Rachel Hall — a data analyst from Washington, D.C.
Andrew Jones — a graduate student from Queens, New York
Kara Peruccio — a university professor from Bangor, Maine (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kara | $2,400 | $3,200 | $400 |
$400
3rd place: $2,000 |
$1,400
12 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Andrew | $-400 | $2,400 | $5,600 |
$5,600
New champion: $5,600 |
$10,000
17 R, 7 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Rachel | $400 | $400 | $5,600 |
$500
2nd place: $3,000 |
$5,600
12 R, 4 W |
| LANDLOCKED STATES BY CITIES | MINERALOGY | THAT FOOD IS FIRE | LETTER PERFECT | COURT | MARSHALL |
|
$200
[8]
Keokuk, Davenport
Iowa
Andrew
|
$200
[7]
Used in a dusting powder, this 4-letter mineral is a 1, meaning the softest, on the Mohs hardness scale
talc
Rachel
|
$200
[27]
Coat the freshly sliced bananas in a caramelized sugar sauce & ignite dark rum in this dessert
bananas Foster
Andrew
|
$200
[28]
In U.S. movie ratings, a film with this letter requires an accompanying parent or adult guardian for anyone under 17
R
Rachel
|
$200
[29]
In the '90s the NBA briefly shortened the distance of this line on the court to a uniform 22 feet around the basket
the three-point line
Andrew
|
$200
[30]
Director Penny Marshall cast her daughter, Tracy Reiner, as Betty Spaghetti in this beloved baseball movie
A League of Their Own
Kara
|
|
$400
[21]
Beckley, Morgantown
West Virginia
Andrew
|
$400
[23]
Term for the tendency of some minerals to break along irregular lines; it sounds like what can happen to a bone
fracture
Kara
|
$400
[17]
3 little French words, this dish is chicken braised in wine, mushrooms & lardons, often with cognac flambé action
coq au vin
Kara
|
$400
[2]
In an emergency or not, in Morse code 3 dashes represent this letter
O
Andrew
Rachel
|
$400
[3]
Per the FIVB, the court for the indoor type of this sport is 59 feet long with an attack line 9 feet, 10 inches from the net
volleyball
Kara
|
$400
[22]
In 1890 Alfred Marshall published "Principles of" this field of study & expounded upon the elasticity of demand
economics
Andrew
|
|
$600
[13]
Rugby, Grand Forks
North Dakota
Andrew
Rachel
|
$600
[24]
When clear & colorless, this common mineral is known as rock crystal
quartz
Rachel
|
$600
[6]
A food blogger thought that turning 30 "calls for blowing up an ice cream cake in flames" & detailed a recipe for this
Baked Alaska
Rachel
|
$600
[10]
NFL players Bart Starr & LeRoy Butler proudly wore this letter on their helmets
G
Kara
Andrew
|
$600
[16]
The Tournament of Champions for this sport is held in aglass courtin the middle of Grand Central Terminal
squash
Andrew
|
$800
[19]
While juggling multiple court terms a year, this Chief Justice had time to write "The Life of George Washington" between 1801 & 1835
John Marshall
Kara
Andrew
Rachel
|
|
$800
[14]
Choctaw, Broken Arrow
Oklahoma
Kara
|
$800
[25]
A gem, or for that matter, a romance or an activity can "lose its" this, the way a mineral reflects light
luster
Andrew
|
$800
[1]
The entree called steak her dates to the 1930s & includes a filet, cream, shallots, Worcestershire & flambéed cognac
Diane
Rachel
|
$800
[11]
Therese Anne Fowler's novelized life story of the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald has this title
Z
Kara
|
$800
[4]
U.S. Open blue is the color of the court at the mainstadiumin Flushing named for this tennis star
Arthur Ashe
Kara
|
DD
$1,000
[18]
James Marshall made an 1848 find "beneath the surface of the water" at property owned by this man
John Sutter
Kara
|
|
$1,000
[15]
Jacksonville, Texarkana
Arkansas
Kara
Rachel
|
$1,000
[26]
Almandineis a type of this gemstone that's been favored by lapidaries since ancient times & lends its name to a very dark red
garnet
|
$1,000
[9]
Legend has the Prince of Wales asking the creator of this dessert that gets lit to end it with a female name instead of princesse
Crêpes Suzette
|
$1,000
[12]
The flag of the alma mater of actor Moroni Olsen & historian Brigham Roberts bears this letter, or 2 of them
U
|
$1,000
[5]
The Boston Celtics' home court has this type of pattern flooring, originally made from scraps of Tennessee red oak
parquet wood
Andrew
|
$1,000
[20]
We hope you know of the work of this Canadian communications theorist who said, "The medium is the message"
McLuhan
Andrew
|
| ANCIENT PERSIA | IT AIN'T SHAKESPEARE | SUBURBAN LEGEND | WE'VE GOT RIGHTS | MOVIE & SONG, SAME TITLE | JEOPORTMANTEAU! |
|
$400
[29]
Like the wise men who visited the baby Jesus, members of the Persian priestly class were known as these
the Magi
Kara
|
$400
[10]
Not Julius but "Sawdust Caesar" is a 1935 book about this leader by George Seldes, expelled from Italy 10 years before
Mussolini
Andrew
|
$400
[28]
Though associated with the SUV boom of the '90s & beyond, this automaker's Suburban turns 90 in 2025
Chevrolet
Andrew
|
$400
[20]
The bestselling book "Drawing on the Right Side of" this encourages artists to turn off their analytical sides
the brain
Kara
|
$400
[3]
Robert Downey Jr. &Black Sabbath
Iron Man
Andrew
|
$400
[1]
A mental survey of the past that follows "in"+old-timey term for eyeglasses
retrospectacles
|
|
$800
[8]
When communicating within their empire, the Achaemenid Persians used the imperial type of this language related to Hebrew
Aramaic
Rachel
|
$800
[11]
A 1930s movie comedy about 3 couples in varying states of unhappiness is titled "Merry Wives of" this then-divorce capital
Reno
Kara
|
$800
[21]
Tarbox, Mass. in John Updike's '60s novel "Couples" made the suburbs seem busy with this act against Exodus' 7th commandment
adultery
Andrew
Rachel
|
$800
[22]
The California driver's handbook: "Although pedestrians have" this, "they also must follow the rules of the road"
the right of way
Rachel
|
$800
[4]
Amanda Bynes &Christina Aguilera
What a Girl Wants
Kara
|
$800
[2]
Blushing dwarf of "Snow White" fame+point about which a lever rests
Bashfulcrum
|
|
$1,200
[5]
Like one completed in the late 19th c., one of the first canals connecting these 2 seas was dug by the Persians around 500 B.C.
the Mediterranean & the Red Seas
|
$1,200
[12]
Bolingbroke deposes "Richard II"; in a 2014 "Future History" play by Mike Bartlett, Kate & William depose this title king
Charles III
Andrew
|
$1,200
[16]
This Laker was drafted in 1996 out of suburban Philly's Lower Merion High, where he broke Wilt Chamberlain's local scoring record
Kobe Bryant
Andrew
|
$1,200
[24]
They're so called because their valuable oil & baleen once made them proper prey
right whales
Rachel
|
$1,200
[14]
Reese Witherspoon &Lynyrd Skynyrd
Sweet Home Alabama
Andrew
|
$1,200
[9]
Adjective for something out of place in time+an in-your-face robbery
anachronistickup
|
|
$1,600
[6]
Handel's 1738 opera "Serse" tells the story of this great Persian king who burned much of Athens after winning at Thermopylae
Xerxes
Kara
|
$2,000
[19]
A 1996 thriller by David Hewson isn't "Twelfth Night" but this 1-word title, the feast after Twelfth Night
Epiphany
Rachel
|
$1,600
[17]
U.S. News & World Report's 2023 top suburban colleges include one in this Mercer County, New Jersey community
Princeton
Rachel
|
$1,600
[25]
These laws that the AFL-CIO says benefit corporations let employees in a union workplace get out of paying union dues
right to work
Andrew
|
DD
$2,000
[15]
James Cromwell &Styx
Babe
Andrew
|
$1,600
[27]
Twin-hulled boat+spoiled or putrid
catamarancid
|
|
$2,000
[7]
Author Marjane's last name derives from this 6-letter title, a provincial governor in the empire
satrap
Kara
|
DD
$2,400
[13]
Denmark is the setting for many of the stories in her 1942 book "Winter's Tales"
Isak Dinesen
Andrew
|
$2,000
[18]
Visual art's takes on suburbia include her 1968 photo of a glum-looking "Family on Their Lawn One Sunday in Westchester, N.Y."
Diane Arbus
|
$2,000
[26]
This 4-word doctrine held that monarchs derived their authority from God & could not be questioned
divine right of kings
Andrew
|
$2,000
[23]
Matthew McConaughey &Led Zeppelin
Dazed and Confused
|
$2,000
[30]
To urge passionately+the science of growing plants
exhorticulture
Rachel
|
Just 27 in 1992, he's still the youngest-ever CEO of a company when it entered the Fortune 500
(Michael) Dell