Janis Raye — a marketing and publishing professional from St. Johnsbury, Vermont
Rocco Graziano — a substitute teacher from Staten Island, New York
Kiley Campbell — a teacher from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kiley | $1,000 | $2,200 | $5,800 |
$0
3rd place: $2,000 |
$7,600
20 R, 7 W (including 1 DD) |
| Rocco | $1,800 | $4,800 | $17,200 |
$17,200
New champion: $17,200 |
$14,400
18 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Janis | $1,200 | $1,000 | $7,800 |
$3,999
2nd place: $3,000 |
$7,800
9 R, 2 W |
| PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHS | LET'S "C" THE CRITTER | LITERAL ANSWERS TO RHETORICAL QUESTIONS | A COUPLE OF THINGS | ALL ABOUTFRIENDS | COMPOUND ADJECTIVES |
|
$200
[13]
1924, in Plains, Georgia
Jimmy Carter
Kiley
|
$200
[17]
An adult one of these can go from 0 to 60 in three seconds in about three strides; I'm gonna name him Lambo
a cheetah
Rocco
|
$200
[23]
Yes, Steve Urkel--your ineptitude is clearly to blame for the awkward &/or chaotic situation
Did I do that?
Kiley
|
$200
[28]
They're what the count counts during a baseball at bat
balls & strikes
Kiley
|
$200
[26]
This character lands a great new job as Al Pacino's butt double
Joey
Kiley
|
$200
[6]
You, if you're specifically about 45 to 65 years old, like gen Xers today
middle-aged
Kiley
|
|
$400
[12]
1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts
JFK
Kiley
|
$400
[8]
Thissalmon species that can be more than 10 times the weight of a coho swims 2,000 miles up the Yukon to spawn
chinook
|
$400
[1]
Nothing--I'm not interested in performing tasks in exchange for ice cream; love the polar bear logo, though!
What would you do for a Klondike bar?
Rocco
|
$400
[27]
From 1994 through 2024, Sam Waterston appeared on 405 episodes of this series
Law & Order
Rocco
|
$400
[25]
Ross gets a pet one of these named Marcel
a monkey
Rocco
|
$400
[7]
Insincere or deceitful, or a physical feature of Janus
two-faced
Janis
|
|
$600
[2]
1913, in Yorba Linda, California
Nixon
Kiley
|
$600
[9]
Bred to rout vermin in Scotland, thisof terrier is known for its loyalty & snuggle capacity
a Cairn Terrier
Kiley
|
$600
[3]
One solution would be to get her a job as a governess in Salzburg--frankly it would be better for all of us if she left the abbey
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
Kiley
|
$800
[5]
You can grab some Arabica or Earl Grey at this chain founded in 1963, & yes, we need the full name
the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
Kiley
|
$600
[14]
Gunther, who has a crush on Rachel, works at this coffee house where she also gets a job
the Central Perk
Rocco
|
$600
[21]
Often seen in children, it's the avian term for a condition in which the feet turn inward
pigeon-toed
Janis
|
|
$800
[11]
1874, in West Branch, Iowa
Hoover
Janis
|
$800
[19]
Sharing its name with a gator cousin, this lizard has strong choppers, spitting out the broken shells of the turtles it eats
the caiman lizard
Janis
|
$800
[4]
Your question raises an important point, Michael Bolton--many couples find sexual intimacy impossible without emotional connection
How can we be lovers if we can't be friends?
Kiley
|
$1,000
[29]
This phrase meaning related to spy business is thought to have come from the French "de cape et d'épée"
cloak and dagger
Kiley
|
$800
[15]
Paul Rudd played Mike Hannigan, the love interest & eventual husband of this character
Phoebe Buffay
Rocco
|
$800
[18]
Quality of Kevlar vests & some glass
bulletproof
Kiley
|
|
$1,000
[10]
1808, in Raleigh, North Carolina
Andrew Johnson
|
$1,000
[22]
Found in the Mediterranean & now modeling for us, this eel is scaleless & carnivorous
a conger eel
|
$1,000
[24]
Not me, Mr. Albee--in fact, I'm a big fan of her work; my book club wasn't at all intimidated by "The Waves"
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Rocco
|
DD
$1,800
[20]
"First Impressions" was an early title of this 1813 novel but that got taken, so the author went with a couple of attitudes instead
Pride and Prejudice
Kiley
|
$1,000
[16]
To get away from this crazy ex-girlfriend, Chandler pretends to be moving to Yemen
Janice
Rocco
|
$1,000
[30]
Tweak an Emerson title to get this adjective meaning you can do things & make decisions all by your lonesome
self-reliant
Kiley
|
| THINKING ABOUT THE ENLIGHTENMENT | NATION-AL GEOGRAPHIC | MUSICAL THEATER | FICTIONAL CLERGY | JUST THE FACTS | "MA*M" |
|
$400
[30]
Scottish philosopher Adam Smith was an advocate of this French-named system, capitalism without government interference
laissez-faire
Janis
|
$400
[29]
The Dolomites lie in the northeast section of the Italian these mountains
the Alps
Kiley
|
$400
[5]
In this musical, Sky Masterson, "the highest player of them all", falls for the devout Sarah Brown
Guys and Dolls
Rocco
|
$400
[24]
Archdeacon Claude Frollo becomes the archvillain in this author's "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"
Victor Hugo
Kiley
|
$400
[20]
This act of expelling an evil spirit or demon has been used in both Christianity & Judaism
exorcism
Rocco
|
$400
[18]
The Taj Mahal has been described as a marvelous, mesmerizing, magnificent this
a mausoleum
Kiley
|
|
$800
[22]
Jeremy Bentham expounded this "greatest good for the greatest number" -ism
utilitarianism
Kiley
Rocco
|
$800
[28]
The Atlantic port of Banana sits at the mouth of this 2,900-mile-long African river
the Congo
Janis
|
$800
[4]
5 years after retiring due to Parkinson's, he sang "Sweet Caroline" at the Broadway opening of his musical "A Beautiful Noise"
(Neil) Diamond
Janis
|
$800
[15]
For "The Name of the Rose", he created a solver of medieval monastic murders named William of Baskerville
Umberto Eco
Rocco
|
$800
[12]
In 2024, Adam Schiff struck out this former Dodger & Padre in the race to fill Dianne Feinstein's Senate seat
Steve Garvey
|
$800
[1]
The American Cancer Society says that women at a high risk for breast cancer should have a breast MRI & this screening beginning at age 30
a mammogram
Rocco
|
|
$1,600
[7]
The categorical imperative was an ethical rule of conduct devised by this leading 18th century German philosopher
Immanuel Kant
Rocco
|
$1,200
[10]
This directionally named body of water connects the Taiwan Strait with the Korea Strait
the East China Sea
Rocco
|
$1,200
[3]
Ben Platt was the first to play this title high schooler; at 27, Ben went back to high school to star in thefilmadaptation
Evan Hansen
Kiley
|
$1,200
[11]
This tubby clergyman of Sherwood Forest turns up in "Ivanhoe" & punches King Richard on the ear
Friar Tuck
Kiley
Rocco
|
$1,200
[19]
When threatened or attacked, the horned lizard will shoot this from its eyes
blood
Janis
|
$1,200
[13]
It's a proverbial saying or principle to live by
a maxim
Kiley
|
|
$2,000
[9]
This Swiss-French philosopher's "Confessions" created a fashion for similar intimate autobiographies
Rousseau
Kiley
|
$1,600
[21]
This "Shield" is millions of square miles of Precambrian rock centered on Hudson Bay
the Canada Shield
Rocco
|
$1,600
[2]
Quiara Alegría Hudes wrote the book for this musical set in a largely Dominican neighborhood in Upper Manhattan
In the Heights
Kiley
|
$1,600
[16]
This work includes tales from a friar, a monk, a nun & a parson, all on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket
The Canterbury Tales
Janis
|
$1,600
[26]
Both the National Institutes of Health & the National Library of Medicine are located in this Maryland community
Bethesda
Kiley
Janis
|
$1,600
[14]
It's one of the ingredients typically found in Herbes de Provence
marjoram
Rocco
|
|
DD
$4,000
[8]
Known as the "German Socrates", Moses of this last name was a major Jewish voice in the Enlightenment & grandfather of a famous composer
(Moses) Mendelssohn
Rocco
|
$2,000
[23]
Lake Nicaragua connects to this capitally named lake via the intermittent Tipitapa River
Lake Managua
Kiley
|
DD
$2,000
[6]
Famous for a notorious green character, she returned to B'way in 2025 with a show about some notorious greenery, "Redwood"
Idina Menzel
Rocco
|
$2,000
[25]
G.K. Chesterton created this unassuming crime-solving priest, played on TV by Ron Weasley's dad
Father Brown
|
$2,000
[27]
Listen, my children, & you shall hear of this first American writer to be honored in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey
Longfellow
Kiley
|
$2,000
[17]
Seeds & nuts are good sources of this essential mineral
magnesium
Janis
|
Ironic in light of her name, she was remembered in a eulogy as "the most hunted person of the modern age"
Diana, Princess of Wales