Elly Trickett — a blog and podcast editor from Danbury, Connecticut
Nam Nguyen — a playwright from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Marko Saric — a math professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina (whose 2-day cash winnings total $26,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marko | $9,000 | $12,800 | $14,700 |
$1,199
2nd place: $3,000 |
$15,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Nam | $2,400 | $5,200 | $28,200 |
$26,999
New champion: $26,999 |
$24,400
27 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Elly | $1,000 | $-400 | $-800 |
$-800
3rd place: $2,000 |
$-800
5 R, 4 W |
| TAKE ME TO THE BRIDGE! | BOOKED IN BOOKS | LAST NAME'S THE SAME | AN EMMY-WINNING ROLE | ALSO A BASKETBALL TERM | THE SUNDAY SCARIES |
|
$200
[26]
I'm sold on walking across this bridge from Centre Street in Manhattan to Tillary Street on the other side of the East River
the Brooklyn Bridge
Nam
|
$200
[27]
In an 1862 work he is chained by the neck & taken to a prison in Toulon after stealing some bread
Jean Valjean
Nam
|
$200
[17]
Of businessman Warren & singer/songwriter Jimmy
Buffett
Nam
|
$200
[28]
You will rue the day & be far from "Euphoria" if you don't remember she took home a 2022 statue for starring as Rue
Zendaya
Marko
|
$200
[29]
A group of notes on which a musical composition is based, such as C major & F-sharp minor
key
Nam
|
$200
[30]
It's Sun., Oct. 27, 1929 & brokers are freaking out; the 28th will be this "colorful" day on Wall Street... like 12.8% down historic
Black Monday
Nam
|
|
$400
[25]
Begun in 1787, the Pont de la Concordeused remnants of the Bastille as a source for masonry to help span this river
the Seine
Marko
|
$400
[18]
In this nonfiction book, Helen Prejean writes to "Elmo Patrick Sonnier... death row, Louisiana State Penitentiary"
Dead Man Walking
Marko
Elly
|
$400
[16]
Of prime minister William the Younger & actor Brad
Pitt
Nam
|
$400
[8]
Lee Yoo-miwas a winner as Ji-yeong on this game show-set Netflix drama where second place definitely wasn't three grand
Squid Game
Marko
|
$400
[14]
The ghost of Hamlet's father tells Hamlet he was murdered, "murder most" this, "as in the best it is"
foul
Elly
|
$400
[19]
Mr. & Mrs. Jones are nervous about the haggling coming up on Monday but look forward to getting a new SUV, a Sorento from this company
Kia
Marko
|
|
$800
[13]
Ponte dei Sospiri is the Italian name for this bridge that spans the Rio di Palazzo
the Bridge of Sighs
Marko
|
$600
[4]
In this Dickens work Abel Magwitch tells Pip he was sentenced to 14 years in prison
Great Expectations
Nam
|
$600
[1]
Ofthesetwo women, a first lady & an actress who has portrayed first ladies
Nixon
Elly
|
$600
[9]
Julie Bowen got Emmy bookends in 2011 & '12 for her work as Claire Dunphy on this ABC sitcom
Modern Family
Marko
|
$600
[23]
"Expedition Bigfoot" & "Destination Fear" are TV shows on this channel
Travel
Marko
|
$600
[20]
"His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy"; sounds like Eminem is describing the Sunday scaries in this song
"Lose Yourself"
Nam
|
|
$1,000
[12]
This London bridge used hydraulic pumps driven by steam until 1976, when it went electric
Tower Bridge
Nam
|
$800
[6]
In this Donn Pearce novel, later turned into a Paul Newman film, the title convict bets Society Red he can eat 50 eggs
Cool Hand Luke
Marko
|
$800
[2]
Of an accused ax murderer & her distant cousin who invented a process for condensing milk
Borden
Marko
|
$800
[10]
His wife said the posthumous Emmy won by this actor for voicing T'Challa in Marvel's "What If...?" was "a beautiful alignment"
Boseman
Nam
|
$800
[24]
This word can follow twilight, buffer or comfort
zone
Marko
|
$800
[21]
That high schooler is anxious about their Monday oral presentation on the 1821 2nd Compromise that let this state join the Union
Missouri
Nam
|
|
DD
$3,600
[7]
The world's longest rotating metal bridge, El Ferdan, spans the Western shipping lane of this Egyptian waterway, dating to 1869
the Suez Canal
Marko
|
$1,000
[5]
His confession to 2 murders & his good deeds help limit this 19th century Russian character's prison term to just 8 years
Raskolnikov
Marko
|
$1,000
[3]
Of poets Marianne & Clement Clarke
Moore
Marko
|
$1,000
[15]
Winning an Emmy for being one of "Two & a Half Men" as Alan Harper must have been just Duckie for him
Jon Cryer
|
$1,000
[11]
Type of grant in which the federal government gives an annual sum of money to a state or local government to aid in a project
a block grant
|
$1,000
[22]
I need my daily look at Diego Rivera's industry murals in the DIA, this city's Institute of Arts, but it's closed Mondays--What now?
Detroit
Marko
Elly
|
| SECRETS OF THE OCTOPUS | HISTORICAL FIGURES | ZIMBABWE | LIBRARIES | AND THE ROLE ALMOST GOES TO... | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS |
|
$400
[26]
Anoctopusbearing the name of this ocean can grow from the size of a grain of rice to the size of a bus, measuredarm tip to arm tip
the Pacific octopus
|
$400
[25]
Arsinoe IV, the sister of Cleopatra, fought the Roman army at this Egyptian port city around 48 B.C.
Alexandria
Nam
|
$400
[29]
Until 1980 Zimbabwe bore the name of this 19th century British colonizer
Rhodes
Nam
|
$400
[30]
This Ivy League university's Nassau Hall once housed the school's library; since 1948 Firestone Library has served as its main library
Princeton University
|
$400
[28]
If not for his "Magnum P.I." contract, Tom Selleck, not Harrison Ford, might've played this iconic character
Indiana Jones
Marko
Nam
|
$400
[16]
This process of getting back together was achieved & celebrated in Germany in 1990
reunification
Marko
|
|
$800
[23]
A species of octopus is named for this fruit; it used theshellas a hiding place
coconut
Nam
|
$800
[24]
Rebelling peasants inspired by the Reformation were let down by this man's tract "against the murderous, thieving hordes of peasants"
(Martin) Luther
Nam
|
$800
[11]
A group called Zimas combats the stigma of this pigment-lacking condition unusually common in Zimbabwe; sunscreen & hats can help
albinism
Nam
|
$800
[13]
This city's public library on Boylston Street has murals that John Singer Sargent spent decades on
Boston
Elly
|
$800
[27]
Either Sharon Stone or Sarah Jessica Parker, not Jennifer Grey, might've been "Baby" Houseman in this 1987 film
Dirty Dancing
Elly
|
$1,200
[7]
The PV in HPV; there's a vaccine for that
papillomavirus
Nam
|
|
$1,200
[19]
Anoctopuscan change the pigment of its skin in one fifth of a second, despite the fact that all octopuses have this vision deficiency
color blindness
Elly
|
$1,600
[2]
This Black explorer learned the language & skills of the Inuit people on many trips searching for the North Pole
(Matthew) Henson
Nam
|
$1,200
[5]
Niagara Falls is a city in New York at the Canadian border; similarly, this is a town in Zimbabwe at the Zambian border
Victoria Falls
Nam
|
$1,200
[14]
The building of this country's José Martí National Library was funded by a tax on sugar
Cuba
Marko
Nam
Elly
|
$1,200
[1]
"Keanu was perfect", said Will Smith of this 1999 film, which he passed on for "Wild Wild West"; "I would've ruined it"
The Matrix
Nam
|
$1,600
[8]
From the Latin for "conversation", it's an informal or regional expression like "bodacious"
a colloquialism
|
|
$1,600
[9]
Theday octopuscan shape shift & blend into the rough & smooth surfaces of coral in this site off northeastern Australia
the Great Barrier Reef
Marko
|
$2,000
[12]
Former radical left Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras gave his son the middle name Ernesto, after this man
(Che) Guevara
Marko
Elly
|
$1,600
[4]
He served as Zimbabwe's prime minister & president for 37 years, resigning in 2017 after political & military pressure
Mugabe
Nam
|
$1,600
[15]
A Monaco library named for her is dedicated to the culture of Ireland, her ancestral land, & includes her private collections
(Grace) Kelly
Nam
|
$1,600
[21]
After a phone call with Peter Jackson, Russell Crowe turned down this role (& a ton of money) that went to Viggo Mortensen
Aragorn
Nam
|
$2,000
[17]
Meaning "tireless", it was the first British ship sunk at the 1916 Battle of Jutland
the HMS Indefatigable
|
|
$2,000
[22]
A species ofoctopusis named for this trait, it can make itself resemble otheranimals, like asea snakeor lionfish
mimicry
Nam
|
DD
$5,000
[3]
In the 1850s Congress awarded this man $20,000 for negotiating the Kanagawa Treaty
(Commodore) Perry
Nam
|
$2,000
[6]
Named for an African chief, this capital city is home to the National Archives & the University of Zimbabwe
Harare
Marko
|
$2,000
[18]
Named for this architect who designed it in 1676, Cambridge's Trinity College Libraryholds over 1,000 medieval manuscripts
Wren
Nam
|
$2,000
[20]
Akira Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress" helped inspire "Star Wars", & the role of Obi Wan was reportedly offered to this star
Toshiro Mifune
|
DD
$3,300
[10]
19th c. liberation fighter José de San Martín got about as high in the military as possible, named this of the republic of Peru
the generalissimo
Marko
|
Best known for a novel, she wrote at least 6 full-length plays & collaborated with Moms Mabley on a 1931 Broadway revue
Zora Neale Hurston