Adriana Harmeyer game 16.Drew Basile game 1.
Tekla Sauter — a nonprofit strategist from Chicago, Illinois
Drew Basile — a graduate student from Birmingham, Michigan
Adriana Harmeyer — an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana (whose 15-day cash winnings total $349,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adriana | $4,500 | $8,100 | $9,300 |
$7,900
3rd place: $2,000 |
$8,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Drew | $4,400 | $5,600 | $23,600 |
$23,482
New champion: $23,482 |
$14,800
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Tekla | $800 | $3,200 | $10,600 |
$18,601
2nd place: $3,000 |
$9,600
13 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| POETIC OBJECTS | ROPED IN | MOVIE REFRESHMENTS | OPRAH-POURRI | THE WHITE HOUSE | TAKE TO TASK |
|
$200
[15]
Joyce Kilmer wrote, "I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as" this
a tree
Adriana
|
$200
[26]
It's the "national" name for the kids' game with 2 jump ropes turning in opposite directions
Double Dutch
Tekla
|
$200
[1]
"Tampopo", about a woman's adventures in her noodle shop in this country, has been called a "Ramen Western"
Japan
Drew
|
$200
[18]
In 2021 tens of millions watched Oprah interview these 2 people about their struggle to preserve their mental health
Harry & Meghan
Adriana
|
$200
[16]
The White House is sometimes referred to simply by this address
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Adriana
Drew
|
$200
[6]
It's a fine-grained mineral used in face powder
talc
Drew
|
|
$400
[11]
Jean Toomer wrote of the flower of this crop, "Boll-weevil's coming, and the winter's cold"
cotton
Drew
|
$400
[27]
This synonym for "lasso" comes from the Spanish reata, meaning rope
lariat
Drew
|
$400
[2]
Eva Longoria directed 2023's "Flamin' Hot", about Richard Montanez, who claims to have invented these flamin' hot snacks
Flamin' Hot Cheetos
Drew
|
$400
[19]
Oprah's OWN Network has featured stories of Black families like "The Kings of" this California winemaking mecca
Napa
Tekla
|
$400
[17]
In its history, this room has been used as a private study as well as where historic agreements have been sign
the Treaty Room
|
$400
[7]
It's the adjective for a bicycle built for 2
tandem
Adriana
|
|
$600
[12]
"The New Colossus" mentions "a mighty woman" with one of these "whose flame is the imprisoned lightning"
a torch
Adriana
|
$600
[28]
Boxing legend Archie Moore called a defense "the turtle shell"; Muhammad Ali adapted it to what he called this
the rope-a-dope
|
$600
[3]
Dishes made by Remy, an animated gourmand of the garbage, include an omelet, a roasted mushroom & this title dish
ratatouille
Drew
|
$600
[20]
In 2021 Oprah used launch day of Oprah Daily, an online community, to announce she had gotten this & how relieved she felt
the COVID vaccine
|
$600
[23]
Fittingly, an original copy of the Gettysburg Address is on display in this upstairs guest room
the Lincoln Bedroom
Adriana
|
$600
[8]
Thisfestive headwear gets its name from a Robert Burns character
tam o' shanter
Drew
|
|
$1,000
[14]
Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote of this, "Her deck once red with heroes' blood, where knelt the vanquished foe"
Old Ironsides
Drew
|
$800
[29]
Clove & half are 2 of these knots used to tie a rope to a post or other support
a hitch
Tekla
|
$800
[4]
As Harold & Kumar in a 2004 film can attest, this fast food chain hits different after riding a cheetah & hang gliding
White Castle
Adriana
|
$800
[21]
Oprah's friend for nearly 50 years, she's the co-host of "CBS Mornings" & entered the O-zone when both worked at WJZ Baltimore
Gayle King
Adriana
|
$800
[24]
In 1981 Nancy Reagan took some flak for purchasing a 4,732-piece, $210,000 set of this for the White House
china
Adriana
|
$800
[9]
Hysteria related to a certain spider's bite is somehow related to the origin of this lively dance
tarantella
Tekla
|
|
DD
$1,500
[13]
The last stanza of John Keats' poem about this title object mentions its "Attic shape"
a Grecian urn
Adriana
|
$1,000
[30]
Tensions between rope makers & British soldiers helped lead to a March 1770 shooting of civilians in this city
Boston
Drew
|
$1,000
[5]
At the start of this 1973 sci-fi film, Edward G. Robinson wants more of the title food; by the end, he becomes the title food
Soylent Green
Adriana
|
$1,000
[22]
Oprah says of her book club picks, "There's none more essential than this Isabel Wilkersonbook that puts race in its class context"
Caste
Tekla
|
$1,000
[25]
The tradition of having a decorated Christmas tree in the White House began with this president & grandson of another in 1889
Benjamin Harrison
Adriana
|
$1,000
[10]
This type of charm is said to ward off evil or bring good luck
a talisman
Drew
|
| HISTORIC SHIPS | TV TIDBITS | IT WAS ONCE THE CAPITAL | "G"-MEN | GENERAL SCIENCE | RUSSIAN LINGO |
|
$400
[30]
The 48-gun galleon San Martin was the flagship of the Duke of Medina Sidonia, who led this group against England in 1588
the Spanish Armada
Tekla
|
$400
[6]
Will Arnett watches magic being made with tiny plastic bricks on the Fox show called this "Masters"
LEGO
Tekla
|
$400
[23]
Kandahar (1747-1773)
Afghanistan
Tekla
|
$400
[24]
In 2016 this current Attorney General was nominated to the Supreme Court by Barack Obama
Merrick Garland
Tekla
|
$400
[25]
Types of these waves include Love, primary, secondary & the "did you feel that?" kind
seismic waves
|
$400
[21]
A kopeck is one of these that many Russians may have in their pockets
a coin
Tekla
|
|
$800
[27]
This ironclad built by John Ericsson for the U.S. Navy was never truly seaworthy & sank in December 1862 off Cape Hatteras
the Monitor
Drew
|
$800
[2]
In 2022 he logged his 1,500th sketch with "Saturday Night Live" & that's what's up with that
Kenan Thompson
Drew
|
$800
[1]
Yangon, sometimes called Rangoon(1948-2005)
Myanmar
Adriana
|
$800
[13]
This"Real Sports" host also hosted "The Today Show" for more than a decade
Bryant Gumbel
Adriana
Drew
Tekla
|
$800
[26]
Radar images taken by the Magellan spacecraft in the 1990s helped determine that this planet has around 85,000 volcanoes
Venus
Drew
|
$800
[20]
This borrowed word is comfortable coming before either sturgeon or whale
beluga
|
|
$1,600
[28]
In 1789 this ship's crew tried to settle on Tubuai in the Austral Islands but were rebuffed by the native inhabitants & returned to Tahiti
the Bounty
Adriana
|
$1,200
[3]
James & Patrick Crawley's deaths on the Titanic set up an inheritance problem early on in this British drama
Downton Abbey
Adriana
|
$1,200
[7]
Entebbe(1894-1962)
Uganda
Drew
|
$1,200
[8]
Hewas succeeded by Ben Bernanke as head of the Fed
Greenspan
Drew
|
$1,200
[9]
In 1671 naturalist John Ray discovered this acid by collecting & distilling large numbers of dead ants
formic acid
Drew
|
$1,200
[18]
Russian for "three" gives us this word for a type of carriage, or any trio of influential folks
a troika
Drew
|
|
$2,000
[29]
This similar-sounding sister ship of the Lusitania named for a North African kingdom served as a hospital ship in World War I
the Mauretania
|
$1,600
[4]
This actor who played a very mad man in season 5 of "Fargo" had a "dedicated nippleologist" for his faux piercings
Jon Hamm
Drew
|
$1,600
[12]
Quezon City(1948-1976)
the Philippines
Adriana
Drew
|
$1,600
[10]
In his 2008 book "Outliers", he wrote, "Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness"
Gladwell
Drew
|
$1,600
[11]
In 1948 this vitamin C advocate found that the polypeptide chain would coil into a structure he called the alpha helix
Linus Pauling
|
$1,600
[19]
Meaning "assembly", this type of council constitutes the lower house of the Russian Parliament
the Duma
Tekla
|
|
DD
$10,000
[16]
The world's largest aircraft carrier for 10 years, it was built starting in October 1943 & named for a battle 16 months before
Midway
Drew
|
$2,000
[5]
This veteran actor has been seen on Netflix in "3 Body Problem" & the final 2 seasons of "The Crown"
Jonathan Pryce
Adriana
|
$2,000
[17]
Turku(1809-1812)
Finland
Adriana
Drew
|
$2,000
[15]
The G-men were after this G-man who was born in Chicago & nicknamed Sam "the Cigar"
Sam Giancana
|
$2,000
[14]
It's the 5-syllable word for a counterpart such as the positron to the negatively charged electron
an antiparticle
Drew
|
DD
$3,000
[22]
This 14-letter word now referring to elite artistic thinkers had a more socialistic bent back in Russia
intelligentsia
Tekla
|
In 1978 a new cologne for men came out called this, what's being played in the company's iconic logo
Polo