Final results and winnings: Groce (1): $500,000; Raut (2): $250,000; Holzhauer (3): $150,000; Schneider (4): $100,000; Roach (5): $75,000; and Amodio (6): $50,000.
Here are 13 trivia clues that stumped Schneider during the course of the competition.
Credit: Disney
Credit: Disney
WEDNESDAY, MAY 1
Category: Meet the Smiths
Clue: The rapper and actor born James Todd Smith took this stage name as a teen.
Schneider’s response: The Fresh Prince
Correct answer: LL Cool J
MONDAY, MAY 6
Category: Overlaps
Clue: Collectively all the living matter in the Bay State.
Schneider’s response: Unfinished response
Correct answer: BioMassachusetts
FRIDAY, MAY 10
Category: Plane Talk
Clue: It’s the general term for a wing, fin or other airplane part that produces lift as it moves through the air.
Schneider’s response: Aileron
Correct answer: Airfoil
MONDAY, MAY 13
Category: Middle Name, Please
Clue: Of James Cagney, Jimmy Durante and Robert Kennedy.
Schneider’s response: Fitzgerald
Correct answer: Francis
Category: The “F.B.,” I
Clue: On Jan. 1, 1959 this leader said adios to Cuba, fleeing to the Dominican Republic.
Schneider’s response: Francisco Batista
Correct answer: Fulgencio Batista
Category: Anagrams
Clue: One is a procedure foundational to computer science; the other was made in large part obsolete by computers.
Schneider’s response: Unfinished response
Correct answer: Algorithm and Logarithm
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15
Category: Short Stories
Clue: Down -- steadily down it crept... downward with its lateral velocity. To the right -- to the left’ is in this 1842 tale.
Schneider’s response: “The Gold-Bug”
Correct answer: “The Pit and the Pendulum”
FRIDAY, MAY 17
Category: Furniture
Clue: Footstool options include the ottoman, which offers storage, and this, also a word for a clump of grass, which does not.
Schneider’s response: Tussock
Correct answer: Hassock
Category: The Tortured Poets Department
Clue: “The Awful Rowing Toward God” by this American was published in 1975, the year after she took her own life.
Schneider’s response: Plath (Sylvia)
Correct answer: Anne Sexton
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Credit: Disney
Category: Bridges
Clue: A Cold War-flavored word for a Russian, it simply means Russian, and is the name of an island and a bridge linking it to Vladivostok.
Schneider’s response: Bolshevik
Correct answer: Russky
Category: Eternal Sunshine
Clue: The first person to see a spacecraft named for him launched was Eugene Parker, father of the field known by this sunny term.
Schneider’s response: Heliology
Correct answer: Heliophysics
MONDAY, MAY 20
Category: Let’s Play Bingo!
Clue: Playing the game in this movie, Johnny Knoxville suggests making it “strip bingo” and that’s just the beginning.
Schneider’s response: “Dodgeball”
Correct answer: “Bad Grandpa”
Category: Metallic Elements
Clue: As it’s rarely found in pure form, one explanation of its name is that it comes from Greek for “not alone” or “not one.”
Schneider’s response: Astatine
Correct answer: Antimony
Credit: ABC
Credit: ABC
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