Kevin Laskowski game 3.
Julia Schan — a stay-at-home mom from Pleasanton, California
Drew Wheeler — a high school social studies teacher from Athens, Georgia
Kevin Laskowski — an Episcopal priest from Falls Church, Virginia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $39,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin | $600 | $3,400 | $6,800 |
$13,599
3-day champion: $52,999 |
$9,800
12 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Drew | $2,900 | $3,500 | $6,300 |
$8,700
2nd place: $3,000 |
$6,800
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Julia | $200 | $1,600 | $8,600 |
$3,599
3rd place: $2,000 |
$9,600
17 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| PICTURE THE FILM | ONE GOOD "TURN" | QUOTING THE KING JAMES BIBLE | SLOGANS | SEAS | THE DAY |
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$200
[1]
A classic from 1980
Raging Bull
Julia
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$200
[17]
A recession is a prolonged one of these, a reduction in economic activity
downturn
Drew
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$200
[22]
Exodus 20:8 commands, "Remember" this day "to keep it holy"
the Sabbath
Julia
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$200
[6]
The Ted Bates Ad Agency came up with the slogan "Melts in your mouth, not in your hand" for this candy
M&Ms
Drew
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$200
[8]
Called the East Sea in South Korea, this nationally named sea has practically no tides
the Sea of Japan
Kevin
Drew
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$200
[12]
Some things reported on during this day: flying penguins, Google Translate for animals & trees that grow spaghetti
April Fools' Day
Julia
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$400
[2]
It was the highest-grossing film of 2008
The Dark Knight
Drew
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$400
[18]
Drop-arm, swing gate & tripod are types of these barriers often seen at subway or fair entrances
a turnstile
Julia
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$400
[27]
"And the light shineth in" this, which "comprehended it not"
the darkness
Kevin
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$400
[7]
"Don't leave home without it" is a classic slogan of this company that also says, "Don't live life without it"
American Express
Julia
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$400
[23]
Bounded by the coasts of Myanmar & Thailand to its east, the Andaman Sea is a marginal sea of this ocean
the Indian
Drew
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$400
[14]
In 2024 this restaurant chain partnered with feeding America to feed America on National Pancake Day
IHOP
Julia
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$600
[3]
It tells the true story of a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation
Spotlight
Julia
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$600
[19]
As in the song "Closing Time", it's what bars do "over every boy and every girl" around last call
they turn the lights on
Julia
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$600
[28]
"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green" these
pastures
Kevin
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DD
$500
[11]
In the 1980s this investors newspaper billed itself as "the daily diary of the American dream"
The Wall Street Journal
Drew
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$600
[24]
The relatively shallow depth of this sea between the British isles & Norway yields very dramatic waves
the North Sea
Julia
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$600
[15]
In 2022 The New Yorker honored a newish federal holiday with a cover painting of a Black family called "157 Years of" this
Juneteenth
Drew
|
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$800
[4]
A nearly 4-hour-long Western, one of Hollywood's biggest bombs
Heaven's Gate
Drew
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$800
[20]
Usually for piano, it's a short, dreamy composition suggestive of the evening
nocturne
Kevin
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$800
[29]
"Why beholdest thou" this 4-letter thing "that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"
the mote
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$600
[9]
This company's "Yeah, we've got that" slogan was replaced in 2003
Staples
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$800
[25]
The only one of Earth's seas without a land boundary, it gets its name from its native surface life
the Sargasso Sea
Julia
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$800
[13]
A 2005 shop.org press release is said to be the first public use of this term for a shopping day a few days after Thanksgiving
Cyber Monday
Kevin
Julia
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$1,000
[5]
A 1986 Oliver Stone film
Platoon
Drew
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$1,000
[21]
This adjective for one of few words is from Latin for "silence"
taciturn
Kevin
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$1,000
[30]
"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils" this phrase
the breath of life
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$800
[10]
In '90s ads parents just didn't understand why kids liked this cereal; the common response was "We eat what we like"
Apple Jacks
Julia
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$1,000
[26]
To its north the Black Sea is connected to this smaller sea by the Kerch Strait
the Sea of Azov
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$1,000
[16]
In 2021 Joe Biden became the first U.S. president to formally proclaim this holiday that coincides with another in the fall
Indigenous Peoples' Day
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| ON THE TIMELINE | "E" BOOKS | BIOLOGY | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS | FOOD & DRINK | THE WORLDS OF TV |
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$400
[21]
1698:Sends his wife to a convent;1721:Declares himself "emperor of all Russia"
Peter the Great
Kevin
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$400
[10]
The title of the first book about this hotel-dwelling girl is just her name; sequels include her "in Moscow"
Eloise
Julia
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$400
[16]
This kind of pit viper is named for the hollow scales of keratin on the tip of its tail
a rattlesnake
Julia
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$400
[26]
From the Greek for "to discern" comes this word for the identification of an illness
diagnosis
Kevin
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$400
[2]
You can eat rice as a grain or ferment it to make this alcoholic drink, the national beverage of Japan
sake
Drew
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$400
[3]
Even though it sounds like the Ewok planet, this show is named for Diego Luna's character
Andor
Drew
|
|
$800
[22]
264 B.C.:This war begins in Sicily; 260 B.C.: The Romans reverse engineer a type of ship, the Quinquereme
the Punic
Drew
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$800
[11]
Mr. Knightley does turn out to have shining armor on in this Jane Austen novel
Emma
Julia
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$800
[17]
Chorionic villi are tissue that make up a large part of this temporary organ that supplies the fetus with nutrients
the placenta
Kevin
Drew
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$800
[27]
The exclamation "Ouch!" is an example of this part of speech
an interjection
Julia
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$800
[8]
Terms like stir fry &this dumpling were introduced when Buwei Yang Chao created one of the USA's first Chinese cookbooks
pot sticker
Julia
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$800
[4]
It's the name of the menacingdimensionon "Stranger Things"
the Upside Down
Kevin
|
|
$1,200
[23]
462 B.C.:He helps introduce a form of democracy for Athenian male citizens;429 B.C.:He dies of plague
Pericles
Drew
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$1,200
[12]
One-word title of Robert Harris' novel about a young mathematician trying to break Nazi codes
Enigma
Drew
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$1,200
[18]
Ferns use this type of cell to asexually reproduce
a spore
Julia
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DD
$1,000
[28]
Also a math term; the police sometimes set one up to secure an area
a perimeter
Julia
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$1,200
[7]
If you see melanzane on an Italian menu, know that you are getting this
eggplant
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$1,200
[5]
According to Gene Roddenberry, this home planet of a USS Enterprise officer orbits a star called 40 Eridani A
Vulcan
Drew
|
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$1,600
[24]
1613:Kidnapped by Samuel Argall;1616:Travels to London
Pocahontas
Kevin
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$2,000
[15]
It's Nicola Yoon's young adult tale of Madeline, who hasn't left her house in 17 years--then a boy moves in next door...
Everything, Everything
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$1,600
[19]
The Proteus species of this shape-shifting eukaryote lives in decaying vegetation in freshwater ponds
an amoeba
Drew
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$1,600
[29]
The Assumption is deemed a "holy day of" this, meaning Catholics have to go to church
obligation
Kevin
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$1,600
[1]
These units measure the heat of peppers; the Carolina reaper scores a scary 1.5 million
Scoville
Kevin
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$1,600
[6]
On a Syfy miniseries James Hook finds a magical orb that takes him, Peter & the Lost Boys to this one-word title world
Neverland
Julia
|
|
$2,000
[25]
762:This city is founded as the capital of the Abbasid Dynasty; 1258:Sacked by Mongols
Baghdad
|
DD
$3,000
[14]
This nonfiction Pulitzer winner is subtitled "Poverty and Profit in the American City"; the title happened to many families
Evicted
Kevin
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$2,000
[20]
In a mammal cell cytosol is a fluid component of this substance that encompasses all of the floating organelles
the cytoplasm
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$2,000
[30]
An alliance of like-minded groups; the Bush administration had one "of the willing"
coalition
Kevin
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$2,000
[9]
Wolfberry is another name for this sour Asian fruit that's high in antioxidants
a goji berry
Julia
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$2,000
[13]
Geralt of Rivia travels across a landmass simply known as the Continent on this show
The Witcher
Kevin
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Its 15 official state songs include 2 that mention moonshine & 3 played in 3/4 time
Tennessee