David Spelman — a marketing strategist from Livingston, New Jersey
Emily Croke — a stay-at-home mom from Denver, Colorado
Andrew Brigger — a social studies teacher from Roseville, Minnesota (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew | $1,800 | $2,000 | $2,000 |
$2,000
2nd place: $3,000 |
$8,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Emily | $400 | $1,400 | $12,200 |
$13,201
New champion: $13,201 |
$12,200
11 R, 1 W |
| David | $3,400 | $5,800 | $6,600 |
$999
3rd place: $2,000 |
$11,000
16 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| HISTORIC U.S. BUSINESSES | FOUND IN THE NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET | READ | YELLOW | BLUE | SALUTE THE FLAG OF ECUADOR! |
|
$200
[10]
The Advent of eBay hasn't stopped Los Angeles' Abell family from hosting these events since 1916
auctions
Andrew
|
$200
[5]
Parker of jazz or Puth of pop
Charlie
Andrew
|
$200
[24]
The fifth book in a series, "Sunrise on the Reaping" opens at the start of the 50th annual these, so a Quarter Quell is in the works
The Hunger Games
Emily
|
$200
[23]
The video for this Cardi B song doesn't have that much of the color you'd expect, though there is a cheetah
"Bodak Yellow"
|
$200
[26]
The Latin for "sea water" gives us the name of this pale blue gemstone
aquamarine
Emily
David
|
$200
[30]
Thesunrepresents this resource; in 2022, a company announced it had found a lost city of it in Southeast Ecuador
gold
Andrew
|
|
$400
[9]
Good timing! Famed for its sourdough, the Boudin French Bakery opened in San Francisco in this year
1849
Emily
|
$400
[4]
It purportedly got its name because it resembled the uncle of the Film Academy librarian
Oscar
Andrew
|
$400
[14]
At a cancer support group in this John Green novel, Hazel would introduce herself with "Sixteen. Thyroid originally..."
The Fault in Our Stars
Andrew
|
$400
[22]
Snoopy's guesses at what kind of bird this yellow friend of his is have included the rufous-sided towhee, not a great thought
Woodstock
Andrew
David
|
$400
[25]
2 presidential homes, Montpelier & Monticello, offer views of these mountains in Virginia
the Blue Ridge Mountains
David
|
$400
[29]
Admire the mightycóndor--condor; feeding-wise it is un carroñero, this 9-letter word
a scavenger
Andrew
|
|
$600
[8]
Built of bricks of this in 1857, the R&R Market in San Luis, Colorado kept going strong after fires in 1895 & 1947
adobe
Andrew
|
$600
[3]
Topaz is the traditional birthstone of this month
November
Andrew
|
$600
[13]
Just like magic, Paulo Coelho wrote this mystical novel in just 2 weeks; it's become a bestseller over the last 37 years
The Alchemist
David
|
$600
[21]
TV cartoon makers like to grab us with yellow characters, like this dog pal of Finn on "Adventure Time"
Jake
|
$600
[16]
Traditionally, the blue in blue jeans comes from this plant dye
indigo
Emily
|
$600
[28]
Ecuador'sembassyin London, once in the news as Julian Assange's refuge, is in this area with a type of sir & a type of span in its name
Knightsbridge
|
|
$800
[7]
Like Wyatt Earp did, you can still get a drink at the Palace Restaurant & Saloon in Prescott in this state
Arizona
Emily
|
$800
[2]
Male half of a 1597 play title
Romeo
Andrew
|
$800
[12]
The title of this very long novel by David Foster Wallace comes from a line in "Hamlet" & implies hilarity
Infinite Jest
David
|
$800
[18]
Kate Hudson's yellow dress in this movie was inspired by the color of the 80-carat Isadora diamond she also wears
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Andrew
|
$800
[17]
This piece, probably George Gershwin's best known, opens with a swooping clarinet
Rhapsody in Blue
David
|
$800
[27]
The ship'smastis this ancient staff of Mercury to symbolize commerce; it got mixed up with another staff & now also reps doctors
the caduceus
|
|
DD
$1,000
[6]
The Bismarck Tribune shocked the nation with the first full account of this 1876 event in which one of its correspondents died
the Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer's Last Stand)
Andrew
|
$1,000
[1]
It's from Gaelic words for "water of life"
whiskey
|
$1,000
[11]
The preface to this Hawthorne novel mentions "the folly of tumbling down an avalanche of ill-gotten gold, or real estate"
The House of the Seven Gables
David
|
$1,000
[15]
This director is known for using lots of yellow in his whimsical films like Moonrise Kingdom& also inhisown neckwear
Wes Anderson
David
|
$1,000
[20]
The Fightin' Blue Hens represent the university of this state
Delaware
David
|
$1,000
[19]
Theriveron theflagis the Guayas, which as you might imagine, runs through this largest Ecuadorian port
Guayaquil
|
| SINGLE-NAMED SINGERS | WORLD CITIES | AROUND THE BODY | SUNRISE, SUNSET | BEFORE & AFTER | RIP VAN WINKLE SLEPT THROUGH IT |
|
$400
[21]
Though she & Sonny Bono have yet to be inducted together, in 2024 she entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist
Cher
David
|
$400
[28]
The Manchester Ship Canal was built to link Manchester with this port city, yeah, yeah, yeah
Liverpool
David
|
$400
[27]
Vermiform often precedes the name of this tube, a structure that extends from the first part of the large intestine
appendix
|
$400
[30]
In business, "sunsetting" is the phasing out of a product or service, like the red Netflix mailers that once delivered these
DVDs
David
|
$400
[17]
Waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous that are "wider than a mile" in a song from "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
phases of the "Moon River"
|
$400
[9]
The second of these legislative bodies first met in Philly 3 weeks after the start of the Revolutionary War, not that Rip noticed
Continental Congress
David
|
|
$800
[20]
In 2025, sheannounced her first ever greatest hits tour
Wynonna
Emily
|
$800
[24]
Enjoy a glass or 2 of Marsala while visiting the town of Marsala on this island
Sicily
|
$800
[19]
From Greek meaning "one standing before", it's the gland in men below the bladder
the prostate
|
$800
[26]
John Muir wrote in his journal, "It is always sunrise somewhere", & as co-founder of this club, he oughta know
the Sierra Club
Andrew
|
$800
[1]
Fish eats plankton & is eaten by another & still another fish, then by man who's part of a group of convicts working outside
food chain gang
Emily
|
$800
[8]
Rip snored through 1783, when the Treaty of Paris established this western border for the newly independent USA
the Mississippi
|
|
$1,200
[13]
Thissinger is helping to raise awareness of lupus & support for research since being diagnosed with the disease
Halsey
David
|
$1,200
[23]
This city on the Rhine was a world capital from 1949 to 1990
Bonn
|
$1,200
[10]
Numbering a million or more, the islets of Langerhans are found within this organ
the pancreas
|
$1,200
[18]
Steer clear of the title structure from this 1964 hit by The Animals that's "been the ruin of many a poor boy"
"House Of The Rising Sun"
David
|
$1,200
[2]
Norman Mailer's first novel that leads no where, like a cul-de-sac
The Naked and the Dead end
David
|
$1,200
[7]
Slumbering Rip missed his chance to join the filial group of anti-British hooligans whose flag is seen here
Sons of Liberty
Emily
|
|
$1,600
[3]
In 2022, Georgia State University honored this rapper & alumnus with an honorary Bachelor of Science in Music Management
Ludacris
David
|
$1,600
[25]
A popular vacation spot, this Mexican city has a name that translates to "cow horn"
Cuernavaca
David
|
$1,600
[11]
With oblongata, it's part of the brain; by itself, the innermost part of the hair shaft
medulla
Andrew
|
$2,000
[22]
In this lord's poem "Ulysses", the title hero outlines plans to "sail beyond the sunset" & reclaim lost glory
Tennyson
Emily
|
$2,000
[16]
Washington, D.C. concert venue home to D.A.R. conventions that had 1980s No. 1 hits with "Maneater" & "Kiss On My List"
Constitution Hall & Oates
Emily
|
$1,600
[6]
Rip missed every Revolutionary War battle in his home state of N.Y., like this 2-parter in 1777 that turned the tide of war
Saratoga
Andrew
|
|
$2,000
[12]
A memorial & life-size statue honors this late Tejano singer in her hometown of Corpus Christi
Selena
Emily
|
$2,000
[29]
Because of its central location, it replaced Dar es Salaam as Tanzania's national capital in 1974
Dodoma
|
$2,000
[14]
Because of its shape, this tiny bone of the middle ear is also called the hammer
the malleus
Andrew
|
DD
$4,400
[4]
Mt. Bromo is famous for its otherworldly sunrises; it's one of this country's more than 50 active volcanoes, more than any other country
Indonesia
David
|
DD
$6,000
[15]
Fruity dessert created at Brennan's in New Orleans that had the 2011 hit song "Pumped Up Kicks"
Bananas Foster the People
Andrew
|
$2,000
[5]
Not likely Rip would have been invited anyway to this woman's December 14, 1780, Albany wedding to Alexander Hamilton
Eliza Schuyler
Emily
|
In 1896 the Vassar-educated wife of this man wrote, "Thousands of dollars may be paid for a copy of Shakespeare"
(Henry Clay) Folger