Neilesh Vinjamuri game 3.
Tim Herd — a Ph.D. student originally from Detroit, Michigan
Lindsay Denninger — a writer from Smithtown, New York
Neilesh Vinjamuri — a software engineer from Lionville, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $41,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neilesh | $4,000 | $6,600 | $19,000 |
$11,999
3-day champion: $53,099 |
$19,000
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Lindsay | $2,200 | $9,600 | $13,000 |
$5,000
2nd place: $3,000 |
$11,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Tim | $-1,600 | $-3,600 | $-2,400 |
$-2,400
3rd place: $2,000 |
$-2,400
1 R, 5 W |
| FLAVORS | ALSO A BIRD | SPRING IN YOUR STEP | SUMMER READING | TAKING A FALL | THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT |
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$200
[1]
For decades Pop-Tarts' No. 1 bestselling flavor has been frosted this fruit
strawberry
Neilesh
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$200
[4]
Pharoah or Leno
Jay
Neilesh
Lindsay
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$200
[27]
An order from Gimbels department store helped elevate sales of these sticks, a 1920s fad
pogo sticks
Neilesh
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$200
[28]
This 1973 Lois Duncan thriller was turned into a 1997 slasher film with Jennifer Love Hewitt
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Lindsay
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$200
[7]
In 2024 he stepped into some Majors shoes as stunt man Colt Seavers in "The Fall Guy"
Ryan Gosling
Lindsay
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$200
[23]
Not learning from history & bewaring some ides, King Odoacer of Italy went to a banquet he would not survive on this date in 493
March 15th
Lindsay
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$400
[2]
Traditionally, marzipan gets its unique flavor from these nuts & is often enhanced with the extract
almond
Lindsay
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$400
[26]
A jolly escapade, or a prank
a lark
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$400
[14]
A nursery rhyme concerns nimble, quick Jack & this feat of his
jump over the candlestick
Neilesh
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$600
[12]
Cousins Beach is the setting for "The Summer" I did this, the basis for an Amazon Prime series
The Summer I Turned Pretty
Lindsay
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$400
[30]
This "Commando" actor, holding a guy by his leg over a cliff: "Remember... when I promised to kill you last?" (lets go) "I lied"
Schwarzenegger
Lindsay
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$400
[8]
In Feb. 62 A.D. this city & Herculaneum were hit by a big earthquake, but that was nothing compared to what was coming up 17 years later
Pompeii
Neilesh
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$600
[10]
Calbee makes Japanese snacks, including Kappa Ebisen crackers, flavored with this shellfish, the ebi
shrimp
Lindsay
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$600
[25]
Any New Zealander
Kiwi
Neilesh
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$600
[5]
The reptile Phrynocephalus guttatus can jump 8 inches, so a group would qualify for this Little Orphan Annie catchphrase
leapin' lizards!
Lindsay
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$800
[20]
R.L. Stine takes a stab at the bard with his horror tale called "A Midsummer Night's" this
Scream
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$600
[24]
On "SNL", Chevy Chase took many clumsy pratfalls while playing this president who, ironically, was a great athlete
Gerald Ford
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$600
[9]
James Clark was brutally killed in a garage at 2122 North Clark with other Bugs Moran gang members in 1929 on this date
the 14th of February
Neilesh
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$800
[15]
Cinnamon, cardamom & ginger are the predominant flavors in this type of tea, Hindi for "tea"
chai
Lindsay
Tim
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$800
[11]
A poke in the buttocks
goose
Tim
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$800
[13]
Call it puma, cougar or by this 2-word name, it has a 40-foot horizontal & 20-foot vertical leap
mountain lion
Neilesh
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$1,000
[3]
"Farewell Summer" was this sci-fi author's 2006 sequel to "Dandelion Wine", written almost 50 years before
Ray Bradbury
Neilesh
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$800
[6]
This cop falls down the stairs with--& breaks the neck of--a terrorist, but it's still gonna be a long night for him at Nakatomi Plaza
John McClane
Neilesh
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$800
[17]
After dealing with dysentery & disease-bearing mosquitoes the year before, this Virginia colony was decimated by a fire in January 1608
Jamestown
Neilesh
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$1,000
[22]
Used in a variety of confections, these seeds are usually described as having a licorice flavor
anise
Lindsay
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$1,000
[21]
Type of number like 1 or 7
cardinal
Tim
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$1,000
[19]
There's bouncing & leaping aplenty in "Alegría", called this troupe's most iconic show
Cirque du Soleil
Lindsay
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DD
$4,600
[29]
The nonfiction "The Boys of Summer", about the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s, mentions this ballpark in the subtitle
Ebbets Field
Lindsay
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$1,000
[18]
Here's this silent movie star, taking a fall as only he could
Buster Keaton
Tim
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$1,000
[16]
In Dec. 1894 this French captain was convicted of selling military secrets to Germany but after an uproar, got a pardon 5 years later
Dreyfus
Neilesh
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| U.S. AREAS & TERRITORIES | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME | TIME FOR SCIENCE | THE ROARING '20s | WRITER-DIRECTORS | DROP IN |
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$400
[1]
The flag of the Northern Mariana Islands features a latte stone surrounded by a Carolinian mwáár, this floral garland
a lei
Lindsay
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$400
[17]
Oceanus & Thea are among these gods who are the children of primordial earth & heaven
Titan
Neilesh
Tim
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$400
[12]
Telescopes can be reflectors, which use mirrors to focus light, or these, which use lenses
refractors
Neilesh
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$400
[15]
In 1921, in Atlantic City, 16-year-old Margaret Gormanbecame the first woman to win this national beauty title
Miss America
Neilesh
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$400
[14]
Quentin Tarantino wrote dialogue for this Denzel-Hackman submarine movie; the Silver Surfer art argument scene, just maybe
Crimson Tide
Lindsay
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$400
[7]
Drop "in" from the end of a synonym for start & get this verb that goes with "borrow or steal"
beg (from begin)
Lindsay
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$800
[18]
Though theolive branch does rep peace, the arrowsof this Antillean territory are for its three large land masses
the U.S. Virgin Islands
Neilesh
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$800
[16]
Using his chops on the lyre to charm this canine guard of Hades, Orpheus was able to enter & attempt to rescue Eurydice
Cerberus
Neilesh
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$800
[13]
Carbon atoms can form 4 of these with other atoms; in carbene molecules, they form just 2
bonds
Lindsay
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$800
[9]
By 1920 bobbed hair was becoming a big thing, so much so that he wrote the short story "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
Fitzgerald
Neilesh
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$800
[2]
JCR (John C. Reilly) & PSH (Philip Seymour Hoffman) had associations with PTA (this director) going back to "Hard Eight"
Paul Thomas Anderson
Lindsay
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$800
[6]
Steal "in" from a Hood who stole to get this synonym for steal
rob (from Robin)
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$1,200
[19]
The Latin phrase "Joannes est nomen ejus", meaning "Juan is its name", is on this commonwealth's seal
Puerto Rico
Lindsay
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$1,600
[10]
With a little help from Apollo during the Trojan War, this prince shot an arrow into Achilles' heel, killing him
Paris
Neilesh
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$1,200
[24]
The dynamo theory says that movement of liquid iron in Earth's core creates this protective blanket around the planet
magnetic field
Neilesh
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$1,200
[29]
Named for a city, this dance swept the nation
the Charleston
Lindsay
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$1,200
[5]
Everything about this sci-fi epic that Francis Ford Coppola began writing in 1983 & premiered at Cannes in 2024 is big
Megalopolis
Lindsay
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$1,200
[3]
A word meaning added together subtracts its "in" to get this word for what you did to your hair
combed (from combined)
Lindsay
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$1,600
[22]
Despite the name, these birds aren't dumb--the masked & brown types make their homes on Johnston Atoll, a Nat. Wildlife Refuge
boobies
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$2,000
[11]
A skilled yet boastful artisan, she was transformed into a spider after challenging Athena to a weaving contest
Arachne
Lindsay
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$1,600
[25]
Most elements exist in multiple forms called these; beyond No. 83 on the periodic table, there are no stable ones
isotope
Neilesh
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$1,600
[20]
This "saintly" resort town in the Alps hosted 25 countries for the 1928 Winter Olympics
St. Moritz
Neilesh
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$1,600
[4]
The TV series "Queen Sugar" is from this auteur who also directed "Selma"
Ava DuVernay
Tim
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$1,600
[27]
Lose "in" from a small statuette to get this shape of the human body
figure (from figurine)
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$2,000
[23]
Swains Island, part of this territory south of the equator, was claimed by Eli Jennings in 1856 & has remained in the family since
American Samoa
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DD
$3,000
[8]
This name applied to a sea monster with 12 feet & 6 heads, each head containing 3 rows of sharklike teeth, or just a rock
Scylla
Lindsay
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$2,000
[26]
Early electronics used bulky vacuum tubes; beginning in the late 1940s, these compact successors made things portable
transistor
Neilesh
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$2,000
[30]
In 1926 this L.A. evangelist was the subject of a scandal when she disappeared for a month & claimed to have been kidnapped
Aimee Semple McPherson
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$2,000
[21]
TV's "Sense8", which followed 8 psychically connected people, was from the "Matrix" siblings with this last name
Wachowski
Neilesh
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DD
$2,000
[28]
Kick both "in"s out of a 2-word principal route of a railroad to get this gendered 4-letter word
male (from main line)
Neilesh
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Known for a fabled event of 1881, it housed an auto repair shop after the disappearance of the horse & buggy
the O.K. Corral