Taylor Clagett — a marketing director originally from Chesapeake Beach, Maryland
Ben Sasamoto — an environmental consultant from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Nik Berry — a social studies teacher from Baltimore, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nik | $1,800 | $3,000 | $1,200 |
$1,183
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,200
9 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ben | $3,000 | $3,800 | $9,400 |
$6,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Taylor | $400 | $3,800 | $5,400 |
$10,800
New champion: $10,800 |
$6,600
14 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| HAPPY 75th BIRTHDAY, ISRAEL! | SHAKESPEARE | THAT HOLLOW FEELING | THE ROMAINES OF THE DAY | TRACK & FIELD | HOMOPHONE CONNECTION |
|
$200
[11]
Adopted in 1949, 9 months after statehood, the emblem of Israel features this symbol of Hanukkah, but with only 7 branches
the menorah
Taylor
|
$200
[6]
Play-mates Portia, Antonio & Shylock live in & around this city
Venice
Ben
|
$200
[24]
Outstanding examples of prehistoric art can be found in Altamira, this type of hollow feature
a cave
Nik
|
$200
[19]
Romaine lettuce & anchovies are essential to the classic recipe for this salad
Caesar salad
Nik
|
$200
[1]
In 2021, after becoming the second woman to throw this more than 80 meters--about 262'--we bet Deanna Price was Thor the next day
the hammer
Ben
|
$200
[12]
To lend, or a solo "wolf"
loan/lone
Taylor
|
|
$400
[18]
World sales of Israel these investment items are over $40 billion; the shalom type from $36 is a lovely B'nei mitzvah gift
bonds
|
$400
[10]
In this play Puck has some handy juice that makes a sleeper fall in love with the next person he sees
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ben
|
$400
[25]
In Greek myth, master carpenter Epeius built this hollow item; Cassandra warned her peeps, but... they didn't listen
the Trojan horse
Taylor
|
$400
[20]
In the language of this country, maroulosalata is a salad typically made with romaine
Greece
Ben
|
$400
[2]
In 2023 Swedish-American Mondo Duplantis broke his own world record in soaring 6.22 meters, over 20 feet in this event
pole vault
Taylor
|
$400
[13]
Thick, or car blemishes
dense/dents
|
|
$600
[17]
In 1992, Israel got what's been called its finest publicbuildingto house this body that the government wanted to overhaul in 2023
the Israeli Supreme Court
Ben
|
$600
[9]
Lines that nobody understands include this "Othello" villain calling Cassio "a fellow almost damned in a fair wife"
Iago
Ben
|
$600
[26]
The national museum of Ireland has a plaster cast of an early 1900s "ghost turnip" this; we use pumpkins
a jack-o'-lantern
Taylor
|
$600
[21]
The paler, sweeter center of a head of romaine has this anatomical name
the heart
|
$600
[3]
Edwin Moses had a leg up on the competition for nearly 10 years, winning 107 straight finals in the 400m this race
hurdles
Ben
|
$600
[29]
French for "street", or a French word for a gumbo base
rue/roux
Taylor
|
|
$800
[16]
In October 1973, Israel fought the war named for this Jewish holy day
Yom Kippur
Nik
|
DD
$1,000
[7]
Speaker of the line "I prithee, good Prince Hal, help me to my horse, good king's son"
Falstaff
Ben
|
$800
[27]
This barrel-shaped vessel used to hold liquids got title billing in a short story with regard to Amontillado
cask
Taylor
|
$800
[22]
Romaine is just one of the lettuces in Giada De Laurentiis' recipe for this salad, an Italian word for any hors d'oeuvre
antipasto
Ben
|
$800
[4]
At the 2020 Olympics, this35-year-old mom became the most decorated U.S. track & field athlete ever
Felix
Nik
|
$800
[30]
A hidden stash, or the dollar bills you might store there
cache/cash
|
|
$1,000
[15]
Elected mayor of Jerusalem in 2018, Moshe Lion is the first from this branch of the Jews named from Hebrew for "Spain"
Sephardic
Nik
|
$1,000
[8]
An arras is a curtain or wall hanging; in "Hamlet", this old man hides behind one & is stabbed through it
Polonius
|
$1,000
[28]
From Russia with love, this plucky 3-stringed instrument has a hollow, triangular body
the balalaika
Taylor
|
$1,000
[23]
Thissalad, made with Romaine, is said to be named for its supposed creator, the owner of the Brown Derby
a Cobb salad
Ben
|
$1,000
[5]
This Finnish track star won an amazing 9 gold medals across 3 Olympic games in the 1920s
Paavo Nurmi
|
$1,000
[14]
Tied up, or a combination of companies that may reduce competition
trussed/trust
|
| EXPLORERS | INTERNALLY YOURS | OLD HOLLYWOOD SCRIBES | MOTLEY CLUES | STATELY DEMONYMS | ENDS IN "X" |
|
$400
[10]
In 1725 this Dane went in search of a northeast passage
Vitus Bering
|
$400
[28]
The right one of these organs has 3 lobes, while the left has 2 (to make room for your heart)
the lung(s)
Ben
Taylor
|
$400
[29]
Dorothy Parker contributed to the script for "Saboteur", a 1942 thriller by this director
Alfred Hitchcock
|
$400
[30]
"Lip sweaters" is slang for these, grown by some people during Movember
mustaches
Taylor
|
$400
[15]
Meaning "child of the land", a Kamaaina is a person from this state
Hawaii
Taylor
|
$400
[7]
Pronounced one way, it means intricate; pronounced another, a series of interconnected apartment buildings
complex
Ben
Taylor
|
|
$800
[8]
A 10 1/2-mile bridge across the Tagus River in Lisbon is named for this Portuguese explorer
da Gama
Nik
|
$800
[27]
The windpipe is another name for this, which is about 4 to 6 inches long & 1 inch in diameter
the trachea
Taylor
|
$800
[26]
Pulp writer Jim Thompson helped write the script for "The Killing", a heist movie by this director of "The Shining"
Kubrick
Ben
|
$800
[23]
It might be a tad brisk to take a plunge into this alliterative lake, Scotland's largest in surface area
Loch Lomond
Taylor
|
$800
[14]
Folks from Michigan might be Yoopers or these fearless members of the weasel family
a wolverine
Ben
|
$800
[6]
Seen here is self-made billionaire Sara Blakely, inventor of this shapewear
Spanx
Ben
|
|
$1,200
[1]
In 1865 British explorer Edward Whymper led the first successful attempt to reach the top of this Alpine peak
the Matterhorn
Taylor
|
$1,200
[25]
In 1886 Dr. Reginald Fitz wrote the 1st clinical description of this condition where an internal organ is inflamed & urged surgery
appendicitis
Ben
|
$1,200
[21]
This author of "The Year of Magical Thinking" helped write the 1976 version of "A Star Is Born"
(Joan) Didion
Nik
|
$1,200
[22]
The "Florence" type of this herb is sometimes mislabeled as "sweet anise"
fennel
|
$1,200
[11]
People from Tennessee are called these because its residents were eager to step up to serve as soldiers
Volunteers
Nik
|
$1,200
[5]
This numerical term means to get rid of or destroy, or to bury at sea
deep six
Taylor
|
|
$1,600
[2]
In 1535 Jacques Cartier sailed up this river as far as present-day Quebec
St. Lawrence
Taylor
|
DD
$1,200
[24]
It sounds like an old name for Troy, but it's the lowest section of the small intestine where certain vitamins salts are absorbed
ileum
Taylor
|
$1,600
[20]
Who killed the chauffeur in this film with Bogie as Philip Marlowe? The screenwriters & Raymond Chandler didn't know either
The Big Sleep
Ben
|
$1,600
[16]
Detergents containing these, proteins that speed up chemical reactions, are good on dried bloodstains
enzymes
Ben
|
$2,000
[13]
Some New Englanders aren't Connecticuties but these, which mentions a spice
Nutmeggers
|
$1,600
[4]
Though also called the tailbone, it's not actually one bone but 3 to 5 fused together
the coccyx
Taylor
|
|
$2,000
[9]
This American explorer returned to Antarctica in the 1930s & had to be rescued in 1934, suffering from frostbite
Admiral (Richard) Byrd
Ben
Taylor
|
$2,000
[19]
Named for a 19th c. French pathologist, this "area" of the left front part of the brain contains neurons involved in speech function
Broca's area
Nik
|
$2,000
[18]
It's thought that Harry Lime from Graham Greene's "The Third Man" was based on this British spy & Soviet double agent
Kim Philby
|
$2,000
[17]
This 1870s U.S. political party got its colorful name because it wanted to maintain or increase paper money circulation
Greenbacks (Greenback Party)
Nik
|
DD
$5,000
[12]
A New Yorker, or the last name of Washington Irving's Diedrich
Knickerbocker
Nik
|
$2,000
[3]
They're the pretty flowers seen here; picked them just for you
phlox
|
Expressed in today's numbers, it's the sum total if you add the 7 Roman numerals together
1,666