Amy Schneider game 6.
Dan Brady — a retired market researcher from Edgewood, Kentucky
Madeline Hornsey — a teacher from Carrollton, Texas
Amy Schneider — an engineering manager from Oakland, California (whose 5-day cash winnings total $170,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amy | $3,400 | $7,600 | $26,400 |
$37,400
6-day champion: $207,800 |
$24,200
30 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Madeline | $2,000 | $4,000 | $6,800 |
$3,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,800
14 R, 1 W |
| Dan | $1,000 | $3,000 | $5,200 |
$3,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,200
8 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| PRESIDENTIAL THIS & THAT | TV | RUFF CROWD | PERIODS OF TIME | IN THAT COUNTRY | LATIN PHRASES |
|
$200
[11]
Presidential brother Edgar Eisenhower was called "Big" this; Dwight was the "Little" version
Ike
Madeline
|
$200
[17]
Hannah Waddinghamwon an Emmy for playing Rebecca Welton, owner of AFC Richmond on this sitcom
Ted Lasso
Amy
|
$200
[12]
A Plano, Texas movie theater with this alphanumeric name is famous for letting you bring your dog to the cinema
K9 (Cinemas)
Amy
|
$200
[1]
The period in which a monarch rules; a 2020 book about Plantagenet England is "In" this "of King John"
the Reign
Madeline
|
$200
[22]
It is home to the Valley of the Kings& an ancient mortuarytemplein Abydos
Egypt
Madeline
|
$200
[6]
I'm so sorry! It's "through my own fault"!
mea culpa
Madeline
|
|
$400
[13]
A long-shot compromise candidate in 1844, James Polk is considered the first of these "equine" winners
a dark horse
Amy
|
$400
[18]
Kristen Bell returned to narrate the 2021 reboot of this soapy series about private school teens in New York City
Gossip Girl
Madeline
|
$400
[30]
This NFL team has a proud dog named SJ as a mascot; there are Dawgs in the stands, too
the Cleveland Browns
Amy
|
$400
[2]
It can be a type of oatmeal or an almost imperceptibly short bit of time
instant
Amy
|
$400
[23]
Angkor Thom, dating back to the 12th century, & Wat Leu temple
Cambodia
Amy
|
$400
[7]
There's carpe diem, but carpe vinum, meaning this, sounds even better
seize the wine
Amy
|
|
$600
[14]
He was a brigadier general when he demanded the "Unconditional Surrender" of Fort Donelson in February 1862
Grant
Amy
|
$600
[19]
On this series, Brandon Walsh worked at the Peach Pit
Beverly Hills, 90210
|
$600
[29]
When it was formed in 1884, this club created a constitution & rules for dog shows
the American Kennel Club
Amy
|
$600
[3]
Poet Stéphane Mallarmé wrote about one of these time periods "of a Faun"
The Afternoon
Madeline
|
$600
[24]
Villa Trapp, home of "The Sound of Music" family from 1923 to 1938, now a hotel
Austria
Madeline
|
$600
[8]
This 2-word phrase means going on endlessly, as the digits of pi do
ad infinitum
Amy
|
|
$800
[15]
3 recent presidents--Bush I, Clinton & Obama--shared this trait common to only about 10% of Americans
left-handedness
Amy
|
$800
[20]
This show about a vampire with a soul was a spin-off from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
Angel
Amy
|
$800
[28]
This actress who played Sansa on "Game of Thrones" adopted the dog who played the direwolf "Lady" on the show
Sophie Turner
Madeline
|
$800
[4]
Usually a 4-hour shift, it's a set period of duty on a ship
the watch
Madeline
|
$800
[25]
San Francisco de Guayo & the homeland of the Warao or "Boat People" of the Orinoco delta
Venezuela
Amy
|
DD
$1,000
[9]
Caveat venditor, this phrase, is the flip side to caveat emptor
let the seller beware
Amy
|
|
$1,000
[16]
Before becoming president, he helped his wife Lou translate "De re metallica", a 1556 text that detailed copper mining
Hoover
Dan
|
$1,000
[21]
This sitcom centers on a Korean-Canadian family that runs a store that rarely closes
Kim's Convenience
Amy
|
$1,000
[27]
Modern guide dogs were popularized by a school near Berlin that used this breed to help blinded soldiers
German Shepherds
|
$1,000
[5]
Thumb-sucking might be part of this, an infant's first stage of development, according to Freud
the oral stage
Amy
|
$1,000
[26]
Here is the Château Frontenac, &Peggy's Covein all its glory
Canada
Dan
|
$1,000
[10]
This legal Latin phrase means "at first sight"
prima facie
Dan
|
| LET'S GO SEE THE BAND! | THINGS IN LITERARY TITLES | NAMED FOR A PLACE | NEWS | WEATHER | SHORTZ |
|
$400
[26]
It'sthe perfect place for a Gallagher concert
Oasis
Amy
|
$400
[6]
At the end of a D.H. Lawrence novel, this title thing "arched indomitable, making great architecture of light and color"
The Rainbow
|
$400
[27]
Mmm, I do love this type of pastry, & I don't even have to go to Europe to get one
a danish
Madeline
|
$400
[13]
On Feb. 1, 2021 the Myanmar military took power & a 1-year "state of" this was declared--& not surprisingly, soon extended
emergency
Amy
|
$400
[18]
Guinness noted that a 15-inch one of these fluttered down at Fort Keogh, Montana in 1887
a snowflake
Dan
|
$400
[30]
Fittingly for a crossword maven, Will presented a wordplay dice game whose name is these 2 prepositions
across & down
Amy
|
|
$800
[25]
Theyget around
The Beach Boys
Dan
|
$800
[7]
It's an "impartial selector" of Triwizard champions
the Goblet of Fire
Madeline
Dan
|
$800
[4]
Named for an atoll, the site of nuclear testing, this then-daring 2-piece swimsuit exploded onto the scene in Paris in 1946
bikini
Madeline
|
$800
[14]
In 2021 one of these in Oregon covered 646 square miles & was causing dangerous pyrocumulus clouds
a fire
Amy
|
$800
[28]
A hygrometer measures this, the moisture content in the atmosphere
humidity
Amy
|
$800
[29]
One of Will's favorites from his NPR Sunday puzzle is the fact that this type of pain has the sequence "A-C-H" twice in a row
a stomachache
Dan
|
|
$1,200
[24]
No way of telling if this recon craft seenherehas found what it's looking for
U-2
Amy
|
$1,200
[10]
A container used to heat metals gave us the name of this 1953 play set in Massachusetts
The Crucible
Amy
|
DD
$1,000
[2]
In 1898 the Curies discovered this radioactive element & named it for Marie's country of birth
polonium
Dan
|
$1,200
[15]
You may "recall" that September 14, 2021 was a good day for this Californian
Newsom
Amy
|
$1,200
[20]
Pellets of ice have a diameter of less than 5mm; if the ice's diameter is between 5mm & 15cm, it's called this
hail
Madeline
|
$1,200
[9]
In 2019 Will hosted the 10th world championship of this double-talk brainteaser created by Tetsuya Miyamoto
KenKen
Amy
|
|
$1,600
[22]
Great time for a concert here in this city? Saturday, in the park
Chicago
Amy
|
$1,600
[11]
Thornton Wilder wrote of one of these that collapses in Peru, killing 5 travelers
a bridge
|
$1,200
[3]
From a city in Morocco, it's the traditional hat seen here
Fez
Dan
|
$1,600
[16]
A computer chip shortage caused Peugeot to put old-fashioned analog these to tell you your km/h in some models
speedometers
Amy
|
$1,600
[8]
Most weather occurs in this 5-to-9-mile-thick layer of the atmosphere that's closest to Earth
the troposphere
Madeline
|
$1,600
[23]
Will's New York Times responsibilities include the P&A puzzle feature, short for these 2 types of wordplay
puns & anagrams
Amy
|
|
$2,000
[5]
It'snot a wicker man, but an...
Iron Maiden
Amy
|
DD
$4,000
[12]
Not an actual accolade, it's received by the hero of an 1895 war tale after being hit on the head by a deserter
the red badge of courage
Amy
|
$1,600
[1]
Lyme disease derives its name from the town of Lyme in this state, where cases were first observed in the 1970s
Connecticut
Amy
Dan
|
$2,000
[17]
A 1/16th size"little sister"has been unveiled at the Washington, D.C. residence of this person--in 2021 Philippe Étienne
the French ambassador
Amy
Madeline
|
$2,000
[19]
Flooding in Venice has been aggravated by these Italian-named winds that originate in northern Africa
scirocco
Dan
|
$2,000
[21]
"5 little items of an everyday sort; you'll find us all in a tennis court", wrote Will for the Riddler, aka this in "Batman Forever"
Edward Nygma (E. Nygma)
|
First awarded in 1731 to electricity pioneer Stephen Gray, the Copley Medal is awarded annually by this organization
the Royal Society