Megan Wachspress game 6.
Jenny Sholar — a preschool teacher from Madison, Wisconsin
Rob Kaplan — a teaching physician from Los Angeles, California
Megan Wachspress — an attorney from Berkeley, California (whose 5-day cash winnings total $52,002)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Megan | $400 | $1,200 | $8,400 |
$8,601
6-day champion: $60,603 |
$8,400
15 R, 5 W |
| Rob | $-1,400 | $-200 | $16,500 |
$8,599
2nd place: $2,000 |
$16,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jenny | $2,400 | $4,600 | $12,200 |
$3,500
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| GEOGRAPHIC SUPERLATIVES | RED ALL OVER | TAKING STOCK SYMBOL | TV FACTOIDS | KIDS' BOOKS | 3 LETTERS IN A ROW, ALPHABETICALLY |
|
$200
[11]
At 29,032 feet up, atop this highest mountain, you'll be on top of the world
Mount Everest
Rob
|
$200
[1]
Less common today, this infectious bacterial disease of kids characterized by a red rash has a hue of red in its name
scarlet fever
Megan
|
$200
[23]
CMG is this Mexican grill, &... what? Guac is extra? That's the first I'm hearing of that
Chipotle
Jenny
|
$200
[18]
With a knack for predicting plays, he's been a success in the broadcast booth like he was behind center
Tony Romo
|
$200
[5]
Despite his mother's warning, this title character does get into mischief, eating from Mr. McGregor's garden
Peter Rabbit
Megan
Rob
|
$200
[6]
Making money by doing what some considered foolish? You're doing this "all the way to the bank"
lau ghi ng
Jenny
|
|
$400
[12]
At about 3.3 million square miles, this largest desert covers an area that's almost equal to that of the United States
the Sahara
Jenny
|
$400
[2]
There's a red in the name of this gravest type of transgression in Catholic theology
a cardinal sin
|
$400
[24]
BB, securing your data in a nice, safe Canadian way
BlackBerry
|
$400
[19]
In 2022 Zendaya returned as troubled high schooler Rue Bennett on this HBO drama
Euphoria
Megan
|
$400
[8]
The title character of this classic by Eric Carle literally eats through the pages of the book
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Rob
|
$400
[7]
It's the 2-word family relationship you have with the child of your mom's brother
fi rst cousin
Megan
Rob
Jenny
|
|
$800
[14]
Located in Venezuela, ithas the longest uninterrupted drop of any waterfall
Angel Falls
Rob
Jenny
|
$600
[3]
A tarocco is this type of hybrid orange whose flesh is actually a vivid red, thanks to anthocyanins
a blood orange
Megan
|
$600
[30]
You can get a kick out of buying into this soccer club with the symbol MANU but then you shouldn't complain about the ownership
Manchester United
Rob
|
$600
[20]
A teaching hospital in this city has been the setting for "Grey's Anatomy" for 18 seasons
Seattle
Megan
|
$600
[10]
This stuffed bear with a fabric name goes searching for a missing button
Corduroy
Jenny
|
$600
[29]
To libel or slander (but it doesn't mean to make less well known)
def ame
Rob
Jenny
|
|
DD
$1,000
[13]
This largest bay is part of the Indian Ocean
the Bay of Bengal
Jenny
|
$800
[4]
Native to Eastern North America, it's the species of hummingbird seen here
a ruby-throated hummingbird
Megan
Jenny
|
$800
[26]
Give us some credit (check) with EFX
Equifax
Jenny
|
$800
[21]
The latest variant of the "Law & Order" franchise is "Organized Crime" starring this man, a veteran of "SVU"
Christopher Meloni
|
$800
[16]
She is the smallest of the 12 girls who live in a vine-covered house in Paris
Madeline
Megan
|
$800
[28]
It's the traditional response to "are too!"
a m no t
Jenny
|
|
$1,000
[15]
Covering over 140,000 square miles, it's the world's largest inland body of water
the Caspian Sea
Megan
|
$1,000
[9]
This word for red wine, now especially Bordeaux wine, can also mean a reddish color
claret
Rob
Jenny
|
$1,000
[25]
Hal...? Open the stock pay doors, Hal... (Hal being this oil company)
Halliburton
Megan
|
$1,000
[22]
This daytime talk show host seenhereonce worked as a morning TV news anchor in Chicago
Tamron Hall
Megan
|
$1,000
[17]
This 2-word title of Chelsea Clinton's book about determined women was coined by Sen. McConnell about Sen. Warren
She Persisted
Jenny
|
$1,000
[27]
It's where a river's mouth meets the ocean
an e stu ary
Megan
|
| HISTORY | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS | I DON'T HEAR A SYMPHONY | MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS | TRANSPLANTS | "M.R.", AYE! |
|
$400
[11]
When Pompey took this metropolis in 63 B.C., Judea fell under the heel of the Romans
Jerusalem
Jenny
|
$400
[26]
These cinematic siblings met a dude named Jeff Dowd who inspired them to make "The Big Lebowski"
the Coen brothers
Megan
|
$400
[21]
Not quite yet the symphony, the sinfonia was an instrumental part of these stage works, like "Giasone", a big one of the 1600s
operas
Rob
|
$400
[2]
Around 1851 Hermann von Helmholtz invented the ophthalmoscope, used to examine these body parts
the eyes
Megan
|
$400
[16]
As the Nazis rose to power, this scientist decided in Dec. 1932 to leave Germany; he never returned after moving to Princeton
Einstein
Jenny
|
$400
[6]
This display of colossal presidents was dedicated in 1927
Mount Rushmore
Megan
|
|
$800
[12]
In 1632 Maryland was granted to this lord, son of George Calvert, as a Catholic haven
Baltimore
Rob
|
$800
[27]
The 1925 painting "House by the Railroad" by Edward Hopper was an inspiration for the Bates home in this 1960 film
Psycho
Rob
|
$800
[22]
With Beethoven in mind, Mahler believed writing this number symphony was endsville, so he called a 1908 work a song cycle
the 9th
Megan
|
$800
[3]
In an operation in 1846, William Morton employed ether in the first successful public use of this
anesthesia
Megan
|
$800
[17]
Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, she brought her danse sauvage to Paris in 1925 & became a French citizen in 1937
Josephine Baker
Jenny
|
$800
[7]
Cooking to about 135 degrees gets your T-bone done this way
medium rare
Rob
|
|
$1,200
[13]
The Yuan Dynasty was ousted in 1368 by this other 4-letter dynasty that would last a while
the Ming Dynasty
Rob
|
$1,600
[29]
"Racer X", a 1998 article by Ken Li about illegal street-racing, inspired this high-octane film franchise
The Fast and the Furious
Megan
|
$1,200
[23]
Beethoven's "Kreutzer" is not a symphony but one of these "S" works for violin & piano
a sonata
Rob
|
$1,600
[4]
2022 brought the first transplant of a heart from this farm animal into a person
a pig
Megan
|
$1,200
[18]
In 1986 this Philippine president & his pals stuffed $7.7 million into suitcases & fled to Hawaii, where he died 3 years later
(Ferdinand) Marcos
Megan
|
$1,200
[8]
During World War II, Winston Churchill planned strategy in this aptly named space; you can still visit it
the Map Room
|
|
$1,600
[14]
18th century military prowess forced others to refer to this Prussian as "The Great"
Frederick the Great
Rob
|
$2,000
[30]
Ben Stiller cited this "international" thriller from 1962 as an inspiration for "Zoolander"; poor Derek is an assassination patsy
The Manchurian Candidate
Jenny
|
$1,600
[24]
César Franck composed "Symphonic" these on a theme, but no one agrees on how many it contains--between 6 & 15
Variations
Rob
|
DD
$2,000
[1]
Sir Martin Evans shared a 2007 Nobel Prize for his discoveries with these undifferentiated biological units
stem cells
Rob
|
$1,600
[19]
This artist who painted "Paris Through the Window" left Russia in his rear view in 1922 & went to see Paris through his window
Marc Chagall
Rob
|
$1,600
[9]
It flows about 1,100 miles through Canada, emptying into the Beaufort Sea
the Mackenzie River
Rob
|
|
$2,000
[15]
Around 5,000 years ago bronze objects were being produced in this 2-letter Mesopotamian city
Ur
Jenny
|
DD
$3,100
[28]
Padre Fray Tormenta, who helped the orphans of Texcoco while wearing a mask in the ring, inspired this 2006 comedy
Nacho Libre
Rob
|
$2,000
[25]
A bit like a symphony, the first work called this "for Orchestra" instead of for a solo instrument was in 1925 by Hindemith
a concerto
|
$2,000
[5]
Derived from the foxglove plant by William Withering in the 1700s, this drug is still prescribed in treating heart conditions
digitalis (digoxin)
Rob
|
$2,000
[20]
He reluctantly took his government across the Formosa Strait & set up shop in Taiwan in 1949
Kai-shek
Jenny
|
$2,000
[10]
This French composer created many of his works as parts of ballets
(Maurice) Ravel
Rob
|
From Greek for "chief" & "sea", this word originally referred to the Aegean, known for its many island groups
archipelago