Scott Riccardi game 12.
Ameen Ismail — a particle physicist originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Julia Broussard — a university administrator from New Orleans, Louisiana
Scott Riccardi — an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (whose 11-day cash winnings total $282,101)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott | $1,000 | $4,000 | $22,400 |
$30,400
12-day champion: $312,501 |
$19,600
23 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Julia | $1,400 | $1,800 | $6,200 |
$6,200
2nd place: $3,000 |
$6,200
9 R, 2 W |
| Ameen | $2,000 | $3,600 | $2,600 |
$2,705
3rd place: $2,000 |
$7,600
14 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| WARLOCKS | AROUND SOUTH AMERICA | AMBROSE BIERCE'SDEVIL'S DICTIONARY | FEELING SHEEPISH | AT THE AIRPORT | THE FIRST U.S. PRESIDENT TO... |
|
$200
[26]
In Disney's "The Sword & the Stone", this wizard gets angry at Arthur & peaces out to Bermuda
Merlin
Scott
|
$200
[27]
Puente de la Mujer, or Women's Bridge, in this world capital represents a man & a woman doing the tango
Buenos Aires
Julia
Ameen
|
$200
[30]
This variety of musical performance:"A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song"
an opera
Ameen
|
$200
[29]
In 1996 she was born from 3 mothers: one provided the DNA, one provided the egg & one carried the embryo
Dolly
Ameen
|
$200
[25]
There's a full-size one of these between 2 runways at Bangkok's airport, which can't be good for the players' handicaps
a golf course
Julia
|
$200
[28]
...appoint a woman as White House Chief of Staff, strategist Susie Wiles
Trump
Scott
|
|
$400
[22]
Uncle Arthur, Samantha's funcle on this classic sitcom, appeared on episodes like "Twitch or Treat"
Bewitched
Ameen
|
$400
[18]
Stanley is the capital of this self-governing territory of over 200 islands that is home to one million penguins
the Falklands
Ameen
|
$400
[21]
This medical professional:"A prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket"
a dentist
Julia
|
$400
[10]
This newer word often follows "wake up" in a comic political insult directed at conformists
sheeple
Julia
|
$400
[24]
During winter months, Munich's airport features a 6,500-square-foot one of these spaces, with a separate curling lane
an ice rink
Scott
|
$400
[23]
...be the head of a major union, the organization then known as SAG
Reagan
Scott
|
|
$600
[7]
Idris Elba was a gunslinger & Matthew McConaughey was an evil warlock in this film based on a Stephen King work
The Dark Tower
Scott
|
$600
[1]
A region of Paraguay is named for this U.S. president, who settled a dispute in Paraguay's favor in 1878
(Rutherford B.) Hayes
Ameen
|
$600
[20]
This event (remember the original title, "The Cynic's Word Book"): "The first & direst of all disasters"
birth
|
$600
[9]
In ads for this company, the counting sheep are baadly unemployed thanks to comfortable mattresses
Serta
|
$600
[14]
Slurp up the homemade udon noodles at Kineya Mugimaru, a restaurant at this Tokyo airport that isn't Haneda
Narita
Ameen
|
$600
[6]
...be Roman Catholic
Kennedy
Scott
|
|
$800
[8]
Kalabar is the evil warlock & mayor of the title place in this TV movie that has Debbie Reynolds as a witchy Grandma
Halloweentown
Julia
|
$800
[2]
It's the only country in South America that borders Central America
Colombia
Ameen
|
$800
[17]
This type of venerated person:"A dead sinner revised & edited"
a saint
Scott
|
$800
[11]
This processed skin--largely from sheep, goats or calves--was likely named for the ancient city of Pergamum
parchment
Julia
|
$800
[15]
For a layover at Roma Fiumicino, you can book one of these in advance, including a towel, gel, hair dryer & slippers
a shower
|
$800
[4]
...ride to & from his inauguration in anautomobile, a Packard Twin Six
Warren G. Harding
|
|
$1,000
[13]
Thislate actor played the title characters in "Warlock" & its first sequel
Julian Sands
|
$1,000
[3]
Xingu Indigenous Park is a treasure of this vast region of inland Brazil whose name means "thick forest"
Mato Grosso
|
DD
$1,000
[19]
This group, then of 90 men:"A body of elderly gentlemen charged with high duties & misdemeanors"
the Senate
Scott
|
$1,000
[12]
The AKC says this 2-word dog breed has "dominated competitive sheepdog trials in the British Isles"
a Border Collie
Julia
|
$1,000
[16]
Changi Airport, found here at the tip of the Malay Peninsula, has a butterfly garden with an "emergence cage" for pupae
Singapore
Ameen
|
$1,000
[5]
...be born a U.S. citizen, though oddly, he was also the first to have English as his second language
Van Buren
Scott
|
| WAR LOCKS | TV KIDS | INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE | LITERATURE | DON'T EAT THE PICTURES | "MP" |
|
$400
[28]
In Judges 16 this woman caused the warrior Samson "to shave off the seven locks of his head"
Delilah
Scott
|
$400
[26]
Isaac Ordonez is this brother to Jenna Ortega's character on "Wednesday"
Pugsley
Scott
|
$400
[30]
Customs unions exist to eliminate trade barriers & do away with or minimize these, "the most beautiful word" to the President
tariffs
Ameen
|
$400
[20]
A line from this novel: "Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman... burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes"
Fahrenheit 451
Scott
|
$400
[24]
Pieter Claesz painted "Still Life with a Pie" made of this ornamental fowl which is apparently not just for decoration
a peacock
Scott
|
$400
[29]
In a Christmas carol it follows "O come, all ye faithful, joyful and"
triumphant
Scott
|
|
$800
[22]
Photos of Mau Mau fighters with locs may have inspired the look among adherents to this religious movement started in Jamaica
Rastafarianism
Scott
|
$800
[23]
Haw haw! An episode called "Bart the General" introduced this bully voiced by Nancy Cartwright
Nelson
Ameen
|
$800
[21]
The WIPO is a world organization that protects these artistic rights, the IP in its name
intellectual property
Ameen
|
$800
[19]
Like many of his novels, "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" is set in the fictional Wessex
Hardy
Julia
|
$800
[25]
The printheredepicts meal preparation, including grating white radish, which the Japanese call this sashimi staple
daikon
Scott
Julia
Ameen
|
$800
[27]
In England, tea isn't complete without one of these hot off the griddle
a crumpet
Julia
Ameen
|
|
$1,200
[5]
A warrior of sorts, Troy Polamalu kept his hair long in tribute to his Samoan heritage playing safety for this NFL team
the Steelers
Scott
|
$1,200
[11]
Vivien Lyra Blairplayed this plucky royal opposite Ewan McGregor in a 2022 series from Disney+
Princess Leia
|
$1,200
[16]
Similar to NAFTA, a trade agreement between the U.S. & countries including Guatemala & Honduras is called this
CAFTA
Scott
|
$1,200
[1]
Her "To the Lighthouse" is a stream of consciousness novel about the Ramsay family's visits to the Isle of Skye
Woolf
Scott
|
$1,200
[10]
There's precious fruit in "The Garden of" this trio depictedhereby Frederic Leighton
the Hesperides
|
$1,600
[14]
It's a store that sells all kinds of things, or at Disneyland, all kinds of keepsakes
an emporium
Scott
|
|
$1,600
[6]
In an attempt to modernize Japan, an edict during this restorative era put an end to the topknot hairstyle among the samurai
the Meiji Restoration
Ameen
|
$1,600
[12]
Jamie-Lynn Sigler played her, a mobster's daughter, who got out of the house & attended Columbia University
Meadow Soprano
|
$1,600
[17]
Though not a nation, it would be the fourth-largest economy in the world, having overtaken Japan in 2025
California
|
$1,600
[2]
One of these "short, plump little cakes" triggers "all-powerful joy" in "Remembrance of Things Past"
a madeleine
Scott
|
$1,600
[8]
Giuseppe Arcimboldo's "Vertumnus" is a surreal depiction of Rudolf II, the Habsburg ruler who held this title
Holy Roman Emperor
Scott
|
$2,000
[15]
Commonly made from turpentine oil, this distinct-smelling chemical is used in vapor rubs, balms & insect repellents
camphor
Ameen
|
|
DD
$5,000
[7]
These blue-painted Scottish warriors whose name is from Latin for "paint" are traditionally illustrated with flowing locks
the Picts
Ameen
|
$2,000
[13]
This cruel & spoiled royal was not actually King Robert's son but the product of an incestuous union
Joffrey
Scott
|
$2,000
[18]
World news in recent months has attended to China's controls on the elements known as these, like scandium & yttrium
rare-earth elements
Ameen
|
$2,000
[3]
"A Good Man is Hard to Find" by this Southern Gothic author does not in fact contain dating advice
O'Connor
Scott
|
$2,000
[9]
A mid-1890s "Still Life with Apples" is one of many paintings featuring fruit by this artist from Aix-en-Provence
Cézanne
Julia
Ameen
|
DD
$4,000
[4]
From Italian, it's a person who puts on, & often finances, public entertainment, like a concert or theatrical event
impresario
Scott
|
Expanding on a word created by a Czech playwright, Asimov coined this term in 1941 for a branch of science that didn't exist then
robotics