2025 Champions Wildcard quarterfinal game 2.
Evan Dorey — a data analytics director from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Stevie Ruiz — an assistant front office manager from Montauk, New York
Davey Morrison — an actor and filmmaker from Provo, Utah
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| davey! | $3,400 | $3,800 | $8,800 |
$0
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$11,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Stevie | $1,200 | $2,200 | $7,000 |
$5,199
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$7,000
13 R, 2 W |
| Evan | $3,600 | $9,800 | $20,600 |
$20,600
Automatic semifinalist |
$18,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| MOVIE PROFESSION IN COMMON | AS THEY SAY... | LIT-POURRI | ICELANDIA | THE COLD TRUTH | 1980s MONSTER TRUCKS |
|
$200
[25]
Harrison Ford in "Air Force One"&Bill Pullman in "Independence Day"
President of the United States
davey!
|
$200
[24]
It is d'Artagnan who reminds the Three Musketeers that this 6-word phrase "is our motto"
all for one, one for all
davey!
|
$200
[22]
Quoting from this 1845 poem, "'Prophet!' said I, 'thing of evil!--prophet still, if bird or devil!--"'
"The Raven"
Evan
|
$200
[21]
More than half of Iceland's population lives in or near this capital city
Reykjavík
Stevie
|
$200
[29]
Chionophobia is an extreme fear of this cold substance
snow
Stevie
Evan
|
$200
[30]
Yea, this "biblical" Ford shall be 12'6" high & contain 500 horses, & a sling & a stone shalt not slayeth it; it 100% slayeth on its own
Goliath
Stevie
|
|
$400
[16]
Will Ferrell in "Blades of Glory"&Jon Heder in "Blades of Glory"
figure skaters (ice skaters)
Evan
|
$400
[23]
A proverb says, "A new broom" does this
sweeps clean
|
$400
[13]
This "Beloved" author was the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
Morrison
Evan
|
$400
[20]
Like Norway's, the Icelandic coastline has many of these deep inlets carved by glaciers
fjords
Evan
|
$400
[28]
Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia is the scientific term for this sensation when you consume something very cold & wish you hadn't
brain freeze
Evan
|
$400
[27]
Not monkeying around, Jeff Dane donated this beast which "ain't got stuff on me", to the International Monster Truck Museum & Hall of Fame in 2023
King Kong
Stevie
|
|
$600
[3]
Jack Nicholson in "Chinatown"&Russell Crowe in "The Nice Guys"
detective
davey!
|
$600
[12]
"At" this kind of table, "there's no dispute of place"
round
davey!
|
$600
[5]
At the end of this 1922 novel, Leopold Bloom describes his day to his wife Molly
Ulysses
davey!
|
$600
[7]
She ranks as the country's most famous personality & it seems that everyone there has a story about this former Sugarcube
Björk
Stevie
|
$600
[8]
The winter sport biathlon combines these 2 activities into one event
shooting & skiing
Evan
|
$600
[14]
An '83 Chevy bore the name of this weapon of legend, but it ends in -er vs. -ur, of which we do not approve
Excaliber
Stevie
|
|
$800
[1]
Sally Hawkins in "The Shape of Water"&Matt Damon in "Good Will Hunting"
a janitor
Stevie
|
$800
[10]
You might want to reconsider this type of biblical retribution; it "will leave everyone blind"
an eye for an eye
Evan
|
$800
[4]
Queen Guinevere attends a New Year's feast in the Middle English poem about this title sir & the Green Knight
Sir Gawain
davey!
|
$800
[11]
Soak in the geothermal sea water of this attraction, one of Iceland's most popular; it's also the name of an '80s film
the Blue Lagoon
Evan
|
$800
[9]
A word from the Sámi language gives us this name for thezoneof cold, treeless ground found north of the Arctic Circle
tundra
davey!
|
$800
[15]
A Camaro body? Why not? Also, why not give it the name of this Roy Scheider helicopter film? Boy, that was some heavy '80s goin' on!
Blue Thunder
Stevie
|
|
$1,000
[2]
Rick Moranis in "Ghostbusters"&Ben Affleck as Christian Wolff (the title profession)
accountants
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
No backsies with this phrase, iacta alea est in Latin
the die is cast
Evan
|
$1,000
[6]
Emily Dickinson was known as "The Belle of" this city as well as "The Nun of" it
Amherst
Evan
|
$1,000
[17]
One of the world's oldest parliaments, it makes our heart sing, it makes everything groovy, c'mon...
the Althing
Evan
|
$1,000
[18]
The historic cradle of Russia, this river can be icebound & often impassable in some areas for as long as 5 months a year
the Volga
Evan
|
$1,000
[26]
The original car crusher was this vehicle created by Bob Chandler that put the monster in monster truck
Bigfoot
|
| WE'RE JUST GONNA CALL HIM HERCULES | FASHIONABLE NAMES | AMERICAN HISTORY | A WILD SONG FOR YOU | BOTANY | CROSSWORD CLUES "O" |
|
$400
[25]
Half-horseman, pass by! Hercules killed Nessus, this type of creature, but Nessus' blood would later prove fatal to our boy
a centaur
Evan
|
$400
[5]
She's the DK in DKNY, a line launched in 1989
Donna Karan
Stevie
|
$400
[28]
This half of an exploring duo was Thomas Jefferson's personal secretary & aide-de-camp; later, gov. of the Upper Louisiana Territory
Lewis
davey!
Evan
|
$400
[29]
This "Man in Black" had a 1968 hit with "Rosanna's Going Wild", the year his daughter Rosanne turned 13
Johnny Cash
Stevie
|
$400
[30]
Poppies & primroses are this type of persistent plant whose name also begins with a "P"
a perennial
davey!
|
$400
[26]
Hidden or supernatural(6 letters)
occult
davey!
|
|
$800
[24]
Hercules labor-ed to catch the mad bull who fathered the Minotaur with King Minos' wife on this island
Crete
davey!
|
$800
[1]
This clothing designer has also launched a fragrance called Daisy & a bookstore cleverly called Bookmarc
Marc Jacobs
Stevie
|
$800
[6]
In his first State of the Union speech, President Lyndon Johnson declared a "War on" this condition
poverty
davey!
|
$800
[10]
The movie "Easy Rider" used this tune that mentions "heavy metal thunder"
"Born To Be Wild"
davey!
|
$800
[27]
Ask Mr. Alpert--a plant that doesn't produce wood is usually referred to as one of these
herbaceous (herb)
Evan
|
$800
[20]
Cranial nerve to smell ya later(9 letters)
olfactory
Evan
|
|
$1,200
[19]
Hercules spent a year trying to capture this creature of Arcadia, sacred to Artemis, who was less than pleased
a (Arcadian) stag
|
$1,200
[2]
"I.M." is the memoir of this American designer who has been on "Sex & the City" & our show, too
Isaac Mizrahi
Stevie
|
$1,200
[14]
Spain called dibs on this Pacific island in 1565 &, with some persuasion from the U.S.S. Charleston, gave it to the U.S. in 1898
Guam
Evan
|
$1,200
[9]
Back in 1989, this rapper had a big hit letting us know "I need $50 to make you holler, I get paid to do the Wild Thing"
Tone Lōc
Stevie
|
$1,600
[21]
In some species this process by which a seed sprouts is us here d along by exposure to light of proper wavelengths
germination
Evan
|
$1,200
[11]
King of the fairies or moon of Uranus(6 letters)
Oberon
Evan
|
|
$2,000
[17]
Hercules had to go on a mythological panty raid to relieve this warrior queen of the fierce Amazons of her girdle
Hippolyta
davey!
|
$1,600
[3]
Ground Y & Y's for Men are brands from this designer, who does Yves Saint Laurent one "Y" better
Yohji Yamamoto
Stevie
|
$1,600
[15]
More than 5,000 perished in the hurricane that struck this Texas island community in September 1900
Galveston
Evan
|
$1,600
[8]
Rihanna & Bryson Tiller teamed with this DJ/performer/producer for the 2017 smash "Wild Thoughts"
DJ Khaled
Stevie
|
$2,000
[22]
One or more carpels make up this part of a flower with all the female reproductive bits
the pistil
davey!
|
$1,600
[12]
Straight-up hatred(5 letters)
odium
Evan
|
|
DD
$4,600
[7]
Hercules had a hand in the Trojan War, as his slaying of Laomedon made this man Troy's king
Priam
davey!
|
$2,000
[4]
Billionaire philanthropist known for her preppy Bohemian designs, this womanherewears a few hats
Tory Burch
|
$2,000
[16]
What the North called the Battle of Bull Run, the South called this for a town in Virginia
Manassas
Evan
|
$2,000
[23]
Meshell Ndegeocello went to Indiana to record a cover of "Wild Night" with this guy from Seymour
John Mellencamp
|
DD
$2,800
[18]
The agave is this type of plant whose name comes from the Latin for "juice"
a succulent
davey!
|
$2,000
[13]
An oven for drying hops(4 letters)
an oast
|
"Bilady, Bilady, Bilady", its national anthem, replaced a more militaristic one following a 1979 peace treaty
Egypt