Scott Riccardi game 14.
Paul Ryan — a print and print marketing general manager from Weymouth, Massachusetts
Adriene Holland — a risk control manager from Powder Springs, Georgia
Scott Riccardi — an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (whose 13-day cash winnings total $362,901)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott | $7,800 | $11,600 | $30,000 |
$28,001
14-day champion: $390,902 |
$25,400
30 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Adriene | $3,200 | $3,800 | $12,400 |
$4,600
3rd place: $2,000 |
$10,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Paul | $1,000 | $3,000 | $9,800 |
$13,000
2nd place: $3,000 |
$9,800
13 R, 1 W |
| EXODUSTERS | THROWING COPPER | REVISING THE ATLAS | BEASTLY ENDINGS | PUT THE FRIES IN THE BAG | BRO |
|
$200
[28]
The Exoduster movement saw thousands of Black farmers move west to Kansas post-Civil War; many used this 1862 act to get land
the Homestead Act
Scott
|
$200
[29]
With 10% of the world's deposits, Africa's Copperbelt extends 280 miles across Zambia into this nation, the DRC for short
the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Paul
|
$200
[30]
A few years after it was safe to do so, in 1961 this city got renamed Volgograd
Stalingrad
Scott
|
$200
[27]
A high wire gymnast terminating in a flying mammal
an acro bat
Paul
|
$200
[26]
In 2020 this restaurant said goodbye to potato wedges & hello to Secret Recipe Fries
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Adriene
|
$200
[25]
Singer & entrepreneur Ray J is the brother of this singer with a name like a potent potable
Brandy
Paul
|
|
$400
[15]
Frederick Douglass thought Black westward migration would fail to help this party as folks would go where it was already strong
the Republicans (the Republican Party)
Paul
|
$400
[21]
More than 80 tons of copper went into making this U.S. structure, mostly in the form of sheets less than 1/8 of an inch thick
the Statue of Liberty
Adriene
|
$400
[22]
After partition in 1947, East Bengal became East Pakistan & following a civil war in 1971, took this name
Bangladesh
Scott
|
$400
[23]
A getaway concluding in a tailless primate
esc ape
Scott
|
$400
[24]
In 2004 McDonald's phased out this fry & drink option in order to trim down the menu
Super Size
Paul
|
$400
[2]
Twin brothers Benji & Joel Madden started this pop-punk band known for "The Anthem" & "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous"
Good Charlotte
Scott
|
|
$800
[19]
Black Union vet Sam Truehart received this many acres from the government in Kansas denied to many elsewhere--not sure about a mule
40
Scott
|
$600
[13]
These discoveries of the 1940s & '50s include "The Copper Scroll", with directions to places with hidden gold & silver treasure
the Dead Sea Scrolls
Scott
|
$600
[1]
In 1954 Mauch Chunk, or "Bear Mountain", & East Mauch Chunk merged to form a Pennsylvania borough named for this athlete
Jim Thorpe
Paul
|
$600
[10]
Member of the ruling class or nobility finished off by a long-tailed rodent
aristoc rat
Scott
|
$600
[7]
Grab some fries & a Moo Latté from this "royal" chain co-founded by Sherb Boble, an ice cream businessman
Dairy Queen
Adriene
|
$600
[4]
Kimberly on "The Sex Lives of College Girls" is played by Pauline, whose brother is this "Wonka" actor
Timothée Chalamet
Scott
|
|
$1,000
[20]
This longest-lasting Black settlement in Kansas shares its name with a pharisee who helped bury Jesus with Joseph of Arimathea
Nicodemus
|
$800
[14]
This Revolutionary War figure wasn't just a silversmith; he engraved copper plates & made the copper fittings for Old Ironsides
Paul Revere
Adriene
|
$800
[3]
The French territory of the Afars & the Issas got renamed in 1977 as this, silent D & all
Djibouti
Adriene
|
$800
[11]
An Arabian Peninsula capital city finishing with a feline
Mus cat
Scott
|
$800
[8]
The fella who owns this numerical burger chain says it always gives an "extra scoop" of fries
Five Guys
Scott
|
$800
[16]
"Welcome to Collinwood" is an early work by these directing brothers who later had some Marvel-ous luck
the Russo brothers
Scott
|
|
DD
$2,000
[6]
Mass Black migration out of the South ramped up after Rutherford B. Hayes effectively ended this era in 1877
Reconstruction
Scott
|
$1,000
[18]
Copper builds up in the body in Wilson disease, a rare genetic disorder that can lead to this scarring of the liver
cirrhosis
Paul
|
$1,000
[5]
Named in 1890 for Lord Salisbury, then PM of Britain, this Zimbabwean capital changed its name to honor a Shona chief
Harare
Scott
|
$1,000
[12]
A world traveler closed out by a semi-aquatic weasel
a globetr otter
Scott
|
$1,000
[9]
Bacon & cheese are toppings for fries from this alliterative chain founded in Madison Square Park
Shake Shack
Adriene
|
$1,000
[17]
Bros Andrew, Luke & Owen Wilson all starred in this Wes Anderson debut film that shares its name with a type of firework
Bottle Rocket
Scott
|
| THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION | STATUES AROUND THE WORLD | TO PUT IT IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL TERMS | MILLENNIALS | ON THE MOVIE SOUNDTRACK | ENDS WITH 3 CONSONANTS |
|
$400
[30]
This 2005 winner about relationships between fathers & sons shares its name with a republic in "The Handmaid's Tale"
Gilead
Scott
|
$400
[29]
In 2020 a life-size bronze statue of this U.S. first lady was unveiled near her hometown of Sevnica
Melania Trump
Scott
|
$400
[28]
Like marriage or school graduation, this 3-word phrase means an event that marks a person moving from one stage to another
rite of passage
Scott
|
$400
[27]
Duke of Sussex is one of his official titles
Prince Harry
Scott
|
$400
[26]
This character belts out "Let It Go" in "Frozen"
Elsa
Adriene
|
$400
[25]
It's an abbreviated word for that expensive hoodie sold right outside the music venue
merch
Scott
|
|
$800
[10]
In 2017, Pulitzer was all aboard for this Colson Whitehead book; its title is literal, with real conductors
The Underground Railroad
Paul
|
$800
[18]
Rocking out in a square named for him in Johannesburg, this figure perpetually dances the Madiba Jive
Mandela
|
$1,200
[15]
Anthropologist Leslie White wrote that "all human behavior originates in the use of" these archetypal representations
symbols
|
$800
[23]
29, when shewas sworn in in 2019, she became the youngest woman to serve in Congress
(Alexandria Ocasio-)Cortez
Paul
|
$800
[24]
With a nod to its title character, "Axel F" by Harold Faltermeyer was a big hit from this Eddie Murphy movie
Beverly Hills Cop
Scott
|
$800
[21]
It's an Eastern Orthodox Church head honcho in places like Antioch or Moscow
a patriarch
Paul
|
|
$1,200
[2]
Sharing the 2023 award, this book narrated by an Appalachian boy recast "David Copperfield"
Demon Copperhead
Scott
|
$1,200
[5]
At the southeast corner of Central Park, this man rides on a horse perpetually trampling a branch symbolizing Georgia
Sherman
Paul
|
$1,600
[19]
To not split up estates, many medieval families followed this 13-letter rule whereby the eldest son got all the land
primogeniture
|
$1,600
[9]
This international soccer great was named in part for the man who was U.S. president at the time of his birth
Ronaldo
Scott
|
$1,200
[1]
Yeah, baby, Madonna's "Beautiful Stranger" plays in the "Austin Powers" movie with this 5-word subtitle
The Spy Who Shagged Me
Scott
|
$1,200
[12]
To be "in the" this center of attention comes from the use of calcium oxide to brighten stages in the 1800s
limelight
Adriene
|
|
$1,600
[3]
MacKinlay Kantor won the 1956 Pulitzer with a book titled for this notorious Confederate P.O.W. camp where 13,000 Union soldiers died
Andersonville
Paul
|
$1,600
[6]
In Syracuse, a statue of him holds a model of a mirror "heat ray" meant to burn Roman warships
Archimedes
Paul
|
$2,000
[20]
A theory put forth in 2014 says humans didn't hurry across this "bridge" to North America but lived happily on it for 10,000 years
the Bering Land Bridge
Scott
|
$2,000
[14]
A Spingarn Medal, honorary doctorates & a Trailblazer Icon Award are among the many honors of this prima ballerina
(Misty) Copeland
Scott
|
$1,600
[11]
Songs from "Top Gun" include "Mighty Wings" by Cheap Trick & this song by Kenny Loggins
"Danger Zone"
Scott
|
$1,600
[16]
You'll earn more than that if you know this last name of Alfred, Bruce Wayne's butler
Pennyworth
Paul
|
|
$2,000
[4]
Per the cover, it's "Herman Wouk's world-famous Pulitzer Prize novel of the U.S. Navy in World War II"
The Caine Mutiny
Scott
|
$2,000
[7]
This man got a huge statue in Moscow--not in the city he founded--for the 300th anniversary of the Russian navy
Peter the Great
Adriene
|
DD
$4,000
[22]
A grouping of only parents & their kids, this term was used in a book title about "Coming of Age in Oppenheimer's Secret City"
nuclear family
Scott
|
DD
$3,000
[8]
Turning 41 in 2025, he's the highest ranking millennial on the list of the world's richest people
Mark Zuckerberg
Adriene
|
$2,000
[13]
The 3 sailors on leave who sing "New York, New York" in 1949's "On the Town" are Gene Kelly, Jules Munshin & him
Frank Sinatra
Adriene
|
$2,000
[17]
This violet blue flower is a traditional table setting during the Persian New Year
the hyacinth
|
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V is said to have quipped, "to God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, & to my horse" this
German