Isaac Hirsch game 5.
Kathy Davis — a chemistry professor from North Manchester, Indiana
Anna Paone — a stay-at-home mom from Sunnyside, New York
Isaac Hirsch — a customer support team lead from Burbank, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $100,586)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isaac | $400 | $4,200 | $19,400 |
$19,601
5-day champion: $120,187 |
$16,400
24 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W |
| Anna | $400 | $2,600 | $9,800 |
$8,599
2nd place: $3,000 |
$9,400
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Kathy | $3,800 | $3,800 | $3,800 |
$3,800
3rd place: $2,000 |
$3,800
12 R, 4 W |
| CRIME HISTORY | A NOVEL INTRODUCTION | STOCK TICKER TALK | TSA YEA OR NAY | BIG BANDS | MOMENT OF "ZEN" |
|
$200
[10]
At the start of his crimes, this notorious serial killer was known as the Whitechapel Murderer
Jack the Ripper
Kathy
|
$200
[2]
"You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter"
Huckleberry Finn
Kathy
|
$200
[26]
SBUX: It makes a lot of money but may occasionally find it challenging to spell your name correctly
Starbucks
Anna
|
$200
[11]
Nay! Under no circumstances may you bring sticks of this Nobel explosive on a plane
dynamite
Anna
|
$200
[16]
Large groups like The Soul Rebels & Rebirth are this type of band, named for an instrument family
a brass band
Isaac
|
$200
[21]
Toss off the cough with one of these medicinal tablets
a lozenge
Anna
|
|
$400
[9]
In 2009 Jon Stewart nicknamed this financial fraud man "Arthur Ponzarelli"
Madoff
Anna
|
$400
[3]
Going full Hunter S. Thompson: "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold"
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Isaac
|
$400
[27]
This provider of Charlie Banana baby diapers is rated PG
Procter & Gamble
Isaac
|
$400
[12]
Yea! You can carry on your ball for this sport, but the pins have to go in your checked bag
bowling
Kathy
|
$400
[17]
In 2009 Bruce Springsteen told Rolling Stone that his "deepest friendships" are with the members of this band
the E Street Band
Kathy
|
$400
[22]
Shameless, or made of an alloy of copper & zinc
brazen
Isaac
|
|
$600
[8]
In 1950, over $2.5 million was stolen in a Boston robbery from this security firm, making it the largest such theft up to that time
Brink's
Anna
|
$600
[1]
Ralph Ellison puts this title right out there with "I am an..."
Invisible Man
Kathy
|
$600
[28]
In May 2024 its BRK-A was going for $620,109 per share
Berkshire Hathaway
Isaac
|
$600
[13]
Carry Nation carried these short-handled axes, but you can't, at least not in your carry-on
a hatchet
Kathy
|
$600
[18]
The membership of this band has shifted over the years, but currently includes Black Thought, Questlove & Tuba Gooding Jr.
The Roots
Kathy
|
$600
[23]
This app calls itself "a personal safety network"
Citizen
Isaac
|
|
$800
[7]
Soon after her 1974 kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army, she helped rob a bank
(Patty) Hearst
Kathy
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
This novel opens on a rather bleak note with "Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don't know"
The Stranger
Isaac
|
$800
[29]
Let's dial up this brand, VOD
Vodafone
Isaac
Anna
|
$800
[14]
Nay to this inflatable safety device, so you might as well leave yours in your car
an air bag
Anna
|
$800
[19]
This ska band from Boston with a "Mighty" number of members had a hit with "The Impression That I Get"
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Isaac
|
$800
[24]
Widmer Brothers offers one of these beers that's made with wheat
a Hefeweizen
Isaac
|
|
$1,000
[6]
In 1922, the last man in Britain to be jailed for this was John William Gott, for comparing Jesus entering Jerusalem to a circus clown
blasphemy
Isaac
Kathy
|
$1,000
[5]
Sylvia Plath: "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, & I didn't know what I was doing in" N.Y.
The Bell Jar
Anna
|
$1,000
[30]
AZN is this pharm team
AstraZeneca
Isaac
|
$1,000
[15]
Warning! While you may check firearms & ammo, certain places, like these islands, TCI for short, prohibit them from coming in
Turks and Caicos
Anna
|
$1,000
[20]
The "Mothership Connection" between Parliament-Funkadelic & the P-Funk All Stars is this man, Doctor Funkenstein himself
George Clinton
Isaac
Kathy
|
$1,000
[25]
Ronald Colman was a "Prisoner of" this 1937 film title locale
Zenda
Anna
|
| ANCIENT CONTEMPORARIES | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | THE HUMAN BODY | A SHAPELY CATEGORY | SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE'S SEQUEL | 11-LETTER WORDS |
|
$400
[22]
Legend says when this mighty ruler offered to grant any request, Diogenes' reply was basically, move, you're blocking my light
Alexander the Great
Isaac
|
$400
[24]
The Casa Rosadapresidential palace overlooks the Plaza de Mayo in this Argentine city
Buenos Aires
Isaac
|
$400
[29]
The renal pyramids are sections of tissue found in these organs
the kidneys
Isaac
|
$400
[26]
This room installed under President Taft was inspired by a similar one in George Washington's house in Philadelphia
the Oval Office
Isaac
|
$400
[30]
The film of "A Raisin in the Sun" sounds like it could be the sequel to this 1940 film starring Henry Fonda
The Grapes of Wrath
Isaac
|
$400
[9]
In 1963 it was said that this phenomenon "sets girls screaming" & "impels boys to cultivate mushroom-style hair"
Beatlemania
Anna
|
|
$800
[23]
This governor of Judea is said to have killed himself at the order of his new emperor, Caligula
Pilate
Anna
Kathy
|
$800
[25]
On the site from which its nation's monarchs have ruled for years, Christiansborg Palaceis in this European capital
Copenhagen
Kathy
|
$800
[28]
Below thediaphragmis this organ that filters out worn red blood cells & is the largest single mass of lymphatic tissue in the body
the spleen
|
$800
[27]
Now part of Nestlé, this pet food brand is headquartered at Checkerboard Square in St. Louis, on a campus with 3 dog parks
Purina
|
$800
[4]
Though the titles imply causality, "Knives Out" didn't cause this 2007 film about turn-of-the-century oil prospecting
There Will Be Blood
Isaac
|
$800
[10]
From the Latin for "strengthened", it means to back up another person's account of events
corroborate
Kathy
|
|
$1,600
[20]
The historian Herodotus is thought to have met this "Antigone" author in Athens
Sophocles
Isaac
Anna
|
$1,200
[5]
The mainly Chinese tourists in this East Asian capital can see the People's Palace of Culture & the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery
Pyongyang, North Korea
Isaac
Kathy
|
$1,200
[16]
Running side by side in the neck are the internal jugular vein & this artery
the carotid artery
Isaac
|
$1,200
[8]
Karpman's drama triangle describes a dysfunctional trio of roles: mean persecutor, noble rescuer & helpless this one
victim
Anna
|
$1,200
[3]
Sounds plausible, but this 1958 Hitchcock film set in San Francisco is not the sequel to "Wuthering Heights"
Vertigo
Anna
|
$1,200
[11]
Carl's Jr. burgers have been this, cooked on a rack at high heat & maybe even burned a little
charbroiled (chargrilled)
Isaac
|
|
$2,000
[21]
Rabbinical Judaism scholar Akiva Ben Yosef was born just a few years after this Jewish historian but outlived him by 35
Josephus
Kathy
|
$1,600
[6]
Behind the tomb of Mohammed V is the Hassan Tower, the minaret of a grand & never-finished mosque in this North African capital
Rabat
Isaac
|
$1,600
[17]
This fatty sheath that surrounds the axons of some nerves enables the rapid transmission of impulses
the myelin sheath
Isaac
|
$1,600
[14]
The story goes that Southwest Airlines began when Roland King grabbed a napkin & drew atriangleof Dallas, Houston & this city
San Antonio
Isaac
Kathy
|
DD
$2,000
[2]
The animated "Bee Movie" didn't precede this 1973 movie that conned its way into winning 7 Oscars
The Sting
Anna
|
$1,600
[12]
An idealized life story, particularly one of a saint
hagiography
Anna
|
|
DD
$4,000
[19]
Galen was learning medicine in Greece about the time this Egyptian astronomer was writing his "Almagest"
Ptolemy
Isaac
|
$2,000
[7]
After a trip to this city's Kocatepe Mosque, which can hold 24,000 people, maybe stop at the Byzantine Citadel
Ankara
|
$2,000
[18]
From the Latin word for "wool", it's a layer of fine hair that covers a fetus & some newborns
lanugo
|
$2,000
[15]
The numbers in any direction total the same number in the arrangement called this
a magic square (a magic triangle)
Isaac
|
$2,000
[1]
A 1985 dystopian film with a country as its title was not a prequel to this 1978 film with Gregory Peck as Josef Mengele
The Boys from Brazil
|
$2,000
[13]
This word for a spineless person comes from the last name of Caspar in the comic "The Timid Soul"
milquetoast
Isaac
|
In one story he is enslaved by the Old Man of the Sea & uses apes to pick fruit so he can afford his fare back to Baghdad
Sinbad (the Sailor)