2024-2025 Second Chance competition week 2, semifinal game 2.
Josh Heit — a government relations professional from Silver Spring, Maryland
Zoe Grobman — a therapist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Enzo Cunanan — a student from Orlando, Florida
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enzo | $800 | $400 | $15,600 |
$19,400
Finalist |
$15,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Zoe | $600 | $3,800 | $6,600 |
$12,001
2nd place: $3,000 |
$12,600
16 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Josh | $3,800 | $5,200 | $9,600 |
$5,999
3rd place: $2,000 |
$9,600
17 R, 1 W |
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$200
[27]
An architectural masterpiece, the Duomoin this Italian city is a sight to behold
Florence
Enzo
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$200
[29]
A 2024 proof silver dollar coin minted in Philly features this abolitionist, long considered for our $20 bill
Harriet Tubman
Enzo
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$200
[9]
The professional hall of fame for this sport opened in 1963 with an inaugural class including Red Grange & George Halas
football
Enzo
|
$200
[30]
The subtitle of "Justice on the Brink" mentions "The Death of" this woman & "The Rise of Amy Coney Barrett"
(Ruth Bader) Ginsburg
Zoe
|
$200
[19]
Traditional symbol of happiness:RIDE BULB
bluebird
|
$200
[22]
An article in The Ringer called "In My" this, a period of personal history, "The Defining Phrase of 2023"
Era
Enzo
|
|
$400
[4]
With temps reaching 70 below zero, Yakutsk in this region of Russia ranks among the world's coldest cities
Siberia
Josh
|
$400
[28]
In 2005, this country honored its native son, Pope John Paul II, with a gold-on-silvercoin
Poland
Josh
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$400
[8]
The Intl. Swimming Hall of Fame calls this 2023 inductee the "greatest athlete/swimmer in the history of the Olympic Games"
Phelps
Josh
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$400
[20]
The Economist nicknamed this Labour Party British prime minister "the strangest Tory ever sold"
Tony Blair
Zoe
|
$400
[26]
It can reach a ground speed of 15 mph:ORDER AN URN
a roadrunner
Josh
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$400
[21]
The night before, or a rapper
eve
Zoe
|
|
$600
[1]
Lugano in this country hosted the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956: Basel is scheduled to host in 2025
Switzerland
Enzo
|
$600
[10]
Not pocket change, six 220-pound Canadiancoins, with a face value of $1 million, had Elizabeth II on one side & this national symbol on the other
the maple leaf
Josh
|
$600
[5]
Already in as aplayer& Olympian, in 2024thislate legend was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame for the third time, as a contributor
Jerry West
Josh
|
$600
[12]
In 1926 a Daily News article about him declared, "The Bambino finds his bat!"
Babe Ruth
Zoe
|
$600
[23]
Might be probing for insects:CROOKED PEW
woodpecker
Zoe
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$600
[18]
Anexpressionof surprise; with a hyphen, it's the name of a Norwegian '80s synth-popband
a-ha
Josh
|
|
$800
[2]
Now the capital of Carabobo State, the South American city of Valencia was thrice the capital of this country
Venezuela
|
$800
[14]
In 2024 an 82 B.C. Roman silver coin with this Homer-ian man walking his dog Argos on one side was found near an ancient bathhouse
Odysseus
Enzo
Zoe
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$800
[6]
After becoming this race's first 4-time winner in 1977, A.J. Foyt cruised into the Intl. Motorsports Hall of Fame
the Indianapolis 500
Enzo
Josh
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$800
[11]
In 1948, shewas trained as a sniper by the Israeli Haganah, long before she became an expert on relationships
Dr. Ruth Westheimer
Zoe
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$800
[24]
Its crest can be raised & lowered at will:TACO COOK
cockatoo
Zoe
|
$800
[17]
Multiple eggs, scientifically speaking
ova
Zoe
|
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
Though its name means "place of the thunderbolt", this city in West Bengal is better known as a city of tea
Darjeeling
Enzo
|
$1,000
[15]
One of the 13 known 1933 Saint-Gaudens double this coins still in existence got one lucky owner $18.9 million
(double) eagles
|
$1,000
[7]
Charter members of the Hockey Hall of Fame include this eponymic lord inducted as a "Builder" in 1945
Stanley
Josh
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$1,000
[13]
Eric Blair felt it necessary to use this pen name before the publication of "Down & Out in Paris & London"
George Orwell
Enzo
|
$1,000
[25]
Can open quite wide:IN PLACE
a pelican
Enzo
|
$1,000
[16]
It's a sea urchin treat at a Japanese restaurant
uni
|
| WHAT HAPPENED WHEN | POTENT QUOTABLES | OPERA SETTINGS | THE FATHER OF | THAT'S SHOWBIZ | BRAIN "ROT" |
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$400
[21]
On June 24, 1948 the Soviet Union cut off Western rail, road & water access to sections of this city
Berlin
Josh
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$400
[26]
In 1958, referring to a vodka martini, this author wrote the immortal words "shaken and not stirred"
Fleming
Josh
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$400
[27]
An elderly doge is forced to abdicate & dies disgraced in "I due Foscari", set in this city
Venice
Josh
|
$400
[28]
Nicéphore Niépce & Louis Daguerre are both considered fathers of this field
photography
Zoe
|
$400
[30]
Minor studios like Republic specialized in the low-budget productions familiarly graded as these
B-movies
Josh
|
$400
[29]
It's inferior & maybe toxic liquor; it sounds like what it might do to your innards
rotgut
Josh
|
|
$800
[10]
From September 5 to 17, 1978, Jimmy Carter, Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadathammered out accords at this spot
Camp David
Zoe
|
$800
[25]
In a Chekhov short story, this title drink is "2 bottles of... the real thing, with the label of Veuve Clicquot", for New Year's Eve
Champagne
Josh
|
$800
[20]
Thea Musgrave's opera about this liberator is set, of course, in South America
Bolívar
Enzo
|
$800
[17]
This American inventor is "The Father of the Steel Plow"
(John) Deere
Zoe
|
$800
[24]
A Broadway show is usually considered successful if it hits $1 million in GWBOR, gross weekly these receipts
box office
Zoe
|
$800
[19]
Bob Hope & Nelson Mandela were honorary members of this basketball team
the Harlem Globetrotters
Enzo
|
|
$1,200
[3]
In 70 B.C. he staked his claim as Rome's leading orator when he argued a possibly corrupt Sicilian governor right into exile
Cicero
Enzo
|
$1,600
[11]
This detective is instructed in "The Long Goodbye" that a real gimlet is "half gin & half Rose's lime juice & nothing else"
Philip Marlowe
|
$1,600
[7]
"King Priam", an opera by Sir Michael Tippett, is set in this city of antiquity
Troy
Enzo
|
$1,200
[9]
This "Father of Method Acting" taught some of the best of the best, including Al Pacino, James Dean & Marilyn Monroe
Strasberg
Josh
|
$1,200
[22]
Your server will bring tap beer & more to your seat at this Texas-based theater chain acquired by Sony Pictures in 2024
Alamo Drafthouse
Zoe
|
$1,200
[18]
Its maritime museum holds a collection of more than 850,000 objects from Dutch history
Rotterdam
Zoe
|
|
$1,600
[2]
In 1521 an imperial assembly called the Diet met in this German city, & centuries of jokes at the name ensued
Worms
Zoe
|
$2,000
[23]
"The Sun Also Rises" describes it as "greenish imitation absinthe. When you add water, it turns milky. It tastes like licorice"; yum!
Pernod
|
DD
$2,000
[8]
Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier" takes place in 18th century Vienna during the reign of this empress
Maria Theresa
Enzo
|
$1,600
[6]
This Swedish naturalist is classified as the "Father of Taxonomy"
Linnaeus
Enzo
|
$1,600
[13]
In 1929 Paramount tried to merge with this sibling-owned studio, but the Justice Department said no
Warner Bros.
Enzo
Josh
|
$1,600
[16]
Used in Spain for executions until 1978, it's an iron collar slowly tightened to the point of strangulation
a garrote
Enzo
|
|
$2,000
[1]
A U.S. destroyer clashed with North Vietnamese torpedo boats in this gulf on August 2, 1964
the Gulf of Tonkin
Josh
|
DD
$6,000
[12]
This pale dry sherry gets title billing in a Poe tale
Amontillado
Zoe
|
$2,000
[4]
In a Puccini opera set in Peking, this cruel princess agrees to marry the man who can answer 3 riddles
Turandot
Enzo
|
$2,000
[5]
This 17th century Englishman who enjoyed fishing & writing about it is known as the "Father of Angling"
Izaak Walton
|
$2,000
[14]
RKO Radio Pictures went down the tubes, following its 1948 purchase by this increasingly reclusive magnate
Howard Hughes
Enzo
|
$2,000
[15]
Richard Lewis made comedy out of this one of the Big 5 personality traits characterized by anxiety, sadness & irritability
neurotic (or neuroticism)
Zoe
|
It has 40,000 people & a workforce of 42,000, more than half commuting from nearby, including Vorarlberg state in a neighbor country
Liechtenstein