Erin Hoard — a logistics receiver from Las Vegas, Nevada
Mitch Loflin — a set decoration coordinator from Long Beach, California
Brandon Monsman — a bartender originally from Cleveland, Ohio (whose 2-day cash winnings total $23,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon | $-200 | $2,000 | $8,300 |
$2,300
3rd place: $2,000 |
$9,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mitch | $2,200 | $4,200 | $13,800 |
$8,400
New champion: $8,400 |
$13,800
18 R, 1 W |
| Erin | $2,800 | $3,000 | $16,000 |
$4,399
2nd place: $3,000 |
$14,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD | THE SOMETHING OF THE SOMETHING | 3 WORDS, 3 SYLLABLES | ON A STAMP | CONTAINED THEREIN | TRASH TALK |
|
$200
[28]
Moving at 4 mph, it should take you about 1/2 an hour to walk around the entire border of this country & its 882 residents
Vatican City
Brandon
|
$200
[29]
For its many canals, Amsterdam is known as "the" this "of the North"
Venice
Brandon
|
$200
[21]
Thisalliterative prank was a lot more fun before everyone had doorbell cameras
ding dong ditch
Mitch
Erin
|
$200
[27]
A 2024 Forever stamp series celebrating this role-playing game incorporates its fire-breathing ampersand
Dungeons & Dragons
Mitch
|
$200
[26]
A limousine may be "for" this, ready to rent
hire
Mitch
|
$200
[30]
Michael Jordan calledthis6'9" forward the greatest trash talker & mind game player of all time
(Larry) Bird (Larry Legend)
Brandon
|
|
$400
[22]
Moving at 4 mph, it should take you about 8,980 hours to walk around the entire border of this country & its 145 million people
Russia
Mitch
|
$400
[23]
An 1861printdepicts General Winfield Scott as this mythological hero of the Union clubbing the great dragon of secession
Hercules
Brandon
Erin
|
$400
[8]
This term for your body's automatic response to danger implies a choice between 2 equally unpleasant options
fight or flight
Erin
|
$400
[25]
The Meyer type of these fruits grace a 2-cent stamp; good thing you don't have to lick them anymore
a lemon
Mitch
|
$400
[20]
It's a ceremonial action like an initiation or a baptism
a rite
Mitch
|
$400
[24]
In 2017 Sixers fan Kevin Hart said he let this then-Rocket know, "You're in my city. Your beard stinks... I hate your calves"
James Harden
|
|
$600
[13]
This river empties into the South China Sea after rambling through Laos, Cambodia & Vietnam
the Mekong
Mitch
|
$600
[12]
Robert Schumann called his brilliant & precocious contemporary Felix Mendelssohn "The" him "of the 19th Century"
Mozart
Erin
|
$600
[2]
This imperative catchphrase of Enterprise Captain Jean-Luc Picard means, roughly speaking, "Get 'er done"
Make it so
Brandon
|
$600
[4]
A 2021 stamp features the Colorado hairstreak, a beautiful one of these
a butterfly
|
$600
[6]
Nope; not this, nor that
neither
Erin
|
$600
[10]
In a 1998 divisional playoff game, this Green Bay Packers QB exchanged some unpleasantries with Buccaneers tackle Warren Sapp
Brett Favre
Erin
|
|
$800
[3]
Mountaineering legends, these people of Nepal live up to 14,000' in the Solu-Khumbu district of the Himalayas
the Sherpa
Erin
|
$800
[9]
The "Michelangelo of the Midway", August Wolfinger is renowned for his paintings on the historic carousel at this Brooklyn venue
Coney Island
Erin
|
DD
$1,000
[1]
After debuting on bumper stickers, this 2016 campaign phrase for Hillary Clinton quickly turned into a hashtag
I'm With Her
Brandon
|
$800
[5]
A round stamp used for international postage depicts this red, green & yellow holiday flower
a poinsettia
Mitch
|
$800
[7]
Varieties of this sea bird can have a forked tail & some migrate about 25,000 miles annually
a tern
Mitch
|
$800
[11]
This 4-time U.S. Open singles winner in the '70s & '80s said he had more talent in his pinkie than Ivan Lendl had in his whole body
John McEnroe
Brandon
|
|
$1,000
[16]
If K-pop gives way to K-stan-pop, the next music craze will come from these 2 landlocked countries that border each other
Kazakhstan & Kyrgyzstan
Mitch
|
$1,000
[17]
Eloquent Henry Ward Beecher was "The Shakespeare of" this 6-letter preacher's platform
the Pulpit
Brandon
|
$1,000
[14]
It's where rival Kens face off in the "Barbie" movie, or--for those with gloomier Kenergy--a 1957 novel about nuclear annihilation
on the beach
Brandon
Erin
|
$1,000
[15]
The $1 Statue of Freedomstampdepicts the head of the figure that stood atop this building since 1863
the Capitol Building
|
$1,000
[18]
Incapable of moving or not readily reactive
inert
Brandon
|
$1,000
[19]
This woman who appeared in "Furious 7" & "Entourage" dissed fighters like Bethe Correia & Miesha Tate before matches
Ronda Rousey
|
| 20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD | BOOK TITLE TATTLE | PLANTS & TREES | NAVAL HISTORY | OLD TESTAMENT NAMES | TRASH TALK |
|
$400
[27]
In a commercial Will Ferrell puts a PayPal spin on the Fleetwood Mac lyric "I wanna be with you..." here
everywhere
Brandon
|
$400
[30]
Jonathan Swift inspired a title, writing you can know a true genius by the sign that these are "in confederacy against him"
dunces
Erin
|
$400
[29]
Thesearen't just thought to resemble the hepatic organ in their name; some have been used to treat it
liverworts
Brandon
|
$400
[26]
A fleet of 200 warships of this republic won a battle off Sicily in 241 B.C., leading to the end of the First Punic War
the Roman Republic
Mitch
Erin
|
$400
[24]
The Bible calls her "the mother of all living"
Eve
Erin
|
$400
[22]
Stress on the second syllable of this word means to decline an offer; if the stress is on the first, it means trash
refuse
Brandon
|
|
$800
[7]
Sung by this 1-word band descended from Jefferson Airplane, "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" from eating goldfish crisps
Starship
Mitch
|
$800
[13]
A.W. Wheen, a WWI vet like the author, chose this English title in translating a book whose German title means "nothing new in the west"
All Quiet on the Western Front
|
$800
[20]
This palm species that flourishes in Brazil produces antioxidant-rich berries popular in bowls & drinks
acai
Erin
|
$800
[16]
The sinking of the cruiser General Belgrano accounted for almost half of Argentine fatalities in this conflict
the Falkland Islands War
Mitch
|
$800
[4]
The Bible book named for her says she was also known as Hadassah
Esther
Erin
|
$800
[9]
Often paired with flotsam, it's thrown off a ship to aid stability during a crisis
jetsam
Mitch
|
|
$1,200
[2]
Marriott uses this tune by The B-52's about going "around the world... without wings, without wheels"
"Roam"
Erin
|
DD
$1,500
[1]
The opening line of William Butler Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium" provided the title for this Cormac McCarthy novel
No Country for Old Men
Brandon
|
$1,200
[3]
Thesecarnivorous plants are named for the vessel-shaped leaves that trap & drown prey
pitcher plants
Mitch
|
$1,200
[23]
During the Civil War Battle of Mobile Bay, David Farragut famously yelled, "Damn" these weapons! "Full speed ahead!"
the torpedoes
Erin
|
$1,200
[5]
The mother of Samuel, her 6-letter name is a palindrome
Hannah
Mitch
|
$1,200
[10]
Solid particles at the bottom of a cup of coffee are called "the" this 5-letter plural word
dregs
Mitch
|
|
$1,600
[6]
Perhaps the family in the Hyundai Santa Fe is going fishing as they tool around to this fish-titled tune by Heart
"Barracuda"
Mitch
|
$1,600
[14]
This original English title of Proust's 7-volume work is from Shakespeare's Sonnet 30
Remembrance of Things Past
Brandon
|
$2,000
[19]
Thesepines named for projections on their seed-containing parts have been known to reach nearly 5,000 years of age
bristlecones
Erin
|
$1,600
[17]
Gaining even more fame in the next World War, he built up the royal navy for WWI as First Lord of the Admiralty
Churchill
Erin
|
$1,600
[21]
Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego endured a stay in a furnace in the book of this man
Daniel
|
$1,600
[11]
This "itus" isn't a medical condition; it's debris often of organic matter like fallen leaves
detritus
Mitch
|
|
$2,000
[8]
What makes you think of Kerrygold butter? Naturally, this band's "I Want You To Want Me"
Cheap Trick
|
$2,000
[15]
The poetic line "Bury my heart at" this place used it as an evocative American name; as a book, it's about the Native Amer. plight
Wounded Knee
Brandon
|
DD
$3,000
[18]
This genus of ornamental flowering shrubs & plants gave its name to a hard-to-spell deep reddish-purple color
fuchsia
Erin
|
$2,000
[28]
After the 1905 mutiny on the Russian Battleship Potemkin, its sailors set course for this port city on the Black Sea
Odessa
|
$2,000
[25]
Head to the end of the alphabet for this name of Moses' wife
Zipporah
Erin
|
$2,000
[12]
In England it refers to any of the entrails of an animal, like brawn or chitterlings
offal
|
Also called "great gray horn" & "bear's tipi", this site in the western U.S. was made a national monument in 1906
Devils Tower