Stephanie Asalone — a former 401(k) processor originally from St. Marys, Pennsylvania
Steven Czekala — a retired dentist from Oakland, California
Evan Dorey — a data analytics director from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $29,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evan | $3,400 | $5,600 | $14,400 |
$8,800
2nd place: $3,000 |
$14,400
21 R, 2 W |
| Steven | $2,800 | $3,000 | $9,800 |
$2,399
3rd place: $2,000 |
$9,800
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Stephanie | $2,000 | $3,600 | $8,100 |
$14,100
New champion: $14,100 |
$9,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| WHAT'S "UP"? | HEY, WE MADE THAT! | CATCHING SOME RAYS | HOBBIES & PASTIMES | O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE | & THE HOME OF THE RAVE |
|
$200
[21]
The Cardinals beating the Cowboys 28-16 was a big one in 2023
an upset
Evan
|
$200
[30]
The Trouper or Apollo rocking recliner, trying to help guys become the company name
La-Z-Boy
Evan
|
$200
[27]
The name of this data-storage format came from the color of the laser used to read the discs
Blu-ray
Stephanie
|
$200
[6]
In the game of Scrabble, Qs & Zs have the highest value, this many points for each
10
Evan
|
$200
[25]
You can soar above the 11,842 lakes of 10 acres or more in this not quite accurately nicknamed state
Minnesota
Steven
|
$200
[28]
Ellie & Joel were back in their awful world in "Part II" of this video game, which Rolling Stone dubbed "an absolute (bleeping) banger"
The Last of Us
Evan
|
|
$400
[16]
Usually preceded by "one-", it's outdoing or keeping ahead of a friend or rival
upsmanship
Steven
|
$400
[3]
The 2024 Ioniq 5, with an electric 300 miles of range
Hyundai
Stephanie
|
$400
[19]
The River Ray in Wiltshire empties into this much larger one just east of the town of Cricklade
the Thames
Evan
|
$400
[26]
If spelunking is your hobby, you like to study & explore these, like Vietnam's Hang Son Doong
caves
Evan
|
$400
[24]
We're beginning our descent into this city; out your window, you may be able to see Coit Tower & Ghirardelli Square
San Francisco
Stephanie
|
$400
[29]
The New York times called this Broadway show inspired by a movie musical a "natural high" with a "knockout" Karen Olivo as Satine
Moulin Rouge!
Steven
|
|
$600
[1]
Hurricanes do it to trees; people do it when they leave a longtime home & move away
uproot
Steven
|
$600
[4]
"Assassin's Creed" in all its many forms, but "U" knew that
Ubisoft
Evan
|
$600
[11]
Roentgenogram is another name for an image produced with the use of these
X-rays
Steven
|
$600
[7]
Imitating larval & intermediate forms, nymphs & emergers are 2 of the main types used in this variety of angling
fly fishing
Evan
|
$600
[15]
It's about 3 hours by car from Pocatello to Sun Valley in this state, but what the heck! Let's fire up the Piper Cub!
Idaho
Steven
|
$600
[18]
This 2023 film was a "Minus" in title only: Indie Wire said, "The king of monsters is back--and better than ever"
Godzilla Minus One
|
|
$800
[2]
In the Bible the first line of Job explains that he was from Uz, & that he was "perfect and" this
upright
Stephanie
|
$800
[5]
Americone Dream & Boom Chocolatta! Cookie Core
Ben & Jerry's
Stephanie
|
$800
[12]
Watch your step at the Cayman Islands resort city named for these animals
stingray
Evan
|
$800
[8]
A Winter Olympic sport since 1998, it uses what was originally called a "snurfer" when invented in 1965
snowboarding
Evan
|
DD
$800
[17]
If you fly west out of Columbia, Missouri to Denver, basically above I-70, you'll cross this state in its entirety
Kansas
Steven
|
$800
[22]
She gets raves as Sydney on "The Bear", & gives 'em online: "Florence Pugh... can punch me in the neck. I'd die for her"
(Ayo) Edebiri
Evan
|
|
$1,000
[10]
The highest social class, or the topmost layer of the Earth's lithosphere
the upper crust
Evan
|
$1,000
[14]
Neosporin & Paxlovid
Pfizer
|
$1,000
[13]
Emmanuel Radnitzky was the real name of this photographer, painter & filmmaker who had key roles in Dada & Surrealism
Man Ray
Evan
|
$1,000
[9]
Earn points by collecting cards of the same rank into groups called melds in this card game with a name from Spanish for "basket"
Canasta
Steven
|
$1,000
[20]
Why just o'er? Why just land? We're going to put our seaplane down on this 730-square-mile Florida lake & do a little fishing
Okeechobee
Stephanie
|
$1,000
[23]
Collider said this 2023 murder movie "features the best animal performance of the year" (its pooch won the Palm Dog at Cannes!)
Anatomy of a Fall
|
| ANCIENT GREECE | 20th CENTURY FICTION | MUSICAL ETT(E)s | AVIATORS | FASHION DESIGNERS | 13-LETTER WORDS |
|
$400
[30]
The Pythian Games were held every third year of the Olympiad at this Oracle city to honor Apollo
Delphi
Evan
|
$400
[19]
"Le's do it now. Le's get that place now" were Lennie's last words to George in this Steinbeck novella
Of Mice and Men
Steven
|
$400
[28]
The Marketts kapowed their way into the Top 20 with the theme from this '60s TV series set in Gotham
Batman
Stephanie
|
$400
[27]
Tuskegee Airmen flew under the command of Benjamin O. Davis Jr., the first Black person in the 20th century to graduate from this academy
West Point
Evan
|
$400
[5]
In 2008 Christian Siriano won the fashion competition on this TV series & launched his own collection that same year
Project Runway
Evan
|
$400
[14]
Weather-sounding process to develop creative ideas through free thinking & collaboration
brainstorming
Evan
|
|
$800
[23]
The Parthenon features this style of column, the oldest & simplest of the Greek orders
Doric
Evan
|
$800
[20]
In chapter 1 of this novel, the narrator says, "People are always asking, did I know about Tyler Durden"
Fight Club
Stephanie
|
$800
[8]
Makes sense:The Raelettes backed this late, great icon
Ray Charles
Steven
|
DD
$500
[29]
According to this French author/flier, a pilot "strives to outwit the forces of nature... truth for him is what lives in the stars"
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Stephanie
|
$800
[4]
She created the DVF Awards in 2010 to honor women who have demonstrated leadership, strength & courage in the causes they support
Diane von Fürstenberg
Steven
|
$800
[24]
Adjective for the parts of a proposed deal that are not open to discussion or modification
nonnegotiable
Evan
|
|
$1,200
[15]
In 421 B.C. a general named Nicias negotiated an end to this war; 6 years later, Athens & Sparta were back at it
the Peloponnesian War
Evan
|
$1,200
[18]
Popular books of the '40s included this novel about a girl & her family living in a tough part of NYC's Williamsburg area
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Stephanie
|
$1,600
[10]
Robbie Montgomery was an original member of this unheralded girl group that backed Tina Turner on hits like "Proud Mary"
The Ikettes
Steven
|
$800
[13]
This Cold War pilot was shot down over the USSR in 1960 & now rests at Arlington
Francis Gary Powers
|
$1,200
[1]
Abody suitwas the basis for this New York designer's first collection under her own name back in 1985
Donna Karan
Steven
|
$1,200
[6]
Specific profession of filmmaker Errol Morris
documentarian
Steven
|
|
$1,600
[16]
The palace of this Cretan city had basement rooms that served as kind of the strategic wheat reserve
Knossos
Evan
|
$1,600
[21]
1969's "The House on the Strand" was one of the last novels by this "Rebecca" author
du Maurier
Evan
|
DD
$2,000
[9]
Freddie Gorman, a letter carrier by day, contributed to the lyrics of this song that delivered a No. 1 hit for The Marvelettes
"Please Mr. Postman"
Steven
|
$1,200
[12]
Astronaut William Anders, who saw a gorgeous orb coming up & took aphotocalled this, died at 90, piloting a small plane
Earthrise
|
$1,600
[2]
This Italian designer became a global name after Richard Gerewore his suits in "American Gigolo"
Armani
|
$1,600
[7]
A prisoner held this way is not allowed any contact with the outside world
incommunicado
|
|
$2,000
[17]
This Greek "Father of Tragedy" fought in the Battle of Marathon, which he included in an epitaph he wrote for himself
Aeschylus
|
$2,000
[22]
Maxine Hong Kingston said of this 1931 classic, which she read in 9th grade, "it humanized Chinese people"
The Good Earth
|
$2,000
[11]
Though dark-haired, Johnette Napolitanowas the lead singer of this group that in 1990 sang about Joey
Concrete Blonde
|
$1,600
[26]
This "Wiley" one-eyed pilot published "Around the World in Eight Days" after a voyage aboard the Winnie Mae
Wiley Post
Stephanie
|
$2,000
[3]
In 1980 this designer created controversy with provocative jeans ads that featured 15-year-old Brooke Shields
Calvin Klein
Steven
|
$2,000
[25]
Uncapitalized, it can mean "containing coal"; capitalized, it's a geological period of many vast swamps
carboniferous
Evan
|
Fittingly, this team was born on November 1, 1966, the day the franchise was awarded
New Orleans Saints