Isaac Hirsch game 4.
Stephanie Lewis — a project coordinator from Washington, D.C.
Karan Menon — a data scientist originally from Edison, New Jersey
Isaac Hirsch — a customer support team lead from Burbank, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $70,186)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isaac | $9,600 | $11,800 | $27,400 |
$30,400
4-day champion: $100,586 |
$23,000
30 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W |
| Karan (करन) | $1,000 | $2,400 | $7,200 |
$10,001
2nd place: $3,000 |
$7,200
10 R, 2 W |
| Stephanie | $400 | $200 | $5,000 |
$5,000
3rd place: $2,000 |
$5,000
9 R, 4 W |
| THE SOLAR SYSTEM | TRUCK & TRUCKIN' SONGS | THE SPANISH ANIMAL | SAMUEL BECKETT | ENDGAME | WAITING FOR... |
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$200
[22]
Due to their composition, Jovian planets like Jupiter & Saturn are called these "giants"
gas
Karan (करन)
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$200
[28]
Del Reeves sang about a trucker infatuated with a "girl on" one of these outdoor signs
a billboard
Stephanie
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$200
[26]
A pretty flutterer:la mariposa
a butterfly
Isaac
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$200
[17]
Born in Foxrock, a suburb of Dublin, Beckett attended this nearby college & later taught there
Trinity College
Karan (करन)
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$200
[29]
In this game, used as a metaphor in Beckett's "Endgame", I forgot to use the Schlechter Defense against the Danish Gambit; I'm toast
chess
Isaac
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$200
[30]
this actor as I've managed to arrange an interview; hope my tape recorder works
(Russell) Crowe
Isaac
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$400
[21]
The photosphere is the surface of this as seen from Earth
the Sun
Isaac
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$400
[27]
Not sure what Rhett Akins drove, but it wasn't a 4x4 from this brand because "that ain't my truck" in his girl's driveway
a Chevy
Isaac
Karan (करन)
Stephanie
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$400
[23]
Anagram this:ATUN
tuna
Karan (करन)
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$400
[16]
A left-arm medium-paced bowler, Beckett claimed to play a "gritty defense" in this sport
cricket
Isaac
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$400
[25]
You own all utilities, railroads & properties & your family is seething at your sheer ruthlessness in this game
Monopoly
Karan (करन)
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$400
[24]
some of this from Nestlé or Pillsbury; mom always said not to eat it raw, but now it's sold in edible form
cookie dough
Isaac
|
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$600
[7]
Chiron, which shares properties of a comet & an asteroid, is this type of "object" named for the type of creature Chiron was in myth
a centaur
Isaac
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$600
[1]
Kathy Mattea sang about a driver coming home from his last trucking run with "18 wheels &" one of these numeric bouquets
a dozen roses
Isaac
Stephanie
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$600
[20]
Maybe a mako:el tiburón
a shark
Karan (करन)
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$600
[4]
In 2013 people couldn't wait to see "Waiting for Godot" with Ian McKellen as Estragon & him as Vladimir; Broadway made it so
Stewart
Isaac
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$600
[8]
The turn gave me 3 of a kind & now the river makes it 4... everyone's all-in & I'm feelin' pretty good about my chances in this game
Texas hold 'em
Isaac
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$600
[11]
Denis Coleman; he's going to tell me how he got this big 3-letter job at Goldman Sachs managing cash flow & such
CFO
Isaac
|
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$800
[14]
In 1959 the Russian space probe Luna 3 took the first photos of this hidden hemisphere
the dark side of the Moon (the far side)
Isaac
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$800
[2]
The longtime CMA Awards co-hosts have truck songs: Brad Paisley's "Mud On The Tires" & her 2023 "Out Of That Truck"
Carrie Underwood
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$800
[19]
A hunter's favorite:el venado
a deer
Isaac
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$800
[5]
Beckett received the Croix de Guerre after joining this as an expat in Paris in 1940; his group had the name Gloria SMH
the French Resistance
Isaac
Stephanie
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$800
[9]
Sub-Zero is on the ropes, & Sonya has been told to "Finish him!!" in this video game franchise; Sonya shall indeed finish him
Mortal Kombat
Isaac
|
$800
[12]
the bus out of this run-down city area, also the name of a metal band fronted by Sebastian Bach
Skid Row
Stephanie
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|
DD
$2,200
[15]
Once called the largest asteroid in our solar system, it was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006
Ceres
Isaac
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$1,000
[3]
The title of this C.W. McCall song refers to a group of trucks all moving together; ain't she a beautiful sight?
"Convoy"
Isaac
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$1,000
[18]
A flier:el cuervo
the crow
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$1,000
[6]
Beckett used the phrase "Fallor, ergo sum" in a poem about this 17th century Frenchman
René Descartes
Karan (करन)
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$1,000
[10]
I yelled the name of the game to indicate how many cards I had left, & my next play will end things
Uno
Isaac
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$1,000
[13]
this fictional Belgian detective with a head "exactly the shape of an egg"
Poirot
Stephanie
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| 20th CENTURY AMERICA | CAPES | 3 OF A KIND | BOOKS | VOCABULARY | FLY ME TO THE MOON |
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$400
[25]
In December 1955 these 2 leading labor federations formally merged, with a combined membership of 15 million
AFL & CIO
Stephanie
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$400
[24]
It was briefly named after President Kennedy before reverting to its Spanish name for "place of canes"
Cape Canaveral
Isaac
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$400
[26]
Merriam-Webster, New Oxford American, Scholastic Children's
dictionaries
Isaac
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$400
[20]
9-year-old Oskar's dad died in the World Trade Center on September 11 in the novel "Extremely Loud and" this
Incredibly Close
Stephanie
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$400
[28]
This word for a soccer fan you might want to avoid originated in the 1890s & someone named Hooley may have been involved
hooligan
Isaac
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$400
[30]
(Scarlett Johansson presents the clue.) In "Airplane II", Moon base commander Buck Murdock was played by this actor; at one point, he sees the Starship Enterprise on a periscope
Shatner
Isaac
|
|
$800
[23]
Drew's great aunt, shegave a great performance on Broadway in 1905 as Nora Helmer in "A Doll's House"
Ethel Barrymore
Stephanie
|
DD
$600
[18]
In 1602 Bartholomew Gosnold didn't just find the obvious fish at this cape, but also herring & mackerel
Cape Cod
Isaac
|
$800
[21]
Henry Kissinger, Yasser Arafat, Médecins Sans Frontières
Nobel Peace Prize winners
Stephanie
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$800
[19]
John le Carré put the "spy" in spy novel titles with this 1974 book, the first in the George Smiley-Karla trilogy
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Isaac
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$800
[27]
An irregular past tense verb, or a minor quarrel, a squabble, a tiff
spat
Karan (करन)
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$800
[29]
(Scarlett Johansson presents the clue.) In "A Grand Day Out", this man-&-dog stop-motion duo get a hankering for some cheese, so they decide to build a rocket & head to the Moonfor a tasting
Wallace & Gromit
Isaac
|
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$1,200
[6]
In 1968, just 2 months prior to his own assassination, he attended the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr.
RFK
Karan (करन)
|
$800
[22]
In Chile a monument dedicated to those who perished while rounding Cape Horn depicts this seafaring bird in flight
an albatross
Karan (करन)
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$1,200
[12]
Harpy, martial, golden
eagles
Stephanie
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$1,600
[3]
The first name of Stephen King's P.I. Gibney, it's the title of a 2023 bestseller where she takes center stage
Holly
|
$1,200
[15]
Without its -ine, this word still means a percussion instrument
tambourine
Isaac
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$1,200
[9]
(Scarlett Johansson presents the clue.) Ron Howard chose Ed Harrisas NASA flight director Gene Kranz in "Apollo 13"; Edhad previously gone into orbit as John Glenn in this 1983 film
The Right Stuff
Stephanie
|
|
$1,600
[1]
In 1986, some5 million peoplemade ahuman chain from coast to coast in this campaign to fight hunger & homelessness
Hands Across America
Stephanie
|
$1,600
[8]
In 1937 this North Carolina cape was the first place to receive the designation National Seashore
Cape Hatteras
Karan (करन)
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$1,600
[13]
Asher, Judah, Gad
tribes of Israel
|
$2,000
[4]
In this Günter Grass novel, Oskar Matzerath receives the title instrument at the age of 3 & doesn't grow up
The Tin Drum
Isaac
|
$1,600
[16]
In Latin it could mean many kinds of wishes; in English today, it's the sexual instinct
libido
Isaac
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$1,600
[10]
(Scarlett Johansson presents the clue.) "A Trip to the Moon", the 1902 classic from Georges Méliès, in which a rocket hits the Moonin the eye was loosely based on books by Jules Verne &this British author
Wells
Isaac
|
|
$2,000
[2]
Established in 1946 to control the development & use of nuclear power, this commission was superseded by a new agency in 1974
the AEC (Atomic Energy Commission)
|
$2,000
[7]
Cape Maclear is on the shores of this lake in southern Africa that also begins with "M"
Lake Malawi
Karan (करन)
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$2,000
[14]
Roland, Oliver, Fierabras
paladins (knights of Charlemagne)
|
DD
$5,000
[5]
When Kotaro Isaka's high-speed thriller "Maria Beetle" was translated into English, it got this title
Bullet Train
Isaac
|
$2,000
[17]
A restaurant chef calls a personal arrangement of ingredients & tools mise, short for this French phrase
mise en place
Isaac
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$2,000
[11]
(Scarlett Johansson presents the clue.) This title noble in a 1989 Terry Gilliam film takes a balloon to the Moon & meets the King of the Moon, played with a touch of "luna-cy" by Robin Williams
Baron Munchausen
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The melody of a traditional piece for the koto called "Echigo-Jishi" is used in Act 1 of this opera
Madama Butterfly ( Madame Butterfly )