2024-2025 Second Chance competition week 2, final game 1.
Enzo Cunanan — a student from Orlando, Florida
Sam Cameron — a finance manager from Fargo, North Dakota
Drew Goins — a journalist from Honolulu, Hawaii
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drew | $1,200 | $3,200 | $10,400 | $5,000 |
$9,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Sam | $2,400 | $400 | $1,700 | $3,400 |
$7,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Enzo | $2,400 | $3,600 | $13,600 | $21,800 |
$13,600
16 R, 4 W |
| WORLD HISTORY | ALL AROUND THE U.S. | FOIA & FIND OUT | WE SHALL ENDURE | MOVIE LINES | "DIS" IS HOW YOU SAY IT |
|
$200
[11]
Around 200 A.D. Axum in Ethiopia was a trading power using resources like rhino horn & more vitally, this material from a larger mammal
ivory
Drew
|
$200
[30]
Most of Willamette National Forest is covered with the Douglas this, the state tree of Oregon
a (Douglas) fir
Enzo
|
$200
[29]
A list of personalized these checked for obscenity in Florida, including KIDNAPN, 0NMETH & (wow) MR DUI
vanity plates (license plates)
Drew
|
$200
[23]
Unfortunately killed by researchers trying to determine its age, an ocean quahog type of this turned out to have been 507 years old
a clam
Drew
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$200
[28]
The 2010 remake of "Clash of the Titans" gave us Liam Neeson as Zeus intoning, "Release" this beast
the Kraken
Drew
|
$200
[13]
Expelled from the legal profession, like Jeff Winger before he began teaching community college
disbarred
Enzo
|
|
$400
[7]
The Chinese invented this in the first millennium & suffered one of its deadliest explosions as noses rained on Beijing in 1626
gunpowder
Enzo
|
$400
[27]
Borealis Basecamp in Alaska is a prime place to view this "directional" atmospheric display (& don't talk your Latin to us!)
northern lights
Sam
|
$400
[21]
A 1938 fan letter to the Reds' Johnny Vander Meer from this man noting the FBI won the U.S. Government League Championship
(J. Edgar) Hoover
Sam
|
$400
[22]
"Hello!" Audiences have been going to this Broadway show religiously since 2011 to hear songs like "You & Me (But Mostly Me)"
The Book of Mormon
Enzo
|
$400
[19]
Emily Blunt, working at a fashion magazine in this film: "I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight"
The Devil Wears Prada
Sam
|
$400
[12]
You're in "dis" state of fear & faintheartedness, also da month when da horses will run da Kentucky Derby
dismay
Drew
|
|
$600
[4]
Erzherzog, German for this, was a bad luck title for some, like Rudolph, the heir to the Austrian throne who died at age 30 in 1889
archduke
Enzo
|
$600
[24]
Called "America's Dead Sea", in Nov. 2022 it hit its lowest recorded water level at 4,188 feet above sea level
the Great Salt Lake
Sam
|
$600
[10]
A complaint to the FCC suggesting that these 2 creators of "South Park" "should be fined 5,000.00 per word"
Parker & Stone
Enzo
|
$600
[16]
In 2019 machines from Caterpillar were used to move 27 8-foot-long beams to play this game for 28 hours; the pile reached 20 feet
Jenga
Enzo
|
$600
[18]
As "Citizen Kane" begins, Orson Welles whispers this dying word & drops a snow globe
Rosebud
Drew
|
$600
[3]
Aha! Eureka! Seville's 1992 World's Fair had the theme "The Age of" this
Discovery
Sam
|
|
$800
[5]
The historical play "The White Rose" is largely a conversation between an anti-Nazi student & a member of this police force
the Gestapo
Drew
|
$1,000
[26]
A passageway called the Rigolets helps connect the Gulf of Mexico with this large 13-letter lake
Pontchartrain
Enzo
|
$800
[9]
Aphotoof President Obama laughing at the meme "Sorry it took so long to get you a copy of" this document--"I was too busy killing Osama"
his birth certificate
Sam
|
$800
[15]
Dating back to the 11th century, this landmark was Sir Walter Raleigh's unwelcome address for 13 years
the Tower of London
Enzo
|
$800
[17]
Tom Hanks gave this iconic 5-word don't to the right fielder played by Bitty Schram in "A League of Their Own"
There's no crying in baseball
Drew
|
$800
[1]
With better drug testing, the women's winning throw in this event at 2004's Summer Olympics was 30' shorter than the 1988 world record
discus
Drew
|
|
$1,000
[6]
Starting in 1947, millions fled what's now Bangladesh to this capital of India's West Bengal state, increasing its crowding issues
Kolkata
Drew
|
DD
$3,800
[25]
Colorado Springs' website for this nearby attraction dubs it "America's Mountain"
Pikes Peak
Sam
|
$1,000
[8]
With redactions, artwork of detainees at this prison camp that opened on Jan. 11, 2002
Guantánamo Bay
Drew
Enzo
|
$1,000
[14]
In the "Odyssey", this man of myth "thrust the stone toward the crest of a hill, but... the weight would turn it back", over & over
Sisyphus
Sam
|
$1,000
[20]
In 1980, watching this movie we thought was the second in a series, we learned "Do or do not. There is no try"
The Empire Strikes Back
Enzo
|
$1,000
[2]
On Wikipedia, it's differentiating same-named entries, like Anne Hathaway, actress & Anne Hathaway, Mrs. Shakespeare
disambiguation
Drew
|
| WORD HISTORY | LITERARY BIOGRAPHY | ALL IN THE FAMILY | OCEANIA | FABRICS & TEXTILES | CLASSIC TV |
|
$400
[28]
Going back to steam-engine cars, this word for a limo driver is from the French for "to heat" or "to stoke"
a chauffeur
Sam
|
$400
[24]
A bio of Zane Grey, best known for this genre, says perhaps his "most memorable trip" was to Arizona's Rainbow Bridge in 1913
Westerns
Sam
|
$400
[27]
He's the famous father seen here with his daughter Anna who helped found her own field of child psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
Sam
Enzo
|
$400
[29]
In 1952 the U.S. detonated "Ivy Mike", one of these weapons, on Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands
an H-bomb (hydrogen bomb)
Drew
|
$400
[26]
Seen on everything from dresses to bags to men's ties, this fabric design was back in fashion in 2024
paisley
Sam
|
DD
$100
[21]
"It's no place like home" was a tagline for this series about prison life, HBO's first original hour-long drama
Oz
Sam
|
|
$800
[23]
We borrowed this word for a desire to travel from German
Wanderlust
Enzo
|
$800
[4]
The first Pulitzer-winning bio was of this woman & said she was asked by a friend to write lyrics to the tune "John Brown's Body"
Julia Ward Howe
Enzo
|
$800
[16]
Art patron Anna Maria Luisa, who died in Florence in 1743, was the last descendant of this ruling house
de' Medici
Drew
|
$800
[19]
In 1995 Kiribati moved the location of this cartographic feature to the east so all its islands would be on the same day
the International Date Line
Sam
|
$800
[25]
What the "L"? This synthetic fiber that gives a little stretch to some jeans was originally called "Fiber K"
Lycra
Drew
|
$400
[30]
"And Just Like That", in 2021 this series began a new chapter
Sex and the City
Drew
|
|
$1,200
[9]
From the name of an ancient philosopher, it's someone with discriminating taste in food & drink
an epicurean (epicure)
Drew
|
$1,200
[1]
"The Early Years", including birth in Prague in 1883, is the final volume of Reiner Stach's 3-volume bio of this author
Kafka
Sam
|
$1,200
[15]
This astronomer discovered Uranus; his sister Caroline found 3 nebulae & 8 comets
Herschel
Enzo
|
$1,200
[11]
Fiji's main commercial export is this product, collected from natural sources & sold globally
water
|
$1,200
[6]
Viscose is another name for this 5-letter fiber made from cellulose & developed in the 1880s as an artificial silk
rayon
Drew
|
$800
[22]
In the '80s Crockett & Tubbs were fashionably on the beat on this series
Miami Vice
Sam
|
|
$2,000
[8]
This silvery-white metallic element was named for an asteroid that bears the name of an epithet of Athena
palladium
Enzo
|
$1,600
[2]
"Dharma Lion" is a 1992 biography of this Beat-nik, then America's most famous living poet
Ginsberg
Sam
|
$1,600
[13]
Actress Oona Chaplin is the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin & the great grand-daughter of this Nobel-winning playwright
(Eugene) O'Neill
Enzo
|
$1,600
[10]
A former Navy lieutenant commander, King Tupou VIhas been the monarch of this island kingdom since 2012
Tonga
Enzo
|
$1,600
[17]
This sheer, lightweight fabric with a light sheen shares its name with a type of fluffy lemon pie
chiffon
Drew
|
$1,200
[5]
Heplayed Pa Ingalls on "Little House on the Prairie" & a probationaryangelon "Highway to Heaven"
Michael Landon
|
|
DD
$2,800
[7]
William Makepeace Thackeray coined both of these mashups of 2 top British universities
Oxbridge & Camford
Drew
|
$2,000
[3]
The fifth volume of Leon Edel's biography of this fiction writer is "The Master", also the title of a 2004 novel about him
Henry James
|
$2,000
[14]
Charles Darwin's maternal grandfather was a master potter who gave his name to this collectible ceramic ware
Wedgwood
Drew
|
$2,000
[12]
This traditional war dance of New Zealand's Maori people is performed by some Rugby teams today as a pre-game ritual
the haka
Enzo
|
$2,000
[18]
Originally a stiff fabric made of horsehair & cotton or linen, during the Victorian era it became the name for hooped petticoats
crinoline
Enzo
|
$1,600
[20]
A tribute to TV moms at the 2024 Emmys included Meredith Baxter, who played Elyse Keaton on this sitcom
Family Ties
Sam
|
The first mammal species sent on a rocket to space, it's perhaps more famous for an antigen in its blood
a rhesus monkey (rhesus macaque)