Matthew Ott — an accountant originally from Boston, Massachusetts
Ellen LaBerge — a lawyer from Syracuse, New York
Sriram Krishnan — a consultant from Falls Church, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sriram | $1,600 | $1,000 | $14,200 |
$4,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$16,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ellen | $2,000 | $4,600 | $7,800 |
$14,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,800
15 R, 3 W |
| Matthew | $3,600 | $5,000 | $11,600 |
$23,197
New champion: $23,197 |
$9,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| PLACES NAMED FOR PEOPLE | PUT IN A GOOD WORD | TABLE TALK | SONG TITLE TITLES | SHE BLINDED ME | SCIENCE! |
|
$200
[28]
This North Carolina capital was named in honor of a noted explorer in 1792
Raleigh
Sriram
|
$200
[29]
This word suitably introduces us to the fictional Mrs. Maisel & the very real boxing legend Marvin Hagler
marvelous
Ellen
|
$200
[30]
Figuratively or literally, negotiations to reach an agreement (& often thwart a strike) are held here
a bargaining table
Sriram
|
$200
[5]
Tom Petty:"It's Good To Be ____"
King
Sriram
|
$200
[25]
Playing Malorie in "Bird Box", this actress puts blindfolds on 2 kids, warning them not to take them off
Sandra Bullock
Ellen
|
$200
[23]
A measurement of distance, not time, it's equal to about 6 trillion miles, you know, give or take
a light year
Sriram
|
|
$400
[27]
Named for Mahatma, Gandhinagar is home to 300,000 & the capital of Gujarat State in this country
India
Ellen
|
$400
[15]
A spreadsheet program that launched in 1985, or a verb meaning "to surpass"
Excel
Ellen
|
$400
[26]
In a spin-off of "Red Table Talk", this singer, daughter Emily & niece Lilitackle tough issues within the Latino community
(Gloria) Estefan
Sriram
|
$400
[1]
A 1996 Jay-Z single:"Dead ____"
Presidents
|
$400
[24]
One myth says the seer Tiresias was blinded by this Greek goddess of wisdom after seeing her nude
Athena
Ellen
|
$400
[22]
The troposphere is sandwiched between the earth & this next layer of the atmosphere
the stratosphere
Matthew
|
|
$600
[6]
It didn't work out for this king with the American Revolution, but they named a town & nearby peak for him in South Africa
George III
Matthew
|
$600
[9]
The Latin for "price" gives us this word that is perfectly fine in front of "gems" & "metals"
precious
Matthew
|
$600
[10]
One legend says this piece of furniture was a wedding gift to King Arthur when he married Guinevere
the Round Table
Ellen
|
$600
[2]
Stevie Wonder:"Sir ____"
Duke
Sriram
|
$600
[11]
Michonne dealt with The Governor in a stabby way on this show; he'd later sport an eyepatch
The Walking Dead
Matthew
|
$600
[16]
Let's change the subject & talk about this class of rocks including gneiss & soapstone that gets changed atom by atom over time
metamorphic
Ellen
|
|
$800
[7]
In 1954 a New Jersey township voted to reject "Nixon" & renamed itself after this inventor
Edison
Sriram
|
$1,000
[14]
Whether describing silver or the British pound, this 8-letter word really is great
sterling
Sriram
|
$800
[17]
Those with high I.Q.s may know this 5-letter name of the organization whose name is the Latin for "table"
Mensa
Ellen
|
$800
[3]
Spin Doctors:"Two ____"
Princes
Matthew
|
$800
[12]
One of this conniving group, Delilah alerts them that Samson is finally at their mercy; next comes some gouging
a Philistine
|
$800
[21]
The size of a fist, this organ behind your left ribs fights invading germs in your blood by producing lymphocytes
spleen
|
|
$1,000
[8]
Shahr means "city" & after 1979's Iranian revolution, a place was redubbed this last name "Shahr" to honor the new leader
Khomeini
Sriram
Ellen
|
DD
$2,600
[19]
It's a good name for a 350-mile-long lake or the head of a convent
Superior
Sriram
|
$1,000
[18]
Livermorium is one of the more recent additions to it
a periodic table
Sriram
|
$1,000
[4]
The Who:"The Acid ____"
Queen
Matthew
|
$1,000
[13]
In "King Lear" a bloodthirsty Regan demands that this man be hanged while Goneril screams, "Pluck out his eyes"
the Earl of Gloucester
|
$1,000
[20]
This Greek gave his name to the law that says a body in fluid is acted on by force proportional to how much fluid it displaces
Archimedes
Matthew
|
| HISTORY | RUSSIAN WRITERS | "P"OTPOURRI | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS | TV FINAL EPISODES | STATE POSTAL ABBREVIATION WORDS |
|
$400
[20]
Henry VIII's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, was the daughter of this royal couple
Ferdinand & Isabella
Matthew
|
$400
[26]
Vladimir Nabokov's books never earned more than a few hundred dollars until this 1955 novel about a young girl became a hit
Lolita
Sriram
|
$400
[25]
There is actually a vegetarian species of this razor-toothed fish also called the Caribe
a piranha
Ellen
|
$400
[15]
This company that offers tax preparation services is named for its founders, brothers Henry & Richard
H&R Block
Ellen
|
$400
[10]
Coach Taylor moves from the East Dillon Lions to Philadelphia's Pemberton Pioneers in the finale of this series
Friday Night Lights
Sriram
|
$400
[5]
A wizard's magic rod
Washington & North Dakota
Sriram
|
|
$800
[21]
The unanimous election of Martin V in 1417 led to the end of the reign of these alternate religious rulers
the antipopes
Sriram
Matthew
|
$800
[27]
Anton Chekhov refashioned his bomb of a play "The Wood Demon" & its character Uncle George into this huge success
Uncle Vanya
Ellen
|
$800
[19]
In 2022 the founder of this outdoor brand transferred ownership to a trust & a nonprofit that will combat climate change
Patagonia
Ellen
Matthew
|
$800
[14]
Its name goes back to its founding in 1920 as the Queensland & Northern Territory Aerial Services
Qantas
Matthew
|
$800
[9]
"It really seemed like Pied Piper was going to work", said Bill Gates in a cameo as this series wrapped
Silicon Valley
Sriram
|
$800
[3]
Firstborn of Genesis 4:1
California & Indiana
Sriram
|
|
$1,200
[22]
After Robert E. Lee told him to reorganize his men after an attack at Gettysburg, he replied, "General, I have no division"
(George) Pickett
|
$1,200
[28]
In Turgenev's "Fathers & Sons", Bazarov has this world view whose name comes from Latin for "nothing"
nihilism
Ellen
|
$1,200
[11]
Here'sa depiction of this French-named commedia dell'arte character
Pierrot
Matthew
|
$1,600
[13]
The name of this tech company is a shortening of the metropolis where it was founded by 2 Stanford computer scientists in 1984
Cisco Systems
|
$1,200
[6]
The last episode of "This is Us" included the funeral of Rebecca, played by her
Mandy Moore
Matthew
|
$1,200
[1]
A mark left on the skin after a wound has healed
South Carolina & Arkansas
Ellen
|
|
$1,600
[23]
To decide important matters of faith, in 325 A.D. this emperor called the Council of Nicaea
Constantine the Great
|
$1,600
[29]
Thisauthor saw conflict & harmony firsthand serving in the Russian army at the Siege of Sevastopol in the 1850s
Tolstoy
Ellen
|
$1,600
[16]
This word means wild craziness, like the capital city of hell in "Paradise Lost"
pandemonium
Sriram
|
DD
$2,000
[12]
Truth be told, the first part of this telecommunications company's name comes from the Latin word for truth or certainty
Verizon
Sriram
|
$1,600
[7]
Drug cocktails & the other kind of cocktails were both featured in the finale of this show starring Billy Porter
Pose
Matthew
|
$1,600
[2]
Molten rock that reaches the surface
Louisiana & Virginia
Sriram
|
|
$2,000
[24]
Thisactivist with a parental nickname led a 1903 march to protest the evils of child labor
Mother Jones
Sriram
|
$2,000
[30]
His 1995 autobiography "Invisible Allies" described his last years in the Soviet Union before he got deported
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Ellen
|
$2,000
[17]
He's the British playwright seen here
(Harold) Pinter
Sriram
|
$2,000
[18]
GEICO's name goes back to its original customer base, military personnel & these people, the G-E
government employees
Sriram
|
DD
$3,800
[8]
When this show ended on April 10, 2022, one of the 2 female leads was dead. Which? Well, the show didn't live up to its title
Killing Eve
Matthew
|
$2,000
[4]
A sheet of glass set into a window or door
Pennsylvania & Nebraska
Ellen
|
A 1975 premiere of this comedy advertised free coconuts for the first thousand in the audience
Monty Python and the Holy Grail