Phil Gatton — an IT portfolio director and musician from Louisville, Kentucky
Krista Boyd — a legislative fiscal analyst from Saint Paul, Minnesota
Davey Morrison — an actor and screenwriter from Provo, Utah (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,500)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davey! | $2,400 | $2,200 | $13,000 |
$13,512
2-day champion: $29,012 |
$14,000
19 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Krista | $200 | $1,600 | $1,200 |
$2,400
2nd place: $3,000 |
$400
8 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Phil | $-800 | $-800 | $2,000 |
$1,500
3rd place: $2,000 |
$1,200
8 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| FACTS ABOUT WORLD WAR I | THEY COME IN PAIRS | WORDS IN A DICKENS TITLE | PUTTING THE "T" IN TV | SCIENCE: MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH | ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS |
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$200
[29]
To confuse & thwart infiltrators, blind alleys with dead ends & zigzag patterns were used as part of constructing these
trenches
Phil
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$200
[21]
Before these were tiny headphones, the term referred to little shoots of young corn
earbuds
Davey!
Phil
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$200
[5]
To wrench an ankle; ouch!
twist
Phil
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$200
[6]
Emeril Lagasse & Wolfgang Puck have served as judges on this competition that's been cooking since 2006
Top Chef
Krista
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$200
[26]
"How Deep Is" this, asks a song standard--a 2010 estimate says 12,080' mean depth so John Murray in 1888 was pretty close at 12,480'
"The Ocean"
|
$200
[11]
You'll want to use paper called kami that's thinner & often 6 inches square for this craft with a Japanese name
origami
Phil
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$400
[28]
In 1915, British troops landed at Cape Helles near Gallipoli to try to seize this strait whose old name may be an easier get
the Hellespont (the Dardanelles)
|
$400
[22]
A 90-pack--that's 45 pairs!--of these from Bausch & Lomb should keep things clear for awhile
contact lenses
Krista
|
$400
[4]
It's said to have finished off the nosy feline
curiosity
Davey!
|
$400
[7]
From 1993 to 2001, Chuck Norriswas Walker, this
Texas Ranger
Davey!
|
$400
[25]
In the 1860s John Newlands arranged the 56 known these according to a soon-discredited "Law of Octaves"
elements
Davey!
|
$400
[14]
This word for heavy scissors used to cut metal or hair tells you what they do
shears
Davey!
|
|
$600
[12]
British soldiers during the war were called Tommies & U.S. soldiers were called by this "flour"-y name
Doughboys
Phil
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$600
[13]
Before cellphones, every kid wanted a pair of these rhyming handheld communication devices
walkie talkies
Davey!
|
$800
[1]
As a verb it can mean to sing joyously, perhaps at holiday time
carol
Davey!
|
$600
[8]
Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa & Po were the big 4 on this BBC kids' show that opened with a creepy baby face in the rising sun
Teletubbies
Davey!
|
$600
[18]
At this 7/16/1945 "Site", Fermi's guess on bomb yield was off by half--not bad for tossing paper in the air as the blast wave came
the Trinity Site
|
$600
[15]
Slate & marble are types of this rock, formed in most cases when its mineral composition changes
metamorphic
Davey!
Phil
|
|
$800
[16]
Allied troops from this Western Hemisphere country stormed Vimy Ridge in 1917; they took it at a cost of nearly 4,000 men
Canada
Davey!
|
$800
[17]
Galileo made a table of probabilities based on a set of 3 of these, but today we more often see them in pairs
dice
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
Type of fund that invests in diversified securities
mutual
Davey!
|
$800
[9]
It preceded "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" in the title of a sci-fi series
Terminator
Davey!
|
$800
[19]
Hipparchus of Bithynia calculated this distance at a bit under 2 million miles; 93 million is more like it
the distance from the Earth to the Sun
Davey!
|
$800
[20]
If you're baking, this alliterative paper will prevent your batter from sticking to the pan
parchment paper
|
|
$1,000
[30]
To halt a German advance during 1914's First Battle of the Marne, 600 of these transports brought 3,000 French troops to the front
taxicabs
|
$1,000
[23]
Up to 7 feet long, the traditional Alaskan type of these are great for walking on deep, dry powder in open country
snowshoes
Krista
|
$1,000
[2]
This type of secret cult religion in the ancient Greco-Roman world offered unique experiences unlike those in the standard faiths
a mystery
Phil
|
$1,000
[10]
Its 8th & last season finale ended with its characters ringing in January 1, 1980
That '70s Show
Phil
|
$1,000
[27]
The "Top 10 Erroneous Results" from Science News include a 2011 finding that these chargeless particles can outrace light
neutrinos
Krista
|
$1,000
[24]
With roots going back to 1649, this Finnish company began making its distinctive orange-handled scissors in 1967
Fiskars
Krista
|
| AMERICAN RIVERS | LITERARY HATERADE | ANAGRAMMED ADJECTIVES | I'M GIVING A PARTY | BY INVITATION ONLY | RECENTLY ONBILLBOARD'S HOT 100 |
|
$400
[20]
Washington State has the White River & the river named "White" this type of fish that's known to run
Salmon
Krista
|
$400
[12]
Nabokov went off on this writer: "I read him... in the early '40s, something about bells... & bulls & I loathed it"
Hemingway
Davey!
|
$400
[15]
Belligerent:ACTIVE MOB
combative
|
$400
[16]
A Rishi Sunakolyte, tycoon Mohamed Mansour gave this U.K. party millions of pounds in 2023
the Tories (Conservatives)
Krista
|
$400
[25]
Invitationsto his 1761 coronation depicted him seated beside his queen in Westminster Abbey & angels flying above them
King George III
Davey!
|
$800
[23]
Britney Spears praised his recent hit "Selfish", but I wouldn't count on seeing the 2 tour together anytime soon
Timberlake
Phil
|
|
$800
[19]
The "Philadelphia Inquirer" once dubbed this stately waterway "the river that made Philadelphia"
the Delaware River
|
$800
[11]
Charles Baudelaire gave this "Candide" author flowers--of evil!--when he called him "the king of nincompoops"
Voltaire
Davey!
Krista
|
$800
[14]
Perplexed:LEWD BEER ID
bewildered
Davey!
|
$800
[24]
In 2023 James Cameron & Lucy Lawless each gave the New Zealand version of this nature-protecting party NZ$50,000
the Green Party
Davey!
|
$800
[26]
Known for cryptic invitations, Apple teased reporters on the event launch of this music device with "hint: it's not a Mac"
an iPod
Davey!
|
$1,600
[21]
Dua Lipa sang, "I come & I go, tell me all the ways you need me, I'm not here for long, catch me or I go" this man
Houdini
|
|
$1,600
[9]
Virginia's largest river is this one that's been dubbed the "Founding River" due to its role in American history
the James River
Krista
Phil
|
$1,200
[2]
Norman Mailer bashed this man's fit, saying, "there is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time"
Tom Wolfe
Krista
|
$1,200
[3]
No need to recycle:BOB DRIED ALGAE
biodegradable
Davey!
|
$1,200
[7]
This ex-NYC mayor gave the Dems big bucks after ending his 2020 campaign & in 2024 got the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Bloomberg
Phil
|
$1,200
[8]
These parties date from 1809 & invitations to dance with & meet the new president are often collectible
inauguration balls
Phil
|
DD
$2,000
[6]
Luke Combs was "kissin' on a blonde in a backyard pool" & let the wild rumpus start with this song, also a kids' book title
"Where The Wild Things Are"
Krista
|
|
DD
$2,000
[1]
The Gila River makes its way from New Mexico to Arizona, meeting this other river at Yuma
the Colorado
Phil
|
$1,600
[10]
Oscar Wilde said there were 2 ways to dislike poetry, 1: just to dislike it. 2: to like this "Rape of the Lock" poet
Pope
Davey!
|
$1,600
[4]
Faultless:CAMEL BICEP
impeccable
Krista
|
$1,600
[17]
Mining company Vedanta has given this current Indian prime minister's BJP Party billions of rupees
Modi
Phil
|
— |
$2,000
[22]
In what must have been a nice week in 2024 for this rapper, "Redrum" & "Née-Nah" were 2 of his 14 tunes on the chart
21 Savage
|
|
$2,000
[18]
A source of hydroelectric power for South Carolina, the Catawba River rises in these mountains to the north
the Blue Ridge Mountains
Davey!
|
$2,000
[13]
W.H. Auden went in on this 19th century Brit, saying that "his wife"--also a poet--"probably didn't care for him very much"
Robert Browning
Davey!
|
$2,000
[5]
Full of wisdom:GLOBAL WEEKEND
knowledgeable
Krista
|
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Adding to her nickname, one legend claimed that earlier in life, she was saved from drowning by family friend Mark Twain
Molly Brown