Jason Singer — a real estate agent from Portland, Maine
Heather Kompanek — a product support manager from New York, New York
Dave McBride — a compliance consultant from Fuquay Varina, North Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dave | $600 | $3,200 | $6,000 |
$4,700
3rd place: $2,000 |
$6,000
14 R, 2 W |
| Heather | $2,400 | $3,600 | $11,200 |
$15,200
2nd place: $3,000 |
$11,200
13 R, 0 W |
| Jason | $1,000 | $2,400 | $17,800 |
$22,401
New champion: $22,401 |
$19,400
25 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| I LOVE LAMP | HOMOPHONES | PLACES NAMED FOR PLACES | SOUNDS LIKE ROYALTY | PLEASE WELCOME TO THE STAGE... | STING! |
|
$200
[27]
It truly was a whole New World in a 2012 TV movie called this title guy "and the Death Lamp"
Aladdin
Dave
|
$200
[20]
To shatter &to halt a vehicle
break/brake
Heather
|
$200
[17]
A city in Minnesota settled by Czech immigrants in 1856 is called "New" this but if you go, know it rhymes with "Hague"
Prague
Dave
|
$200
[28]
The fishermen on "Deadliest Catch" search for this crustacean off Alaska & had a derby style race in search of it in 2024
king crab
Dave
Jason
|
$200
[25]
For Adam Lambert's Broadway debut in 2024, life was this show, old chum, with Adam as your emcee who sings "I Don't Care Much"
Cabaret
Jason
|
$200
[30]
The tail stinger of a bark type of this desert arachnid is the only one in the U.S. powerful enough to do big damage but that's its nature
a scorpion
Jason
|
|
$400
[26]
In his memoirs this president of few words recalled being sworn in "by the light of a kerosene lamp"
Calvin Coolidge
Jason
|
$400
[19]
To carry &naked
bear/bare
Dave
|
$400
[16]
The Taylor-Grady Houseis an example of Greek Revival architecture in this city, home to the University of Georgia
Athens
Jason
|
$400
[22]
The fourth-oldest institution of higher learning in the U.S., this New Jersey school was founded in 1746
Princeton
Heather
|
$400
[24]
Not long after hitting Broadway in "The Innocents" in 1976, this future Carrie Bradshaw was "Annie" (not getting her gun)
Sarah Jessica Parker
Dave
|
$400
[29]
As if this Aussie monotreme isn't weird enough, check out a venom-injecting spur that causes pain even morphine can't help
a platypus
Jason
|
|
$600
[9]
Around 1807 Sir Humphry Davy lit up the first this 3-letter lamp using a 4-inch space between 2 charcoal sticks
an arc lamp
Jason
|
$600
[18]
An Alaskan seaport &a fabled dwarflike creature
Nome/gnome
Heather
|
$600
[1]
Named for a European capital, this city in Texas is so chic that Wim Wenders titled a movie after it
Paris
Heather
|
$600
[8]
Modern & elegant, this cut refers to a diamond or other gemstone that's cut in a square or rectangular shape
princess
Dave
|
$600
[23]
In 1972 John Travolta auditioned for Danny in this show but got Doody instead; things worked out later
Grease
Dave
|
$600
[21]
That Avenger's gone rogue! The pinprick-like bite of this spider, Latrodectus mactans, causes nausea & mild diaphragm paralysis
black widow
Dave
|
|
$800
[7]
The 513,654 bricks used to build this Boston landmark with one lamp or 2 were made & fired in kilns at nearby Medford
the Old North Church
Jason
|
$1,000
[12]
One underling &10 Jews praying
minion/minyan
Jason
|
$800
[2]
In 1845 this Western city was given its name by Maine-born Francis Pettygrove
Portland, Oregon
Dave
|
$800
[5]
Thisdirector of the original Broadway production of "The Phantom of the Opera" was truly theater royalty
Hal Prince
Dave
Jason
|
$800
[11]
In 2001 Nick Jonas, single digits in age, debuted in "Annie Get Your Gun", starring this legend of country music
Reba McEntire
Jason
|
$800
[15]
The village of Key Biscayne, not the city of Lisbon, says to avoid this marine animal with a nasty sting even if it's dead
a Portuguese man o' war
Heather
|
|
$1,000
[6]
The opening verse of Rilke's poem "Archaic Torso of" this god compares said torso to a lamp
Apollo
Heather
|
DD
$3,400
[13]
Illegal &to provoke a response
illicit/elicit
Jason
|
$1,000
[3]
Each May this city in Michigan's southwest settled by the Dutch hosts the Tulip Time Festival
Holland, Michigan
Jason
|
$1,000
[4]
The basis for a film, this C.S. Forester novel tells of a missionary rescued by a riverboat captain during World War I
The African Queen
Jason
|
$1,000
[10]
In 2001 young Kristen Bell's first Broadway role was this girl in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
Becky (Thatcher)
Jason
|
$1,000
[14]
Me-ouch! The venomous fin spines of this sea creature rarely kill but sure can bring the pain
a lionfish
Jason
|
| ROMAN BRITAIN | STANFORD ALUMNI IN YOUR LIFE | TOUGH TV | LITERARY CHARACTERS | ART HOUSE | "SH"! |
|
$400
[19]
The Romans built Londinium on 2 low hills on the north bank of this river & built a bridge over it to the south
the Thames
Jason
|
$400
[30]
Andy Fang & friends founded Palo Alto Delivery, which became this alliterative service that may be bringing you a gyro right now
DoorDash
Dave
|
$400
[27]
On "Severance" Helly & Mark toil away at this mysterious company
Lumon
Jason
|
$400
[23]
She had a letter "on the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with... flourishes of gold thread"
Hester Prynne
Jason
|
$400
[22]
This title of Grant Wood's most iconic painting alludes to the style of the farmhouse depicted in it
American Gothic
Heather
|
$400
[29]
To open an oyster shell or to remove a corn husk
shuck
Dave
|
|
$800
[6]
On the Isle of Anglesey in Wales, the Romans fought & wiped out these magical priests & destroyed their sacred groves
the Druids
Jason
|
$800
[28]
Phil Knight wrote the business plan for what became this company in a Stanford business school class
Nike
Heather
|
$800
[26]
Season 8 of this visually challenged dating show debuted on Valentine's Day 2025
Love Is Blind
Dave
|
$800
[5]
In the first of a trilogy, this villain's "eye was rimmed with fire... yellow as a cat's, watchful & intent"
Sauron
Heather
|
$800
[21]
In 1944, at almost 84, she painted "The Old Checkered House in 1860", the year of her birth
Grandma Moses
Jason
|
$800
[14]
Really thin French fries can be matchsticks or these laces
shoestring
Heather
|
|
$1,200
[8]
The Romans withdrew from Britain when the sack of Rome by these invaders led by Alaric required soldiers back home
the Visigoths
Jason
|
$1,200
[17]
Katrina Lake created this personalized fashion website that might have sent you clothes chosen by a stylist
Stitch Fix
Jason
|
$1,200
[16]
Aquaman on "Smallville", this big guy plays Jack Reacher on Prime Video
Alan Ritchson
Jason
|
$1,200
[4]
You may be team this character if you know he tells Bella, "The cold ones are traditionally our enemies"
Jacob
Jason
|
$1,200
[15]
This Impressionist chose a different kind of house--London's Houses of Parliament--for a series of paintings
Monet
Dave
|
$1,200
[11]
Hebrew for "seven" gives us this word for a Jewish period of mourning; the use of low stools may be why you hear that you "sit" it
shiva
Jason
|
|
$1,600
[7]
Julius Caesar twice invaded in the 50s B.C. but the Roman invasion of Britain began in Earnest under this sickly emperor in 43 A.D.
Claudius
|
$1,600
[18]
Born in Moscow, he co-developed the pagerank algorithm while studying computer science at Stanford
Sergey Brin
Heather
|
$2,000
[24]
In 2018 this foreign-born sitcom star continued her reign as the highest-paid TV actress
Sofia Vergara
|
$1,600
[3]
This Hogwarts gamekeeper is described as having "hands the size of trash can lids"
Hagrid
Heather
|
$1,600
[10]
Olson House in Maine is the home in the background in Andrew Wyeth's painting called her "World"
Christina
Jason
|
$1,600
[12]
It's the two-word name of this Japanese dog breed
Shiba Inu
Heather
|
|
$2,000
[9]
In 306 A.D. while on a military campaign, Constantine was declared emperor by his army in Eboracum, now this city of the north
York
|
$2,000
[25]
The son of Italian immigrants, this1936 grad changed California wine's image; mmm, a nice Chardonnay with his name on it
Mondavi
Jason
|
DD
$3,000
[20]
JFK famously dubbed this show that's still around today "the fifty-first state"
Meet the Press
Jason
|
$2,000
[2]
This title guy in "A Tale of the Christ" is wrongly accused of a crime by his former pal Messala & is enslaved
Ben-Hur
Dave
|
DD
$2,400
[1]
One of the lonely scenes painted by this American is 1925's "House by the Railroad", utterly devoid of people
Edward Hopper
Jason
|
$2,000
[13]
An Irish tune called "Mush-Mush-Mush Tural-I-Addy" mentions lathering someone with this type of cudgel
a shillelagh
Dave
|
In 1991 he became the first actor in over 85 years to be interred in Poets' Corner & rests near Shakespeare's memorial
Laurence Olivier