Tristan Brown — a re-entry employment advocate from Richmond, Virginia
Marcus Ghiringhelli — a record store clerk from Portland, Oregon
Kelly Gates — a librarian from Medford, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kelly | $3,000 | $5,200 | $11,300 |
$10,800
2nd place: $3,000 |
$10,800
14 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Marcus | $3,200 | $3,000 | $5,700 |
$3,300
3rd place: $2,000 |
$8,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Tristan | $1,400 | $3,800 | $14,600 |
$22,700
New champion: $22,700 |
$14,600
18 R, 3 W |
| IRAN, SO FAR AWAY | LOSE A LETTER | A PUP QUIZ | FASHION, DEFINED | NURSERY RHYME LINES | GREAT MOVIE ROM-DRAMS |
|
$200
[9]
The "P" in I.P.A., an Iranian trade association, is for these green nuts, a big export for the country
pistachios
Marcus
|
$200
[16]
A product's cost loses a letter & becomes a starchy staple
price & rice
Tristan
|
$200
[20]
It's this breed, Charlie Brown, that one study showed could detect lung cancer in humans with astonishing accuracy
a beagle
Tristan
|
$200
[25]
"Two-piece swimsuit introduced in 1946 by designer Jacques Heim, who called it the atom because of its small size"
a bikini
Marcus
|
$200
[30]
"Hey, Diddle, Diddle" sets up a possible sequel featuring the dish as it runs away with this
the spoon
Tristan
|
$200
[22]
(Andrew Garfield presents the clue.) It's still the same old story, butthis1942 film about Rick & Ilsa remains not just one of the great love stories but one of the greatest films of all time
Casablanca
Kelly
|
|
$400
[8]
The poet Firdawsi's epic chronicle of early Persian history is the "Shahnameh", or "Book of" these
Kings
|
$400
[3]
A member of the Corps loses a letter & becomes a New England state
Maine & Marine
Kelly
Marcus
Tristan
|
$400
[17]
Bred in ancient China, this dog (or dog dog) is known for its unusual blue-black tongue
a Chow
Tristan
|
$400
[24]
They're the geographic-named, tight-fitting, three-quarter-length pants seen here
Capris
Tristan
|
$400
[28]
"Sing a Song of Sixpence" & include this somewhat imprecise amount of rye
a pocketful
Kelly
Marcus
|
$400
[21]
(Florence Pugh presents the clue.) When they meet on an ocean liner voyage, Cary Grant & Deborah Kerragree to rendezvous six months later atop the Empire State Building in this 1957 weepy, but fate intervenes
An Affair to Remember
Kelly
|
|
$600
[7]
Biblical personages traditionally said to be buried in Iran include this dream interpreter who had been exiled to Babylon
Daniel
|
$600
[11]
Lose a letter from a word meaning a sorceress to become a preposition
witch & with
|
$600
[18]
A descendant of the English one, the American breed of this dog was brought to the States by 19th century immigrants
a bull dog
Kelly
|
$600
[23]
Perfect for school days? "Now a basic style of low shoe usually fastened with shoe laces"
Oxford
Kelly
|
$600
[27]
"Old King Cole" doesn't need much to be merry--his pipe, his bowl & this musical act
fiddlers three
|
$600
[4]
(Andrew Garfield presents the clue.) Before his final goodbye, Sam tells Molly he's always loved her, & the love inside, you take it with you, inthis1990 film
Ghost
Marcus
|
|
$800
[5]
Also called Persian, this language is not related to Arabic, though it is written with the same characters
Farsi
Tristan
|
$800
[10]
A word for an abundant banquet loses a letter & becomes a compass direction
feast & east
Marcus
|
$800
[13]
The Australian stumpy tail cattle dog traces back to a crossing of an English Smithfield with this local wild dog
a dingo
Kelly
|
$800
[15]
"Leather shorts usually made with bib top, originally a Tyrolean style"
Lederhosen
Marcus
|
$800
[26]
"There was an old lady who swallowed a fly", but shockingly, this is next on the menu
a spider
|
$800
[1]
(Florence Pugh presents the clue.) Debra Winger gets her guy as a uniformed Richard Gerecarries her off at the end of this film to the tune of "Up Where We Belong"
An Officer and a Gentleman
Kelly
|
|
$1,000
[6]
After puberty, all Iranian females are controversially required by law to wear one of these Arabic-named items in public
a hijab
Tristan
|
DD
$1,200
[12]
Lose a letter from a word meaning to declare allegiance & get a projection from a wall of rock
a pledge & ledge
Marcus
|
$1,000
[19]
Despite a fluffy white coat, the Bichon Friséis considered this 14-letter adjective, making it easy on the sneezy
hypoallergenic
Tristan
|
$1,000
[14]
"Pattern... creating a continuous V-shaped design... used in tweeds"
herringbone
Kelly
Tristan
|
$1,000
[29]
The talkative "bells of St. Clement's" articulate this fruity pair
oranges & lemons
|
$1,000
[2]
(Andrew Garfield & Florence Pugh present the clue.) Andrew: In "We Live in Time" we play Tobias & Almut, who experience the ups & downs of life first as a couple & then as a family.Florence: It's directed by John Crowley who also did this rom-dram in which Saoirse Ronan plays an Irish immigrant who finds love in America
Brooklyn
Tristan
|
| GETTING INVESTED | NONFICTION | ROCK & POP FIRSTS | ASSASSINS | IN CONSEQUENTIAL | COASTING |
|
$400
[20]
Bonds with a credit rating of BB+ or below are known as "high-yield" or, less flatteringly, this
junk (bonds) (high-risk)
Kelly
Tristan
|
$400
[14]
In a 1987 book Robert Ballard detailed his quest to find this at the bottom of the Atlantic
the Titanic
Marcus
|
$400
[15]
She deserves a lot of R-E-S-P-E-C-T for being the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, back in 1987
Aretha Franklin
Marcus
|
$400
[21]
It's a tradition to leave pennies atop this assassin's tombstone at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore
John Wilkes Booth
Marcus
|
$400
[25]
It means resembling the animal seen here, even when not going off at 150 to 1
equine
Tristan
|
$400
[26]
A near dozen limestonestacksby the Great Ocean Road in Australia are collectively called the Twelve these biblical folks
the Apostles
Marcus
|
|
$800
[28]
Measuring the performance of 2,000 smaller companies, the Russell 2000 is a "small cap" one of these indicators
an index
Marcus
|
$800
[10]
Shunmyo Masuno offers 100 ways to bring yourself happiness & calm in this form of Buddhism: "The Art of Simple Living"
Zen
Kelly
|
$800
[6]
In 1998 this Cher song became the first hit record to use auto-tune to distort the music
"Believe"
Tristan
|
$800
[3]
In 1984 2 of her Sikh bodyguards shot her outside her home in New Delhi
Indira Gandhi
Marcus
|
$800
[24]
That's so high school! It's a tiny, exclusive group, like the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, wasteoids, dweebies...
a clique
Kelly
|
$800
[17]
Vestlandet, a region of this Scandinavian country, features rugged North Sea coastline
Norway
Marcus
Tristan
|
|
$1,200
[27]
Term for investors trying to change a firm's direction; in a Feb. 2024 letter, Disney's board warned against that type of hedge fund
activist
Tristan
|
$1,200
[11]
Inspiring a Leonardo DiCaprio film, this Frank Abagnale memoir is subtitled "The True Story of a Real Fake"
Catch Me If You Can
Marcus
|
$1,200
[7]
The first pop song featuring a sitar was this 1965 Beatles tune that begins, "I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me"
"Norwegian Wood"
Marcus
|
$1,200
[1]
In 1977 this assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. escaped from prison but was recaptured after 54 hours
Ray
Tristan
|
$1,600
[16]
Diplomatically, one of these can function like an embassy, but on a smaller scale
a consulate
|
$1,200
[5]
The Cabot Trail takes you by some epic coastal views of this "Cape" (actually an island) in Nova Scotia
Cape Breton Island
Marcus
|
|
$1,600
[29]
The "knock in" type of this is a contract that allows the holder to buy a stock once the price reaches a certain level
option
|
$1,600
[12]
In "The Demon of Unrest", this "Devil in the White City" author writes about the months between Lincoln's election & the start of the war
Erik Larson
Kelly
|
$1,600
[8]
In 1987 Los Lobos took this Ritchie Valens hit to No. 1, the first Spanish language song to top the Hot 100 chart
"La Bamba"
Tristan
|
$1,600
[2]
Just days after stabbing Jean-Paul Marat through the heart, she lost her head on the guillotine
Charlotte Corday
|
$2,000
[23]
I say, old chap, let's toss small, circular ropes onto a peg in a game of this
quoits
|
$1,600
[18]
Californians are used to hearing ofroad closuresdue to erosion in this coastal community between San Simeon & Carmel
Big Sur
|
|
$2,000
[30]
No investor wants to get this "call" in which a broker demands additional deposits be made in the same-named type of account
margin
Tristan
|
DD
$2,500
[13]
The epigraph to this classic 1962 book quotes Keats: "The sedge is wither'd from the lake, and no birds sing"
Silent Spring
Kelly
|
$2,000
[9]
In 1957, they became the first rock & roll duo to have a No. 1 hit with "Wake Up Little Susie"
The Everly Brothers
Tristan
|
$2,000
[22]
In 222 eccentric Roman emperor Elagabalus was assassinated by this group that was supposed to protect him
the Praetorian Guard
Tristan
|
DD
$2,500
[4]
We rarely start a clue with "from the Anglo-Norman", but this legal verb is from the A-N for "to exonerate"
to acquit
Marcus
|
$2,000
[19]
The name of these cliffs on the coast of County Clare comes from a Gaelic word meaning "ruined fort"
the Cliffs of Moher
|
This theme tackled in art by Bellini & Michelangelo isn't explicitly mentioned in the Bible, but is part of the "Seven Sorrows of Mary"
the Pietà