Allison Madson — a health policy professional from Reston, Virginia
Daniel Moore — a contract compliance analyst from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Ittai Sopher — a digital journalist and news producer from New Orleans, Louisiana (whose 2-day cash winnings total $26,202)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ittai | $600 | $1,200 | $6,000 |
$11,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,000
10 R, 2 W |
| Daniel | $5,600 | $9,200 | $29,000 |
$25,000
New champion: $25,000 |
$21,000
30 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W |
| Allison | $600 | $3,000 | $12,200 |
$12,383
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,200
13 R, 2 W |
| FAMILIES IN U.S. HISTORY | MODERN FANTASY LIT | 3,3 | GOOD AFTERNOON! | BANDS ACROSS THE DECADES | A TOUCH OF GREY |
|
$200
[13]
Last name of William Howard, the 27th president, & his brother Charles Phelps, owner of the Chicago Cubs
Taft
Ittai
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$200
[30]
Monza Murcatto, thrown from a great height & left for dead, later gets revenge in Joe Abercrombie's "Best Served" this
Cold
Daniel
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$200
[29]
The Pleistocene glacial epoch is also known as the great this
ice age
Ittai
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$200
[25]
From the French for "morning", it somehow became a term for a show's afternoon performance... let's take one in!
a matinee
Ittai
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$200
[9]
The Wilson brothers, Mike Love & Al Jardine, surfin' over '60s high notes
The Beach Boys
Daniel
|
$200
[28]
Macropus giganteus, the eastern grey type of this marsupial, can cover 30 feet in a single bound
a kangaroo
Daniel
|
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$400
[10]
The company founded by this publisher & politician still includes Men's Health, A&E & our own affiliate KSBW Monterey-Salinas
Hearst
Ittai
|
$400
[26]
In a book by Gail Carson Levine, obedience is the curse of this title girl, "Enchanted"; she also pines for Prince Charmont
Ella
Daniel
|
$400
[22]
The CDC describes it as "a temporary sleep problem that usually occurs when you travel across more than three time zones"
jet lag
Daniel
|
$400
[24]
Most African cats are nocturnal hunters, but these fastest ones can be "spotted" on the prowl in the late afternoon
cheetahs
Daniel
|
$400
[8]
"Don't Lie"--will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Taboo & Fergie totally hip-hopped through the 2000s
Black Eyed Peas
Daniel
|
$400
[27]
Won by the Toronto Argonauts in 2022, this championship trophy of the Canadian Football League was first awarded in 1909
the Grey Cup
Daniel
|
|
$600
[2]
Marjorie Durant, who set out to popularize airplane travel in 1931, was the daughter of the founder of this Big 3 car company
General Motors
Daniel
|
$600
[23]
S.A. Chakraborty's "City of Brass" has Nahri team up with Dara, one of these mystical creatures whose name starts with a silent "D"
a djinn
Allison
|
$600
[19]
A killer for hire, like TV's Barry Berkman
a hit man
Daniel
|
$600
[18]
In "Anchorman" Will Ferrell sang "Afternoon Delight"; in 2022 Will & Ryan Reynolds sang "Good Afternoon" in this Dickens of a film
Spirited
Ittai
|
$600
[7]
Here come Annie Lennox & Dave Stewart again, falling on your heads like an '80s memory
the Eurythmics
Allison
|
$600
[11]
This mustachioed fictional detective relied on his "little grey cells" to solve mysteries
Poirot
Daniel
|
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
A week after this rich guy IV perished on the Titanic, an inquiry into the disaster began in a hotel with his name on it
Astor
Daniel
|
$800
[21]
In P. Djèlí Clark's "Ring Shout", klansmen summon demons during a viewing of this 1915 D.W. Griffith film
The Birth of a Nation
Ittai
|
$800
[14]
Beastly term for someone who religiously works out at, let's say, Planet Fitness
a gym rat
Daniel
|
$800
[17]
This drama that aired on PBS inspired an official "Afternoon Tea" cookbook with recipes & etiquette tips
Downton Abbey
Allison
|
$800
[6]
Thomas Bangalter & Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, giving robot-ic performances in the 2010s
Daft Punk
Daniel
|
$800
[1]
Known for Old West novels, Zane Grey died in 1939, the year he published an "Epic of a Single Strand of Wire" about this company
Western Union
Daniel
|
|
$1,000
[3]
This old Boston family produced poet Robert & Harvard president A. Lawrence
Lowell
Allison
|
$1,000
[20]
This "Remains of the Day" author wrote fantasy with "The Buried Giant", set years after the death of King Arthur
Ishiguro
Allison
|
$1,000
[15]
This Scottish outlaw spent time in Newgate Prison but was pardoned before he was to be sent to Barbados
Rob Roy
Daniel
|
$1,000
[16]
Really covering all the bases, this painter gave us "Morning Sun", "Cape Cod Afternoon" & "Nighthawks"
Hopper
Daniel
|
$1,000
[5]
Last name, nickname, last name of Ricky, Michael, Ronnie, the R&B trio who dripped "Poison" in the '90s
Bell Biv DeVoe
Daniel
|
$1,000
[12]
The daughter of the Duke of Suffolk, she was only 15 when she ascended the throne
Lady Jane Grey
Allison
|
| DYING IN THE CAPITAL CITY | WHO'S WHO IN THE OLD TESTAMENT | SCIENCE | AROUND THE HOUSE | TV SHOWS | IN SYNDICATION |
|
$400
[22]
Wolfgang Mozart, beginning to decompose in 1791
Vienna
Daniel
|
$400
[9]
This long-liver was the grandfather of Noah
Methuselah
Daniel
|
$400
[30]
This precious metal, symbol Pt, is used in catalytic converters & petroleum refining
platinum
Daniel
|
$400
[29]
You can get a dining room table that easily converts for pool, Ping Pong & even this plastic puck game patented in 1969
air hockey
Daniel
|
$400
[18]
In 2023 Kevin Costner wrangled a Golden Globe Award for his role as John Dutton on this series
Yellowstone
Daniel
|
$400
[27]
Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother, you got down to this type of dance music in the 1970s
disco
Ittai
|
|
$800
[21]
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, not that the event affected the entire world or anything
Sarajevo
Ittai
Allison
|
$800
[8]
For helping 2 of Joshua's spies, Rahab & her family were spared when Joshua captured this city
Jericho
Daniel
|
$800
[24]
If your test paper is reading a 7, you know your garden soil's pH is this, neither acidic nor basic
neutral
Ittai
|
$800
[28]
Use newspaper to stay warm without burning it with the blown-in cellulose type of this, which can fit small & curved spaces
insulation
Allison
|
$800
[17]
Lester Holt is the principal anchor for this NBC newsmagazine & Andrea Canning & Keith Morrison are correspondents
Dateline
Daniel
Allison
|
$800
[26]
Switzerland consists of 26 states called these
cantons
Daniel
|
|
$1,200
[11]
Niels Bohr, quantum leaping in 1962
Copenhagen
Ittai
|
$1,200
[6]
Following this king's death, David laments, "The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!"
Saul
Ittai
|
$1,200
[23]
The synthetic slippery resin polytetrafluoro-ethylene, or PTFE for short, has been trademarked under this name
Teflon
Daniel
|
$1,200
[20]
Useful in home offices & guest rooms, they've been around for centuries as in the 18th centurypaintingof a lady on one
a fainting couch (a chaise, a daybed)
Allison
|
$1,200
[7]
The original of this series focused on Kevin Arnold; in the reboot, it's an African-American youth named Dean Williams
The Wonder Years
Daniel
|
$1,200
[25]
It's a royal horse race! It's a neck scarf! It's both!
Ascot
Allison
|
|
$2,000
[1]
August Strindberg, going way heavy on the drama in 1912
Stockholm
Daniel
|
$2,000
[2]
When Sarah thought she was unable to give Abraham children, she gave him this handmaid, who bore Ishmael
Hagar
Ittai
|
$1,600
[14]
Your helpful radius bone enables your hand topronate& to do this opposite motion meaning "to face upward"
supinate
|
$1,600
[19]
Mark Twain wrote of a "vestibule, where they used to keep" this; today, we'd more likely have the coat version
the hat rack
|
$1,600
[4]
John Amos played the father on this '70s sitcom until he was killed off & J.J. became the man of the house
Good Times
Daniel
|
$1,600
[16]
It's another name for vitamin B3, which helps convert food into energy
niacin
Allison
|
|
DD
$6,000
[10]
Suddenly ex-president for life Papa Doc Duvalier
Port-au-Prince
Daniel
|
DD
$5,000
[5]
Armed with trumpets & torches inside jars or pitchers, he led an army of 300 in victory over the Midianites
Gideon
Daniel
|
$2,000
[13]
Inside protons & neutrons, quarks are bound by these particles whose name reveals their sticky nature
gluons
|
$2,000
[12]
Also a word for mosaics, it refers to a distinctive flooring pattern of teeny squares or tiles
tessellated (tesserae)
Allison
|
$2,000
[3]
As a teen, Claire Danes starred as Angela Chase in this series about the trials & tribulations of being a teen
My So-Called Life
Allison
|
$2,000
[15]
It's the shortened 5-letter name of the raccoon cousin seen here, found in Arizona, New Mexico & further south
the coati
Allison
|
In 1930 this author wrote "Murder at Full Moon", a horror-mystery novel set in a fictional town in Central California
(John) Steinbeck