Kat Jepson — an artist originally from Virginia Beach, Virginia
Mark Sutch — a theatre professor from Concord, North Carolina
Robbi Ramirez — a writer from Orlando, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robbi | $5,400 | $7,400 | $7,400 |
$100
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Mark | $1,400 | $3,200 | $13,600 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$13,600
17 R, 3 W |
| Kat | $2,200 | $4,600 | $23,800 |
$20,399
New champion: $20,399 |
$19,800
22 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| BAD BOYS IN BOOKS | ARCHITECTURALLY SPEAKING | I GOT THE RECEIPTS | A PRESIDENTIAL LAST NAME | WHALES | TIME FOR A "LITTLE" MUSIC |
|
$200
[16]
Archie Costello leads the Vigils, a gang of school kids enforcing the sale of this title sweet treat in a Robert Cormier "War" novel
chocolate
|
$200
[24]
To become involved with something lucrative before a larger group of people learns about it is to "get in" here
the ground floor
Robbi
|
$200
[23]
My friend, I can put you in a Ghost from this British car maker today... if you happen to have $400,000
Rolls Royce
|
$200
[25]
Dam, it's a vacuum, too!
a Hoover
Mark
|
$200
[30]
Thesewhales sing complex courtship songs that can last up to 20 minutes & be heard miles away
humpback whales
Kat
|
$200
[11]
Thisrock & roll legend passed away in 2020
Little Richard
Kat
|
|
$400
[15]
Luke, the son of Hermes, betrays this title kid at Camp Half-Blood by poisoning him; not cool
Percy Jackson
Robbi
|
$400
[21]
It's what you should avoid doing proverbially if you live in a glass house
throw stones
Robbi
|
$400
[26]
Folks were not happy he went electric at 1965's Newport Folk Festival but in 2013 the Fender Strat he used went for $965,000
Bob Dylan
Robbi
Kat
|
$400
[18]
Baseball's Mookie & Hack (who had 191 RBIs in 1930--you should know his last name!)
Wilson
|
$400
[7]
Including the pilot & beluga whales, the suborder Odontoceti is characterized by this feature
teeth
Kat
|
$400
[1]
In 1983 Prince drove into the Top 10 for the first time in this title conveyance
"Little Red Corvette"
Mark
|
|
$600
[12]
In this S.E. Hinton novel, it's the Socs vs. the Greasers, & Dally is a bit of a thug
The Outsiders
Mark
|
$600
[20]
In other words, "when one won't tolerate temperature, remove oneself from food-making facilities"
if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen
Robbi
|
$600
[27]
In 1989 Jerry Jones bought this NFL team for $140 million; a decent investment, as it's worth more than $7 billion today
the Dallas Cowboys
|
$600
[17]
A place where a river is shallow enough to be crossed by wading
ford
Mark
|
$600
[5]
After about a year in its mother's womb, a baby of this whale species is born weighing up to 3 tons & as long as 25 feet
a blue whale
Robbi
Kat
|
$600
[3]
This country quartet has won 3 Grammys, including one in 2016 for "Girl Crush"
Little Big Town
Mark
Kat
|
|
$800
[13]
With a name fit for a Roman emperor, this rude boy falls into Willy Wonka's river & gets sucked up by a super pipe
Augustus Gloop
Robbi
|
$800
[19]
Curiosity, a good memory & some wagering skill are this colorful plan "for success" on "Jeopardy!"
a blueprint
Kat
|
$800
[28]
Symbolically hot off the press, this book--one of roughly 50 left in the world--was auctioned in 1987 for $5.39 million
a Gutenberg Bible
Kat
|
$800
[2]
An animated "Show" formerly on Fox, or an Ohio city
Cleveland
Robbi
|
$800
[4]
These small whales have occasionally been known to grow 2 tusks instead of one
narwhals
Kat
|
$800
[6]
"I'll keep you my" this, sang the All-American Rejects, though having a No. 1 hit might not be the best way to do that
"Dirty Little Secret"
Kat
|
|
DD
$1,200
[14]
"You've been brought up bad... Fagin will make something of you", says this rascal to Oliver Twist
the Artful Dodger
Robbi
|
$1,000
[22]
To reinforce a viewpoint, idiomatically as in "you need to" this structural support "your argument with hard facts"
buttress
Mark
|
$1,000
[29]
In 2014 a golden oval item a man hoped to sell as scrap metal was actually this Russian treasure & worth $33 million
a Fabergé egg
Kat
|
$1,000
[9]
Synonyms for this include prick, perforate & puncture
pierce
Robbi
|
$1,000
[8]
The largest member of the dolphin family, it's easy to identify by its black & white coloring
an orca (killer whale)
Mark
|
$1,000
[10]
Be cool, relax & name this 1980 chart-topper by Queen
"Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
Robbi
|
| NO, PRIME MINISTER | ADAPTERS | ONE HOT MoMA | THE I.V. LEAGUE | QUEEN VICTORIA GEOGRAPHY | A LANGUAGE OF CONSONANT PLUS VOWEL |
|
$400
[28]
On live TV, Dutch PM Mark Rutte said don't perform this greeting ritual due to COVID, but forgot & put 'er there moments later
a handshake
Robbi
|
$400
[30]
(I'm Joel Kim Booster.) In 2022, I wrote & starred in"Fire Island", a modern retelling of this Jane Austen novel in which I find myself in the shoes of Elizabeth Bennet
Pride and Prejudice
Kat
|
$400
[26]
Jeff Koons' version of this colorful feline made famous by Peter Sellers on film is on floor 2
the Pink Panther
Kat
|
$400
[27]
Most of it below sea level, the Imperial Valley in this U.S. state is noted for vast acres of irrigated farming
California
Mark
|
$400
[4]
Africa's Lake Victoria is home to a plethora of wildlife, including these "water horses"
a hippopotamus
Robbi
|
$400
[29]
In English, it's a pronoun of the first person plural
we
Kat
|
|
$800
[17]
In 1975 Malcolm Fraser, after 2 hours as Australia's PM, received a vote in Parliament of "no" this
confidence
Kat
|
$800
[25]
Novelist Dave Eggers helped Spike Jonze adapt Maurice Sendak's classic book into this 2009 film
Where the Wild Things Are
Kat
|
$800
[1]
Her 1977 oil on canvas "From a Day with Juan II" was a bequest of this painter from New Mexico
O'Keeffe
Kat
|
$800
[21]
Latin term for the type of fertilization of an egg that takes place in a lab dish
in vitro
Mark
|
$800
[6]
2 Australian states are named for her: Victoria & this one whose territory includes part of the Great Barrier Reef
Queensland
Kat
|
$800
[3]
"Yes", in German
ja
Mark
|
|
$1,200
[16]
In 1938 this prime minister abandoned British naval bases in Ireland & stood by as Italy took over Ethiopia... oops
Chamberlain
Mark
|
$1,200
[24]
Not busy enough with "Downton Abbey", he adapted "Mary Poppins" & "School of Rock" as stage musicals
Julian Fellowes
Mark
|
$1,200
[2]
Gordon Parks' "Excerpt from" this film about a "Black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks" is at MoMA & we can dig it
Shaft
Robbi
Mark
|
$1,200
[20]
An immigrant one of these documents can enable the holder to travel to the U.S. intending to stay permanently
an immigration visa
Mark
|
$1,200
[11]
Victoria Peak rises nearly 3,700 feet in this English-speaking Central American nation
Belize
Mark
|
$1,200
[5]
In Latin it's a form of the word for "thing"; it follows "in" to mean "concerning"
re
Mark
|
|
$1,600
[15]
In 1973 Luis Carrero Blanco became PM, taking power in Spain from this man, but was assassinated 6 months later
Franco
Mark
|
$1,600
[23]
Neil Druckmann, creator of this video game partly inspired by the book "The World Without Us", helped adapt it for HBO in 2023
The Last of Us
Robbi
|
$1,600
[9]
Mais oui, you can take a trip back in time to 1899 & survey his "Tahitian landscape"
Gauguin
Kat
|
$1,600
[18]
In German, "in vertretung" means to do this, like voting "by" it on behalf of someone not present
proxy
Robbi
Kat
|
$1,600
[12]
Victoria is the main town on Gozo, the second-largest of this Mediterranean country's islands
Malta
|
$1,600
[7]
En français, it means "of"
de
Kat
|
|
$2,000
[14]
In 2014 this nation said no to PM Fredrik Reinfeldt & Stefan Lofven, running for the Riksdag for the 1st time, got the job
Sweden
Robbi
Mark
|
$2,000
[22]
This novelist did not adapt his own novel "About a Boy" as a movie but did adapt other writers' "Wild" & "Brooklyn"
Nick Hornby
Mark
|
DD
$5,000
[10]
His "Number 1A, 1948", which includes some of his handprints, has been on exhibit in the David Geffen Galleries
Pollock
Kat
|
$2,000
[19]
This valve in a car engine opens to allow the fuel-air mixture to be drawn into the cylinder
the intake valve
Kat
|
$2,000
[13]
This explorer was the first known European to see Victoria Falls & named them for the monarch
Livingstone
Mark
|
DD
$3,000
[8]
This rhyming pair are the 12th & 13th letters of the Greek alphabet
mu & nu
Kat
|
At times they each lived on Vilakazi St. in Soweto, so it claims to be the world's only street home to 2 Nobel Peace Prize winners
Nelson Mandela & Archbishop Desmond Tutu