Steven Olson game 2.
Jonathan Goldman — a futures trader from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
David Shutoff — a product development manager from Salem, Massachusetts
Steven Olson — a band director from Princeton, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,602)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steven | $6,600 | $10,200 | $20,400 |
$26,804
2-day champion: $46,406 |
$22,800
31 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| David | $1,800 | $3,000 | $13,400 |
$6,399
3rd place: $2,000 |
$13,400
15 R, 2 W |
| Jonathan | $1,400 | $2,200 | $7,400 |
$7,400
2nd place: $3,000 |
$7,400
7 R, 1 W |
| KING JAMES BIBLE TALK | EPONYMS | HOBBIES & PASTIMES | THE TRAITORS | PROJECT RUNWAY | A DOSE OF REALITY TV |
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$200
[30]
"Pride" does this "before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall" (remember, the KJV is from 1611)
goeth
Steven
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$200
[16]
An ongoing controversy: is a hot dog one of these, with John Montagu's title? We may never know...
sandwich
Steven
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$200
[27]
You can learn a new one of these from websites like Babbel & Rosetta Stone
a language
David
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$200
[21]
In 1780 this man wrote to George Washington begging safe passage for his wife; she had aided his plot but George didn't know that
Benedict Arnold
Steven
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$200
[28]
Saba, a Dutch island in the Lesser Antilles, offers a quick dip in this sea if the pilot can't stay on the very short runway
the Caribbean
Steven
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$200
[26]
Mel B recently joined Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel & Sofía Vergara for the 20th anniversary season of this competition series
America's Got Talent
Steven
Jonathan
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$400
[22]
Saul & Jonathan are the subject of David's lament "How are" these people "fallen"
the mighty
David
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$400
[12]
PETA urged one of these of coconut milk from Thailand because of the use of monkey labor
a boycott
Jonathan
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$400
[8]
Fair Isle is a style of this that uses 2 colors in the same row to create a pattern
knitting
Steven
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$400
[18]
On lists of Jesus' disciples, he is traditionally placed last
Judas
Steven
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$400
[25]
A truncation of the materials used to make it, this 6-letter trademark is another term for the runway
tarmac
Steven
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$400
[23]
Since 2018, the O.G.s of this series, including Snooki & Pauli D, have gotten together for "Family Vacation"
Jersey Shore
Steven
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|
$600
[9]
"So all the" these "from Abraham to David are fourteen" these
generations
Steven
David
|
$600
[6]
Seen here, this Viking king who unified Denmark & Norway lent his name to a modern technology
Harald Bluetooth
Steven
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$600
[5]
When you go wine tasting, you should know the 5 S's: this one comes between see & sniff, to release the aromas
swirl
Steven
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$600
[11]
In 1939 he secretly met with Hitler & asked for help in putting his National Union Party in power in Norway
Quisling
Steven
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$600
[15]
Nothing to do with football, the TDZ is short for this zone on the runway; special lights mark it for pilots
touchdown (zone)
David
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$600
[17]
In 2025, due to unacceptable behavior, Mickey Rourke was kicked out of the house on the British version of "Celebrity" this
Big Brother
David
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|
$1,000
[24]
Leviticus is big on this word for a thing to be regarded with disgust, as in "all fowl that creep... shall be" one "unto you"
an abomination
|
$800
[2]
This chief constituent of tobacco was named for a French ambassador to Portugal
nicotine
Steven
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$800
[7]
Shodo is the Japanese name for this art form & uses ink-dipped brushes to write instead of pens
calligraphy
David
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$800
[1]
This outlaw's originaltombstoneat his Missouri family farm refers to his killer, Robert Ford, as a traitor & a coward
Jesse James
Steven
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$800
[14]
When this 9-letter phenomenon blows in a direction not aligned with the runway, pilots use special techniques to land
crosswind
Steven
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$800
[19]
Natalie Suleman, who famously gave birth to 8 babies in 2009, spoke candidly about her large family in a 2025 docuseries, "Confessions of" her
Octomom
Steven
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|
DD
$2,600
[10]
The KJV loves this synonym for "strike" or "bash", as in "thou shalt" do this to "the rock, and there shall come water out of it"
smite
Steven
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$1,000
[3]
An early Christian bishop & martyr is honored in the name of this, also called a corona discharge
St. Elmo's fire
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$1,000
[20]
In days of old, whalers on their long voyages passed the time doing this craft of engraving pictures on whalebones & teeth
scrimshaw
Steven
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$1,000
[4]
In 2016 this Turkish leader survived a coup & later threatened to "rip off the heads of those traitors"
Erdoğan
David
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$1,000
[13]
To simulate aircraft carrier landings, military pilots practice what's called this & this, involving brief runway contact
touch & go
Jonathan
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$1,000
[29]
On this series with Pastor Cal, couples are introduced at the altar, then get to know each other
Married at First Sight
Jonathan
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| "CROSS" WORDS (& PHRASES) | PHYSICS CLASS | DIS-BAND-MENTS | IN THE BOOKSTORE | ASIAN CITIES | ARI SHAPIRO ON TALKING & LISTENING |
|
$400
[27]
During this, an opposing party gets to question a witness during a trial & perhaps raise issues of credibility
cross-examination
Jonathan
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$400
[24]
In his "Principia", Newton laid out his foundational 3 laws of this as related to the effects of force & mass
motion
Steven
David
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$400
[28]
What's the opposite of brotherly love?This British band calling it quits in 2009 after Liam allegedly attacked Noel with a guitar
Oasis
David
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$400
[29]
His 2025 thriller "The Secret of Secrets" is another adventure for the intrepid professor of symbology Robert Langdon
Dan Brown
Steven
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$400
[16]
There being no "New" city yet, the 1911 Britannica calls it an "ancient capital" & a "huddle of mean houses in mean streets"
Delhi
David
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$400
[30]
(Ari Shapiro presents the clue.) Even though they use the same language, my listening skills were tested in two years as NPR's Londoncorrespondent; I needed a Scottish accent interpreter & also found out that a "stag do" is this pre-wedding event
a bachelor party
David
|
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$800
[22]
It fires a projectile called a bolt
a crossbow
Jonathan
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$800
[11]
Produced in the disintegration of radioactive atomic nuclei, these rays have the shortest wavelength & highest energy
gamma
Steven
|
$800
[14]
Fans got unlucky in 2021 when this legendary house music duo hung up their Parisian robot helmets after 28 years
Daft Punk
Steven
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$800
[19]
This Dav Pilkey superhero has his own series of books & has spawned the spinoffs Dog Man & Cat Kid
Captain Underpants
Steven
|
$800
[9]
Home to Russia's Pacific Fleet, this city lies close to the border with China & North Korea
Vladivostok
Steven
|
$800
[26]
(Ari Shapiro presents the clue.) For "Och & Oy!", my cabaret show with Alan Cumming, he's the Och; we've got a pretty good line of this, the talking performers do between numbers; it's also a tongue-twisting type of song
patter
Steven
|
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$1,600
[3]
If you worked with your usual political opponents in a bipartisan way, you've done this
crossed the aisle
Steven
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$1,200
[10]
Thicker around the edge than at the center, this type of lens causes light waves to diverge when passing through it
concave
Steven
|
$1,200
[17]
The contentious history of this band, in brief: Roth, Hagar, Roth, Cherone, Hagar & back to Roth, then they broke up
Van Halen
Steven
|
$1,200
[7]
Taffy Brodesser-Akner's tale of a dysfunctional family is called this home to the Hamptons "Compromise"
Long Island
David
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$1,200
[8]
This Qatari capital is home to the Museum of Islamic Art, housed in a building designed by I.M. Pei
Doha
David
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$1,200
[25]
(Ari Shapiro presents the clue.) I enjoy getting awards for talking; I won an Edward R. Murrow Awardfor my reporting on the death of Breonna Taylor, & for work on detention, a Silver Gavelfrom this association for helping foster understanding of the legal system
the American Bar Association
Steven
|
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$2,000
[1]
Robert Johnson said he learned guitar by selling his soul to the devil at one of these
a crossroads
David
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$1,600
[5]
This 4-letter property is the angular momentum associated with a subatomic particle
spin
Steven
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$1,600
[20]
Billy Corgan blamed this band's 2000 breakup on the strain of "fighting the good fight against the Britneys of the world"
The Smashing Pumpkins
David
|
$1,600
[4]
"Table for Two" is a short story collection by this bestselling author of "A Gentleman in Moscow"
(Amor) Towles
Steven
|
$2,000
[2]
Life's no day at the beach in Ürümqi, China, 1,400 miles from the nearest ocean & the scene of 2009 riots by these oppressed Muslims
the Uyghurs
Jonathan
|
$1,600
[15]
(Ari Shapiro presents the clue.) You can learn a lot about a region that's new to you by talking to people over a meal, but not with your mouth full; some of the bestfoodI've had is in this-stan that stretches over several countries but isn't a country of its own
Kurdistan
David
|
|
DD
$4,000
[13]
This act by Julius Caesar in 49 B.C. led to war against Pompey & the Senate
crossing the Rubicon
Steven
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$2,000
[23]
Einstein described this man's work on the structure of the atom as "the highest form of musicality in the sphere of thought"
(Niels) Bohr
Jonathan
|
$2,000
[21]
In March 2015, heapparently found an additional direction, becoming the first member of One Direction to leave the band
Zayn Malik
David
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$2,000
[12]
Thisauthor of "Lincoln in the Bardo" offers a course on Russian short stories in his book "A Swim in the Pond in the Rain"
George Saunders
|
DD
$7,000
[6]
This Lebanese city was created when 3 sections settled by people from Tyre, Sidon & Arvad merged into one city
Tripoli
Steven
|
$2,000
[18]
(Ari Shapiro presents the clue.) For about a quarter century, I've been talking to this legal journalist; I interned for her in my first journalism job, & now I throw to her as I host "All Things Considered"
Nina Totenberg
|
The words of this doctrine are found in a sonnet by James I & bolstered by St. Paul writing, "the powers that be are ordained of God"
the divine right of kings