2024-2025 Second Chance competition week 1, semifinal game 2.With Happy New Year message from theJeopardy!control room.
Mike Ferguson — a chemistry professor from Edmond, Oklahoma
Kaitlin Tarr — a ceramic artist from Denver, Colorado
Scott Tcheng — an ER doctor from San Francisco, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott | $1,200 | $2,200 | $11,400 |
$6,399
2nd place: $3,000 |
$13,400
15 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Kaitlin | $2,400 | $7,800 | $14,400 |
$8,401
Finalist |
$18,200
27 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mike | $200 | $1,000 | $8,200 |
$0
3rd place: $2,000 |
$8,200
10 R, 3 W |
| THE CITIES' TIME ZONE | QUOTABLE WOMEN | NOT FOR THE MONEY | ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS | NONFICTION | MILITARY CELEBS |
|
$200
[12]
Puyallup, San Jose
Pacific
Scott
|
$200
[5]
In a 2016 speech, she said, "When someone is cruel... you don't stoop to their level--No... when they go low, we go high"
Michelle Obama
Scott
Mike
|
$200
[23]
You can help the elderly by driving, like Hoke does for Miss Daisy; you can help adults learn to do this, like Miss Daisy does for Hoke
read
Kaitlin
|
$200
[17]
In a 2024 thriller by Kate Brody, a woman investigates her sister's murder & falls down this proverbial place, the book's title
a rabbit hole
Kaitlin
|
$200
[30]
"This Is the Voice" talks about the importance of this, also called the voice box, in human evolution
the larynx
Mike
|
$200
[16]
Seen here is this TV host, a field radio operator in the 25th Marine Regiment from 1980 to 1986; his "Price" would grow in showbiz
Drew Carey
Scott
Kaitlin
|
|
$400
[13]
Paducah, Sheboygan
Central
Kaitlin
|
$400
[4]
At a climate change conference in 2018, shesaid, "The first thing I have learned is that you are never too small to make a difference"
Greta Thunberg
Kaitlin
|
$400
[24]
A chair one of these may oversee a tennis match at all levels; the USTA gives awards for those who really do it for love
an umpire
Scott
|
$400
[18]
Anything that diverts you from the real issue, particularly in a mystery, is this fishy term
a red herring
Scott
|
$400
[29]
This longtime "NCIS" star co-wrote "Ghosts of Honolulu", an untold story of Pearl Harbor
(Mark) Harmon
Kaitlin
|
$400
[11]
Leaping away from the 101st Airborne, this'60s legend had enough experience to land on his feet as a guitarist
(Jimi) Hendrix
Mike
|
|
$600
[14]
South Hadley, Rehoboth Beach
Eastern
Kaitlin
|
$600
[3]
This creator of "Grey's Anatomy" repeats the advice her father gave her: "The only limit to your success is your own imagination"
Shonda Rhimes
Kaitlin
|
$600
[25]
Folks at the potluck will appreciate your meatballs or queso dip whether or not they're in this original brand of slow cooker
a Crock-Pot
Kaitlin
|
$600
[19]
A young shepherd in an Aesop fable tricked villagers by doing this, now a term for any false alarm
to cry wolf (cried wolf)
Mike
|
$600
[28]
In her memoir "Be Ready When the Luck Happens", she tells of turning the Barefoot Contessa from one Hamptons shop into an empire
Ina Garten
Kaitlin
|
$600
[10]
Post-Marines, he enlisted at Juilliard before meeting "Girls" & living in the "House of (Maurizio) Gucci"
Adam Driver
Kaitlin
|
|
$800
[15]
Fort Collins, Deadwood
Mountain (Time)
Scott
|
$800
[1]
She said, "Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them... have enriched my life beyond measure"
Jane Goodall
Kaitlin
|
$800
[26]
Especially since a purge of old white ladies, the Art Institute of Chicago has openings for volunteer educators, aka this word
a docent
Kaitlin
|
$800
[20]
Beware, you might get stung if you kick or stir up this, the domicile of a type of wasp
a hornet's nest
Kaitlin
|
$800
[6]
"The Barn" recounts the brutal murder of this 14-year-old African-American boy from Chicago, in Mississippi to visit relatives
Emmett Till
Kaitlin
|
$800
[9]
After serving 4 years in the 25th Infantry, he got into music, then put in his 20 (& still counting!) as a cop on NBC
Ice-T
Kaitlin
|
|
$1,000
[22]
Klamath Falls, North Las Vegas
Pacific
Mike
|
$1,000
[2]
Prime minister who in 1983 said, "I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end"
Thatcher
Kaitlin
|
$1,000
[27]
In 1971 CSUN accounting professor Gary Iskowitz began VITA, a program still serving folks who need help preparing these
(income) taxes
Kaitlin
Mike
|
$1,000
[21]
An old medical aphorism says, "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not" these
zebras
Kaitlin
|
DD
$3,600
[7]
"King of the Osage Hills" & "For the Betterment of the Bureau" are chapters in this 2017 bestseller
Killers of the Flower Moon
Kaitlin
|
$1,000
[8]
A radar repairman in the Air Force in the '50s, he went off to "The Electric Company", an Oscar win & a ton of voiceovers
Morgan Freeman
|
| KNOTTY ENTERTAINMENT | MYTHOLOGY | SINK, SANK, SUNK | MODERN ABBREVIATIONS | SCIENCE TEST | FROM "M" TO "Y" |
|
$400
[23]
Audrey Horne ties a cherry stem with her tongue to prove her dexterity at the One-Eyed Jacks brothel on this David Lynch TV show
Twin Peaks
Scott
|
$400
[11]
If you gazed into the face of this mortal Gorgon, you would be turned to stone
Medusa
Kaitlin
|
$400
[28]
Maybe with the decisive shot at B-3, Japan sank the Petropavlovsk, this mighty type of vessel, at Port Arthur in 1904
a battleship
Mike
|
$400
[24]
WSG is short for this, like when you're inquiring as to how another's day is going
What's good?
|
$400
[13]
The field of organic chemistry is the study of compounds that contain this element
carbon
Kaitlin
|
$400
[15]
This project was the USA's first manned space program
Mercury
Scott
|
|
$800
[22]
One sketch in this show has Fred Armisen & Carrie Brownstein going to Jeff Goldblum's wacky artisan knot store
Portlandia
Kaitlin
|
$800
[10]
In an awkward turn of events, Jocasta's second husband, him, was her son
Oedipus
Kaitlin
|
$800
[30]
More than 100 luckless ladies perished in 1835 when the Neva, this type of transport, sank en route from Cork to Sydney
a convict ship
Mike
|
$800
[25]
MMA for short, it uses techniques from jujitsu & Muay Thai, to name a few
mixed martial arts
Kaitlin
|
$800
[4]
When a ray of lightstrikesa mirror, the angle of incidence equals the angle of this
reflection
Scott
|
$800
[14]
A Robert Burns poem says, "O my love is like" this "that's sweetly played in tune"
a melody
Kaitlin
|
|
$1,200
[21]
Thisduo behind the viral hit "The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)" made a song & a dance around doing a trucker's hitch knot
Ylvis
|
$1,200
[9]
This first woman in Greek myth was actually a prank on man, who should have asked, what's in the box?
Pandora
Mike
|
$1,200
[18]
Adios, San Jose, this type of Spanish ship sunk by the English; its wreck under the Caribbean is said to hold $20 billion of treasure
a galleon
Kaitlin
|
$1,200
[26]
In February you'll probably run into the abbreviation BHM, short for this observance
Black History Month
Scott
|
$1,200
[1]
Thomas Hunt Morgandiscovered that genes are carried on these structures
chromosomes
Scott
|
$1,200
[12]
Despite its name, the winged existence of this insect might last only a few hours, not a month
a mayfly
Mike
|
|
$1,600
[17]
In "Jaws" this actor as Chief Brody gets a knotty lesson from Robert Shaw's Quint: "Little brown eel comes out of the cave..."
(Roy) Scheider
Mike
|
$1,600
[5]
In Greek myth, the Furies, goddesses of vengeance, are the daughters of Uranus & this Earth goddess
Gaia
Scott
Kaitlin
|
DD
$1,400
[19]
Vermont scuba divers (a hardy lot) can explore the Water Witch, a schooner at the bottom of this lake since 1866
(Lake) Champlain
Kaitlin
|
$1,600
[16]
Disrupting a computer site by overwhelming it with a flood of fake traffic is a DDOS, one of these attacks
a distributed denial-of-service (a distributed denial-of-services)
Scott
|
$1,600
[2]
Newton's second law, F = ma, says that net force acting on a body is equal to its mass times its this, abbreviated a
acceleration
Mike
|
$1,600
[7]
A refectory is what you call a dining room in a convent or this place
monastery
Kaitlin
|
|
$2,000
[20]
In this 2016 war film, Andrew Garfield uses a double-loop knot to lower injured soldiers down a cliff
Hacksaw Ridge
|
DD
$2,000
[6]
It's said of these twins of myth that one of their pops was Zeus & the other was Tyndareus
Castor & Pollux
Scott
|
$2,000
[29]
Name of the BPoil rigthat sank in 2010, & of the movie about it with Kurt Russell as rig supervisor Jimmy Harrell
the Deepwater Horizon
Scott
|
$2,000
[27]
As in an Oscar-winning 2021 drama, CODA is short for these offspring
children of deaf adults
Scott
|
$2,000
[3]
This debris-filled area with a meteorological name marks the limit of the Sun's gravitational influence
the Oort cloud
|
$2,000
[8]
The study of the form & structure of living things
morphology
Mike
|
A centuries-old type of performance, this word includes Greek roots meaning "imitator of all"
pantomime