Isaac Hirsch game 10.
Erika Stromerson — an entry writer and grad student from Woodinville, Washington
Jay Fisher — a government relations manager from Lisle, Illinois
Isaac Hirsch — a customer support team lead from Burbank, California (whose 9-day cash winnings total $215,390)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isaac | $800 | $400 | $15,300 |
$1,300
2nd place: $3,000 |
$23,400
25 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Jay | $6,000 | $7,800 | $16,200 |
$1,799
New champion: $1,799 |
$16,200
19 R, 0 W |
| Erika | $-600 | $600 | $600 |
$600
3rd place: $2,000 |
$600
9 R, 8 W |
| DISTRACTIONS | AMERICAN HISTORY | GILLS, GILLS, GILLS | CLASSIC TELEVISION | ON THE GO | FROM SCREEN TO STAGE |
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$200
[30]
Staring upward is a pastime approved by Gavin Pretor-Pinney, author of these "That Look Like Things" (dolphins, Alfred Hitchcock...)
clouds
Isaac
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$200
[26]
This marketplace for securities & other investments was formally constituted in the Big Apple in 1817
the New York Stock Exchange
Isaac
Jay
Erika
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$200
[28]
The branchial hearts, 2 of the 3 in an octopus, pump blood through its gills, where this is released & oxygen is absorbed
carbon dioxide
Isaac
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$200
[27]
Will Smith lived with his aunt & uncle in a posh home on St. Cloud Road in this title place
Bel-Air
Erika
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$200
[19]
For 2024 this company rolled out a special 40th anniversary edition of its Jetta GLI
Volkswagen
Isaac
|
$200
[29]
From Latin for "to write", it's to write or draw quickly & carelessly
to scribble
Isaac
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$400
[7]
Spell Tower & Word Brain are online games akin to this one with cubes & hourglass that Peggy Hill mastered
Boggle
Isaac
|
$400
[2]
One of the wealthiest widows in the colonies when she remarried, she was called "Patsy" by her new hubby George
Martha Washington
Isaac
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$400
[22]
When you pull a leg off this crustacean to eat, the fuzzy gray part is the gill; it has several pairs & yes, I'll have it Thermidor
a lobster
Erika
|
$400
[9]
1964 saw the premieres of both "The Addams Family" & this show also named for its fiendish-sounding family
The Munsters
Isaac
Erika
|
$400
[13]
Coco taxisas well as old classic cars are popular ways to get around this Caribbean nation
Cuba
Jay
|
$400
[18]
2-word term for a legal authorization to inspect a premises
a search warrant
Erika
|
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$600
[5]
Painful memories can hamper you--beware these such as your childhood bully's cologne, APA-defined as stimuli that elicit reactions
triggers
Isaac
Erika
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$600
[1]
1649's Toleration Act passed by this colony's assembly was designed to ensure Catholics & Protestants could freely worship there
Maryland
Isaac
Jay
Erika
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$600
[23]
Using all its tools, the scalloped type of this shark suppresses gill use during dives & can hold its breath for about an hour
a hammerhead shark
Isaac
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$600
[10]
This show about the Korean War won only one Emmy as Best Comedy Series
M*A*S*H
Jay
|
$600
[14]
By the end of the 1930s, this company named for its founder had a fleet of more than 50 trucks to rent out
Ryder
Jay
Erika
|
$600
[17]
There's a flock animal in this adjective meaning showing embarrassment
sheepish
Jay
Erika
|
|
$800
[6]
Sorry son, missed your soccer tournament playing L4D2, this Deep South-set horror video game
Left 4 Dead 2
Erika
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$800
[3]
Using an innovative boring technique in 1859, Edwin Drake had the first successful one of these & soon the boom was on
an oil well
Isaac
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$1,000
[25]
From Greek & Latin for "naked gills", then udibranch, better known by this alliterative name, has gills on its back
a sea slug
Erika
|
$800
[11]
Beginning in 1978 Bill Bixby took no shirt after getting angry on this show
The Incredible Hulk
Jay
|
$800
[15]
Now more of a tourist novelty, reindeer sledding used to be common transportation for this 4-letter people of Lapland
the Sami
Erika
|
$800
[20]
As a verb, it means to make an extravagant purchase, perhaps leading to accusations of squandering
splurge
Isaac
|
|
$1,000
[8]
Sorry son, missed your video game tournament watching Euro 2024 soccer from this city's 1936 Olympiastadion
Berlin
Jay
|
$1,000
[4]
It's the CT in the WCTU, long headed by Frances Willard, but even drunk atheists admire Fran's push for voting rights & an 8-hour workday
Christian Temperance
Jay
|
DD
$3,000
[24]
Gills aren't part of the name of these fish, subclass Dipnoi, but they actually have them & use them
lungfish
Isaac
|
$1,000
[12]
A footnote to history: magician Fred Kaps followed The Beatles on his Feb. 9, 1964 show; Fred really had to make magic happen!
Ed Sullivan
Jay
|
$1,000
[16]
Jennifer Aniston & Penélope Cruz have both been brand ambassadors for this luxury airline out of Dubai
Air Emirates
Isaac
|
$1,000
[21]
Abrupt or disconnected, like a music performance style
staccato
Jay
|
| DISS-TRACK-TIONS | BRITISH AUTHORS | TRIAL BY JURY | LEFTOVERS | NATIONAL FLAGS | STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS |
|
$400
[30]
In 2022 the Game released a 10-minute diss directed at this rapper also known as Slim Shady
Eminem
Isaac
|
$400
[26]
Better known for her mysteries, she wrote a handful of romance novels under the name Mary Westmacott
Agatha Christie
Jay
|
$400
[28]
In 2011 a California jury convicted Dr. Conrad Murray of involuntary manslaughter in the drug-induced death of this singer
Michael Jackson
Isaac
|
$400
[5]
The Heimlich isn't medicine's only one of these; if you have tachycardia, the doctor may ask you to perform the Valsalva one
a maneuver
Isaac
|
$400
[20]
The national flag of Sri Lanka features 4 bo leaves & a lion wielding one of these weapons
a sword
Jay
|
$400
[21]
The sunny south beat the frozen north when the Hurricanes defeated this Edmonton team in the 2006 Stanley Cup Finals
the Oilers
Erika
|
|
$800
[29]
In May 2024 these 2 competitors went back & forth with tracks like "Family Matters" & "Meet The Grahams"
Kendrick Lamar & Drake
Isaac
|
$1,200
[2]
This "Brave New World" author was the grand-nephew of poet & critic Matthew Arnold
Huxley
Isaac
|
$800
[27]
In 2021 a Hennepin County jury convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin on 3 counts related to the death of this man
George Floyd
Jay
|
$800
[19]
"Neither shall thou mar the corners of" this, the Lord told Moses; that's why Eastern Orthodox priests so often have one
beard
|
$800
[18]
The eagle that appears on Albania's flag has this unnatural distinction
it has two heads
Jay
|
$800
[22]
Its atomic number is 99 & its name honors one of the most famous scientists ever
einsteinium
Erika
|
|
$1,200
[4]
On "Hit 'Em Up" this rapper dissed Biggie Smalls & repped the "Westside"
Tupac
Erika
|
$1,600
[1]
C.S. Lewis was Clive Staples; this "Hornblower" author was Cecil Scott
C.S. Forester
|
$1,200
[8]
It took some 200 potential jurors to fill 12 seats in the case brought against Donald Trump by this Manhattan D.A.
Bragg
Jay
|
$1,200
[13]
One reason rockers switch out guitars onstage is this is different for some songs, such as 1/2 step down from the standard E-A-D-G-B-E
tuning
Isaac
Erika
|
$1,200
[16]
Flags depicting a map of the nation itself include this Balkan country that broke away from Serbia in 2008
Kosovo
Isaac
|
$1,200
[23]
2-word term for the beat of Milton's "Paradise Lost"
iambic pentameter
Jay
Erika
|
|
$1,600
[6]
Cam'ron went in on this N.Y. rapper & even titled his diss "Curtis", his rival's government name
50 Cent
Isaac
|
$2,000
[3]
This "Brideshead Revisited" author passed away on Easter Sunday in 1966, soon after returning home from mass
Waugh
Isaac
|
$1,600
[9]
"The jury has spoken... you can't lie to shareholders", said a prosecutor who helped convict this Texas energy company's execs
Enron
Jay
|
$1,600
[14]
In the mid-1800s Peru brought in 100,000 Chinese laborers, many mining for this fertilizer with a name from Quechua
guano
Isaac
|
DD
$1,500
[12]
Theflagof this Central American nation has an ax, a ship & a motto meaning "I flourish in the shade", but no more Union Jack
Belize
Isaac
|
$1,600
[24]
A wine connoisseur, from the Greek for wine & loving
an oenophile
Isaac
|
|
$2,000
[7]
The title of this hate letter from Nas to Jay-Z that shares its name with an anesthetic drug now means "to insult publicly"
ether
Isaac
|
DD
$5,000
[11]
Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he was named for explorer Amundsen
Roald Dahl
Isaac
|
$2,000
[10]
In 1999 a Michigan jury convicted this doctor & euthanasia advocate of second-degree murder
Kevorkian
Isaac
|
$2,000
[15]
Vilified in history, this king was loved in York; in 1485 he was "piteously slain... to the great heaviness" of that city
Richard III
Isaac
|
$2,000
[17]
Seen here is the flag of this nation on the Black Sea that may have been in use since the 14th century
Georgia
Jay
|
$2,000
[25]
A fairy who marries a mortal is the title character of this Gilbert & Sullivan operetta
Iolanthe
|
He said that California prison psych tests he took were ones he had designed, so he made himself look docile & unlikely to escape; then he did
Dr. Timothy Leary