Amar Kakirde game 4.
Ryan Alcorn — a product manager originally from Needham, Massachusetts
Tim Keily — a search and rescue pilot from Sitka, Alaska
Amar Kakirde — a graduate student from Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey (whose 3-day cash winnings total $41,399)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amar | $1,600 | $3,600 | $16,000 |
$14,500
4-day champion: $55,899 |
$14,200
19 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Tim | $5,000 | $5,000 | $5,000 |
$2,749
3rd place: $2,000 |
$5,000
14 R, 5 W |
| Ryan | $-400 | $1,200 | $7,200 |
$7,200
2nd place: $3,000 |
$7,200
11 R, 2 W |
| BESTSELLERS | WHERE IS THAT? | MY JOB IS BEACH | SPORTS AWARDS | NONPOTENT POTABLES | "V"-8 |
|
$200
[30]
Mitch Albom touches readers' souls with books like "The First Phone Call from" here & "The Five People You Meet in" here
Heaven
Ryan
|
$200
[5]
Gastric glands:This organ in humans
the stomach
Amar
|
$200
[15]
Sean Connery & Vince Vaughn are among actors who did this job early on--actually at swimming pools
lifeguard
Tim
|
$200
[14]
The very first of these awards was given to pitcher Don Newcombe in 1956
the Cy Young Award
Ryan
|
$200
[29]
October 10, 2003 was the day Starbucks first sold PSL, this drink
a pumpkin spice latte
Tim
|
$200
[16]
Borrowed from Latin, it means word for word
verbatim
Ryan
|
|
$400
[28]
This memoir of Barack Obama's early days is subtitled "A Story of Race & Inheritance"
Dreams from My Father
|
$400
[3]
The Hall of Mirrors:This 17th century palace
Versailles
Tim
|
$400
[9]
Coach Duncan Scott helped Carissa Moore win a gold medal when this sport joined the Olympics in Tokyo
surfing
Tim
|
$400
[13]
Nicknamed "The Joker", this Denver Nuggets center was the recipient of the Bill Russell MVP Award in the 2023 NBA Finals
Jokić
Tim
|
$400
[22]
Pure Leaf is a popular brand of this cold beverage
iced tea
Amar
|
$400
[17]
Seen here is this early model of phonograph whose trademarked name would later be applied to other record players
a Victrola
Tim
|
|
$800
[25]
Like the 1980 TV miniseries, this 2024 series about feudal Japan is based on a bestseller by James Clavell
Shōgun
Tim
|
$600
[1]
Aplaquethat says, "We came in peace for all mankind":This lunar location
Sea of Tranquility
Amar
Ryan
|
$600
[8]
In a Drifters song, "Under the boardwalk, down by the sea", "You can almost taste" these 2 paired types of food they sell
hot dogs & French fries
|
$600
[12]
The NHRA, the Natl. this Association, honors winning drag racing competitors with the Wally, named for founder Wally Parks
Hot Rod
Tim
|
$600
[21]
Created in California, this drink named for another state has flavors including Fruit Juicy Red & Mango Monsoon
Hawaiian Punch
Tim
Ryan
|
$600
[18]
A traditional martini contains the dry type of this
vermouth
Ryan
|
|
DD
$1,000
[27]
In his introduction to this bestseller, Jon Krakauer wrote, "The plain truth is that I knew better but went to Everest anyway"
Into Thin Air
Amar
|
$800
[2]
A green property & a railroad with this stately name:The Monopoly board
Pennsylvania
Tim
Ryan
|
$800
[6]
People are doing important work in Ewa Beach, Hawaii at the PTWC, Pacific this danger Warning Center
Tsunami
Amar
|
$800
[11]
The donor of this tennis team trophy later served as Secretary of War under Calvin Coolidge
Davis
Tim
Ryan
|
$800
[23]
Strawberries Wild & Orange Dream Machine are "Classic" smoothies at this chain that dropped "Juice" from its name
Jamba
Amar
|
$800
[19]
In the British peerage, this title ranks below an earl & above a baron
viscount
Amar
|
|
$1,000
[26]
A taxing novel about IRS agents, "The Pale King" was an unfinished posthumous work by this "Infinite Jest" author
David Foster Wallace
Amar
|
$1,000
[4]
The metropolis of Mildendo:This land in "Gulliver's Travels"
Lilliput
Tim
|
$1,000
[7]
There's another word for beach or coast in this job of minding sailors in port; Jack Nicholson had the job in "The Last Detail"
shore patrol
Tim
|
$1,000
[10]
The Ray Guy Award honors college football's outstanding player at this position; Ray Guy was the premier one
punter
Tim
|
$1,000
[24]
This "natural Alpine spring water" sounds like it's sourced from Yellowstone but it comes from Mount Shasta, among other places
Crystal Geyser
Amar
|
$1,000
[20]
In her first novel appearance, Miss Jane Marple solves a "Murder at" this, a word for a residence of a clergyman
Vicarage
Amar
|
| THE 17th CENTURY | YOU CAN'T GET ANY FURTHER NORTH | HEY BABY, WHAT'S YOUR SCIENCE? | AT THE MUSEUM | NAME THE CELEBRITY | "Y" IN THE MIDDLE |
|
$400
[29]
In 1636 & 1637 this flower was in heavy demand, seeing prices top out in the thousands of guilders
tulips
Ryan
|
$400
[27]
In this country:Oberbargen in the canton of Schaffhausen
Switzerland
Amar
|
$400
[30]
Ancient sites can be found without digging when using radar & lidar; NASA calls the practice space this "-ology"
archaeology
|
$400
[26]
The Smithsonian's Natural History Museum displays this priceless 45.52-carat blue gem
the Hope Diamond
Tim
|
$400
[10]
A rapper; has 2 kids with Rihanna; actor in "Dope" & 2018's "Monster"
A$AP Rocky
Amar
|
$400
[25]
Labored breathing & damaged alveoli may be aspects of this lung condition
emphysema
Tim
|
|
$800
[12]
James I wasn't thrilled that the Jamestown colony was preoccupied by this "noisome and running weed"
tobacco
Amar
|
$800
[21]
In this New England state:A town called Estcourt Station, specifically Rue de la Frontière or "Border Street"
Maine
Amar
|
$800
[28]
This "art of fire" deals with the science & deployment of flash pots & mortar hits
pyrotechnics
|
$800
[1]
The Met's 2024 exhibit of works by 1920s-40s Black artists is called this movement "& Transatlantic Modernism"
Harlem Renaissance
Amar
|
$800
[9]
Cassie on "Euphoria"; star of "Anyone But You"
Sweeney
Ryan
|
$800
[18]
Synonyms for this word from French include vestibule & lobby
foyer
Amar
Tim
|
|
$1,200
[5]
After being nominated by Louis XIII, this bishop of Luçon got his cardinal hat in 1622
Richelieu
Amar
|
$1,200
[20]
In Spain:Punta de Estaca de Bares in Galicia on this bay
the Bay of Biscay
Ryan
|
$1,200
[13]
In pteridology, the study of these plants, you learn the difference "between two" sporophytes
ferns
Amar
|
$1,600
[3]
The Museum of Holocaust Art is part of this World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel
Yad Vashem
Amar
|
$1,200
[8]
President Coriolanus Snow in a franchise; Detective Klute in "Klute"
Donald Sutherland
|
$1,200
[17]
Thispastime was a Victorian craze, & later, a favorite game of Prince Philip
Tiddlywinks
Amar
|
|
$1,600
[4]
The Yoruba came into prominence in the 17th century with the kingdom of Oyo, mainly in what's now this country
Nigeria
Ryan
|
$1,600
[19]
In Ireland:Banba's Crownin this county alphabetically between Derry & Down
County Donegal
|
$1,600
[14]
Baby, do you work for the IRS? Because your way of classifying animals & plants is really putting a... this
taxonomy
|
$2,000
[7]
Seattle's Museum of Flight has a helicopter famous for its use in Vietnam, the Bell UH-1H Iroquois, nicknamed this
a Huey
Ryan
|
$1,600
[11]
"Oblivion" singer; mother of Techno Mechanicus Musk
Grimes
|
$1,600
[16]
This highly flammable gas, C2H2, is employed for welding, cutting & illumination
acetylene
|
|
$2,000
[6]
Leading a Polish army, the man called the "False" this swept into Russia in 1604 to claim the throne
Dmitry
Tim
|
$2,000
[22]
In this country:The Akkar governorate, on the border with Syria & full of Syrian refugees
Lebanon
Amar
Tim
|
DD
$2,000
[15]
The scientific paper "Soil Animals and Pedogenesis" focuses on the role of this creature in transforming organic matter
earthworms
Amar
|
DD
$4,000
[2]
The Vasa sailed less than a mile before sinking on its 1628 maiden voyage; in 1990, it got its own museum in this capital
Stockholm
Amar
|
$2,000
[23]
Starred in "Bio-Dome" & "Encino Man"; stand-up stage alter ego was "The Weasel"
Pauly Shore
|
$2,000
[24]
Equipped with sturdy teeth, one of these is used for grooming Arabians & Appaloosas
a currycomb
|
In December 2023 she became the oldest solo artist, at 78, to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with a song she recorded in 1958
Brenda Lee