Isaac Hirsch game 6.
Larry P. Wellington — an entrepreneur from Madison, Mississippi
Alex Pribil — a fundraiser from Orlando, Florida
Isaac Hirsch — a customer support team lead from Burbank, California (whose 5-day cash winnings total $120,187)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isaac | $6,000 | $8,000 | $16,800 |
$21,201
6-day champion: $141,388 |
$16,400
24 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Alex | $200 | $3,200 | $5,600 |
$9,600
3rd place: $2,000 |
$9,600
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Larry | $600 | $1,800 | $10,600 |
$16,801
2nd place: $3,000 |
$10,600
13 R, 2 W |
| ROUGH TIMES IN THE CITY | NATIVE AMERICA | POTPOURRI | BREAD | TV REBOOTS | RHYME TIME |
|
$200
[30]
In 1871 Patrick & Catherine O'Leary owned a cow in this city; a bovine pyromaniac? History is unsure, but the fire was devastating
Chicago
Alex
|
$200
[29]
For Native Americans who lived near water, transportation was often this type of canoe made from a hollowed-out log
a dugout canoe
Larry
|
$200
[22]
The 1792 Apportionment Act gave each state one of these for every 33,000 people; New Hampshire got 4, Virginia 19
a congressional representative
Isaac
|
$200
[24]
If you're eating a falafel sandwich, it's most likely in this pocket bread
pita
Larry
|
$200
[28]
In 2019 Jordan Peele took on the Rod Serling narration duties when he rebooted this anthology series
The Twilight Zone
Isaac
|
$200
[15]
Where a cetacean does some hard time
whale jail
Isaac
|
|
$400
[21]
In 1812 a 7.7 earthquake pretty much destroyed this Venezuelan capital
Caracas
Larry
|
$400
[20]
The Mandan of North Dakota were known for building this type of dwelling, named not for the planet, but for what it was covered in
an earth dwelling (an earth lodge, earth house)
Isaac
|
$400
[19]
This hardware store "is the place" that has more than 5,000 worldwide locations
Ace
Isaac
|
$400
[25]
A starter containing lactic acid bacteria is used to induce fermentation when making this tangy bread
sourdough
Alex
|
$400
[10]
A new fab 5 helps people reboot their wardrobe, style & diet on this Netflix series
Queer Eye
Isaac
Alex
|
$400
[14]
A cutlass or rapier kept in a Honda mid-size sedan
a sword Accord (an Accord sword)
Larry
|
|
$600
[1]
Of death & presidents: Grover Cleveland was "The Hangman of" it & William McKinley was assassinated there
Buffalo
Isaac
|
$600
[4]
Tragically, thousands of Cherokee perished during this forced removal & migration during the 1830s
the Trail of Tears
Isaac
|
$600
[16]
This techno-thriller author's works served as the inspiration for video games like "Splinter Cell" & "Rainbow Six"
Clancy
Isaac
|
$600
[26]
This dark brown bread with a German name is made wholly with unsifted rye flour & has been enjoyed in Central Europe for centuries
pumpernickel
Alex
|
$600
[7]
As if! This film became a TV series; Stacey Dash played Cher's BFF Dionne in both versions
Clueless
Isaac
|
$600
[11]
A top-story room used for storage that stays the same, never changing
a static attic
Alex
|
|
$800
[2]
The Beer Hall Putsch in this city was a 1923 coup attempt that led to Hitler's all-too-brief imprisonment
Munich
Isaac
|
$800
[5]
Of New Mexico's 19 Pueblo tribes, it's one of the largest & the last alphabetically
the Zuni
Isaac
|
$800
[17]
Some of the world's best snorkeling can be found at spots like Sharm El-Sheikh on this colorful sea
the Red Sea
Alex
|
$800
[27]
A cylindrical oven called a tandoor is traditionally used to make this kind of flat leavened bread
naan
Larry
|
$800
[8]
It was still the humans vs. the Cylons when this sci-fi series was rebooted
Battlestar Galactica
Isaac
Larry
|
$800
[12]
King Alaric's stock of chicken bouillon
Goth broth
|
|
DD
$1,400
[3]
On Dec. 14, 1825 the Decembrist revolt in this port city sought to end serfdom; harshly, forcefully, serfdom did not end
St. Petersburg
Isaac
|
$1,000
[6]
Haudenosaunee, meaning "people of the long house", is the preferred name for this confederacy that included the Cayuga & Oneida
the Iroquois Confederacy (Iroquois League)
Isaac
|
$1,000
[18]
A 2016 study found that birds' brains are denser in these nerve cells than the brains of primates are
neurons
|
$1,000
[23]
The name of this grilled bread antipasto topped with chopped tomatoes & herbs comes from Italian for "to toast"
bruschetta
Alex
|
$1,000
[9]
Nowadays it's this woman who evens the odds as "The Equalizer"
Queen Latifah
Larry
|
$1,000
[13]
A white sheep running a gambling den like the Mirage or Sahara
a casino merino
Isaac
|
| AFRICAN ISLANDS | AMERICAN LIT | ENDS IN "GH" | AUTOMAKERS | VISION & VISIONS | WHAT'S THAT MOVIE AGAIN? |
|
$400
[29]
Nosy Be, Malagasy for "big island", is a popular beach destination just off this much bigger island
Madagascar
Alex
|
$400
[10]
This narrator of "The Catcher in the Rye" runs away from Pencey Prep, a phony school in phony Agerstown, Pennsylvania
Holden Caulfield
Larry
|
$400
[18]
In golf it's the area of grass bordering a fairway that's deliberately kept longer than the fairway grass
the rough
Alex
|
$400
[15]
In 1975 this company introduced the Pony, South Korea's first mass-produced car
Hyundai
Isaac
|
$400
[30]
Handel is said to have recalled, "I did think I did see all heaven before me" while composing this oratorio"Hallelujah..."
the Messiah
Isaac
|
$400
[9]
You know, the one where Neo has to disarm a bomb on a bus that's got that lady from "The Blind Side" on it
Speed
Larry
|
|
$800
[28]
Monrovia, Liberia, named for James Monroe, is partly on Bushrod Island, named for this Founding Father's favorite nephew
Washington
|
$800
[7]
This novel begins, "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up"
On the Road
Larry
|
$800
[16]
A sad WWI poem is about a rifleman with his name carved "on the willow-tree" this
a bough
Alex
|
$800
[11]
In 1901, decades before merging with Benz, Daimler sold the first of these cars named for a diplomat's daughter
a Mercedes
Alex
Larry
|
$800
[24]
The optometer has been replaced by the phoropter to check for these 2 opposite conditions aka myopia & hyperopia
nearsightedness & farsightedness
Isaac
|
$800
[8]
That "Taken" guy has a son--stepson?... something like that--who drums along to "All I Want For Christmas Is You"
Love Actually
Alex
|
|
$1,600
[20]
This island & its companion Príncipe are known for their coffee & chocolate due to the islands' fertile volcanic soil
São Tomé
Isaac
|
$1,200
[2]
He wrote "Bartleby, the Scrivener" while living at Arrowhead, his farm in the Berkshires
Melville
Isaac
|
$1,200
[17]
The Bible says, "Every man hath his sword upon" this part of the leg
the thigh
Larry
|
$1,200
[12]
Last name of Enzo, who left Alfa Romeo in 1939 & later started his own racing company
Ferrari
Larry
|
$1,200
[25]
A vision of God as the "light supreme" comes in the part of the "Divine Comedy" with this Italian title
Paradiso
Isaac
Alex
|
$1,200
[1]
I think that "High School Musical" fella smooches all over MJ & what's his face--Jackson Hughes?--plays P.T. Barnum
The Greatest Showman
Isaac
|
|
$2,000
[21]
This nation of around 115 islands in the Indian Ocean was named for a minister of finance under Louis XV
the Seychelles
Isaac
|
$1,600
[3]
"Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be", wrote this poet
Langston Hughes
Isaac
|
DD
$2,000
[26]
Fittingly, since the audience is about to go home, it's the last word spoken by Macbeth
enough
Alex
|
$1,600
[13]
In 1904 he sold his interest in his company, hopefully for a king's "ransom", & then formed the REO Motor Car Co.
(Ransom) Olds
Isaac
|
$1,600
[22]
This journey to seek guidance by a spirit is part of the culture of many native peoples, such as the Plains Cree
a vision quest
Isaac
|
$1,600
[5]
I love that one where Scarface is a cop & Travis Bickle is a thief--I think Batman is in it too?
Heat
Isaac
|
|
DD
$4,400
[19]
The Aswan Museum was founded in 1912 on Elephantine Island in this river
the Nile
Alex
|
$2,000
[4]
The stars guide the narrator of his Gothic poem "Ulalume"
Edgar Allan Poe
|
$2,000
[27]
This verb means to protest vehemently or to vent angry disapproval
to inveigh
|
$2,000
[14]
This French family introduced a 3-wheeled, steam-powered car at the 1889 World's Fair; they're still producing cars
Peugeot
Larry
|
$2,000
[23]
An Amsler grid--stare at the dot, do other areas waver?--can tell you if dry age-related this condition is becoming wet
macular degeneration
Alex
|
$2,000
[6]
Theonewhere Clarice Starling & Bella Swan get their home invaded by that Thirty Seconds to Mars dude, who's rocking cornrows
Panic Room
Larry
|
In his 1999 memoir he wrote, "I had been shot down a short walk's distance from the French-built prison, Hoa Lo"
(Senator John) McCain