Mark Lashley — a professor from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lianne Schaffer — a piano teacher and musician from Newton, Massachusetts
Nam Nguyen — a playwright from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $26,999)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nam | $5,200 | $8,600 | $17,600 |
$17,199
2nd place: $3,000 |
$20,200
25 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Lianne | $800 | $2,600 | $7,000 |
$14,000
3rd place: $2,000 |
$6,600
8 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Mark | $1,000 | $1,800 | $9,000 |
$17,601
New champion: $17,601 |
$9,000
17 R, 4 W |
| PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES | CULTURE, POPULARLY | ITALIAN PRODUCTS | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS | WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? | RELAX, IT'S MATH |
|
$200
[30]
A children's library & learning center in Little Rock, Arkansas is named for this first lady
Clinton
Mark
|
$200
[27]
In January 2024, the copyright on the 1928 version of this character expired, so we can show him without, mmm, legal issues
Mickey Mouse
Mark
|
$200
[28]
A post-World War II shortage of cocoa led to a product called Giandujot, a precursor of this hazelnut spread
Nutella
Mark
|
$200
[29]
From the Latin for "somewhere else", it can be a claim that proves innocence or the person who backs up that claim
alibi
Mark
|
$200
[20]
Glossophobia:This, especially in public
speaking
Nam
|
$200
[15]
From Latin for "twice" & "cut", it means to divide a line or figure into 2 equal parts
bisect
Nam
|
|
$400
[10]
The last first lady born in the 1800s, she passed away in 1979, outliving Dwight by 10 years
Mamie Eisenhower
Lianne
|
$400
[26]
Gene Autry's been gone for a while, but he was on the Billboard Hot 100 in late December 2023 with "Here Comes" this fellow
Santa Claus
Nam
Lianne
|
$400
[23]
It takes 12 years to make the traditional kind of this 2-word "black gold" from northern Italy
balsamic vinegar
|
$400
[22]
Aspirin is an analgesic, describing its effect & from Greek for "lack of" this
pain
Lianne
|
$400
[19]
Coulrophobia:These performers & please don't send them in
clowns
Nam
|
$400
[6]
"Like fractions" have the same this, making it easy to add & subtract them
denominators
Nam
|
|
$600
[9]
A shopaholic who enjoyed lavish clothes & redecorating the White House, by 1864 she had spent over $27,000
Mary Todd Lincoln
Mark
|
$600
[25]
In "Poor Things", this Oscar winner becomes kind of a combination of Eliza Doolittle & Frankenstein
(Emma) Stone
Nam
|
$800
[12]
According to The New York Times, a marketing blitz by Campari Group made this orangey spritz the drink of the summer in 2018
an Aperol spritz
Mark
|
$600
[4]
From Italian, it can mean a daring desperado as well as a cheer
bravo
Lianne
|
$600
[18]
Chorophobia:This activity
dancing
|
$600
[3]
In a Tom Lehrer song, a movie called "The Eternal Triangle" stars Ingrid Bergman as this longest side of a right triangle
a hypotenuse
Mark
|
|
$800
[8]
In the 1860s his great-grandfather George Washington Baines served as president of Baylor University
LBJ
Nam
|
$800
[5]
It was a letter-perfect day on Jimmy Kimmel's show when Warren G welcomed this sax man to help out on "Regulate"
Kenny G
Nam
|
DD
$1,000
[11]
This car brand's name begins with the first phonetic letter of the NATO alphabet & ends with another
Alfa Romeo
Lianne
|
$800
[21]
It's not trivial knowledge that trivia comes from a word meaning a spot where 3 of these meet
road
Nam
|
$800
[17]
Samhainophobia:This holiday
Halloween
Nam
|
$800
[2]
It's a constant that multiplies a variable; in physics, there's a well-known one "of friction"
a coefficient
|
|
$1,000
[7]
Not highly regarded by historians, he's the 19th century president seen here
Buchanan
Nam
|
$1,000
[13]
Heirs get split one by one in this 2023 Netflix miniseries based on a Poe short story & starring Mary McDonnell as Madeline
The Fall of the House of Usher
Nam
|
$1,000
[24]
The marble capitals of the rotunda at the U. of Virginia are made of this type of marble named for a town near the Apuan Alps
Carrara
Lianne
|
$1,000
[14]
It once meant a light, fast ship but has come to mean one that's old & worn-out & possibly dismantled
a hulk
Mark
|
$1,000
[16]
Porphyrophobia:This, literally, also the title of a 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
the color purple
Nam
|
$1,000
[1]
These coordinates named for a 17th c. man describe the position of points in space in relation to an x-axis & y-axis
Cartesian
Nam
|
| THE PICTURE OF SOMEONE NAMED GREY | SHARED INTERNATIONAL LAKES | NAME THAT AUTHOR | 20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD | I'LL REMEMBER LATE APRIL | "PRO" NOUNS |
|
$400
[24]
Thiswoman, who had a short reign in England, was executed in 1553, along with her husband of less than a year
Jane Grey
Nam
|
$400
[26]
Egypt & Sudan share this lake created by the building of the Aswan High Dam
Nasser
Nam
|
$400
[27]
"Early in the spring of 1750... a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte"
Haley
Mark
|
$400
[28]
'70s Native American band Redbone are back as "Come & Get Your Love" is in ads for this brand's trucks like the Silverado
Chevy
Nam
|
$400
[29]
Soviet victims of radiation accidents are remembered every April 26, the day of the meltdown at this site
Chernobyl
Nam
|
$400
[30]
The process of authenticating a will
probate
Mark
|
|
$800
[23]
Joel Grey did a wonderful job as this character when "Wicked" premiered on Broadway in 2003
the Wizard of Oz
Nam
|
$800
[25]
Lake Champlain is shared by the states of Vermont & New York & this province
Quebec
Nam
Mark
|
$800
[13]
"Oh, how he loved that smell! And oh, how he wished he could go inside the factory and see what it was like!"
Roald Dahl
Mark
|
$800
[4]
Perhaps hearing "You're My Best Friend" from this band's album "A Night at the Opera" got you to book that Carnival cruise
Queen
Nam
|
$800
[19]
Centuries after Europeans named it, then with no "I" in "Serra", this country became independent April 27, 1961
Sierra Leone
Nam
|
$800
[17]
An expert who uses behavioral knowledge to identify suspected criminals
a profiler
Mark
|
|
$1,200
[22]
In 1919, Sir Edward Greycame from England to try to get the U.S. to join this new world organization, didn't work
the League of Nations
Mark
|
$1,200
[14]
This Russian hero named for a victory at the Neva River also won a battle on frozen Lake Peipus, now shared by Russia & Estonia
Alexander Nevsky
|
$1,200
[12]
"The John Galt line was moving forward. The attacks on his metal had ceased"
Ayn Rand
Lianne
|
$1,200
[3]
This lodging service founded in 2007 built an ad around Bob Dylan's "Shelter From The Storm"
Airbnb
Mark
|
$1,200
[8]
This Swiss-based superlab released the World Wide Web free to all April 30, 1993, having considered charging a user fee
CERN
|
$1,200
[15]
An introduction to a literary work
a prologue
Mark
|
|
$1,600
[11]
Like many ofhisbestsellers, 1921's "The Mysterious Rider" concerns cowboys & gunslingers in the Old West
Zane Grey
Lianne
|
$1,600
[21]
Niger, Nigeria & Cameroon all share this lake with its namesake nation
Chad
Nam
|
DD
$2,000
[9]
"It was porkmaking by machinery, porkmaking by applied mathematics... but this slaughtering machine ran on"
(Upton) Sinclair
Nam
|
$1,600
[1]
"Good Times Roll" by this group turned up in a Capital One ad
The Cars
Mark
|
$1,600
[7]
On April 29, 1945 the 45th Infantry Division of the U.S. 7th Army arrived to liberate this concentration camp near Munich
Dachau
Nam
|
$1,600
[16]
A prominent nose, or an elephant's trunk
a proboscis
Lianne
Mark
|
|
$2,000
[10]
As prime minister, the Second Earl Grey, a leader of the liberal party called this, passed the democratizing 1832 Reform Bill
the Whigs
|
$2,000
[20]
The world's highest navigable lake, it's shared by Peru & Bolivia
Titicaca
Mark
|
$2,000
[5]
"'I got in a couple of hassles at the work farm, to tell the pure truth, and the court ruled that I'm a psychopath"'
Ken Kesey
Mark
|
$2,000
[2]
Bud Light Seltzer put this KC & the Sunshine Band footwear in a commercial
"Boogie Shoes"
Mark
|
DD
$3,000
[6]
This organization was founded 80 years ago on April 25 to benefit institutions including Howard & Morehouse
the United Negro College Fund
Nam
|
$2,000
[18]
From Latin for "to beget", it's a forefather or originator
progenitor
Nam
|
In the 1850s the .925 sterling silver standard was instituted by this company, the first American one to do so
Tiffany