First game of Season 41.
Amanda White — a strategy consultant from Seattle, Washington
Adam Reiffen — a naval officer from San Diego, California
Rachel Bradley — an ESL instructor from Greenbelt, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,597)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rachel | $1,200 | $2,800 | $8,000 |
$5,398
2nd place: $3,000 |
$8,000
15 R, 4 W |
| Adam | $2,200 | $4,800 | $10,600 |
$16,001
New champion: $16,001 |
$9,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Amanda | $-800 | $800 | $4,000 |
$0
3rd place: $2,000 |
$5,400
10 R, 7 W (including 2 DDs) |
| LET'S HIT HIGHWAY 101 | POP GOES THE CULTURE | ALSO KNOWN AS | GOING TO PLANETARY EXTREMES | PARENTING | "MOM" & "DAD" |
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$200
[26]
A Civil War fortress & the Bay Area Discovery Museum are on either side of this landmark with a main span of 4,200' that carries the 101
Golden Gate Bridge
Amanda
|
$200
[21]
Tawny Newsome got animated & boldly went on the "Lower Decks" of this long-running sci-fi franchise as Beckett Mariner
Star Trek
Rachel
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$200
[28]
The pound sign or octothorpe on your socials
a hashtag
Rachel
|
$200
[30]
It's got the strongest gravity of any planet, nearly 2 1/2 times ours
Jupiter
Adam
|
$200
[22]
Early February brings the world day for parents to do this, a bonding & cognitive benefit, so yes, Berenstain Bears one more time
reading books to their kids
Adam
|
$200
[27]
It's defined as an embarrassing, unoriginal attempt at humor--wanna hear one?
a dad joke
Adam
|
|
$400
[25]
Just off the 101 is this filmmaking theme park, where tourists saw George the fisherman become shark food from 1976 to 2001
Universal Studios
Adam
|
$400
[19]
There's a fungus among us, & as Ellie, Bella Ramsey has to deal with it in many, many horrific ways on this HBO drama
The Last of Us
Rachel
|
$400
[20]
Rapper Shawn Carter
Jay-Z
Amanda
|
$400
[1]
The greenhouse effect, not just proximity to the sun, makes it the hottest of the planets
Venus
Rachel
|
$400
[3]
Let grandparents do this with candy & late nights--it's part of their role & face it, they won't--someday they--you know what I mean
spoiling
Rachel
Adam
|
$400
[14]
Merriam-Webster defines this as "a typically suburban mother who accompanies her children to their...games"
a soccer mom
Amanda
|
|
$600
[7]
An hour north of Eureka, a different drive-through awaits you in Klamath near the national park named for this large type of tree
Redwood
Amanda
|
$600
[17]
An escaped convict named Stagg R. Leigh writes "My Pafology" (or does he?) in this 2023 Jeffrey Wright film
American Fiction
Adam
|
$600
[2]
Myanmar
Burma
Adam
|
$600
[12]
It not only has an odd axis of rotation, it's also the coldest planet, with temps approaching -400 Fahrenheit
Uranus
Rachel
Adam
Amanda
|
$600
[4]
Is this OK in front of your kids? Ali Wentworth & Heidi Klum have publicly said it is for them & theirs
nudity (being naked in front of the kids)
Adam
Amanda
|
$600
[15]
This paternal name for a rich benefactor comes from "Little Orphan Annie"
Daddy Warbucks
Rachel
Amanda
|
|
DD
$1,000
[8]
Knowing this state capital is at the south end of Puget Sound is geography 101
Olympia
Amanda
|
$800
[16]
In this 1998 film Jane Kaczmarek was Tobey Maguire's mom in color; Joan Allen was his mom in black & white
Pleasantville
Rachel
|
$800
[10]
The court security officer
the bailiff
Adam
|
$800
[13]
Mostly hydrogen & helium, it has the lowest average density of any planet in the solar system & would float in a really big tub
Saturn
Rachel
Adam
|
$800
[5]
Resource family is now the term in California for these "parents" who take in kids often en route to adoption
foster parents
Adam
|
$800
[23]
Cripes! It's time to scram! To beat it! To do this, originally Civil War-era slang for retreating in haste
skedaddle
|
|
$1,000
[9]
Hop off the 101 onto the Pacific Coast Highway to see this landmark owned by a newspaper biz giant; it even had its own airport, built in the 1920s
Hearst Castle
Rachel
|
$1,000
[18]
He took us to church & No. 2 on the Hot 100 in 2014, & in 2024, this one-named Irish singer went one slot higher with "Too Sweet"
Hozier
Adam
|
$1,000
[11]
Conqueror Timur
Tamerlane
Rachel
|
$1,000
[29]
It has the most eccentric orbit of any planet, varying between 29 million & 43 million miles
Mercury
|
$1,000
[6]
Some airports & other spaces have installed Pluie, a self-sanitizing type of this often desperately needed furniture item
a changing table
Amanda
|
$1,000
[24]
Thisspice of the ginger family is popular in Indian food
cardamom
Amanda
|
| HISTORIC GROUPS OF 3 | FROM THE ITALIAN | "HY" FIVE | LITERARY BIOGRAPHY | CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS | SONGS FOR THE YOUNG & OLD |
|
$400
[30]
On Columbus' first transatlantic voyage, this ship in the fleet of 3 made it to the New World, but not back to the old
the Santa Maria
Adam
|
$400
[23]
This term for an elaborate melody sung solo means "air" in Italian
aria
Rachel
|
$400
[21]
Pluots & limequats are this type of fruit, created by crossing different plant species
hybrids
Rachel
|
$400
[29]
Kay Redfield Jamison focuses on this disorder in her book on Robert Lowell, who said, "I write my best poetry when I'm manic"
bipolar disorder
Rachel
|
$400
[20]
Boston's oldest surviving house of worship, Christ Church was built in 1723 & is also called this
the Old North Church
Adam
|
$400
[18]
The lyric "I hope I die before I get old" is from their song "My Generation"
The Who
Amanda
|
|
$800
[1]
Formed in 43 B.C., the Second Roman Triumvirate was made up of Marcus Lepidus, Mark Antony & this future emperor
Augustus (Octavian)
Adam
Amanda
|
DD
$400
[6]
Medieval astrologers thought this, caused by mutating viral strains, was connected to the effect of the stars
influenza
Amanda
|
$800
[7]
In other words, a theory, conjecture, supposition
a hypothesis
Adam
|
$800
[11]
Robert Gittings' bio makes much of this "Return of the Native" author's relations with Tryphena Sparks, a good heroine name
Thomas Hardy
Rachel
|
$800
[19]
This house of worship in Venice was built in the 9th century to house the remains of its namesake
St. Mark's
Adam
|
$800
[17]
At the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, Nina Simone performed the song titled "To Be Young" & these 2 things
Gifted & Black
|
|
$1,200
[2]
As Lenin faded from power, this man formed a troika with Zinoviev & Kamenev & you'll never guess what he later did to Zin & Kam
Stalin
Adam
|
$800
[4]
Now used to reply "the same", this 5-letter word once came before a machine that made copies
ditto
Adam
Amanda
|
$1,200
[8]
Named for a mythological youth, they're the colorful & fragrant flower seen here
hyacinths
Rachel
|
$1,200
[12]
His greatest work is about a 60-or-so-mile trek to Canterbury, but him: "A European Life" sees him in France, Italy & Spain
Chaucer
Adam
|
$1,200
[22]
This Moscow cathedral was commissioned by Ivan the Terrible to celebrate victories over Kazan & Astrakhan
St. Basil's
Adam
|
$1,200
[15]
Billy Joel said that this song of his "wasn't so much anti-Catholic as pro-lust"
"Only The Good Die Young"
Adam
|
|
$2,000
[25]
3 countries were involved in the 1879-1883 War of the Pacific & this nation lost its access to that ocean as a result
Bolivia
Adam
|
$1,200
[5]
Known to vodka drinkers, this word meaning "fine view" in Italian refers to a building that gazes out on lovely scenery
belvedere
Amanda
|
$1,600
[9]
Illness anxiety disorder is now the preferred term for this
hypochondria
Rachel
Amanda
|
$1,600
[13]
Her affair with a niece of Napoleon III is one of the "Secrets of the Flesh" in a bio of this French author who went by 1 name
Colette
|
$1,600
[26]
Partly by the effort of the memorably named Cardinal Sin, Manila Cathedral was elevated to Basilica of this doctrine of Mary's purity
Immaculate Conception
|
$1,600
[14]
This2024 Coachella headliner's "Young And Beautiful" appeared on the soundtrack for "The Great Gatsby"
Lana Del Rey
Rachel
|
|
DD
$3,000
[3]
The clergy, the nobility & the people were France's 3 of these representative divisions before the Revolution
the estates
Adam
|
$2,000
[24]
When the pope dies, this cardinal, treasurer of the Holy See, oversees the election of the new pope
the camerlengo
|
$2,000
[10]
A rapid, massive increase in prices; Hungary had a bad case of it following WWII with prices doubling & tripling daily
hyperinflation
Amanda
|
$2,000
[28]
"Divine Invasions" is a good title for a bio of this man if not quite up to his own classic titles like "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said"
Philip K. Dick
|
$2,000
[27]
Built during Charlemagne's reign, the Palatine Chapel of this German city's cathedral was completed in time for his 814 burial
Aachen
Rachel
|
$2,000
[16]
"New Person, Same Old Mistakes" by this music project that's basically just Kevin Parker was covered by Rihanna
Tame Impala
|
Before her death in 2022, she pledged her collection of more than 200 pins to the National Museum of American Diplomacy
(Madeleine) Albright