2025 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 6.
Lucas Partridge — a high school counselor from Las Vegas, Nevada
Amar Kakirde — a policy analyst from Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey
Drew Goins — a journalist from Honolulu, Hawaii
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goins | $4,800 | $5,400 | $31,200 |
$32,008
Winner: guaranteed semifinalist |
$24,600
25 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Amar | $2,400 | $3,800 | $6,600 |
$13,199
2nd place: $5,000 |
$6,000
10 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Lucas | $2,800 | $3,800 | $7,400 |
$5,411
3rd place: $5,000 |
$7,400
14 R, 3 W |
| THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND | KID STUFF | JUST TAKE THE W | VOYAGING THROUGH HISTORY | NICKNAMES | BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME |
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$200
[30]
Walking with an animal pal, he's "credited" with creating Minnesota's 10,000 lakes with his deep footprints
Paul Bunyan
Goins
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$200
[22]
These alliterative items for tots can be chewed on as well as read & their sales grew from 17 million in 2000 to 31 million in 2015
board books
Lucas
|
$200
[20]
...from the start of a word meaning to flog to get this word meaning cool
hip
Goins
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$200
[28]
Like Sinbad, Zheng He, a Ming-era admiral, scoured the world during this many voyages
seven
Amar
|
$200
[23]
In 1999 this academy officially adopted "Black Knights" as the nickname of its sports teams, though "Cadets" is still used too
West Point (Army)
Amar
Lucas
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$200
[29]
A favorite in this 10-event event for the 1992 Olympics, Dan O'Brien failed to make the U.S. team; in 1996 he did & got the gold
the decathlon
Amar
|
|
$400
[26]
Caught napping, this character finds "it's twenty years since he went away from home... and never has been heard of since"
Rip Van Winkle
Lucas
|
$400
[21]
One who plays or frolics, or a one-piece kids' garment similar to a jumpsuit
a romper
Goins
|
$400
[16]
...from one of journalism's 5 Ws to get this avian
hen
Lucas
|
$400
[25]
By reaching the Viscount Melville Sound, an arm of the Arctic, Sir Robert McClure helped prove the viability of this route
the Northwest Passage
Goins
|
$400
[19]
No one's sure how Charlemagne's grandson Charles II got this nickname, but contemporary illustrations show him with hair
the Bald
Goins
|
$400
[14]
In 1955, after 5 previous losses, this NL team finally beat the hated Yankees in the World Series
the Brooklyn Dodgers
Amar
|
|
$600
[2]
Covering wealth & agriculture as well as the underworld, this Roman god would have been displeased at a certain 2006 scientific decision
Pluto
Goins
|
$600
[5]
Kids & the authors of a 2023 analysis in the journal "Physical Review E" know this word for height-maximizingactionon a swing
pumping
Amar
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$600
[13]
...out of a grassy area to get this acronym for a small computer network
LAN
Lucas
|
$600
[9]
Aotea Harbor in New Zealand is named for this type of 5-letter craft that Turi of Maori legend navigated
canoe
Lucas
|
$600
[10]
Thisblues legend nicknamed many of his guitars Lucille, after a woman who caused a nightclub fight
B.B. King
Lucas
|
$600
[15]
Carli Lloyd had 3 goals, this apparel-named feat, as the U.S. avenged a 2011 loss to Japan in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup final
a hat trick
Goins
|
|
$800
[1]
In another world, perhaps he's Washita William, but in ours he's this Texas legend who dined on nitroglycerin & barbed wire... once
Pecos Bill
|
$800
[3]
Schaper Toys, creator of Cootie, also gave us this tap-tap-darn it! game of small blocks in a grid
Don't Break the Ice
Goins
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$800
[11]
...from the front of a word meaning to get smaller like the Moon, move it to the end & get this synonym for again
anew
Goins
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$1,000
[24]
In 1802 this German climbed Mount Chimborazo & his study of currents off South America led to one being named for him
Alexander von Humboldt
Goins
|
$800
[7]
Does Las Vegas deserve this 2-word nickname? Well, a 2024 survey of vice in U.S. urban areas ranked it No. 1
Sin City
Amar
|
$800
[27]
Muhammad Ali lost the 1971 "Fight of the Century" to this archrival, but won the 1974 & 1975 rematches
(Joe) Frazier
Amar
Lucas
|
|
$1,000
[6]
Legend said after this mythic figure headed east on a raft, he'd be back; that story about the Aztecs mistaking Cortes for him: bunk
Quetzalcoatl
Goins
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$1,000
[4]
In General Mills iconography, Chef Wendell is the creator of CTC, this cereal
Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Lucas
|
$1,000
[12]
...out of the middle of a subterranean drainage conduit to get this visionary
seer
Goins
|
DD
$1,400
[8]
Magellan's flagship on his epic journey had this Spanish name that honored the Father, Son & Holy Spirit
Trinidad
Amar
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$1,000
[18]
The Democratic Party's donkey symbol traces back to this synonymous but less-flattering nickname given to Andrew Jackson
"Jackass"
Lucas
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$1,000
[17]
After losing the 2023 WNBA Finals, in 2024 the New York Liberty won it all, with this star's free throws sealing the deciding game
Breanna ("Stewie") Stewart
|
| ANAGRAMMED NUCLEAR PHYSICS | BRAND NAMES | WETLANDS | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS | SUBTITLES OF BOOKS | ANCIENT ROME IN THE MOVIES |
|
$400
[16]
Colorful name for a processed oxide of uranium:WEEKLY COAL
yellowcake
Amar
|
$400
[26]
This luxury car brand's logo of 4 interlocking rings symbolizes the 4 automakers that formed the company
Audi
Lucas
|
$400
[18]
The size of North Dakota, Llanos de Moxos in Bolivia is part of this river's basin
the Amazon
Lucas
|
$400
[15]
A list of all the books & articles used when writing a particular work
bibliography
Goins
|
$400
[19]
This bestseller by Max Brooks bills itself as "An Oral History of the Zombie War"
World War Z
Lucas
|
$400
[28]
MGM's 1953 epic "Julius Caesar" featured Marlon Brando as Mark Antony & James Mason as this betrayer
Brutus
Lucas
|
|
$1,200
[5]
A nucleus formed by the radioactive decay of a parent nuclide:HATED RUG
a daughter
|
$800
[21]
In 2023 this "Especial" import surpassed Bud Light to become the bestselling beer in America
Modelo
Amar
|
$800
[23]
Cold & oxygen-poor, this 3-letter type of swamp preserves folks like Denmark's Grauballe Man, who had his throat cut around 300 B.C.
a bog
Goins
|
$800
[14]
It's the process when your dead skin is actually a-peeling
exfoliation
|
$1,200
[7]
In "Dead Wake" Erik Larson wrote of the "Last Crossing of" this British ship, sunk by a U-boat in 1915
the Lusitania
Goins
|
$800
[27]
Paul Mescal is the fighter Lucius in "Gladiator II"; Russell Crowe is this super-sized fighter in the original
Maximus
Goins
|
|
$1,600
[4]
This type of particle can be produced during reactions such as beta decay:TIRE NOUN
neutrino
Goins
|
$1,200
[1]
Jennifer Aniston has been a spokesperson for this drugstore brand of moisturizer, saying she's used it since she was a teen
Aveeno
|
$1,200
[24]
Zambia's Bangweulu Wetlandsare home to theblack lechwe, a relative of this antelope that fittingly has "water" in its name
a waterbuck
Lucas
|
$1,200
[6]
Adjective for an often metaphorical type of expression seemingly designed to confuse non-native speakers
idiomatic
Lucas
|
$1,600
[3]
"The Children's Crusade" is the subtitle of this classic by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five
Goins
|
$1,200
[20]
Emil Jannings & Peter Ustinov both burned up the screen as this emperor in films based on Henryk Sienkiewicz' "Quo Vadis"
Nero
|
|
$2,000
[11]
The changing of one element into another through a nuclear reaction:MOUNTAIN TARTS
transmutation
Goins
|
$1,600
[2]
The largest branded marketer of baby apparel in North America, it also owns Osh Kosh B'gosh
Carter's
|
$1,600
[22]
Birds heading south for the winter are grateful for the estuary of this river, on Lisbon's doorstep
the Tagus
Goins
|
$1,600
[9]
It describes the nature of dancing, or a dancer, occupationally
terpsichorean
Goins
|
$2,000
[8]
With a title from an 1890s song, this 1980s book is subtitled "Politics, People, & the AIDS Epidemic"
And the Band Played On
|
$1,600
[29]
In "Centurion", the ninth of these army units is on a mission to Scotland to wipe out the Picts; it doesn't go well
legion
Amar
|
|
DD
$5,400
[12]
Process of increasing the proportion of U-235 compared to U-238:NINTH CREME
enrichment
Goins
|
$2,000
[17]
In the 1930s 2 golfers came up with this leading brand of ball after an X-ray proved another ball's core was off-center
Titleist
Goins
|
$2,000
[25]
A haven for saltwater crocodiles is the Corroboree, one of these wet places in the lyrics of "Waltzing Matilda"
a billabong
Goins
|
$2,000
[10]
It's the specific scientific profession of the man seen here
herpetologist
Goins
|
DD
$2,800
[13]
The subtitle of "Frankenstein" was "The Modern" this, no mythtake
Prometheus
Goins
|
$2,000
[30]
Who can forget Jack Palance as this invader whose army threatened Rome in the 5th century & in 1954's "Sign of the Pagan"?
Attila the Hun
Lucas
|
In 1883 an old sailor didn't know what its name meant but believed the natives "named it from the sound"
Krakatoa