Adriana Harmeyer game 12.
Mike Flanagan — a non-profit executive from Winchester, Massachusetts
Hakme Lee — a scientific instructional technician from Seattle, Washington
Adriana Harmeyer — an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana (whose 11-day cash winnings total $258,700)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adriana | $1,000 | $2,800 | $15,800 |
$19,800
12-day champion: $278,500 |
$13,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Hakme | $800 | $2,000 | $9,200 |
$6,200
2nd place: $3,000 |
$10,200
12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mike | $-400 | $400 | $4,400 |
$5,126
3rd place: $2,000 |
$6,400
11 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| SAINTLY U.S. CITIES | FROM A TO Z | VIVA LAS VEGAS RESIDENCIES | 19th CENTURY NEWSPAPERS | RECITING POETRY | RHYME TIME |
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$200
[19]
You can enjoy some fun in the sun all year long on this Southern California city's beach & pier
Santa Monica
Adriana
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$200
[8]
This synonym for "vibrant" perfectly describes an active hornet nest
abuzz
Mike
|
$200
[30]
"The Million Dollar Piano" was the Las Vegas residency of this "Rocket Man"
Elton John
Hakme
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$200
[22]
The New York Times' sub-headline about him on April 15, 1865--"no hopes entertained of his recovery"
Abraham Lincoln
Adriana
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$200
[7]
Pt. II of this ends, "What evil looks had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the albatross about my neck was hung"
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Adriana
|
$200
[1]
A racket-&-net sport peril
a tennis menace
Mike
|
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$600
[12]
This capital is nicknamed "The City of Holy Faith"
Santa Fe
Adriana
|
$400
[9]
In a dessert, it's paired with "leche"
arroz
Adriana
|
$400
[29]
Thesetwo magicians have been called the longest continuously running headliners in Vegas
Penn & Teller
Adriana
|
$400
[23]
In 1893 the S.F. Examiner published illustrator Jimmy Swinnerton's "California Bears", considered by some the first of these
comic strip
Adriana
|
$400
[21]
One of her 19th century sonnets says, "Behold and see what a great heap of grief lay hid in me"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Adriana
|
$400
[2]
Cartographic hip-hop verse
a map rap
Adriana
|
|
$800
[20]
In the 1860s this Missouri city was the eastern terminus of the Pony Express
St. Joseph
Hakme
|
$600
[10]
Jamiroquai passes the litmus test for this type of music that infuses funk & hip-hop with another genre
acid jazz
Hakme
Mike
|
$600
[17]
"What a girl wants" is tickets to the residency of this singer at the Venetian
Christina Aguilera
Adriana
|
$600
[24]
The first newspaper west of the Mississippi was the Missouri Gazette, published in this city on the Mississippi in 1808
St. Louis
Adriana
|
$600
[6]
This 19th century lord & European traveler: "And all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes"
Byron
Hakme
|
$600
[3]
A distant Gibson Les Paul
a far guitar
Adriana
|
|
DD
$1,000
[13]
A famous battle occurred in this city from February 23 to March 3, 1836
San Antonio
Hakme
|
$800
[11]
Once home to a Civil War fortress & now a bird sanctuary, it's located in San Francisco Bay
Alcatraz
Hakme
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$800
[16]
On Sept. 29, 2023 U2 began its residency at this spectacular arena at the Venetian
the Sphere
Hakme
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$800
[25]
In 1862 this future novelist was hired at $25 a week to be city editor of Nevada's Virginia City Territorial Enterprise
Mark Twain
Mike
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$800
[26]
Longfellow:"Impatient to mount and ride, booted and spurred, with a heavy stride, on the opposite shore walked" him
Paul Revere
Adriana
|
$800
[4]
A grizzly trap
a bear snare
Mike
|
|
$1,000
[14]
About 65 miles from the Twin Cities, this Minnesota city completes the title of the Trisha Yearwood sob song "On A Bus To..."
St. Cloud
|
$1,000
[18]
A train station in Paris' 13th Arrondissement bears the name of this 1805 battle won by Napoleon
Austerlitz
Adriana
|
$1,000
[15]
This duo made up of Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak had a residency at Park MGM in 2022
Silk Sonic
Hakme
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$1,000
[28]
The LDS paper called this News, a word in the Book of Mormon, was established in 1850 & is still around today
Deseret
Hakme
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$1,000
[27]
Kipling:"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs &" doing this
blaming it on you
|
$1,000
[5]
Gorgonzola knowledge & proficiency
cheese expertise
Mike
|
| SECRETARIES OF DEFENSE | COMPETITORS | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES | SCIENCE FOR "U" | FEATURE FILM DEBUTS | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES |
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$400
[26]
The Navy's first "super" type of this ship was named for James Forrestal, the first Secretary of Defense
a supercarrier (an aircraft carrier)
|
$400
[23]
"Sit-N-Snooze" was one hyphenated entry in a competition to name a 1920s reclining chair, but this one was your winner
La-Z-Boy
Adriana
|
$400
[16]
Robert Caro's 2002 biography of this Texan, "Master of the Senate", covers 1949 to 1960
LBJ
Mike
|
$400
[15]
Anatomically, the navel is the site where this was once attached
umbilical cord
Adriana
|
$400
[2]
This British actress made her film debut in 1994's "Heavenly Creatures" & has enjoyed a "Titanic" career ever since
Kate Winslet
Adriana
|
$400
[7]
In 1967 Shigeichi Negishi was teased about his singing & wished for a backing track; soon he was among this machine's originators
karaoke
Hakme
|
|
$800
[27]
The youngest secretary, he was 43 when he took office under Ford; he got older & was 74 when he left office under George W. Bush
Donald Rumsfeld
|
$1,200
[19]
In a 2020 tribute Allen Iverson called him "the fiercest competitor I've ever seen"
Kobe Bryant
Adriana
|
$800
[17]
William Taubman brought home the award for writing about this shoe-slammin' Soviet premier
Khrushchev
Mike
|
$800
[12]
As far as quarks go, it's the type that fits the category
up
Mike
|
$800
[3]
As villain Hans Gruber, this actor died hard falling from a skyscraper in his debut--a little film called "Die Hard"
Alan Rickman
Adriana
|
$800
[8]
On "M*A*S*H" Colonel Potter sometimes addressed Father Mulcahy as this, Spanish for "priest"
Padre
Mike
|
|
$1,200
[28]
In 1950 Truman had a "Plan" in selecting this military man as his Secretary of Defense; he needed help in preparing for the Korean War
Marshall
Hakme
|
$1,600
[24]
A 1960 design competition enabled this Chinese American to draw up the multi-airline terminal at what's now JFK
(I.M.) Pei
Hakme
|
$1,600
[20]
Carleton Mabee won the 1944 prize for "The American Leonardo", a biography of this 19th century inventor & painter
(Samuel F.B.) Morse
|
$1,200
[1]
This diagnostic technique uses high-frequency waves to produce images of places inside the body
ultrasound
Adriana
|
$1,200
[4]
In her debut, sheplayed second fiddle to an ape in 1976's "King Kong"; better roles & 2 Oscars were to follow
(Jessica) Lange
Hakme
|
$1,200
[9]
It's German for "lord", not just "mister"; in an 18th century cantata, the chorus sings, "Jesu, mein..."
Herr
Hakme
|
|
$1,600
[29]
Nuclear physicist Harold Brown served as president of this Pasadena, California school just prior to becoming Carter's Defense Secretary
Caltech
Mike
|
$2,000
[25]
Hoover's Triple Vortex vacuum was found to infringe on the patent of this Brit, who won $4 million (he's worth a lot more now)
Dyson
Adriana
|
DD
$2,000
[18]
Also a CCR song, the title of this memoir by Vietnam vet Lewis Puller Jr. refers to having a legendary general as a dad
Fortunate Son
Mike
|
$1,600
[13]
The Encyclopedia Britannica calls it the most important of the actinoids
uranium
Hakme
|
$1,600
[5]
At 13, she debuted as Mattie Rossin the 2010 remake of "True Grit" winning the part over more than 15,000 other girls
Hailee Steinfeld
Adriana
|
$1,600
[10]
Several phrases use this French word for "ribbon"; before sanitaire, it means a line to prevent an epidemic from spreading
cordon
Mike
|
|
$2,000
[30]
Hisbook, "Worthy Fights", documents his time as CIA Director & Secretary of Defense during Obama's presidency
Leon Panetta
|
DD
$3,000
[21]
To fend off competition from Arkansas, in 1931 this state lowered its residency requirement for divorce to 6 weeks
Nevada
Adriana
|
$2,000
[22]
The Pulitzer-honored bio of this late wide-ranging intellectual does not omit her many glamorous lovers
Susan Sontag
|
$2,000
[14]
Water is sometimes referred to as this 2-word substance, though it doesn't actually break down everything
universal solvent
Mike
|
$2,000
[6]
Tommy Lee Jones, who debuted in this 1970 film, knew author Erich Segal at Harvard & Segal based a character in the book on him
Love Story
Adriana
|
$2,000
[11]
In the KFPU ("Kung Fu Panda" Universe), Dustin Hoffman voices this role, Mandarin for "master"
Shifu
Mike
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The author of this novel said of the last chapter left off U.S. editions, "My young thuggish protagonist grows up"
A Clockwork Orange