Nadège Aoki — a marine biology graduate student from Cambridge, Massachusetts
Tim McCaigue — an app developer from San Diego, California
Mihir Nene — an engineer from Rochester, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,999)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mihir | $2,200 | $3,600 | $6,400 |
$6,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,400
11 R, 2 W |
| Tim | $3,600 | $8,800 | $18,800 |
$16,800
New champion: $16,800 |
$18,400
26 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Nadège | $1,400 | $3,000 | $5,900 |
$2,900
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| IT'S ALL GUCCI | MUSIC AS OF LATE | FOOD & DRINK HOMOPHONES | BRIGHT LIGHTS | BIG CITY | WE READ IT IN THE '80s |
|
$200
[21]
Gucci's early products were mainly leather bags & equestrian accessories, including these seats for riders
saddles
Nadège
|
$200
[30]
His "24K Magic" was good as gold & a Grammy winner for Album of the Year
Bruno Mars
Tim
|
$200
[6]
Starting peg for your ball on the links
tee
Tim
|
$200
[20]
As early as 1903 dazzling electric signage had earned this street the moniker "The Great White Way"
Broadway
Mihir
|
$200
[1]
Home to an international airport, it's New Jersey's "Gateway City"
Newark
Mihir
|
$200
[29]
Tom Clancy launched his career with this runaway bestseller about a Soviet nuclear sub whose crew might be trying to defect
The Hunt for Red October
Tim
|
|
$400
[22]
Fittingly, this star of "House of Gucci" wore a purple Gucciedressfor the U.K. premiere
Lady Gaga
Tim
|
$400
[27]
"Redbone" is from Childish Gambino, alter ego of this "Atlanta" star
Glover
Tim
|
$400
[7]
A matched set, as of socks or gloves
a pair
Mihir
|
$400
[19]
During World War I, giant searchlights were used in the U.K. in defense of nighttime bombing raids by these craft like the LZ-98
zeppelins
Mihir
|
$400
[2]
The biggest city in North Carolina, it was named for the wife of King George III
Charlotte
Tim
|
$400
[28]
The republic of Gilead takes the book of Genesis literally in this bestseller from 1985
The Handmaid's Tale
Tim
|
|
$600
[23]
Post-World War II, when materials were still scarce, Gucci found a way to heat & bend this from Japan & began using it for purse handles
bamboo
Nadège
|
$600
[17]
"Cold Heart", his 2021 hit with Dua Lipa, included lyrics from "Rocket Man"
Elton John
Tim
|
$600
[8]
Use one to kill the undead or to hold down the corner of a tent
a stake
Nadège
|
$600
[14]
From Latin for "to ask", this room in a police station often (on TV) has one very bright bulb--we know you did it, so make it easy on yourself
an interrogation
Tim
|
$800
[5]
Missouri's most populous city is Kansas City & Kansas' most populous is this city once part of the Chisholm Trail
Wichita
Nadège
|
$600
[12]
Pat Conroy wrote this blockbuster novel that became a film starring Barbra Streisand & Nick Nolte
The Prince of Tides
Tim
|
|
$800
[24]
Gucci is a corporate partner of this U.N. organization created in 1946 to help the world's children
UNICEF
Nadège
|
$800
[18]
"Hardwired... To Self-Destruct" was the first studio album in 8 years from this headbanging Lars Ulrich band
Metallica
Mihir
|
$800
[9]
Large quadruped of North America with dangling dewlap & immense antlers
a moose
Mihir
|
$800
[15]
Dubbed the brightest light on Earth, the sky beam from the top of this Vegas casino can produce 40 billion candlepower
Luxor
Tim
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
This Florida city named for a president has more people than Miami & Tampa combined
Jacksonville
Tim
|
$800
[4]
South American politics & magic realism are big in her novels, like "The House of the Spirits" & "Of Love & Shadows"
(Isabel) Allende
Mihir
|
|
$1,000
[25]
This American fashion designer & film director was creative director of Gucci from 1994 to 2004
(Tom) Ford
Tim
|
$1,000
[26]
"When It Rains It Pours" for this man seenherewho's had a flood of No. 1 country singles
(Luke) Combs
Tim
|
$1,000
[10]
An unpleasant high-pitched noise like from a jet engine
a whine
|
$1,000
[16]
In 2019, a GRB, or "burst" of these radiation waves in space, was the brightest high-energy light ever observed
gamma rays
Tim
|
$1,000
[11]
Home to the Wernher von Braun Planetarium & the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, this city is now Alabama's most populous
Huntsville
Tim
|
$1,000
[13]
He set the '80s New York literary world on fire with "Bright Lights, Big City"
Jay McInerney
Tim
|
| IT HAPPENED IN '22 | SCIENCE IN NATURE | TRIPLE THE DOUBLE LETTERS | THE BODY POLITIC | WOMAN MOVIES | INCREDIBLY ELF-CENTERED |
|
$400
[12]
1822:The Sunday version of this publication is founded as a separate newspaper in London
the Times
Nadège
|
$400
[4]
The European conger is one of the longest species of this fish, growing up to 10 feet long
eel
Tim
|
$400
[30]
This is a more informal term for insomnia
sleeplessness
Tim
|
$400
[7]
The 160-seat Dáil Éireann is the lower house of this country's parliament
Ireland
Tim
|
$400
[11]
This star of "Catwoman" accepted her Razzie Award for that movie in person, the first actress to do so
Halle Berry
Nadège
|
$400
[29]
Cookie-making "elves" of this company include Zoot, Flo from accounting & "head elf" Ernie
Keebler
Mihir
|
|
$800
[13]
1622:Mathematician William Oughtred puts 2 logarithmic tables side by side, inventing this calculating device
a slide rule
Tim
|
$800
[3]
Galena, as seen here, is the main ore from which to get this metal out
lead
Nadège
|
$1,200
[21]
These 2 U.S. states border each other
Mississippi & Tennessee
Mihir
Nadège
|
$800
[26]
The lower house of Argentina's legislature is the chamber of these--representatives, not junior sheriffs
deputies
Tim
|
$800
[5]
She was Gisele in "Fast & Furious" before she was "Wonder Woman"
(Gal) Gadot
Nadège
|
$800
[27]
Tolkien wrote that this character was "able swiftly to draw a great war-bow" & had the "tremendous vitality of Elvish bodies"
Legolas
Nadège
|
|
$1,200
[18]
1722:Thiscomposer completes his first book of fugues & preludes, known as the "Well-Tempered Clavier"
Bach
Nadège
|
$1,200
[2]
The phyto-type of these marine drifters contains algae & bacteria, while the zoo- type includes animal life
plankton
Mihir
|
$1,600
[22]
In 2 words, it grinds the beans to make your morning joe
a coffee mill
Mihir
Nadège
|
$1,200
[14]
There are 338 members in this branch of Canada's parliament
the House of Commons
Tim
|
$1,200
[8]
"Diary of a Mad Black Woman" was this actor's first time on the big screen as southern matriarch Mabel Simmons
Perry
Tim
|
$1,200
[15]
This rhymingly named item has its own storybook subtitled "A Christmas Tradition"
Elf on the Shelf
Tim
|
|
$2,000
[20]
1522:This man the Younger paints the "Solothurn Madonna"
(Hans) Holbein (the Younger)
Tim
|
$1,600
[1]
Found in the swamps of Louisiana, this state tree derives its name from its appearance after it loses its needle-like leaves
the bald cypress
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
For much of its history, the USSR was run by the Central this group
the Central Committee
Nadège
|
$1,600
[24]
In the west Japan's national assembly, the Kokkai, goes by this slender name
the Diet
|
$1,600
[9]
This reclusive star's last movie was 1941's "Two-Faced Woman", which came out when she was 36
Greta Garbo
|
$1,600
[16]
In the "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" TV special, Hermey the elf didn't want to make toys but wanted this job instead
dentist
Tim
Nadège
|
|
DD
$2,500
[19]
1922:this North African country gains independence from British rule with Fuad I as king
Egypt
Nadège
|
$2,000
[6]
Macropus rufus is the scientific name for this largest living marsupial
red kangaroo
Mihir
|
$2,000
[23]
This river forms part of the Florida-Georgia line
the Chattahoochee
|
$2,000
[25]
This name of Iceland's parliament comes from words meaning "whole assembly"
the Althing
Mihir
|
$2,000
[10]
Emerald Fennell won an Oscar for writing this 2020 film in which Carey Mulligan seeks vengeance for a horrible crime
Promising Young Woman
Nadège
|
$2,000
[17]
Follow the lieder! This composer found some early success in 1821 with a song called "Elf King"
Schubert
Nadège
|
The title of this poem comes from a 1920 book that refers to its possible "restoration to fruitfulness"
The Waste Land