Adriana Harmeyer game 6.
Allee Mead — a writer from Grand Forks, North Dakota
Kyle Sorlie Titlow — a geographer from Washington, D.C.
Adriana Harmeyer — an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana (whose 5-day cash winnings total $116,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adriana | $3,600 | $5,800 | $19,400 |
$19,900
6-day champion: $136,100 |
$20,600
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Kyle | $1,000 | $1,600 | $2,400 |
$4,799
3rd place: $2,000 |
$2,400
11 R, 5 W |
| Allee | $400 | $5,400 | $9,400 |
$9,400
2nd place: $3,000 |
$9,200
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| FEELING THE BUZZ | SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC | "GATE"KEEPING | NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY | POP MUSIC | THE REAL RED TAILS |
|
$200
[23]
Neil Armstrong:"Isn't that something! Magnificent sight out here"; this man: "Magnificent desolation"
Buzz Aldrin
Allee
|
$200
[30]
It's the second sign of the zodiac, & that's no bull
Taurus
Allee
|
$200
[1]
To water the land by artificial means
irrigate
Adriana
|
$200
[3]
This peninsula that separates the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea covers over 70,000 square miles
the Yucatán
Adriana
|
$200
[8]
In 2023, shespilled her guts on her second album
Rodrigo
Adriana
|
$200
[14]
(Sheryl Lee Ralph presents the clue.) On missions to destroy Nazi strongholds, the role of the Tuskegee pilots in combat was to accompany & protect these large planes, like theB-24)
bombers
Kyle
|
|
$400
[29]
Cofounded by Jonah Peretti in 2006, this website of news & entertainment bills itself as the "first true social news organization"
Buzzfeed
Kyle
|
$400
[28]
To escape a monster, Aphrodite & Eros jumped into a river & changed into this sign's symbols
Pisces
Allee
|
$400
[2]
To provoke, like a fight
instigate
Kyle
Allee
|
$400
[10]
This city in Mexico gives St. Louis a run for its money with its majesticarchnear the U.S. border
Tijuana
Kyle
|
$400
[9]
Lady Gaga reveals in this song, "I wanna hold 'em like they do in Texas, please (woo)"
"Poker Face"
Kyle
|
$400
[15]
(Sheryl Lee Ralph presents the clue.) The Black Aviation Unit got a great publicity boost when Chief Anderson, the chief flight instructor at the Tuskegee Institute, took this woman on a high-flyingride
Eleanor Roosevelt
Adriana
|
|
$600
[26]
This U.S. senator posts items of interest on a section of his website called "The Bernie Buzz"
Sanders
Allee
|
$600
[27]
Kaus Australis, or "Southern Bow", is the brightest star in this constellation
Sagittarius
Kyle
Allee
|
$600
[4]
Orkin will do it to prevent termites from brunching on your home
fumigate
Adriana
|
$600
[11]
You can stroll into Omaha via a footbridge over this stately river
the Missouri River
Kyle
|
$600
[16]
This British band played "Music Of The Spheres" on a concert tour with that name
Coldplay
Adriana
|
$600
[18]
(Sheryl Lee Ralph presents the clue.) Tuskegee Airmen excelled at engaging indogfight tactics; Lieutenant Colonel Lee Archer described this hyphenated kind of combat as a duel between two men
air-to-air combat
|
|
$800
[25]
In 1980 Buzz, a yellow jacket, became an official mascot of this Atlanta-based school's athletic teams
Georgia Tech
Kyle
|
$800
[21]
In a case of constellation-on-constellation violence, its symbol stung Orion to death
Scorpio
Adriana
|
$800
[5]
To give various forms of a verb
conjugate
Allee
|
$800
[12]
The Post-Intelligencer Globeis still an icon of this U.S. city, though the same-named paper is now online only
Seattle
|
$800
[17]
This duo's video for "Hey Ya!" features Andre 3000 playing all of the members of a fictional band
OutKast
Adriana
|
$800
[19]
(Sheryl Lee Ralph presents the clue.) 99-year-old Tuskegee Airman Harry T. Stewart talks about training in areas where segregationwas the law below this line, named for two surveyors
Mason-Dixon
Allee
|
|
$1,000
[24]
This Rimsky-Korsakov piece was used as the theme to "The Green Hornet"; Al Hirt's trumpet made the buzzing sound on TV
"Flight Of The Bumblebee"
Allee
|
DD
$1,200
[20]
The symbol of this sign is sometimes identified as Ishtar or Persephone
Virgo
Allee
|
$1,000
[6]
Per the Judicial Branch of California, "to repeal or cancel an old law using another law"
to abrogate
|
$1,000
[13]
This territory makes up the largest part of the Canadian Arctic
Nunavut
Adriana
Kyle
|
$1,000
[7]
This Katy Perry song mentions "the taste of her cherry chapstick"
"I Kissed A Girl"
Adriana
|
$1,000
[22]
(Sheryl Lee Ralph presents the clue.) The creation of the Red Tails was owed in part to civil rightsactivistswho lobbied Congress to put non-discriminationprovisionsinto this peacetime conscription act of 1940
the Selective Service Act
|
| U.S. REP. & PREZ | PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION | ALLITERATIVE TELEVISION SHOWS | SCIENCE QUIZ | 21st CENTURY BOOKS | CITY SLANG |
|
$400
[30]
He represented Virginia in Congress from 1789 to 1797; as president from 1809 to 1817, he had what was called his war
James Madison
Kyle
|
$400
[19]
The nicer buses within South Korean cities are called jwaseok, which means this, something most people look for when they board
seat
|
$400
[7]
"Thank You For Being a Friend" was the theme song for this sitcom that co-starred Estelle Getty
The Golden Girls
Allee
|
$400
[27]
It's the one-word title of a 1920 book written for a mass audience & subtitled "The Special & the General Theory"
Relativity
Adriana
|
$400
[12]
The title of this 2009 bestseller refers to the inked & pierced Lisbeth Salander
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Allee
|
$400
[15]
In "Mickey Blue Eyes", James Caan teaches Hugh Grant how to say this NYC slang of squished-together words that can mean "nevermind"
fuhgeddaboudit
Adriana
|
|
$800
[22]
President Andrew Johnson had been a senator & a representative from this state
Tennessee
Adriana
|
$800
[20]
As well as buses & trains, transit options of the MBTA, or T, included this kind of service from Boston to Hingham
a ferry
Kyle
|
$800
[4]
Chase & Rubble are 2 of the playful rescue dogs who use their unique talents to protect the town of Adventure Bay on this show
Paw Patrol
Allee
|
$800
[28]
One unit of this measure of pressure is equal to 101,325 pascals
an atmosphere
Adriana
|
$800
[11]
This international bestseller has everything: exotic locales, a shipwreck & a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker
the Life of Pi
Adriana
|
$800
[16]
Often said to hail from ATL, this slang for stylish clothes sounds like a verb for what a leaky faucet does
drip
Allee
|
|
$1,600
[24]
The last former U.S. representative to become president was this man who had represented Texas' 7th district
George H.W. Bush
Kyle
|
$1,200
[21]
In 1914 one of these places in Paris was renamed Liège & is decorated with scenes of that Belgian city
a metro station
Kyle
|
$1,200
[3]
Can't get enough of charming but evil surgeons? Watch this true crime show on Peacock
Dr. Death
|
$1,200
[29]
The saber-toothed cat chilled out during this epoch colloquially called "The Great Ice Age"
the Pleistocene
|
$1,200
[10]
The title character of this novel by Madeline Miller is a sorceress & the daughter of Helios in Greek mythology
Circe
Adriana
|
$1,200
[17]
Order a Coney Island at Detroit's finer eateries & you'll get this
a chili dog
Adriana
|
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
Rep. Franklin Pierce was such a devoted supporter of Andrew Jackson, he got this nickname alluding to his age (29)
Young Hickory
Adriana
|
$1,600
[1]
Helping reach hilly areas, this country's Medellin Metro Cableis one of the world's few aerial parts of a mass transit system
Colombia
Kyle
|
$1,600
[5]
Krysten Ritter starred as this reluctant ex-superheroine suffering from PTSD & working as a NYC private eye
Jessica Jones
Allee
|
DD
$2,000
[26]
D2O, or heavy water, combines oxygen with this isotope that is twice as heavy as hydrogen
deuterium
Adriana
|
$1,600
[9]
A lone astronaut has a lot of problems to solve in his novel "Project Hail Mary"
(Andy) Weir
Adriana
|
$1,600
[18]
In 2023 Lil Wayne revealed that "Ya heard me?" is one of his favorite slang terms from this city of his birth
New Orleans
|
|
$2,000
[25]
Hewas a rep. from New York before becoming veep & then became our 13th president with the sudden death of Zachary Taylor
Fillmore
Adriana
|
$2,000
[2]
The L train & a bus to Skokie are run by the CTA, short for this original name of the "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" band
Chicago Transit Authority
Adriana
Kyle
|
$2,000
[6]
The title of this 1960s primetime soap opera became shorthand for a melodramatic, complicated situation
Peyton Place
Adriana
|
$2,000
[14]
Frogs & other amphibians have 3-chambered hearts, with one ventricle & 2 of these
an atrium
Adriana
|
$2,000
[8]
The title of this 2023 James McBride novel refers to a shop run by a woman named Chona
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
|
$2,000
[13]
A homophone of a first name but probably derived from "joint", it's Philly slang for almost any person, place or thing
jawn
Kyle
|
This city owes much of its early history to a temple dedicated to Sulis Minerva & a "sacred spring" found there
Bath