Scott Riccardi game 5.
Rahul Kak — a law student from Brooklyn, New York
Sarah Mulligan — a lawyer from New York, New York
Scott Riccardi — an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (whose 4-day cash winnings total $132,402)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott | $1,200 | $3,800 | $12,000 |
$12,500
5-day champion: $144,902 |
$15,600
23 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Sarah | $1,200 | $2,600 | $5,400 |
$3,199
2nd place: $3,000 |
$5,400
9 R, 1 W |
| Rahul | $800 | $-200 | $3,800 |
$2,199
3rd place: $2,000 |
$3,800
6 R, 3 W |
| AMERICAN HISTORY | SPORTY STUFF | WE ARE LITERARY FAMILY | HOW NOW, DOW JONES 30 SYMBOL | NUMBER, PLEASE | "STRAIGHT" TALK |
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$200
[20]
In 1739, to stem counterfeiting, he used his Philadelphia printing office to produce notes with a raised leaf pattern
Franklin
Sarah
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$200
[14]
This alliterative apparatus used in Olympic women's gymnastics is 16.4 feet long & is raised 4.1 feet from the floor
a balance beam
Sarah
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$200
[21]
George R.R. Martin wrote, one in this family "always pays his debts... I think I will try and sleep. Wake me if we're about to die"
Lannister
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$200
[30]
BA isn't Bank of America, but speaking plane-ly, is this company
Boeing
Rahul
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$200
[27]
Baskin-Robbins started out offering this many flavors; now the company has 1,400-plus
31
Scott
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$200
[29]
Hope you're walking this slim 3-word path of honesty & virtue
straight and narrow
Rahul
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$400
[3]
In 1899 William McKinley became the first president to ride in an auto, one driven by F.O. Stanley & powered by this
steam
Sarah
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$400
[15]
This San Diego Padre amassed crazy hitting stats like a career .302 with 2 strikes & .415 facing Hall of Famer Greg Maddux
Tony Gwynn
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$400
[7]
In 1846 "Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell" were actually the poems by 3 sisters in this family
Brontë
Scott
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$400
[22]
SHW is this brand that paints the town red (or another color of your choice)
Sherwin-Williams
Scott
|
$400
[26]
This Apollo mission put the first humans on the Moon
11
Scott
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$400
[28]
To vote this is to cast a ballot solely for candidates of a single party
straight ticket
Scott
|
|
$800
[2]
In 1994, these two longtime political opponents & friends both left American public life for good
Reagan & Tip O'Neill
Sarah
|
$600
[16]
In swimming, the butterfly stroke is performed with this mammal-named kick
a dolphin kick
Sarah
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$600
[5]
"People also ask" on Google, "What is the correct pronunciation?" of this family of bears & "always religious?"
Berenstain
Scott
|
$600
[12]
KO is a knockout of a symbol for this brand that stays liquid
Coca-Cola
|
$600
[19]
Number of points a team gets for a safety in the NFL
two
Scott
Sarah
Rahul
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$600
[9]
You're holding a jack, 10, 8 & 7 & hoping to draw a 9 for one of these? Lotsa luck!
an inside straight
Scott
|
|
DD
$1,000
[1]
Around 1870 unbranded strays gained this moniker from the name of a Texas rancher negligent in marking his calves
maverick
Scott
|
$800
[17]
ThisUConn star had an intense spring in 2025 playing on her first national championship team & being picked first in the WNBA draft
Paige Bueckers
Rahul
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$800
[6]
This author opened a book with "A long time ago... Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods"
Ingalls Wilder
Rahul
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$800
[13]
TRV means this company with assurances of insurance
Travelers
Sarah
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$800
[24]
In myth this many champions went against Thebes after Oedipus died
seven
Scott
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$800
[10]
As 2 words, it's a punk subculture that eschews booze & drugs; as one word, it's a drawing tool
straight edge
Scott
|
|
$1,000
[4]
In 1865 Mary Surratt was executed by the U.S. government; in 1953, she became the next woman to suffer that fate
(Ethel) Rosenberg
Scott
|
$1,000
[18]
There are triple & even quadruple versions of this figure skating jump that bears the first name of its Norwegian inventor
Axel
Scott
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$1,000
[8]
John Galsworthy's "Saga" about this family is soon to get no less than its third glossy BBC/PBS adaptation
Forsyte
Sarah
|
$1,000
[23]
HON is this company that's into aerospace & also industrial automation, which doesn't sound like a scary pairing at all
Honeywell
|
$1,000
[25]
This rare isotope of uranium is the only naturally occurring fissile material, so be careful out there
uranium-235
|
$1,000
[11]
This 3-word phrase meaning simple & direct is the title of a Thelonious Monk album
straight, no chaser
|
| SKETCHES GIVE STITCHES | OLD REVIEWS | EARTH SCIENCE | FRENCH PROVERBS | TAKE A LONG WALK | OFF A NOT-SO-SHORT PIER |
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$400
[1]
Kenan Thompson & Amanda Bynes got their starts on this Nickelodeon sketch show with an opening song by TLC
All That
Scott
|
$400
[16]
In 1890 art critic Albert Aurier praised his "Skies", which "at times, expose radiating, torrid solar disks"
van Gogh
|
$400
[30]
Derecho, a strong wind moving in a line across the Great Plains, was coined in contrast to this wind that twists & spins
a tornado
|
$400
[25]
Basically telling you to sleep on it, "la nuit porte conseil" literally means this "brings counsel"
the night
Scott
|
$400
[28]
Fitness trackers by this Google-owned brand raise a big question for many users: if my steps aren't tracked, did my walk even happen?
Fitbit
Scott
|
$400
[17]
Notable for its two-tier construction, Scheveningen Pierin the Netherlands juts 1,200 feet from the Hague coastline into this body of water
the North Sea
Scott
|
|
$800
[5]
This guy played Vincent Price, Herb Welch & of course, Stefon on "Saturday Night Live"
Bill Hader
Scott
|
$800
[13]
From 1891: This man's "'Gates of Hell'... rendered the... battle of the sexes with a force... no sculptor has hitherto equalled"
Rodin
Scott
|
$800
[29]
Spring these, higher than usual, happen because the Sun adds its gravitational pull to that of the Moon
tides
Sarah
|
$800
[24]
Like "make a mountain out of a molehill", to "faire d'une mouche un éléphant" is to make an elephant out of this insect
a fly
Scott
|
$800
[27]
"Da-da dum diddy dum diddy dum diddy da da da": thus proclaimeth The Proclaimers in a '93 hit about walking this title distance
500 miles
|
$800
[26]
Developed in the '30s at California's Santa Monica Pier, the Peterson beltis now standard-issue equipment for people with this job
lifeguard
Scott
|
|
$1,200
[2]
Shedid some "ameezing" work as "pubLIZcist" Liz B. on "Kroll Show"
Jenny Slate
|
$1,200
[12]
A 1994 review of the album "Illmatic"--this"20-year-old New Yorker captured street life in all its emotional complexities"
Nas
Rahul
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$1,200
[6]
If Norman Bowen's headstone is made of this hard rock, he'd want you to know it's magmatic, his position in a long-running debate
granite
|
$1,200
[21]
"Chien qui aboie ne mord pas" familiarly tells us one of these "doesn't bite"
a barking dog
Rahul
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$1,200
[8]
This "Wild" author has said that much of the journal she kept while hiking the Pacific Coast Trail was "about how much my feet hurt"
Cheryl Strayed
|
$1,200
[18]
After losing a bet, this future mayor & senator attended the 1978 opening of San Francisco's Pier 39 in a bathing suit
Feinstein
Scott
|
|
$1,600
[3]
Some of its early sketches were"The Wrath of Farrakhan","Homeboy Shopping Network" &"Homey D. Clown"
In Living Color
Scott
|
$1,600
[14]
H.L. Mencken said his "Sister Carrie" "was the ancient story of the seduced village maiden purged of all its... pecksniffery"
Dreiser
Scott
|
$2,000
[10]
Dubbed Clambake 1, the first of the structures called these vents, the "hot springs of the ocean floor", was discovered in 1977
hydrothermal vents
Scott
|
$1,600
[22]
"De mauvais grain jamais bon pain" means "from bad grain, never" this 2-word outcome
good bread
Scott
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$2,000
[11]
Since the 9th century, pilgrims both religious & non have walked this network of Iberian routes known as The Way of St. James
the Camino de Santiago
|
$1,600
[19]
You'll find the unique Whalebone Pier seenhereat Umhlanga Beach in Durban, this country's largest seaport
South Africa
|
|
$2,000
[4]
(Robin Thede presents the clue.) I play roles like philsophizer & conspiracizer Hertep, Dr. Haddassah Olayinka Ali-Youngman, Pre Ph.D.&the con artist three-year-old Baby Annieon this sketch show I created
A Black Lady Sketch Show
Rahul
|
$2,000
[15]
An 1889 article about this New York dining establishment called it "the most famous in America"
Delmonico's
Sarah
|
DD
$4,000
[7]
On a global scale this process of heat transfer sees warm air rise & cold air sink, driving much of weather & climate
convection
Scott
|
$2,000
[23]
"Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu" is equivalent to this, meaning there's a reason why people are talking about something
there's no smoke without fire (where's there's smoke, there's fire)
Rahul
|
DD
$5,000
[9]
Very few have walked the entire length of this route that runs 19,000 miles from Argentina to Alaska via the perilous Darién Gap
the Pan-American Highway
Scott
|
$2,000
[20]
Denmark's Kastrup Pier, aka "The Snail" ends in a circular swimming area that juts into this strait; that's Sweden over yonder
the Øresund
Scott
|
A 2nd c. inscription in Northern England records that the gods imposed "the necessity of keeping intact the empire" on this man
Hadrian