2025 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 1.
Rishabh Wuppalapati — a student at the University of Pennsylvania from Vernon Hills, Illinois
Will Wallace — a game design director from Austin, Texas
Alison Betts — a writer and creative executive originally from San Jose, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alison | $1,400 | $2,200 | $9,800 |
$4,399
2nd place: $5,000 |
$10,800
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Will | $3,200 | $3,800 | $15,200 |
$10,799
Winner: guaranteed semifinalist |
$13,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Rishabh | $-400 | $2,200 | $5,800 |
$0
3rd place: $5,000 |
$5,400
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| LAKES OF AMERICA | GAME TIME | SPECIAL DAYS | "CH" AS IN CHAMP | BROKEN | HELL'S KITCHEN, THE MUSICAL |
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$200
[26]
Tributary rivers of this lake include the Cuyahoga, Detroit & Sandusky
Lake Erie
Will
Rishabh
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$200
[17]
Noughts & crosses is a British name for this game, but whatever you call it, it's still a tie with best play
tic-tac-toe
Alison
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$200
[28]
The U.N. has designated May 20 a World Day named for these insects whose population decline has alarmed many
bees
Alison
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$200
[7]
A somewhat formal word for a bedroom, or the area of a firearm that holds the ammunition
a chamber
Alison
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$200
[29]
In a nursery rhyme his broken crown was patched "with vinegar and brown paper"
Jack
Rishabh
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$200
[30]
(Alicia Keys presents the clue.) Practically a character itself, these ttingof much of the show is Manhattan Plaza, the real-life building where I grew up among many artists hoping to make it, just a block east to Eighth Ave., the edge of this district
the Theater District
Will
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$400
[23]
Fond of lakes? Start up the ol' Winnebago & head to Fond du Lac in this state & partake of Lake Winnebago
Wisconsin
Alison
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$400
[14]
An optional "Speed Die" for use with this game has one face with a picture of its eponymous top-hatted "Mr."
Monopoly
Alison
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$400
[27]
In 1990 South Dakota's legislature voted to rename the day formerly called this as Native Americans' Day
Columbus Day
Will
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$400
[6]
The border between East & West Germany featured Alpha & Bravo these as well as a more famous one
checkpoints
Alison
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$400
[20]
A 1972caravanto D.C., the Trail of Broken these documents ended with theoccupationof the Bureau of Indian Affairs
treaties
Rishabh
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$400
[25]
(Alicia Keys presents the clue.) In Hell's Kitchen, you don't need a Steinway or a Stradi to make music; Ali's love interestplays drums on buckets, & she joins in for this song that says, "She's a flame""You can try, but you'll never forget her name, she's on top of the world, hottest of the hottest girls say, oh-oh"
"Girl On Fire"
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$600
[8]
One can traverse Lake Pontchartrain by taking this 24-mile-long type of bridge from Metairie to Mandeville
a causeway
Will
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$600
[10]
There's "an infinite world that's yours to shape, one block at a time" in this "ultimate sandbox game"
Minecraft
Rishabh
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$600
[16]
A fitting botanical prop is used in some celebrations of this first day of Holy Week
Palm Sunday
Will
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$600
[4]
On her marriage to Prince Albert in 1840, Queen Victoria received a 1,250-pound wheel of this cheese as a wedding gift
cheddar
Alison
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$600
[19]
If you change a web address, aka this 3-letter initialism, something called a 301 redirect will prevent the dreaded broken link
a URL
Will
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$600
[22]
(Alicia Keys presents the clue.)"Kaleido-leido-leido-leido-leidoscope, everyone looking high and low"A new song about opening up the world, "Kaleidoscope" was the theme song of this sporting event in 2024, & in late August, Shoshana Bean made the trip from Hell's Kitchen to Queens to sing at the opening night
U.S. Open of tennis
Will
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DD
$1,000
[1]
Northwest of Allentown, Beltzville Lake is a popular fishing spot in this mountain range
the Poconos
Alison
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$800
[12]
In chess, one of these diagonally moving pieces is "bad" if it's blocked by its own pawns
a (bad) bishop
Will
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$800
[11]
On Powder House Day this Conn. college town reenacts Benedict Arnold (still a good guy in 1775) standing up for the colonists
New Haven
Will
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$800
[3]
Rather than presidents, many universities have these top officials
chancellors
Alison
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$800
[18]
Punch cards from this company helped the U.S. break WWII Japanese codes, which used book ciphers rather than machines
IBM
Rishabh
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$800
[21]
(Alicia Keys presents the clue.) Along with new songs, the show reimagines some of my classics, like this breakout hit from 2001, about a love that's so much pleasure & so much pain; it has new instrumentation & a new seductive tone, & issung by a dude"Lovin' you darlin, makes me so confused"
"Fallin'"
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$1,000
[9]
Named for a Native American people, this Arizona lake is found within Tonto National Forest
Apache Lake
Rishabh
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$1,000
[13]
Noted 17th c. poet Sir John Suckling popularized this peg, board & card game & is said to have won a fortune cheating at it
cribbage
Will
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$1,000
[5]
Sheep lactation is involved on Imbolc, a February 1 Celtic & pagan celebration of this, though it's still 7 weeks away
the vernal equinox (beginning of spring)
Will
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$1,000
[2]
A veil or facescreen called a yashmak is often worn in public with this full-length garment for Muslim women
a chador
Alison
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$1,000
[15]
Modern medicine says broken heart syndrome can be triggered by grief & may lead to this, congestion from fluid in the lungs
(pulmonary) edema
Alison
Will
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$1,000
[24]
(Alicia Keys presents the clue.)"New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of (oh, come on), there's nothin' you can't do"The closing number's this song that I performed on the Tony Awards in 2024, with of course, a guest vocal by Jay-Z
"Empire State of Mind"
Rishabh
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| PUTTING THE CULTURE IN AGRICULTURE | A WEAK RESPONSE | LITERARY CHARACTERS | IT'S GOT A MOTOR | THAT HAPPENED | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS |
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$400
[30]
Born on a farm near Anamosa, Iowa, he often depicted rural life in his art, like "Seed Time & Harvest" from 1937
(Grant) Wood
Rishabh
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$400
[29]
Remove 2 letters from "fragile" to get this near-synonym
frail
Rishabh
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$400
[12]
"All children, except one, grow up", the one being him
Peter Pan
Alison
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$400
[19]
A 2.2-horsepower motor drives the Vitamix 750, one of these with pre-programmed settings for smoothies & more
a blender
Alison
Will
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$400
[27]
After conquering Italy, German King Otto I revived this imperial title in 962 A.D. & was crowned by Pope John XII
the Holy Roman Emperor
Rishabh
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$400
[21]
She recalled some of her happy times at Graceland in "From Here to the Great Unknown", completed by daughter Riley Keough
Lisa Marie Presley
Alison
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$800
[28]
At age 19 in 1775 in his post as Salzburg court Konzertmeister, he composed "Il re pastore" ("The Shepherd King")
Mozart
Rishabh
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$800
[15]
After smashing Loki, the Hulk calls him this unimposing 4-letter type of god
puny
Will
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$800
[13]
This 19th century classic follows the romantic relationships of sisters Elinor & Marianne Dashwood
Sense and Sensibility
Alison
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$800
[18]
A small motor drives the turntable in one of these, whether countertop or over-the-range
a microwave
Will
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$800
[26]
On June 1, 1969 Canada's CBC stopped accepting ads for this product on TV & radio
cigarettes (tobacco)
Alison
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$800
[22]
This TV journalist dedicated her 2024 memoir, in part, to "My Dearest Maury" (Povich)
Connie Chung
Alison
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$1,200
[4]
He painted about 25 canvases of haystacks after a harvest; the fields were near his house in Giverny
Monet
Rishabh
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$1,200
[9]
Add -ary to this word for weak & you get a word for a small hospital
infirm
Alison
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$1,200
[2]
Bigger Thomas ends up in prison for 2 murders, one accidental & the other deliberate, in this Richard Wright novel
Native Son
Will
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$1,200
[16]
A clicking noise when you turn the ignition can mean a bad this, the motor that gets your combustion-engine car going
a starter
Will
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$1,600
[1]
At the start of the 1500s, Diego de Deza was the second holder of this title & during his tenure, over 1,600 "heretics" perished
the Grand Inquisitor (Inquisitor General)
Will
Rishabh
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$1,200
[23]
"The Castiles", "Steel Mill" & "The River" are chapters in a memoir by this rocker
Springsteen
Will
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$1,600
[5]
She painted 20th century agricultural scenes, like "Moving Day on the Farm"
Grandma Moses
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$1,600
[8]
The "crep" in the middle of this word is from the Latin for to crack or burst
decrepit
Will
|
DD
$2,000
[7]
Shimerda is the last name of the heroine of this Willa Cather novel
My Ántonia
Rishabh
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$1,600
[11]
The fan that cools the CPU, short for this part of your computer, is essentially a little brushless motor
a central processing unit
Alison
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$2,000
[20]
It's the collective term for the Russian conspirators who failed in their late 1825 attempt to overthrow Czar Nicholas I
the Decembrists
Alison
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$1,600
[24]
Wondering whose big hairy arms are on the cover of this Tina Fey bestseller? They belong to hand model & actor Joe Rosario
Bossypants
|
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$2,000
[6]
Bathsheba Everdene owns a farm & Gabriel Oak is a shepherd in this Thomas Hardy novel 1st published in The Cornhill Magazine
Far from the Madding Crowd
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$2,000
[10]
Mao wrote that "Imperialism and Reactionaries are Paper" these animals that only appear to have power
a tiger
Will
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$2,000
[14]
He's the aging butler who narrates & reflects upon his life in "The Remains of the Day"
Stevens
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$2,000
[17]
An electric motor powers this part of a refrigerator that condenses low-pressure coolant into high-pressure gas
the compressor
Will
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DD
$2,600
[3]
Anytus, Meletus & Lycon were the 3 prosecutors in the trial of this man in 399 B.C.
Socrates
Will
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$2,000
[25]
Among those hewrites about in his family memoir, "The Friday Afternoon Club", are late sister Dominique & Aunt Joan Didion
Griffin Dunne
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Home to more than 400,000, it's the only world capital in the "Roaring Forties" latitudes
Wellington, New Zealand