2025 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 1.
Will Wallace — a game design director from Austin, Texas
Ryan Manton — a systems administrator from Columbus, Ohio
Adriana Harmeyer — an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adriana | $2,000 | $4,400 | $22,000 |
$25,000
Finalist |
$19,200
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Ryan | $4,000 | $5,200 | $12,000 |
$22,001
2nd place: $10,000 |
$12,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Will | $-600 | $200 | $200 |
$0
3rd place: $10,000 |
$2,200
10 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
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$200
[30]
A back-to-Africa movement scam artist is part of Chester Himes' hard-boiled novel "Cotton Comes to" this New York City area
Harlem
Will
|
$200
[10]
A synonym for distant begins this hyphenated adjective meaning improbable
far-fetched
Will
|
$200
[9]
Bonding over their M.S., Jamie-Lynn Sigler & this "Dead to Me" actress launched "Me Ssy", featuring candid conversation
Applegate
Adriana
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$200
[28]
In 2024 he won a fourth term representing Vermont
Sanders
Ryan
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$200
[25]
A 2007 Time article apologized for confusing "LOLcats" with this feline-posting tradition, a day of the week portmanteau
Caturday
Will
|
$200
[8]
Move over Hollywood--this resort city on the Côte d'Azur has its own Walk of Fame
Cannes
Adriana
|
|
$400
[29]
A writer-producer of TV's "Empire", Attica Locke wrote the Highway 59 trilogy about a Black one of these Lone Star lawmen
a Texas Ranger
Will
|
$400
[23]
Mark Cuban & Sara Blakely both worked early on in this hyphenated type of sales that declined once fewer women were home all day
door-to-door
Adriana
|
$400
[17]
In 2022shelaunched "Now What?" to talk about life's challenges & setbacks & how people deal with them
(Brooke) Shields
Adriana
|
$400
[27]
The son of Cuban immigrants, he began representing Florida in the Senate in 2011
Rubio
Ryan
|
$400
[14]
McDonald's & Wendy's observed this day on July 12, 2024, which fell on the day of the week it sounds like
Fry Day
Will
|
$400
[7]
This city on New Zealand's South Island was fittingly given its divine name by J.R. Godley
Christchurch
Ryan
|
|
$600
[20]
A Georgia politician & voting rights activist, she puts some civics in her mystery with novels like "Rogue Justice"
(Stacey) Abrams
Adriana
|
$600
[13]
A 2023 change in Oregon law left New Jersey as the only state without this type of gas station
self-service
Ryan
Will
|
$600
[18]
He's the "Armchair Expert" who has in-depth conversations with people from all fields
Dax Shepard
|
$600
[26]
In 2012 Tammy Baldwin of this state became the first openly gay person elected to the Senate
Wisconsin
Ryan
|
$600
[6]
October 24, 1929, this "dark" day on Wall Street, kicked off the stock market crash
Black Thursday
Adriana
Ryan
Will
|
$600
[1]
Its nicknames include "Queen City" & "Hornet's Nest"
Charlotte
Adriana
|
|
$800
[21]
One entry in the Charlie Mack Motown Mystery series is about an attack on this annual Detroit display that puts the moto in Motown
the Detroit Auto Show
|
$800
[11]
A warning or telltale sign, or the jump ball that starts a basketball game
a tip-off
Ryan
|
$800
[19]
This British-born pop sensation will "Blow Your Mind" with her "At Your Service" podcast, talking to people who blow her mind
Dua Lipa
|
$800
[15]
Hailing from Caribou, Maine, she's currently one of the longest-serving women in the Senate
Collins
Ryan
|
$800
[5]
Founded by a University of Tennessee student, this restaurant chain shares its name with a song by The Rolling Stones
Ruby Tuesday
Adriana
|
$800
[2]
Straight outta its city website: it's called "Hub City" due to its proximity to the center of Los Angeles County
Compton
Adriana
|
|
$1,000
[22]
Black heroine Bree is caught up in the disappearance of a blonde in a novel called this, a "syndrome" Gwen Ifill popularized
Missing White Woman
|
$1,000
[12]
Jacob Grimm coined this hyphenated name for a Balkan language; now with Bosnia & Montenegro in the mix, it's known as BCMS
Serbo-Croatian
|
$1,000
[24]
This "Seriously Funny" comic has his own "Laugh Out Loud" channel on SiriusXM & a podcast called "Gold Minds"
Kevin Hart
|
$1,000
[16]
A grad of Stanford, Oxford & Yale, he was the mayor of Newark in 2013 when he was elected to represent New Jersey in the Senate
Booker
Adriana
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
On "American Gods", Ian McShane was Odin, also known as Mr. this guy
Wednesday
Ryan
|
$1,000
[3]
The French settlers of this African city called it "Maison Blanche"
Casablanca
Ryan
|
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|
$400
[20]
No, I don't want maple syrup on my pancakes; tell chef I must have this brownish syrup made in the sugar refining process
molasses
Adriana
|
$400
[21]
Published in 1965, 2 years after her death, her "Lady Lazarus" says, "Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair"
Plath
Will
|
$400
[29]
The space telescope named for this astronomer helped give a measurement of the constant named for him
Hubble
Ryan
|
$400
[25]
A 1961 song by Ben E. King & a coming-of-age film based on a work by Stephen King
"Stand By Me"
Will
|
$400
[27]
He made 3 orbits of the Earth in Friendship 7, launched on February 20, 1962
John Glenn
Ryan
|
$400
[28]
Albert Einstein once said, "I never think of" this, "it comes soon enough"
the future
Adriana
|
|
$800
[19]
I want this simple Italian sauce of basil, garlic, pine nuts, olive oil & Parmesan on my pasta; accept no substitutes!
pesto
Adriana
|
$800
[18]
Langston Hughes' "Harlem" asks, "What happens to a dream deferred?... Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it" do this?
explode
Ryan
|
$800
[30]
Jennifer Doudna & Emmanuelle Charpentier went halfsies on the 2020 Nobel in Chemistry, winning for this gene-editing tech
CRISPR
Will
|
$800
[24]
With an "03" in front of it, a Jay-Z/Beyoncé song & a 1967 Beatty/Dunaway crime film
"Bonnie & Clyde"
Adriana
|
$800
[17]
2 states joined the Union on February 14--Oregon in 1859 & this state in 1912, the last of the lower 48
Arizona
Adriana
Will
|
$800
[26]
Played on a 9x9 grid, it's been called the "Rubik's Cube of the 21st Century"
Sudoku
Adriana
|
|
$1,200
[1]
This animal on the label of Huy Fong sriracha sauce honors the year its creator David Tran was born; put the sauce on my table
a rooster
Ryan
|
$1,200
[4]
"I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way", says this title robber of the road in an Alfred Noyes poem
the Highwayman
Will
|
$1,600
[5]
The 1903 Nobel for Physics was shared by Pierre & Marie Curie & this other physicist
Henri Becquerel
|
$1,600
[23]
A song on "Let It Be" & a 2007 jukebox musical with Evan Rachel Wood
"Across The Universe"
Adriana
|
$1,200
[16]
This piece premiered in New York City on Feb. 12, 1924, with composer George Gershwin at the piano
Rhapsody in Blue
Adriana
|
$1,200
[6]
Brought over from Asia, this fast-growing plant that easily overtakes trees & shrubs is known as "the vine that ate the South"
kudzu
Adriana
|
|
$1,600
[2]
Chef made Swedish meatballsso serve them with jam made from these tart red berries; buy a jar of the preserves at IKEA if you must
lingonberries
Will
|
$1,600
[11]
William Carlos Williams' "The Red" this was inspired by the sight of one surrounded by white chickens in a backyard
"Wheelbarrow"
Will
|
$2,000
[13]
She "left Germany with the bomb in my purse" & was crucial to understanding fission
(Lise) Meitner
Ryan
|
DD
$2,000
[22]
A Nicki Minaj hit that samples Sir Mix-a-Lot & a J.Lo movie set in the jungle
"Anaconda"
Will
|
$1,600
[10]
Andrew Johnson's feud with this sec. of war escalated in Feb. 1868, when the prez tried to fire the man, who refused to leave office
Stanton
Adriana
|
$1,600
[7]
This flap of tissue that hangs in the back of your throat prevents food & fluids from going up your nose when you swallow
the uvula
Ryan
|
|
$2,000
[3]
The name of this cucumber, mustard & vinegar relish might be a variation on "pickle"; tell chef to use my English gran's recipe
piccalilli
Adriana
|
$2,000
[12]
"Sexual Water" & "Ode to a Large Tuna in a Market" are among the works by this Chilean who won a Nobel Prize in Literature
Neruda
Ryan
|
DD
$4,000
[15]
"A strength of mind almost divine", says some of the Latin inscription on this 17th century genius' grave at Westminster Abbey
(Isaac) Newton
Adriana
|
$2,000
[14]
An ethereal rom-com with Reese Witherspoon & a Top 40 hit by The Cure
Just Like Heaven
Adriana
|
$2,000
[9]
February 25, 1948 saw a bloodless coup in this country, with the Communists taking over; Pres. Benes was allowed to stay in office
Czechoslovakia
|
$2,000
[8]
As a noun, it's a prophet or soothsayer; as a verb, it means to foretell from omens
to augur
|
About 80 miles from Vladivostok, its 11-mile land border with Russia is the shortest of that country's 14 neighbors
North Korea