Isaac Hirsch game 7.
Liz McKenna — a school administrator from South Plainfield, New Jersey
Robert Voyles — a public librarian originally from Lindenhurst, New York
Isaac Hirsch — a customer support team lead from Burbank, California (whose 6-day cash winnings total $141,388)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isaac | $4,200 | $6,400 | $18,400 |
$20,000
7-day champion: $161,388 |
$18,000
27 R (including 1 DD), 7 W |
| Robert | $400 | $1,000 | $5,800 |
$2,401
2nd place: $3,000 |
$5,800
6 R, 1 W |
| Liz! | $400 | $0 | $1,200 |
$1,098
3rd place: $2,000 |
$2,000
7 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| MORE THAN ONE MEANING | LET'S GO TO THE CONCERT HALL | OCCUPATIONAL POTPOURRI | WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT | 1980s AMATEUR WRESTLING | STATES THAT END IN HAMPSHIRE |
|
$200
[30]
Having light-colored hair & a county carnival
fair
Isaac
|
$200
[29]
It's a rule not to clap at this point during a symphony, but conductor Pierre Monteux called that "artificial restraint"
between movements
Isaac
|
$200
[7]
This protective job has given big brains time to think: Edward Snowden (at a research center), Bill James (a pork & beans cannery)
security guards
|
$200
[22]
Her resume includes governor of Alaska, vice presidential candidate & Bear on "The Masked Singer"
Palin
Isaac
|
$200
[26]
With many Western athletes absent, this country's wrestlers won 12 of 20 Olympic gold medals in 1980
the USSR
Isaac
|
$200
[17]
In 1765 this future capital got its name to show that a boundary dispute with Massachusetts had ended peacefully
Concord
Liz!
|
|
$400
[24]
Rover's retort & an oak's outer edge
bark
Isaac
|
$400
[23]
Don't leave a piano recital too soon--you might miss Prokofiev's showy "Precipitato" as one of these, not on the program
an encore
Liz!
|
$400
[8]
An old line says an unpopular politician "couldn't get elected" to this job, now with the upgraded name animal control officer
dog catcher
Isaac
|
$400
[21]
Japanese-born Mazie Hironobecame a naturalized citizen of this state in 1959 & a senator in 2013
Hawaii
Isaac
|
$400
[25]
At the 1980 NCAA championships, Oregon State's Howard Harris won all 5 of his matches by "fall"--doing this to opponents
pinning them (winning by a pin)
Isaac
|
$400
[28]
Derry, New Hampshire, has a peak named for a longtime resident family, including this first American in space & the fifth to walk on the Moon
Shepard
Isaac
|
|
$600
[15]
A handy kitchen wrap & to prevent the attainment of an end
foil
Isaac
|
$600
[9]
A popular design for concert halls hassloped terraces& is named after this type of area where a certain fruit is grown
a vineyard
Isaac
Robert
|
$600
[4]
In "Middlemarch" wealthy & powerful Mr. Bulstrode has this occupation, also a job in the game Monopoly
banker
Isaac
|
$600
[1]
Condoleezza Rice's successor as Secretary of State, she visited more than 100 countries during her tenure
Hillary Clinton
Isaac
|
$600
[12]
After having his spleen removed, cancer survivor Jeff Blatnick won 1984 Olympic gold in this heavier-than-heavyweight division
super heavyweight
Liz!
|
$600
[16]
The first (& only) U.S. president from New Hampshire, he was also the youngest to serve at the time, age 48 at inauguration
Pierce
Robert
|
|
$800
[20]
A still area in a stream & a group of journalists who agree to share their coverage of an event
a pool
Isaac
|
$1,000
[11]
The first violinist also has this title & gets a handshake from the conductor to show the maestro's respect for the orchestra
the concertmaster
|
$800
[5]
Each the main character of their own 2024 TV series, "Renegade Nell" & Dick Turpin are these robbers of the road in olde England
highwaymen
Isaac
|
$800
[2]
South Carolina's first female governor, she had bigger plans for 2024 but they didn't work out
Haley
Isaac
|
$800
[13]
Led by legendary coach Dan Gable, this school's Hawkeyes won the NCAA wrestling title every year from 1980 through 1986
Iowa
Isaac
|
$800
[27]
In 1934 it got a bit breezy at this N.H. mountain, the highest peak of the White Mountains, with winds clocking in at 231 mph
Mount Washington
Isaac
|
|
$1,000
[18]
To expectorate & to impale
spit
Isaac
Liz!
|
DD
$1,200
[10]
It's a daytime concert, so the program will include accessible stuff for the kids like "Mars, the Bringer of War" from this suite
The Planets
Isaac
|
$1,000
[6]
Smith is the USA's most common occupational surname; second is this, a job that's literally a grind
Miller
Robert
|
$1,000
[3]
In 1941 this congresswoman said, "As a woman I can't go to war, & I refuse to send anyone else"
Jeannette Rankin
Isaac
|
$1,000
[14]
Rick & Scott Steiner were '80s NCAA stars at Michigan before winning 7 WCW titles in this event in which partners touch & take turns
tag team
Liz!
|
$1,000
[19]
It'll be a notch in your belt if you know this town, as always, voted right after midnight on Election Day 1984; Reagan won, 29-1
Dixville Notch, New Hampshire
|
| 19th CENTURY NOVELS | ANIMAL SYNERGY | NO. 1 ALBUMS BY PEOPLE WHO AREN'T TAYLOR SWIFT | HEIR | "B" & "B" | ALPHABETICALLY LAST |
|
$400
[24]
Not-so-small female Laura Dern played Marmee in the 2019 movie version of this novel
Little Women
Isaac
|
$400
[28]
In the Kalahari the drongo bird alerts the "manor" of this burrowing creature to predators
meerkats
Isaac
|
$400
[22]
"The Joker And The Queen", one of several Taylor collaborations with this pal, appeared on his 2021 No. 1 "="
Ed Sheeran
Liz!
|
$400
[15]
Daughter of Felipe, crown princess Leonor is the heir presumptive of this country
Spain
Isaac
|
$400
[21]
Whether preceding "plague" or not, it refers to inflammatory swelling, especially around your unmentionables
bubonic
Liz!
|
$800
[29]
Of the Pentateuch (the first 5 books of the Old Testament)
Numbers
|
|
$1,200
[1]
"Nightmare Alley" is 2 movies set in a traveling carnival; change the L's to get this 1818 novel set in a crumbling mansion
Nightmare Abbey
Isaac
|
$800
[27]
A species of this crustacean, Tubicinella major plants itself on southern right whales
barnacles
Isaac
|
$800
[19]
Taylor's first No. 1, 2008's "Fearless", was knocked out of the top spot by Beyoncé's third, "I Am..." her
Sasha Fierce
Isaac
|
$800
[5]
When he was assassinated in 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the heir to this empire
the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Robert
Liz!
|
$800
[20]
Lynx rufus is the scientific name of this North American creature that can leap up to 10 feet
a bobcat
Robert
|
$1,200
[23]
Of U.S. state capitals (head east)
Trenton, New Jersey
|
|
$1,600
[2]
"I must repair to the roulette-table", ends chapter 1 of this Dostoyevsky tale about a young man with a compulsion
The Gambler
Isaac
|
$1,200
[18]
On the Savannah this big bird can see real good & this equine has a keen nose, so the 2, ebony & ivory, live together in harmony
zebras & ostriches
|
$1,200
[4]
In 2019 Taylor named this ex-Beatle whose many No. 1s include 1982's "Tug of War" as her second biggest influence, after her cats
McCartney
Isaac
Robert
|
$1,200
[6]
The prophet Nathan helped convince this aged biblical king to appoint the son of Bathsheba as heir to the throne
David
Liz!
|
$1,200
[10]
A Christmas story set in Russia tells of one of these, "granny" in Russian, who meets 3 wise men
babushka
Isaac
|
DD
$2,000
[8]
Of the 6 U.S. presidents named James
James K. Polk
Liz!
|
|
DD
$2,000
[7]
Cynical clerk Newman Noggs has the same initials as the hero of this Dickens book he's in
Nicholas Nickleby
Liz!
|
$1,600
[26]
The cattle species of this bird dines on insects that the water buffalo stirs up while it's grazing
egrets
|
$1,600
[16]
Here's a history lesson: Both this Billy Joel song & his "Storm Front" album were No. 1 when Taylor was born Dec. 13, 1989
"We Didn't Start The Fire"
Isaac
|
$1,600
[13]
"Dark" nickname of the heir apparent of English King Edward III, who beat the French in battle at Poitiers in 1356
the Black Prince
|
$1,600
[11]
It's a statistical measure of how likely it is that some event will occur
probability
Isaac
|
$2,000
[9]
Of the body's 206 bones (it makes you cheeky)
zygomatic
|
|
$2,000
[3]
A love rectangle & some science lessons are part of this German author & thinker's "Elective Affinities"
Goethe
|
$2,000
[25]
The Galapagos giant tortoise allows some Darwin's species of this bird to eat parasites off its skin
finches
Isaac
|
$2,000
[17]
Theseemo titans whose four No. 1 albums include "American Beauty/American Psycho", appeared on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)"
Fall Out Boy
Isaac
|
$2,000
[14]
This Byzantine emperor, the 8th to use the name, had no male heir, so he married off his daughter Zoe so she could reign
Constantine VIII
|
$2,000
[12]
This Arabic slang word means "my love" or "my darling"
habibi
Robert
|
— |
Until 1991 this country named for a river had a capital whose name means "lakes" in Portuguese
Nigeria