Anjali Bhat — a lawyer from New York, New York
Mark Primiano — a shelter veterinarian from Chicago, Illinois
Emily Fiasco — a middle school band director from St. Louis, Missouri (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emily | $1,600 | $5,400 | $14,000 |
$25,201
2-day champion: $53,201 |
$14,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mark | $3,200 | $4,000 | $8,000 |
$15,500
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,000
17 R, 3 W |
| Anjali | $800 | $2,200 | $12,600 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| THE FOUNDING FATHERS | EARTH | TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE | UNITS OF MEASURE | TERRIBLE SUPERVILLAIN NAMES | THAT'S COLD! |
|
$200
[6]
Encyclopedia Britannica calls him "The Foundingest Father of them all" (really!)
George Washington
Emily
|
$200
[14]
277 miles long & found in the American Southwest, it's one of the largest land gorges on Earth
the Grand Canyon
Emily
|
$200
[1]
"Last Exit to Springfield"
The Simpsons
Emily
|
$200
[26]
About .26 inches, a unit called this insect's space is based on the length of the gaps in a hive
a bee
Anjali
|
$200
[8]
The king can't move without being put in check! Curses! It's this chess situation--a draw!--who no one ever wants to see!
a stalemate
Mark
|
$200
[15]
With a name meaning "cold", he's the animated guy with a corncob pipe & a button nose
Frosty (the Snowman)
Mark
|
|
$400
[7]
Cheers to this Harvard grad, a second cousin of the second president
(Samuel) Adams
Mark
|
$400
[20]
The Earth's longest river is the Nile, but this one carries the most water by volume
the Amazon
Mark
|
$400
[2]
From 2012:"Say My Name"
Breaking Bad
Mark
|
$400
[27]
The GGE, this substance gallon equivalent, compares the energy content of alternative fuels
gasoline
|
$400
[9]
"Pater Corpus" doesn't quite have the same ring as this slang term for the build of some fathers
a dad bod
Mark
|
$400
[16]
About temperature, this adjective can mean cold; when used regarding lettuce, it means fresh & firm
crisp
Emily
|
|
DD
$400
[13]
Activist lawyer James Otis is credited with saying that this "without representation is tyranny"
taxation
Anjali
|
$600
[21]
This liquid beneath the Earth's surface is different in Hawaii--it has more molten rock & fewer gases & fragments
magma
Mark
Anjali
|
$600
[3]
"Chidi's Choice"
The Good Place
Mark
|
$600
[28]
A braza, about 5 1/2 feet, is an old Spanish measure based on the reach of outspread these
arms
Emily
|
$600
[10]
This insurance duo--the big cost you owe before your insurer kicks in & the money given to your doc as you get services--are just the worst
deductible & co-pay
Mark
Anjali
|
$600
[17]
This word is paired with an opposite in the name of a relieving cream to treat minor aches & pains of the muscles & joints
icy
Mark
|
|
$800
[24]
This Virginian first became prominent for his oratory in a 1763 case about whether it was OK to pay clergy with cash rather than tobacco
Patrick Henry
Emily
Mark
|
$800
[22]
Larger trees are starting to encroach north on this ecosystem defined by its lack of them
the tundra
|
$800
[4]
"Wind Sprints" &"Black Eyes & Broken Hearts"
Friday Night Lights
Mark
|
$800
[29]
A citymap, also called a plat, shows the division into single-owner areas called this "P" word, a synonym of packages
parcels
Anjali
|
$800
[11]
Listerine says bad breath is "also known as oral malodor or" this word; now oral malodor... that'd be a better name
halitosis
Mark
|
$800
[18]
If your office is really "as cold as" this space for dry aging, it's well under 40 degrees
a meat locker
|
|
$1,000
[25]
The "Penman of the Revolution", John Dickinson drafted the first version of this predecessor to the Constitution
the Articles of Confederation
Emily
|
$1,000
[23]
Hurricanes don't hit our middle, as this "effect" of the rotating earth on wind flow increases the further you get from the equator
the Coriolis
Anjali
|
$1,000
[5]
"Riding in Town Cars with Boys" &"The Unblairable Lightness of Being"
Gossip Girl
Emily
|
$1,000
[30]
You can spell "acre" with letters in this metric measurement that equals 2.471 acres
hectare
Emily
|
$1,000
[12]
The result for your account of writing a check you can't cover? It's this villain who many need "protection" from
overdraft
Anjali
|
$1,000
[19]
The food seenhereis prepared "crudo", Spanish & Italian for this word
raw
|
| RIVER NAMES | LITERARY CASTLES | ROMANCE LANGUAGES | THE WINDS OF POP CULTURE | I KNOW WHAT YOU DID | 4 OF THE SAME LETTER |
|
$400
[21]
This river's name comes from a word for "arrow", implying that it is faster than the Euphrates
the Tigris
Emily
|
$400
[15]
A Scottish castle is home to this school of witchcraft & wizardry
Hogwarts
Mark
|
$400
[1]
Spoken in medieval southern France, the dialect langue d'Oc got its name because Oc, not this, meant yes there
oui
Mark
|
$400
[2]
Saying it wasn't a "protest song", Bob Dylan did include the lyrics "How many times must the cannonballs fly"
"Blowin' In The Wind"
Emily
|
$400
[10]
As Germany's "chancellor of change", you ended military conscription & introduced a minimum wage
Angela Merkel
|
$400
[22]
A small figurine like an Academy Award
a statuette
Anjali
|
|
$800
[27]
In Sanskrit, the name of this river comes from "sindhu", which means "river"
the Indus River (the Sindh)
Emily
Anjali
|
$800
[16]
This Prague author's unfinished novel "The Castle" has a man named K trying unsuccessfully to access the title place
Kafka
Anjali
|
$800
[7]
In 2008 this European country's parliament passed an act officially adopting Brazilian spellings of hundreds of words
Portugal
Mark
|
$800
[3]
Seen here, Alexandra Shipp played a younger version of this film mutant originally portrayed by Halle Berry
Storm
Mark
|
$800
[11]
You won the U.S. National All-Around Gymnastics Championships from 2013 to 2016 & in 2018, 2019 & 2021
Simone Biles
Emily
|
$800
[23]
At the recent Tokyo Olympics, Alix Klineman & April Ross netted gold in this sport
beach volleyball
|
|
$1,600
[29]
Some Europeans called this Chinese river the Blue River, perhaps to distinguish it from the Yellow River
the Yangtze
Anjali
|
$1,200
[17]
In this 17th century religious allegory, Christian & Hopeful are imprisoned for a time at Doubting Castle
The Pilgrim's Progress
Anjali
|
$1,200
[8]
Ladino, or Sephardi, was carried to the Mideast by people expelled from their homeland in 1492 at the urging of this judicial body
the Inquisition
Anjali
|
$1,200
[4]
Formerly the Hartford Whalers, they blew into Raleigh in 1997
the Hurricanes
Mark
|
$1,200
[12]
Youtook a constitutionaloathon October 26, 2020,
(Amy Coney) Barrett
Emily
|
$1,200
[24]
An expert in the formal rules & procedures of running an assembly, like the British legislature
a parliamentarian
Anjali
|
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
This river that gave its name to a Georgia city was known as Rio Dulce, or "sweet river", to early Spanish explorers
the Savannah River
Emily
|
$1,600
[18]
A key antagonist in "The Chronicles of Narnia", she lives in a castle full of stone statues
the White Witch
Anjali
|
$1,600
[9]
In 1898 an explosion killed the last known speaker of this Adriatic language that shared its name with a dog breed
Dalmatian
Emily
Mark
|
$1,600
[5]
"Blood On The Coal" by The Folksmen is on the soundtrack album of this Christopher Guest mockumentary
A Mighty Wind
|
$2,000
[14]
After a huge upset in the 1948 election, you did the honorable thing & conceded to Pres. Truman & sent congratulations
Dewey
Emily
|
$1,600
[25]
This adjective means having no previous example known
unprecedented
Anjali
|
|
$2,000
[30]
A king of Alba Longa, near present-day Castel Gandolfo, drowned in this river, which was then named for him
the Tiber
|
$2,000
[19]
Young Cassandra Mortmain lives in the rundown title structure in "I Capture the Castle" by this "101 Dalmatians" author
Dodie Smith
|
$2,000
[20]
Isolated from its romantic relatives, Romanian has been influenced by this language group of neighbors like Serbia & Bulgaria
Slavic
Mark
|
$2,000
[6]
Spencer Tracy was on the side of evolution while Fredric March argued creationism in this classic 1960 film
Inherit the Wind
Anjali
|
DD
$3,000
[13]
You served as Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996
(Desmond) Tutu
Emily
|
$2,000
[26]
If you support another person's alibi, you provide this 4-"O" word from the Latin for "to strengthen"
corroboration
Emily
Anjali
|
Maybe surprisingly, in 1918 this new leader was the first to recognize the independence of Finland
Lenin