Lois Casaleggi — an associate dean from Chicago, Illinois
Patrick Curran — a consultant from Washington, D.C.
Lloyd Sy — a graduate student in literature originally from Rockford, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $53,578)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lloyd | $4,000 | $5,400 | $8,800 |
$13,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,800
20 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Patrick | $4,400 | $11,600 | $24,800 |
$30,000
New champion: $30,000 |
$19,000
25 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Lois | $-400 | $0 | $-800 |
$-800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$-800
6 R, 4 W |
| SO THAT HAPPENED | BRING IT! | COLLEGES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE | NOT CHICKEN FEED | NATIONALITY RHYMES | CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER |
|
$200
[25]
79 A.D.:It's Stabiae vs. this volcano--Stabiae takes the L
Vesuvius
Lloyd
|
$200
[30]
You "bring home" this meat idiomatically when you earn income, but pick some up for real for our breakfast tomorrow
bacon
Lloyd
|
$200
[29]
When this Houston U. opened in 1912, its founder was dead via chloroform (his killers having failed with mercury pills)
Rice University
Lloyd
|
$200
[26]
These leaves are the dietary staple of the koala
eucalyptus leaves
Lloyd
|
$200
[28]
Ground fortification for those fighting for Calais
a French trench
Lloyd
Patrick
|
$200
[27]
Animated "Mysteries" starring this ex-champ include "House Haunters" & "A Mine is a Terrible Thing to Waste"
Mike Tyson
|
|
$400
[24]
July 20, 1969:The world hears, "Houston", this "base here. The Eagle has landed"
Tranquility
Lois
|
$400
[23]
Let's go to the park & bring Bonkers, this dog breedherethat can vocalize three different ways--a bark, a yodel-like bay & a howl
a Beagle
Patrick
|
$400
[22]
This university was chartered in 1821 after a bequest from Montreal merchant James, not "Slippin' Jimmy" of "Better Call Saul" fame
McGill (University)
Patrick
|
$400
[21]
Wild these subsist almost entirely on bamboo; in captivity, Mei Xiang also gets fruit, vegetables & special biscuits
pandas
Lloyd
|
$400
[19]
A toad or frog in Tripoli
a Libyan amphibian
Lloyd
|
$400
[20]
Georges St-Pierre used his signature "Superman punch" in a scene against this hero, but mostly worked with Chris Evans' stunt double
Captain America
Patrick
|
|
$600
[10]
1901:This rebellion in China ends, with a reported 100,000 dead
the Boxer Rebellion
Lois
|
$600
[4]
In Exodus 25 the Lord tells him, "Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering"
Moses
Patrick
|
$800
[5]
"Hairy" last name of Medford, Massachusetts' Charles, benefactor of a university there
Tufts
Patrick
|
$600
[1]
African this-eating snakes can smell whether a prospective meal is rotten or far along in development; it won't eat either
eggs
Lloyd
|
$600
[7]
A scream in Thessaloniki
a Greek shriek
Patrick
|
$600
[13]
Aka "Pretty Boy Floyd", he retired at a perfect 50-0 & enjoys gambling, putting $800,000 on the Broncos over the Jets in 2014
Mayweather
Patrick
|
|
$800
[11]
Sept. 11, 1971:Turns out "We will bury you!" will apply directly to this ex-leader of the Soviet Union
Khrushchev
Lloyd
|
$800
[16]
For our potluck, please bring the chicken dish named for this capital, famed for emitting a stream of butter when you cut into it
Kiev
Patrick
|
$1,000
[6]
In 1927, the year after the woman it's named for had died, this college became officially affiliated with Vassar
Sarah Lawrence
Patrick
|
$800
[2]
These "regal" butterflies eat nectar, but as caterpillars, they love usually toxic milkweed leaves
monarch butterflies
Lloyd
|
$800
[8]
A nimble Bangkok fellow
a spry Thai
Patrick
|
$800
[14]
"Founder of Jeet Kune Do" is on his grave in Seattle's Lake View Cemetery, next to his son Brandon's
Bruce Lee
Lloyd
|
|
$1,000
[12]
Sept. 2, 1666:He journals about "a great fire... in the city"
Samuel Pepys
Lloyd
|
$1,000
[17]
"The Untouchables" popularized a new expression for ill-preparedness as Sean Connery talks about bringing "a knife to" this
a gunfight
Patrick
|
DD
$4,000
[18]
This D.C. university is named for the educator who opened a school for deaf students in 1817
Gallaudet
Patrick
|
$1,000
[3]
Black-footed these little weasels eat mostly prairie dogs & add insult to injury by taking over their burrows
ferrets
|
$1,000
[9]
A group of soldiers in Trieste
an Italian battalion
Lloyd
|
$1,000
[15]
Trainer Yancey Durham took this man from a Police Athletic League gym to the heavyweight title & gave him his "Smokin"' nickname
Joe Frazier
Lloyd
Lois
|
| MODERN EGYPT | THE LIFE OF RILEY | THE DOOMSDAY BOOK | MANY RIVERS TO CROSS | TV: WHO PLAYED 'EM? | CLICHES |
|
$400
[29]
In 2022 this capital got its first walkway beside the Nile, along the route of the Corniche Highway
Cairo
Lloyd
|
$400
[24]
This former coach of the Lakers, Heat & Knicks was inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame in 2008
Pat Riley
Patrick
|
$400
[25]
The Battle of Yonkers is a zombie win in this Max Brooks novel, but humans, do not despair!
World War Z
Patrick
|
$400
[28]
The Black Hawk Bridge & the Old Vicksburg Bridge are 2 of the many ways to get across this river
the Mississippi
Patrick
|
$400
[30]
Fonzie on "Happy Days" & Gene Cousineau on "Barry"
Henry Winkler
Lois
|
$400
[27]
Completes the cliche "All dressed up...", suggested as the epitaph for an atheist
and nowhere to go
Patrick
|
|
$800
[26]
On March 8, 1957 & on June 5, 1975, Egypt reopened this waterway following international conflicts
the Suez Canal
Patrick
|
$800
[23]
Actress Riley Keough'smaternal grandparents are Priscilla & this man
Elvis Presley
Lloyd
|
$800
[18]
In "Station" this, "of all of them there... that night, the bartender was the one who survived the longest. He died three weeks later"
Station Eleven
Lois
|
$800
[5]
Connecting Rotherhithe & Wapping, the world's first big underwater tunnel was completed in 1843 beneath this river
the Thames
Lloyd
|
$800
[21]
Jack Bauer &President Tom Kirkman
Sutherland
Lloyd
|
$800
[22]
This simile compares someone who looks not at all tired to a flower with white rays & a yellow disk
fresh as a daisy
Lois
|
|
$1,200
[13]
Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi, Alexandria's largest of these buildings, was designed in current form by Italians & inaugurated in 1945
a mosque
Lloyd
|
$1,200
[7]
The work of op artist Bridget Riley was influenced by studying Georges Seurat & this neo-impressionist style he created
pointillism
Patrick
|
$1,200
[17]
The blindfold returns in--& on--"Malorie", the sequel to this "avian" horror novel
Bird Box
Lois
|
$1,200
[4]
During the annual Great Migration, herds ofwildebeest & zebrascross crocodile-infested rivers in the Masai Mara in this country
Kenya
Patrick
|
$1,200
[1]
Dr. Cristina Yang &Eve Polastri
(Sandra) Oh
Patrick
|
$1,200
[10]
Samuel Taylor's great-grandniece Mary Elizabeth Coleridge began a poem do this, "my beating heart"
Be still
Lloyd
|
|
$1,600
[15]
Under a peace treaty with Israel, this region was returned to Egypt in 1982
the Sinai Peninsula
Lloyd
|
$2,000
[16]
Mortally wounded in action in Vietnam in 1967, Captain Riley Pitts became the first African-American officer to receive this
the Medal of Honor
Patrick
Lois
|
$1,600
[8]
In the opening of this P.D. James novel, "The last human being to be born on Earth was killed in a pub brawl"
The Children of Men
Patrick
|
$1,600
[3]
The Vasco da Gama Bridge was completed in 1998 across this big river in a European capital
the Tagus
Lloyd
Lois
|
$1,600
[11]
Stringer Bell &John Luther
Elba
Patrick
|
$1,600
[2]
Lake Superior State U.'s 2022 overused "banished words" include this phrase that follows an embarrassing query really about oneself
asking for a friend
|
|
$2,000
[14]
After the tumultuous Arab Spring & an election win by the Muslim Brotherhood, this former general became president in 2014 & still is
President El-Sisi
Lloyd
|
DD
$4,000
[9]
Congressman Riley Wilson wanted to be governor of Louisiana in 1928 but lost out to this larger-than-life man
(Huey) Long
Patrick
|
$2,000
[19]
This Canadian tells of Snowman, possibly the last human, in her novel "Oryx and Crake"
Atwood
Lois
|
DD
$3,000
[6]
The former Fiumicino River is officially identified as this fateful ancient crossing site, but some argue for the Pisciatello or Uso
the Rubicon
Lloyd
|
$2,000
[20]
Audra Barkley on "The Big Valley" & in the '80s, Krystle Carrington
Linda Evans
|
$2,000
[12]
To mean an overall picture, instead of "the view from" this high, people could say "from 5.68 miles"
30,000 feet
Patrick
|
Laurence Olivier & Ernest Borgnine were considered for the lead role & Sergio Leone to direct for this film that turned 50 in 2022
The Godfather