2024-2025 Second Chance competition week 2, semifinal game 3.
Lindsay Denninger — a writer from Smithtown, New York
Ferdinand Percentie — a day trader from Altamonte Springs, Florida
Sam Cameron — a finance manager from Fargo, North Dakota
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam | $1,800 | $3,000 | $19,400 |
$20,401
Finalist |
$19,200
20 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ferdinand | $2,400 | $5,000 | $10,200 |
$19,401
2nd place: $3,000 |
$10,200
20 R, 3 W |
| Lindsay | $1,000 | $2,600 | $6,200 |
$2,199
3rd place: $2,000 |
$6,200
8 R, 1 W |
| BEST IF USED BY DEC. 31, 1999 | MAKING SOME BONES ABOUT IT | FLYING IN STATE | SPORTS BY MOVIE | YOUR NUMBER IS UP | NO RYAN, I WOULD NOT LIKE TO BUY A VOWEL |
|
$200
[8]
A Forbes headline: "Apocalypse Then: When" this alphanumeric "Didn't Lead to the End of Civilization"
Y2K
Ferdinand
|
$200
[25]
The masseter muscle closes the mouth by elevating this jawbone
the mandible
Ferdinand
|
$200
[27]
To be "Honest", it's only an hour flight from the Windy City to the Springfield airport named for this man
Lincoln
Ferdinand
|
$200
[22]
2017's"Battle of the Sexes"
tennis
Sam
|
$200
[29]
This number in the name of a motel chain reflects how much rooms cost in cash per night when it opened in 1962
6
Ferdinand
|
$200
[30]
It's a (supa cold) song by Gucci Mane & also precedes "it's cold in here" in a cheer used in "Bring It On"
"Brrr"
Ferdinand
|
|
$400
[7]
On Dec. 3, 1999 a software issue killed the engines of the Polar Lander about 130' above this planet; that ended poorly
Mars
Ferdinand
|
$400
[24]
Types of bone fractures include simple (aka closed) or this (aka open)
(a) compound (fracture)
Sam
|
$400
[26]
Fly to Vegas from the Reno international airport that includes this lake in its name
Tahoe
Ferdinand
|
$400
[21]
"Balls of Fury"
Ping-Pong
Ferdinand
|
$400
[28]
While some consider this number to be unlucky, Taylor Swift says it's her favorite number & finds it very lucky
13
Lindsay
|
$400
[23]
A 1984 humor book is titled this request for silence "Is a Four Letter Word: Laughs for Library Lovers"
Shhh
Sam
|
|
$800
[2]
On Dec. 31, 1999 he became the acting president of his large country; "acting" soon went away, but he's still there
Putin
Sam
|
$600
[1]
To reduce the risk of broken bones, do weight-bearing exercises & take calcium with this vitamin that's also a hormone
vitamin D
Ferdinand
|
$600
[10]
It's only a 337-mile flight from LAX to the airport in San Mateo County known by these 3 letters
SFO
|
$600
[16]
"The Iron Claw"with Zac Efron
(pro) wrestling
Lindsay
|
$600
[15]
The first 2-digit prime number, it can be a winning first throw in craps called a natural
11
Ferdinand
|
$600
[20]
Old ads for Campbell's said their soup was this! This! Good!
M'm! M'm!
Lindsay
|
|
$1,000
[3]
On December 3, 1999, Tori Murdenbecame the first woman to row the Atlantic solo, from Tenerife in these islands to Guadeloupe
the Canaries
Sam
|
$800
[4]
There are red & yellow types of this fatty tissue that lines the medullary canals of long bones
marrow
Sam
|
$800
[9]
JFK to SLK will take you to Saranac Lake & the airport named for these Upstate New York mountains
the Adirondacks
Ferdinand
|
$800
[12]
"The Legend of Bagger Vance"
golf
Ferdinand
|
$800
[14]
Established in 1947 as one of the original U.S. area codes, it gets you Washington, D.C.
202
Sam
|
$800
[19]
It follows "Riot" in a feminist punk movement of the early 1990s
grrrl
Ferdinand
|
|
DD
$2,600
[6]
After 85 years, complete control of it passed to its home nation on Dec. 31, 1999
the Panama Canal
Sam
|
$1,000
[5]
There are five of these bones between the wrist & the fingers; they arenumbered1 through 5, with 1 corresponding to the thumb
the metacarpals
Ferdinand
|
$1,000
[11]
Island hop from the airport named for this Medal of Honor recipient & senator to Ellison Onizuka Kona Airport
(Daniel) Inouye
Sam
|
$1,000
[13]
Based on a true story:2004's "Miracle"
hockey
Lindsay
|
$1,000
[18]
A googol is 10 to the hundredth power; this number is 10 to the power of a googol
googolplex
Sam
|
$1,000
[17]
This double-talk expression of disapproval sounds like it should have an "I" or 2 in it
tsk, tsk
Ferdinand
|
| AROUND THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE | AN EDIBLE & MUSICAL BEFORE & AFTER | YOU JUST GOT MONK'D! | 5 RANDOM WORDS FROM THE NOVEL | GOOD ENOUGH | GOVERNMENT WORK |
|
$400
[30]
Melbourne lies about 200 miles north of this devilish island
Tasmania
Ferdinand
|
$400
[9]
The "Brass Monkey" rap crew becomes a little fruit on a prickly bush
the Beastie Boysenberries
Ferdinand
|
$400
[29]
In 1505 this future reformer exclaimed, "Help me, Saint Anne! I will become a monk!" during a thunderstorm in Central Germany
Luther
Sam
|
$400
[28]
Beast, conch, the, Piggy, asthma
Lord of the Flies
Lindsay
|
$400
[27]
This "ad"jective means just okay, as in "your Airbnb will be ____ to my needs"
adequate
|
$400
[25]
The FBI doesn't have regular run-of-the-mill agents--they're all this
special agents
Ferdinand
|
|
$800
[11]
Zanzibar sultan Khalid bin Barghash is one of the many exiles to reluctantly visit this remote South Atlantic isle
Saint Helena
Sam
|
$800
[8]
A double-talk chocolate confection that doubles as the "You Give Love a Bad Name" power rockers
Bon Bon Jovi
Lindsay
|
$800
[22]
While studying in Kuala Lumpur, the future monk John Main learned to utilize this sacred utterance used in meditation
a mantra
Sam
|
$800
[6]
Is, Squadron, Nately, Crazy, Appleby's(not Applebee's)
Catch-22
Sam
|
$800
[26]
For University of Southern California undergrads, D- is this "grade"; in grad school, you need a C
a passing grade
Ferdinand
Lindsay
|
$800
[24]
In 2024 John Cornyn paid tribute on the Senate floor to Emily Costanzo for putting words in his mouth for 5 years as this
a speechwriter
Sam
|
|
$1,200
[3]
Display your wisdom & name this sea that separates the same-named islands from New Guinea
the Solomon Islands (Sea)
Sam
Ferdinand
|
$1,200
[1]
A Hawaiian pop star has the uptown funk as a candy item most popular in Britain
a Bruno Mars Bar
Ferdinand
|
$1,200
[21]
Medieval monk Bernard of Clairvaux, brought to Christ by "The Queen of Heaven", appears in this poet's "Paradiso"
Dante
Sam
|
$1,200
[7]
Kerosene, once, if, books, Beatty
Fahrenheit 451
Lindsay
|
$1,200
[15]
Things are pretty good or at least not too bad, so "everything's" this first name
jake
Sam
|
DD
$1,000
[18]
You might get a bit sick of Lincoln's face as a metal forming machine operator at this agency's production facilities
the (U.S.) Mint
Sam
|
|
$1,600
[2]
This archipelago at the bottom of South America lends its name to a type of fox, the southernmost living canid
Tierra del Fuego
|
$1,600
[4]
Are we havin' fun yet? A dark German rye bread enriches the band that asks "Are we havin' fun yet?" in "How You Remind Me"
Pumpernickelback
Sam
|
$2,000
[20]
In the 200s this "Father of Christian Monks" & saint "of the Desert" was compelled by God to withdraw to an Egyptian mountain
Saint Anthony
|
$1,600
[13]
A Pulitzer winner: Maycomb, Calpurnia, reckon, were, shotgun
To Kill a Mockingbird
Sam
|
$1,600
[16]
There's a thespian trapped inside this 5-syllable good-enough word
satisfactory
|
$1,200
[23]
Here's Thurgood Marshall with four of these people who help the justices with filing all the way up to drafting opinions
clerks
Ferdinand
|
|
$2,000
[10]
This former Portuguese colony lies between Namibia & the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Angola
Ferdinand
|
$2,000
[5]
"Not Like Us" legend whose mystique gets a little bit fluffier with a s'more ingredient
Kendrick Lamarshmallow
Lindsay
|
DD
$5,000
[12]
In 1939 Thomas Merton opened the Bible to Luke 1:20 & read "Behold, you shall be" this & he decided to become a Trappist monk
silent
Sam
|
$2,000
[14]
Agerstown, crumby, school, Phoebe, at
The Catcher in the Rye
Sam
|
$2,000
[17]
Robert Frost ended the poem "Fire & Ice" by rhyming "Ice" with this verb meaning "be enough"
suffice
Sam
|
$2,000
[19]
Keeping contractors from cheating Uncle Sam is your task if you're in the Office of Procurement Policy within OMB, Office of these
(the Office of) Management & Budget
|
The last claim awarded under this act was in 1988, 126 years after it passed, for a parcel of land in Alaska
the Homestead Act