Neilesh Vinjamuri game 2.
Monica Anderson — a master control operator from Sterling, Virginia
Sean Duffie — a Spanish and civics teacher from Kentwood, Michigan
Neilesh Vinjamuri — a software engineer from Lionville, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neilesh | $5,000 | $9,000 | $26,100 |
$29,100
2-day champion: $41,100 |
$23,400
28 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W |
| Sean | $1,200 | $3,600 | $5,200 |
$2,799
2nd place: $3,000 |
$5,200
10 R, 1 W |
| Monica | $400 | $2,000 | $7,600 |
$2,600
3rd place: $2,000 |
$7,600
12 R, 3 W |
| SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES | STARS WE LOST LAST YEAR | ALL APOLOGIES | STATE HOLIDAYS | MOUTH TO MOUTH | CLASSIC POEMS' ENDINGS |
|
$200
[10]
Calculations by Urbain Le Verrier were integral to the discovery of this ice giant that was observed in 1846
Neptune
Neilesh
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$200
[11]
Yo!Burt Youngplayed Adrian's brother Paulie for the first time in this 1976 film; it would not be the last
Rocky
Neilesh
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$200
[18]
Beg this? Eisenhower generously gave 1,110 of 'em
pardon
Neilesh
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$200
[22]
This state, the home of Betsy Ross, is the only one that celebrates Flag Day as an official legal holiday
Pennsylvania
Monica
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$200
[23]
Idiomatically, something said to come straight from this beastly location is from the most reliable source
the horse's mouth
Sean
|
$200
[1]
"Mighty Casey has struck out"
"Casey at the Bat"
Neilesh
|
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$400
[9]
This German discoverer of the 3 laws of planetary motion also invented a valveless gear pump
Kepler
Neilesh
|
$400
[12]
He was the C in CSNY, whose 1970 album "Déjà Vu" was called "a virtual loyalty oath to the counterculture" by the N.Y. Times
David Crosby
Monica
|
$400
[17]
These, "I've had a few, but then again, too few to mention"; you "send" them when turning down an invitation
regrets
Sean
|
$400
[4]
In 2021 Arizona made August 14 a legal state holiday to honor this tribe's indigenous code talkers from World War II
the Navajo
Sean
|
$400
[24]
The white interior of a water moccasin'smouthgives it this alternate name
a cottonmouth
|
$400
[2]
"I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference"
"The Road Not Taken"
Neilesh
|
|
$600
[6]
British physicist Sir J.J. Thomson discovered this subatomic particle in 1897
electron
Neilesh
|
$600
[13]
Melinda Dillon graced such films as "Close Encounters", "Slap Shot" &, as Mother Parker, this 1983 holiday classic
A Christmas Story
|
$600
[16]
It's "the classic game of sweet revenge"
Sorry!
|
$600
[5]
In 2023 Governor Hochul signed legislation making this Hindu festival of lights a school holiday in New York City
Diwali
Neilesh
|
$600
[25]
This character in "2001: A Space Odyssey" reads the lips of the astronauts, who think they are talking privately
HAL
Monica
|
$600
[3]
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light"
"Do not go gentle into that good night"
Neilesh
|
|
$800
[7]
This Frenchman was practicing medicine without a license when he tried out his rabies vaccine on a boy in 1885
Pasteur
Neilesh
|
$800
[14]
As 2 very different cops, Andre Braugher brought the drama to "Homicide" &, playing Captain Raymond Holt, the funny to this NYC-set sitcom
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Sean
|
$800
[19]
Oh, I "C", this adjective means chastened or penitent
contrite
|
$800
[26]
Iowa honors this president with a special day, the Sunday that falls closest to August 10, his birthday
Hoover
Neilesh
|
$800
[28]
In Jewish folklore, when a sacred word written on paper was placed in the mouth of one of these, the creature would come to life
a golem
Monica
|
$800
[20]
"All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe"
the "Jabberwocky"
Sean
|
|
$1,000
[8]
Astronomer Vera Rubin said, "In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light" this "is about a factor of 10"
matter
Neilesh
|
$1,000
[15]
2 decades after her early fame, from 1984 to 1986 she had 10 Top 40 hits, including "It's Only Love", a duet with Bryan Adams
Tina Turner
|
$1,000
[21]
This 2-word Latin phrase is a formal way to acknowledge fault
mea culpa
Sean
|
$1,000
[27]
April 2 is Pascua Florida Day, celebrating his arrival in what's now Florida
Ponce de León
Neilesh
|
$1,000
[29]
The Shatt al-Arab River in southeastern Iraq is formed where the mouths of these 2 rivers meet at the town of Al-Qurnah
Tigris & Euphrates
Neilesh
|
DD
$1,000
[30]
"Noble six hundred!"
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Neilesh
|
| THAT'S AN EXECUTIVE ORDER | THE II | SONGS FROM THE MOVIE SOUNDTRACK | FOOD HISTORY | WORLD CITIES | 3 "O"s |
|
$400
[26]
President Biden's Oct. 30, 2023 order on the development & use of this noted its "extraordinary potential for both promise and peril"
artificial intelligence
Sean
|
$400
[21]
John Adams II served as an aide to this man, his father, & got to get married at the White House in 1828
John Quincy Adams
Monica
|
$400
[15]
Just 2 of its 4 No. 1s were "If I Can't Have You" & "How Deep Is Your Love"
Saturday Night Fever
Monica
|
$400
[3]
It's not anything space-y but a malted dairy product that gave its name to this candy bar first sold in 1924
Milky Way
Neilesh
Monica
|
$400
[13]
FDR became the first president to fly while in office when he attended a conference in this African city, sweetheart
Casablanca
Monica
|
$400
[8]
Here's an actual one of these at a space center in Houston
Moon rock
Neilesh
|
|
$800
[27]
Lincoln's order of Sept. 3, 1864 gave thanks to General Sherman & his "gallant" troops for their capture of this city
Atlanta
Monica
|
$800
[22]
This guy II knew something about cars, like when he brought the Thunderbird to market
Henry Ford (II)
Neilesh
|
$800
[16]
"I Believe I Can Fly" got things animated in this 1996 film
Space Jam
Sean
|
$800
[4]
Sam Panopoulos gave this name to the pizza he created; it's been called a "Canadian treasure" & "a Polynesian perversion"
a Hawaiian pizza
Sean
|
$800
[12]
Istanbul's European & Asian sides are separated by this strait
Bosporus
Neilesh
|
$800
[9]
These performers can bend over backwards, literally, & twist their bodies in all kinds of unusual ways
contortionist
Neilesh
|
|
$1,200
[28]
During the Korean War, Harry Truman ordered a takeover of the industry making this vital alloy; the Supreme Court said no
steel
Neilesh
|
$1,200
[23]
Shakespeare's play about this king deposed in 1399 was staged in 1601 as part of a feeble rebellion against Queen Elizabeth I
Richard II
Neilesh
|
$1,200
[2]
"Sunflower" by Post Malone & Swae Lee brightened up this 2018 installment in the "Spider-Man" franchise
Into the Spider-Verse
|
$1,200
[5]
This British dessert was first used to liven up some leftover cake with booze; its name also means "something of little significance"
a trifle
Sean
|
$1,600
[11]
The operetta "The Student Prince" is set in this city in southern Germany, site of the country's oldest university
Heidelberg
Neilesh
Monica
|
$1,200
[14]
Seen here in full bloom, it's the state tree of Virginia as well as its state flower
dogwood
Monica
|
|
$2,000
[30]
In 1964 LBJ made this soon-to-be 70-year-old exempt from impending compulsory retirement under federal law
J. Edgar Hoover
|
$1,600
[24]
A 16th century Antwerp artist was a re-Pieter, sometimes known by this name II
Bruegel
Neilesh
|
$1,600
[1]
Curtis Mayfield's "Pusherman" & "Freddie's Dead" are cuts from the uber-cool soundtrack of this 1972 movie
Superfly
Monica
|
$1,600
[6]
Andrew Zimmern's website notes that this portmanteau of a dish goes by the moniker "three-bird roast" in the United Kingdom
the turducken
Monica
|
$2,000
[18]
Addis Ababa was founded by this emperor II in the late 1880s
Menelik
Neilesh
|
$1,600
[19]
The name of a biblical king gives us this adjective meaning "wise"
Solomonic
Sean
Monica
|
|
DD
$2,500
[29]
Martin Van Buren's first order, March 7, 1837, commanded the surgeon general to accompany this ailing man headed home to Tennessee
Andrew Jackson
Neilesh
|
$2,000
[25]
James W. Alexander II was one of the founders of this -ology in which forms like a mug & a donut are equivalent
topology
Neilesh
|
$2,000
[17]
It featured "Kiss" by Prince & The Revolution, & it wasn't "Purple Rain"
Under the Cherry Moon
|
$2,000
[7]
A 1940 ad in the Australian Women's Weekly recommended one teaspoon of this spread "for good health & digestion"
Vegemite
Monica
|
DD
$3,000
[10]
It's France's oldest city & its main seaport
Marseille
Neilesh
|
$2,000
[20]
Mohammed VI became king of it in 1999
Morocco
Neilesh
|
"Love" is within the titles of 3 of his most famous books; a fourth, "The Rainbow", calls love "the flower of life"
(D.H.) Lawrence