Molly Fitzpatrick — a writer from Queens, New York
Scott Nations — a financial engineer and option trader from Chicago, Illinois
Marko Saric — a math professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $3,799)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marko | $2,800 | $4,800 | $15,900 |
$22,801
2-day champion: $26,600 |
$20,400
23 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Scott | $1,400 | $2,400 | $11,400 |
$4,499
3rd place: $2,000 |
$9,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Molly | $3,800 | $4,000 | $4,800 |
$9,598
2nd place: $3,000 |
$5,800
16 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| ANATOMY A TO Z | U.S. GEOGRAPHY | FUN FACTS | ORDINAL PHRASES | BOWLING | SILENCE! |
|
$200
[27]
L:Sprains of them range from grade 1 to grade 3
ligaments
Marko
|
$200
[28]
It's the "Boomer State" as well as the "Sooner State"
Oklahoma
Molly
|
$200
[23]
On April 1, 1979 David Kirke used an elastic rope & plunged from a bridge in Bristol, England, inventing this extreme sport
bungee jumping
Marko
|
$200
[29]
It's how the law regards possession, idiomatically
nine-tenths of the law
Molly
|
$200
[24]
Hope Gramly rolled a spare & 9 of these to lead the McKendree University Bearcats to the 2022 NCAA women's bowling title
strikes
Molly
|
$200
[30]
The right to remain silent & to have an attorney was enshrined in 1966 when the Supreme Court ruled in his favor
Miranda
Molly
|
|
$400
[12]
J:The upper one is also known as the maxilla
your jaw
Marko
|
$400
[26]
Thisstate capital is located at the confluence of two rivers, one of which shares its name
Des Moines
Marko
|
$400
[22]
These marshmallow chick candies took 27 hours to make individually by hand in 1953; now 509 are hatched every 8 seconds
Peeps
Marko
|
$400
[25]
Trump did it over 400 times in a 2022 deposition
took the Fifth
Scott
|
$400
[7]
Usually the central No. 5 pin, it has this "regal" name
the king pin
Scott
|
$400
[17]
Heavier bells were silenced in this 185-foot landmark in the 1900s to make sure their movement didn't worsen its classic feature
the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Marko
Molly
|
|
$600
[1]
O:They're the major source of estrogen
ovaries
Molly
|
$600
[16]
The Catskill Mountains in New York are part of this much larger mountain system
the Appalachians
Marko
Molly
|
$600
[13]
Mei Xiang, Tian Tian & their cub flew from Dulles to China on a flight nicknamed this, like an American Chinese restaurant chain
Panda Express
Marko
|
$600
[9]
In the "Hair" song "Aquarius", the Moon is here, ruled in part by Libra
the seventh house
Molly
|
$600
[20]
Thespotamongst the pins you most want to hit with your ball, it sounds like it's part of your trousers
the pocket
Scott
Molly
|
$600
[21]
This letter--repeat, this letter!--is silent in the name of a partridge-like grouse of the genus Lagopus that lives in the Arctic
P
Marko
|
|
$800
[4]
T:Adenoids are a type of these
tonsils
Marko
|
DD
$1,000
[2]
Leapin' lizards! This river flows 630 miles before joining the Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona
the Gila River
Molly
|
$800
[14]
During a yacht trip, a captain told Ringo Starr about the creatures beneath the waves, inspiring Ringo to write this Beatles song
"Octopus's Garden"
Marko
Molly
|
$800
[6]
Addressing the audience directly in a play is an example of doing this
breaking the fourth wall
Marko
|
$800
[10]
So, this form where you knock down slenderer items is popular in New England & eastern Canada? Most illuminating
candlepin bowling
Molly
|
$800
[18]
"There's a weapon that we must use in our defense--silence" in this song by Jane Wiedlin & Terry Hall about their secret romance
"Our Lips Are Sealed"
Molly
|
|
$1,000
[5]
P:Part of the alimentary canal, this passageway is between the esophagus & mouth
the pharynx
Molly
|
$1,000
[3]
Located in a caldera in the Cascade Mountains, it's the USA's deepest lake
Crater Lake
Marko
|
$1,000
[15]
Inspired by Viking history, Klaus Teuber created this board game that debuted in 1995
Settlers of Catan
Molly
|
$1,000
[8]
Ask the bard, it's the eve of Epiphany
Twelfth Night
|
$1,000
[11]
In 1895 the son-in-law of this "Br"and's founder organized the first American Bowling Congress
Brunswick
Scott
|
$1,000
[19]
Said in this novel: "Buffalo Bill's name is William Rubin... he was referred to me in April or May 1975, by my patient Benjamin Raspail"
The Silence of the Lambs
Molly
|
| AFRICAN HISTORY | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS | ON GUITAR | POETS OF LOVE | PLUMBING | THE DEPTHS |
|
$400
[24]
Persian settlers made the Comorosan island group in the Indian Ocean, Africa's southernmost nation, mainly of this religion
Islam
Marko
|
$400
[25]
Pesade describes this animal rearing up on its hind legs with its front legs in the air--perhaps in a statue
a horse
Scott
|
$400
[29]
"Freaky Rob" Gueringer backed Dre, Snoop, Eminem, 50 Cent, Mary J. Blige & Kendrick Lamar at this Feb. 13, 2022 event
the Super Bowl Halftime Show
Marko
|
$400
[30]
"Love Song" by this Algonquin Round Table member goes full vicious circle: "He is all my heart, & I wish somebody'd shoot him"
(Dorothy) Parker
Scott
|
$400
[27]
Other names for this plumbing stalwart include force cup & plumber's friend or helper
a plunger
Molly
|
$400
[17]
Centered off Sumatra, this deepest trench of the Indian Ocean is named for another Indonesian island
Java
Marko
|
|
$800
[4]
With uses in the 19th c. compared to plastics' in the 20th, trade in this material led to exploitation of Africans & animals
ivory
Scott
|
$800
[19]
If you're a quidnunc, Latin for "what now?", you have this quality of excess curiosity, from a body part
nosy
|
$800
[20]
That's Jonny Buckland doing the electric intro riff on this colorful tune, Coldplay's first hit
"Yellow"
Molly
|
$800
[18]
This poet who died young in Rome wrote, "Hither, hither, hither / Love this boon has sent--/ If I die & wither / I shall die content"
Keats
|
$800
[22]
Cobra fittingly makes this type of tool that can extend to a plumber-friendly 15 feet
a snake
Marko
|
$800
[12]
Making up the order Actiniaria, these sea organisms are not delicate despite their flower name--some live 30,000 feet deep
sea anemones
Molly
|
|
$1,200
[6]
Long-time human rights abuses in this region are attributed to Sudanese fighters called the Rapid Support Forces
Darfur
Marko
|
$1,200
[9]
In South Asia, you might give your dhoti, seen here, to a dhobi, a person with this job
laundry (washing clothes)
Scott
|
$1,200
[28]
Prince could do it all, including the jaw-dropping outro guitar solo on this tune about looking for the purple banana (huh?)
"Let's Go Crazy"
|
$1,600
[3]
This Roman poet got sappy with it in "Eclogues"; "Love conquers all: let us too yield to love"
Virgil
Molly
|
$1,200
[23]
The Energy Dept. lauds this type of water heater, aka "instantaneous", as it's more energy efficient than the storage kind
a tankless water heater
Scott
|
$1,200
[16]
Herbert Nitsch is renowned in this activity & has gone more than 700 feet underwater on a single breath
free diving
Scott
Molly
|
|
$1,600
[7]
After a pilgrimage in 1324, Mali emperor Mansa Musa built the Great Mosque in this trading post
Timbuktu
Marko
|
$1,600
[5]
Lovely day, nothing to do, I'll go apricate in the sun, though I don't know why when this 4-letter synonym will do fine
bask
Marko
|
$1,600
[1]
A 1961 Stratocaster helped this guitarist & singer make the solos on "Sultans Of Swing" immortal
Knopfler
Marko
|
$2,000
[15]
The final stanza of this poem by Matthew Arnold begins, "Ah, love, let us be true to one another!"
"Dover Beach"
Marko
|
$1,600
[11]
This rhyming device helps suck water from basements or crawl spaces
a sump pump
Marko
|
$1,600
[13]
This odd name chosen by the McPublic is now borne by a submersible that has gone deep under the Thwaites Glacier to study its ice loss
Boaty McBoatface
Molly
|
|
$2,000
[8]
This double-talk anti-colonial movement of the 1950s originated among the Kikuyu people of Kenya
Mau Mau
Marko
|
DD
$4,200
[10]
Below the line on ancientcoins, the exergue is the space with the alliteratively named this mark, herefor the city of Siscia
mint mark
Scott
|
$2,000
[21]
Rolling Stone's 250 Greatest Guitarists put this Sleater-Kinney axewoman at No. 64 & called her a "shameless guitar hero"
(Carrie) Brownstein
Marko
|
DD
$4,500
[2]
Percy Shelley wrote, "Nothing in the world is single; / All things by a law divine / In one spirit meet &" this, like at a mixer
mingle
Marko
|
$2,000
[26]
Plumbers should know that the "PE" in PEX pipes stands for this, the most widely used plastic in the world
polyethylene
Scott
|
$2,000
[14]
"B" is for this type of map that uses contour lines to show the ocean's depths
a bathymetric map
|
Featured in a 2020 film, she gets her name from a 16th c. Italian stock character who often wore diamond-patterned outfits
Harley Quinn