Jamie Ding game 12.
Barbara McIntyre — a writer from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
Fr. Paul Baker — a Catholic priest from St. Paul, Minnesota
Jamie Ding — a bureaucrat and law student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey (whose 11-day cash winnings total $291,820)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jamie | $3,200 | $6,200 | $24,900 |
$22,620
12-day champion: $314,440 |
$23,800
31 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Fr. Paul | $600 | $3,000 | $11,000 |
$9,999
2nd place: $3,000 |
$12,000
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Barbara | $1,200 | $2,000 | $6,000 |
$270
3rd place: $2,000 |
$6,000
10 R, 1 W |
| CHECK MY FLOW | LITERARY GENRES | ARTISTS BY SUPER BOWL SETLIST | CHEW MUST REMEMBER THIS | PO-PO-PRI | ONE THROUGH TEN |
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$200
[19]
This river highlightedhererises 12,000 feet above sea level in the Rockies
the Rio Grande
Jamie
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$200
[28]
England is a dictatorship in "Children of Men", a book of this sci-fi subgenre whose name comes from the Greek for "bad"
dystopian
Barbara
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$200
[30]
2001:"Jaded","I Don't Want To Miss A Thing"
Aerosmith
Jamie
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$200
[25]
A hollow thump is a good indicator of the ripeness of this fruit, whether it's the picnic or icebox type
watermelon
Barbara
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$200
[29]
Keeping in rhythm with the streets, a type of police officer who patrols on foot is said to be "walking the" this
the beat
Jamie
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$200
[24]
It's among the gnarliest of surfingmaneuvers, executed from the very front of a perfectly balanced long board
hang ten
Jamie
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$400
[27]
This 1,560-mile-long river rises on the Indian side of the border with Tibet
the Ganges
Fr. Paul
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$400
[26]
A Bildungsroman is a work about the education & formative years of the protagonist, like this novel by J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
Jamie
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$400
[20]
"Suit & Tie","Filthy" &"Sexy Back"
Timberlake
Jamie
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$400
[8]
The potato dish calledpommes gaufrettesis also known as this, sounding like a breakfast item
waffle fries
Jamie
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$400
[3]
This numerical slang term for the police comes from a TV show set on Oahu
Five-O
Fr. Paul
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$400
[23]
This term can refer generically to all the navigable waters of the Earth or to a lucky number of specific ones
the Seven Seas
Barbara
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$600
[21]
Entering Idaho through the Palisades Reservoir, it winds its way across the state up into Washington, south of Pasco
the Snake
Jamie
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$600
[9]
Types of poetry include narrative as well as this one with a name that tells you the verse is meant to be sung
lyrical (lyric)
Fr. Paul
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$600
[13]
"Pump It","Boom Boom Pow" & "Where Is The Love?"
the Black Eyed Peas
Jamie
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$600
[2]
Macrolepiota procera is a type of edible mushroom called this, like an umbrella used as a sunshade
a parasol
Barbara
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$600
[4]
A broadcast alert to all police stations in the area is called an APB, short for this
an all-points bulletin
Jamie
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$600
[7]
In baseball it's slang for a home run
a four-bagger
Barbara
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$800
[14]
2,900 miles long, this river, formerly the Zaire, flows into the Atlantic
the Congo
Jamie
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$800
[1]
"A Tale of a Tub" is one of these, which Samuel Johnson defined as a work "in which wickedness or folly is censured"
a satire
Jamie
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$800
[12]
"Only Girl (In The World)","Rude Boy" &"Run This Town"
Rihanna
Fr. Paul
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$800
[16]
You don't have to eat this Japanese rice cake with ice cream; in Japan, it's traditionally served to celebrate the new year
mochi
Jamie
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$800
[22]
During a pursuit, the cop car taps the fleeing vehicle near the rear wheel, causing it to spin in this 3-letter maneuver
PIT (pursuit intervention technique)
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$800
[6]
We likely owe this term for a chaotic situation to the showmanship of P.T. Barnum
a three-ring circus
Fr. Paul
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$1,000
[18]
Bingen Bonn! Those 2 cities will be on your tour as you pass along the "Middle" section of this river
the Rhine
Fr. Paul
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DD
$1,000
[10]
This portmanteau word is used of the genre that blends passion with dragon riders & such, as in "Fourth Wing"
romantasy
Fr. Paul
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$1,000
[15]
Her in 1996:"You Can't Hurry Love","Reach Out & Touch (Somebody's Hand)" &"Chain Reaction"
Diana Ross
Jamie
Barbara
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$1,000
[5]
Just one vowel different from a pasta is this word for white beans that Tuscans use in soups & elsewhere
cannellini
Fr. Paul
Barbara
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$1,000
[11]
A 1982 article in The Atlantic introduced this controversial theory that petty crimes would lead to larger ones
broken windows
Jamie
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$1,000
[17]
This idiom from Shakespeare means all at once or with a single, quick effort, like a hawk diving for prey
one fell swoop
Fr. Paul
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| WHAT A LOAD OF B.C. | NEOLOGISMS | TV TOUGH GUYS & GALS | GEEZ, LOUISE! | SECRETS OF THE BEES | ALL PREACHERS GREAT & SMALL |
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$400
[26]
An iteration of Troy was founded in the Greek these, a term long used of the supposedly ignorant & backward early medieval time
the Dark Ages
Barbara
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$400
[27]
One study says 11 words is the ideal length of this kind of headline to get you to hit a link; try starting with "You Won't Believe"
clickbait
Jamie
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$400
[30]
You can tell Lucy Lawless's Xenais tough just from this, the show's subtitle
Warrior Princess
Jamie
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$400
[22]
Before taking the throne, she had a beloved governess named Louise Lehzen, born in Germany like the queen's future husband
Victoria
Barbara
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$400
[28]
The two-colored Mason bee has been compared to a witch, as itgatherstwigs in a way that resembles this conveyance
a broomstick
Jamie
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$400
[29]
To the people around the Jordan River, this honey-eating biblical preacher was a voice crying in the wilderness
John the Baptist
Jamie
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$800
[18]
For more years Çatalhöyük, a city with houses but no streets, thrived in the Anatolia region of what's now this country
Turkey
Fr. Paul
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DD
$500
[25]
In Rebecca Solnit's essay that helped launch this word, a guy informs Rebecca about an important book that he doesn't realize she wrote
mansplaining
Jamie
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$800
[17]
You've gotta be tough to be a double agent, like Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow on this series
Alias
Jamie
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$800
[15]
Robert Edwards won a Nobel Prize for developing this, which resulted in the birth of Louise Brown on July 25, 1978
IVF (in vitro fertilization)
Jamie
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$800
[23]
Filmed for the first time, a bee uses a droplet of this sugar-rich liquid to stop pollen from blowing off during her flight home
nectar
Jamie
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$800
[24]
When this evangelist retired in 2005, his son Franklin became the leader of the ministry
Billy Graham
Jamie
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$1,200
[8]
Tel Lachish was the most important city after Jerusalem in this biblical kingdom south of Israel
Judah
Fr. Paul
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$1,200
[11]
This colorful term is used for making a product or service appear more environmentally friendly than it really is
greenwashing
Fr. Paul
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$1,200
[1]
A katana used by Danai Gurira as this "Walking Dead" character is in the National Museum of American History
Michonne
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$1,200
[3]
The beautiful Lake Louise is in this prairie province
Alberta
Fr. Paul
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$1,200
[19]
Thesemale honeybees are gifted with eyes twice the size of their sisters'; they use them to spot queens from other hives to mate with
drones
Jamie
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$1,600
[6]
This Puritan minister raised some eyebrows with "The Wonders of the Invisible World", his 1693 book about Salem's witch trials
Cotton Mather
Fr. Paul
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$1,600
[9]
A royal tomb from the early B.C. era of this 3-letter dynasty yielded the skeleton of a giant panda
Han
Jamie
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$1,600
[12]
It's no longer just a swimming stroke, it's a verb meaning to improvise a rap
freestyle
Jamie
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$1,600
[2]
On "How to Get Away with Murder", some killers do, because this Viola Davis character is for the defense
Annalise Keating
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$1,600
[4]
Herbobbed hair & her portrayal of the sensual side of the flapper in films like "Pandora's Box" made her a film icon
Louise Brooks
Barbara
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$1,600
[16]
An Asian honeybee can pile on & cook their foes with heat, like this type of Asian wasp that invaded the U.S. in the past decade
murder hornets
Jamie
Barbara
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$2,000
[20]
Thisfounder of Saddleback megachurch retired in 2022 but not before making some waves by ordaining three women as pastors
(Rick) Warren
Fr. Paul
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$2,000
[7]
Around 1000 B.C. these people, no kin to Conan the Barbarian despite the name, were among the first to occupy Crimea
Cimmerians
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$2,000
[21]
A very early example of this is an 1853 image of"Sally and Mrs Reed"with not just Sally & Mrs. Reed in it
a photobomb
Jamie
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$2,000
[10]
In agony from arthritis, Clay Morrow, leader of this title crew, has his hands strapped to his bike
Sons of Anarchy
Jamie
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$2,000
[5]
Is there an EGOT equivalent for writers?Thispoet won a National Book Award, Bollingen Prize, Pulitzer, & in 2020, the Nobel
(Louise) Glück
Jamie
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$2,000
[13]
Honeybeescan tell one another where food is, how far & directions to take through a shaking dance known by this six-letter word
waggle
Jamie
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DD
$2,600
[14]
Once known as "the most famous man in America", this abolitionist preacher also had a famous abolitionist sister
Beecher
Jamie
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Literary theories say the first name of this 1847 title character is meant to evoke plainness while the last name hints at a bequest
Jane Eyre