Micah Fritz — a teacher from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Nicholas Moline — an attorney from Mooresville, Indiana
Emily Croke — a stay-at-home mom from Denver, Colorado (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emily | $-200 | $1,800 | $6,800 |
$6,800
2nd place: $3,000 |
$11,800
15 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Nicholas | $200 | $1,600 | $1,600 |
$1,600
3rd place: $2,000 |
$1,600
4 R, 1 W |
| Micah | $400 | $2,200 | $15,200 |
$14,200
New champion: $14,200 |
$14,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| FLORIDA HISTORY | CHAPTER & NON-VERSE | LOOK WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED IN | SCAMMERS | ALL KINDS OF SPORTS | ADD A LETTER |
|
$200
[23]
In 1958 the National Aeronautics & Space Administration began operations on this East Coast promontory
Cape Canaveral
Micah
|
$200
[21]
Chapter 1 of Part II, "A Voyage to Brobdingnag":"I... found myself alone in a vast room ... lying in a bed twenty yards wide"
Gulliver's Travels
|
$200
[25]
Sensing a kindred spirit, the cat dragged in a plush version of this Japanese character officially named Kitty White
Hello Kitty
Nicholas
|
$200
[7]
In the 1920s Victor Lustig posed as a French official & proposed the sale of 2.5 million rivets from this structure
the Eiffel Tower
Micah
|
$200
[12]
England's Lisa Ashton is a 4-time women's world champion in this individual sport, but could she beat Ted Lasso?
darts
Emily
Micah
|
$200
[30]
Stuff another letter into a verb meaning to study hastily for a test & you get this dairy product
cream (from cram)
Nicholas
|
|
$400
[22]
"Land... serving not as the source of water but as the last receiver of it", Pres. Truman said of this natl. park he dedicated
the Everglades
Micah
|
$400
[20]
"Nick Dunne the Day of":"When I think of my wife, I always think of her head"
Gone Girl
Emily
|
$400
[26]
Uh-oh, the cat just dragged in a "northern" one of these crested red songbirds, & it's not doing much singing
cardinal
|
$400
[6]
A chair of NASDAQ in the 1990s, he was sentenced to 150 years in prison in 2009
Bernie Madoff
Micah
|
$400
[9]
From Latin & Greek words for "speedy" & "course", it's an indoor arena for bicycle racing
a velodrome
Micah
|
$400
[19]
Add a letter to the beginning of a word meaning "to speak" & you get this word meaning to speak indistinctly
mutter (from utter)
|
|
$600
[13]
Led by the Baker County District on Aug. 10, 2020, Florida was aggressive in the move to do this during the pandemic
reopen schools
Emily
Micah
|
$600
[2]
"The Black Bird":"Yes, with ten thousand insurance, no children, and a wife who didn't like him"
The Maltese Falcon
|
$600
[27]
The cat's got an autographed photo of Larry, officially the chief mouser at this London address shared by Keir Starmer
10 Downing Street
Micah
|
$600
[3]
The Netflix series "Inventing Anna" & the book "My Friend Anna" refer to this Anna, later a "Dancing with the Stars" contestant
Anna Sorokin
|
$600
[8]
The full name of the famed tennis venue in Wimbledon contains the name of this other game played on grass
croquet
Emily
Nicholas
Micah
|
$600
[16]
Add an R to an old-timey word for a thicket of trees to get this word for a dead body
a corpse (from copse)
Micah
|
|
$800
[15]
In 1982 this island city declared its independence from the U.S., calling itself the Conch Republic
Key West
Emily
|
$800
[1]
"Mr. Micawber's Gauntlet":"Traddles and I both murmured 'no'"
David Copperfield
|
$800
[28]
A member of this "hairless" breed named for an ancient riddler, the cat dragged in a parasol to protect himself against sun exposure
Sphinx
Emily
|
$800
[4]
1600s flimflammer & coinage scammer William Chaloner got the proverbial apple thrown at him by this man who ran the Royal Mint
Isaac Newton
Micah
|
$800
[10]
Playing against the Angels in 1990, this father & son duo hit back-to-back home runs for the Mariners
Ken Griffey Sr. & Ken Griffey Jr.
Nicholas
|
$800
[17]
Tack a letter onto the name of a hotel chain & get this Muslim month
Ramadan (from Ramada)
Emily
|
|
$1,000
[14]
In 1835 Major Francis Dade & about 100 soldiers were attacked & wiped out, marking the start of the 2nd of these wars
the Seminole Wars
Micah
|
$1,000
[24]
Chapter I of Book I, "Miss Brooke":"And how should Dorothea not marry?--a girl so handsome and with such prospects?"
Middlemarch
|
$1,000
[29]
Somehow, the cat scored a DVD copy of this Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature, a charming wordless 2024 cat tale from Latvia
Flow
Nicholas
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
After prison, this man whose last name is synonymous with a type of scam was said to have become a business manager for Mussolini
Charles Ponzi
Micah
|
$1,000
[11]
The WNBA's inaugural game featured these 2 marquee teams from opposite coasts
the New York Liberty & the L.A. Sparks
|
$1,000
[18]
Add a letter to the last name of actor Jack (Curly in "City Slickers") to get this word for a way of speaking
parlance (from Palance)
|
| COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY | GLOBAL MUSIC | AVIATION GLOSSARY | MOVIE TITLE PROFESSIONS | WORDS ABOUT NERDS | LIVING DOLLS |
|
$400
[26]
Vinicunca, or Rainbow Mountain, lies southeast of Cusco in this range
the Andes
Micah
|
$400
[27]
African, European & Amerindian styles of music influence cumbia, a genre of this country that also begins & ends "C" & "A"
Colombia
Micah
|
$400
[30]
This end-of-the-alphabet "time" is used in aviation as a standard for coordinated time worldwide
Zulu time
|
$400
[19]
As real-life pugilist Micky Ward, Mark Wahlberg wasn't "The Boxer" but this
"The Fighter"
|
$400
[29]
This word for a nerd once referred to a carnival performer who bit the heads off live chickens
geek
Emily
|
$400
[12]
With yarn for hair & a triangle nose, this doll & her partner come to life when humans aren't looking, & go on many adventures
Raggedy Ann
Emily
|
|
$800
[16]
Spanish for "green" is part of the name of this national park that's home to ancestral pueblo cliff dwellings
Mesa Verde
Emily
|
$800
[28]
Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains played the uilleann pipes, an Irish type of this instrument associated with the Scottish Highlands
bagpipes
Emily
|
$800
[20]
Pilots have to maintain this 2-word course while awaiting permission to land; the standard one means you turn right
a holding pattern
Micah
|
$800
[3]
In a 2013 release Forest Whitaker served 7 presidents in this role
The Butler
Emily
|
$800
[1]
This slang term for a knowledgeable person is spelled backwards in the word "knowledge"; nobody quite seems to know its origin
wonk
Emily
|
$800
[11]
"Night of the Living Dummy" was among the debut stories that propelled this book series into one of the bestselling of all time
Goosebumps
Micah
|
|
$1,200
[13]
It should be a piece of cake for you to name this 100-mile-long mountain region of Baden-Württemberg
the Black Forest
Micah
|
$1,200
[17]
Also in the title of a "Legend of Zelda" video game, this type of instrument means "little goose" in Italian
ocarina
Emily
|
$1,200
[21]
Theairport lightsnamed for these furry animals use brilliant sequential flashes to help pilots land safely
rabbits
|
$1,200
[2]
Dante & Randal were the 2 title characters in this 1994 Kevin Smith film
Clerks
Micah
|
$1,200
[6]
This term for a person with academic interests refers to a character in TV's "Felix the Cat", not to Reagan's national security advisor
Poindexter
|
$1,200
[10]
In a specially creepy 1963 episode of this TV show, a doll called Talky Tina finds a way to dispose of a stepfather
The Twilight Zone
Emily
|
|
$2,000
[15]
Rivers called the Black, Red & White Volta flow through this country that used to have Volta in its name
Burkina Faso
|
$1,600
[18]
A Tony Award-winning Broadway show is named for this father of afrobeat, Mr. Kuti
Fela (Kuti)
|
$1,600
[22]
This "mortal" method of aircraft navigation uses estimates in drift, airspeed & elapsed time
dead reckoning
Micah
|
$1,600
[4]
In an ill-fated 1997 release, Kevin Costner wanders from town to town in a postapocalyptic America as this
the Postman
Micah
|
$2,000
[25]
This compound term for a technophile refers to kinetic beanie hats once associated with fans of science fiction
a propeller head
|
$1,600
[8]
In a book by Lynne Reid Banks, when Omri puts a Native Amer. toy into this title spot, it comes to life & says its name is Little Bear
the cupboard
Emily
|
|
DD
$3,000
[14]
Amid a real estate boom in the 1950s, an Australian tourist destination called the South Coast was rechristened this
the Gold Coast
Micah
|
$2,000
[24]
Zakir Hussainwas a celebrated Indian composer & virtuoso of this percussion instrument
the tabla
|
$2,000
[23]
"A" is for this on a plane's wings; it controls roll on the longitudinal axis
aileron
Micah
|
$2,000
[5]
This 1976 film got 4 Oscar nominations, including a Best Supporting Actress one for Jodie Foster
Taxi Driver
Emily
|
DD
$5,000
[7]
A hyperintelligent nemesis of Superman in comic books likely gave us this portmanteau word for someone who's crazy smart
a brainiac
Emily
|
$2,000
[9]
This1870 comic ballet by Léo Delibes tells a tale of a man's infatuation with a lifelike mechanical doll
Coppélia
|
A 2006 WSJ article described this website as having "row after row of blue... hyperlinks & nary another color or graphic in sight"
Craigslist