Mattea Roach game 23.
Sarah Snider — a middle school humanities teacher from Fishers, Indiana
T.J. Lovejoy — a mortgage lender from Chandler, Arizona
Mattea Roach — a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 22-day cash winnings total $534,984)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mattea | $1,400 | $5,000 | $13,000 |
$25,999
23-day champion: $560,983 |
$15,000
24 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| T.J. | $400 | $400 | $-3,600 |
$-3,600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$-3,600
3 R, 3 W |
| Sarah | $5,200 | $8,000 | $22,600 |
$17,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$17,400
21 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| ART | THE NAPOLEONIC WARS | A GLUTEN-FREE CATEGORY | AMERICAN GRAB BAG | NAME THAT SPORT | NOW FOR THE SECRET WORD |
|
$200
[6]
"Gray Weather, Grand Jatte"tried to show nature's vivid outdoor clarity in all its nuances, according to this painter
Georges Seurat
Mattea
|
$200
[17]
A Russian general killed at the 1812 Battle of Borodino, Prince Bagration found immortality as a character in this Tolstoy tome
War and Peace
Mattea
|
$200
[27]
Seen here, it'd be weird to get one à la mode
a pie chart
Sarah
|
$200
[9]
Close encounters have been had at the UFO-themed McDonald's in this New Mexico town
Roswell
Mattea
|
$200
[1]
Kickoff, bubble screen, option route
football
Sarah
|
$200
[22]
The government says you can't get that info because it has this 10-letter designation, like a newspaper ad section
classified
Mattea
|
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$400
[3]
Born in Crete, he worked in Spain but that country's king did not care for his 1580s "Martyrdom of St. Maurice"
El Greco
Sarah
|
$400
[16]
One of Adm. Nelson's early triumphs was the 1798 Battle of Aboukir Bay, better known as the battle of this African river
the Nile
Mattea
|
$400
[26]
These tasty-sounding bits of info stored on a computer can help maintain a user's browser session
cookies
Mattea
|
$400
[14]
Bigfoot Wallace, one of these Texas lawmen, once had to walk the mail to El Paso & had a 27-egg meal on the way
a (Texas) Ranger
Mattea
|
$400
[7]
Kickoff, marking, nutmeg
soccer
T.J.
|
$400
[21]
An article of clothing & a pointy weapon form this intrigue-laden idiom
cloak-and-dagger
Mattea
|
|
$600
[2]
Moving from Europe to New York in 1940, Piet Mondrian cut loose & painted 2 major works whose titles contain this rhyming music style
boogie-woogie
|
$600
[18]
In 1801 Napoleon sent his brother Jerome to this West Indian colony then known as Saint Domingue to stop a slave revolt
Haiti
Mattea
|
$600
[28]
Thisactor won't trigger your celiac disease
Wil Wheaton
Sarah
|
$800
[13]
Weehawken, New Jersey is the place to see the dueling grounds where this statesman lost his life in 1804
Alexander Hamilton
Mattea
|
$600
[8]
Duck, over, googly
cricket
Sarah
|
$600
[23]
This double-talk term can be a command for silence, but more often refers to a matter of utmost secrecy
hush-hush
Mattea
|
|
$800
[4]
It was for the USA's centennial that Archibald Willard painted this work showing 3 marching musicians
Spirit of '76
|
$800
[19]
This country's Archduke Charles was one of the few Allied commanders able to go head-to-head with Napoleon's top generals
Austria
|
$800
[29]
This former name of the Hawaiian Islands sounds glutenous, but fret not
the Sandwich Islands
Mattea
|
$1,000
[15]
Groundthat's frozen year round is called this; for research in Alaska, the Army Corps of Engineers built atunnelin it
permafrost
Sarah
|
$800
[10]
Time trial, SPDS, brain bucket
cycling
Mattea
|
$800
[24]
"P" is for this word that refers to communication that's protected from compelled disclosure in a court of law
privileged
|
|
$1,000
[5]
In the"Education of Achilles"by this Flemish master, a highly cultivated man, thelyrerepresents music education
Rubens
|
$1,000
[20]
Pre-Waterloo, this man made his name commanding the British in the 1808-14 Peninsular War in Spain & Portugal
Wellington
Sarah
|
$1,000
[30]
This type of logic is named for its twisted nature & numerous holes
pretzel logic
|
DD
$2,000
[12]
This icon that strikes an E flat has words on it like "Pensylvania", which was an accepted spelling at the time
the Liberty Bell
Sarah
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$1,000
[11]
Poach, approach, eastern grip
tennis
Mattea
Sarah
|
$1,000
[25]
Secret agents have been known to travel this way, from Latin for "unknown"
incognito
Sarah
|
| ASTRONOMY | DESCRIBING THE PULITZER FICTION WINNER | TRUST FALL | IT'S TV MOTHER'S DAY | CROSS THAT BRIDGE | COME TO "IT" |
|
$400
[9]
On this innermost planet, a solar day lasts twice as long as its year & is equal to about 176 earth days
Mercury
Mattea
|
$400
[8]
1953: Sharks plunder elderly Santiago's catch
The Old Man and the Sea
Mattea
|
$400
[24]
R.J. Reynolds & Liggett & Myers were 2 of the companies created when the trust for this crop was broken up in 1911
tobacco
Sarah
|
$400
[1]
Tami Taylor, on this Texas-set drama: "It's part of my job to make sure that you don't grow up stupid. It's bad for the world"
Friday Night Lights
T.J.
|
$400
[12]
San Francisco junior college track team member Don Bryant was the first of 200,000 to get across this on its 1937 opening day
the Golden Gate Bridge
Mattea
|
$400
[23]
The IRS generally has 3 years to initiate this proceeding
an audit
T.J.
|
|
$800
[10]
The brightest star in the night sky is this binary star in Canis Major
Sirius
Mattea
|
$800
[4]
1988: Once enslaved, Sethe is plagued by memories of a plantation & a baby lost
Beloved
Sarah
|
$800
[25]
The movie trust nicknamed for this inventor limited most films to 2 reels & was dissolved in 1917
Edison
Sarah
|
$800
[2]
Malory, mom of this title spy: "Who put out a burn notice on Sterling?... but I would never...! Oh, dear God"
Archer
Mattea
|
$800
[13]
In 1952, a quick-thinking bus driver saved 20 passengers by accelerating & jumping the gap when this drawbridge rose unexpectedly
Tower Bridge
Mattea
Sarah
|
$800
[22]
To exonerate in court
acquit
Mattea
|
|
$1,200
[11]
In 2019 Green Bank Observatory found the most massive of this superdense type of star (a teaspoon weighs more than all of humanity)
a neutron star
T.J.
|
$1,200
[5]
2007: Lawless bands scour a ravaged America; a man & his son walk alone
The Road
Sarah
|
$1,600
[27]
The breaking up of Standard Oil of N.J. into 34 companies gave this man stock that made him the richest man in the world
J.D. Rockefeller
Mattea
|
$1,200
[3]
Now this is a story all about how Janet Hubert split time with Daphne Reid as Vivian Banks on this '90s sitcom
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Sarah
|
$1,200
[14]
In March 1945 German troops failed to blow up the bridge at Remagen over this river, allowing U.S. troops an unexpected dry crossing
the Rhine
|
$1,200
[19]
Paul of Thebes, who lived alone in a desert cave, was a famous early one
a hermit
Sarah
|
|
$1,600
[29]
Going 1,000 mph, it would take more than 2.8 million years to travel the 4.2-light-year distance to this nearest star system
Alpha Centauri
T.J.
|
$1,600
[6]
2015: The lives of a German boy & a blind French girl intersect in World War II France
All the Light We Cannot See
Sarah
|
$2,000
[28]
This 3-letter event has ruined trusts as well as banks; in 1907 an $8 mil. one on the Knickerbocker Trust led to the panic of 1907
a run
Mattea
|
$1,600
[18]
A sitcom with this title featuring single mom Ann Romano began in 1975; another, with single mom Penelope Alvarez, in 2017
One Day at a Time
Sarah
|
DD
$2,000
[15]
You'll have to wait to cross the Forbes Ave. bridge in this city; it collapsed in 2022 just before a presidential visit about infrastructure
Pittsburgh
Mattea
|
$1,600
[20]
Theodore Roosevelt loved his "bully" one
a pulpit
Sarah
|
|
$2,000
[30]
This comet with a hyphenated name was broken up by the gravity of Jupiter & fragments of it crashed into the planet in 1994
Shoemaker-Levy 9
Mattea
|
$2,000
[7]
1980: A book about Gary Gilmore, a real-life death row inmate
The Executioner's Song
T.J.
Sarah
|
DD
$5,000
[26]
This 4-word phrase was used back in 1984 as Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust was rescued by the govt. due to its size
too big to fail
Sarah
|
$2,000
[17]
When not helping special victims in about 500 episodes, this "Law & Order: SVU" character adopted an orphan named Noah
Olivia Benson
Mattea
|
$2,000
[16]
A petition seeks to rename Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge for this late congressman who wasbeatentrying to cross it in 1965
John Lewis
Sarah
|
$2,000
[21]
2-word term for the traditional warm, welcoming disposition of the people of Hawaii
the Aloha Spirit
Mattea
|
A black & white newsreel in this film begins: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree"
Citizen Kane