Will Wallace game 1.
Will Wallace — a game design director from Austin, Texas
Stephanie Cooper — a Ph.D. candidate from Baltimore, Maryland
Tristan Brown — a re-entry employment advocate from Richmond, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,700)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tristan | $5,000 | $6,800 | $10,000 |
$0
3rd place: $2,000 |
$10,000
20 R, 3 W |
| Stephanie | $1,800 | $3,200 | $10,400 |
$5,400
2nd place: $3,000 |
$10,400
16 R, 3 W |
| Will | $600 | $1,000 | $9,400 |
$18,799
New champion: $18,799 |
$11,000
13 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| SELLING INSURANCE | THAT'S JUST PART OF THE STORY | 6 BY 6 NAMES | TV TRANSPORTS | IT'S A PENINSULA | "M" BEFORE "N" |
|
$200
[30]
An alumnus of L.A.'s Groundlings, Stephanie Courtneyis best known for portraying this perky pitchwoman
Flo
Tristan
|
$200
[14]
On the question of "Life, the Universe and Everything" in this book series, the answer is 42, "which is a little aggravating"
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Will
|
$200
[7]
This daughter of a minister was chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021
Angela Merkel
Tristan
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$200
[16]
A passenger jet from Oceanic Airlines delivered this show's characters right into the heart of a mystery
Lost
Stephanie
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$200
[17]
The Strait of Gibraltar separates the southern tip of this peninsula from Africa
the Iberian Peninsula
Tristan
|
$200
[29]
The wythe & flue liner are parts of this household mainstay where Santa starts his B&E hijinks
a chimney
Tristan
|
|
$400
[27]
Early in his career, Barry Manilow composed commercial jingles, including this company's "Like A Good Neighbor..."
State Farm
Will
|
$400
[13]
"We have real dinosaurs out there now. That's what people want to see"
Jurassic Park
Tristan
|
$400
[8]
She died at age 23 in a hail of bullets along with her outlaw partner sitting in a stolen Ford outside Sailes, Louisiana
Bonnie Parker
Will
|
$400
[2]
The S.S. Minnow was only supposed to provide a 3-hour tour for its guests, but ended up shipwrecked on this sitcom
Gilligan's Island
Tristan
|
$400
[6]
Though it looks like it should be part of Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsulawas ceded to this state after a border war with, of course, Ohio
Michigan
Tristan
|
$400
[21]
In 1924 André Breton published one of these declarations "of Surrealism"
a manifesto
Tristan
|
|
$600
[26]
In 2005 this company changed its logo to include its famous duck
Aflac
Will
|
$600
[12]
The hero of this tale thinks, "Do you believe the great DiMaggio would stay with a fish as long as I will stay with this one?"
The Old Man and the Sea
Stephanie
|
$600
[9]
This actress known for movies & British TV like "Fleabag" & "Broadchurch" is not related to fellow 6x6 thespian Ronald
Olivia Colman
Tristan
|
$600
[3]
In the '80s this lucky title guy got to drive a Ferrari 308 GTS around Hawaii for 8 seasons
Magnum
Tristan
Stephanie
|
$600
[1]
Yalta see Livadiya Palace or Sevastopol on this peninsula
the Crimean
Tristan
|
$600
[19]
The U.S. Equestrian Federation advises scrubbing the underside when cleaning this; it's usually the dirtiest area
the mane
Stephanie
|
|
$800
[25]
For a new ad campaign in 2019, this company introduced its dynamic duo of Li Mu Emu & Doug
Liberty Mutual
Tristan
|
$800
[11]
The Lady Madeline isn't the corpse we were told she was--at least not until after a family reunion--in this 1839 short story
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
|
$800
[10]
In 1966 he was elected governor of California, beating the incumbent Edmund G. Brown in a landslide
Ronald Reagan
Stephanie
|
$800
[4]
Since 1969, Scooby-Doo & the gang have gotten around in avan with this alliterative name
the Mystery Machine
Tristan
|
$800
[18]
The Western-most point of the North American continent is at the tip of this Alaskan peninsula named for a man crucial to the state's history
Seward
Will
|
$800
[20]
Thisspice, a member of the parsley family, is a key ingredient in the Indian potato dish jeera aloo
cumin
Stephanie
|
|
$1,000
[24]
In 1950 an exec at Allstate had a sick daughter but his wife reported positively on the doctor, saying Joann was "in" these
good hands
|
$1,000
[15]
It's the last name of Philip Roth's character Alexander, who has at least one issue with his mom, Sophie
Portnoy
Tristan
|
$1,000
[28]
In 1517 he sent a letter to Archbishop Albrecht of Mainz criticizing the sale of indulgences to free sinners from divine punishment
Martin Luther
Stephanie
|
$1,000
[5]
The coffin-based Drag-u-la roadster made a fast & furious appearance in the "Hot Rod Herman" episode of this comedy
The Munsters
Stephanie
|
DD
$2,400
[23]
At the tip of Pinellas Peninsula, it's nicknamed "The Sunshine City" & has a major sister city in Russia
St. Petersburg
Will
|
$1,000
[22]
This word for a balcony level in a theater comes in part from an Italian word for "middle"
the mezzanine
Will
|
| THE DUTCH COLONIAL EMPIRE | POP STARS | THE CULTURAL 19th CENTURY | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES | CHEMISTRY | SHE'S A SAINT! |
|
$400
[30]
The Netherlands' colonial empire was mainly split between these 2 directional trading companies
the (Dutch) East India Trading Company & West India Trading Company
Tristan
Stephanie
|
$400
[3]
This singer has said "No Body But Yours" to wives Miranda Lambert & Gwen Stefani
Blake Shelton
Stephanie
|
$400
[28]
Thomas Wilson's exhaustive work "The Treasures of Terpsichore" cataloged popular English country these
dances
Stephanie
|
$400
[4]
French for "in the manner of", it can precede neige, Suisse or king
à la
Stephanie
|
$400
[13]
The FDA calls it "a highly addictive chemical compound present in a tobacco plant"
nicotine
Stephanie
|
$400
[23]
Tradition says that St. Priscilla allowed this New Testament figure also called Simon to use her home as his HQ while in Rome
Peter
Stephanie
|
|
$800
[29]
Batavia, founded in 1619 on Java, resembled a dutch town with canals; 3 centuries later, it was renamed this
Jakarta
Stephanie
|
$800
[9]
Since her 2022 diagnosis, this Canadian singer has opened up about her battle with stiff person syndrome
Celine Dion
Tristan
|
$800
[27]
German art moved from Romanticism to this other "R"-ism, as in Adolph Menzel's"The Iron Rolling Mill"
Realism
Will
|
$800
[5]
No no, my friend, quite the opposite--or in 2 French words, this
au contraire
Tristan
|
$800
[14]
A substance's lowest possible energy state is this 2-word term, -273.15 degrees C. or an equally frosty -459.67 F.
absolute zero
Will
|
$800
[22]
This Nobel Prize winner reached the ranks of the blessed in the church's then shortest time & was canonized in 2016
Mother Teresa
Tristan
|
|
$1,200
[18]
The Dutch moved into the Caribbean to mine salt used to pack & preserve this fish; they love the maatjes type
herring
Stephanie
Will
|
$1,200
[10]
This singer/rapper's "Old Town Road" used a sample from Nine Inch Nails' "34 Ghosts IV"
Lil Nas X
Stephanie
|
$1,200
[1]
This "Deerslayer" author came up with the Bread and Cheese Club, a meeting of early 19th century minds
James Fenimore Cooper
Will
|
$1,200
[6]
Another term for megalomania is the French "folie de" this
grandeur
|
$1,200
[15]
Fe2O3is the chemical formula for this 4-letter concern
rust
Will
|
$1,200
[21]
On May 30, 1431 the English threw her ashes into the Seine River
Joan of Arc
Tristan
|
|
DD
$2,000
[19]
In 1633, when New Netherland occupied part of New York state, ancestors of this 19th c. U.S. president settled in Rensselaer County
Martin Van Buren
Will
|
$1,600
[11]
Leroi Moore, Boyd Tinsley, Carter Beauford & Stefan Lessard, his "Band", are 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees
Dave Matthews
Will
|
$1,600
[2]
Rachmaninoff's first opera, "Aleko", was based on a work by this 19th century Russian poet
Pushkin
Tristan
|
$1,600
[7]
A big party thrown by the Vanderbilts at their homeknown as the Petit this inspired a storyline on "The Gilded Age"
Chateau
Tristan
|
DD
$2,000
[16]
Jöns Jacob Berzelius honored the gods of his Swedish ancestors naming this element, now a powerful nuclear reactor fuel
thorium
Will
|
$1,600
[24]
The sixth station of the cross is this saint "wipes the face of Jesus"; tradition says she used her veil
St. Veronica
|
|
$2,000
[20]
The Dutch seized Fort Willoughby from the British in this future capital of Suriname & renamed it Fort Zeelandia
Paramaribo
|
$2,000
[12]
"Snow Angel" is the debut album of this woman, who left TV's "The Sex Lives of College Girls" to focus on being a pop star
Reneé Rapp
Stephanie
|
$2,000
[26]
French for "half world", this term described a class of women who'd lost status due to indiscreet behavior
demimonde
Tristan
|
$2,000
[8]
The French now use visage for "face"; an older, shorter form gave us this alternative to "regarding the matter of"
vis-à-vis
Stephanie
|
$2,000
[17]
It's "a" mixture or blend of mercury with another metal
an amalgam
Tristan
|
$2,000
[25]
This Italian-born patron saint of immigrants came to New York City in 1889 to help immigrants
Mother Cabrini
|
For much of the 1920s, he lived on Eddy Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin District
(Dashiell) Hammett