2025 Tournament of Champions final game 3.
Neilesh Vinjamuri — a software engineer from Lionville, Pennsylvania
Isaac Hirsch — a customer support team lead from Burbank, California
Adriana Harmeyer — an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adriana | $5,400 | $7,200 | $14,000 |
$14,000
2nd place: 1 match point |
$13,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Isaac | $-400 | $2,800 | $1,600 |
$1,300
3rd place |
$8,000
14 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Neilesh | $2,600 | $4,800 | $30,000 |
$30,000
Winner: 2 match points |
$16,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| 20th CENTURY NOTABLES | LET ME TELL YOU A STORY | UTENSILS | HODGEPODGE | COMPETITION SHOWS | FILL OUT THE "NDA" |
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$200
[17]
Credited with saving more than 1,000 lives in the 1940s, this man was buried at a Catholic cemetery on Mount Zion
Schindler
Neilesh
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$200
[2]
A traveling salesman wakes to find he has a carapace & numerous legs, alarming his family
The Metamorphosis
Neilesh
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$200
[23]
In Japan you use the broad end of these utensils to pick up food from a communal dish
chopsticks
Adriana
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$200
[30]
In 2024 a zoo in China was accused of deceiving visitors by dying dogs black & white & trying to pass them off as these
pandas
Adriana
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$200
[24]
After making a very early exit off this show, political commentator Jon Lovett titled a podcast ep "Outwit, Outplay, Out First"
Survivor
Isaac
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$200
[12]
You don't want to be in the coils of the green type of this Amazon dweller, the world's heaviest snake at up to 550 lbs. & 30 feet long
anaconda
Neilesh
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$400
[16]
He said his "greatest blunder" was the insertion of the cosmological constant into his theory of general relativity
Einstein
Neilesh
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$400
[4]
Birth rates drop, a theocracy takes over the United States, & fertile women are forced into servitude
The Handmaid's Tale
Adriana
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$400
[22]
As a noun, it's a wire utensil for beating eggs; as a verb, it means to move quickly
whisk
Adriana
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$400
[29]
An advocate for LGBTQ rights & pay equity, in 2022shebecame the first soccer player to score a Presidential Medal of Freedom
Rapinoe
Adriana
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$400
[25]
Episodes of this series that began in 2009 include "Glamazon Prime", "Snatch Game" & "Good God Girl, Get Out"
RuPaul's Drag Race
Isaac
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$400
[20]
A police officer in Paris, it's from French for "men-at-arms"
gendarme
Neilesh
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$800
[8]
In 1947 nationalist hero Aung San was assassinated at the Secretariat Building in this city
Yangon
Isaac
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$600
[5]
2 young men get summer jobs tending sheep on the slopes of a Wyoming peak, grow close & meet up over the years
"Brokeback Mountain"
Neilesh
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$600
[21]
A taste of home cookbook of "Soups, Stews & More" mentions this utensil & 300+ recipes on its cover
ladle
Neilesh
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$600
[9]
The American Lung Association was founded in 1904 to combat this disease
tuberculosis
Isaac
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$600
[26]
Previously wed for 32 years, Joan Vassostook this title role, nay, responsibility, choosing among 24 suitors in 2024
the Golden Bachelorette
Adriana
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$600
[19]
Term for the authorization given by the League of Nations for a country to govern a former German or Turkish territory
mandate
Neilesh
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DD
$1,000
[1]
Gloria Steinem said this 1972 Democratic candidate for pres. "first took the 'white-male-only' sign off the White House"
(Shirley) Chisholm
Adriana
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$800
[6]
A title Greek girl insists on burying her rebel brother & gets entombed in a cave; the gods avenge her
Antigone
Neilesh
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$800
[14]
A sieve is good for getting the clumps out of flour; you can use this hole-y bowl-shaped utensil for straining pasta or rinsing lettuce
colander
Neilesh
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$800
[10]
This term for an animal that mostly eats meat is also the name of a diet where humans mostly eat meat & animal products & no carbs
carnivore
Isaac
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$800
[27]
Some viewers agreed with a judge on this tattooing skill competition that a season 4 cat was "nothing other than an atrocity"
Ink Master
Isaac
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$800
[18]
Used as an aid to meditation, it's a symbolic representation of the spiritual universe
a mandala
Isaac
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$1,000
[7]
In 1993, this South African was president of the African National Congress Women's League
Winnie Mandela
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$1,000
[3]
A president is grief-stricken when his son dies of typhoid fever; the son's spirit lingers in a purgatory before moving on
Lincoln in the Bardo
Adriana
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$1,000
[13]
Pizza cutters are for more than just pizza! Chop herbs & make strips of pastry for this fancy top for a pie crust
a lattice
Adriana
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$1,000
[11]
This -ology kind of sounds like the study of a fun summer place but it's actually the art of bell ringing
campanology
Adriana
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$1,000
[28]
If you wanted to see folks eat live beetles or get lowered into a pit of rats, this early 2000s Joe Rogan show was for you
Fear Factor
Isaac
|
$1,000
[15]
It's a synonym for dilemma or predicament
a quandary
Adriana
Isaac
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| BRIDGES | ACTORS & ACTRESSES | UNDER THE MICROSCOPE | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT | THEM'S FIGHTING WORDS | MEYER SCHUSSER, IRASCIBLE REFUGEE COMPOSER OF GOLDEN AGE HOLLYWOOD |
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$400
[16]
Trajan's Bridge, which spans the Danube, is found in this country named for the people Trajan ruled
Romania
Adriana
Isaac
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$400
[8]
He's seen here with his musician fiancée of almost six years as of late 2024
Bloom
Adriana
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$400
[30]
Grain, cheese & dust are types of these tiny (really, really tiny!) arthropods
mite
Neilesh
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$400
[29]
Until 1935 this body didn't have its own building; it met in the Old Senate Chamber, & members ate lunch in the Robing Room
the Supreme Court
Adriana
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$400
[28]
Relating to a time between ancient & modern--Weird Al warned he'd "get" this "on your heinie" in "Amish Paradise"
medieval
Isaac
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$400
[27]
MGM sent a man they call an arranger--I could do as well with any bricklayer from this city of Schubert, Strauss & Schusser
Vienna
Isaac
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$800
[11]
Thislongest suspension bridge in the U.S. connects scenic Staten Island to Brooklyn
Verrazzano-Narrows
Adriana
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$800
[4]
This "Avatar" actress recently added back the tilde to her last name, missing since a kindergarten teacher refused to use it
Saldaña
Neilesh
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$800
[20]
SCN is short for this crop's "cyst nematode", a roundworm that may be kept in check by rotating the crop with corn
(the) soybean
Adriana
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$1,200
[14]
The mission statement of this Cabinet department begins, "With honor and integrity, we will safeguard the American people"
Homeland Security
Isaac
Neilesh
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$800
[26]
An avian term for a person who thirsts for a scrap, it was used of congressmen elected before the Scrap of 1812
a war hawk
Isaac
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$800
[22]
So, young man, you studied with that Schoenberg fellow at this university in Westwood? Better to learn in a honky tonk on Central Ave.
UCLA
Isaac
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$1,200
[9]
The Dongjak Bridge was built to span the Han River in this capital city
Seoul
Isaac
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$1,200
[2]
The role of Aaron Burr wonhima Tony & a Grammy
Leslie Odom Jr.
Adriana
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$1,200
[17]
Many rotifers have regal tufts of cilia that draw water into their mouths; the structure goes by this name, like a layer of the Sun
corona
Neilesh
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$1,600
[6]
Created in 1939, the Executive Office of the President is overseen by this person, a position created in 1946
the (White House) chief of staff
Neilesh
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$1,200
[1]
This 9-letter adjective for someone itching to fight comes from Latin for "of war"
bellicose
Adriana
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$1,200
[12]
Ach! I belch better than you play this single-reed woodwind that evolved from the chalumeau; out with you!
a clarinet
Isaac
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$1,600
[10]
You could cross the Pons Neronianusover this river; its remnants have emerged during a drought 2,000 years later
Tiber
Neilesh
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$1,600
[3]
In a line from the always impression-able Al Pacino, these 5 words follow "Just when I thought I was out"
They pull me back in
Neilesh
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$2,000
[18]
AKA a water bear or moss piglet, this poster child of charismatic microfauna has survived exposure to the vacuum of space
tardigrade
Neilesh
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$2,000
[5]
Until 1967 & the 25th Amendment, VP succession to the presidency was based on precedent named for this man, the first to do it
Tyler
Neilesh
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$1,600
[21]
Throwing hands & then eating together? That's not friendly fire but the alliterative friendly this slang word for a fight
(the friendly) fade
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$1,600
[13]
I am scoring a historical drama set at the French court of Louis XV of this royal house; we will not have a "catchy swing number"
Bourbon
Adriana
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$2,000
[15]
Now a World Heritage Site, the perhaps unimaginatively named Ironbridge spans this river, Britain's longest
the Severn River
Adriana
Neilesh
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$2,000
[7]
This New Zealand-born actress has won raves as Shauna, one of the grown-up crash survivors in "Yellowjackets"
(Melanie) Lynskey
Adriana
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DD
$14,800
[19]
Some mini cnidarians that can regenerate parts of their bodies have this mythic name, like a creature fought by Hercules
hydra
Neilesh
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DD
$6,400
[25]
The oldest committee in the House, it's been charting revenue policy since 1789
Ways and Means
Isaac
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$2,000
[24]
A snack & a body part are in this idiom about someone always ready to take offense
a chip on their shoulder
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$2,000
[23]
On the screen, the children frolic; in the studio, the violins play this way, plucking their strings! That is the magic of Schusser
pizzicato
Isaac
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Asked by a student about the Loch Ness Monster, she said a time portal below could allow a prehistoric creature to pass through
(Diana) Gabaldon