2024-2025 Second Chance competition week 1, semifinal game 1.A largeJeopardy!logo is added to the set, hanging above upstage center.With Happy Holidays message from theJeopardy!crew.
Tekla Sauter — a nonprofit strategist from Chicago, Illinois
Will Yancey — a lecturer of history from Banquete, Texas
Alex Michev — an attorney from Richmond, Virginia
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex | $1,600 | $4,800 | $12,800 |
$14,300
2nd place: $3,000 |
$12,800
20 R, 2 W |
| Will | $2,800 | $3,200 | $14,800 |
$25,601
Finalist |
$14,400
20 R (including 3 DDs), 4 W |
| Tekla | $1,800 | $2,800 | $5,600 |
$11,198
3rd place: $2,000 |
$5,600
8 R, 2 W |
| A EUROCENTRIC CATEGORY | RHYME TIME | TRANSPORTATION | COLOR MY WORLD | BOOK "OF" | MERMAN |
|
$200
[15]
If you're headed to Monaco, it's probably for its beaches or its Grand Casino in this resort area
Monte Carlo
Alex
|
$200
[8]
Bird of prey chatter
hawk talk
|
$200
[25]
And let's get right into it; that's inventor Dean Kamen demonstrating his human transporter, better known by this name
a Segway
Alex
|
$200
[14]
If you show up at work wearing nothing but this item, you might get one of these dismissals with the same name
a pink slip
Will
|
$200
[20]
"Repression is the only lasting philosophy" is a quote from this 1859 book set in both Paris & London
A Tale of Two Cities
Alex
|
$200
[26]
Maine lighthouse keeper Thomas Curry is the father of this DC comic book hero
Aquaman
Will
|
|
$400
[6]
Large for a European desert, Błędówska Desertin this country is only about 13 square miles of shifting sand
Poland
Alex
|
$400
[10]
An incorrect ballad
a wrong song
Tekla
|
$400
[24]
Since 2012, this SpaceX craft has carried cargo to the International Space Station & since 2020, humans
Dragon
Alex
|
$400
[9]
Living primarily in forests, this omnivore is scientifically Ursus americanus
a black bear
Alex
|
$400
[19]
It's the third installment in a Middle-earth trilogy
The Return of the King
Will
|
$400
[27]
In this film Merman/model Ben Stiller reminds us, "Moisture is the essence of wetness & wetness is the essence of beauty"
Zoolander
Alex
|
|
$600
[1]
It's mainland Europe's only active volcano
Vesuvius
Will
Tekla
|
$600
[11]
A solitary one of a brand of stackable potato chips
a single Pringle
Alex
|
$600
[23]
In 2016 Google's self-driving car project adopted this company name
Waymo
|
$600
[4]
In 2023 the 49ers led the NFL by scoring a TD 67% of the times they entered this area within the opposing 20-yard line
the red zone
Will
|
$600
[18]
Curly, a sweet Newfoundland, is put to work as a sled dog along with Buck in this classic
The Call of the Wild
Alex
|
$600
[28]
This animated king tells his daughter, "I consider myself a reasonable merman" before destroying a grotto of human objects
(King) Triton
Alex
|
|
$800
[2]
The coat of arms on Slovenia'sflaghas representations of mountains & this arm of the Mediterranean
the Adriatic Sea
Will
|
$800
[12]
Hark! Something audible from where the pitcher stands
a mound sound
Alex
|
$800
[22]
From Japanese for "human-powered vehicle", it's largely been replaced by the pedicab
a rickshaw
Alex
|
$800
[5]
It originates at Lake Tana in Ethiopia & then ultimately flows north about 1,000 miles
the Blue Nile
Alex
Will
|
$800
[17]
This Thomas Hardy novel is subtitled "A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented"
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Will
|
$800
[29]
Fry meets mermen & mermaids in the fabled lost city of Atlanta on this animated show set in the 31st century
Futurama
Alex
|
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
Unter den Linden in Berlin is a tree-lined avenue running westward nearly a mile to this 5-portal monument
the Brandenburg Gate
Will
|
$1,000
[13]
A superior impact depression
a greater crater
Tekla
|
$1,000
[21]
The airline known by these 3 letters has its main hubs in Copenhagen, Oslo & Stockholm
SAS
Will
|
$1,000
[7]
Expressing the folly of long-term plans, some say "don't buy" these, but Chiquita says they have more fiber that way
green bananas
Tekla
|
$1,000
[16]
A semi-autobiographical novel from W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage
Tekla
|
$1,000
[30]
As a merman in "Barbie", this pro wrestler guzzles a brew & serenades Dua Lipa
John Cena
|
| ISSUING A CETACEAN | ART & ARTISTS | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER | THE 13th CENTURY | THINKERS & THEIR THOUGHTS | MOOD INDI-GO-GO |
|
$400
[24]
During courtship fights, malehumpback whalesuse the coating of these crustaceans like brass knuckles
barnacles
Alex
|
$400
[23]
Klimt used gold leaf & bronze paint in this masterpiece at the Belvedere in Vienna showing 2 life-size figures in an embrace
The Kiss
Tekla
|
$400
[1]
Term for what's left over after subtraction or division
a remainder
Alex
|
$400
[11]
In 1291 cantons in what became this nation, including Uri & Unterwalden, joined in a perpetual covenant
Switzerland
Will
|
$400
[30]
Gayle Rubin is among those who separate this from a person's biological sex, calling it "socially imposed division of the sexes"
gender
Will
|
$400
[29]
This Korean group's 2017 album "Love Yourself: Her" included the songs "DNA" & "Go Go"
BTS
Will
|
|
$800
[14]
The distinctive enlarged tooth on the males of this whale seems to have a sensory use, maybe to note changes in salinity
a narwhal
Alex
|
$800
[22]
In 1930 Georgia O'Keeffe detailed a "Black Mesa Landscape," this state
New Mexico
Alex
|
$800
[2]
There are one & a half liters floating around inside this size wine bottle
a magnum
Alex
|
$800
[10]
Mamluk Sultan Baibars seized the Syrian strongholds of this murderous sect, effectively stamping them out
the Assassins
Will
|
$800
[18]
To John Cacioppo this ‑ness, the title of his book, is an evolutionary benefit; isolated, sad cavemen sought connections
loneliness
|
$800
[28]
Not go-go dancing but the jitterbug is mentioned in this duo's hit "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"
Wham!
Tekla
|
|
$1,200
[13]
Foraging on the sea floor, this type of dolphin was observed using a protective sea sponge over the feature it's named for
a bottlenose dolphin
Tekla
|
$1,200
[19]
Giotto opened a cool can of fresco in "Noli me tangere", meaning this, what the risen Christ is saying to Mary Magdalene
don't touch me
Will
|
$1,200
[3]
Those worshipping only one deity are practicing this belief system
monotheism
Alex
|
DD
$1,200
[6]
This phrase in the title of an Indiana Jones movie has also been used about a useless effort by King Edward I in 1271
the last crusade
Will
|
$1,200
[7]
To both Nietzsche & Clarkson, it's what makes me (says Friedrich) or you (says Kelly) stronger
what doesn't kill me (you)
Will
|
$1,200
[27]
The Whisky A Go Go is one of the storied rock clubs along this "Strip" named for a more than 20-mile-long boulevard
Sunset
Will
|
|
$1,600
[15]
Scientists are using AI to notice patterns in theclickety-clack chitchatof this largest toothed whale
a sperm whale
Alex
|
$1,600
[20]
An expat painter, she delivered "Mother & Child" around 1899... at least that's the Impressionist I get
Cassatt
Will
|
$1,600
[4]
Known for brutal repression, this system of Soviet labor camps made corpses out of enemies of the state
a Gulag
Will
|
$1,600
[8]
This dynasty took control in Austria under Rudolf I & would rule in Europe into the 20th century
the Habsburgs
Will
|
$1,600
[12]
EconomistG.D.H. Colenamed this concept of universal free checks; the TV characters seenhereenjoy it
universal basic income
|
$1,600
[26]
A Broadway musical featuring music of the Go-Go's includes the tunes "Vacation", "We Got The Beat" & this title one
"Head Over Heels"
Tekla
|
|
$2,000
[16]
Southern right whales have been observed using their tails, actually 2 lobes called these, as a sort of sail to catch the wind
flukes
Will
|
$2,000
[21]
Not staying out of politics after being called "Robespierre of the Brush", he painted "Napoleon Crossing the Alps" in 1801
David
|
DD
$2,400
[5]
To do this is to drain a body of all of its blood
exsanguinate
Will
|
$2,000
[9]
Sundiata Keita left his father's kingdom on the upper part of this "national" river & founded the Mali Empire
the Niger
Alex
Will
|
$2,000
[17]
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the entire Torah", per this sage for whom Jewish campus chapters are named
Hillel
|
$2,000
[25]
This animated lawman would yell, "Go go" before launching the name of a contraption attached to his body
Inspector Gadget
Tekla
|
In 1492 Columbus visited this island that he named for the country whose flag he flew
Hispaniola (Hispañola)