Lois Dioro — a Realtor from West Haven, Connecticut
Evan Dorey — a data analytics director from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Joey DeSena — a development engineer from Raleigh, North Carolina (whose 2-day cash winnings total $44,698)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joey | $-200 | $1,000 | $7,400 |
$199
3rd place: $2,000 |
$7,400
11 R, 5 W |
| Evan | $4,000 | $5,000 | $14,600 |
$29,200
New champion: $29,200 |
$15,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Lois | $0 | $3,000 | $14,600 |
$12,000
2nd place: $3,000 |
$13,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| GREAT WOMEN IN SPORTS | ADULT CONTEMPORARY LIT | KEEPING WARM | ALSO A BEVERAGE BRAND | IT'S A SMALL WORLD | AFTER ALL |
|
$200
[7]
In 2022 she laid her tennis racket down, stepping away from the sport with 23 Grand Slam singles titles to her name
Serena Williams
Joey
Evan
|
$200
[28]
"Queen Charlotte" by Julia Quinn & Shonda Rhimes is a novel prequel to events in this Netflix series
Bridgerton
Joey
|
$200
[23]
The Consumer Product Safety Commission advises that this kind of heater needs this--at least 3' from anything flammable
space heater
|
$200
[24]
A right cross or jab on Oahu
Hawaiian punch
Joey
|
$200
[14]
It's appropriate that tiny Nauru is part of this Pacific island group that has a name partly meaning small
Micronesia
Evan
|
$200
[26]
Torta Caprese is a traditional Italian cake made with chocolate & these nuts
almonds
Evan
|
|
$400
[6]
She was named Swimming World magazine's American Woman Swimmer of the Year 2013-2018, 2021 & 2022
(Katie) Ledecky
Evan
Lois
|
$400
[27]
Buzzy on Book Tok, this work about a hockey player & a figure skater is fittingly titled for a joke that relieves initial tensions
an Icebreaker
Evan
|
$400
[19]
3-word item seenhereto sleep warm on a chilly night; after 1900, people started making them out of rubber
a hot water bottle
Evan
|
$400
[9]
This type of motor engine has an octet of cylinders
a V8
Joey
|
$400
[13]
In 1815 the Congress of Vienna put this principality under the protection of Sardinia; it became independent in 1861
Monaco
Joey
Evan
Lois
|
$400
[25]
This 2-word phrase refers to the university you went to or the anthem sung there
alma mater
Lois
|
|
$600
[3]
(Billie Jean King presents the clue.) A star on four WNBA championship teams in Seattle, this woman became the league's winningest player in 2022
Sue Bird
Joey
Lois
|
$600
[18]
Robinne Lee wrote this novel about a 39-year-old who falls for a boy band singer; it's now a film with Anne Hathaway
The Idea of You
|
$600
[20]
The 1911 Boy Scout manual says 2 things "are essential in the building of a fire"--this (bits of wood or paper) "& air"
kindling
Lois
|
$600
[1]
It's another term for an elf or a pixie
sprite
Joey
|
$600
[8]
Falls Church, an independent city in this state, is a whopping 2 square miles
Virginia
Lois
|
$800
[16]
Someone who loses a political race is deemed one of these hyphenated finishers, a term borrowed from horse racing
an also-ran
Joey
|
|
$800
[4]
(Billie Jean King presents the clue.) A great all-around athlete, sheexcelled in many sports, but later in life, golf washergame, & in 1950 she helped found the LPGA
Babe Didrikson
Lois
|
$800
[29]
Known for another series with Anastasia Steele, this author began her "Mister & Missus" series in 2019
E.L. James
|
$800
[21]
A sweater from this 6th-generation family-owned Oregon woolen mills co. will keep you warm
Pendleton
|
$800
[2]
No booze in Ontario or Winnipeg?
Canada dry
Evan
|
$800
[11]
The tiny island of San Michelehas served as this Italian city's cemetery for the past two centuries
Venice
Evan
|
$1,000
[17]
In an airplane, this portmanteau device can help determine when you're losing or gaining elevation
an altimeter
Lois
|
|
$1,000
[5]
(Billie Jean King presents the clue.) Before I switched to tennis one of the team sports I played was softball; one of the most decorated collegiate, national & international players of the game isthisUCLA alum & two-time Olympic gold medalist who becamehead coachof Liberty University's team in 2013
Dot Richardson
|
$1,000
[30]
Fans of this bestselling author of "Slammed" & "Point of Retreat" are known as Co Horts
Colleen Hoover
|
$1,000
[22]
In the '60s, British store chain Habitat popularized this cozy bed item, the French word for "down" (the feathery kind)
duvet
Lois
|
$1,000
[10]
This rhyming hyphenated phrase is used to get someone's attention
yoo-hoo
|
$1,000
[12]
Chicken Rock, a rock just big enough for a lighthouse, belongs to this much bigger isle in the Irish Sea
the Isle of Man
|
DD
$2,000
[15]
Synonyms for this word of indifference include standoffish & distant
aloof
Evan
|
| A PIECE OF HISTORY | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | FROM THE GREEK | MINERALS | NOTHING TO SEE HERE | YOU'LL LEARN TO ADAPT |
|
$400
[9]
On display at the National Museum of American History, his hat includes a mourning band for his son Willie
Abraham Lincoln
Joey
|
$400
[28]
Baylor claims the title of oldest continuously operating university in this state
Texas
Evan
|
$400
[29]
Many stubby little everyday words are from Anglo-Saxon, but Greek pyxos gave us this, meaning a container or to fight with fists
box
Joey
|
$400
[27]
200s B.C. Chinese chemists could burn the mineral cinnabar, HgS, to get this metal, then mix that with ore to extract gold
mercury
Evan
|
$400
[24]
Observers of the anti-consumerism buy nothing day make no purchases on the Friday following this holiday
Thanksgiving
Lois
|
$400
[26]
From 2013 to 2017, Tom Mison kept his head during some rough situations asthisTV character in "Sleepy Hollow"
Ichabod Crane
Joey
Evan
|
|
$800
[8]
The Babylonian map of the world, the oldest known map, includes this river, but not the Tigris
the Euphrates
Lois
|
$800
[11]
During WWII this New England school ran the Radiation Lab, the nation's leading center for radar development
MIT
Joey
|
$800
[30]
In the early 1900s the makers of a new vacuum flask with a metal casing held a competition to name it & this won
thermos
Lois
|
$800
[23]
This mineral whose crystals can be used to keep accurate time precedes "crisis" in the history of 1970s Swiss watchmaking
quartz
Lois
|
$800
[21]
This Shakespeare play begins as Don Pedro's victorious army returns to Messina
Much Ado About Nothing
Evan
|
$1,200
[17]
We're brainwashed to believe this Richard Condon novel was adapted starring Sinatra in 1962 & Denzel in 2004
The Manchurian Candidate
Evan
|
|
$1,200
[1]
Iron Age Nigerian Nok culture is known for this type of clay-based art, a term derived from Italian
terracotta
Lois
|
$1,200
[7]
Creator of "The Sex Lives of College Girls", Mindy Kaling loved shooting in "beautiful" Poughkeepsie at this college
Vassar
Lois
|
$1,600
[5]
When Oedipus vows to find his father's killer, who in fact is himself, that's the situational type of this word
irony
|
$1,200
[6]
A mineral-rich area called the Ring of Firemay have enough chromite to make Canada a century's worth of this alliterative alloy
stainless steel
Joey
|
$1,200
[13]
Subtract "ism" from a skeptical philosophical attitude to get this, Latin for nothing
nihil
Evan
|
$1,600
[18]
Big stars like Marlon Brando didn't help the famously doomed shoot of the 1996 adaptation of this island-set H.G. Wells work
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Joey
|
|
$1,600
[2]
Anartifactfrom Mycenaean Greece is called the Mask of this king from the "Iliad" & is also known as the "Mona Lisa of prehistory"
Agamemnon
Joey
|
$1,600
[10]
In 1853 T.S. Eliot's grandfather led the founding of Washington University in this city
St. Louis
Evan
|
DD
$2,000
[4]
Greek for "art" originated part of the name of this process that made movies like "Gone with the Wind" glow
Technicolor
Evan
|
$1,600
[15]
Chemical compound that makes up limestone & is found in mineral water
calcium carbonate
Evan
|
$1,600
[14]
In federal court, witnesses are asked to "solemnly swear" their testimony "will be" these 10 words
the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth
Joey
|
$2,000
[19]
Notes from James Baldwin on how to make this novel into a film helped Barry Jenkins do just that
If Beale Street Could Talk
|
|
$2,000
[3]
This civilization that reached its height in the 6th century B.C. produced the Chimera of Arezzo, now on display in Florence
the Etruscans
Evan
|
$2,000
[12]
Before spreading joy around New England, Bill Belichick played tight end at this religious-named school in Middletown, Conn.
Wesleyan
Lois
|
$2,000
[22]
Anthony Burgess wrote, "The words slide into the slots ordained by" this, the set of rules for constructing sentences
syntax
Evan
|
$2,000
[16]
The second-hardest natural material is this gemstone producer, a form of aluminum oxide
corundum
|
$2,000
[20]
In math, it's the set with no elements represented by the symbol here
null (the empty set)
Lois
|
DD
$2,400
[25]
Accepting the Oscar for writing "Sense & Sensibility", she said she'd gone to Jane Austen's grave for respect & to tell her the grosses
Emma Thompson
Lois
|
It's the geographic word in the title of a Robert Burns poem about "the mountains... covered with snow... the straths & green valleys below"
Highlands