Kristen Robinson — a history instructor from Saint Joseph, Michigan
Ben Gagne-Maynard — an education consultant from Madison, Wisconsin
Will Weiss — a technical program manager from Islip, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Will | $2,200 | $4,800 | $13,600 |
$13,600
2-day champion: $27,600 |
$14,400
19 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ben | $600 | $2,000 | $5,000 |
$1,199
2nd place: $3,000 |
$8,800
12 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Kristen | $400 | $2,000 | $4,400 |
$0
3rd place: $2,000 |
$4,400
10 R, 3 W |
| GEOGRAPHY | HOLY SOMETHING! | BOOKS FOR KIDS | NAMES IN THE DICTIONARY | THE ENVIRONMENT | TV RERUNS |
|
$200
[5]
Saying "mount" & adding "yama" to the name of this highest Japanese peak is redundant--"yama" means mountain
Mt. Fuji
Will
|
$200
[30]
In Exodus 4 he says, "But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice"; holy...!
Moses
|
$200
[10]
In a classic by Natalie Babbitt, this title family is "Everlasting"
Tuck
Kristen
|
$200
[27]
Chip a piece of furniture, or cut yourself shaving
nick
Kristen
|
$200
[25]
Seen on roofs, these panels contain photovoltaic cells to harness electromagnetic radiation
solar panels
Will
|
$200
[23]
The 35th season of this round-the-world show took contestants to Slovenia for the first time
The Amazing Race
Ben
|
|
$400
[4]
In 1922 the area of this Welsh capital was expanded to include that of Llandaff
Cardiff
Will
|
$400
[29]
On "Batman", Robin gave us "Holy fate worse than death!", "Holy fog!", "Holy Graf Zeppelin!", & "Holy" this, killing one's brother
fratricide
Will
|
$400
[7]
A burp takes down the totalitarian king in this story by Dr. Seuss
Yertle the Turtle
Kristen
|
$400
[26]
Specifically, the first light of day
dawn
Ben
|
$400
[24]
(Bill Nye presents the clue.) To see how atmospheric concentration of this compound has recently risen to levels unprecedented in human history, take a look at the spike at the end ofgraphcalled the Keeling Curve
carbon dioxide
Will
|
$400
[22]
On this sitcom in 2016, Anthony Anderson & family hit Disney World--it was an ABC show, they weren't going to Universal
black-ish
Will
|
|
$600
[1]
The Blue Mosque is across the way from the Hagia Sophia in this city
Istanbul
Ben
|
$600
[28]
What Yankee Doodle called the feather in his cap
macaroni
Will
Ben
|
$600
[6]
One offering in this series for kids is "Twilight Sparkle & the Crystal Heart Spell"
My Little Pony
Will
|
$600
[16]
Toss out, or an inexpensive cut of beef
chuck
Kristen
|
$600
[20]
Put kitchen scraps & yard clippings in a bin to make this fertilizer whose name means "mixture"
compost
Ben
|
$600
[21]
This British title heroine said, "I have a horrible feeling that I'm a greedy, perverted, selfish, apathetic, cynical... woman"
Fleabag
Will
|
|
DD
$800
[2]
In its own language, the official name of this landlocked country of Transcaucasia is Hayastani Hanrapetut'yun
Armenia
Ben
|
$800
[18]
In "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", this "holy" weapon "of Antioch" gets explosive results after a count of "1, 2, 5!"
a hand grenade
Kristen
|
$800
[8]
One review said this provocative 1993 novel by Lois Lowry "is sure to keep older children reading. and thinking"
The Giver
Kristen
|
$800
[14]
The head of a college, or the presiding official of a cathedral
a dean
Kristen
|
$800
[17]
(Bill Nye presents the clue.) America's Heartland could soon experience a reboot of this drought & wind-induced environmentalcatastrophe from nearly a century ago; my docuseries "The End is Nye" looks at what we can learn from the first one
the Dust Bowl
Ben
|
$800
[13]
It's not even a car accident but a near-one that puts Ali Wong & Steven Yeun at odds in this Emmy-winning limited series
Beef
Ben
|
|
$1,000
[3]
This strait lies between the North & South Islands of New Zealand
the Cook Strait
|
$1,000
[19]
Daedalus was asked by Pasiphae, wife of Minos, to create a sexy wooden this animal for her to crawl into
a cow
|
$1,000
[9]
A modern favorite by Alexandra Day is called "Good Dog," this first name
Carl
|
$1,000
[15]
By definition, a bricklayer or worker in stone
a mason
Will
|
$1,000
[11]
You don't want pollutants ending up in a drainage basin, also called this, a term for an important moment
a watershed
Kristen
|
$1,000
[12]
In 2021 she played a journalist on "NCIS" opposite real-life husband Mark Harmon
Pam Dawber
|
| PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION LOSERS | FILMANTHROPY | ENDS IN "EAU" | AMAZING ANIMALS | THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS | A FEW COLORFUL WORDS |
|
$400
[14]
There were 3 losers the first time Lincoln won: John C. Breckinridge, John Bell & this old debate foe
Douglas
Will
|
$400
[17]
The film "The Beautiful Game" gives a glimpse of the Homeless World Cup, a real-life tournament in this sport
soccer
Ben
|
$400
[6]
90 degrees is the highest temperature ever recorded in this state capital
Juneau
Kristen
|
$400
[19]
This largest animal also produces one of the loudest sounds, up to 180 decibels that can be heard 100 miles away
a blue whale
Will
Ben
|
$400
[27]
The longest scroll at around 27 feet includes a design for this Jerusalem building & its compound
the Second Temple
Ben
|
$400
[23]
Also the name of a 2000 Vin Diesel flick, this 2-word color describes something dark as tar
pitch black
|
|
$800
[13]
Hisloss in the 1800 election came about by a vote in the House of Representatives, not in the Electoral College
(Aaron) Burr
Ben
|
DD
$800
[16]
In 2018 Disney pledged $1 million of this Marvel film's proceeds to STEM programs in underserved areas
Black Panther
Will
|
$800
[5]
The Deccan this forms most of the southern peninsula of India
a plateau
Will
|
$800
[25]
The foveal area in this part of a buzzard's eye has 1 million photoreceptors per square millimeter
the retina
Will
|
$800
[28]
One of the books of the Hebrew Bible most represented in the scrolls is this one that has 150 chapters
Psalms
Kristen
|
$800
[24]
A brownish excretion of the cuttlefish gave us this word familiar to photographers
sepia
|
|
$1,200
[12]
A few years after his loss, Al Gore did get to see this film he wrote win the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature
An Inconvenient Truth
Will
|
$1,200
[15]
After the success of this Best Picture winner, Danny Boyle & Christian Colson donated $745k to a Mumbai children's fund
Slumdog Millionaire
Will
|
$1,200
[4]
Traditionally, a bride kept this collection of items that she was bringing into her marriage in a cedar hope chest
a trousseau
Kristen
|
$1,200
[20]
The cephalopod called the vampire type of this can live 3,000 feet deep & is a gentle scavenger, not an aggressive biter
a squid
Ben
|
$1,200
[18]
In 1954 Athanasius Samuel, a Syrian Orthodox archbishop, sold 4 scrolls after placing an ad in this New York daily financial newspaper
The Wall Street Journal
Will
|
$1,200
[26]
A Southern university shares its name with this reddish color often used of hair
auburn
Will
|
|
$2,000
[11]
He carried Arizona & 5 states in the Deep South in his unsuccessful 1964 presidential bid
Barry Goldwater
Ben
|
$1,600
[9]
This film inspired the "Hidden No More" program that highlights the achievements of women in careers like engineering
Hidden Figures
Ben
|
$1,600
[3]
Inspired by a palace in France, Ben & Bernice Novack built this iconic Miami hotel
the Fontainebleau
Will
|
$1,600
[7]
Some animals are highly resistant to snake venom, like the mongoose & this sweet-sounding creature also called a ratel
the honey badger
|
$1,600
[22]
Most of the Dead Sea Scrolls were written in Hebrew; a few are in this Semitic language of Jesus
Aramaic
Will
|
$1,600
[30]
This 10-letter adjective describing a kaleidoscope of colors can be traced to a goddess of the rainbow
iridescent
|
|
DD
$3,000
[10]
Twice to one William & once to another William, this William ran & lost 3 times
William Jennings Bryan
Ben
|
$2,000
[8]
Proceeds from a pair of hot dog hands used in this film went to the Laundry Workers Center
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Kristen
|
$2,000
[1]
At the beginning of "The Invisible Man", the stranger, walking from a railway station, was carrying a black one of these
a portmanteau
|
$2,000
[2]
As well as humans, many animals were mummified in ancient Egypt, like this primate whose hamadryas species was held sacred
a baboon
Kristen
|
$2,000
[21]
Scholars chosen by Mideast governments had sole access until this L.A.-area library allowed access to all of its scroll photos
the Huntington Library
|
$2,000
[29]
"A" is for this gypsum mineral well-known in Milan & Florence & used metaphorically to describe any smooth white color
alabaster
|
After Canada & the U.S., these 2 countries share the longest land border at more than 4,700 miles
Russia & Kazakhstan