2025 Champions Wildcard semifinal game 3.
Paul Clauson — a tax analyst from Madison Heights, Michigan
Mehal Shah — a software engineer from Seattle, Washington
Marko Saric — a math professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marko! | $1,400 | $3,000 | $5,800 |
$11,600
2nd place: $10,000 |
$5,800
11 R, 4 W |
| Mehal | $5,400 | $7,400 | $19,800 |
$13,799
Finalist |
$17,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Paul | $1,600 | $2,000 | $12,400 |
$9,900
3rd place: $10,000 |
$11,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 9 W (including 1 DD) |
| WOMEN THROUGH THE YEARS | LITERALLY LITERATURE | FORTUNEGLOBAL 500 COMPANIES | NOT TO BE CONFUSED | SCHOOL OF MUSIC | IT'S A VERB! IT'S A NOUN! |
|
$200
[20]
An 1857 poem about Florence Nightingale says, "In that house of misery / A lady with" this "I see / Pass through the glimmering gloom"
a lamp
Paul
|
$200
[28]
"Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys tells the story of the first wife of this character from "Jane Eyre"
Rochester
Marko!
|
$200
[30]
In 2023 the Passat from this car company celebrated its 50th anniversary, having debuted as a 2- & 4-door hatchback
Volkswagen
Mehal
|
$200
[6]
Both delicious, but don't confuse these two cookies with similar names
macaroons & macarons
Mehal
|
$200
[24]
As a California high schooler, hesaw Led Zeppelin in concert, which would greatly influence his own music-making
Eddie Van Halen
Paul
|
$200
[25]
To gather animals into a group, or the group that results
herd
Marko!
|
|
$400
[22]
While she was at Cornell, this future Supreme Court justice took Vladimir Nabokov's European lit class
(Ruth Bader) Ginsburg
Marko!
Paul
|
$400
[27]
A book by Jean Améry tries to salvage the reputation of Charles, the dull, cuckolded husband of this Flaubert character
Madame Bovary
Paul
|
$400
[29]
If folks keep buying the 96-roll toilet paper packs at this chain that merged with Price Club in 1993, it may stay in the 500
Costco
Mehal
|
$400
[7]
An atheist doesn't believe that God exists, while one of these believes it's impossible to know
agnostic
Marko!
|
$400
[23]
Thismember of Hibbing High School's class of 1959 soon left town, "like a rolling stone"
Dylan
Paul
|
$400
[8]
To entertain guests, or Communion bread
host
Marko!
|
|
$600
[3]
Melanie Mark of Vancouver is the first female First Nations member in this province's legislature
British Columbia
Marko!
|
$800
[1]
This author is a character in "Shoeless Joe"; not happy about being portrayed, he isn't in the movie version "Field of Dreams"
Salinger
Marko!
Mehal
|
$600
[21]
In November 2024 an "A" share of its stock was priced at $693,000, y'know, give or take
Berkshire Hathaway
Mehal
|
$600
[10]
Gold prospectors often mistook this mineral, from Greek for "fire", for the real deal, hence the name fool's gold
pyrite
Paul
|
$600
[19]
He's listed in his yearbook as Cordozar Broadus; schoolmate Cameron Diaz says she may have bought weed from him
Snoop Dogg
Marko!
|
$600
[9]
To turn around & around, or a Scottish dance
reel
|
|
$800
[2]
A star sharpshooter in Wild West shows, she shot the ashes from a cigarette held by Germany's future Kaiser Wilhelm
Annie Oakley
Mehal
|
$1,000
[4]
"Man produces evil as a bee produces honey" is a thought from this Brit who wrote about kids gone savage on an island
Golding
Mehal
|
$800
[17]
This company makes everything from cat food to Coffee Mate... hold on... do I see a crossover product?! No. I certainly do not
Nestlé
Paul
|
$800
[18]
In Greek myth naiads were freshwater nymphs & these were woodland & tree nymphs
dryads
Mehal
|
$800
[11]
Shewas about to graduate when "Foolish Beat" hit No. 1, making her the youngest artist to write, produce & perform a No. 1 hit
Debbie Gibson
|
$800
[13]
To tremble, or a container for pointed projectiles
quiver
Marko!
|
|
$1,000
[26]
In 2013 this early cosmonaut said she'd like to go to Mars, even if it were a one-way trip
Tereshkova
Marko!
|
DD
$2,600
[5]
This 1880s short story ends with "never a cobra dared show its head inside the walls"
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"
Mehal
|
$1,000
[16]
For Q3 of 2024 this Global 500 company once based in The Hague reported $6.03 billion in adjusted earnings
(Royal Dutch) Shell
|
$1,000
[15]
Cartilage is a type of connective tissue; Carthage was an ancient city settled by these seafarers & traders from Tyre
the Phoenicians (Phoenicia)
Paul
|
$1,000
[12]
Here's this country legend, clean-shaven some 70 years ago as a student in Texas, back when they still wore leatherfootball helmets
Willie Nelson
Paul
|
$1,000
[14]
To gather crops, or the season for doing it
harvest
Paul
|
| SALTY BODIES OF WATER | INSECTS IN HIGH & LOW CULTURE | ANATOMY | PREFIXED PAIRS | WHATCHA WATCHIN'? | CHAPEL ROME |
|
$400
[24]
Iran's Lake Urmia hosts salt-tolerant species like this tall, pink wading bird, sometimes a flamboyance of about 30,000 of them
a flamingo
Paul
|
$400
[18]
Thisone-named Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist also has dozens of acting credits including "Queen & Slim" & "Toy Story 4"
Flea
Paul
|
$400
[25]
The tarsals & the metatarsals are among the 26 bones that make up this body part
the feet
Mehal
Paul
|
$400
[26]
Outside the normal range of perception & originating from beyond the Earth
extraterrestrial & extrasensory
Marko!
Mehal
Paul
|
$400
[27]
This animated series subtitled "The Last Airbender", set in places like the Earth Kingdom & the Fire Nation
Avatar
Marko!
|
$400
[30]
Sparkling in goldtesserae, the Chapel of Saint Zeno is known for this tile-y type of art from the early Christian era
mosaic
Paul
|
|
$800
[9]
Dubbed hypersaline at 40% salinity, Don Juan Pond in this continent's McMurdo Dry Valleys region is merely inches deep
Antarctica
Mehal
Paul
|
$800
[17]
The opening night audience booed but this opera about Cio-Cio-San has become one of the most often performed
Madame Butterfly
Mehal
|
$800
[11]
It's where the left & right hepatic ducts & Kupffer cells are located
the liver
Mehal
|
$800
[16]
The movement of a soul from one body to another & a flight from, say, New York to Dublin
transatlantic & transmigration
Marko!
Paul
|
$800
[21]
This 2024 miniseries that put the focus on Kathryn Hahn's bewitching character from "Wanda Vision"
Agatha All Along
Paul
|
$800
[28]
The biggest in Rome in the 1580s, a chapel in Santa Maria Maggiore shares this name with a famous one across the Tiber
the Sistine Chapel
|
|
$1,200
[6]
High in salts of sodium & potassium, Little Manitou Lake northeast of Lake Diefenbaker is called the "Dead Sea of" this nation
Canada
Mehal
|
$1,200
[8]
These title "Prophecies" were the subject of a 2002 Richard Gere film
the Mothman Prophecies
|
$1,200
[3]
Each of the eyes has a natural blind spot where this nerve connects to the retina
the optical (optic) nerve
Paul
|
$1,200
[15]
An ultra-large crude carrier like the 564,000 DWT Seawise Giant & an event observed in China in 185 A.D.
a supertanker & supernova
Mehal
|
$1,200
[12]
The "Joker"sequel with this French subtitle--why didn't anyone tell me it was a musical
Folie à Deux
Paul
|
$1,200
[23]
The church of the Gesù in Rome, the mother church of this order, includes the chapel of Ignatius of Loyola
the Jesuits
Mehal
|
|
$1,600
[7]
This so-called "Sea" in a Southern California desert didn't exist until a flood filled a low basin
the Salton Sea
Mehal
|
$2,000
[20]
Even then! This play by Aristophanes is a satire on the judicial system of his day & the litigiousness of the Athenian people
The Wasps
Marko!
|
$1,600
[4]
It's the 6-letter name for the thin layer of tissue that covers, protects & cushions the lungs
the pleura
Paul
|
DD
$2,000
[1]
One millionth of a 60th of a minute & a small region with its own pattern of weather
a microsecond & a microclimate
Paul
|
$1,600
[13]
The "Sex & the Evans Family" episode of this '70s sitcom; hilarity ensues when J.J.'s mom & dad find what they think is his sex manual
Good Times
|
$1,600
[22]
A Caravaggiopaintingin the Contarelli Chapel in Rome shows Jesus pointing at this tax collector turned Apostle
Matthew
Marko!
|
|
$2,000
[10]
The lowest point on the continent, Lake Assal in this small Horn of Africa nation is a prime source of quarried salt
Djibouti
Paul
|
DD
$4,800
[19]
In a Rimsky-Korsakov opera, this piece of music conveys when a prince is transformed into a certain insect (by a magical swan!)
"Flight of the Bumblebee"
Paul
|
$2,000
[5]
This lowest part of the uterus expands at the end of a pregnancy in order to prepare for the baby's delivery
the cervix
Mehal
|
$2,000
[2]
Music with multiple melodic parts sounded together & having more than the usual number of digits like bluesman Hound Dog Taylor
polydactyl & polyphony (polyphonic) (**polyharmonic)
Mehal
Paul
|
$2,000
[14]
Gwyneth Paltrow as Margot, a member of the title family in this Wes Anderson film
The Royal Tenenbaums
Paul
|
$2,000
[29]
The sancta sanctorum of the Lateran Palace was the private chapel of the papacy before the popes moved to this city in France
Avignon
Paul
|
These 2 British authors based characters--Dikko Henderson & Old Craw--on Richard Hughes, journalist & double agent
Ian Fleming & John le Carré