Scott Riccardi game 9.
Carl Adams — a litigation technology specialist originally from Des Moines, Iowa
Pete Johnston — a filmmaker and educator from Lansing, Michigan
Scott Riccardi — an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (whose 8-day cash winnings total $201,301)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott | $10,000 | $12,600 | $28,200 |
$32,200
9-day champion: $233,501 |
$20,000
25 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Pete | $4,200 | $6,000 | $15,600 |
$28,201
2nd place: $3,000 |
$15,600
20 R, 2 W |
| Carl | $0 | $400 | $9,100 |
$9,100
3rd place: $2,000 |
$7,600
7 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| DRUMS & PERCUSSION | KING ME | SINGLE | "DOUBLE" | HOMER | CAN HE HIT FOR THE CYCLE? |
|
$200
[27]
Purdue says it has "the world's largest drum" with this type used in the marching band, & yep, it sure is big, weighing 315 pounds
a bass drum
Scott
|
$200
[30]
The 15th century philosopher Erasmus once quipped that "In the country of the blind", this personage "is king"
the man with one eye (the one-eyed man)
Pete
Carl
|
$200
[29]
The romance between Ann Coleman & this future president ended badly: she died tragically & he pledged to stay a bachelor for life
Buchanan
Scott
|
$200
[22]
It's an unfortunate golf score of 2 strokes over par
double bogey
Pete
|
$200
[28]
Homer doesn't drool much over the beauty of her, the most famous mortal woman in his works, but she does have very white arms
Helen of Troy
Scott
|
$200
[25]
As you might guess, this hit is the rarest one in the cycle; Elly de la Cruz completed the feat with one June 23, 2023
the triple
Pete
|
|
$400
[26]
We'll trap you into naming this drum with uses from military band to garage band
a snare drum
Scott
|
$400
[23]
This brand began using the advertising slogan "The King of Beers" in the mid-20th century
Budweiser (Bud)
Pete
|
$400
[24]
Their sister married newspaper editor Henry Haskell, but relationship-wise these famous brothers opted to fly solo
the Wright brothers
Pete
|
$400
[21]
It's the term for language that lends itself to more than one meaning, & it's French (wink), if you (air quotes) know what we mean
a double entendre
Pete
|
$400
[19]
Poet Demodokos in the "Odyssey" has been taken as a stand-in for Homer & may be the origin of the idea that Homer had this disability
blindness
Scott
|
$400
[20]
On Sunday, May 13, 2007, rookie Fred Lewis hit for the cycle & the first thing he did afterward was call this person
his mom
Pete
|
|
$600
[5]
Time to shake the jingles in this small frame drum, the use of which dates back to cults worshiping Isis
a tambourine
Scott
|
$600
[16]
Big band leader Benny Goodman had this rhyming nickname, a reference to the style of music he played
King of Swing
Scott
|
$600
[17]
One of few women & the only American to exhibit with French Impressionists, this painter saw marriage as incompatible with her career
(Mary) Cassatt
Scott
|
$600
[6]
YouTube user & Yosemite visitor Hungrybear9562 charmed the Internet in 2010 with his awestruck reaction to one of these
a double rainbow
Pete
|
$800
[9]
Juliette Binoche "never played a queen" before the role of this Homeric woman opposite Ralph Fiennes in "The Return"
Penelope
Pete
|
$600
[18]
The only cycle in MLB postseason history was by the Red Sox' Brock Holt in this enemy park where the Bosox love to get a victory
Yankee Stadium
Carl
|
|
$800
[3]
Classically, it's featured in Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1; folksily, it's been called the cowboy dinner bell
a triangle
Pete
|
$800
[8]
In Shakespeare this title character says, "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks"
King Lear
Scott
|
$800
[12]
Men in the life of this unwed designer included polo player Arthur Capel, who met her in 1908 & financed her early Parisian boutiques
Coco Chanel
|
$800
[4]
Evil-Eye Fleegle, a zoot-suited hoodlum in the comic strip "Li'l Abner", helped popularize this term for a 1-2 punch of adverse effects
a double whammy
Scott
|
$1,000
[7]
Izmirin Turkey, a traditional birthplace of Homer, is also called this, like a Georgiacity that's a traditional birthplace of Julia Roberts
Smyrna
|
$800
[15]
This Oriole's homer as part of a 1984 cycle was one of the record 345 he hit playing shortstop
(Cal) Ripken (Jr.)
Scott
|
|
$1,000
[1]
Thistall barrel-shaped Afro-Cuban drum is also called a tumbadora
a conga
Pete
|
$1,000
[14]
The 2 sides in this 1670s conflict were the Wampanoag & settlers of Plymouth colony
King Philip's War
Scott
|
$1,000
[10]
Found after this bachelor's death: 3 letters locked in a drawer, written but apparently not sent to "Immortal Beloved"
Beethoven
Pete
|
$1,000
[2]
"One candidate that's allowed to be lawless while the other one has to be flawless": in 2024, one congresswoman's example of a this
a double standard
Scott
|
DD
$4,000
[13]
The last book of the "Iliad" contains the funeral of Hector; the last book of the "Odyssey" has the funeral of this slayer of Hector
Achilles
Scott
|
$1,000
[11]
Through 2024 this team has the most cycles in MLB--24, with contributions by Honus Wagner, Richie Zisk & Willie Stargell
the Pirates
Scott
|
| SCIENCE QUIZ | BEFORE & AFTER | DOING TIME TOGETHER | MOVIES SET IN THE 1920s | IT'S BORDERLINE | THAT SHIP HAS SAILED |
|
$400
[26]
Despite a popular slander, these fish, Carassius auratus, actually have excellent memories
goldfish
Carl
|
$400
[24]
Seat for tickling the ivories while lifting a weight bar upward over your supine body
a piano bench press
Pete
|
$400
[29]
In 1950 Robert Stroud & Machine Gun Kelly (not that one) could be found at this location
Alcatraz
Scott
|
$400
[21]
Leonardo DiCaprio says, "I'm afraid I haven't been a very good host, old sport" as the title fella in this '20s-set piece
The Great Gatsby
Pete
|
$400
[30]
This country borders every South American nation except Chile & Ecuador
Brazil
Pete
|
$400
[28]
Flush with grant money, Charles Darwin penned "Zoology of the Voyage" of this ship
the Beagle
Scott
|
|
$800
[25]
Atoms of this metallic element bond weakly with others of their kind, so it's a liquid as low as 72 degrees
mercury
Scott
Pete
|
$800
[23]
Spurs' home in the "Lone Star State" that played Armand the vampire on film
San Antonio Banderas
|
$800
[1]
The situation? That "Jersey Shore" guy was in Otisville Prison with Billy McFarland, busted for organizing this Bahamas disaster
Fyre Festival
Carl
|
$800
[11]
In 1926, this magizoologist & Hogwarts alum arrived in New York & set about recapturing a Niffler
Newt Scamander
Scott
|
$800
[2]
Austria takes up some but not all of this country's 48 miles of borders
Liechtenstein
Scott
|
$800
[27]
In St. Petersburg, you can visit the Krasin, one of these ships, that rescued a stuck Italian polar expedition back in the day
an icebreaker
Pete
|
|
$1,200
[3]
The main asteroid belt is bounded by the orbits of these 2 planets
Mars & Jupiter
Pete
|
$1,200
[6]
Healthy grain with only its outermost layer removed so it can teach 4,000 undergraduates in Houston
brown Rice University
Scott
|
$1,200
[9]
The situation? That "Jersey Shore" guy was in Otisville prison with this man, Trump's ex-fixer
(Michael) Cohen
Scott
|
$1,600
[4]
This1981 Best Picture winner is about two British runners ahead of the 1924 Olympics
Chariots of Fire
Pete
|
$1,600
[22]
Thailand has a long, skinny section on the Malay Peninsula, just south of this country that borders most of Thailand on the west
Myanmar
Pete
|
$1,200
[16]
Columbus' flagship the Santa María ran aground & had to be scrapped; its timbers were used to create this fort named for Christmas
La Navidad
|
|
$1,600
[10]
It's the Greek-derived name for the process of identical cell duplication
mitosis
Carl
|
$1,600
[7]
The first book in Patrick Rothfuss' "The Kingkiller Chronicle" used as a facility to test the aerodynamics of planes
The Name of the Wind tunnel
Carl
|
$1,600
[20]
Too real, housewife! Jen Shah of "Salt Lake City" became federal prison pals with this woman, founder of Theranos
Holmes
Carl
|
$2,000
[5]
Gregory Hines starred as Delbert "Sandman" Williams in this Harlem-set Francis Ford Coppola movie that begins in 1928
The Cotton Club
|
$2,000
[14]
1,000 miles from top to bottom, this "directional" Aussie area has Queensland on its east
the Northern Territory
|
$1,600
[17]
During his circumnavigation, Francis Drake renamed his flagship the Pelican this, which was more "deer" to him
Golden Hind
Scott
|
|
$2,000
[12]
Sometimes mistaken for diamond, topaz is not just beautiful but hard, making it a solid 8 on this scale
Mohs
Pete
|
$2,000
[13]
'70s sitcom about a Black family in Chicago in a font created by typographer Stanley Morison
Good Times New Roman
Pete
|
$2,000
[15]
In 1987 Sean Penn was in L.A. County Jail near Richard Ramirez, known by this serial killer name, who asked for an autograph
the Night Stalker
Scott
|
DD
$2,700
[8]
In this 1952 film Don Lockwood works as a stuntman elevated to leading man, just before the advent of talking pictures
Singin' in the Rain
Carl
|
DD
$6,000
[19]
This Mexican state between Sonora & Coahuila has all 3 of the border crossings from Mexico to New Mexico
Chihuahua
Scott
|
$2,000
[18]
Alphabetically first of a famous trio of White Star ocean liners, it sank in 1916 after striking a mine
Britannic
Scott
|
The title of a Pulitzer-winning play from 2007 mentions this month, as does another winner 54 years prior
August