2025 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 4.
Will Stewart — a political organizer originally from Nashville, Tennessee
Ryan Manton — a systems administrator from Columbus, Ohio
Mehal Shah — a software engineer from Seattle, Washington
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mehal | $2,200 | $4,200 | $7,400 |
$399
3rd place: $5,000 |
$7,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Ryan | $2,600 | $4,000 | $14,400 |
$13,899
Winner: guaranteed semifinalist |
$14,400
13 R, 0 W |
| Will | $1,000 | $2,200 | $14,900 |
$900
2nd place: $5,000 |
$10,600
13 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| U.S. CITIES | HOMONYMBLE ON YOUR FEET | FITNESS | IN THE AIR | PRE-BOOTS | LET'S PUT 2 THINGS TOGETHER |
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$200
[29]
More than 30% of its approximately 105,000 residents are students at the University of Colorado
Boulder
Will
|
$200
[28]
To scoop water out of a boat, or to leave suddenly to avoid a bad situation
bail
Mehal
|
$200
[30]
Sets of these to elevate you & raise your heart rate include L.A.'s Prospect ones & D.C.'s Exorcist ones
stairs
|
$200
[25]
In 1961 an airplane looking for bugs in the atmosphere found one of these wood eaters flying at 19,000 feet
a termite
Mehal
|
$200
[27]
"They're not saints" was a tagline for this 2011 show with Minka Kelly as one of the title trio; Jaclyn Smith was heavenly in 1976
Charlie's Angels
Will
|
$200
[10]
First name of Koufax or Duncan + a frozen waffle brand once owned by Kellogg's = this not quite a Southern California city
Sandy Eggo
Ryan
|
|
$400
[15]
"There's no place like" this Alaskan Gold Rush town located on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula
Nome
Mehal
|
$400
[26]
To follow stealthily during a hunt, or the main stem of a plant
a stalk
Will
|
$400
[19]
Get fit with this fighting sport whose name indicates it uses hands & feet; MMA adds other moves like grappling
kickboxing
Will
|
$400
[24]
These 2 elements make up more than 90% of the air you breathe
oxygen & nitrogen
Mehal
|
$400
[23]
Nicollette Sheridan & Elaine Hendrix both played Alexis in 2019 on this nighttime soap, but Joan Collins was enough in 1981
Dynasty
|
$400
[14]
1st name of the guy "who lives in a pineapple under the sea" + activity with "star promenade" & "arm turns" = this dude with new moves
SpongeBob SquareDance
|
|
$600
[2]
Incorporated in 1961, this Florida city lives up to its name today around 7 a.m.
Sunrise
Ryan
|
$600
[17]
Extremely sensitive to the touch, or a smaller ship used to assist a larger one... any "Below Deck" fans playing now?
a tender
Ryan
|
$600
[18]
This company's star instructors for member workouts have included Kristin McGee for yoga & Cody Rigsby on the bike
Peloton
Mehal
|
$800
[6]
Thesedelicate, high-level clouds are made entirely of ice crystals
cirrus
Mehal
Ryan
|
$600
[22]
There was a time, 2013, when Chris Hardwickhosted "@midnight", but today, it's this comedian who's on "After Midnight"
(Taylor) Tomlinson
Mehal
|
$600
[13]
The state where you'll find Sleepy Hollow & New Paltz + shortened plural for a cloth used to blow the nose
the New York Hankies
|
|
$800
[1]
Named for a city in France, this state capital lies along the Winooski River
Montpelier, Vermont
|
$800
[16]
A part of the body, or a pro wrestler who purposely antagonizes fans; c'mon, ref! How did you not see that?!
a heel
Mehal
|
$800
[8]
Seenmore often at senior swim than a Katie Ledecky workout, it does help work your obliques
sidestroke
Mehal
|
DD
$1,000
[9]
These avians can rotate their wings to generate lift while flapping both up & down, enabling them to hover in the air
hummingbirds
Mehal
|
$800
[21]
In 2018 Juliet Higgins helped solve mysteries in Hawaii on this show, but back in 1980, it was Jonathan Higgins on the case
Magnum, P.I.
Mehal
Ryan
|
$800
[12]
A word preceding "punishment" when that's applied to a body + married name of Ark. Gov. Sarah = this demoted fried chicken magnate
Corporal Sanders
Mehal
|
|
$1,000
[3]
Take a load off in this third-largest Iowa city that hosts a famous jazz festival honoring native son Bix Beiderbecke
Davenport
|
$1,000
[4]
Prey, or an excavation to remove stone
quarry
Will
|
$1,000
[7]
As a model of the universe opposed to the Big Bang, it's in trouble; as a low-intensity type of cardio training, it's still popular
steady state
|
$1,000
[5]
Look out! We're surrounded by this, the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere
the troposphere
Ryan
|
$1,000
[20]
Whether it was Roselyn Sánchez in 2021 or Ricardo Montalbán in 1977, your "Fantasy Island" host had this last name
Roarke
|
$1,000
[11]
5-letter synonym for terrible that also describes the "Truth" in a film title + the Willis one in Illinois = this European eyesore
the Awful Tower
|
| COUNTS & COUNTESSES | FILMMAKERS | ASIAN HISTORY | COMMUNICATION | AUTHORS | STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL |
|
$400
[22]
Before her contemporary Charles Perrault, Countess d'Aulnoy used this name for a type of story, conte de fées in French
fairy tales
|
$400
[29]
The 2020 movie "On the Rocks" reunited Bill Murray & this director, who Murray says was "a child" when they made "Lost in Translation"
Sofia Coppola
Mehal
|
$400
[20]
West Papua became a part of this country in 1969 as its Irian Jaya province
Indonesia
Mehal
|
$400
[28]
Rhyming synonym for a namecheck
a shout-out
Will
|
DD
$100
[15]
Sinclair Lewis created this guy, a symbol of materialist conformity; Matthew Broderick played him on stage in 2024
Babbitt
Will
|
$400
[19]
It's the collective term for all the people in an area eligible to vote
electorate
Will
|
|
$800
[21]
Countess Jacqueline de Ribeswas one of the original women Truman Capote compared to these birds
swans
|
$800
[30]
Fresh out of film school, he insisted on directing his screenplay of "Boyz n the Hood", which starred Ice Cube & Cuba Gooding Jr.
John Singleton
Mehal
|
$800
[16]
During the Vietnam War, this Asian city was the headquarters of American military operations
Saigon
Ryan
|
$800
[23]
In a 2017 movie one of these title objects in Missouri reads, "And Still No Arrests?"
a billboard (three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri accepted)
Ryan
|
$400
[27]
Andrew Neiderman has written 60+ books under the name of this "Flowers in the Attic" author plus her bio, "The Woman Beyond the Attic"
V.C. Andrews
|
$800
[18]
Shapely name for President's Park South, a 52-acre location near the White House used for gatherings & other activities
The Ellipse
|
|
$1,200
[12]
The Count of Cavourhelped unify this European nation & became its first prime minister in 1861, inspired by his youthful love for the radical Nina
Italy
Will
|
$1,200
[25]
Hedirected "Frances Ha" & "Mistress America", both co-written with star Greta Gerwig
Baumbach
Will
|
$1,200
[3]
Öz Beg was both great & powerful as khan of this group whose territory ranged from the Carpathians to Siberia
the Golden Horde
Will
|
$1,200
[17]
Since 1991, this 3-letter abbreviation has referred to familiar text messaging technology
SMS
Mehal
|
$800
[26]
This author of "The Right Stuff" defined the New Journalism as using fiction techniques in reporting
Wolfe
Mehal
|
$1,200
[13]
A region of ancient Greece, it was the pastoral home of the god Pan
Arcadia
Mehal
Will
|
|
$1,600
[8]
18th c. charlatan Count Cagliostro posed as this, a transmuter of base metal, if you can pose as a job that's already a scam
an alchemist
Ryan
|
$1,600
[11]
In the '30s, hedirected upbeat films like "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town", with Gary Cooperin the title role
Capra
Ryan
|
$1,600
[1]
The Killing Fields of Cambodia got their name due to the brutality of this French-named communist group
Khmer Rouge
Will
|
$2,000
[7]
It's alternation of types of speech, common among Black employees moving in & out of African-American Vernacular English
code-switching
Mehal
|
$1,200
[24]
Early novelists often titled books after a character; see Henry Fielding's "Joseph Andrews", "Jonathan Wild" & this 1749 tale
Tom Jones
Will
|
$1,600
[4]
In "War and Peace" Pierre is criticized for preaching the doctrines of this secret group
the Illuminati
Mehal
Ryan
|
|
$2,000
[9]
Found in The Hague, one of Holland's great museums was the House, or huis, of this man, & there's aportraitof him inside
Count Maurits
|
$2,000
[10]
"12 Years a Slave" was the first film to win the Best Picture Oscar that was directed & produced by a Black filmmaker, this Brit
McQueen
Ryan
|
$2,000
[2]
This Sri Lankan guerrilla force attacked Colombo's airport in 2001, destroying many of the country's commercial planes
the Tamil Tigers
Mehal
|
DD
$7,400
[14]
The Baltic-Finnic languages include Finnish & this national language spoken due south across the Viro Strait
Estonian
Will
|
$2,000
[6]
In 2023 an amateur scholar found a creepy story by this Irish novelist, "Gibbet Hill", from an 1890 newspaper & unpublished since
Bram Stoker
|
$2,000
[5]
Ismat Chughtai, a writer in this South Asian language, shocked some with her 1942 story "The Quilt" about female-female intimacy
Urdu
Ryan
|
After Camillagate, a fire at Windsor Castle & marriage problems in her family, Queen Elizabeth II dubbed 1992 this
annus horribilis