Jake DeArruda game 3.
Liz Mendoza — a teacher from Phoenix, Arizona
Soren Bliefnick — a business intelligence analyst from Los Angeles, California
Jake DeArruda — a delivery dispatcher originally from Ludlow, Vermont (whose 2-day cash winnings total $47,994)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jake | $6,600 | $6,000 | $21,000 |
$20,667
3-day champion: $68,661 |
$16,000
21 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Soren | $3,400 | $5,200 | $8,800 |
$8,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,800
15 R, 3 W |
| Liz | $-600 | $2,400 | $200 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,200
14 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| "IN" THE RIGHT PLACE | SCI-FI & FANTASY | AD VERBS & TAGLINES | GET STUFFED! | THE SILENT & NOT-SILENT LETTER | JASON CONCEPCION |
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$200
[24]
Benjamin Harrison's home is now a museum in this Midwestern capital
Indianapolis
Jake
|
$200
[12]
The orphan Rin in R.F. Kuang's "The Poppy War" escapes her foster family, dealers of this drug, but she's just getting started
opium
Jake
|
$200
[30]
M&M's:"The milk chocolate ____ in your mouth, not in your hand"
melts
Liz
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$200
[29]
"Eider" sometimes comes in front of this 4-letter word you might find stuffed in your fluffy pillow
down
Liz
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$200
[16]
In a word for places like the Galapagos or the Ryukyus
an S
Liz
|
$200
[5]
(Jason Concepcion presents the clue.) The NCAA's 2021 ruling that college stars like Paige Bueckers can get paid was part of a "Takeline" discussion with Geno Auriemma, legendary head coach of the Huskies of this university
Connecticut
Jake
|
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$400
[15]
In 1815 Mount Tambora on this big archipelago had a huge eruption & lost much of its height
Indonesia
Jake
|
$400
[11]
P. Djèlí Clark uses this subgenre named for Victorian-era technology for his "Dead Djinn" stories set in an alternate 1912 Cairo
steampunk
Soren
|
$400
[21]
Apple, beginning in the 1990s:"____ different"
Think
Liz
|
$400
[28]
Kristen Arnett's "Mostly Dead Things" is about a young woman who takes over one of these shops that stuffs dead animals
taxidermist
Soren
|
$400
[17]
In a word meaning to lightly rap on something or disparage someone
K
Soren
|
$400
[4]
(Jason Concepcion presents the clue.) From 2017 through 2020, I hosted the Emmy-winning series "NBA Desktop" for this sports & pop culture website with a name that means "a skilled player competing incognito"
The Ringer
Jake
|
|
$600
[14]
In the center of Scotland's Highlands region, this onetime capital of the Picts has the U.K. postal abbreviation "IV"
Inverness
Soren
|
$600
[10]
A "Star Trek" homage, this colorful John Scalzi title refers to clothing soon-to-die crew members wear
the Redshirts
Soren
Liz
|
$600
[22]
Target:"____ more.Pay less."
Expect
Jake
Soren
Liz
|
$600
[27]
A soft stuffed toy won as a carnival prize is called this; kids call it that too, & sometimes add "ie"
a plush
Soren
|
$600
[18]
In a day of the week
D
Jake
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$600
[3]
(Jason Concepcion presents the clue.) On the 2022 finale of "ALL CAPS NBA", I sang "We Are The Champions" to introduce clips of this team's victoryparade
the Warriors
Jake
|
|
$800
[13]
Southwest of Seoul lies this big port city, site of a historic U.N. troop landing in 1950
Inchon
Soren
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$800
[9]
This Joe Haldeman classic tells of William Mandella, who fights the interstellar Taurans for a really long time
The Forever War
|
$800
[23]
Instagram:"____ and share the world's moments"
Capture
|
$800
[26]
Good Housekeeping's "75 Best" affordable these alliterative holiday gifts for 2022 included gear ties & lightsaber chopsticks
stocking stuffers
Jake
Liz
|
$800
[19]
In one of the academic STEM subjects
a C
Liz
|
$800
[2]
(Jason Concepcion presents the clue.) A 2021 episode of "Takeline" examined Major League Baseball's decision to move its All-Star Game out of this state after it passed a law that reduced the number of ballot drop boxes in Fulton County and elsewhere
Georgia
Jake
|
|
DD
$3,000
[6]
This European city had the good fortune to host the Olympics twice--in 1964 & in 1976
Innsbruck
Jake
|
$1,000
[8]
After Robert Jordan's passing, the prolific Brandon Sanderson took on the task of completing this epic fantasy series
The Wheel of Time
Soren
|
$1,000
[7]
Jantzen swimwear:"____ into life"
dive
|
$1,000
[25]
You don't wanna know the actual meat that gets stuffed into Mrs. Lovett's meat pies in this Sondheim musical
Sweeney Todd
Soren
|
$1,000
[20]
In a memory-helping word that describes a phrase like "every good boy does fine", relating to music
M
Liz
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$1,000
[1]
(Jason Concepcion presents the clue.) As co-host of the official podcast for HBO's "House of the Dragon", I shared my interview with this creator of Westeros who likened the struggle for the Iron Throne to Shakespeare tragedy
(George R.R.) Martin
Jake
|
| HISTORICAL FICTION | MEDICAL FOLKS | A CAPITAL OFFENSIVE | HEAD GEAR | THEY WROTE THE MOVIE | 3-LETTER PALINDROMES |
|
$400
[29]
He wrote "War and Peace" over 6 years, visiting battlefields & reading books on the Napoleonic Wars for research
Tolstoy
Soren
|
$400
[28]
3rd century physician Wang Shuhe pioneered diagnosis based on this, measuring it at 3 spots on each wrist
pulse
Liz
|
$400
[30]
Burning the U.S Capitol building in 1814, the British fueled the fire with 3,000 books from this institution, small at the time
the Library of Congress
Soren
|
$400
[27]
Popularized by the movie "Old School", these protectors are slang for "Kid, you shouldn't hear this"
earmuffs
Liz
|
$400
[25]
James Cameron's writing credits include "The Terminator", "Avatar" & this 1997 block-of-ice-buster
Titanic
Liz
|
$400
[26]
Kim & Jon use it to front their names in the rap game
Lil
Liz
|
|
$800
[1]
A novel of Ancient Egypt, "Thebes at War" by Naguib Mahfouz was originally published in this language in 1944
Arabic
Soren
|
$800
[23]
Epidemiologist Archie Cochrane studied pneumoconiosis, a disease of these organs, in Welsh coal miners
the lungs
Jake
|
$800
[7]
In December 1941 Hitler's armies reached the suburbs of this capital, but that's as far as they got
Moscow
Jake
|
$800
[17]
A comb from Nigeria with fewer teeth than American combs gave Willie Morrow the idea for this item to style Black hair
a (afro) pick
Liz
|
$800
[24]
Greta Gerwig wrote & directed this 2017 film starring Saoirse Ronan as an artistic teenager
Lady Bird
Jake
|
$800
[13]
It's found before "squad" in the name of a cheer-y group
pep
Jake
|
|
$1,200
[5]
"The Personal Librarian" tells of Belle da Costa Greene, a Black woman who passed as white to curate this financier's library
Morgan
Jake
|
$1,200
[8]
Named Australian of the Century in 1999, Victor Chang helped develop artificial heart these to keep blood flow in the right direction
valves
Liz
|
$1,200
[2]
Napoleon put a guard of honor around the home of Joseph Haydn after capturing this capital in 1809
Vienna
Jake
|
$1,200
[12]
When this item was first worn, by John Hetherington in 1797, its height & luster made women faint
the first top hat
Soren
|
$1,200
[20]
She co-wrote the screenplay for "Sleepless in Seattle"; "When Harry Met Sally" was all hers
Nora Ephron
Jake
|
$1,200
[14]
Hildegard of Bingen was a noted one
a nun
Liz
|
|
$2,000
[11]
Jennifer Coburn's "Cradles of the Reich" tells of the Lebensborn breeding program instituted by this SS boss
Heinrich Himmler
Jake
|
$2,000
[10]
Pernicious anemia was once called by the name of this 19th c. doctor for whom a disease of the adrenal glands is still named
Thomas Addison
Jake
Liz
|
$1,600
[3]
The Vandals plundered this North African capital in 439, though the Romans had "destroyed" it 6 centuries earlier
Carthage
Soren
|
$1,600
[18]
Now torturing fewer teens than in the past, reverse pull & cervical pull are 2 types of headgear used in this medical field
orthodontics
Jake
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$1,600
[21]
David Webb Peoples wrote the script for this Western with Clint Eastwood as a killer-turned-farmer-turned-killer
Unforgiven
|
$1,600
[15]
It's "here" in French
ici
Soren
|
|
DD
$4,600
[6]
A flier in her own right, she'sthe subject of Melanie Benjamin's bestseller "The Aviator's Wife" & we need her first name
Anne (Morrow) Lindbergh
Jake
|
DD
$3,000
[9]
Helen Taussig developed the first treatment for cyanotic infants, this alliterative syndrome
blue babies
Liz
|
$2,000
[4]
After a rapid offensive, this capital was captured April 30, 1975, leading to a name change
Ho Chi Minh City
Jake
|
$2,000
[19]
Common in the Victorian era, these became popular again with female factory workers during WWII
snoods
Soren
Liz
|
$2,000
[22]
As well as directing, Ingmar Bergman wrote this 1957 classic featuring a chess game with Death
The Seventh Seal
Soren
|
$2,000
[16]
The wahoo seenhereis known as this to Hawaiian fishers
the ono
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5 U.S. states have 6-letter names; only these 2 west of the Mississippi River border each other
Oregon & Nevada