Weckiai Rannila game 3.
Henry Lindstrom — a customer experience lead originally from Altadena, California
Deana Krumhansl — an attorney originally from Honolulu, Hawaii
Weckiai Rannila — an engineer from Albuquerque, New Mexico (whose 2-day cash winnings total $28,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weckiai | $200 | $1,800 | $3,600 |
$7,200
3-day champion: $35,200 |
$5,600
16 R, 7 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Deana | $0 | $2,600 | $9,400 |
$1,199
2nd place: $3,000 |
$9,400
16 R, 2 W |
| Henry | $3,200 | $4,600 | $8,800 |
$1,000
3rd place: $2,000 |
$7,800
12 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| NON-CAT & DOG PETS | PRESIDENTIAL HOMES | BIG SIR | A NUMBER FROM 1 TO 10 | WORLD SERIES MVPs | CALLING "HR" |
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$200
[27]
Snakes alive! A ball this can weigh about 5 pounds, but a Burmese can have a little more heft at 250
a python
Weckiai
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$200
[6]
Before the White House, when his house overlooking Santa Monica Bay was built in 1956, GE outfitted it with energy-saving tech
Ronald Reagan
Weckiai
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$200
[24]
In the Bible his "height was six cubits and a span", which some estimates peg at 9 or 10 feet tall, but the bigger they come...
Goliath
Weckiai
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$200
[21]
In a children's tale, the Big Bad Wolf could not blow down the final construction of this group
the Three Little Pigs
Deana
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$200
[28]
It's a solid bet to say this all-time hit king hustled home with the trophy for the Reds in 1975
Pete Rose
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$200
[13]
As a verb this piece of car talk means to choke or strangle someone
throttle
Weckiai
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$400
[17]
Also called a water hog, this rodent is officially okayed as a pet in Washoe County, Nevada, as long as you get a permit
a capybara
Weckiai
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$400
[9]
He used profits from selling the Texas Rangers (ballplayers, not lawmen) to buy Prairie Chapel Ranch in McLennan County
George W. Bush
Deana
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$400
[23]
Here's this 7'6" ex-NBA star in 2024, taking in a session of the 14th National People's Congress of China
Yao Ming
Deana
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$400
[20]
It's Rishi Sunak's official office & address
10 Downing Street
Henry
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$400
[25]
In 1963 & again in 1965, Sandy Koufax brought the heat & took home the hardware for this team
the Dodgers
Henry
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$400
[12]
Adjective for things in the order they happened, like a list of an author's works in publication sequence
chronological
Deana
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$600
[16]
You can see why this type of frogherewas named for this '80s video game, but feed it insects, not power pellets
Pac-Man
Henry
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$800
[1]
Sherwood Forest, John Tyler's home, was owned in the late 18th century by this immediate predecessor
William Henry Harrison
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$600
[22]
Claiming to be 8'7", Clifford Thompsonfrom Marquette Law School in this city, became the long arm of the law when sworn into the bar
Milwaukee
Deana
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$600
[19]
Theywere inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 for hits including "Baby, I Need Your Loving" & "It's The Same Old Song"
the Four Tops
Deana
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$600
[26]
Win 2 games, save 1 & give up just 1 run in 21 innings & you'll be MVP like Madison Bumgarner was with this NL team in 2014
the Giants
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$600
[11]
It's from the Greek for "love of humankind"; an old definition also meant the love of god for humanity
philanthropy
Henry
|
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$800
[4]
The domestic population of this South American rodent is said to be traced to a dozen wild ones brought to the U.S. in 1923
a chinchilla
Deana
Henry
|
DD
$1,000
[2]
In 1823 Andrew Jackson donated land from this home to build a house of worship called Ephesus Church
the Hermitage
Weckiai
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$800
[15]
Big Ser, actually! This author wrote, "Ser Gregor Clegane, the Mountain That Rides, thundered past them like an avalanche"
(George R.R.) Martin
Henry
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$800
[18]
Coco's scent-sational creation of 1921
Chanel No. 5
Deana
|
$800
[30]
Ben Zobrist had no HRs & just 2 RBIs in the Series, but an MVP-worthy hit helped break a 108-year title drought for this team
the Chicago Cubs
Weckiai
|
$800
[10]
This type of coal that contains more than 80% carbon generally has the highest heating value
anthracite
Weckiai
|
|
$1,000
[5]
Pet legal in some states, anaxolotlis this type of amphibian; adults have lungs but keep larval features like external gills
a salamander
Weckiai
Henry
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$1,000
[8]
Mrs. Hoover designed a Lou & Herb-arium on this college's campus; the home was deeded to the school upon her death
Stanford University
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$1,000
[14]
Known for his controversially casual wardrobe at work, this senator who was elected in 2022 stands 6'8"
Fetterman
Weckiai
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$1,000
[3]
Eveready & Energizer offer PP3s, a common size of this type of power source
a 9-volt battery
Deana
Henry
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$1,000
[29]
Tossing a perfect game in the 1956 World Series, as this guy did, might have tipped the MVP scales a bit
Don Larsen
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$1,000
[7]
This thin sheet of muscle below the lungs is unique to mammals
the diaphragm
Deana
Henry
|
| STARTS WITH AN ANIMAL | ON CINEMA AT THE CINEMA | WORLD GEOGRAPHY | POETS & POETRY | WHEN I DIE | DELETE MY HISTORY |
|
$400
[21]
This plural word means your position relative to your surroundings; we hope you don't lose yours
bearings
Weckiai
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$400
[19]
In this 2023 film old man Paul Giamatti & young man Dominic Sessa check out the 1970 Dustin Hoffman film "Little Big Man"
The Holdovers
Weckiai
Deana
|
$400
[29]
Thousands of pilgrims each year visit Drirapuk Monastery, found near a sacred peak more than 16,000' up in these mountains
the Himalayas
Deana
|
$400
[28]
Philip Larkin's "This Be the Verse" says, "They fill you with the faults they had & add some extra, just for you"
parents (your mom & dad)
Weckiai
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$400
[17]
In 2014 the Coast Guard gave Norwegian-American WWII vet Andrew Haines the funeral at sea named for these Norsemen
Vikings
Deana
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$400
[27]
A 1956 article on the renaming of a car factory said it was the first "major Soviet enterprise" to get rid of this man's name
Stalin
Weckiai
Henry
|
|
$800
[20]
Burlesque verse, often in an irregular rhythm
doggerel
|
$800
[18]
In a 2009 film Johnny Depp as this 1930s gangster watches "Manhattan Melodrama" at the Biograph before meeting his fate
Dillinger
Deana
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$800
[30]
Buxton, England, "Gateway to the Peak District", is known for this feature, though they're not as warm as the ones at Bath
hot springs
Deana
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$800
[25]
A sick kid has "two pillows at my head" in Stevenson's "Land of Counter-Pane"; a counterpane is this word with 2 rhyming syllables
a bedspread
|
$800
[16]
In the Indian city of Varanasi, bodies are cremated near steps that lead into this sacred river
the Ganges
Deana
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$800
[26]
Akhenaten, the father of this boy pharaoh, was scratched from the history papyrus, likely for his monotheistic beliefs
King Tut
Weckiai
|
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$1,200
[13]
It's a fancy pitcher, like the one seen here
a ewer
Weckiai
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$1,200
[12]
In this 2019 film Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate puts her feet up as she watches herself in a movie at a theater
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Henry
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$1,200
[1]
In western Brazil you'll find the Mirante Geodésico, marking this point in South America
the geographic center of the continent
Weckiai
|
DD
$1,000
[23]
His "The Runaway" is not even his most famous poem with a horse in falling snow
Robert Frost
Weckiai
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$1,200
[15]
In 2024 remains of this "2001" writer were placed on a spacecraft bound for the Moon; sadly, they never reached that final frontier
(Arthur C.) Clarke
Deana
|
$1,200
[6]
This author wrote a letter asking a friend to burn all of his unpublished work, like "The Trial" & "The Castle"
Kafka
Weckiai
|
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$1,600
[4]
6th century B.C. Indian physician Sushruta was a pioneer of surgery, including this reconstruction of the nose
rhinoplasty
Henry
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$1,600
[10]
In "The Shawshank Redemption", Andy DuFresne & Red watch this actress' hair flip scene in "Gilda"
Rita Hayworth
Weckiai
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$1,600
[11]
The Nelson River drains this big lake into Hudson Bay
Lake Winnipeg
Henry
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$1,200
[24]
In 1920 his first poem to make a big splash mentioned Buffalo Bill & Jesus, with capital Bs & a capital J
e.e. cummings
Weckiai
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$1,600
[2]
At jazz funerals in New Orleans, this ordinal phrase refers to the mourners that trail behind the casket, family & musicians
the second line
|
$1,600
[8]
After Herostratus burned down this edifice in Ephesus it's no "wonder" the townsfolk banned mentioning his name
the Temple of Artemis
Weckiai
Henry
|
|
DD
$3,000
[5]
Part of the limbic system, this structure in the brain is thought to play a role in spatial navigation
the hippocampus
Henry
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$2,000
[9]
In the film "Divorce Italian Style", scandal comes to a small town when a theater shows this sweetly named 1960 Fellini film
La Dolce Vita
Deana
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$2,000
[14]
The Comoros Archipelago is at one end of the Indian Ocean channel with the name of this country
Mozambique Channel
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$2,000
[22]
Though it's often printed broken into short lines, his "No man is an island" is a prose passage; "Air & Angels", that's a poem
John Donne
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$2,000
[3]
This pre-Islamic religion of India & Iran still lays their dead on "towers of silence" to be eaten by birds of prey
Zoroastrianism
Weckiai
Henry
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$2,000
[7]
The Nazis tried to destroy copies of a propaganda film by this female director since it heavily featured a supposed Nazi traitor
Leni Riefenstahl
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This title character of the top song from 1996 can't stand her boyfriend Vitorino & spurns him to be with his 2 friends
Macarena