2025 Champions Wildcard semifinal game 1.
Jen Feldman — a high school teacher from Brooklyn, New York
Drew Goins — a journalist from Honolulu, Hawaii
Joey DeSena — a development engineer from Raleigh, North Carolina
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joey | $0 | $800 | $9,200 |
$9,811
3rd place: $10,000 |
$10,800
12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Drew | $4,200 | $7,200 | $26,800 |
$26,800
Finalist |
$24,000
29 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Jen | $1,400 | $2,400 | $12,600 |
$10,000
2nd place: $10,000 |
$8,800
10 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| REMEMBERING MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. | MUSEUMS | FARM TOOLS & MACHINERY | BRITISH SITCOMS | THIS OR THAT | BACK WORDS & FORWARD |
|
$200
[29]
During the 1963 March on Washington, King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of this monument
the Lincoln Memorial
Drew
|
$200
[23]
St. Petersburg, Russia has a museum devoted to these bejeweled objects given as Easter gifts by the czar
a Fabergé egg
Drew
|
$200
[16]
Nebraskans may know it's a machine intended for the operator-free removal of leaves & hairs from cobs
a (corn) husker
Drew
|
$200
[15]
On this sitcom, Basil needed lots of help from Polly & Manuel running a seaside hotel
Fawlty Towers
Jen
|
$200
[27]
This item is in Pop Tarts' full name, but many choose to eschew it before chewing
toaster
|
$200
[30]
Your emotional disposition&ruinous fortune
mood & doom
Drew
|
|
$400
[21]
King's 1st name was originally Michael, but inspired by a visit to this country, his father changed both his own & his son's names
Germany
Joey
|
$400
[18]
To see Géricault's "Raft of the Medusa" in person head to the Salle Mollien in this museum
the Louvre
Drew
|
$400
[17]
Used worldwide, like against locusts in Africa, it's an aircraft employed for spraying pesticide over large acreages
a crop duster
Jen
|
$400
[14]
"I'm Alan Partridge", starred this performer as a former TV talk show host who finds himself on Radio Norwich
Coogan
Jen
|
$400
[26]
Even dog people sometimes mix up the Alaskan Malamute&this less bulky breed from a different northern land
a (Siberian) Husky
Drew
|
$400
[22]
3 feet&a sturdy cart
yard & dray
Joey
|
|
$600
[1]
King wrote, "this courageous New Englander's... choice of jail" was his first contact with nonviolent resistance theory
Thoreau
Drew
|
$600
[4]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an iconic image of American history: "Washington Crossing" this river
the Delaware
Joey
|
$600
[24]
This machine is used to gather & compress hay, straw or corn stalks into round or rectangular shapes
a baler
Drew
|
$600
[10]
Captain Peacock kept the retail staff on their toes on "Are You Being Served?", a show set at Grace Brothers, one of these businesses
a department store
|
$600
[19]
OK, coach: 4th & inches, ball on your own 45--punt or these 3 little words meaning run or pass for a first down (as the crowd wants)
go for it
|
$600
[20]
To exude an odor or radiation&3:47 P.M.
emit & time
Jen
|
|
$800
[5]
With a dissertation comparing Paul Tillich & Henry N. Wieman, in 1955 King earned his PhD from Boston University in this -ology
theology
Drew
|
$800
[8]
Opened in 1819, this museum has many paintings that were once in the collections of Spain's 16th & 17th century monarchs
the Prado
Joey
|
$800
[25]
This type of silo with a conveyor belt to take grain up to the top level is mentioned in the first paragraph of "O Pioneers!"
a grain elevator
Drew
|
$800
[11]
"As Time Goes By", about lovers who meet again after years apart, starred this Oscar winner for "Shakespeare in Love"
Judi Dench
Drew
Jen
|
$800
[6]
They're the two basic diving options seen here; one lets a layer of water in to warm up next to your body, one lets in none
wetsuit & drysuit
Drew
|
$800
[2]
Met in competition&a less jittery morning beverage choice
faced & decaf
Joey
Drew
|
|
$1,000
[9]
At King's funeral, this gospel singer & close friend sang the hymn "Precious Lord, Take My Hand"
Mahalia Jackson
|
DD
$1,600
[13]
Sir Aston Webb designed this London museum of decorative arts
the V&A (the Victoria and Albert Museum)
Joey
|
$1,000
[28]
Often used for foraged plants this tractor attachment bores down & inserts seeds into soil with minimal disturbance
a seed drill
|
$1,000
[12]
This show about 2 boozy women trying to stay young began as a skit on the "French & Saunders" sketch comedy show
Absolutely Fabulous ( Ab Fab )
Joey
|
$1,000
[7]
In early political science government by the best, hoi aristoi, was contrasted with government by the people, them
hoi polloi
Drew
|
$1,000
[3]
Students&an unfortunate mistake
pupils & slipup
Drew
|
| FRENCH GEOGRAPHY | 18th CENTURY WRITING | BROADWAY | PSYCHOLOGY | LET'S TALK ABOUT POLITICS | STARTS WITH "D" |
|
$400
[25]
This 10,000-square-mile region in the northwest sounds like it could be part of a different nearby nation
Brittany
Drew
|
$400
[27]
Caleb Williams, the hero of an early one of these creepy novels of crime & atmosphere, throws no TD passes but exposes a murderer
Gothic
Drew
|
$400
[22]
This musical that played on Broadway from 1988 to 2023 is based on a horror novel by Gaston Leroux
The Phantom of the Opera
Joey
|
$400
[30]
Psychology's "Hierarchy of" these says that more basic ones like food must be met before loftier ones
needs
Drew
|
$400
[29]
The Free Soil Party didn't want to give away dirt; it was opposed to the expansion of this
slavery
Drew
|
$400
[26]
To speak slowly with vowels prolonged; some might have a "Southern" one
a drawl
Jen
|
|
$800
[24]
The southern region known as the French Riviera, running east roughly from the village of Cassis, is known by this name in French
the Côte d'Azur
Drew
|
$800
[23]
Visionary artist & poet William Blake wrote collections titled "Songs of" these 2 opposites
Innocence & Experience
Joey
|
$800
[21]
"I Dreamed A Dream" & "Do You Hear The People Sing?" are songs from this show
Les Miz
Drew
|
$800
[28]
Freud identified this mental energy, from the Latin for "desire", with sexual drive
eros erotic (libido)
Drew
|
$800
[14]
Woodrow Wilson won the White House in 1912 after this former prez threw his hat in the ring, weakening incumbent William Howard Taft
Teddy Roosevelt
Drew
|
$800
[19]
It's a mournful song or hymn for the dead
a dirge
Drew
|
|
$1,200
[6]
France is big on 5-letter rivers; the Yonne flows northwest between the Seine &this630-mile one
the Loire
Joey
|
$1,600
[10]
In this satirical essay, Jonathan Swift suggested killing & eating poor Irish children to help end poverty
A Modest Proposal
Drew
|
$1,200
[1]
In 2024, Jim Parsons played the Stage Manager & Katie Holmes was Mrs. Webb, in a revival of this Thornton Wilder play
Our Town
Joey
|
$1,600
[15]
CBT is short for this therapy; psychotherapists use it to change negative thinking patterns
cognitive behavioral
Drew
|
$1,200
[9]
A 2015 article in the Atlantic gave us this alliterative term for a young male supporter of Senator Sanders
a Bernie Bro
Jen
|
$1,200
[11]
Actor Colman & singer Placido know it's the Spanish word for a day of the week
Domingo
Joey
|
|
$1,600
[7]
Glaciers cover about 40 square miles of this highest mountain in the Alps, though some in Italy claim it as theirs, not France's
Mont Blanc
Joey
|
$2,000
[17]
In 1774 this once-enslaved woman wrote, "Then fix the humble Afric muse's seat at British Homer's and sir Isaac's feet"
(Phillis) Wheatley
Jen
|
$1,600
[2]
In 2022, this entertainer became the first Black woman to have a Broadway theater named after her
(Lena) Horne
Jen
|
$2,000
[16]
The German for "shape" gives us this school of psychology that focuses on the whole rather than the parts
Gestalt
Drew
|
$1,600
[12]
"We are the 99%" was the rallying cry of this movement that took over part of Lower Manhattan in 2011
Occupy Wall Street
Joey
|
$1,600
[3]
It's the sale or liquidation of a corporate division, from the Anglo-French for "undress"
divestment
Drew
|
|
$2,000
[8]
The chief city of Alsace & home to several European institutions, this eastern city is just 2.5 miles from the German border
Strasbourg
|
DD
$5,000
[18]
Pangloss & Cunegonde are characters in this satire that mocked optimism by portraying a world of folly & danger
Candide
Jen
|
$2,000
[5]
In 2023, Jodie Comerwon a Tony for her role as a barrister in this one-woman play whose Latin title means "at first sight"
Prima Facie
Drew
|
DD
$4,000
[20]
Like "helicopter parents", this term from a sports-minded Danish psychologist describes parents who sweep obstacles away from kids
curling parents
Drew
|
$2,000
[13]
With a brain tumor & unable to speak, Clair Engle pointed to his eye to vote "aye" & end a Senate filibuster against this 1964 act
the Civil Rights Act
Joey
|
$2,000
[4]
This Enlightenment-era philosophy rejected miracles but believed in a divinely inspired universe
deism
Drew
|
A U.S. Navy website says its journey from New London to Norway in 1957 opened up Arctic waters previously ruled by the Soviets
the Nautilus