Jacqui Kaplan — a high school English teacher from Sandy Hook, Connecticut
Joseph Carlstein — a graduate student from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
John Liu — a marketing analyst from Santa Monica, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John | $200 | $1,800 | $7,000 |
$13,999
2nd place: $3,000 |
$9,000
14 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Joseph | $5,200 | $5,600 | $10,000 |
$16,001
New champion: $16,001 |
$7,600
13 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Jacqui | $1,200 | $2,800 | $8,000 |
$2,000
3rd place: $2,000 |
$8,000
14 R, 2 W |
| HISTORIC AMERICANS | SHE'S GOT THE POWER | UTOPIA | WHERE TO GO WHEN... | 1980s CATCHPHRASES | SPEAKING REVERSIBLY |
|
$200
[27]
John Adams & Thomas Jefferson both died on this date, exactly 50 years after the Decl. of Independence was adopted
July 4, 1826
John
Joseph
|
$200
[17]
In 2024, for the first time in its 200-year history, this nation elected a female president, Claudia Sheinbaum
Mexico
Jacqui
|
$200
[26]
Utopia Planitia, a boulder-strewn lava plain on this planet, was the landing site of the Viking 2 probe in 1976
Mars
Joseph
|
$200
[30]
You want to see all-female Pembroke College, where grandma went: this Rhode Island Ivy League school, as they merged in 1971
Brown University
John
|
$200
[23]
Regarding bills he'd be willing to veto, President Reagan quoted Clint Eastwood: "Go ahead," do this
make my day
Jacqui
|
$200
[10]
A not-fun-to-change piece of babywear&gave back the loan in full
diaper & repaid
Joseph
|
|
$400
[9]
In 1921 Bessie Coleman became the first Black woman to earn her license as one of these
a pilot
John
|
$400
[16]
Karen Lynch is CEO of this 3-letter pharmacy chain that has a red heart as a symbol
CVS
John
|
$400
[25]
This sea-named company's cruise ship Utopia of the Seas often takes its 5,600 guests to a private island called Cococay
Royal Caribbean
John
|
$400
[29]
You want to see Tyler O'Neill play & maybe catch a home run ball off his bat: this ballpark's Green Monster seats
Fenway
Jacqui
|
$400
[22]
Holding a deadly weapon, Tony Montana in "Scarface" made this 6-word introduction
say hello to my little friend
Jacqui
|
$400
[11]
A pilsner&relating to royalty
lager & regal
John
Joseph
|
|
$600
[6]
Mathew Brady's studio photographedhimas a senator before he was elected President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Jacqui
|
$600
[8]
In 2024 Mary Barra, CEO of this company, said the plan to pivot its fleet to all electric cars will take decades
General Motors
John
|
$600
[24]
2023's blockbuster "Utopia" was this rapper's first solo album in five years
Travis Scott
|
$600
[18]
You crave a sack of yummy original or 1921 sliders:this chain
White Castle
Jacqui
|
$600
[21]
"Pardon me, would you have any" of this condiment? inquired a commercial actor from one Rolls-Royce to another
Grey Poupon
Jacqui
|
$600
[12]
Sherlock Holmes' sister in 2 Netflix movies&without assistance
Enola & alone
Jacqui
|
|
$1,000
[4]
After surrendering to General Miles in 1877, this Nez-Perce chief said, "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever"
Chief Joseph
Joseph
|
$800
[7]
Maura Healey, a Democratic governor from this state, is the first openly lesbian governor in history
Massachusetts
Joseph
|
$800
[15]
You can probably get a red dragon tattoo somewhere on Utopia Parkway before it ends at Jamaica Estates in this New York City borough
Queens
Joseph
|
$800
[13]
You want to take a little hike to the highest spot on Greece:this mountain (sounds mythic!)
Mount Olympus
Joseph
|
$800
[19]
The movie "Heathers" popularized "What is your" this word instead of "What is your problem?"
damage
Jacqui
|
$800
[28]
A minor dispute or tiff&a military bugle call
spat & taps
John
|
|
DD
$2,000
[5]
At his death in 1915 this school founder was laid to rest in a tomb built by students, on a hill overlooking the Tuskegee campus
Booker T. Washington
Joseph
|
$1,000
[3]
Born in the Bronx in 1954, she wrote in a 2024 dissent, "The president is now a king above the law"
Sotomayor
Joseph
|
$1,000
[2]
This author's first book, "Player Piano", about a futuristic society run by machines, was reissued as "Utopia 14" in 1954
Kurt Vonnegut
|
$1,000
[14]
You're Cain in the Bible & you just "went out from the presence of the Lord":"the Land of" this
the Land of Nod
Joseph
|
$1,000
[20]
This pair of rhymingly named "SNL" bodybuilders said, "We want to pump you up"
Hans und Franz
|
$1,000
[1]
To drop off a package FedEx-style&defamed or ridiculed
deliver & reviled
|
| THAT'S A REALLY BIG DITCH! | "B" IN SCIENCE | NO, NOT THE DOG | SONGS | BEFORE & AFTER | FRENCH AUTHORS |
|
$400
[15]
Kali Gandaki is a more than 3-mile-deep gorge between Mount Annapurna & Mount Dhaulagiri in this range
the Himalaya
Joseph
|
$400
[5]
In cetaceans it serves as an insulating layer to guard against hypothermia
blubber
John
|
$400
[23]
Basaseachic Fallsis a waterfall in this northern state of Mexico
Chihuahua
John
|
$400
[29]
This song by Olivia Rodrigo says, "But you made me look so naive the way you sold me for parts, as you sunk your teeth into me"
"Vampire"
Joseph
|
$400
[28]
Spooky ghost-filled dwelling that's England's current reigning dynasty
a haunted house of Windsor
Joseph
Jacqui
|
$800
[26]
The movie "Time Regained" is about this memory-obsessed French novelist
Proust
John
|
|
$800
[14]
Forming part of the border between Serbia & Romania, the Iron Gate is a 2-mile-long gorge on this river
the Danube
|
$800
[4]
Indium is in the periodic table group named for this element
boron
|
$800
[22]
A type of movie "Falcon", or an Arabic dialect using many Italian words
Maltese
John
|
$800
[21]
"1979" & "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" are songs from their double album called "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"
The Smashing Pumpkins
Jacqui
|
$800
[24]
Kids' way of saying "I promise" about literary Marlow's search for Kurtz in Africa
cross my Heart of Darkness
Jacqui
|
$1,200
[9]
Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux has written intensely personal memoirs & melded her own history with France's in "Les années", i.e. these
The Years
John
|
|
$1,200
[8]
Liechtenstein Gorge in this Alpine nation, not the principality, has astaircasefor great views & is not for the vertigo-prone
Austria
John
|
$1,200
[3]
This igneous rock often formed from lava flows is also the bedrock of most of the ocean floor
basalt
John
|
$1,600
[18]
Edgar Allan Poe describes this chasm as "the ultima thule of all... punishments"
the pit
Jacqui
|
$1,200
[12]
In 2010 Bruno Mars tossed out this No. 1 hit that begins, "Easy come, easy go"
"Grenade"
|
$1,200
[16]
A maybe-not-here-tomorrow business that sends a legion of zombies to attack a farmhouse
fly-by- Night of the Living Dead
|
$1,600
[25]
This 16th century French doctor-author is a symbol of raunchy humor--just add "-ian"
Rabelais
|
|
$1,600
[11]
Peru's Colca Canyon is home to a number of villages & is advertised as the best place to see this largest raptor
the Andean condor
Jacqui
|
$1,600
[2]
Not quite star material & actually appearing red, these astronomical objects can't reach stable luminosities
a brown dwarf
John
Jacqui
|
$2,000
[20]
10-S tennis supply sells all sorts of these items for balls, from baskets to mowers to tubes
(ball) retrievers
|
$1,600
[13]
"When it gets dark I tow your heart away", says this Beatles song
"Lovely Rita"
Joseph
|
$1,600
[7]
A sophisticated fellow who frequents nightspots & by day, shouts the village's news to the people
a man about town crier
Jacqui
|
$2,000
[27]
This infamous author of "Justine" & "Juliette" was a prisoner in the Bastille
the Marquis de Sade
|
|
DD
$2,000
[10]
This canyon sinks about 8,000 feet below the rim to the Snake River below on the Oregon-Idaho border
Hells Canyon
John
|
$2,000
[1]
The theorem named for Daniel of this Swiss math & physics dynasty involves pressure, velocity & elevation in a moving fluid
Bernoulli
John
|
DD
$2,400
[17]
Charles Darwin sailed around the world in this ship from 1831 to 1836
the Beagle
Joseph
|
$2,000
[19]
Ariana Grande says "Cinderella" by this late alliterative rapper is about her
Mac Miller
|
$2,000
[6]
A truck with a trailer attached to haul the most ancient collection of Hindu sacred hymns
a big Rig Veda
|
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Roughly, 180 of these were made & 50 remain; the man who created them was given a pension by the Archbishop of Mainz in 1465
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