Sunny Hwang — a textbook editor from Brooklyn, New York
Jacob Hale — a nonprofit finance director from Anchorage, Alaska
Dan Hopkins — a teacher from Hanover, New Hampshire (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,799)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dan | $1,700 | $4,700 | $9,900 |
$1,799
3rd place: $2,000 |
$17,400
20 R, 5 W (including 3 DDs) |
| Jacob | $4,400 | $5,400 | $9,000 |
$4,800
New champion: $4,800 |
$9,000
16 R, 1 W |
| Sunny | $600 | $2,600 | $6,200 |
$2,200
2nd place: $3,000 |
$6,200
9 R, 1 W |
| ACTION PHRASES | CLOTHES TIME | "YO"! | REV UP FOR NASCAR | A RIVER RUNS TO IT | GETTING INVENTIVE WITH PHINEAS & FERB |
|
$200
[30]
Pushing up daisies, rung down the curtain--one phrase John Cleese missed about the parrot was this, purchased agricultural land
bought the farm
Jacob
|
$200
[29]
T-shirtsnamed for this sport feature diagonal shoulder seams that improve arm mobility
baseball
Sunny
|
$200
[28]
From the same species, Grogu is popularly known as "Baby" him
Yoda
Jacob
|
$200
[16]
During a race there can be 5 or 6 members of this team "over the wall" to aid drivers & their cars
the pit crew
Jacob
|
$200
[24]
The Tagus
the Atlantic
Dan
|
$200
[27]
(Phineas & Ferb present the clue.) Used in 1922, Thomas Edison's improvedcementwas so strong that it went untouched in this venue in a 1973 renovation--New Yorkers callit"The House that Ruth Built", but I think Edison cement kept it standing
Yankee Stadium
Dan
|
|
$400
[26]
Idiomatically, to suddenly lose your temper is to "fly" this way but originally, it just referred to loose ax heads
off the handle
Jacob
|
$400
[22]
This 4-letter type of dress or skirt has a hemline that falls between the knee & the ankle
a midi
Sunny
|
$400
[21]
This holiday celebrates Mexico's victory over France in an 1862 battle
Cinco de Mayo
Sunny
|
$400
[15]
Flags used during NASCAR races include checkered, yellow, green & this one meaning one lap to go
white
Jacob
|
$400
[23]
The Columbia
the Pacific Ocean
Dan
|
$400
[20]
(Phineas & Ferb present the clue.) In 1893, Nikola Teslabegan work on the first largehydroelectric power station, using thisas the power source; I like his thinking, no one else was using it & three years later, Buffalo was up & running
Niagara Falls
Dan
|
|
$600
[9]
This word that often follows "run" comes from Malay for "to go on an unprovoked rampage"
amok
Dan
|
$600
[8]
U.S. aircrews in B-17s & B-24s popularized this style of often sheepskin-lined flight jacket in World War II
bomber jackets
Sunny
|
$600
[17]
People magazine once named this cellist the "Sexiest Classical Musician"
Yo-Yo Ma
Dan
|
$600
[5]
The shape of Martinsville Speedwayin Virginia has given it this nickname of a common office supply
"The Paperclip"
Jacob
|
$600
[3]
The Dnieper
the Black Sea
Dan
|
$600
[19]
(Phineas & Ferb present the clue.) Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today--produce some nuclear energy at or near room temperature through this two-word currently hypothetical concept
cold fusion
Dan
|
|
$800
[11]
When you have to answer for your actions, you gotta do this, which sounds like you're giving a type of musician a few bucks
pay the piper
|
$800
[10]
Thistype of dress with a portmanteau name fits snugly to the wearer's figure
bodycon
|
$800
[4]
About 10 to 12 days into a pregnancy, a blastocyst becomes this
an embryo
Jacob
|
$800
[7]
Designed to limit engine power, these plates were made mandatory in certain races beginning in 1988
restrictor plates
Jacob
|
$800
[2]
The Muskegon
Lake Michigan
|
$800
[14]
(Phineas & Ferb present the clue.) Ah-ha! Success! The ball drops on the net, releasing the pin-equipped truck to pop the balloon. Ferb, we created a machine that complicates a simple process & is named for this cartoonist
(Rube) Goldberg
Jacob
|
|
DD
$1,500
[12]
In a cliché, these 3 words are yelled to remake a newspaper; a 2014 N.Y. Times article noted at least 6 such events in 14 years
stop the presses
Dan
|
$1,000
[25]
An official of the old Chinese empire, it's also a type of narrow collar & a type of straight-cut jacket
a Mandarin
Sunny
|
$1,000
[18]
In "Catch-22" this character says, "Insanity is contagious"
Yossarian
Dan
|
$1,000
[6]
With a record 200 Cup Series wins during his career, this King of NASCAR drove the Number 43 car for much of his reign
Richard Petty
Jacob
|
$1,000
[1]
The Zambezi
the Indian Ocean
Dan
|
$1,000
[13]
(Phineas & Ferb present the clue.) Good inventors don't mind stealing a good idea; Leonardo da Vinci sketched anaerial screwoften cited as a forerunner to the helicopter; his inspiration was thewater-lifting screwof this ancient Greek
Archimedes
Dan
|
| IT WAS THE 1970s | INFRASTRUCTURE | EARLY BLOOMERS | CROSSWORD CLUES "F" | TIGER BY THE TALE | POP CULTURE ON THE AUCTION BLOCK |
|
$400
[23]
This 1972 clause banned discrimination on the basis of sex in government-funded school programs & activities
Title IX
Dan
|
$400
[24]
The NID or National Inventory of these keeps tabs on all 92,492 in the U.S., including the 3% with hydropower
dams
Dan
|
$400
[30]
Deemed a prodigy, he began art school in Barcelona in 1895 at just 14; he said even as a child, he had "never done children's drawings"
Picasso
Jacob
|
$400
[25]
A stroke of luck, or a flatfish(5 letters)
a fluke
|
$400
[29]
The hungry tiger is a recurring character in the series of books about this land that's also home to lions & bears
Oz
|
$400
[27]
A 12" hand-painted prototype of this action figure, with a hand-sewn uniform, sold for $200,000 in 2003; thank you for your service!
G.I. Joe
Sunny
|
|
$1,200
[11]
In '77, this chain introduced its TRS-80 computer; at $599.95 it was the most expensive item in stores in history but it sold like crazy
Radio Shack
Jacob
|
$800
[12]
Refrigeratah units were brought in to freeze unstable soil during this rhyming Bahston infrastructsha prahject
the Big Dig
Dan
|
$800
[22]
Alexander Pope wrote his first notable work at age 12, titled this type of lyric poem "on Solitude"
an ode
|
$800
[16]
A young bird learning to fly(9 letters)
a fledgling
Jacob
|
$800
[26]
Everything is frozen in "The Last Winter" & the heroine is the last tigress of her kind, this largest type that's not averse to cold
Siberian
Jacob
|
$800
[19]
How does it feel to have an unidentified bidder snag a handwritten draft of Bob Dylan's lyrics to this song for $2 million?
"Like A Rolling Stone"
Jacob
|
|
$1,600
[13]
The real end of the '60s, some say: March 6, 1970, when 3 members of this "Underground" group accidentally blew themselves up
the Weather Underground
Dan
|
$1,200
[5]
The Line, a 106-mile strip with no roads or cars is a planned city for this country ruled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
Saudi Arabia
Dan
|
$1,200
[1]
At age 3 this only child was briefly emperor of France--or so said his dad, who was away in Elba
Napoleon II
Dan
Jacob
|
$1,200
[7]
Beethoven's only opera(7 letters)
Fidelio
Dan
|
$1,200
[9]
Téa Obreht's "The Tiger's Wife" is an example of this chiefly South American mystical genre of Cortázar & Allende
magical realism
Dan
|
$1,200
[18]
In 2021 David Hasselhoff sold his personal K.I.T.T. car, like one used on this series, with a portion going to charity
Knight Rider
Sunny
|
|
$2,000
[14]
2 NASA Mars landers bearing this name successfully touched down on the planet & began exploring for signs of life
Viking
Dan
|
$1,600
[2]
Japan's network of high-speed rail is known as this 10-letter word, literally "new trunk line"
shinkansen
Dan
|
$1,600
[4]
Mozart's first piece was a minuet & trio composed at age 5; his last piece was an unfinished one of these 30 years later
a requiem
Jacob
|
$1,600
[6]
Wine vessel with a handle & spout(6 letters)
a flagon
Sunny
|
$2,000
[21]
Before he wrote of Walter Mitty, he wrote about "The Tiger Who Would Be King", another character with big dreams
James Thurber
|
$1,600
[17]
Steven Spielberg bought this "Citizen Kane" sled at auction & kept it in his office until donating it to the Academy Museum
Rosebud
Sunny
|
|
DD
$3,000
[15]
A 6-day bank takeover in a European capital led to this term for an unexpected psychological phenomenon
Stockholm Syndrome
Dan
|
$2,000
[3]
14 Metro lines & a Sewri-Worli Connector are just 2 of the many projects underway in this Indian city on the Arabian Sea
Mumbai
Dan
|
$2,000
[20]
Once the youngest chess grandmaster in history at 15, Bobby Fischer later gave up U.S. citizenship & died a citizen of this country
Iceland
|
$2,000
[8]
Rapid, irregular twitching of the heart(12 letters)
fibrillation
Sunny
|
DD
$3,000
[10]
This villain's name in an 1894 book suggests he is chief among tigers
Shere Khan
Dan
|
$2,000
[28]
When sold in 2011, Marilyn Monroe's iconic subwaydress from this 1955 film brought in $5.6 million
The Seven Year Itch
|
The name of this residence completed in 1895 combines part of the owner's Dutch name with an English word for an open expanse
Biltmore