Jamie Ding game 4.
Kamilah Tisdale — a special projects consultant from Trumbull, Connecticut
Luke Minton — a technology director from El Paso, Texas
Jamie Ding — a bureaucrat and law student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey (whose 3-day cash winnings total $77,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jamie | $5,000 | $7,400 | $23,200 |
$28,801
4-day champion: $106,601 |
$22,400
28 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Luke | $5,000 | $7,200 | $14,400 |
$0
3rd place: $2,000 |
$14,400
22 R, 2 W |
| Kamilah | $0 | $200 | $5,000 |
$1
2nd place: $3,000 |
$5,000
5 R, 1 W |
| SISTER CITIES | BRUSHING UP ON FILM DENTISTS | SHIPS & BOATS | WHAT'S IN THE TIME CAPSULE? | NEWER MEANINGS | THE KENNEDYS' NOBEL PRIZE DINNER |
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$200
[20]
Dozens of cities are sister to this little town just south of Jerusalem though not, oddly, a historic Penn. steel center
Bethlehem
Luke
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$200
[22]
Some friend! In 2011 this actress was one of the "Horrible Bosses" as Dr. Julia Harris
Aniston
Jamie
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$200
[17]
Taking 18 days in 1838, the ship Sirius was the first vessel entirely under this power to cross the Atlantic Ocean
steam
Luke
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$200
[25]
To be opened in the year 3000, a capsule commissioned by The N.Y. Times Magazine contains a copy of this 1963 piece of oratory
"I Have a Dream"
Jamie
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$200
[29]
No longer just meaning in the center, this word also means just meh
mid
Jamie
Kamilah
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$200
[30]
First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's table had this man, the national hero of the moment since orbiting Earth 2 months before
(John) Glenn
Luke
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$400
[19]
The biggest Texas city with a Spanish name, in 1953 it got with Monterrey & became the first U.S. city to have a Mexican sister
San Antonio
Luke
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$400
[21]
P. Sherman is the dentist in this animated film; 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney is P. Sherman's office address
Finding Nemo
Luke
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$400
[28]
We remember the Maine, but how about the Iowa & the Texas, which helped win the decisive battle of Santiago in this war
the Spanish-American War
Kamilah
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$400
[18]
The Crypt of Civilization capsule holds a quart of this, which the folks in 8113 can crack open when the capsule's opened
beer
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$400
[27]
Five-letter butter maker seen here; as a noun, it can refer to the loss of existing customers
churn
Luke
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$400
[23]
Two Nobelist widows sat withJFK--George Marshall's & Mary, wife of this author; Mary took on the president about Cuba
Hemingway
Luke
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$600
[16]
An ancient city in the heart of Spain shares this name with a sister in the north of Ohio
Toledo
Jamie
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$600
[14]
King Schultzhad the natural career progression of dentist to bounty hunter in this 2012 Tarantino period piece
Django Unchained
Jamie
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$600
[11]
Songs from this 1927 Hammerstein & Kern musical include "Cotton Blossom", "Life Upon The Wicked Stage" & "Ol' Man River"
Show Boat
Jamie
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$600
[7]
A silver plaque was the highlight of a capsule placed in 1795 in the Massachusetts State House by Samuel Adams & this man
Paul Revere
Jamie
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$600
[24]
Merriam-Webster added "utter disaster" to the entry on this noun that Amy Schumer used as a film title
trainwreck
Jamie
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$600
[26]
JFK smoothly asked this Nobel-winning chemist who'd just protested against nuke tests, haven't you been around here already lately?
(Linus) Pauling
Jamie
|
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$800
[9]
In 2001 Lublin, Wisconsin, population 118, got sisterly with Lublin in this country, population 330,000
Poland
Jamie
Luke
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$800
[3]
Steve Martin, DDS, sang, "You'll be a dentist, you have a talent for causing things pain!" in this carnivorous plant-based movie
Little Shop of Horrors
Luke
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$800
[15]
Remembered in a Gordon Lightfoot song, this ship sank in Lake Superior in 1975 with the loss of 29 lives
the Edmund Fitzgerald
Luke
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$800
[13]
A capsule buried in London in 2012 has a tin of anchovies (to show that sell-by dates are stupid) & a map of this transit system
the Tube (the London Underground)
Luke
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$800
[5]
If you are doing this, you are either trying to sound like a cat (old meaning) or strengthening your jawline (new meaning)
mewing
Luke
|
DD
$1,000
[1]
JFK called the 49 Nobel winners the greatest gathering of talent & knowledge at the White House since this man dined alone
Thomas Jefferson
Jamie
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$1,000
[4]
Glastonbury, England is sister to this Greek island municipality where St. John, by tradition, did his revelating
Patmos
Jamie
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$1,000
[10]
This legendary British actor does chilling dental work in "Marathon Man"--it is most definitely not safe
Olivier
Jamie
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$1,000
[6]
This German Graf, or count, went down with his flagship in 1914; the warship named for him suffered a similar fate in 1939
Spee
Jamie
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$1,000
[2]
The 1876 "Century Safe", opened in 1976, featured photos of Ulysses Grant & others by this photographer
(Mathew) Brady
Jamie
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$1,000
[8]
Not alpha but this Greek letter means popular or cool
sigma
Luke
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$1,000
[12]
Attendeesincluded 48 male Nobel laureates & one female one, this author raised in Zhenjiang, China
(Pearl) Buck
Jamie
|
| AMERICAN LITERATURE | THE ASTRONOMY OF ASTROLOGY | HOLY DAYS & FESTIVALS | "HIS" & "HER"s | PANIC! | AT THE DISCO |
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$400
[30]
The letter in Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" was this one, initially standing for the wearer's perceived sin
"A"
Luke
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$400
[25]
I envision you'll be dependable enough to know that Aldebaran in Taurus is a reddish star known as "the eye of" this bovine
a bull
Jamie
Luke
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$400
[29]
A day to do good deeds & reflect on his teachings, Vesak celebrates his birthday, death & enlightenment
Buddha
Jamie
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$400
[28]
Similar to a tantrum, it's a childish display of anger or annoyance that someone might "throw"
a hissy fit
Luke
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$400
[1]
He "scared" a lot of people in 1950 when he said, "in my opinion, the State Department... is thoroughly infested with Communists"
McCarthy
Jamie
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$400
[27]
What did all the grooviest cats wear to the disco? Per Vogue, "if there was one fabric... the '70s wrapped itself in, it was" this
polyester
Kamilah
|
|
$800
[26]
F. Scott Fitzgerald completed 4 novels, with this "Last" one, set in Hollywood, left unfinished in 1940
The Last Tycoon
Jamie
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$800
[24]
You might actually have a 6-sided personality: Castor in this constellation is a system of 6 stars
Gemini
Kamilah
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$800
[7]
The people seenhereare observing this day
Ash Wednesday
Jamie
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$800
[20]
Hisother concerns made him also the god of roads, commerce & invention
Hermes
Luke
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$800
[22]
He starred in the Archibald MacLeish play "Panic" & later created a different kind of panic with "War of the Worlds"
(Orson) Welles
Luke
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$800
[13]
Disco proudly celebrated self-expression in LGBTQ+ communities, as when Diana Ross sang, "I'm" this title phrase
"Coming Out"
Luke
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$1,200
[16]
Willie Stark in Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer-winning "All the King's Men" was inspired by this Louisiana governor
Huey Long
Jamie
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$1,200
[17]
You're the pride of your pride if you know that Leo is home to NGC 2903, one of these galaxies with pinwheeling arms
a spiral galaxy
Jamie
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$1,200
[6]
Declaration of the Báb & Birth of the Báb are holy days in this religion
Baháʼí
Luke
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$1,200
[23]
When the Romans controlled the Iberian Peninsula, they divided it into several provinces & collectively called it this
Hispania
Jamie
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$1,600
[19]
The Panic of 1873 arose largely from the bursting of a speculative bubble in this industry just a few decades old
railroad
Jamie
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$1,200
[2]
LaDonna Gaines, aka "the Queen of Disco", was "Hot Stuff" on the charts under this name
Donna Summer
Luke
|
|
$1,600
[21]
In Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at" this structure, a man is to be hanged & we'll say no more
Owl Creek Bridge
Jamie
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$1,600
[10]
The outlook is murky in Sagittarius: its lagoon one of these regions is darkened by interstellar dust
nebula
Jamie
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$1,600
[4]
Among other things, this Hindu festival of lights celebrates the victory of light over darkness & good over evil
Diwali
Jamie
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$2,000
[9]
The economic center of Western Afghanistan, this city once famous for its carpets was captured by the Arabs in 660 A.D.
Herat
Luke
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$2,000
[14]
In 1692 this enslaved woman from the house of Samuel Parris was the first person accused in the Salem witch panic
Tituba
Luke
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$1,600
[12]
Rolling Stone called this ABBA hit "a mirror-ball anthem for every dreamer who's a disco goddess in her mind"
"Dancing Queen"
Kamilah
|
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$2,000
[5]
Saul Bellow's "The Adventures of" this character sure fits the category, beginning, "I am an American, Chicago born"
Augie March
Luke
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$2,000
[15]
You're a Libra, aren't ya, darlin'? Find peace in knowing Libra is home to Gliese 581e, one of these bodies orbiting a red dwarf
an exoplanet
Jamie
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$2,000
[3]
Traditionally, during aharvest festivalthat follows Yom Kippur, Jews eat in a hut-likeboothcalled this
sukkah
|
DD
$5,200
[18]
These organic compounds may induce the dilation of capillaries or the constriction of bronchial muscle tissue
histamines
Jamie
|
DD
$8,200
[8]
Millard Fillmore once belonged to this dim-sounding party that fueled moral panic via anti-immigrant & anti-Catholic views
the Know Nothings
Jamie
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$2,000
[11]
This iconic NYC club launched in 1977 as a "playground for sex, drugs & disco"
Studio 54
Jamie
Kamilah
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Bordered by 3 nations, it's the world's largest tropical lake & the world's second-largest freshwater lake
Lake Victoria