Josh Weikert game 4.
Melanie Hirsch — a lawyer from Silver Spring, Maryland
John Rindone — a policy advisor from Brooklyn, New York
Josh Weikert — a politics professor from Collegeville, Pennsylvania (whose 3-day cash winnings total $54,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh | $0 | $2,400 | $11,600 |
$5,201
4-day champion: $59,202 |
$13,400
19 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| John | $0 | $200 | $2,600 |
$1,000
2nd place: $3,000 |
$2,600
5 R, 2 W |
| Melanie | $4,200 | $6,800 | $12,000 |
$799
3rd place: $2,000 |
$18,000
23 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| FROM THEIRNEW YORK TIMESOBITUARY | KID LIT | DOUBLE TALK | BE MY TV SHOW GUEST | HAT TRICKS | CAN I GET AN AMENDMENT? |
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$200
[29]
1968:"Overcame blindness and deafness to become a symbol of the indomitable human spirit"
Helen Keller
Melanie
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$200
[17]
At the beginning of a Johanna Spyri story, this Swiss miss is taken by her aunt to live with her grumpy grandfather
Heidi
Josh
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$200
[27]
The "ants go marching" rhyme took this double-talk phrase from the Civil War song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
hurrah, hurrah
John
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$200
[30]
Britney Spearsplayed a receptionist obsessed with Ted but who settles for Barneyon this sitcom
How I Met Your Mother
Melanie
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$200
[25]
At a 2024 auction, this type of hat worn by Harrison Ford in "Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom" made $630,000... vanish!
a fedora
Josh
|
$200
[19]
Rep. Louis Ludlow lent his name to a 1930s amendment that would require a national referendum to approve a declaration of this
war
Josh
|
|
$400
[26]
1947:"Struck a cruel blow shortly before his 80th birthday by the death of his only son, Edsel"
(Henry) Ford
Melanie
|
$400
[16]
She's the smallest of a dozen girls who attend a convent school in Paris; her further adventures take her to London
Madeline
Melanie
|
$400
[18]
A kids' song doesn't take place in a "papaya patch" but in a patch of this similar-sounding fruit
the pawpaw (patch)
Melanie
|
$400
[28]
She won an Emmy for her guest appearance as the alcoholic mother of Carmy & Sugar on "The Bear"
Jamie Lee Curtis
Melanie
|
$400
[24]
Created in the late 1800s for outdoor fun like sailing, it's the hat here& kazaam!--now it's apuppy
a boater
Josh
|
$400
[10]
Rarely or never enforced, the Reed Amendment says if you renounce this for tax avoidance reasons, you can't return to America
citizenship
John
|
|
$600
[14]
1901:"The end of this splendid career came in a simply furnished room in Osborne House. This most respected of all women"
Queen Victoria
John
|
$600
[4]
Last name Trotter, the title kid of this Roald Dahl favorite is orphaned when his parents are eaten by a rhino
James and the Giant Peach
Melanie
|
$600
[7]
Philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser's repetitively slangy reply on hearing a double positive can never equal a negative
yeah, yeah
Josh
|
$600
[21]
An episode of "The Last of Us" showed the 20-year relationship of Frank (Murray Bartlett) & Bill (this actor)
(Nick) Offerman
Melanie
|
$600
[23]
That's not a hat, that's a knife! & now it's a hat named for this region & worn by none other than Crocodile Dundee himself!
an Outback hat
Josh
|
$600
[9]
1950's Lodge-Gossett Amendment would have reformed this quadrennial body to make it account for the popular vote; it failed in the House
the electoral college
Josh
|
|
$800
[12]
1926:"Began her career at 16 years and performed wonderful shooting feat at 62"
Annie Oakley
Josh
|
$800
[3]
He wrote & illustrated the tiny 4-volume "Nutshell Library", which includes "Chicken Soup with Rice"
Sendak
Melanie
|
$800
[6]
It was applied to a 1940s "kid" who romanced older women; today it means out-there or new agey
woo-woo
|
$800
[15]
"Fred Claus" on film, he played Freddy Funkhouser on "Curb Your Enthusiasm"
Vince Vaughn
|
$800
[22]
A 1906 pic of Teddy Roosevelt abroad & wearing this hat made it famous, & bam! Here's Ted! Oh no; Ted died in 1919 & doesn't look great
a Panama hat
Josh
|
$800
[2]
The Platt Amendment of 1901 let the U.S. intervene in this nearby island, whose govt. was briefly called the Platt Amendment Republic
Cuba
Melanie
|
|
DD
$1,800
[13]
1977:"Dead of heart attack in Paris"; "most exciting opera singer of her time"
Maria Callas
Josh
|
$1,000
[5]
Pigs & cows feature in her classics like "Barnyard Dance" & "Moo, Baa, La La La!"
(Sandra) Boynton
Melanie
|
$1,000
[8]
Possibly meaningless repetition is big in "Waiting for Godot", down to the double-talk nicknames of Vladimir (Didi) & Estragon (this)
Gogo
Melanie
|
$1,000
[20]
This star of the O.G. "Shaft" guest starred as 2 different characters on "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"
Richard Roundtree
|
$1,000
[11]
The future Edward VII made this soft-felt hat popular, & presto! It's now in a spa in the same-named "Bad" German city!
a Homburg
John
|
$1,000
[1]
High federal debt numbers have inspired many of these alliterative amendments, like one from Rep. Jodey Arrington in 2024
a balanced budget amendment
Josh
|
| "I" ON THE MAP | BIG SCREEN BASEBALL BRIEFLY | FOSSIL FUELED | LION AROUND | FAMOUS PRO-SEMITES | COMPOUND WORDS |
|
$400
[5]
Flown during the 1916 Easter Rising, the tricolor seen here would become the official flag of this country
Ireland
Melanie
|
$400
[24]
Tim Robbins took the mound as Nuke Laloosh
Bull Durham
Melanie
|
$400
[27]
In 2024 scientists announced the discovery of the oldest fossil of one of these frog larvae, over 6" long
a tadpole
Josh
|
$400
[28]
In the Harry Potter books, Minerva McGonagall & Sirius Black are both members of this Hogwarts house symbolized by a lion
Gryffindor
Melanie
|
$400
[29]
In youth, this jazz titan worked for the Karnofskys, New Orleans peddlers, & wrote, "I will love the Jewish people, all of my life"
(Louis) Armstrong
John
Melanie
|
$400
[30]
Term for a car that resembles a convertible but has a fixed roof
a hardtop
Josh
|
|
$800
[4]
With more than 13 million people, it's the only major city in the world that straddles 2 continents
Istanbul
John
|
$800
[23]
Charlie Sheen took the mound as Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn
Major League
Josh
|
$800
[25]
More than 600 species of fossils have been found along this state's Calvert Cliffs
Maryland
Josh
|
$800
[19]
This villain in "The Lion King" kills the rightful monarch
Scar
Josh
|
$800
[21]
The boy from St. Croix, this Founding Father knew some Sephardic Jews in the Caribbean & became a lifelong advocate
Hamilton
Josh
|
$800
[26]
Higgins, a question about my new executive parking spot is not relevant to the meeting--let's take it here, a term from tech
offline
Josh
|
|
$1,200
[3]
The U.S. controlled this embattled Japanese island until 1968
Iwo Jima
Josh
|
$1,200
[22]
A home run by Scott Hatteberg of the Oakland A's is a climactic moment
Moneyball
Josh
|
$1,200
[10]
A New York museum recently unveiled Apex, one of the most complete specimens of this dinosaur, bony back plates & all
a Stegosaurus
Melanie
|
$1,200
[11]
In 1951, orange & green were added to the lionflagof this island nation to represent its Tamil & Muslim citizens
Sri Lanka
Melanie
|
$1,200
[15]
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum says he lost childhood Jewish friends from Wadowice & repudiated Catholic antisemitism
John Paul II
Josh
|
$1,200
[6]
Another way to ask "What are you reading?" is "What's on your" this word with 5 consecutive consonants
nightstand
|
|
$1,600
[1]
The iconic Faisal Mosquein this capital city is one of the largest in the world
Islamabad
Josh
|
$1,600
[20]
A man sells his soul to the devil to help his team beat a New York franchise
Damn Yankees
Melanie
|
$2,000
[18]
Discovered in 1861, this "ancient wing" dinosaur with feathers was long thought to be the oldest fossil bird
Archaeopteryx
Melanie
|
$2,000
[13]
This self-taught French artist painted a lion standing over a sleeping woman in one of his most famousworks
Henri Rousseau
Melanie
|
$1,600
[14]
A descendant of these tough Jews from the Hanukkah story sent troops to help Julius Caesar, who later pushed for Jewish rights
the Maccabees
Melanie
|
$1,600
[7]
In 1884, Black inventor Willis Johnson patented a model of this device that could mix batter as well as the food in its name
an egg beater
|
|
$2,000
[2]
The Mediterranean's deepest recorded point, about 3.2 miles, is in the Hellenic Trench in this sea
the Ionian
Melanie
|
$2,000
[17]
Texas college ballplayers Jake, Roper & McReynolds are often dazed & confused
Everybody Wants Some!!
|
DD
$3,500
[9]
North Carolina chose as its state fossil the teeth of this giant prehistoric shark
the megalodon
Melanie
|
DD
$2,500
[12]
Stage directions in this Shaw play based on a Roman story mention a huge thorn in a paw
Androcles and the Lion
Melanie
|
$2,000
[16]
A 2011 book is subtitled "Philosemitism in England from" this 1650s readmitter of the Jews "to Churchill"
Cromwell
John
|
$2,000
[8]
Fountainhead is the source of a stream or of ideas; so is this word that starts with a pit from which to draw water
a wellspring
Melanie
|
In 1804 an officer of HMS Warrior formally charged this captain with "calling me rascal, scoundrel & shaking his fist in my face"
Captain Bligh