Eileen Darragh — a teacher from Cincinnati, Ohio
Dave McBride — a compliance consultant from Fuquay Varina, North Carolina
Klay Frappier — an accountant originally from McHenry, North Dakota (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Klay | $4,000 | $9,200 | $11,200 |
$10,199
2nd place: $3,000 |
$9,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Dave | $1,600 | $1,400 | $12,200 |
$22,401
New champion: $22,401 |
$15,800
20 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Eileen | $2,200 | $2,200 | $800 |
$1
3rd place: $2,000 |
$2,600
9 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| CHINESE HISTORY | DECIPHERING THE PHRASE | MEMORABLE COMMERCIALS | BOOKS FOR YOUNGER READERS | ACC! ACC! | EMOTING FOR MY EMMY |
|
$200
[24]
In 1912 Puyi, the last holder of this title, was forced to abdicate by a revolution that created a republic
emperor
Dave
|
$200
[13]
Maintaining pace with Tommy Lee & Felicity of the acting world
keeping up with the Joneses
Eileen
|
$200
[8]
In a Super Bowl ad State Farm reunited this duo from the movie "Twins" in a spot titled "Like a Good Neighbaaa"
Danny DeVito & Arnold Schwarzenegger
Klay
|
$200
[18]
In an 1865 book this title character says, "The first thing I've got to do... is to grow to my right size again"
Alice
Eileen
|
$200
[1]
When you think of the Atlantic Coast Conference, you surely go to this state school near the East Bay; you can thank the Pac-12
Cal (Berkeley)
Klay
|
$200
[6]
This writer, in 1843: "'Dissemble no more!... tear up the planks! Here, here!--it is the beating of his hideous heart!"'
Poe
Dave
|
|
$400
[25]
In 1988, China began military moves in islands it call Nansha Qundaoagainst this country that calls them Truong Sa
Vietnam
Klay
Dave
Eileen
|
$400
[14]
The Mars rover committed felicide
Curiosity killed the cat
Klay
|
$400
[9]
A short-lived ABC sitcom resulted from this company'sadsboasting "So easy a caveman can do it"
GEICO
Dave
|
$400
[19]
A baby animal is getting ready for bed in the rhymingly titled this animal this animal "Red Pajama"
Llama Llama
Eileen
|
$400
[2]
Orange you glad you remembered Donovan McNabb, Donna Shalala & Ted Koppel are alums of this private N.Y. school
Syracuse
Dave
|
$400
[7]
In this 1968 film: "You maniacs! You blew it up! Oh, damn you! ... damn you all to hell!"
Planet of the Apes
Eileen
|
|
$800
[27]
The second of these conflicts ended in 1860 when British & French forces seized Beijing, gaining commercial & other concessions
the Opium Wars
Klay
Dave
|
$600
[15]
In the fashion of a corvid aloft
as the crow flies
Eileen
|
$600
[11]
Travel bookings grew at warp speed for priceline.com after ads starring this man, Canada's finest living actor, began to air
Shatner
Dave
|
$600
[20]
A 1924 tale about 4 children hiding in this type of railway car has spawned more than 150 further titles
a boxcar
Klay
|
$600
[3]
In 1846 the Kentucky legislature combined a medical school, a college & a law school as the university of this
Louisville
Klay
|
$600
[21]
Nononono! Russell Wilson got picked off at the goal line & this team lost Super Bowl 49! Why?! Why didn't they give Marshawn the ball?!
the Seahawks
Klay
|
|
$1,000
[28]
The Ming ruled from 1368 to 1644 between the control of these 2 "M" dynasties
the Mongols & the Manchus
|
$800
[16]
Personally, everything is Hellenistic
it's (all) Greek to me
Eileen
|
$800
[10]
This lovable relative is the centerpiece of a series of spots for Samuel Adams beer
Your Cousin from Boston
Klay
|
$800
[29]
Body feature in common to Madeline, Anne of Green Gables & Caddie Woodlawn--hers "shone in the sunlight"
red hair
Dave
|
$800
[4]
John C. Calhoun's son-in-law left his fortune to South Carolina to create this university
Clemson
Klay
|
$800
[22]
"Alas, poor"this guy! "I knew him, Horatio--a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy"
Yorick
Klay
|
|
DD
$2,000
[26]
Like events 70 years later, in 1919 student demonstrators took control of this plaza to protest government actions
Tiananmen Square
Klay
|
$1,000
[17]
Place to play baseball located within the untrimmed grass off the golf fairway
a diamond in the rough
|
$1,000
[12]
Character actor Jack Somack got relief from a "spicy meatball" in a classic ad for this product
Alka-Seltzer
Eileen
|
$1,000
[30]
A clever mouse warns various woodland predators about this imaginary monster with "terrible teeth in his terrible jaws"
the Gruffalo
Eileen
|
$1,000
[5]
"Pro Humanitate", or "For Humanity", is the motto of this school that began in its namesake N.C. town but is now in Winston-Salem
Wake Forest
Klay
|
$1,000
[23]
That ascending 3-note motif... the dynamics, rising & falling... the sheer melancholy of this 1938 Barber piece... it overwhelms
"Adagio For Strings"
|
| WHAT'S THAT CALLED? | SCIENCE STUFF | TRAINS & THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM | 18th CENTURY ARTS | THE TITLE'S NOT IN THE LYRICS | NO MAN'S LAND |
|
$400
[30]
Stealing these round covers on car wheels was once a rite of passage for young delinquents like Evel Knievel & Steve McQueen
hubcaps
Dave
|
$400
[29]
As a group, the 4 largest of Jupiter's moons are named for this Italian
Galileo
Klay
|
$400
[22]
This train-loving president said, "I'm probably the most pro-rail guy in America. I've ridden over 1,300,000 miles"
Biden
Dave
|
$400
[27]
Georgian architecture was all the rage in colonial America, as seen in theold statehousethat's now on this city's Freedom Trail
Boston
Dave
|
$400
[13]
You'll hear "I wanna show you off" repeatedly in this Doja Cat hit, but not the title place
"Agora Hills"
|
$400
[19]
This New York borough was actually named for but one woman, Catherine of Braganza
Queens
Dave
|
|
$800
[1]
One way to say "start eating" is "strap on" this, usually attached to a horse's head
a feed bag
Dave
|
$800
[5]
Marked by its billowy surface, pahoehoe is a term for a flow of this
lava
Klay
|
$800
[23]
In 1975 Jackie Kennedy Onassis stepped in to save this Beaux-Arts New York City landmark
Grand Central Station
Eileen
|
$800
[28]
This product once called "white gold" has been made in Meissen, Germany since 1710; before that, you had to get it from China
porcelain
Dave
|
$800
[12]
You'll hear the album title but not the song title in this Nirvana breakthrough smash; whatever, nevermind
"Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Klay
|
$1,200
[17]
Maryland is named for Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of this man for whom the Carolinas are named
Charles (I)
Dave
Eileen
|
|
$1,200
[2]
Four-letter word for a raised platform, like theonefor the veep & speaker at the State of the Union address
a dais
Dave
|
$1,200
[6]
This end-of-the-alphabet word is the term for the spot in the celestial sphere directly above you
zenith
Dave
|
$1,200
[24]
Tiktoker Francis Bourgeois gained 3 million followers sharing this hobby, also the name of a Danny Boyle film
trainspotting
Dave
|
$1,200
[9]
Thisfurniture style with curved ornamentation got big in the mid-1700s; nice time to be a Chippendale
Rococo
|
$1,200
[10]
A classic by The Who is titled "Baba O'riley", not "Teenage" this place, as the chorus might suggest
Wasteland
Dave
|
$1,600
[15]
This capital of South Australia was named for a consort of William IV
Adelaide
Klay
|
|
$1,600
[3]
It's the full-length robe worn by Catholic clergy: white for popes, red for Cardinals, black for priests
the cassock
Eileen
|
$2,000
[8]
Thesemicroscopic pores in leaves & stems are opened & closed to exchange gases & reduce water loss
stomata
Klay
|
$1,600
[25]
The company relaunching this train describes it as a "dream on wheels"; it first puffed east from Paris in 1883
the Orient Express
Klay
|
$1,600
[20]
A landmark of Neoclassicism, this Jacques-Louis David painting features, among other things, a cup of hemlock & a bummed-out Plato
The Death of Socrates
Dave
|
$1,600
[11]
We can't repeat many of the words in her No. 1 hit "Hiss", but the title's OK
Megan Thee Stallion
|
DD
$1,800
[18]
Westernmost of the prairie provinces, it was named for the wife of the Marquess of Lorne, a Canadian governor general
Alberta
Eileen
|
|
$2,000
[4]
Basically meaning "little moon", it's the style of window seen here
a lunette
Dave
|
DD
$3,600
[7]
Immunoglobulins is another word for these, produced in the body to fight foreign invaders
antibodies
Dave
|
$2,000
[26]
This "commodore" didn't just love the sea; by 1873 he owned 4 railroads, including the New York Central
Vanderbilt
Dave
|
$2,000
[21]
In contrast to the weightier fare of "opera seria", this genre of light comic opera emerged in Naples in the mid-18th century
opera buffa
Klay
|
$2,000
[14]
Am I just paranoid, or do you not know that the title of a 1994 hit by this popular punk trio is actually "Basket Case"?
Green Day
Dave
|
$2,000
[16]
Yamoussoukro, a capital of this African nation, was named for a great-aunt of President Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Côte d'Ivoire
|
In this case, "our consideration is limited to the present circumstances" about "equal protection in election processes"
Bush v. Gore