Stevie Ruiz — an assistant front office manager from Montauk, New York
Luca Gerace — a chef from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Evan Jones — a software designer from Seattle, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,199)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evan | $1,400 | $5,200 | $15,100 |
$11,799
2nd place: $3,000 |
$13,200
19 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Luca | $2,600 | $2,800 | $2,000 |
$1,980
3rd place: $2,000 |
$2,000
9 R, 4 W |
| Stevie | $1,200 | $2,000 | $18,400 |
$17,987
New champion: $17,987 |
$18,400
20 R, 2 W |
| A WALT WHITMAN SAMPLER | SOCIAL MEDIA | BRITSPEAK | OCCUPATIONAL TV | SECTS | "N", THE CITY |
|
$200
[29]
In his preface to this collection, Whitman wrote, "The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem"
Leaves of Grass
Evan
|
$200
[17]
In 2023 Elon Musk renamed Twitter this
X
Evan
|
$200
[27]
If someone asks you to "give me a tinkle on the blower", they're asking you to do this; don't forget!
call them
Stevie
|
$200
[24]
On "Sex and the City", this character was a newspaper columnist writing about her experiences
Carrie Bradshaw
Stevie
|
$200
[28]
The Clapham sect was a group of Anglicans that helped abolish this in England
slavery
Luca
|
$200
[11]
It's the capital of the Campania region
Napoli (Naples)
Luca
|
|
$400
[30]
Of this "noiseless, patient" creature Whitman wrote, "It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself"
spider
|
$400
[16]
This platform traces its roots to an online service at Harvard that got students to rate each others' attractiveness
Facebook
Luca
|
$400
[26]
Blimey is an alteration of this 2-word phrase, something that the Philistines did to Samson
blind me
Luca
|
$400
[15]
Newman on "Seinfeld" & Cliff Clavin on "Cheers" both had this job
a mailman
Stevie
|
$400
[22]
One of the differences between these 2 branches of Islam is how the passage of power was handled after Muhammad's death
Sunni & Shia
Stevie
|
$400
[10]
The New Jersey Devils play their home games in this city
Newark
Stevie
|
|
$600
[18]
Whitman's "Passage to India" inspired the title of a 1924 novel by this author
Forster
Evan
|
$600
[4]
This Chinese-owned platform has its own version in China called Douyin
TikTok
Evan
Luca
|
$600
[13]
In "The Waste Land" T.S. Eliot used this double-talk farewell between several "goonight"s
ta ta
Luca
|
$600
[14]
Alan Harper, Charlie's brother on this sitcom, was a chiropractor
Two and a Half Men
Stevie
|
$600
[21]
Fuso-Kyo is a mountain-worshipping sect of this religion
Shinto
Evan
|
$600
[8]
Looks awfully pleasant to visit this city on the Baie des Anges
Nice
Luca
|
|
$800
[1]
Whitman began a poem, "Beat! beat! drums!--"Blow!" these! "blow"
bugles
Evan
Stevie
|
$800
[2]
End-to-end encryption is the hallmark of this messaging app whose creator was recently arrested in France
Telegram
Stevie
|
$800
[5]
In Brit slang, a quod is one of these, like Newgate or Wormwood Scrubs
a prison
|
$800
[12]
On "Gilligan's Island", Roy Hinkley was the name of the character better known by this occupation
the professor
Evan
|
$800
[6]
Vaishnavism is a form of Hinduism devoted to this god whose name also starts with a "V"
Vishnu
Luca
|
$800
[7]
The southern edge of this East African capital has a small national park known as the "Kifaru Ark", kifaru meaning rhino in Swahili
Nairobi
Evan
|
|
$1,000
[19]
"A Child's Reminiscence" was later retitled "Out of the Cradle" these 2 words
Endlessly Rocking
|
$1,000
[3]
Celebs get design inspo online too! Diane Keaton wrote a book called "The House That" this visual discovery platform "Built"
Pinterest
Stevie
|
$1,000
[25]
Just ask spindly comedian Daniel--"a load of" this 4-letter stuff is garbage, subpar
tosh
|
$1,000
[23]
Real-life crisis management specialist Judy Smithinspired this character with the same job on "Scandal"
Olivia Pope
|
DD
$2,200
[20]
In the 19th century the Namdhari sect of this religion began wearing turbans straight across the forehead--no more jaunty angles
Sikhism
Evan
|
$1,000
[9]
The Hu-Ning Highway connects this port on the Yangtze River with Shanghai
Nanjing
Luca
|
| ADMISSIBLE EDIFICE | A MIX OF SCIENCE | ARTIST BY ALBUMS | CAMERAS & PHOTOGRAPHY | ITALIAN EXPLORERS | 6 LETTERS, ENDS IN "Y" |
|
$400
[14]
The Geisel Library at UCSD / Nifty & wondrous, you really must see / Honors a man of ozecular fame / Under this greatly familiarer name
Dr. Seuss
Evan
|
$400
[24]
It's a facula that a facula is a bright spot in the photosphere of this body
the Sun
Evan
|
$400
[6]
"Parachutes" &"X&Y"
Coldplay
Evan
|
$400
[29]
A type of lens where the focal length is shorter than the lens' length is called this, partly from Greek for "afar"
telephoto
Stevie
|
$400
[30]
November 3, 1493, gimme a sec, was a... Sunday. No, I'm not a savant, I just know that's when this man sighted the island of Dominica
Columbus
Evan
|
$400
[13]
Once thought to be influenced by the Moon's phases, it's a word for sheer craziness
lunacy
Stevie
|
|
$800
[23]
Seen here living up to its name, The Egg is a performing arts center at Empire State Plaza in this capital
Albany
Stevie
|
$800
[18]
This mammalian-sounding unit of measurement is equal to Avogadro's number
mole
Evan
|
$800
[2]
"Unorthodox Jukebox" &"24k Magic"
Bruno Mars
Evan
|
$800
[27]
A DSLR camera is a digital single-lens this
reflex
Stevie
|
$800
[26]
In 1503 Ludovico di Varthema dressed as a Muslim & joined a caravan to this holy city with a "temple similar to the Colosseum"
Mecca
Stevie
|
$800
[12]
It's the difference between your home's value & how much you still owe on it
equity
Evan
|
|
$1,200
[22]
Let's talk Turkey... also known as the Church of the Divine Wisdom, this Istanbul structure dates back to the 6th century
the Hagia Sophia
Luca
Stevie
|
$1,200
[17]
This effect named for an Austrian man manifests itself in receding siren noises & cosmic red-shifting expansion
the Doppler effect
Luca
|
$1,200
[1]
"Reasonable Doubt" &"The Black Album"
Jay-Z
Stevie
|
$1,600
[19]
To get a stick motionblur, you can allow more light to pass through your cam by setting a slow speed of this device
the shutter
Evan
|
$1,600
[3]
In 1524 he sighted New York Bay & then "bridged" the Atlantic once again in 1528, when he was eaten by cannibals in the West Indies
Verrazzano
Evan
Stevie
|
$1,200
[10]
Thislarge bird of prey is known for plucking fish right out of the water
an osprey
Luca
|
|
$1,600
[15]
ACleveland Cliniccenter for brain health isn't in Ohio, but in this glitzy city whose call Frank Gehry long resisted
Las Vegas
|
$1,600
[7]
Part of a Canadian province is in the name of this current that usually meets the Gulf Stream around Cape Hatteras
the Labrador Current
|
$1,600
[4]
"Utopia" &"Astroworld"
Travis Scott
Stevie
|
$2,000
[28]
The name of this German camera company bears the first 3 letters of the company's early leader Ernst Leitz
Leica
Stevie
|
$2,000
[25]
In 1497, sailing for the British, he landed in eastern Canada--not sure where--anyway, not Asia as he thought
(John) Cabot
Evan
Luca
|
$1,600
[9]
Differing by a first letter, one word means to gather data or opinions from a group of people; the other, to provide goods or services
survey & purvey
Stevie
|
|
$2,000
[21]
In a few hours Frank Lloyd Wright drew the plans for this getaway right on the Bear Run River in Pennsylvania
Fallingwater
Evan
|
$2,000
[8]
About 1.5% of any quantity of the isotope uranium-238 decays to this element every 100 million years
lead
|
$2,000
[5]
"Awaken, My Love!" &"Because the Internet"
Childish Gambino
Stevie
|
DD
$4,000
[20]
His first roll of pictures from a Brownie camera was developed at Pillsbury's Pictures in Old Yosemite Village
Ansel Adams
Evan
|
DD
$5,900
[16]
Last name of Niccolò & Maffeo, who in 1271 were given papal letters to present to Kublai Khan
Polo
Evan
|
$2,000
[11]
In England, it referred to people of high birth, high social class, wealthy landowners ranking just below the nobility
gentry
Stevie
|
An early version of this novel was first published as a serial under the title "The Year 1805"
War and Peace