Ben Ganger game 3.
Scott Summers — a librarian from Apex, North Carolina
Julie Holt — a Latin teacher from Knoxville, Tennessee
Ben Ganger — a data analyst from Goshen, Indiana (whose 2-day cash winnings total $41,815)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben | $5,000 | $6,200 | $24,600 |
$34,600
3-day champion: $76,415 |
$22,600
24 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Julie | $0 | $2,800 | $3,200 |
$6,400
2nd place: $3,000 |
$3,200
13 R, 3 W |
| Scott | $-800 | $0 | $4,000 |
$1,599
3rd place: $2,000 |
$5,000
12 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| STATE SONG LYRICS | A REAL PAIN | ENGLISH AS A THIRD LANGUAGE | FAMOUS NAMES | MOVIE EASTER EGGS | FOR RENT |
|
$200
[26]
"I love your old gray missions, love your vineyards stretching far"
California
Julie
|
$200
[27]
Chest pain, pain radiating down the left arm & jaw pain can be signs that you're having this, a myocardial infarction
a heart attack
Scott
|
$200
[30]
Graziein Italian, bedanktin Dutch...
thank you
Julie
|
$200
[23]
In 2024 he stepped down as GOP Senate leader & in 2025 announced he wouldn't run for his seat again
Mitch McConnell
Scott
|
$200
[20]
Promo or commentary? Cups from this ubiquitous coffee chain appear in nearly every scene in "Fight Club"
Starbucks
Julie
|
$200
[29]
There's actually a "50" at the end of the full name of this Gulfstream product, but expect to pay about $13k an hour to rent one
the G6 (a Gulfstream G6)
Ben
|
|
$400
[25]
"Black Hills & prairies, farmland & sunshine"
South Dakota
Julie
|
$400
[8]
A rupture of this tendon may sound like a gunshot & be as painful as that sounds
the Achilles tendon
Julie
|
$400
[28]
Bienvenuein French, talitali fiefiain Tongan...
welcome
Ben
|
$400
[24]
In his 1989 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, he referred to himself as "a simple Buddhist monk of Tibet"
the Dalai Lama
Ben
|
$400
[21]
A verse from Ezekiel (mis)quoted in "Pulp Fiction" is on this character's faux headstone in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier"
Nick Fury
Ben
|
$400
[22]
Need one of these powerful black & tan guard dogs for your movie? Call Hollywood Animals & ask if Kai is available
a Rottweiler
Julie
Scott
|
|
$600
[3]
"Blessed by God's own hand, birthplace of a mighty nation, keystone of the land"
Pennsylvania
Ben
|
$600
[7]
Severe pain is a complication of this type of anemia characterized by & named for its misshapen red blood cells
sickle cell anemia
Julie
|
$600
[5]
'Ohanain Hawaiian, perhein Finnish...(feel free to do your best Vin Diesel!)
family
Scott
|
$600
[13]
Shortly before his death at 96, this doctor used his own maneuver to save a choking victim at his senior living home
Heimlich
Scott
|
$600
[19]
That's director Jordan Peele's voice saying "A mind is a terrible thing to waste" in an ad Lil Rel Howery hears in this horror film
Get Out
Julie
|
$600
[14]
Need to build something big? Rent Big Carl, one of these that can get 250 feet tall & lift 5,000 tons
a crane
Ben
|
|
$800
[1]
"Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam, where the deer & the antelope play"
Kansas
Julie
Scott
|
$800
[9]
Unrelated to roofing, the Latin word for girdle gives us this common name for herpes zoster, which can cause painful rashes
shingles
Scott
|
$800
[4]
Ferrumin Latin, u'amea in Samoan...
iron
Julie
|
$800
[12]
Hereare two titans of 20th century music, this conductor & composer with his longtime friend & mentor, Aaron Copland
Bernstein
Ben
|
$800
[18]
A newspaper owned by this character in an Orson Welles film makes an appearance in "The Magnificent Ambersons"
Kane
Ben
Julie
|
$800
[16]
You'll have to inquire for rates to rent the Brando, which is on this type of 5-letter coral island in French Polynesia
an atoll
Scott
|
|
$1,000
[2]
"Oh, the moonlight's fair tonight along the Wabash, from the fields comes the breath of new-mown hay"
Indiana
Ben
Scott
|
DD
$1,000
[10]
Appropriately, there is a thawing stage in adhesive capsulitis, this condition abbreviated FS
frozen shoulder
Scott
|
$1,000
[6]
Tagin German, sikuin Swahili...
day
Ben
|
$1,000
[11]
A ruthless businessman, this partner of Andrew Carnegie amassed art now in a mansion/museum at 5th Ave. & 70th St.
(Henry Clay) Frick
Julie
|
$1,000
[17]
In "Toy Story", the production designer made the carpet in Sid's house look like one at the hotel in this 1980 horror film
The Shining
Ben
|
$1,000
[15]
In 2011 this little land between Austria & Switzerland offered itself on Airbnb for $70,000 a night
Liechtenstein
Ben
|
| FRENCH HISTORY | THE RICHES OF THE EMERSONIAN MIND | ALLITERATIVE AMERICA | CLOUD-POURRI | JOKING AROUND | ENDS WITH "END" |
|
$400
[25]
On July 3, 1962 this leader & former soldier formally proclaimed Algeria's full independence from France
de Gaulle
Ben
|
$400
[30]
Emerson sorta meant it as an insult when he called this "Walden" writer "the captain of a huckleberry-party"
(Henry David) Thoreau
Julie
|
$400
[26]
Home of the Red Raiders, this school in Lubbock opened in 1925 with 914 students
Texas Tech
Julie
|
$400
[27]
Aristophanes' play "Clouds" satirizes "new learning" & this Athenian philosopher
Socrates
Ben
Julie
|
$400
[28]
Kevin Durant wasn't laughing when Peyton Manning hosted this award show honoring athletic achievements
the ESPYs
Scott
|
$400
[29]
The French Academy tried to make "fin de semaine" happen but everyone there calls 2 days of leisure or yard work "le" this
weekend
Scott
|
|
$800
[21]
Around 600 B.C. Greek colonists founded this port, which was an independent city for 500 years before falling to Rome
Marseille
Ben
|
$800
[22]
In a lecture, Ralph Waldo Emerson referred to this then-trendy "ism" as "idealism as it appears in 1842"
transcendentalism
Scott
|
$800
[23]
Not surprisingly San Francisco has a museum devoted to these, designated a national historic landmark
cable cars
|
$800
[24]
These clouds, actually 2 galaxies, were observed by the crew of a Portuguese navigator's 16th century voyage
the Magellanic Clouds
Ben
|
$800
[20]
He's done the stand-up specials "The Tennessee Kid" & "The Greatest Average American" & hosted "SNL" twice
Nate Bargatze
Ben
Julie
|
$800
[19]
Allow me to mansplain: this verb has roughly the same meaning as "patronize"; do you understand?
condescend
Ben
|
|
$1,200
[16]
Milestones in this island's history: 1842, becomes a French possession; 2024, Colin Jost hurts foot covering Olympic surfing
Tahiti
Ben
|
$1,200
[17]
This novelist's dad was a friend of Emerson; she remembered going to school with "the little Emersons in their father's barn"
Louisa May Alcott
|
$1,200
[18]
In 2025 the Alaska legislature asked the federal govt. to retain "Denali" instead of reverting it to this ex-name
Mount McKinley
Scott
|
$1,200
[14]
Cloud 9 was the title business of this sitcom that starred America Ferrera
Superstore
Ben
|
$1,200
[15]
A streaming service is in the name of this comedy festival that boasted 300+ stand-up shows in 2024
Netflix Is a Joke
Ben
|
$1,200
[1]
Purge the jerks & randos from your social media circle on November 17, which Jimmy Kimmel has declared National this Day
Unfriend
Scott
|
|
$1,600
[4]
The Fronde, 17th C. French civil wars, were named for this stone-tossing weapon; in a French Bible, Dayid has "sa fronde à la main"
a sling
Ben
|
DD
$2,000
[7]
Ralphy's first book was titled this word, like a science periodical; he called it "divine charity" that "nourishes man"
Nature
Ben
|
$1,600
[9]
Historically, George Meany, John L. Lewis &Cesar Chavez
labor leaders
Ben
|
$1,600
[12]
This seat of Webster County, Nebraska was named for a Sioux chief
Red Cloud
Ben
|
$1,600
[13]
This New York institution that's the toast of roasts named its home the Jerry Lewis Monastery
the Friars Club
|
$1,600
[2]
To move a joint beyond its normal range of motion--ouch!
hyperextend
Ben
|
|
DD
$6,000
[5]
Comprising 2/5 of the country, this political entity came into being via the Franco-German armistice of June 1940
Vichy France
Ben
|
$2,000
[6]
Emerson mentioned freedom seeker Shadrach Minkins in a speech deploring this act that was a key part of the Compromise of 1850
the Fugitive Slave Act
Scott
|
$2,000
[8]
A Michigan collegetown, it's also known as Tree Town
Ann Arbor
Ben
|
$2,000
[11]
Novelist David Mitchell co-wrote the screenplay for the 2012 film based on this time-bending novel of his
Cloud Atlas
Scott
|
$2,000
[10]
(Roy Wood Jr. presents the clue.) I got to joke about Tucker Carlson & Dominion but also got to highlight my dad's work as a journalist covering the civil rights movement during my 2023 remarks at this annual dinner, aka "Nerd Prom"
the White House Correspondents' Dinner
Ben
|
$2,000
[3]
From the Latin for "predict", it's what a black cat does vis-a-vis trouble if you're superstitious--or if you're a mouse
portend
Ben
|
Their show ended its off-Broadway run in 2025, after 34 years, 17,800 shows & 82,150 gallons of paint
the Blue Man Group