Adriana Harmeyer game 13.
Kaitlin Tarr — an aspiring ceramicist from Denver, Colorado
Susan Ayoob — a content strategist from San Francisco, California
Adriana Harmeyer — an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana (whose 12-day cash winnings total $278,500)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adriana | $2,800 | $7,200 | $12,400 |
$20,500
13-day champion: $299,000 |
$12,000
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Susan | $2,400 | $3,000 | $10,200 |
$0
3rd place: $2,000 |
$10,200
9 R, 0 W |
| Kaitlin | $1,200 | $3,800 | $12,800 |
$12,390
2nd place: $3,000 |
$15,000
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| 1824 | SETTING PRETTY | THAT'S A FACT | RHYMING PHRASES | JEN | TONIC |
|
$200
[22]
The American Colonization Society approved this name for a country established on the West African coast
Liberia
Kaitlin
|
$200
[12]
"Wuthering Heights" speaks of spending time in these grasslands, "on a bank of heath... with the bees humming dreamily"
the moors
Kaitlin
|
$200
[17]
Toss a standard pair of dice & your odds of rolling the total known by this serpentine name are 1 in 36
snake eyes
Kaitlin
|
$200
[1]
A trip on a party boat with alcohol aplenty
a booze cruise
Kaitlin
|
$200
[6]
Kerry Washington grew up in the Bronx, where this girl "from the block" was her substitute dance teacher
Jennifer Lopez
Adriana
|
$200
[30]
For a classic gin & tonic, you can use this brand's sapphire gin
Bombay
Kaitlin
|
|
$400
[23]
18-year-old Henriette Sontag was the soprano as this man's final symphony premiered in Vienna
Beethoven
Kaitlin
|
$400
[13]
"As You Like It" finds the Duke & his retinue exiled to the lush environs of this forest
Arden
Adriana
|
$400
[18]
Once upon a midday weary, researchers in Sweden found these birds were better at planning ahead than apes or 4-year-olds
a raven
Kaitlin
|
$400
[2]
There's a male first name in this phrase meaning all tied up or 50-50
even Steven
Adriana
|
$400
[7]
This "American Idol" finalist played Motormouth Maybelle in the 2016 live TV production of "Hairspray"
Hudson
Adriana
|
$400
[11]
Remembered now as a gift to Jesus, this rare 5-letter gum derived from thorny trees was used in tinctures & perfumes
myrrh
Adriana
|
|
$600
[24]
The U.S. War Department created the B.I.A., this agency, to handle Native American issues
the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Susan
|
$800
[15]
Prince Siegfried in this ballet named for its setting takes a gander at Odette & later, her maidens dance a waltz
Swan Lake
Adriana
|
$600
[19]
The trail named for this pair winds 4,900 miles through 16 states
Lewis & Clark
Kaitlin
|
$600
[3]
Bangers & mash or fish & chips, maybe alongside a pint of ale
pub grub
|
$600
[8]
In "Office Space" she played a waitress at Chotchkie's who was reprimanded for not wearing enough "flair"
Aniston
Susan
|
$600
[27]
Remedies used this daisy-like flower as an antiseptic; you may be more familiar with it in your herbal tea
chamomile
Kaitlin
|
|
$800
[25]
This man whose independence forces defeated the Spanish army in Peru was proclaimed its dictator
Bolívar
Adriana
|
DD
$1,000
[14]
The first act of this Verdi opera takes place in the king's palace in Memphis (not Tennessee)
Aida
Adriana
|
$800
[20]
Supreme Court Justice John Campbell wrote a concurring opinion in the 1857 decision about this enslaved man
Dred Scott
Adriana
|
$800
[4]
The main roads & side roads of a place, collectively
the highways & byways
Susan
|
$800
[9]
In "Legally Blonde" Reese Witherspoon as Elle teaches her as Paulette how to "bend & snap"
Jennifer Coolidge
Kaitlin
|
$800
[28]
Now interchangeable with "liqueur", this type of alcohol, from the Latin for "heart", once meant the drink had the qualities of a tonic
a cordial
Kaitlin
|
|
$1,000
[26]
Florida's capital was moved to Tallahassee, midway between these two cities that had been alternating in the role
Pensacola & St. Augustine
Adriana
|
$1,000
[16]
James Hilton wrote that its pavilions "clung to the mountainside... with the chance delicacy of flower petals impaled upon a crag"
Shangri-La
Adriana
|
$1,000
[21]
This 5-letter word can stand by itself or precede Mennonite to refer to a Christian group in America
Amish
Adriana
|
$1,000
[5]
There are 2 negatives in this 4-word phrase meaning something can be done without difficulty
no muss, no fuss
|
$1,000
[10]
She served as press secretary for President Biden & got her own show on MSNBC in 2023
(Jen) Psaki
Susan
|
$1,000
[29]
If you've heard of a tonic, you've heard of a balm that gets its name from this type of tree that's 2 letters longer than "balm"
balsam
Adriana
|
| AROUND SCOTLAND | AMERICAN POETS | TILL DEATH DO US PART | NO. 1 ON THEBILLBOARDHOT 100 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES | ANOTHER DAY IN PARASITES |
|
$400
[7]
The Scottish Parliament & the royal residence of Holyrood Palace are in this city
Edinburgh
Kaitlin
|
$400
[6]
Thewomanwe know as this submitted her first great work "Renascence", for a prize under the gender-hiding name E. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Adriana
|
$400
[26]
Before he slipped into a coma in January 1957, he told Lauren Bacall, "Goodbye, kid. Hurry back"
Humphrey Bogart
Adriana
|
$400
[5]
2018:"God's Plan" &"Nice For What"
Drake
Adriana
|
$400
[24]
Norwegian for "sloping track", it's the sloping track seen here
slalom
Kaitlin
|
$400
[16]
In truly a hairy situation, these parasitic insects have biting types & sucking types, all of which sound just delightful
lice
Adriana
|
|
$800
[8]
These Scottish geographic features include Rannoch, Lomond & Ness
lochs
Kaitlin
|
$800
[21]
"Some, Too Fragile for the Winter Winds" is a poem from this "Belle of Amherst"
Dickinson
Susan
|
$800
[27]
After he passed away on Halloween in 1926, his widow Bess held annual seances on that date to try to make contact with him
Houdini
Kaitlin
|
$800
[4]
2020:"Savage" & "WAP"
Megan Thee Stallion
Kaitlin
|
$800
[25]
This Italian diminutive word applies to works like 1890's "Robin Hood", featuring the tune "Brown October Ale"
operetta
Adriana
|
$800
[15]
That ain't your house! Cuckoos practice brood parasitism, putting an egg in this place, so other birds rear the young
a different nest
Kaitlin
|
|
$1,200
[17]
Inverness is in the center of this elevated region, the most northerly mainland Scottish region
the Highlands
Adriana
|
$1,200
[20]
In 1981, this poet's home on East 127th St. was declared a New York City landmark
Hughes
Susan
|
$1,200
[28]
A grandson of Diego Rivera has suggested that Diego may have helped end the life of this suffering wife as a final act of love
Frida Kahlo
Kaitlin
|
$1,200
[3]
The artist formerly known with a "$", in 2010:"We R Who We R" &"Tik Tok"
Kesha
Kaitlin
|
$1,600
[9]
From the Yiddish, it can mean chicken fat or excessive sentimentality
schmaltz
Kaitlin
|
$1,600
[13]
You give me fever, the hard type of this parasite--Texas cattle fever, hemorrhagic fever, Q fever...
ticks
|
|
$1,600
[18]
This home of golf is also home to the first university in Scotland, founded in 1413
St. Andrews
Susan
|
$1,600
[22]
Louis, the father of this Beat Generation figure, was also a poet but wrote more traditional verse like "Morning in Spring"
Ginsberg
Adriana
|
$1,600
[29]
After this president's death in 1908, his wife Frances would become the first first lady to remarry
Cleveland
Kaitlin
|
$1,600
[2]
One week in 1998:"One Week"
Barenaked Ladies
Susan
|
$2,000
[10]
A member of the Communist power structure in Russia, it's come to mean the loyal subordinate of a political leader
an apparatchik
|
DD
$2,000
[14]
Anopheles mosquitoes transmit one-celled parasites of the genus Plasmodium to humans, causing this sometimes-fatal disease
malaria
Kaitlin
|
|
$2,000
[19]
A major industrial burgh in the east, Dundee is the principal city of this former county that shares its name with a cattle breed
Angus
|
$2,000
[23]
Sparing him a treason trial, this poet was declared insane in 1946 & spent the next 12 years in a hospital
Ezra Pound
|
$2,000
[30]
Sadly, an assassin's bullet took civil rights activist Medgar from this wife June 12, 1963 in Mississippi
Myrlie Evers(-Williams)
Susan
|
$2,000
[1]
2022:"First Class"with the Fergie sample
Jack Harlow
|
DD
$3,000
[11]
"Health" in Spanish; you're wishing someone good health when you toast them saying this word
salud
Kaitlin
|
$2,000
[12]
Parasitic worms in undercooked pork can cause this disease, so cook those BBQ ribs to at least 137 degrees
trichinosis
Kaitlin
|
Helping draft an executive order in 1961, Hobart Taylor Jr. almost used the word "positive", but instead chose this alliterative phrase
affirmative action