |
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$200
[5]
Oxford Bishop Samuel Wilberforce challenged the theory of evolution & championed a modernization of this book from 1611
the King James Version of the Bible
Francis
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$200
[30]
"Inhabiting or frequenting trees"
arboreal
Francis
|
$200
[19]
"I Would Die 4 U" to remember both the leader & the backing band behind that 1984 Top 10 hit
Prince & The Revolution
|
$200
[29]
Promoting the Sol Invictus cult of ancient Rome, in 274 A.D. Emperor Aurelian set this December date as the Sun's birthday
December 25
Will!
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$200
[26]
Madrid's Plaza Mayorcontains Casa de la Panaderia, whose name tells you it was once the city's main one of these
a bakery
Will!
|
$200
[6]
Henri Desgrange was 38 when he organized the first of these multistage bicycle races in 1903
the Tour de France
Will!
|
|
$600
[2]
A beacon of scientific progress, the Royal Botanic Gardens go by this shorter name & opened to the public in 1840
Kew Gardens
Francis
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$400
[17]
"The naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it(such as buzz, hiss)"
onomatopoeia
Francis
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$400
[18]
In 1974 Elton John flew to the top of the charts with this song,"B-B-B..."
"Bennie & The Jets"
Will!
|
$400
[21]
Naturally, this famed Los Angeles street that's home to the Chateau Marmont runs generally east-west
Sunset Boulevard
Will!
|
$400
[25]
In Chongqing, China, a geology school on Culture Squarewas begun by this country to house the government of its puppet state of Manchukuo
Japan
Will!
|
$400
[28]
The 4-letter name of this American bike brand means a long journey, especially a tough one
Trek
Will!
|
|
$800
[1]
To round out the 19th century, England fought these wars: the first from 1880 to 1881, the second from 1899 to 1902
the Boer Wars
Will!
|
$600
[15]
"Obligatory", as in "It is ____ upon us", or"the holder of an office"
incumbent
Jennifer
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$600
[14]
"Just a little change / Small to say the least / Both a little scared / Neither one prepared..."this title pair
Beauty & The Beast
Francis
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$600
[9]
That's the golden Sun of May in the center of theflagof this South American nation
Argentina
Will!
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$600
[23]
Wright Squarein this Southeast U.S. port on the Atlantic has arockmemorializing James Oglethorpe's Yamacraw friend, Tomochichi
Savannah
Will!
|
$600
[7]
Colorado Springs is home to one of these banked cycling tracks, built as a training venue for U.S. Olympic cycling teams
a velodrome
Will!
|
|
$1,000
[3]
A biographer of this "Elephant Man" titled her book by his first name, Joseph, & says he's buried near Jack the Ripper victims
Merrick
Will!
|
$800
[16]
6-letter "member of a low caste" or one who "is despised or rejected: outcast"
pariah
Francis
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$800
[13]
"Don't Do Me Like That" was a 1979 hit for this group. Will you know them? I guess they were right; "The Waiting" is the hardest part
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Will!
|
$800
[10]
Schools in this athletic conference include Marshall University & Coastal Carolina
the Sun Belt Conference
Francis
|
$800
[22]
The Tel Avivsquarenamed for this prime minister who was assassinated there in 1995 contains pigeons, like every other square
Rabin
Will!
|
$800
[8]
French gives us this word for a mechanism that shifts gears on a bike by moving the bike's chain
the derailleur
|
|
DD
$1,800
[4]
The Match Girls strike of 1888 involved young women & their toxic exposure to this white element they put on match tips
phosphorus
Will!
|
$1,000
[20]
"To drop (cargo) to lighten a ship's load in time of distress"
jettison
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[12]
This just in--in the mid-'80s, this outfit had No. 1 hits with "The Power Of Love" & "Stuck With You"
Huey Lewis & The News
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[11]
Thisancient general wrote the earliest known treatise on military strategy & tactics
Sun Tzu
Francis
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$1,000
[24]
Merdeka, meaning "independence square", in this capital, contains the nationalmonumentcommissioned by President Sukarno
Jakarta
Will!
|
$1,000
[27]
A penny dreadful was a violent crime novel in Victorian England; around the same time was the bicycle called a penny this
a penny-farthing
Will!
|
| NOTES & QUERIES | SECOND LETTER "Y" | SCIENCE FACTS | EPONYMOUSLY YOURS | CAPITAL CITY MAYORS | NOT AMNESIA AGAIN... |
|
$400
[30]
With no record from that time of this poet's death in 1400, Terry Jones of Monty Python asked, "Who murdered" him
Chaucer
Francis
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$400
[29]
To be Pacific, the name of this type of large storm is from Chinese for "big wind"
typhoon
Will!
|
$400
[28]
Since octopuses have copper-rich hemocyanin instead of hemoglobin flowing through them, their blood appears this color
blue
Jennifer
|
$400
[27]
Beard trimming was a pet peeve of Jakob, the Mennonite leader for whom this religious group is named
the Amish
Will!
|
$400
[25]
Haris Doukas--tell the truth, you also thought Kostas Bakoyannis couldn't lose
Athens
Will!
|
$400
[26]
As Kelly Bundy, sheknew not much; playing the title role on "Samantha Who?" it's amnesia that cloudsherbrain
Applegate
Francis
|
|
$800
[22]
Clove cigarette-smoking angsty teens know this Russian's "Notes from the Underground" begins, "I am a sick man"
Dostoevsky
Francis
|
$800
[16]
Coined in 1960, it's an entity that's part human & part machine
a cyborg
Will!
Francis
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$800
[21]
Titania & Oberon were the first 2 moons discovered orbiting this planet
Uranus
Will!
Francis
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$800
[23]
Stensen's duct is the pathway this liquid takes from the parotid gland into the mouth
saliva
Francis
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$800
[15]
Vitali Klitschko, a former world heavyweight boxing champ known as "Dr. Ironfist"
Kyiv
Francis
|
$800
[24]
This blue tang would love to tell you her life story if she could remember it in "Finding Nemo"
Dory
Jennifer
|
|
$1,600
[17]
Philip Glass composed the soundtrack for this film about a teacher's illicit affair based on a Zoë Heller novel
Notes on a Scandal
Francis
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$1,200
[9]
Ancient religious rites held in honor of Demeter were known as the Eleusinian these
Mysteries
|
$1,200
[8]
Zoologists used this term for any animal at home on land & in water; the class can now also refer to species like the axolotl
amphibians (amphibious)
Will!
|
$1,200
[11]
You can have the horse by the stable door, or you can have no horse at all; that's this eponymous option
Hobson's choice
|
$1,200
[12]
Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim to hold the office
London
Will!
|
$1,200
[20]
On "Blindspot", Jaime Alexanderis found naked & covered in tattoos; she gets this name at first, as she has no memory of hers
Jane Doe
|
|
$2,000
[18]
A modern aesthetic was solidified in her 1964 partisan review essay "Notes on 'Camp'"
Susan Sontag
Will!
|
$1,600
[5]
Lasting for over 1,100 years, it was also known as the Eastern Roman Empire
the Byzantine Empire
Will!
|
$1,600
[3]
This group of rare earth elements is used in "L" products like lamps, lasers & laptops
the lanthanides
Will!
Francis
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$1,600
[10]
To the dismay of buffalo, Christian Sharps was an expert 19th century maker of these
rifles
Francis
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$2,000
[14]
Anne Hidalgo, noted for climate activism
Paris
|
$1,600
[1]
Thisfilm with a quirky storytelling style starred Guy Pearce as a man with no short-term memory
Memento
Francis
|
|
DD
$7,400
[7]
At the start of this Y.A. novel, the title character asks a higher power to not let "New Jersey be too horrible"
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Francis
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$2,000
[6]
A powerful antioxidant, this pigment is what makes a tomato red
lycopene
Francis
|
$2,000
[4]
These letter-perfect waves are the first to arrive at a seismograph station after an earthquake
P waves
Francis
|
$2,000
[19]
George Bernard Shaw was a member of this socialist society that believed in gradual change & was named for a Roman general
the Fabian Society
Francis
|
DD
$3,000
[13]
Mark Sutcliffe, who studied political science at Carleton University there
Ottawa
Will!
|
$2,000
[2]
The title of this 2004 film about intentionally induced amnesia comes from a 1717 poem
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Francis
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Chief Justice John Marshall wrote, "A law repugnant to the Constitution is void" in his landmark decision on this case
Marbury v. Madison