Alison Trembly — a nurse practitioner from Amelia Island, Florida
Alfred Guy — an assistant dean from Babylon, New York
Matt Mierswa — an attorney from River Edge, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $29,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $1,600 | $6,000 | $25,600 |
$26,644
2-day champion: $55,845 |
$25,400
28 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Alfred | $-400 | $-200 | $5,500 |
$10,999
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,000
8 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Alison | $3,000 | $6,200 | $12,200 |
$11,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,200
16 R, 1 W |
| PLEASE RISE FOR OUR NATIONAL... | DOUBLE TALK | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | QUIZ BOWL | IT'S A BUG | NOT A FEATURE |
|
$200
[30]
Bird:Chosen in 1782, it can live up to 30 years in the wild
bald eagle
Matt
|
$200
[15]
A ballerina's stage costume typically includes this skirt
tutu
Alison
|
$200
[13]
Sanrio Puroland & the Ginza shopping district
Tokyo
Alfred
|
$200
[1]
Part of a tea set, or a college football game first played in 1935
a sugar bowl
Alison
|
$200
[28]
Types include red, black & fire & their job titles include scouts, who lay down a chemical trail to new food sources
ants
Matt
|
$200
[26]
Not Donald but he is tormented by an all-powerful animator in the classic short "Duck Amuck"
Daffy Duck
Matt
Alfred
|
|
$400
[5]
Motto:This 4-word phrase, signed into law by Eisenhower in 1956; "E pluribus unum" had been used unofficially
In God We Trust
Alfred
Alison
|
$400
[14]
An abnormal sound of the heart, or to say something in a very quiet voice
murmur
Matt
|
$400
[12]
The Spanish Steps & the Pyramid of Cestius
Rome
Alison
|
$400
[29]
For decades this venue has been the summer home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
the Hollywood Bowl
Alfred
|
$400
[27]
Farmers burning fields after harvest would chant this creature, "fly away home, your house is on fire, and your children will burn"
ladybug
Alison
|
$400
[25]
One of Pixar's first animated shorts was "Luxo Jr."; Luxo is this, still seen in the opening of Pixar films
a desk lamp
Matt
|
|
$600
[2]
Symbol of the USA itself: In 1950 the nation said, "I want you" to this finger-pointer
Uncle Sam
Alfred
|
$600
[6]
Big in the 1950s, this double- or even triple-speak ballroom dance has roots in the mambo
the cha-cha
Matt
|
$600
[9]
Centro Cultural Kirchner; Monumento a Eva Peron
Buenos Aires
Alfred
Alison
|
$600
[16]
It's Team Ruff vs. Team Fluff & a whole lot of cuteness when Animal Planet presents this competition
the Puppy Bowl
Matt
|
$600
[22]
Deer ones cause Lyme disease in the U.S.; the chillingly named Australian paralysis ones, anaphylactic shock
ticks
Matt
|
$600
[19]
I was 22 for 23 on my Oscar ballot in 2022 but missed Documentary Short Subject: "The Queen of" this team sport, about Lusia Harris
basketball
|
|
$800
[3]
Floral emblem:In proclaiming it, Reagan pointed out the White House has a garden of them
roses
Matt
|
$800
[7]
Roy's, a Hawaiian fine-dining destination, serves macadamia crusted this fish
mahi-mahi
Matt
|
$800
[10]
The Muzey Kino & the Laika Monument
Moscow
|
$800
[17]
Winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1940, "The Grapes of Wrath" has been called "the greatest novel about" this subject
the Dust Bowl
Matt
|
$800
[23]
Pillbugs are also called tiggy-hogs & more familiarly, by this rhyming name
roly-polies
Matt
|
$800
[20]
John Lennon & this woman made a 1970 short film in which a fly walks over a nude body
Yoko Ono
Alison
|
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
March:This "eternal" Sousa piece got the gig in 1987
"The Stars And Stripes Forever"
Matt
|
$1,000
[8]
Something fancy & frilly, or the name of a character in "The Aristocats"
froufrou
Alfred
Alison
|
$1,000
[11]
Emancipation Park & Trench Town Culture Yard
Kingston
Alison
|
$1,000
[18]
This holiday drink whose name derives from an Old Norse toast to health is traditionally served in a large bowl of the same name
a wassail
Alison
|
$1,000
[24]
Papaya & European cherry precede this alliterative term, a nuisance in the fields & in the kitchen
fruit flies
Matt
|
$1,000
[21]
In a legal morass for decades, 1987's "Superstar" uses Barbie dolls to tell of this singer & her tragic battle with anorexia
Karen Carpenter
Alison
|
| FAMOUS AMERICANS | EATING & DRINKING PLACES | HISTORY | THE TITLE THAT COMPLETES THE RHYME | ESSAYS | HEY, NICE "AB"s! |
|
$400
[11]
2022 marks the 60th anniversary of this Hollywood icon's death at 36; she's only become more famous since her passing
Marilyn Monroe
Alison
|
$400
[6]
The action of going to a drinking establishment located in a basement gave rise to this term for an unsavory tavern
a dive bar
Matt
|
$400
[16]
In 1474 at the age of 23, this queen began her rule of the Spanish kingdom of Castile
Isabella
Alison
|
$400
[4]
"And I'm just like oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh you need to just stop like can you just not step on my gown?"
"You Need To Calm Down"
|
$400
[30]
Alexander Pope's poem "An Essay on Man" gave us the phrase this "springs eternal"
hope
Matt
|
$400
[25]
To give up completely, or to flee a ship
abandon
Alfred
|
|
$800
[13]
A star attraction of Wild West shows, she was once billed as "The Peerless Lady Wing-shot"
Annie Oakley
Matt
|
$800
[7]
"Beef & reef" is another term for this type of restaurant that also has a rhyming name
surf & turf
Matt
|
$800
[18]
China pledged to leave this region's system in place for 50 years after 1997
Hong Kong
Matt
|
$800
[3]
"I know that I can't take no more it ain't no lie I wanna see you out that door baby..."
"Bye Bye Bye"
Matt
|
$800
[29]
Charles Lamb's 1823 "The Tombs in the Abbey" argued that the poor shouldn't be charged admittance to visit this London spot
Westminster Abbey
Alison
|
$800
[23]
A kidnapper, or a muscle that pulls away from the middle
abductor
Alison
|
|
$1,200
[12]
San Francisco hosts a parade honoring this late labor union activist & champion of farm workers near his March 31st birthday
Chavez
Matt
|
$1,600
[9]
The Internet is on tap at this place with a 1-word name suggesting you can get a cup of joe there as well
a cybercafe
Matt
|
$1,200
[17]
In 1453 the fall of the city then called this marked the end of the Byzantine Dynasty
Constantinople
Matt
|
$1,200
[1]
"Have your friends collect your records and then change your number, I guess that I don't need that though, now you're just..."
"Somebody That I Used To Know"
|
$1,200
[28]
"Higher Laws" & "The Pond in Winter" are 2 of the 18 essays in this collection by Thoreau
Walden
Alfred
|
$1,200
[22]
In a monastery, he's the boss
the abbot
Matt
|
|
$1,600
[14]
In 1916 this illustrator created his first of more than 300 covers for the Saturday Evening Post
Norman Rockwell
Alison
|
$2,000
[10]
A word for "treat" gives us the name for this type of Italian restaurant
a trattoria
Matt
|
$1,600
[19]
During this 1870-71 war, Napoleon III was captured & eventually deposed & Paris fell to a neighboring nation's army
the Franco-Prussian War
|
$1,600
[2]
"Just gonna stand there and hear me cry? Well that's all right because I..."
"Love The Way You Lie"
Matt
|
$2,000
[27]
The word "essay" came into English in a 1597 work by this Sir Francis, last name not Drake
Bacon
Matt
|
$1,600
[21]
Irritating & grating, or a substance used to grate away by friction
an abrasive
Matt
|
|
$2,000
[15]
In 1939, after she was denied a stage at Constitution Hall, she sang to a crowd of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial
Marian Anderson
Matt
|
DD
$2,400
[8]
Military types can have food & fun at one of these, also a term for something carried to drink water
a canteen
Matt
|
$2,000
[20]
This 5th century B.C. leader of Athens strengthened its leadership of Greece's city-states & had the Parthenon built
Pericles
Alfred
|
$2,000
[5]
"If no one is around you say 'baby, I love you', if you ain't runnin' game..."
"Say My Name"
Matt
|
DD
$2,100
[26]
This 1929 essay says a woman must have a dedicated personal space in order to become a fiction writer
A Room of One's Own
Alfred
|
$2,000
[24]
To wait patiently, like a movie "Dude"
to abide
Alison
|
Originally a Native American trail, the Dutch made it a main road & today it runs 33 miles from State Street to Sleepy Hollow
Broadway