Josh Weikert game 3.
Eugene Huang — a teacher from Paramus, New Jersey
Sara Balmuth — an archeologist from Shasta Lake, California
Josh Weikert — a politics professor from Collegeville, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $32,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh | $1,600 | $7,200 | $20,000 |
$21,201
3-day champion: $54,001 |
$19,200
26 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Sara | $3,600 | $3,600 | $1,600 |
$3,200
3rd place: $2,000 |
$1,600
7 R, 3 W |
| Eugene | $2,800 | $1,600 | $10,600 |
$20,001
2nd place: $3,000 |
$15,600
19 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| MOUNTAINS | HIPPO-POURRI | QUOTING THE FILM | MIX -OLOGY | BUSINESS | BEFORE PLEASURE |
|
$200
[30]
Nepal's coat of arms features a garland of rhododendrons encompassing this summit
Mount Everest
Eugene
|
$200
[28]
Hyacinth Hippois the star of the "Dance of the Hours" segment of this Disney film
Fantasia
Eugene
|
$200
[14]
"I'm not pretty anymore"; "Note to the filmmakers... Margot Robbie is the wrong person to cast if you want to make this point"
Barbie
Josh
|
$200
[13]
Shake, rattle & roll:SEMI SOY LOG
seismology
Josh
|
$200
[20]
Created in 1957, the Standard & Poor's index with this number tracks companies from energy to real estate
500
Josh
|
$200
[29]
You can stand on a raised one to give a speech, or wear this kind of boot or heel to raise yourself up a few inches
platform
Josh
|
|
$400
[4]
This 3,000-mile mountain range extends from the U.S. into the northernmost reaches of British Columbia
the Rockies
Josh
Eugene
|
$400
[27]
In a confusing turn of events, this Hasbro game of "marble chomping madness" has a unicorn edition (but the same name)
Hungry Hungry Hippos
Josh
|
$400
[7]
"Metaman, express elevator! Dynaguy, snag on takeoff! Splashdown, sucked into a vortex! No capes!"
The Incredibles
Sara
|
$400
[10]
It's for the birds:THORNY IGLOO
ornithology
Eugene
|
$400
[19]
On a company's balance sheet, "AR" refers to this, money owed to the business by customers
accounts receivable
Josh
|
$400
[24]
When it comes to love, this adjective can be used in contrast to erotic
platonic
Eugene
|
|
$600
[6]
At an elevation of 8,100 feet, Great St. Bernard Pass through these mountains connects Switzerland & Italy
the Alps
Eugene
|
$600
[8]
A viral sensation in 2024, Moo Dengis a pygmy hippo at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in this country
Thailand
Eugene
|
$600
[2]
"Now... sink into the floor... sink... now you're in the Sunken Place"
Get Out
Josh
|
$600
[9]
It's cutting edge:LENGTHY COO
technology
Sara
|
$800
[17]
Divide the benefit gained by the amount put in, then multiply by 100 to calculate ROI, this
return on investment
Josh
Eugene
|
$600
[21]
Facial features of this monotreme include a duckbill & white fur under its eyes
a platypus
Josh
|
|
$800
[15]
South America's highest peak, Mount Aconcagua is found near the border of these 2 countries
Chile & Argentina
Sara
Eugene
|
$800
[5]
A bluehippo from Egypt's Middle Kingdom is the unofficial mascot of this New York City museum that displays him
the Metropolitan Museum (of Art)
Sara
|
$800
[3]
"Most people wanna borrow sugar. or even ketchup! You wanna borrow my car? Hell, naw!", leading to "Bye, Felisha"
Friday
Sara
|
$800
[11]
Let's get physical or cultural:OOH ANGRY PLOT
anthropology
Sara
|
$1,000
[18]
Used to secure repayment, it's assets or property pledged when a loan agreement is signed
collateral
Josh
|
$800
[22]
If you don't know the details of a secret government operation, you've given yourself this kind of deniability
plausible
Eugene
|
|
$1,000
[26]
Bearing the name of a country, it's the second-highest mountain in Africa
Mount Kenya
|
$1,000
[25]
From 395 to 430, this saint was bishop of the port city of Hippo
St. Augustine
Josh
|
$1,000
[1]
Ted Knight: "I'm no slouch myself". Chevy: "Don't sell yourself short, Judge. You're a tremendous slouch"
Caddyshack
Sara
|
$1,000
[12]
Time to bone up:GOOEY SLOT
osteology
Josh
|
DD
$2,000
[16]
From the Latin for "body", this action offers more protection against liability than sole proprietorship
incorporation
Eugene
|
$1,000
[23]
This guide says its yellow-&-black "logo has been woven into the theatregoing experience"
Playbill
Josh
|
| THEN, VOYAGER | 2-WORD PHRASES | ART HISTORY | WOMEN ON TV | PLEAD THE 5th | POETIC PLACES |
|
$400
[26]
"Erik the Red's Saga" says that this son of Erik was blown off course & ended up in grape-laden North America
Leif Erikson
Eugene
|
$400
[10]
Idiomatically, they're very small stages of progress
baby steps
Sara
|
$400
[5]
Scottish artist Eduardo Paolozzi anticipated this movement by a decade depicting brands in works like 1949's "Improved Beans"
pop art
Josh
|
$400
[25]
Once upon a time, in a kingdom far away, she played paralegal-turned-lawyer Rachel Zane on "Suits"
Meghan Markle
Josh
|
$400
[11]
He was a senator, a governor & our 5th U.S. president; "Jeopardy!" 101... know the order of the presidents, folks!
Monroe
Josh
|
$400
[17]
In "Someplace Like Montana", Ada Limón recalls life in this New York City borough of bodegas, buildings & bridges--& Bushwick
Brooklyn
Eugene
|
|
$800
[27]
Admiral George Anson lost half his ships trying to round this cape but later cashed in by seizing a Spanish galleon
Cape Horn
Josh
Sara
|
$800
[9]
Various sources say in the early 2000s, the length of these "toothsome" morsels of political persuasion was 7-9 seconds
sound bites
Josh
|
$800
[4]
The Rococo age was on a gilt trip & surviving pieces often use gilt this alloy, less valuable to strip & melt than silver
bronze
Josh
Eugene
|
$800
[23]
A regular on "30 Rock", she's more recently hosted a reboot of "Name That Tune"; I can name that actress in...
Jane Krakowski
Josh
|
$800
[12]
In 1924 this luxury fashion store addressed itself at a New York City location between 49th & 50th Streets
Saks Fifth Avenue
Eugene
|
$800
[16]
"The ghost of Père Lachaise/ Is walking the streets" in Hope Mirrlees' 1920 modernist classic titled this
Paris
|
|
$1,200
[28]
On July 25, 1579 this Englishman pulled up anchor near what is now San Francisco & headed out across the Pacific
Drake
Josh
|
$1,200
[8]
Fittingly, not much effort was needed in the 1980s to create this phrase meaning to take it super-easy; it's only 6 total letters
to veg out
|
$1,200
[3]
Coin collecting was big in the Early Renaissance, maybe one reason portraits showed sitters like Matteo Olivieri this way
in profile
Josh
|
$1,200
[22]
Conchata Ferrell is perhaps best remembered for her roles on"L.A. Law"& as sarcastic housekeeper Berta on this sitcom
Two and a Half Men
Josh
|
$1,200
[18]
Leeloo & Cornelius work together to save the Earth inthis1997 sci-fi epic, from an idea Luc Besson had at age 16
The Fifth Element
Eugene
|
$1,200
[15]
The vale of Tawasentha & the shore of Gitche Gumee are settings in the "Song of" him
Hiawatha
Eugene
|
|
$1,600
[29]
Aboard the ships São Gabriel & São Rafael, this explorer made it to Mozambique in 1498 & got help from the sultan there
Vasco da Gama
Josh
Eugene
|
$2,000
[7]
In Realtor-speak it's a big, open area on the main floor; it's not just good, it's a...
a great room
Josh
|
$1,600
[2]
In the Hellenistic period Greeks interacted with Africans more than before, but inartstill ID'd them all as this nationality
Ethiopians
Sara
|
$1,600
[21]
Her TV roles have included She-Hulk & on another series, Sarah Manning, Alison Hendrix & Rachel Duncan
Tatiana Maslany
|
$1,600
[19]
A nationalist gen. in the Spanish Civil War is said to have coined this idiom for a secret group trying to undermine a nation
a fifth columnist
Josh
|
$1,600
[14]
In a Coleridge classic, this locale is where Kubla Khan did "a stately pleasure-dome decree"
Xanadu
Eugene
|
|
DD
$3,000
[30]
Jacques Cartier discovered this island, but its French name later gave way to one honoring a son of King George III
Prince Edward Island
Eugene
|
DD
$2,400
[6]
With scenes like the hide & clap in "The Conjuring", director James Wan has mastered this effect--it literally moves the viewer
a jump scare
Josh
|
$2,000
[1]
Around 1800 Antonio Canova was the greatest sculptor of this old-is-new style with works depicting Cupid, Perseus & Daedalus
neoclassicism
Eugene
|
$2,000
[24]
She returned to TV as "The Diplomat" Kate Wyler
Keri Russell
Josh
|
$2,000
[20]
Do we have an E.T.A. on that? Oh yes, 1810, when his glowing review of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony helped immortalize the work
E.T.A. Hoffman
|
$2,000
[13]
The ruins of this abbey on the River Wye were namechecked in the title of a poem by William Wordsworth
Tintern Abbey
Eugene
|
A biosphere reserve in Michoacán is named for these creatures that turn the forests orange & black every November
monarch butterflies