Will Yancey — a lecturer of history from Banquete, Texas
Alisa Kindsfater — an English teacher from Enola, Arkansas
Aiden Orzech — a teacher from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $27,599)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aiden | $0 | $2,600 | $11,000 |
$22,000
2-day champion: $49,599 |
$11,000
18 R, 3 W |
| Alisa | $0 | $400 | $5,400 |
$10,800
2nd place: $3,000 |
$8,400
11 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Will | $7,400 | $12,000 | $13,200 |
$4,399
3rd place: $2,000 |
$14,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| HISTORICAL DECISIONS | PHILADELPHIA | OUT THERE IN RADIO LAND | HODGEPODGE | ABOUT THE AUTHOR | "IZE" & "EERS" |
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$200
[8]
Low visibility at the city of Kokura on August 9, 1945 caused a B-29 bomber to change its course & fly to this city
Nagasaki
Aiden
Will
|
$200
[30]
The Phillies' old home Baker Bowl had a RF wall just 280' from the plate, helping Chuck Klein set a league record--43 these in 1929
home runs (homers)
Aiden
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$200
[29]
In 1975 the FCC was a good buddy to users of this radio system, reducing the license fee from $20 to $4
CB
Will
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$200
[28]
In 1884 Dow Jones created its first index consisting of 11 stocks, mainly railroads, but also this telegraph company--STOP.
Western Union
Aiden
Alisa
Will
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$200
[1]
He was still in Harvard Med School when hesold the movie rights to "The Andromeda Strain"; yeah, he never did practice
Michael Crichton
Alisa
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$200
[20]
To set 2 watches to precisely the same time
synchronize
Aiden
|
|
$400
[7]
He decided against a New World empire after his brother-in-law Charles Leclerc died of yellow fever in Haiti in 1802
Napoleon
Will
|
$400
[26]
Mac's Tavern in Old City was co-founded by Kaitlin Olson & Rob McElhenney, who hang out at a different bar on this TV show
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Aiden
|
$400
[15]
Arr! In the 1960s these unlicensed stations broadcast from ships off the British coast to fans tired of the straitlaced BBC
pirate radio
Aiden
|
$400
[27]
Before moving to the Vatican, Pope Francis was archbishop of this city of his birth
Buenos Aires
Aiden
|
$400
[2]
He studied accounting at Mississippi St., law at Ole Miss, then changed careers & wrote 49 straight No. 1 bestsellers
John Grisham
Alisa
|
$400
[21]
This term for a trio of close associates comes from an 1844 novel
Three Musketeers
Will
|
|
$600
[4]
General Lee decided on a charge to take Cemetery Hill on July 3, 1863 during this battle
Gettysburg
Will
|
$600
[10]
Architect Julian Abelecouldn't have known hisstepsat the Philadelphia Museum of Art would one day bear this character's name
Rocky
Will
|
$600
[12]
Todd Storz, owner of KOHW in Omaha, is credited with pioneering this numerical hit radio format in the 1950s
Top 40
Aiden
Alisa
Will
|
$600
[17]
Someone who has nephophobia shouldn't have his head in these
the clouds
Aiden
|
$600
[3]
Back from Burma in the 1930s, this Brit took his pen name from the reigning king & a local river
George Orwell
Will
|
$600
[22]
Refined & sophisticated, or at an advanced stage of cultural & social development
civilized
Alisa
|
|
$800
[5]
Before deciding to cross this stream, Julius Caesar apparently saw an apparition with a trumpet
the Rubicon
Will
|
$800
[11]
Philly is not just the City of Brotherly Love, it's the city of this guy from Center City & his band Special Sauce
G. Love
|
$1,000
[14]
In 2008 the Justice Department approved the merger creating this satellite radio behemoth
SiriusXM
Will
|
$800
[19]
Roy Frowick, who began designing women's wear in the 1960s, dropped his first & last names & went by this middle name
Halston
|
$800
[9]
She got her M.A. in linguistics, went to China for the first time in 1987, put 3 short stories in novel form & had "luck" with that
Amy Tan
Will
|
$800
[23]
It's a lightweight, puckered fabric of linen or cotton
seersucker
Will
|
|
$1,000
[6]
Around 539 B.C. this ruler permitted the Jewish exiles of Babylon to return to their homeland
Cyrus the Great
Will
|
$1,000
[25]
(Jason Kelce presents the clue.) In 2023, my brother Travis & I had our first of what I can only assume will be many Billboard No. 1 hits with "Fairytale Of Philadelphia", including the line, "You promised me", this famous street "was waiting for me"
Broad Street
Will
|
DD
$3,200
[13]
Robert Plant made a pledge to Portland's KBOO after hearing a DJ promise never to play this song if listeners donated
"Stairway To Heaven"
Will
|
$1,000
[18]
With the exception of Ceres, the 4 other recognized dwarf planets all lie in this "belt" beyond Neptune's orbit
the Kuiper belt
Aiden
|
$1,000
[16]
Him: "Once I found myself on the other side of the ocean, I see where I came from; I am the grandson of a slave and I am a writer"
Baldwin
Will
|
$1,000
[24]
To form a solid made of atoms in symmetry, like feldspar or quartz
crystallize
Will
|
| FIRST LADIES' FIRST NAMES | PLACING SOME GEOGRAPHY | SHORT-TITLED FILMS | CONVERSATIONAL VOCABULARY | MYTHOLOGICAL BROMANCE | SUPER HOT FIRE |
|
$400
[3]
Married to Harry Truman, the former Elizabeth Virginia Wallace went by this
Bess
Aiden
|
$400
[19]
January temperature averages are in the 70s in this Chilean capital, but bring a coat in July, when the figure is in the 30s
Santiago
Alisa
|
$400
[26]
Flo's V-8 cafe, which serves the "finest fuel in 50 states", is the only gas station in Radiator Springs in this 2006 Pixar film
Cars
Will
|
$400
[29]
Franklin D. Roosevelt had some 30 "fireside" ones with the American people
chats
Alisa
|
$400
[30]
In a work by Chrétien de Troyes, this knight is a little too friendly with the wife of his homie King Arthur
Lancelot
Aiden
|
$400
[28]
Orion sells a 5-minute type of this safety product to signal distress on the side of a highway
a flare
Aiden
|
|
$800
[4]
Claudia was the real first name of the 20th centuryfirst ladywho went by this nickname
Lady Bird Johnson
Aiden
|
$800
[18]
Thisdesert runs north-south for 100 miles at its longest point, if you "Botswana" know
the Kalahari
Aiden
Will
|
$800
[20]
Inthis2010 film Angelina Jolie plays a CIA agent accused of being a Russian spy
Salt
Aiden
|
$800
[25]
Called "Mr. Chicago", Irv Kupcinet was this type of gabby columnist for the Sun-Times for decades
a gossip columnist
Aiden
|
$800
[27]
In "Ivanhoe" Robin Hood says he is occasionally "displeased by the freedom of" this buddy's advice
Little John
Alisa
|
$800
[13]
The name of this indie band was based on a story Win Butler heard about a conflagration in an amusement hall
Arcade Fire
Will
|
|
$1,200
[5]
The 2 Mrs. Wilsons were Ellen & her
Edith
Aiden
|
$1,200
[15]
Belene, Bulgaria's biggest island, splits this river in 2 on its way to the Black Sea
the Danube
Will
|
$1,200
[8]
Cameos in this 1991 Dustin Hoffman film included Jimmy Buffett as a shoe-stealing pirate
Hook
Alisa
|
$1,200
[1]
This kind of one-on-one conversation is French for head to head
tête-à-tête
Alisa
|
$1,200
[12]
In one tale this partyin' god gets his boy Hephaestus drunk & has him agree to free Hera from a chair
Dionysus
Aiden
|
$1,200
[14]
"Tonight's The Night" was used in ads for this brand of artificial log
Duraflame
Will
|
|
$1,600
[6]
Mrs. John Quincy Adams, our only English-born first lady had this first name
Louisa (Adams)
|
$2,000
[17]
Named for a world leader & not Harriet, Tubmanburg is a city in the west of this nation that's slightly larger than Ohio
Liberia
Will
|
$1,600
[10]
Walt Disney saw Fess Parker's small role in this 1954 film about giant ants & picked him to play Davy Crockett for his TV series
Them!
|
$1,600
[2]
In competitive debate, it's a speech that refutes the other team's arguments & rebuilds one's own
a rebuttal
Aiden
|
$2,000
[24]
The Egyptian god Anubis is oftendepictedas the Johnny-on-the-spot of this lord & judge of the underworld
Osiris
Alisa
|
$1,600
[21]
It's the explosive name of the conspiracy foiled in England, now commemorated in November with bonfires
the Gunpowder Plot
Aiden
|
|
$2,000
[7]
Thefirst lady with this first name died in Canton, Ohio in 1907
Ida (McKinley)
|
DD
$3,600
[16]
"Walking the Length of" this country "in a Weekend" took a journalist along the Rhine to its southern border with Switzerland
Liechtenstein
Will
|
$2,000
[9]
Director Fritz Lang's first talkie, it featured Peter Lorre as a serial child killer
M
Alisa
|
$2,000
[11]
It means the person with whom you're speaking; add "Y" to describe a temporary legal decree
interlocutor
Alisa
|
DD
$3,000
[23]
Our time has Damon & Affleck; Greek legend had Damon & him, whose bond led the tyrant of Syracuse to spare them
Pythias
Alisa
|
$2,000
[22]
Celtic for "end of summer", this pagan fire festival was a precursor to All Hallows' Eve
Samhain
Alisa
|
This 12-year-old began his first book saying, "Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood"
Percy Jackson (Perseus Jackson)