Laura Faddah game 5.
Amber Gamrat — a software developer from Hudson, New Hampshire
Mathieu Farhoud-Dionne — a musician from Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Laura Faddah — a manager from Memphis, Tennessee (whose 4-day cash winnings total $40,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laura | $4,200 | $8,800 | $13,200 |
$18,000
5-day champion: $58,400 |
$13,200
18 R, 4 W |
| Mathieu | $-2,200 | $-1,200 | $13,400 |
$399
3rd place: $2,000 |
$14,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Amber | $-200 | $600 | $2,200 |
$2,200
2nd place: $3,000 |
$2,200
6 R, 1 W |
| ISLANDS & ARCHIPELAGOS | THE NOVEL CHAPTER | TRIPLE JEOPARDY! | I'M SO INDICTED | 5, 5 | FOOT BALL |
|
$200
[1]
Polar bears roam over much of this country's Svalbard archipelago
Norway
Mathieu
|
$200
[6]
"An Important Passenger on the Taurus Express"
Murder on the Orient Express
|
$200
[20]
Alnitak, meaning "the girdle", is part of a triple star system & the easternmost star in this constellation's "belt"
Orion
Amber
|
$200
[26]
In Washington State a charge of this in the second degree is coming if, with criminal negligence, you cause a person's death
manslaughter
Laura
Amber
|
$200
[11]
A numerical way of saying half favorable, half unfavorable
50/50
Amber
|
$200
[25]
Defenders can't approach a kicker taking this soccer penalty, whether the direct or indirect type
a free kick
Mathieu
|
|
$400
[5]
The Faroe Islands belong to Denmark, but Faroese is more closely related to the language of this nearby island
Iceland
Laura
Amber
|
$400
[7]
"The Cemetery of the Château d'If"
The Count of Monte Cristo
Mathieu
|
$400
[21]
A basic margarita combines tequila, fresh lime juice & this colorless orange-flavored liqueur such as cointreau
triple sec
Laura
|
$400
[27]
Did fear of physical injury make the victim give up property? We'll see if we can use the Hobbs Act to indict for robbery or this
extortion
Amber
|
$400
[12]
A type of bird is in this rhyming adjective meaning mushy or overly sentimental
lovey-dovey
|
$400
[17]
In this sport, it's a 5-run penalty if a fielder deliberately kicks a ball hit by a batsman over the boundary rope
cricket
Mathieu
|
|
$600
[4]
Indonesia, Malaysia & Brunei share this big island
Borneo
Laura
|
$800
[18]
"Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends"
Vanity Fair
Mathieu
|
$600
[22]
In 1956, this Yankee center fielder won the Triple Crown with a .353 batting average, 52 home runs & 130 RBIs
(Mickey) Mantle
Mathieu
|
$600
[28]
So you made $116 mil. but didn't pay Uncle Sam a dime (in a non-legal way)? We'll indict you for this 2-word crime, like Pete Rose
tax evasion
Laura
|
$600
[13]
Nuda veritas, it goes back to a fable where falsehood personified steals some clothes
naked truth
|
$600
[9]
In kickball the pitching strip is 42 feet, 5 1/8 inches from this
the (home) plate
Laura
|
|
$800
[3]
A 22-mile-wide passage over a deep marine trench separates Grand Turk & its cays from this partner island group
Caicos
Laura
Mathieu
|
DD
$1,000
[8]
"Eliza's Escape"
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Mathieu
|
$800
[23]
This horse that won the Triple Crown in 1973 still has the fastest time in all 3 of those races
Secretariat
Laura
|
$800
[29]
This, continuously going online to harass or threaten people with physical harm, got an ex-privacy consultant 9 years in 2024
cyberstalking
|
$800
[14]
It's a projection formed by the biggest part of the larynx
Adam's apple
Laura
|
$800
[10]
It's extremely rare now, but this play in which the ball is kicked after it hits the ground is still legal in the NFL
a drop kick
|
|
$1,000
[2]
The largest of the Shetland Islands is called Mainland, as is the largest island in this neighboring group
the Orkneys
Laura
Mathieu
|
$1,000
[19]
"Wickfield and Heep"
David Copperfield
Laura
|
$1,000
[24]
The Triple Frontier is a region shared by Brazil, Argentina & this smaller nation, where the Iguazú & Paraná rivers converge
Paraguay
Laura
Mathieu
|
$1,000
[30]
Indict someone for intent to maim that may include body-part severance & be "better protected from" this felony, "like me"
mayhem
|
$1,000
[15]
Stokely Carmichael said, "We have to organize ourselves to speak for each other. That's" this slogan
Black power
|
$1,000
[16]
The AFGL is the American Foot this League, which plays the sport with kicks & soccer balls on courses across the country
Golf
Laura
|
| THINKING ABOUT THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE | ALL KINDS OF MUSIC | LET'S GO TO THE PARK | HAPPY 100th, ROD SERLING | "A"CRONYMS & "A"BBREVIATIONS | MOLLUSKS |
|
$400
[28]
17th c. leader Murad IV executed drinkers of this nonalcoholic beverage & closed the "houses" where they met, seen as hotbeds of sedition
coffee
Laura
|
$400
[26]
The name of this music form is actually an abbreviation of an Italian phrase meaning "work in music"
opera
|
$400
[14]
Visit Tokyo in the spring & you can see more than a dozen varieties of these trees blossoming in Shinjuku Gyoen
cherry trees
Laura
|
$400
[13]
Merry Xmas Eve! In a classic "Twilight Zone", Art Carney loses his job as this "uniquely popular American institution"
a department store Santa Claus
Laura
|
$400
[17]
Check out my new ride; it's got AWD, this advantage on icy roads
all-wheel drive
Amber
|
$1,200
[7]
The shiny, rainbow-colored inner layer of certain mollusk shells is called nacre or this hyphenated term
mother-of-pearl
Mathieu
|
|
$800
[27]
The early leaders of the empire went by the Turkish title bey; with the caliph's blessing, Bayezid I took this Muslim title
sultan
Mathieu
|
$800
[25]
In 1899 a critic wrote, "If" this "was called tempo di raga... it might win honor more speedily"
ragtime
|
$800
[15]
Kings Park in Perth features aviewing tower with this 3-letter name, structured after a scientific discovery of 1953
DNA
Mathieu
|
$800
[12]
Rod served on Leyte & Luzon, then went to Antioch College on this "Bill"; a war-set story he wrote there was 1st published in 2024
the GI Bill
Laura
|
$800
[18]
The Internet domain code for this nation is .az
Azerbaijan
Laura
|
$1,600
[8]
Discovered in the Great Lakes in 1988, the zebra species of this mollusk is aninvasiveone, originally from Russia
mussel
|
|
$1,200
[1]
Osman I, who gave his name to the empire, beat a force from this predecessor empire at the 1302 Battle of Bapheus
the Byzantine
|
$1,600
[5]
Experts in this "anatomical" form of singing practiced in Central Asia can produce 2 tones simultaneously
throat singing
Mathieu
|
$1,600
[22]
Thisfamed spot in London's Hyde Park has been an epicenter of free speech since the 19th century
the Speakers' Corner
Laura
|
$1,200
[9]
The "Twilight Zone" episode "Mirror Image" inspired the movie "Us" from this recipient of Ithaca College's Rod Serling Award
Jordan Peele
Laura
|
$1,200
[19]
ABC can stand for this, the title of a Gene Luen Yang graphic novel & a Disney+ show
American Born Chinese
Amber
|
$2,000
[24]
The most intelligent & active group of mollusks are the members of this "head-foot" group that includes octopuses & squid
cephalopods
Mathieu
|
|
$1,600
[2]
The high-water mark of the empire's expansion came in 1683, when it rolled to the gates of this city but couldn't quite capture it
Vienna
Mathieu
|
$2,000
[4]
Francesco Landini composed this type of vocal chamber piece that, like him, originated in the 14th c.; "Deh, dimmi tu" is one
a madrigal
|
$2,000
[23]
Much of "Les Misérables" is set in these Paris gardens with the name of a small neighboring country
the Jardin du Luxembourg
Mathieu
|
$1,600
[10]
Rod's series "Night Gallery" premiered in 1969 as a 3-part TV movie, one part directed by this college dropout not yet 23
Spielberg
Mathieu
|
$1,600
[20]
Signed in 1951, a security treaty between the United States & 2 Down Under nations is known by this acronym
ANZUS
Laura
|
— |
|
$2,000
[3]
The empire endured a brief interregnum in the early 1400s after losing a big clash with this "lame" conqueror from the East
Tamerlane
Mathieu
|
DD
$4,000
[6]
Aubades were sung in the morning; these courtship tunes, like Mozart's "Oh, Come To The Window", were meant to be sung at night
serenades
Mathieu
|
DD
$3,000
[16]
Built over abandoned railroad tracks, this Chicago park opened in 2004, just a few years behind schedule
Millennium Park
Mathieu
|
$2,000
[11]
For both TV & film, Rod wrote "Patterns", this type of drama named for a corporate spot where non-movie directors meet
a boardroom drama
|
$2,000
[21]
In 1816 Black minister Richard Allen founded the AME Church, short for this
African Methodist Episcopal
Laura
|
— |
A trio including Andrew Jackson founded this city with a name that evokes a great city of the ancient world
Memphis