Will Riley game 5.
Madelyn Dawson — a writer and editor from Staten Island, New York
Trey Hart — a grant writer from Petaluma, California
Will Riley — an engineer originally from Houston, Texas (whose 4-day cash winnings total $77,403)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Will! | $3,795 | $4,795 | $10,395 |
$10,395
2nd place: $3,000 |
$10,400
20 R, 8 W (including 1 DD) |
| Trey | $3,200 | $6,400 | $19,600 |
$24,100
New champion: $24,100 |
$16,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Madelyn | $800 | $1,800 | $900 |
$150
3rd place: $2,000 |
$2,600
5 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| CITIES BY HISTORIC EVENTS | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTHOLOGY TO ME | SEAFOOD | LET'S START A HIP-HOP GROUP | "M.C." | HYPE MAN |
|
$200
[28]
Napoleon's occupation in 1812, the Khodynka Tragedy
Moscow
Trey
|
$200
[30]
Sometimes depicted as a giant, Chrysaor was the fraternal twin brother of this winged animal
Pegasus
Trey
|
DD
$5
[15]
This seafood stew gets its name from Provençal words for "boil" & "lower"
Bouillabaisse
Will!
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$200
[6]
2 rappers worked at Sears before finding fame as this "Shoop" group originally called Super Nature
Salt-N-Pepa
Trey
|
$200
[27]
One theory suggests this yuletide salutation goes back to a letter sent by a 16th century English bishop
Merry Christmas
Will!
|
$200
[19]
In 1906, PR man Ivy Lee put out the first ofthesePRs, spinning a wreck on yet another PR, the Pennsylvania Railroad
a press release
Trey
|
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$400
[11]
Sacked in 390 B.C.,455 A.D.,1527 A.D.
Rome
Will!
|
$400
[29]
This group of gods were the offspring from the post-primeval marriage of Heaven & Earth
the Titans
Will!
|
$200
[23]
This dish, fried squid, can be served with dipping sauces like remoulade or marinara
calamari
Trey
|
$400
[4]
The supergroup Prophets of Rageincluded members from Rage Against the Machine, Cypress Hill & this Chuck D-led group
Public Enemy
Trey
|
$400
[26]
The covert Cold War-era MK-Ultra program sought to develop means of using this technique on human subjects
mind control
Will!
|
$400
[17]
Aposterwas one product of the Creel Committee, formed to shape public opinion in this year the U.S. entered World War I
1917
Will!
|
|
$600
[10]
Oil discovered there in 1901, the Black Wall Street massacre in 1921
Tulsa
Will!
|
$600
[13]
Built by Hephaestus, Talos was a bronze robotlike figure who guarded this largest Greek isle
Crete
Will!
Trey
|
$400
[22]
Traditional uses for these little tinned fishies include adding them to puttanesca sauce or Caesar dressing for umami
anchovies
Will!
Trey
|
$600
[2]
In "Mo' Meta Blues" Questlove says Tariq Trotter came up with the band name Black to the Future before eventually settling on this one
the Roots
Will!
Trey
|
$600
[25]
Around 1930, these tests were entrenched in the American school system; Scantron sheets came later
multiple choice
Madelyn
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$600
[16]
Whether as Microsoft CEO or as an NBA owner, he's not shy about getting folks pumped up
(Steve) Ballmer
Will!
|
|
$800
[1]
The Beer Hall Putsch, a massacre at the 1972 Olympic games
Munich
Trey
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$800
[12]
This Prince of Troy was tending sheep when chosen tojudge which of three goddesses was the most beautiful
Paris
Trey
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$600
[21]
It's not just humans; starfish also like to eat this bivalve with a fluted shell, the main ingredient in coquilles St.-Jacques
scallops
Will!
Trey
Madelyn
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$800
[3]
A Cartoon Network executive introduced Killer Mike to El-P, &this formidable hip-hop gem of a duo was born
Run the Jewels
Madelyn
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$800
[7]
Now used to describe any product in tip-top shape, this term stems from the world of numismatics
mint condition
Will!
|
$800
[18]
In 1885 this showman offered Ulysses Grant $100,000 to display Grant's presidential souvenirs (it didn't work out)
P.T. Barnum
Trey
|
|
$1,000
[9]
A more than 1,400-day siege from 1992 to 1996, an assassination of a man born in Graz, Austria
Sarajevo
Trey
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$1,000
[14]
Aegisthus was the lover of this woman & together they killed her husband King Agamemnon
Clytemnestra
Will!
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$1,000
[20]
An Italian dialect gives us this name for the European sea bass, which is often served with lemon
branzino
Madelyn
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$1,000
[5]
A group of rappers on Staten Island who bonded over battle rap, 5-percenter philosophy & kung fu films formed this collective in 1992
the Wu-Tang Clan
Will!
|
$1,000
[8]
A desktop fixture for years, this icon that allows users to access local drives was renamed when Windows 8.1 was introduced
My Computer
|
$1,000
[24]
Howard Bragman (great publicist name!) helped LGBTQ stars to do this, like Dick Sargent did on the national day for it in 1991
National Coming Out Day
Trey
|
| BODIES OF WATER | NOVELS | RHYME TIME | MODERN 2-LETTER INITIALS | MOVIE LINES | BYE, PHOENICIA |
|
$400
[29]
The Celebes Sea is south of Mindanao in the Philippines & north of this country's island of Sulawesi
Indonesia
|
$400
[20]
Ari fights for the establishment of the state of Israel in this blockbuster Leon Uris novel
Exodus
Trey
|
$400
[28]
A navy man whose job it is to mend & alter uniforms
a tailor sailor (sailor tailor)
Madelyn
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$400
[27]
People who post online may use the tag "OC", short for this; put another way, it was their own creation
original content (original character)
Madelyn
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$400
[23]
This "Jerry Maguire" line came in at No. 25 on AFI's list of Top 100 Movie Quotes, & if you respond correctly, we will
Show me the money!
Trey
|
$400
[30]
The Punic Wars were against this city founded by Phoenicians
Carthage
Will!
|
|
$1,200
[6]
It's a watery 770 square mileindentationof the island of Luzon
Manila Bay
Will!
|
$800
[19]
This novel by Tom Wolfe about greed & corruption in '80s New York City was a huge bestseller; the movie adaptation was a fiasco
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Trey
|
$800
[24]
A burn mark from a flaming light stick
a torch scorch
|
$800
[26]
IP can stand for Intellectual Property or this, how your computer connects to the web
Internet Protocol
Will!
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$800
[22]
Robert Duvall as Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore in "Apocalypse Now": "I love the smell of" this "in the morning"
napalm
Trey
|
$800
[25]
Linguists call the Phoenician alphabet an abjad, meaning all 22 letters were this type
consonants
Will!
|
|
$1,600
[4]
The Gila & Colorado Rivers meet in this Arizona city
Yuma
Will!
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$1,200
[1]
This recent bestseller by Shelby Van Pelt is partly set at an aquarium that's home to Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus
Remarkably Bright Creatures
|
$1,200
[17]
Bony framework made of a glutinous protein
a gelatin skeleton
|
$1,200
[16]
VMs are these devices you can't touch; they use software to emulate a physical computer
virtual machines
Will!
|
$1,200
[10]
Spoken in an Oscar-winning role in this film: "The nation believes that when I speak, I speak for them. But I can't speak"
The King's Speech
|
$1,200
[11]
Phoenicians referred to themselves not as Phoenicians but as these -ites, the name in Genesis for certain descendants of Noah & Ham
Canaanites
Trey
|
|
$2,000
[5]
After flowing through 6 countries, the Zambezi River meets the sea in this East African nation
Mozambique
|
DD
$1,700
[2]
In a Dickens novel, the ownership of this title place is gambled away to Quilp
The Old Curiosity Shop
Madelyn
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$1,600
[7]
A daily record or diary of spring
a vernal journal
Will!
|
$1,600
[14]
JS stands for this programming language created by Brendan Eich & trademarked in 1995
JavaScript
Will!
|
$1,600
[8]
Jake Gyllenhaal to Heath Ledger in a Western:this 8-word desire
I wish I knew how to quit you
Will!
Trey
|
$1,600
[12]
Pigment derived from snail glands was used to make the Phoenicians' most prized commodity: fabric dye in Tyrian this color
purple
Will!
|
|
DD
$4,000
[21]
In the 1830s sea lampreys invaded this Great Lake, though Niagara Falls kept them from further incursion for a while
Lake Ontario
Trey
|
$2,000
[3]
Kafka's title for his novel about a man sent to the U.S. was "The Lost One"; editor Max Brod gave it this one-word title
Amerika
Will!
|
$2,000
[18]
A dull, unimaginative picture made of colored bits of stone or glass
a prosaic mosaic
Trey
|
$2,000
[15]
Abbreviated UX, it's the term for the involvement people have when interacting with a product or service
user experience
Trey
|
$2,000
[9]
1983's "Sudden Impact" is the film in which Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry makes this invitation to an armed robber
Go ahead, make my day
Will!
Trey
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$2,000
[13]
The Phoenicians' original homeland was this region on the Mediterranean's eastern border, from the French for "rise" (as in sun-)
the Levant
Will!
Trey
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A 1964 review of this TV special, still played today, mentions "trials as an outcast" & "the songs of Johnny Marks"
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer