Paolo Pasco game 6.
Laura Mixter — a director of impact measurement and management from Chicago, Illinois
Max Miller — a college counselor from Astoria, New York
Paolo Pasco — a puzzle writer originally from San Diego, California (whose 5-day cash winnings total $134,516)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paolo | $4,800 | $6,600 | $16,600 |
$27,601
6-day champion: $162,117 |
$16,600
24 R, 2 W |
| Max | $3,200 | $400 | $6,400 |
$7,195
3rd place: $2,000 |
$9,800
11 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Laura | $1,200 | $2,200 | $13,800 |
$14,400
2nd place: $3,000 |
$13,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| WORDS FOR CITY FOLK | I WROTE THAT FOR CHILDREN! | TRIPLES | EARLY ROLES | BEASTLY ENDINGS | HAWAI'I AS IT WAS |
|
$200
[27]
Since "The Hub" was coined by a Brahmin, the word Hubbites is for the wicked lot of folks from this East Coast city
Boston
Paolo
|
$200
[28]
"'Are their heads off?' shouted the Queen. 'Their heads are gone, if it please your Majesty!"'
(Lewis) Carroll
Laura
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$200
[29]
In the '90s, this cocktail of vodka, triple sec & cranberry juice arguably should've been renamed "Triple Sec and the City"
a cosmo
Paolo
|
$200
[26]
The truth is right here! Jack Black is struck dead by lightning on a 1995 episode of this show
The X-Files
Paolo
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$200
[30]
A short film of current affairs formerly shown along with a movie in a cinema
a newsr eel
Paolo
|
$200
[25]
(Jason Momoa presents the clue.) A playground since 1901 when it first got its luxury hotel, this beach was historically a tempting site for invaders of Oahu, like Kahekili in our series
Waikiki
Laura
|
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$600
[8]
A Yinzer is a person from this U.S. city located at the confluence of 3 rivers
Pittsburgh
Paolo
|
$400
[17]
"'Get that moose!' Thidwick heard a voice call... 'shoot straight, one and all! We must get his head for the Harvard club wall!"'
Dr. Seuss
|
$400
[23]
Johann Strauss II is known as the "King" of this dance that's usually in simple triple time, aka 3/4
a waltz
Max
|
$400
[18]
N.Y.-raised Zoe Saldaña's first IMDb credit was a 1999 role on this TV drama; it came back in 2022, if Zoe wants to go on again
Law & Order
Laura
|
$400
[13]
It can be a piece of paper to absorb excess ink, or a police station's daily record of arrests
a bl otter
Laura
|
$400
[14]
(Jason Momoa presents the clue.) Chiefs were honored in Hawai'i & throughout the series with the mahiole; the helmet was made using these, often from the or 'i'iwi or the now extinct mamo
feathers
Max
|
|
$800
[9]
Parlez-vous Ouagalais? That's the nickname for folks from Ouagadougou, the capital of this African nation
Burkina Faso
Paolo
|
$600
[6]
"'This is the finest thing I have ever done,' thought Stuart. And he shot the arrow straight into the cat's ear. Snowbell squealed"
(E.B.) White
Paolo
|
$600
[1]
A tongue stuck to a flagpole is the grievous upshot of a triple-dog dare in this classic holiday film
A Christmas Story
Paolo
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$600
[19]
Kevin Bacon's first feature was this college-set John Belushi film; in the end, all was not well, & Kevin ended up a bit flat
Animal House
Max
|
$600
[2]
"Stratford Mill" & "The Hay Wain" are examples of this type of painting by John Constable, a major artist of the form in the 1800s
landsc ape
Paolo
|
$600
[20]
(Jason Momoa presents the clue.) Kaʻiana & his family are from the island of Maui, but when we meet them are living on this northwestern island, around the time Captain Cook landed at Waimea Bay
Kauaʻi
|
|
$1,000
[11]
People from Guadalajara are sometimes called this "T" word, like a hot sauce that has a man in a sombrero on its bottle
Tapatio
Max
|
$800
[7]
"'It was poisoned, Peter... and now I am going to be dead"'; "'O Tink, did you drink it to save me?"'; "'Yes'"
Barrie
Max
|
$800
[5]
Renewed periodically between 1882 & WWI, the Triple Alliance was a hush-hush pact between Austria-Hungary & these 2 countries
Italy & Germany
|
$800
[12]
1989's "Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman" was long beforeshedealt with "Gravity"
Sandra Bullock
Laura
|
$800
[3]
A structure of this type was built in Ur around 2000 B.C. & dedicated to the moon god Nanna
a ziggu rat
Paolo
|
$800
[15]
(Jason Momoa presents the clue.) "Chief of War" has many real historical figures, including this king known as "The Great", who we show still struggling to unite the Big Island
Kamehameha
Paolo
|
|
DD
$3,800
[21]
A Weegie is a person from this city on the River Clyde
Glasgow
Max
|
$1,000
[10]
"'I have not killed anything"'; "'Your house did, anyway', replied the little old woman, with a laugh; 'And that is the same thing"'
Baum
Max
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$1,000
[16]
Established as 3 Phoenician colonies in the 7th c. B.C., the historical North African region of Tripolitania is now part of this country
Libya
Laura
|
$1,000
[22]
Her "Long Bright River" of movie & TV roles included Lucy Montgomery on "As the World Turns" when she was 15
Amanda Seyfried
|
$1,000
[4]
16 pieces of eight were once equal to one of these old gold coins
a doub loon
|
$1,000
[24]
(Jason Momoa presents the clue.) My character Kaʻiana shows his reckless side at heʻe hōlua, or lava sledding down the side of a volcano; this fire goddess was said to have been masterful at it
Pele
Paolo
|
| OUR CRUSTY EARTH | PROFESSORS | UNUSUAL WORDS | THE 1975... | THE FALL | BANDS BIGGER IN BRITAIN |
|
$400
[28]
The Earth's crust is divided into 2 types: oceanic crust, which lies mainly beneath (you guessed it) the oceans, & this type
continental
Paolo
|
$400
[29]
While a professor at Berkeley in the 1930s, hetook Ernest Lawrence on vacation to New Mexico
Oppenheimer
Max
|
$400
[30]
Bellycheer is a fun-sounding word that's synonymous with this deadly sin
gluttony
Laura
|
$400
[12]
...independence of Angola, Mozambique & Cape Verde left this country a lot less of a colonizer
Portugal
Paolo
|
$400
[15]
The theme of this 1667 poem was the fall of humanity through disobedience to God
Paradise Lost
Paolo
|
$400
[18]
Spin magazine put Teenage Fanclub's "Bandwagonesque" ahead of this band's "Nevermind" on their best of 1991 list
Nirvana
Paolo
|
|
$800
[27]
Sandstone & shale are these rocks, one of 3 types found in the Earth's crust; they form when material accumulates at the surface
sedimentary
Paolo
|
$800
[26]
She held a Cabinet post from 1997 to 2001 & also taught for almost 40 years at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown
(Madeleine) Albright
Paolo
Max
|
$800
[25]
Meaning to idly loaf, this word starts with a slang word for a type of hard candy & ends with a choking action
lollygag
Paolo
|
$800
[8]
...World Series, one of the greatest ever, featured Carlton Fisk's game-winning homer off this ballpark's left field foul pole
Fenway
Max
|
$800
[13]
Some kids never learn; here's this mythological son falling to the sea despite a warning from Dad
Icarus
Paolo
|
$800
[19]
With songs like "A Message To You Rudy" & "Ghost Town", The Specialsheralded the second wave of this Caribbean genre
ska
Laura
|
|
$1,200
[2]
This country's Kola Superdeep Borehole is the deepest hole ever dug; under the rusty cap seen here, it extends 7.6 miles into Earth's crust
Russia
|
$1,200
[6]
In between butterfly hunting, this novelist taught English at Cornell & Thomas Pynchon was one of his pupas
Vladimir Nabokov
|
$1,200
[24]
This 10-letter word usually refers to an ancient cave dweller but can now also describe any secluded person
troglodyte
|
$1,200
[4]
...reopening of this waterway, with President Sadat in admiral whites, was 8 years to the day after the 6-Day War closed it
the Suez Canal
Paolo
|
$1,200
[5]
David Bowie gave listeners "The Rise and Fall of"this persona "and the Spiders from Mars"
Ziggy Stardust
Paolo
|
$1,200
[20]
2024 saw Oasis announcing a reunion while Damon Albarn said this rival band could be done with live shows
Blur
|
|
$1,600
[16]
Alfred Wegener is known as the "father of" this 1960s theory that shook up our understanding of how the Earth's crust changes
tectonic plate theory (plate tectonics)
Paolo
Laura
|
$1,600
[7]
Often referred to as "the father of modern linguistics", hejoined MIT in 1955
Chomsky
Laura
|
DD
$2,000
[3]
The Latin for "cloud" gives us this type of machine that gives asthma patients medicine in a liquid mist
a nebulizer
Max
|
$1,600
[11]
...campaign that made this candidate Britain's new Conservative Party leader was managed by former spy Airey Neave
Thatcher
Laura
|
$1,600
[10]
In 1922 Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted a bribe to give an oil company rights to this oil reserve in Wyoming
Teapot Dome
Laura
|
$1,600
[1]
Thisband's "Common People" opens with Jarvis Cocker singing "She came from Greece / She had a thirst for knowledge"
Pulp
|
|
$2,000
[23]
Mountains form via this process, from the Greek for "mountain" & "born"; it results from intense crustal upheavals
orogeny
Paolo
|
$2,000
[9]
Thisman who has taught philosophy & religion at Harvard & Princeton appeared in two of "The Matrix" films
(Cornel) West
Paolo
|
$2,000
[22]
This word for authoritative influence of one nation over others comes from the Greek for "leader"
hegemonic (hegemony)
Max
|
DD
$2,000
[17]
...success of Junko Tabei as the first woman to do this got her a medal from the king of Nepal
climb Mount Everest
Laura
|
$2,000
[14]
It took 6 volumes for Edward Gibbon to chronicle not just the fall but "The Decline and Fall of" this
the Roman Empire
Laura
|
$2,000
[21]
Thisformer member of Take That is portrayed by a CGI chimp in the biopic "Better Man"
Robbie Williams
Paolo
|
In April 2025 the Empire State Building was lit up in green to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this novel's publication
The Great Gatsby