Michael Qin — an attorney from Atlanta, Georgia
Debra Burgess — an adjunct assistant professor of history from Cincinnati, Ohio
Finn Corrigan — a student from Vista, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finn | $-200 | $4,000 | $10,800 |
$20,001
2-day champion: $39,602 |
$10,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Debra | $600 | $2,800 | $10,000 |
$14,500
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,000
15 R, 3 W |
| Michael | $2,000 | $4,400 | $8,600 |
$10,801
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| ARTHROPODCAST | GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONS | ANALYZING THE SEUSS CHARACTER | THE 5 W's IN OTHER LANGUAGES | EASY PEASY | LEMON SQUEEZY |
|
$200
[29]
The medicinal name of these little arthropods comes from their habit of rolling themselves into a ball when threatened
a pill bug
Debra
|
$200
[1]
15 judges sit on the International Court of Justice as the principal judicial organ of this global body
the United Nations
Michael
|
$200
[4]
An angry mob's near murder of an entire village via beezle-nut juice dunking traumatizes this horrified & helpless elephant
Horton
Debra
|
$200
[6]
French:qui
who
Finn
|
$200
[16]
Check out thestatuestanding on a corner in Winslow, Arizona; it was inspired by this Eagles hit
"Take It Easy"
Michael
|
$200
[9]
For a classic French 75, along with the gin, lemon juice & simple syrup, you have to break out a bottle of this sparkling wine
champagne
Finn
|
|
$400
[7]
These, the members of the class Diplopoda, aren't 10 times the size of centipedes
millipedes
Finn
|
$400
[2]
Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, an economist from Nigeria, is the first woman to head this, WTO for short
the World Trade Organization
Debra
|
$400
[5]
"You stay in your place while I sit here and rule", says this turtle king, pulling a serious top 1% job on a poor turtle named Mack
Yertle (the Turtle)
Debra
|
$400
[28]
Italian:quando
when
Michael
|
$400
[17]
The title of this 1970 Jack Nicholson film refers to a book of piano exercises his character practiced as a child
Five Easy Pieces
Debra
|
$400
[10]
Whisk yolks in the top of a double boiler & slowly add clarified butter & lemon juice to make this, 1 of cuisine's "mother sauces"
hollandaise
Finn
Debra
|
|
$600
[13]
The false this lacks the tail of the real thing and I'm fine with that
a scorpion
Debra
|
$600
[3]
Goals of the IMF include improving access to global investment & stabilizing these currency trading scales
exchange rates
|
$600
[14]
Freud said rivalry with the father is basic--for the young'uns in this book, that includes jumping onto his belly
Hop on Pop
Michael
|
$600
[8]
Norwegian:hva
what
Finn
Debra
Michael
|
$600
[18]
This HBO miniseries recounted the daunting history of Easy Company, the 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne
Band of Brothers
Finn
|
$600
[19]
A classic pie is filled with tart lemon & topped with this, stiffly beaten egg whites & sugar
meringue
Debra
|
|
$800
[27]
The name of this arthropod subgroup is from Latin for "hard shell"
crustacean
Finn
|
$800
[20]
This group that now has 27 member nations is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium
the European Union (EU)
Finn
Debra
|
DD
$1,000
[15]
Pro-environment & perhaps with a savior complex, he "was shortish. And oldish... and mossy", & kinda looked like Wilford Brimley
the Lorax
Michael
|
$800
[23]
Spanish:donde
where
Michael
|
$800
[25]
After "The Fly", Jeff Goldblum reunited with Geena Davis in this comedy about 3 aliens who want to party in L.A.
Earth Girls Are Easy
Debra
|
$800
[11]
This outermost layer of a lemon peel--just the skin & not the white pith--has aromatic oils that add flavor to food
zest
Michael
|
|
$1,000
[30]
Theseso-called crabs are actually related to the extinct trilobites
horseshoe crabs
Finn
|
$1,000
[22]
This agency, the IAEA, has been much in the news in recent years with its inspectors' attempts to monitor nuclear technology
the International Atomic Energy Agency
Debra
|
$1,000
[21]
This title guy gets a death sentence--via beheading!--then overcomes his hoarding & sells his "500 Hats" to the king
Bartholomew Cubbins
Michael
|
$1,000
[24]
Swedish:varfor
why
Finn
|
$1,000
[26]
Given first name Ezekiel, this fictional detective worked the Watts area of L.A. starting in the 1940s
Easy Rawlins
|
$1,000
[12]
Salt-preserved lemons can accompany this Moroccan stew made in an ear then ware pot of the same name
a tagine
|
| TOOLS OF THE TRADE | U.S. GEOGRAPHY | BIBLICAL PASSAGES | WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY | MIDDLE E |
|
$400
[24]
Baseball star Muddy Ruel called the mask, shin guards, etc. used in this job the "tools of ignorance"
catcher
Michael
|
$400
[23]
This "stately" river actually begins next door in Pittsburgh
Ohio
Debra
|
$400
[28]
In Genesis, God tells Noah, "the door of" this "shalt thou set in the side thereof"
the ark
Michael
|
$400
[15]
In 2021 Taste of Country named as country music's Most Powerful Woman of All Time this beloved Tennessee titan
Dolly Parton
Finn
|
$400
[14]
In 1822 Brazil declared independence from this country, which recognized that action 3 years later
Portugal
Michael
|
$400
[1]
A wild mammal's cave lair... or your dad's
den
Debra
|
|
$800
[25]
Floss & polishers are among the tools of those of this job; the women who did it were first allowed to wear pants in 1971
dental hygienists
|
$800
[4]
Utah would be more of a rectangle if this state hadn't taken a bite out of its northeastern corner
Wyoming
Michael
|
$800
[21]
The book of Ezekiel says the gates of this city shall be named after the tribes of Israel
Jerusalem
Michael
|
$800
[17]
Among those joining this icon for her 50th anniversary at the Grand Ole Opry were Miranda Lambert, Lee Ann Womack & sister Crystal Gayle
Loretta Lynn
Debra
|
$800
[10]
In 1919 South America got its first commercial airline: Avianca, now headquartered in this capital of Colombia
Bogotá
Michael
|
$800
[2]
To challenge the credibility of a witness in court or formally accuse misconduct by a public official
impeach
Michael
|
|
$1,200
[26]
An electronic pick & a plug spinner are tools of this trade; in California, a state license is good too
a locksmith
|
$1,600
[6]
At over 9,300 feet, Shishaldin volcano is the highest mountain in this Alaskan island chain
the Aleutian Islands
Michael
|
$1,200
[7]
In Exodus, this man tells the elders of Israel that when the Lord sees blood upon the lintel & side posts, he "will pass over the door"
Moses
Finn
|
$1,200
[18]
As runner-up on the Season 10 finale of "American Idol", country star Lauren Alaina got to sing with her idol, this season 4 winner
Carrie Underwood
Finn
|
$1,600
[9]
In 1864 this country in the middle of the continent took on Brazil, later Argentina & Uruguay; half its population would end up dead
Paraguay
Finn
|
$1,200
[3]
An evil, bewitching spell
a hex
Finn
|
|
$1,600
[29]
This job requires mastering a special 22-button keyboard & spending time around lawyers & defendants
a court reporter
Michael
|
$2,000
[16]
Mount Marcy & Algonquin Peak can be found in these mountains in northeastern New York
the Adirondacks
Debra
Michael
|
$1,600
[22]
In 1 Samuel 14, Jonathan the Hebrew finds a passage between 2 rocks that lets him reach these enemies & slaughter them
the Philistines
Finn
|
$1,600
[19]
She said of "Stand By Your Man" that she spent 20 minutes writing it & over 20 years defending it
Tammy Wynette
Debra
|
DD
$2,000
[8]
In 1997, 30 years after his death in Bolivia, the remains of this revolutionary were returned to Cuba
"Che" Guevara
Finn
|
$1,600
[12]
It's Spanish for "all right" or "good"
bueno
Michael
|
|
$2,000
[30]
The Gemological Institute of America website sells a 10x one of these
a loupe
Finn
Michael
|
DD
$3,000
[5]
The cities of Providence & Newport lie at opposite ends of this bay
Narragansett Bay
Michael
|
$2,000
[27]
If an Ephraimite pronounced this word with "si", not "shi", the Gileadites "slew him at the passages of Jordan"
shibboleth
Michael
|
$2,000
[20]
Breaking barriers in country music, she was Grammy-nominated for her song "Black Like Me" & in 2021, co-hosted the ACM Awards
Mickey Guyton
|
$2,000
[11]
In the early 2000s this ex-president of Chile lost his immunity from prosecution & was charged with human rights abuses
Pinochet
Debra
|
$2,000
[13]
From the Old English for "kill", it means to suppress a riot or rebellion
quell
Finn
|
Meaning an important part of a story, this distinctive spelling helped distinguish the word from a substance used in typesetting
the lede