Steven Olson game 5.
Vickie Talvola — a quantitative trader from Jersey City, New Jersey
Erik Nielsen — a substitute teacher from Hollywood, California
Steven Olson — a band director from Princeton, Illinois (whose 4-day cash winnings total $74,382)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steven | $4,200 | $2,800 | $6,400 |
$1
3rd place: $2,000 |
$6,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 7 W |
| Erik | $1,600 | $2,800 | $12,700 |
$12,500
2nd place: $3,000 |
$12,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Vickie | $1,000 | $4,200 | $26,400 |
$26,407
New champion: $26,407 |
$18,200
22 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| PORT IS IN SESSION | SONG LYRICS OF THE AUGHTS | PRISONS | COOKING WITH CAYENNE | BOOK CHARACTER INSPO | FOREIGN BODIES |
|
$200
[30]
Did CSI stand for Cruise Ship Invasion?This Florida city is home to the world's busiest cruise port
Miami
Vickie
|
$200
[14]
"Now that it's rainin' more than ever," Rihanna graciously suggests that "you can stand" here
under my umbrella
Vickie
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$200
[29]
The CIW, California Institution for them, was once called Frontera, a word complete with an ending to make them feel at home
Women (Woman)
Steven
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$200
[22]
It's said the hot style ofchickennamed for this U.S. city was invented when an upset wife doused her husband's meal in cayenne
Nashville
Erik
|
$200
[23]
Later in life, A.A. Milne regretted naming this character after his son
Christopher Robin
Steven
|
$200
[26]
Our friends in Spain can tell you that facing someone "mano a mano" translates to this, anatomically
hand-to-hand
Erik
|
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$400
[27]
By volume & value respectively, Dutch Harbor, Alaska & New Bedford, Mass. are the top U.S. commercial ports for this industry
fishing
Vickie
|
$400
[13]
Song in which André 3000 insists, "I want to see y'all on y'all baddest behavior, lend me some sugar, I am your neighbor"
"Hey Ya!"
Erik
|
$400
[28]
This Central American country'sCECOT, opened in 2023 for gang members, is popular for photo ops by U.S. politicians
El Salvador
Vickie
|
$400
[20]
Tajín, basically salt, cayenne & lime, is put on mangoes & on the Cayenne variety of this fruit--maybe in Hawaii
pineapple
Vickie
|
$400
[21]
Criminal-turned-detective Eugène F. Vidocq is said to have inspired both the criminal & the detective in this work by Hugo
Les Misérables
Vickie
|
$400
[25]
In French les genoux are these--think of the word genuflect
knees
Erik
|
|
$600
[6]
This "Great" king of Judea built an artificial harbor that helped make Caesarea a major port city of the ancient Holy Land
Herod
Steven
|
$600
[12]
Avril Lavigne sings, "Take off all your preppy clothes, you know, you're not foolin' anyone" in a song with this adjective as a title
complicated
Erik
|
$600
[7]
This prison town precedes "Jake" in the name of one of The Blues Brothers
Joliet
Steven
|
$600
[19]
We are on a first name basis with this cayenne-based brand of redhot sauce, a key ingredient in some buffalo sauce recipes
Frank's
Vickie
|
$800
[4]
Stieg Larsson imagined Lisbeth Salander as a grown-up & tatted-up version of this Astrid Lindgren character
Pippi Longstocking
Vickie
|
$600
[24]
In German Kopf is this & soccer star Miroslav Klose was a Kopfballungeheuer
the head
Erik
|
|
$800
[1]
Built to move cargo in standard-sized boxes, New Jersey's Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal was the world's first one of these ports
container
Steven
|
$800
[11]
The chorus of this 2001 cover song kicks off with "Gitchie, gitchie, ya-ya, da-da, gitchie, gitchie, ya-ya, here"
"Lady Marmalade"
Steven
Erik
|
$800
[8]
On September 13, 1971, 29 inmates & 9 hostages died after police stormed this prison in Upstate New York
Attica
Erik
|
$800
[18]
As the name implies, liquids are out & spices like cayenne are in with this 2-word preparation that needs liberal meat massaging
dry rub
Erik
|
DD
$1,000
[2]
The boar-shevik Snowball from "Animal Farm" was based on this man who got got in 1940
Trotsky
Steven
|
$800
[17]
The pasta name capellini is a diminutive form of capelli, meaning this
hair
Steven
Vickie
|
|
$1,000
[16]
After Tokyo, Japan's most populous city is this giant port about 20 miles south
Yokohama
Steven
Erik
|
$1,000
[10]
This song opens optimistically with "Comin' out of my cage & I've been doin' just fine", but things go south after that
"Mr. Brightside"
Steven
|
$1,000
[9]
The message "to easy lol" was an extra touch by the inmates who escaped this 1-word parish's Justice Center in 2025
Orleans Parish
Erik
|
$1,000
[15]
A spice mixture including cayenne pepper is in this seasoning from McCormick, a must-have in Maryland steamed crabs
Old Bay
Steven
|
$1,000
[5]
In "King Leopold's Ghost", author Adam Hochschild suggests Léon Rom, an officer in the Congo, as an inspiration for this Conrad character
Kurtz
Steven
|
$1,000
[3]
In Greek Matthew 5 says "Blessed are the" katharoi in kardia, these people, "for they shall see God"
the pure in heart
Steven
|
| TRUMAN CAPOTE'S BLACK-&-WHITE BALL | PLANT FACTS | THAT'S MY PHILOSOPHY | WORD ORIGINS | BEASTLY HISTORY | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES |
|
$400
[24]
He got to be a part of it, New York, New York society with his new wife Mia Farrow
Sinatra
Vickie
|
$400
[29]
The waxy layer on the surface of plants is called this, like the hardened skin at the base of a fingernail
a cuticle
Vickie
|
$400
[17]
One of the sayings of this Chinese philosopher was "While one's parents are alive, one should not travel to a distance"
Confucius
Erik
|
$400
[26]
French for "small bag", it's a small perfumed bag that you put in your drawer to make your clothes smell fresh
a sachet
Vickie
|
$400
[30]
"Only you can prevent forest fires" was a long-running catchphrase of this creature created as part of an ad campaign
Smokey (Bear)
Erik
|
$400
[22]
3 undercover women private eyes team up with heavenly helpers of a baseball team
Charlie's Angels in the Outfield
Steven
Erik
|
|
$800
[23]
You know how to whistle, don't you? Well, you would have for Jerome Robbins & this "To Have & Have Not" actress, as the 2 danced divinely
Lauren Bacall
Erik
|
$800
[25]
A plant that completes its entire life cycle in a single growing season is known as one of these
annual
Steven
Vickie
|
$800
[10]
Rousseau liked this original state best: "Everything that is not in the course of" it "has its disadvantages... society most of all"
nature
Steven
Vickie
|
$800
[14]
If you're reading the writing on the wall & it's there illegally, it's this, from Italian for "scribblings"
graffiti
Steven
|
$800
[20]
In 1997 one of these animals named Daisy was cleared of starting a major fire more than a century earlier
a cow
Erik
|
$800
[21]
Mrs. Woodhouse is set to have Satan's child, but hires Amy Poehler as a surrogate
Rosemary's Baby Mama
Steven
|
|
$1,200
[8]
At her 1995 death, this attendee was responsible for quite the family, including a pres., 2 senators & 41 great-grandkids
Rose Kennedy
Vickie
|
$1,600
[27]
These structures within cells where photosynthesis happens share part of their name with a pigment they have
chloroplasts
Vickie
|
$1,200
[4]
This "ism" is the school of thought of & named for a man born near the town of Aquino in the early 13th century
Thomism
Vickie
|
$1,200
[13]
This end goal of a certain game goes back to Persian for "the king is dead"
checkmate
Vickie
|
$1,200
[2]
During WWI, Cher Ami, one of these animals, was used to deliver a message that saved a trapped U.S. battalion under fire
a pigeon
Erik
|
$1,200
[19]
Meryl Streep is a prime minister growing up as an artistically inclined teenager in Sacramento
The Iron Lady Bird
Vickie
|
|
$1,600
[6]
The guest of honor, this newspaper publisher, felt like a prop as she thought Trumanwas going to give the ball anyway
Katharine Graham
|
$2,000
[28]
Many species of orchids are this type of plant that get their nutrients from the air, not from the plants they're resting on
epiphytes
|
$1,600
[5]
"For a long time I have hesitated to write a book on woman", begins Simone de Beauvoir's introduction to this 1949 classic
The Second Sex
Erik
|
$2,000
[12]
Partly from Greek for "marketplace", it's an irrational fear of unfamiliar or open spaces
agoraphobia
Steven
|
$1,600
[16]
Since 1959, the Navy's Marine Mammal Program has trained these to locate objects; 6 escorted Kuwaiti tankers in the 1980s
dolphins
Vickie
|
$1,600
[1]
A 19th century sideshow performer is "not an animal" as he escapes to Earth from a dying Krypton
Elephant Man of Steel
Erik
|
|
$2,000
[7]
What a treat! CBS' head honcho for half a century, he hit the Grand Ballroom with his wife Babe
(William) Paley
Erik
|
DD
$9,400
[11]
Also a make of car from Toyota, it's the inner petals of a flower taken collectively
corolla
Vickie
|
$2,000
[9]
Immanuel Kant contrasted a priori knowledge (derived independent of experience) with this experience-based kind
a posteriori
Vickie
|
DD
$2,300
[3]
From Latin for "bad condition", it's a 6-letter synonym for a disease or disorder
a malady
Erik
|
$2,000
[15]
The title subject of a 1995 film, this dog helped his team deliver medicine to Nome, Alaska in 1925, halting an epidemic
Balto
Steven
|
$2,000
[18]
George Burns & Walter Matthau remember vaudeville days & navigating being a trans boy in Nebraska
The Sunshine Boys Don't Cry
|
This southern town known for big watermelons is the birthplace of the politicians who were governors of its state in 1983, 2003 & 2023
Hope, Arkansas