Ryan Long game 13.
Carissa Faroughi — an architect from Falls Church, Virginia
Kenny Liew — a software engineer originally from Los Angeles, California
Ryan Long — a rideshare driver from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (whose 12-day cash winnings total $226,300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan | $4,000 | $9,600 | $28,400 |
$26,400
13-day champion: $252,700 |
$26,600
31 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Kenny | $-400 | $1,600 | $6,800 |
$8,401
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,800
7 R, 1 W |
| Carissa | $-800 | $-600 | $4,200 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,200
9 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| WORD PUZZLES | MAYORS | BOOK OF THE YEAR | WOOD | SEND A LETTER | MUSICIANS SELLING MUSIC |
|
$200
[21]
In recent years, their popularity has dimmed
neon lights
Ryan
|
$200
[26]
Before becoming New York City mayor in 2002, he founded a financial news & information service
(Michael) Bloomberg
Ryan
|
$200
[6]
"Shakespeare in 1606" is the subtitle of James Shapiro's book rhymingly titled "The Year of" this great tragic play
King Lear
Ryan
|
$200
[25]
Thomas Chippendale preferred this dark reddish-brown wood from the West Indies; the British had dropped duties on it in 1733
mahogany
Carissa
|
$200
[16]
The apostolic letters or books of the New Testament
epistles
|
$200
[15]
Sony Music made a boss move in 2021, paying more than half a billion for the recordings & music publishing of this Jersey guy
Bruce Springsteen
Ryan
|
|
$400
[17]
Why you were almost late today
I overslept
Kenny
|
$400
[27]
Its mayors have included Josiah Quincy, arranger of a certain market
Boston
|
$400
[2]
A risque work "written" by one of this queen's ladies in waiting, "1601" was first published anonymously by Mark Twain in 1880
Elizabeth I
Ryan
|
$400
[1]
The shagbark species of this tree can produce seeds until it's 300 years old--"old" this indeed
old hickory
Ryan
Carissa
|
$400
[7]
From the Latin for "ask", it's a letter to a publisher to see if they might be interested in a work you're submitting
a query letter
Kenny
|
$400
[11]
Deserving the Fleetwood max, this frontwoman sold a majority--but not all!--of her publishing for $100 million
Stevie Nicks
Ryan
|
|
$600
[18]
Showing little enthusiasm
half-hearted
Ryan
|
$800
[29]
London Breed is this California city's first African-American woman mayor
San Francisco
Kenny
|
$600
[3]
A classic by a fellow Englishman inspired Anthony Burgess to write a book in response whose title is this, one year later
1985
|
$600
[22]
This rhyming plane that flew in 1947 was made of a plywood composite called duramold, lighter & stronger than aluminum
the Spruce Goose
Ryan
|
$600
[8]
At the Stanford academic advising website, advice to students on getting these letters: take intro seminars to cozy up to a prof
(letters of) recommendations
Carissa
|
$600
[12]
Music rights for America (the band) went for $40 million in 2022 in part for having "been through the desert on" this title transport
"A Horse With No Name"
Ryan
|
|
$800
[19]
An Emmy winner for casting and makeup
Six Feet Under
Kenny
|
$1,000
[30]
Elected in Chicago in 2019, this alliterative mayor made news when she had different views from the teachers' union in 2021
Lori Lightfoot
|
$800
[4]
Herman Raucher based his coming-of-age novel about the summer of this year on his own experiences on Nantucket island
'42
|
$800
[23]
Often made from a 12-foot piece of oak, the wagonpartextending to the left connects to a horse & has this anatomical name
the wagon tongue
|
$800
[9]
Big in the 1930s, the "Good Luck of Flanders" one of these mentioned bad luck too, if you didn't pass it on
a chain letter
Ryan
|
$800
[13]
More like "tangled up in green"! Around 600 songs, selling for $300 million; that's 1/2 million a tune for this singer-songwriter
Bob Dylan
Ryan
|
|
$1,000
[20]
A song opening, it all has to do with gravity
"What goes up, must come down"
Ryan
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
He opposed speculation, gentrification & loud college parties as mayor of Burlington, Vermont from 1981 to 1989
Bernie Sanders
Ryan
|
$1,000
[5]
"Daybreak-2250 A.D." is by prolific author Alice Mary Norton, better known to sci-fi fans by this first name
Andre
|
$1,000
[24]
To the sadness of guitar players, this "flowery" wood prized for fretboards comes from an endangered tree
rosewood
Ryan
|
$1,000
[10]
A letter of marque was a government grant to a private individual to engage in naval operations otherwise considered this
piracy
Carissa
|
$1,000
[14]
In 2021 the estate of this "Dance With My Father" R&B singer who left us far too soon at 54 made a $40 mil. deal with Primary Wave
Luther Vandross
Ryan
|
| MEDIEVAL TIMES | IT ONLY BORDERS ONE COUNTRY | SCIENCE | IT'S A FLAT-OUT FACT | SNLCAST MEMBERS ON FILM | GOING "PRO" |
|
$400
[24]
"Shooting at the butts" (man-made mounds of earth) was a popular way to practice this discipline
archery
Ryan
|
$400
[1]
If it wasn't for its access to this ocean, the Gambia would be completely surrounded by Senegal
the Atlantic
Carissa
|
$400
[29]
Though it doesn't have airplanes, Saturn has this band of 200-mph winds moving around its North Pole in a hexagonal pattern
jet stream
Carissa
|
$400
[25]
All babies have flat feet, but if you develop the condition later in life, it's called fallen these
arches
Carissa
|
$400
[22]
As "The Nutty Professor"
Eddie Murphy
Ryan
|
$400
[30]
If they gain the readers' sympathy, even a villain can be this main character of a story
a protagonist
Ryan
|
|
$800
[15]
Amiens Cathedralis one of the glories of this medieval architectural style
Gothic
Ryan
|
$800
[2]
This European nation has been nicknamed "The Land of the 3 F's: Fado, Fatima & Futebol"
Portugal
Kenny
|
$800
[3]
The largest known of these compounds, titin has over 34,000 amino acids; its full chemical name has more than 34,000 characters
a protein
|
$800
[5]
Please pass over this bread in unleavened form or now that I think of it, as a ball in some delicious soup
matzah
Kenny
|
$800
[18]
As "The Wedding Singer"
Adam Sandler
Ryan
|
$800
[11]
Instead of being passive about the situation, let's be this & take initiative in advance
proactive
Carissa
|
|
$1,200
[16]
A serf who could hide out in a town for this long, "un an et un jour" in French, became a free citizen
a year and a day
Ryan
|
DD
$1,200
[26]
Technically an ecclesiastical state, it's found west of the Tiber
Vatican City
Carissa
|
$1,200
[4]
A study of these notorious bacteria, genus Escherichia, showed they swarm to fight antibiotics & even dead ones participate
E. coli
Ryan
|
$1,200
[7]
"Tortilla Flat", a 1935 novel set in Monterey, established him as a successful author
Steinbeck
Ryan
|
$1,200
[19]
In "Meatballs"
Bill Murray
Ryan
|
$1,200
[12]
It's the chief dignitary at some cathedrals, or a chief academic officer at a university
provost
Carissa
|
|
DD
$2,000
[17]
In 1279 these invaders ended China's Song Dynasty
the Mongols
Ryan
|
$1,600
[27]
The Islamic Sultanate of Brunei is in 2 parts, each of which borders only this nation, on the island of Borneo
Malaysia
Ryan
Carissa
|
$1,600
[6]
Around 1911 Arthur Holmes postulated Earth's age could be estimated by measuring the decay of this radioactive element into lead
uranium
Ryan
|
$1,600
[8]
In 2021 a vehicle aptly named Speed Demon hit 466 mph at these salt flats in Utah
Bonneville
Kenny
|
$1,600
[20]
As "Joe Dirt"
David Spade
Ryan
|
$1,600
[13]
Based on how they move, these single-celled organisms can be divided into 4 major groups, including ciliates & flagellates
protozoa
Ryan
|
|
$2,000
[23]
A sharp medieval thinker's name is attached to this rule of logic that says simple solutions are better than complex ones
Occam's razor
Ryan
|
$2,000
[28]
One of the world's newest countries, its "West"ern counterpart is administered by Indonesia
East Timor
Carissa
|
$2,000
[9]
The "Woodstock of Physics" was a 1987 conference on this phenomenon where electricity zips through certain very cold materials
superconductivity
Ryan
|
$2,000
[10]
Some Native Americans practiced skull binding for a rounded look; Lewis & Clark called the Salish this because they didn't
the Flathead
|
$2,000
[21]
As Mila Kunis' best friend in "The Spy Who Dumped Me"
Kate McKinnon
Ryan
|
$2,000
[14]
In the "Communist Manifesto", it's said that the fall of the bourgeoisie & the victory of this worker class is inevitable
the proletariat
Kenny
|
Referring to the book's title, this character says, "I know it's a poem by Robert Burns"
Holden Caulfield