Adriana Harmeyer game 10.
Scott McCann — a math teacher from Germantown, Tennessee
Sarah Hartzell — an audiovisual archivist originally from Howell, New Jersey
Adriana Harmeyer — an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana (whose 9-day cash winnings total $204,700)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adriana | $2,800 | $3,400 | $14,400 |
$21,000
10-day champion: $225,700 |
$17,400
23 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Sarah | $-1,400 | $-600 | $5,400 |
$8,400
3rd place: $2,000 |
$5,600
8 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Scott | $2,400 | $5,000 | $10,200 |
$18,201
2nd place: $3,000 |
$10,200
15 R, 1 W |
| OFF WE "GO" | FROM THE AD | NEW TO THEOED | THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY | CLEANUP MEN | AKA |
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$200
[17]
The tiny population of this huge desert is mostly made up of Mongols & Han Chinese
the Gobi
Sarah
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$200
[27]
"Eatin' good in the neighborhood"
Applebee's
Adriana
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$200
[29]
This 2-word term can mean a place you might keep your wallet, or figuratively, someone under your control
back pocket
Scott
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$200
[21]
In Rossini's take on this tale, Alex Trebek's favorite opera, not a fairy but the prince's tutor gets the heroine to the ball
Cinderella
Adriana
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$200
[30]
The luckiest cleanup hitter on the face of the Earth, Lou Gehrig got to hit fourth just behind this No. 3
Babe Ruth
Scott
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$200
[22]
This famous painting is also known as "La Gioconda"
the Mona Lisa
Sarah
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$400
[15]
Formerly a city dump, this park in Moscow was named for comrade Maxim in 1932
Gorky
Adriana
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$400
[26]
"For a streak-free shine that lets in more light"
Windex
Sarah
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$400
[28]
Seems like this 2-word cardiac-related term for great anguish would've been in sooner than 2024
broken heart
Adriana
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$400
[12]
"Waltz King" Johann Strauss II also composed the comic opera "Die Fledermaus", which translates as this flying animal
the bat
Adriana
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$400
[23]
He earned a nickname in an October 1977 World Series game, blasting 3 homers on 3 consecutive pitches
Reggie Jackson
Scott
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$400
[1]
It's sometimes known as the "Land of the Inca"
Peru
Adriana
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$600
[13]
Near South Bend, Indiana is this city that shares a name with the "land" that Joseph told his brothers to settle in
Goshen
Adriana
Scott
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$600
[6]
A woman wears pink pants & does a TikTok-ish dance pantomiming bodily pain
Pepto-Bismol
Scott
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$600
[9]
In the sense "to sleep briefly", this verb was already in; 2024 saw it given a new meaning, literally to abduct a pet
catnap
Scott
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$800
[20]
When Charles Gounod's "Faust" is sung in the original French, this evil fiend has accents on all 3 E's in his name
Méphistophélès
Adriana
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$600
[7]
Johnny Bench, George Foster & Tony Pérez all cleaned up for this 1976 team
the Cincinnati Reds
Sarah
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$600
[2]
Kegling is just another name for this sport
bowling
|
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$800
[5]
Just west of Denver, it had the "metal" to be a territorial capital in the 1860s
Golden, Colorado
Adriana
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$800
[10]
"Where are you? You're on a boat with the man your man could smell like"
Old Spice
Scott
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$800
[25]
This unintended silence during a radio or TV broadcast isn't quite as fatal as it sounds
dead air
Scott
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DD
$1,000
[8]
In Wagner's opera about the Valkyries, there are 9 of them, led by this daughter of Wotan
Brunhild
Sarah
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$800
[18]
Good thing the Ilitch family sells lots of pizza; from 2011 to 2018 they paid Victor Martinez $118 million to hit for this A.L. team
the Tigers
Adriana
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$800
[3]
It might ring a bell that she used the pen name Currer Bell
Charlotte Brontë
Adriana
|
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$1,000
[14]
Sweden's chief seaport, it's also the headquarters of Volvo
Gothenburg (Göteborg)
Adriana
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$1,000
[16]
From the '90s--Woman: "So what's the paper say about tomorrow?" Man: "Another scorcher!" Woman: "Cool"
air conditioning
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$1,000
[11]
This Japanese word means strips of meat or vegetables coated with flour, egg & breadcrumbs & deep fried
katsu
Sarah
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$1,000
[19]
Composer Franco Alfano finished this Asia-set opera after Puccini died
Turandot
Adriana
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$1,000
[24]
Willie Stargell, who ruled this Pittsburgh stadium as a cleanup hitter in the '70s, was at the Pirates last game there in 2000
Three Rivers
Scott
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$1,000
[4]
Baking soda, which creates carbon dioxide when mixed with an acid, is also known as this 2-word chemical compound
sodium bicarbonate
Scott
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| HISTORIC DESCENDANTS | AUTHORS BEFORE AUTHORING | OBSERVATORIES | CERAMICS | THE TITLE IS AN ADJECTIVE | A "K-A" |
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$400
[19]
Actress Jordana Brewsteris a direct descendant of William Brewster, a leader & church elder of this colony
Plymouth Colony
Adriana
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$400
[14]
She taught French & was on public assistance in the 1990s, but money was no longer an issue in 2023; she was worth $1 billion
Rowling
Scott
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$400
[27]
A telescope at the Paranal Observatory in this Chilean desert was the first to photograph an exoplanet
the Atacama
Adriana
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$400
[29]
This Cubist produced around 4,000 original ceramic pieces, including "Taureau" & "L'estocado"
Picasso
Scott
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$400
[18]
This song from the "Despicable Me 2" soundtrack became a global joy-inspiring phenomenon
"Happy"
Adriana
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$400
[22]
Forced to abdicate in 1918, Wilhelm II was the last German emperor with this title
kaiser
Adriana
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$800
[9]
Growing up without her mother Mary Wollstonecraft, this author spent considerable time visiting her at her grave
Mary Shelley
Adriana
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$800
[10]
An ambulance driver during World War I, in high school, hewas a member of the swim team & the rifle club
Hemingway
Adriana
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$800
[24]
Arizona's Kitt Peak Observatory has 2 telescopes that specialize in searching for NEOs, which stands for this
the near-Earth objects
Sarah
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$800
[23]
The thermal protection system on this type of craft had more than 24,000 ceramic tiles, some of which could withstand 2,300º
a space shuttle
Scott
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$800
[16]
In 1988 Tom Hanks wanted to be this
big
Adriana
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$800
[20]
Not to be confused with a prayer over wine, this is the Jewish prayer for the dead, which basically praises God
the kaddish
Scott
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$1,600
[6]
In her film "Heir to an Execution", Ivy Meeropol explored the lives & deaths of her grandparents, this couple executed in 1953
the Rosenbergs
Adriana
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$1,200
[11]
This Alabamian was working for an airline when she got a 1956 Xmas gift: "one year off from your job to write whatever you please"
Harper Lee
Adriana
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$1,200
[5]
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory operates the VLA, short for this system of radio telescopes
the Very Large Array
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$1,200
[25]
These items that ignite the air-fuel mixture in an engine use ceramic insulators to provide greater thermal conductivity
spark plugs
Sarah
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$1,200
[1]
Gnarls Barkley ruled the summer of 2006 with this song about examining your own mental state
"Crazy"
Adriana
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$1,200
[15]
This 10-letter adjective is used to mean frightening or confusing, like situations in works by "The Trial" author
Kafkaesque
Scott
|
|
DD
$2,000
[8]
In 1812 a schooner called Patriot disappeared along with passengers that included this veep's daughter Theodosia
Aaron Burr
Sarah
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$2,000
[13]
After quitting medical school at Johns Hopkins, she moved with her brother Leo to Paris, where she met Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein
Adriana
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$1,600
[28]
The world's largest solar telescope is on Mount Haleakala on this Hawaiian island
Maui
Scott
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$1,600
[4]
Ceramics that are fired but not yet glazed are called this, like a soup
bisque
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$1,600
[2]
"A Human Female" & "Ritual-licious" were episodes of this Netflix show about a young man on the autism spectrum
Atypical
Sarah
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$1,600
[17]
The "K" in K2 stands for this great mountain system
the Karakoram Range
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$2,000
[7]
A descendant of Martin Luther, this 19th century German mathematician & astronomer gave his name to the object seen here
Möbius
Sarah
|
DD
$3,000
[12]
During World War II he flew 60 combat missions as a U.S. Air Force bombardier... isn't that crazy? Or maybe not
Joseph Heller
Adriana
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$2,000
[30]
In 1991 the observatory at Vassar named for this 19th c. female astronomer was made a National Historic Landmark
Maria Mitchell
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$2,000
[26]
In 1774 this British ceramicist came up with his jasperware, a very fine-grained stoneware colored throughout the body
Wedgwood
Adriana
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$2,000
[3]
This song about "a do-or-die situation" is the title of a musical of Pat Benatar songs
"Invincible"
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$2,000
[21]
During his Munich period, this Russian painter co-founded Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider") art movement
Kandinsky
Adriana
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Of the 10 U.S. states with 2-word names, this one stretches the farthest south
New Mexico