Ashley Chan game 5.
Eric Weldon-Schilling — a bar manager and sommelier from Houston, Texas
Sarah Rosenthal — a fundraiser from New York, New York
Ashley Chan — a publicist from Lewisville, Texas (whose 4-day cash winnings total $67,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashley | $2,600 | $2,800 | $2,400 |
$2,400
3rd place: $2,000 |
$3,400
14 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Sarah | $1,400 | $3,800 | $8,400 |
$11,400
2nd place: $3,000 |
$11,400
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Eric | $3,800 | $6,400 | $19,600 |
$21,000
New champion: $21,000 |
$22,400
24 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| POLI SCI | CHRISTMAS SONGS | 3 OF A KIND | MOUNTAINS | THAT'S WEIRD | DICTIONARIES DEFINING SLANG WORDS |
|
$200
[30]
Hannah Arendt compared totalitarianism to this bulb vegetable, with a central leader wrapped in layers of followers
an onion
Sarah
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$200
[3]
"Have" this rhyming type of "Christmas; it's the best time of the year"
holly jolly
Ashley
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$200
[20]
Aswan, Grand Coulee, Dez
dams
Eric
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$200
[29]
The Queen Alexandra Mountain Range of this continent was named in 1908 by Ernest Shackleton for the then British queen
Antarctica
Ashley
|
$200
[11]
A Mattel doll is based on this Kate McKinnon character from a 2023 movie
Weird Barbie
Sarah
|
$200
[22]
The American Heritage Dictionary: "the act or practice ofdressingto resemble or portray a fictional character"
cosplay
Ashley
|
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$400
[9]
The idea that the political spectrum is an arc with far right & far left bending toward each other is this lucky symbol theory
a horseshoe
Ashley
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$400
[5]
"Born is the king of Israel", this song tells us
"The First Noel"
Eric
|
$400
[19]
Full house, dead man's, pocket rockets
poker hands
Eric
|
$400
[28]
Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains may have been the "Mountains of the Moon" once thought to be the source of this
the Nile
Eric
|
$400
[21]
In cognitive science, the acronym "WEIRD" stands for "Western, Educated, Industrialized", this financial state "and Democratic"
Rich
Sarah
|
$400
[15]
The Oxford English Dictionary:"an inadvertent call made on a mobile phone in one's rear trouser pocket"
butt-dial
Sarah
|
|
$800
[8]
This judicial "-ism" holds that the text of the Constitution is "not living but dead"--fixed in the meaning it had when written
originalism
Eric
|
$600
[6]
"It's Christmas time in the city, ring-a-ling (ring-a-ling), hear them ring, (ting-a-ling) "--these
silver bells
Ashley
|
$600
[18]
General Sherman, General Grant, Grizzly Giant
giant sequoias
|
$600
[27]
Mount St. Helens in Washington & Lassen Peak in California are 2 volcanoes in this mountain range
the Cascades
Eric
|
$600
[10]
Weird Tales magazine published his story "The Black Ferris", which formed the basis for "Something Wicked This Way Comes"
Ray Bradbury
Eric
|
$600
[14]
Collins Dictionary: "a person who creates a false identity on social media... to lure someone into... a relationship"
catfish
Ashley
|
|
DD
$1,000
[1]
Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen gets credit for coining this term for an organized effort to fake a grassroots movement
astroturfing
Ashley
|
$800
[7]
Singing along with Bing, The Andrews Sisters tell us of this second day of Christmas gift
two turtle doves
Sarah
|
$800
[16]
Chennai, Jaipur, Varanasi
cities in India
Ashley
Sarah
|
$800
[25]
Host of the 2014 Winter Olympics the city of Sochi is at the base of these mountains along the coast of the Black Sea
the Caucasus
Ashley
|
$800
[24]
The Weird U.S. travel guide includes such sites as the Fall River, Massachusettshouseof this accused murderess
Lizzie Borden
Ashley
|
$800
[12]
dictionary.com: "characterizes someone or something as unoriginal... is said to like pumpkin spice lattes"
basic
Ashley
|
|
$1,000
[2]
It's the 3-word doctrine that the individual branches of government are distinct & shall not infringe on the others' authority
separation of powers
Eric
|
$1,000
[4]
"Chestnuts roasting on an open fire," this personage "nipping at your nose"
Jack Frost
Eric
|
$1,000
[17]
Eagle, Orion, Lagoon
nebulae
Ashley
|
$1,000
[26]
The highest mountain range in New Zealand, the "Southern" these top out at a bit over 12,000 feet
Alps
Eric
|
$1,000
[23]
It's the formal & familial though maybe not terribly polite way to address the trio of witches in "Macbeth"
the Weird Sisters
Sarah
|
$1,000
[13]
Cambridge Dictionary: "a sudden feeling that you dislike someone... because of something they do"
the ick
Ashley
|
| POLI SCI-FI | VICTORIAN VERSE | ORGANIZATIONS | TITLES OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS & ARTICLES | IN D.C.'s STATUARY HALL | BEFORE & AFTER |
|
$400
[2]
Located somewhere in the Rockies, the Capitol of this country dominates its 12 surrounding districts
Panem
Ashley
|
$400
[1]
The Victorians loved these supernatural little creatures, often spelled with an "E" in place of an "I", as in Yeats' "The Stolen Child"
faeries
Eric
|
$400
[7]
In 2024 the NAR, National Assoc. of these, settled a big case & agents must now have a contract before showing a buyer a property
Realtors
Sarah
|
$400
[30]
By him in 1705: "A Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets"
(Edmond) Halley
Eric
|
$400
[28]
Colorado honors Jack Swigert, who flew aboard this successful failure of a Moon mission & was elected to Congress in 1982
Apollo 13
Sarah
|
$400
[9]
An ever-questioning monkey of literature asks how he became the actor who won an Oscar for "Syriana"
Curious George Clooney
Sarah
Eric
|
|
$800
[3]
George Lucas said of this "Return of the Jedi" guy, "Richard M. Nixon was his name. He subverted the Senate & finally took over"
Emperor Palpatine
Eric
|
$800
[10]
In this poem, Tennyson wrote, "When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made! All the world wondered"
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Eric
|
$800
[16]
Now in fresh water, the parasiticsea lampreyis a foe of the U.S.-Canadian fishery commission named for this quintet
the five Great Lakes
|
$800
[23]
2024 breaking news: "Evidence of Dark" (not photosynthetic) this element "Production at the Abyssal Seafloor"
oxygen
|
$800
[29]
Alabama is represented by this woman, depicted as a young girl astonished by the discovery of her first word--"water"
Helen Keller
Eric
|
$800
[15]
Winter underwear worn at the university where the Peabody Institute is located
long Johns Hopkins
Eric
|
|
$1,200
[4]
Secretary of Education Laura Roslin suddenly ascends to the presidency of the 12 Colonies on this series
Battlestar Galactica
Eric
|
$1,600
[12]
His "Barrack Room Ballads" covers India & beyond, as in "Ford o' Kabul River"
Kipling
Sarah
|
$1,200
[22]
In 2019 this organization that gives films their ratings from G to NC-17 dropped "of America" from its name
the Motion Picture Association
Ashley
|
$1,200
[24]
2012: "Tidal Heating Shrinks" this adorably named not-too-cold, not-too-hot "Zone"
Goldilocks
Ashley
|
$1,200
[14]
Vermont has astatueof him, despite or maybe in part because of the fact he was run out of towns in Massachusetts & Connecticut
Ethan Allen
Ashley
|
$1,600
[21]
A phrase about a photo's value equivalent to a certain amount of prose gets into a Scrabble-like online game founded in 2009
a picture's worth a thousand Words with Friends
Eric
|
|
$1,600
[5]
This "Star Trek" organization, the UFP for short, has a president, a Federal Council & a Supreme Court
the United Federation of Planets
Eric
|
$2,000
[17]
Thackeray wrote that this 1851 London exhibition hall "stands in High Park like Noah's Ark, a rainbow bint above it"
the Crystal Palace
Ashley
|
$1,600
[19]
This 56-nation organization rooted in an empire includes Tonga in the Pacific & Eswatini in Africa
British Commonwealth
Sarah
|
$1,600
[26]
2012:"Observation of a New Particle in the Search for the Standard Model" this particle "with the Atlas Detector at the LHC"
the Higgs boson
Eric
|
$1,600
[8]
Rhode Island honors Nathanael Greene & this man, which seems the least the state could do, as he founded the original colony
Roger Williams
Eric
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$2,000
[27]
A 1981 "meal" movie with Wallace Shawn tags in a huge pro wrestling legend & a co-star of Shawn's in a film 6 years later
My Dinner with Andre the Giant
Eric
|
|
$2,000
[6]
A prominent member of the Ape National Assembly, this doctor is both Minister of Science & Chief Defender of the Faith
Dr. Zaius
Ashley
|
DD
$2,800
[11]
Thomas Hardy really liked this made-up name, writing a poem about its "Captains" as well as a novel about its "Mayor"
Casterbridge
Eric
|
$2,000
[18]
"A" is for AIDS in this acronym, an organization founded in 1987 to advocate for better AIDS treatment
ACT UP
Ashley
Sarah
|
$2,000
[25]
2021: "The Soundscape of the" this proposed human-dominated epoch "Ocean"
Anthropocene
Sarah
|
$2,000
[13]
There is a Georgia statue for Alexander Stephens, though the man did hold this job from 1861 to 1865
vice president of the Confederacy
Eric
|
DD
$3,000
[20]
A proverbial admonition not to weep over mishandled dairy that turned into a caramel-&-chocolate Hershey product
don't cry over spilled Milk Duds
Sarah
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The unofficial anthem of this U.K. territory mentions kelp, penguins & "the wind from the Horn"
the Falkland Islands (the Falklands)