Fr. Steve Jakubowski — a Catholic priest originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan
Jen Feldman — a high school teacher from Brooklyn, New York
Chris Lindsay — an attorney from Carmel, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris | $3,800 | $3,800 | $9,200 |
$10,801
2nd place: $3,000 |
$10,200
14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jen | $1,200 | $1,000 | $9,800 |
$13,800
New champion: $13,800 |
$10,400
13 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Fr. Steve | $2,400 | $7,400 | $5,400 |
$99
3rd place: $2,000 |
$9,400
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| BIRTHSTONES | ART & ARTISTS | BUGGING OUT | FIX THE PROVERB | MEMORY | CATS' SONGS |
|
$200
[28]
April is said to be cruel, but it also be expensive as the pink star version of this birthstone sold for $71.2 million in 2017
a diamond
Fr. Steve
|
$200
[27]
In an early sketch of "American Gothic", Grant Wood chose a rake, but later placed one of these in the man's hand
a pitchfork
Chris
Fr. Steve
|
$200
[30]
Named for jaws that resemble antlers, the male stag is the largest species of this insect in Europe
a beetle
Fr. Steve
|
$200
[25]
"Its book by a judge don't cover"
don't judge a book by its cover
Chris
|
$200
[29]
A 1974 experiment showed this type of testimony including a body part varied if a question was about a car hitting vs. smashing another
eyewitness
|
$200
[26]
Thisnoted cat lover & co-star of the movie version of "Cats" sang "Karma is a cat purring in my lap 'cause it loves me"
Taylor Swift
Jen
|
|
$400
[20]
Displaying "vivid red hues", the 55.22-carat Estrela de Fura is this kind of gem that's July's stone
a ruby
Jen
|
$400
[22]
Delacroix commemorated the Paris Revolution of 1830 by depicting this symbolic figure "Leading the People"
Liberty
Fr. Steve
|
$400
[23]
In 2011 the Cockerell's variety of this large bee was rediscovered after 55 years in the White Mountains of New Mexico
bumblebee
|
$400
[10]
"To cleanliness godliness is next"
cleanliness is next to godliness
Fr. Steve
|
$400
[1]
An actor who has all the lines memorized is said to be "off" this
book
Fr. Steve
|
$400
[15]
"In the jungle, the mighty jungle" this happens in the title of a hit based on a Zulu hunting song
the lion sleeps tonight
Fr. Steve
|
|
DD
$600
[21]
An '80s song rhymed, "Take your baby by the wrist, & in her mouth" this February stone
amethyst
Jen
|
$600
[6]
Marilyn Monroe was a familiar subject of his, & his Factory Additions Print Shop featured her image as its first effort
Andy Warhol
Fr. Steve
|
$600
[7]
In 2024, for the first time since 2015, both a 13-year & 17-year brood of this insect emerged in the same year
a cicada
Fr. Steve
|
$600
[9]
"And soon a fool are his parted money"
a fool and his money are soon parted
Chris
|
$600
[5]
This type of memory is held in employees' personal recall of the history & culture of an organization
institutional
Jen
|
$600
[2]
Obviously a fan of felines, this rapper called her 2014 EP "Purrr!"
Doja Cat
Jen
|
|
$800
[8]
March swims in with this pale greenish blue birthstone; one healthy specimen from Brazil weighed nearly 250 pounds
aquamarine
Chris
|
$800
[3]
This artist's panic after seeing "fire and blood" over a "bluish black fjord" led to his most famous painting
Munch
Chris
|
$800
[19]
Although it has a reputation as a predator, this spider, Loxosceles reclusa, prefers to eat dead insects whenever possible
a brown recluse
Jen
|
$800
[11]
"Desperate desperate measures for call times"
desperate times call for desperate measures
Chris
|
$800
[12]
Also meaning "aloof" or "far off", this 6-letter type of long-ago memory is stored differently & may be less affected by dementia
remote
|
$800
[4]
This movie tune says, "It's the thrill of the fight, rising up to the challenge of our rival"
the "Eye Of The Tiger"
Chris
|
|
$1,000
[16]
Cleopatra's mines near the Red Sea coast yielded this May stone
emerald
Fr. Steve
|
$1,000
[14]
Manet seems to be inviting us to step right up & partake of the bounty at this hyphenated Parisian nightclub
the Folies-Bergère
Jen
|
$1,000
[24]
In the Amazon, butterflies flock to river turtlesto drink their tears, which supply them with this much-needed element
sodium
Jen
Fr. Steve
|
$1,000
[17]
"Brain workshop is the devil's an idle"
an idle brain is the devil's workshop
Fr. Steve
|
$1,000
[13]
An example of this mental device is "I wish I knew" for the square root which is 1.414
a mnemonic
Jen
|
$1,000
[18]
Harry Chapin's only No. 1 hit, it begins, "My child arrived just the other day, he came to the world in the usual way"
"Cat's In The Cradle"
Fr. Steve
|
| U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY | FROM THE TV SHOW'S THEME SONG | LITERARY EPITAPHS | DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY CHANGE? | U.K. CITIES | TOUGH VOCAB |
|
$400
[8]
Barack Obama & John Boehner, who held this post from 2011 to 2015, nearly reached a grand bargain on taxes & spending
the Speaker of the House
Chris
|
$400
[25]
"From the town of Bedrock, they're a page right out of history"
The Flintstones
Chris
|
$400
[21]
Keats' tombstone in Rome's Cimitero Acattolico reads, "Here lies one whose name was writ in" this
water
|
$400
[27]
It's a directional verb meaning to change to a lower gear when driving
downshift
Chris
|
$400
[30]
Add 5 letters to the U.K.'s largest city to get this name of Northern Ireland's second-largest
Londonderry
Fr. Steve
|
$400
[28]
An adjective meaning unsympathetic; or 1 letter shorter, what forms on a hard worker's hands
callous
Chris
Fr. Steve
|
|
$800
[5]
George Washington set a precedent in 1796 when he decided not to do this; FDR broke with the precedent in 1940 by saying, I'm doing it
run for a third term
Chris
|
$800
[22]
"Yeah, it might be all that you get, yeah, I guess this might well be it, but heaven knows I've tried"
Ted Lasso
|
$800
[3]
Her grave bears her married name, Hughes, & says, "Even amid fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted"
Plath
Jen
|
$800
[26]
Ivanka Trump called this change she made after getting together with Jared Kushner "a great life decision"
converting to Judaism
Chris
|
$800
[14]
Dunfermline, Scotland, birthplace of this industrialist, even has its own theatre & concert "hall" named for him
Carnegie
Jen
|
$800
[18]
3-syllable word for compulsory military enrollment; it can also mean a payment taken by a government during wartime
conscription
Fr. Steve
|
|
$1,200
[6]
Many think Arthur Burns, chair of this body, cut interest rates under pressure from Richard Nixon, permitting inflation
the Federal Reserve
Chris
|
$1,200
[23]
"She was working in a bridal shop in Flushing, Queens, 'til her boyfriend kicked her out in one of those crushing scenes"
The Nanny
Jen
|
$1,200
[1]
For his epitaph, he wrote, "A poet lies, or that which one seem'd he,--O, lift one thought in prayer for S.T.C."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Jen
|
DD
$1,000
[10]
On her journey "across Italy, India & Indonesia", she writes, "One must always be prepared for... endless waves of transformation"
Elizabeth Gilbert
Chris
|
$1,600
[13]
The Church of England has 2 archbishops--the one of this city ranks second to the Archbishop of Canterbury
York
|
$1,200
[15]
The Greek word hemera, meaning "day", gave us this adjective for something short-lived
ephemeral
Jen
|
|
$1,600
[7]
"Ignorant" nickname for the American Party, anthmmigrant, anti-Catholic & active in the 1850s
the Know-Nothing Party
Jen
|
$1,600
[24]
"Now your hope & compassion is gone, you've sold out your dream to the world, stay dead, stay dead, stay dead... & out of this world"
What We Do in the Shadows
|
$1,600
[2]
In the chancel of Holy Trinity Church, Shakespeare's epitaph ends, "Curst be he that" does this
moves my bones
|
$1,600
[11]
A video about butterflies by the AMNH calls this "the process of transformation in distinct stages"
metamorphosis
Fr. Steve
|
$2,000
[19]
Dylan Thomas called this "sea" city of his birth "an ugly, lovely town... crawling, sprawling by a long & splendid curving shore"
Swansea
Fr. Steve
|
$1,600
[16]
To reprove is to scold; this word from the same roots as reprove refers to a scoundrel who likely needs scolding
a reprobate
Fr. Steve
|
|
$2,000
[9]
Thomas Dewey was elected governor of this state 3 times
New York
Chris
|
$2,000
[29]
"Sing me a song of a lass that is gone; say, could that lass be I?"
Outlander
|
$2,000
[4]
Before invoking the names of these 2 Roman poets, Alexander Pope wrote, "In peace let one poor poet sleep"
Horace & Virgil
|
$2,000
[20]
It's theconversionof a substance from a solid to gas without messing with that liquid nonsense
sublimation
Jen
|
DD
$4,000
[12]
It's where you can visit the Ulster Museum & nearby Botanic Gardens
Belfast
Fr. Steve
|
$2,000
[17]
The French word for "hand" comes at the end of this word for a skill dextrous magicians possess
legerdemain
|
Frank Sinatra got upset that a photo of him caught fire in a Brooklyn pizzeria in this film
Do the Right Thing