Mehal Shah game 3.
Adam Hersh — an attorney from Brooklyn, New York
Courtney Schooley — a preschool teacher from Tulsa, Oklahoma
Mehal Shah — a software engineer from Seattle, Washington (whose 2-day cash winnings total $46,062)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mehal! | $4,400 | $7,200 | $14,400 |
$0
3rd place: $2,000 |
$12,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Courtney | $0 | $2,400 | $8,400 |
$16,601
2nd place: $3,000 |
$8,400
11 R, 1 W |
| Adam | $5,200 | $5,800 | $16,600 |
$29,000
New champion: $29,000 |
$13,200
16 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| BARBIE THROUGH THE YEARS | ZOOLOGY GLOSSARY | OOPS! | FRENCH-NAMED FOOD & DRINK | SPEECH | GIFT OF "GAB" |
|
$200
[26]
The Dolls of the World include a Princess of Japan Barbie dressed in a colorful one of these robes & a pair of zori sandals
a kimono
Adam
|
$200
[12]
As their name implies, decapods like crawfish or crabs have this number of legs
10
Courtney
|
$200
[25]
A stock market technical glitch in 2024 showed this Warren Buffett company down 99% for the day
Berkshire Hathaway
Mehal!
|
$200
[30]
It's a pre-dinner alcoholic drink, perhaps champagne, that gets you ready for the main event
an apéritif
Mehal!
|
$200
[24]
As Chief Justice, this ex-pres. spoke on legal reform & warned his talk was "dry to the point of satisfying the Anti-Saloon League"
Taft
Mehal!
|
$200
[21]
One billion bytes
a gigabyte
Mehal!
|
|
$400
[27]
One of Barbie's earliest careers was as one of these, like Anne Klein or Stella McCartney
a fashion designer
Courtney
|
$400
[3]
Derived from the Greek for "living a double life", this class of animal lives on land typically but breeds in water
an amphibian
Mehal!
|
$400
[15]
The "Wicked" Bible of 1631 famously omitted this word from the 10 Commandments in the one about adultery
not
Mehal!
|
$400
[11]
In New Orleans you can find crab ones of these fritters, as well as the sweetkindcovered with powdered sugar
a beignet
Mehal!
|
$400
[23]
Thislong-time New York governor gave an impassioned 1984 convention speech sometimes known as "A Tale of Two Cities"
Mario Cuomo
Adam
|
$400
[20]
Mission ship-possible; the Congo River is this adjective between Kinshasa & Kisangani
navigable
|
|
$600
[17]
To help kids with cancer, in 2012 Mattel created Ella, aka Chemo Barbie, who notably had this feature
being bald
Mehal!
|
$600
[2]
In layman's terms a marsupial's marsupium is this
its pouch
Courtney
|
$600
[13]
In 1984 the Trail Blazers drafted Sam Bowie instead of this Tar Heel that the Bulls got; definite oops material
Michael Jordan
Mehal!
|
$600
[10]
A cup of Joe with an equal amount of steamed or hot milk = this beverage with a rhyming name
café au lait
|
$600
[7]
In 1776 this famous cousin watered down Patrick Henry with "independence... or the most ignominious & galling servitude"
Samuel Adams
Adam
|
$600
[19]
This country's Loango National Park protects elephants & hippos
Gabon
Mehal!
|
|
$800
[28]
Multiple Barbies appeared in the 2023 film, including President Barbie played by this funny lady
Issa Rae
Adam
|
$800
[1]
These small, cylindrical polyps build their limestone skeletons by drawing calcium out of seawater
coral
Adam
|
$800
[5]
For 164 years Anne of this literary family had the wrong age on her tombstone; in 2013, it was corrected
Brontë
Mehal!
|
$800
[8]
Mellower & with fewer tannins than Cabernet, this wine variety derives its name from the French word for "blackbird"
merlot
Courtney
Adam
|
$800
[6]
In 1653 Oliver Cromwell dismissed the remnant called this anatomy-named "Parliament" with abuse & "in the name of God--go!"
the Rump Parliament
Mehal!
|
$800
[18]
In "Can You Feel The Love Tonight", Elton John sings the power of love makes kings & these wandering folks "believe the very best"
vagabonds
Mehal!
Adam
|
|
$1,000
[29]
The Barbie Inspiring Women collection includes one ofthisNASA mathematician, no longer a "hidden figure"
Katherine Johnson
Courtney
|
$1,000
[4]
"C" is for this, the hard-shelled covering for the pupa of a butterfly
chrysalis
Adam
|
$1,000
[14]
Pat Maloney, as editor of the Chicago Tribune, okayed the headline this man "Defeats Truman"
Dewey
Mehal!
|
DD
$2,000
[9]
The French version of broth & a celebrated seafood stew, they both start with the same 6 letters
bouillon & bouillabaisse
Adam
|
$1,000
[22]
In 1977 he said in a speech, "We are not only a Latin-American nation; we are an Afro-American nation also"
Fidel Castro
|
$1,000
[16]
A Royal Navy battlecruiser had this name meaning tireless & "in"exhaustible
Indefatigable
Courtney
|
| I TINKER | BRITISH GEOGRAPHY | TV TITLE TWOSOMES BY ACTORS | AUTHORS INITIALLY | MUSIC & WAR | IT ENDS WITH "US" |
|
$400
[28]
Tim Derk developed the cannon for these as the San Antonio Spurs' coyote mascot, with help from the Phoenix Suns' gorilla
T-shirt
Adam
|
$400
[19]
A hazard to navigation, the Goodwin Sands are at an entrance to the strait of this town
Dover
Adam
|
$400
[15]
Sprouse &Sprouse
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
Courtney
|
$400
[12]
He was present at Utah Beach on D-Day; a year & a bit later, his first work featuring Holden Caulfield was published
J.D. Salinger
|
$400
[29]
The Minneapolis Symphony's landmark 1954 recording of the "1812 Overture" used a muzzle-loaded one of these from West Point
a cannon
Mehal!
|
$400
[30]
It's a branch of math, or another word for dental tartar
calculus
Mehal!
|
|
$800
[27]
In 1977 he developed the Apple II computer which, aided by Steve Jobs' marketing skills, was the first affordable home PC
Wozniak
Adam
|
$800
[18]
The inhabitants of this metropolis in northwest England are called Mancunians
Manchester
Courtney
|
$800
[14]
Marshall &Williams
Laverne & Shirley
Courtney
|
$800
[1]
This author grew up in Bexley, Ohio, though probably not on "Fear Street", which he turned into a book series in 1989
(R.L.) Stine
Mehal!
|
$800
[6]
The experiences of U.S. Marine Christian Ellis, suffering from this in the aftermath of deployment, inspired the opera "Fallujah"
PTSD
Mehal!
|
$800
[24]
Gulp! The name of this body part is from the Greek for "gullet"
an esophagus
Mehal!
|
|
$1,200
[11]
Later one of Richard Nixon's best friends, Robert Abplanalp invented an 80% cheaper valve for this type of spray can
aerosol
Courtney
|
$1,200
[3]
In 2008 Sark, a part of this island group, became the last European territory to abolish feudalism
the Channel Islands
Mehal!
|
$1,200
[10]
Gless &Daly
Cagney & Lacey
|
$1,200
[8]
In the early 20th c. he was only 8 when he started writing stories about a fantasy land called Boxen populated by animals
(C.S.) Lewis
Mehal!
Adam
|
$1,200
[5]
An amputee in World War I, Paul Wittgensteincommissioned several works afterward, including Ravel's concerto for this body part
the left hand
Mehal!
|
$1,200
[23]
Seen here is the mistletoe fig, a variety of this tree or shrub that can be grown indoors
a ficus
Courtney
|
|
$1,600
[21]
Thismusician created his solid-body electric guitar in 1941 & later developed overdubbing & multitracking
(Les) Paul
Mehal!
|
$1,600
[2]
A Latin-loving clerk who'd never been there, A.E. Housmanassumed the poetic persona of a farm lad from this shire bordering Wales
Shropshire
|
$1,600
[16]
Foxx &Wilson
Sanford and Son
|
$2,000
[13]
This "Broken Earth" trilogy novelist called herself an "obsessed space child" growing up
N.K. Jemisin
|
$1,600
[4]
He said composers who lived during peace couldn't write good marches such as his Spanish-American War-inspired "The Man Behind The Gun"
Sousa
Mehal!
|
$1,600
[22]
Systemic is the most common form of this chronic autoimmune disease that affects 9 times more women than men
lupus
Courtney
|
|
DD
$4,000
[25]
By 1838 Alfred Vail & this man wired up a new communication system, but when it came to branding, ol' Al got tapped out
(Samuel F.B.) Morse
Mehal!
|
$2,000
[20]
The north face of this Scottish peak, called "The Ben" by the locals, is a rock climber's paradise
Ben Nevis
Adam
|
$2,000
[17]
Based on literary characters:Fry & Laurie
Jeeves and Wooster
Adam
|
DD
$4,000
[9]
In 2017 this author said, "I grew up in a greaser neighborhood" but got put in high school classes with Socs
(S.E.) Hinton
Adam
|
$2,000
[7]
After capturing this city in 1809, Napoleon had a guard protect Haydn's house & a French officer sang his music to him
Vienna
Adam
|
$2,000
[26]
This city in what's now Turkey was the site of the original mausoleum, one of the 7 ancient wonders
Halicarnassus
Mehal!
Adam
|
In this film Paula Alquist tells Gregory Anton, "Have you gone mad, my husband? Or is it I who am mad?"
Gaslight