John Liu — a marketing analyst from Santa Monica, California
Aimée Record — a middle school teacher from Long Island, New York
Ian Taylor — a food sales rep originally from Cleveland, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ian | $-1,200 | $1,000 | $3,400 |
$5,601
2nd place: $3,000 |
$4,400
14 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Aimée | $2,400 | $3,800 | $600 |
$2
3rd place: $2,000 |
$600
9 R, 3 W |
| John | $1,800 | $2,600 | $5,600 |
$7,801
New champion: $7,801 |
$10,200
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| ALASKAN CITIES | SINGING THROUGH THE CENTURIES | REALITY & COMPETITION TV SHOWS | GOING DEEP ON THE FAST FOOD MENU | SORRY, NO SHAKE TODAY | THE MACHINE'S BROKEN |
|
$200
[30]
Nome in the west of the state is the main city on Norton Sound, an arm of this sea
the Bering Sea
Ian
|
$200
[23]
The plainsong is also known as this chant, named for a man in office from 590 to 604
Gregorian
Ian
|
$200
[27]
Bobby & Judy Edwards with the "Squatty Potty" won backing on this show
Shark Tank
Aimée
|
$200
[10]
A Salted Caramel Truffle Blizzard Treat
Dairy Queen
John
|
$200
[29]
Drop the "shake" from a crumb-y product that makes for crispy chicken & you're left with this: 1 apostrophe, 1 letter, 1 word
'n Bake
Ian
|
$200
[18]
Plenty of rockers have destroyed a guitar; in a 2022 frenzy, Pearl Jam's Mike McCready took out his Marshall these too
amps
Ian
|
|
$400
[25]
On April Fool's Day, 2016, it changed its name toUNOto promote the Mattel card game's new wild cards
Juneau
Aimée
|
$400
[22]
Italian for "beautiful singing", this singing style was first developed in the 1500s
bel canto
John
|
$400
[26]
With help from experts like Camille Coffey, this show on TLC features brides-to-be in search of matrimonial wear
Say Yes to the Dress
Aimée
|
$400
[4]
The Pretzel Baconator
Wendy's
Ian
|
$400
[28]
Drop however many "shake"s come before this, what's left of the title of a KC & the Sunshine Band No. 1 disco hit
your booty
Aimée
|
$400
[17]
In 2024 in Capalaba, Australia, this type of machine was out of order as a toddler crawled in for direct access to the Hello Kittys
a claw machine
John
|
|
$600
[24]
The epicenter of the great Alaska earthquake of 1964 was just 75 miles east of this large city
Anchorage
Ian
|
$600
[5]
Like the great Farinelli, many male opera singers of the 18th century were these, also known as evirati
castrati
Ian
|
$600
[21]
Taking place mainly in the Klondike but in the present day, not in 1897, this is one of Discovery's top-rated shows
Gold Rush
|
$600
[1]
Fiery Chicken Fries
Burger King
Aimée
|
$600
[15]
If the machine's not broken, enjoy the minty treat created at McDonald's in 1967; just this first word, please
Shamrock
Ian
|
$600
[13]
As a young man this comedian fixed cars in Boston--if, say, the Kennedys' Rolls was in the shop, he'd drive it on dates
Jay Leno
|
|
$800
[9]
As you might expect, the sports teams of the high school in this city on Alaska's largest island are called the Bears
Kodiak
Aimée
|
DD
$1,000
[6]
Plato called her "The Tenth Muse", & her epithalamia or nuptial songs still inspire passion
Sappho
Ian
|
$800
[20]
"The Super Salmon Ladder" & "The Warped Wall" are obstacles on this show hosted by Matt, Akbar & Zuri
American Ninja Warrior
Ian
|
$800
[2]
Nacho Cheese Doritos Locos Tacos
Taco Bell
John
|
$800
[7]
It follows "shake" to complete a simile that might apply especially to Aspen trees
like a leaf
Ian
|
$800
[12]
In 1816 these tech-averse craftsmen destroyed John Heathcoat's lace-making machines in Loughborough, England
Luddites
John
|
|
$1,000
[16]
This city in Southeast Alaska is home to a historic Russian Orthodox church, St. Michael's Cathedral
Sitka
|
$1,000
[14]
In legend, Blondel found this captive brave English king by singing a song they'd written together
Richard the Lionhearted
|
$1,000
[19]
Joe Tessitore & Rob Riggle host this show where folks putt their mini golf skills to the test on a supersized course
Holey Moley
|
$1,000
[3]
The Classic French Dip & Swiss
Arby's
Aimée
|
$1,000
[8]
It follows "shake hands" in a referee instruction & in the title of an old compendium of great early 20th century boxing matches
come out fighting
Ian
|
$1,000
[11]
In 1962, software that lacked a bar over "R" in a radius symbol doomed this oceanic spacecraft 1, NASA's first effort to reach Venus
Mariner (1)
|
| HISTORIC WOMEN | TIME FOR SOME DRAMA | JOIN UP! | MOVIE OUTLAWS | PREFIXES | AN "A" IN PSYCHOLOGY |
|
$400
[29]
Lise Meitner, credited with first using this word to describe the splitting of uranium atoms, refused to work on the A-bomb
fission
John
|
$400
[28]
The protagonist of August Wilson's "Fences" is Troy Maxson, a once-great but frustrated player of this sport
a baseball player
|
$400
[27]
Join one of these--maybe one that only reads novels about other ones, like "Never Have I Ever" & "Reading Lolita in Tehran"
a book club
Ian
|
$400
[1]
David Mamet wrote the script for this 1987 movie that had Robert De Niro as Al Capone
The Untouchables
Ian
|
$400
[24]
To mean an ancestor, it can precede runner, father or bear
fore
John
|
$800
[22]
The anterograde type of this disorder is marked by the inability to remember new information
amnesia
John
|
|
$1,200
[15]
Thisheiress of Aquitaine so loved culture that her tomb effigy doesn't show her dead or asleep but reading a book
Eleanor
Ian
|
$800
[9]
His father, Jon Gynt, is out of the picture before the play begins
Peer Gynt
John
|
$800
[26]
Lend your voice to this; you don't have to sound like Whitney Houston, who sang in it at New Hope Baptist in Newark
a choir
Aimée
|
$800
[2]
Russell Crowe was the captured outlaw escorted to prison in the 2007 remake of "3:10 to" this place
Yuma
Ian
|
$800
[23]
From the Greek for "nation", it precedes "graphy" & "centric"
ethno
Ian
|
$1,200
[19]
Easily confused with a verb, as a noun it means the experience of emotion or feeling
affect
|
|
DD
$1,600
[25]
Daughter of a bear-keeper in this city, Theodora married Justinian I in 525 & became the Byzantine Empire's most powerful woman
Constantinople
John
|
$1,200
[21]
Wellborn Kate poses as a barmaid to win her man in Oliver Goldsmith's "She Stoops to" do this
Conquer
|
$1,200
[20]
Join a league for doing this--Robert D. Putnam wrote a classic book about how Americans are instead now doing it "Alone"
Bowling
|
$1,200
[3]
Brad Pitt & Casey Affleck play the titlecharactersin "The Assassination of Jesse James by..." this coward
Robert Ford
John
|
$1,200
[6]
This word starts with a prefix meaning "between" & John Mulaney had a "Star-Studded" one
intervention
|
$1,600
[8]
It's the emotional bond that develops between infant & parent; the same-named theory says it's an evolutionary advantage
attachment
Ian
Aimée
|
|
$1,600
[16]
If you take the 101 to the 405, you're on a section of highway named for this valley girl, the first U.S. woman in space
Sally Ride
John
|
$1,600
[18]
Her play "The Heidi Chronicles" won both a 1989 Tony & Pulitzer
Wendy Wasserstein
|
$1,600
[11]
Join a yoga studio--maybe start with this gentle discipline from Sanskrit for "force"
hatha
Aimée
|
$1,600
[14]
In "The Public Enemy" from 1931, gangster James Cagney infamously shoves this in Mae Clarke's face at breakfast
a grapefruit
|
$1,600
[5]
This distant-prefix word "is presented by authority of the National Football League & is intended for the private use of our audience"
a telecast
John
|
DD
$5,400
[7]
Broca's & Wernicke's are 2 types of this condition in which language use & speech are impaired
aphasia
John
|
|
$2,000
[17]
In 1895, aged 80, this 3-named activist published her "Woman's Bible", which says the Old Testament proclaims female equality
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Aimée
|
$2,000
[12]
This Nobel-winning Brit's plays like "The Caretaker" are marked by his characteristic pause-filled dialogue
Harold Pinter
|
$2,000
[10]
Join a river clean-up, maybe of this river, that rises near the same-named falls in Oregon & flows through California to the Pacific
the Klamath
|
$2,000
[13]
Flat-Nose Curry & News Carver are part of the gang inthis1969 film named for two outlaws
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Ian
|
$2,000
[4]
In Latin the highest point or peak of achievement is ne plus this, also a prefix meaning "beyond"
ultra
Aimée
|
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One of the 10 or so babies born at Argentina's Esperanza Base in this place was fittingly named Marisa de las Nieves
Antarctica