TJ Fisher game 6.
Grace Batiste — a marketing manager originally from Chicago, Illinois
Spencer Janes — a program manager originally from Longmeadow, Massachusetts
TJ Fisher — a marketing specialist from San Francisco, California (whose 5-day cash winnings total $100,723)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TJ | $-1,400 | $800 | $14,400 |
$5,201
3rd place: $2,000 |
$14,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Spencer | $2,200 | $4,200 | $17,000 |
$29,000
New champion: $29,000 |
$17,000
17 R, 0 W |
| Grace | $1,400 | $2,600 | $5,200 |
$10,200
2nd place: $3,000 |
$5,000
8 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| IRISH HISTORY | THAT'S SOME RHYME | ORIGIN OF THE IDIOM | ALL SORTS OF SCIENCE | CLEANUP | ON AISLE 7 |
|
$200
[25]
At the 1014 Battle of Clontarf, tribal chief Brian Boru & his forces delivered a historic blow to these seafarers & their allies
the Vikings
Spencer
|
$200
[30]
The Beatles: "I'm sorry that I doubted you, I was so unfair / You were in a car crash and you lost" this--does that happen?
your hair
|
$200
[28]
This phrase for making peace comes from a Native American practice of symbolically interring a weapon
burying the hatchet
TJ
|
$200
[27]
This unit of energy or heat that people often try to "burn" is equal to approximately 4,200 joules
Calories
TJ
|
$200
[18]
In 1976 NOAA's first major coordinated response to this type of event was after the Argo Merchant broke in 2 off Nantucket
an oil spill
TJ
|
$200
[5]
I can't decide between vanilla, chocolate or strawberry ice cream so I'll get all 3 together, called this
Neapolitan
TJ
|
|
$400
[13]
"An Gorta Mór" in Irish Gaelic, this devastating 19th century event reduced Ireland's population by as much as 25%
the Potato Famine
Grace
|
$400
[29]
Oasis somehow managed to be "slowly walking down the hall" but at the same time "faster than" this projectile
a cannonball
Spencer
|
$400
[23]
Mr. Snagsby in his "Bleak House" was the first to say "not to put too fine a point upon it"--in other words, to be blunt
Dickens
Spencer
|
$400
[24]
Animals called chordates include tunicates, cephalochordates & the "true" these, including birds & mammals
the vertebrates
|
$400
[19]
A headline in The Onion read, "Christian rock band cleans up" this, which real-life rock bands were famous for trashing
a hotel room
Grace
|
$400
[6]
Well, if I'm tracking steps, I should get the Baby Trend double jogger one of these, to bring the twins on my runs
a stroller
Grace
|
|
$600
[10]
To ancient Greek & Roman geographers, Ireland was known as this, meaning "land of winter"
Hibernia
Spencer
|
$600
[4]
"My style is wild, so book me / Not long is how long that this rhyme took me", rapped Ghostface Killah as part of this ensemble
Wu-Tang (Clan)
TJ
|
$600
[1]
It was once a place of execution outside London, but gained its current use as an unclaimed area where WWI troops dreaded being sent
no man's land
|
$600
[15]
Beginning some 500 million years ago, this era gets its name from the Greek for "ancient life"
Paleozoic
|
$600
[17]
The jolly tars seenhereare making sure everything is this nautical word, meaning meticulously neat & tidy
shipshape
TJ
|
$600
[7]
Ooh, Kitty is low on food; good thing aisle 7 has this brand, "the only one cats ask for by name"
Meow Mix
Grace
|
|
$800
[11]
A terminally ill man was the first in Ireland to be granted this, narrowly approved in a 1995 vote--it's not euthanasia
divorce
|
$800
[8]
Warren Zevon: "She was a credit to her gender / She put me through some changes, Lord, sort of like a Waring" this
blender
|
DD
$1,000
[2]
When John Dennis saw a play that used a sound effect he created without permission, he complained they had done this
stolen his thunder
TJ
|
$800
[14]
"P" is for this adjective for soil or rock that allows water to pass through; preceded by "im", it doesn't
permeable
Spencer
|
$800
[21]
Hercules diverted rivers to clean these structures owned by King Augeas
the stables
Grace
|
$800
[9]
I need a new hobby, so I'll pick up a kit to make this type of embroidery; its name refers to the x-shape of the needlework
cross-stitch
Spencer
|
|
$1,000
[12]
Sharing his name with an Apollo astronaut, this man helped negotiate the 1921 treaty that established the Irish Free State
Michael Collins
|
$1,000
[22]
The Police: "Giant steps are what you take" doing this; "I hope my legs don't break"--wait, isn't gravity lower up there?
walking on the Moon
|
$1,000
[3]
One proposed origin of this phrase is not from academic achievement but the ability of a train to climb a slope
to make the grade
|
$1,000
[20]
In astronomy this word is used when describing an orbit, like an elliptical one that deviates from the circular kind
eccentric
TJ
|
$1,000
[26]
Firefighters don't smash pricelessstained glass windows, so extra soot slowed a 2001 cleanup of this huge Manhattan cathedral
St. John the Divine
|
$1,000
[16]
Italian gave us this word for asideboard, & I'm putting one from aisle 7 into my shopping cart
a credenza
Spencer
|
| ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY | SUPREME COURT DECISIONS | ELEGIAC VERSE | RANKS & TITLES | ANAGRAMMAR | "ALL" TV & MOVIES |
|
$400
[28]
Colorado Springs gets water from the watershed of this famous mountain
Pikes Peak
TJ
|
$400
[24]
The 1962 Engel v. Vitale decision held that it was a 1st Amendment violation for a public school system to sponsor one of these rituals
a prayer
TJ
|
$400
[26]
In this Scottish poet's "A Bard's Epitaph", he describes himself & says that "thoughtless follies laid him low"
Burns
TJ
|
$400
[27]
A candidate must earn 21 merit badges before attaining this rank first awarded to Arthur Eldred in 1912
Eagle Scout
Spencer
|
$400
[29]
Traditional sentence-finishing faux pas:IRON PIE POTS
preposition
TJ
|
$400
[30]
Itstarred Redford & Hoffman as Woodward & Bernstein
All the President's Men
Spencer
|
|
$800
[6]
In 2025 refugees flooded the Joda border crossing, trying to get into this African country from the one it used to be part of
South Sudan
Grace
|
$800
[23]
Texas v. Johnson went in favor of Gregory Johnson, who had burned one of these during a 1984 protest
the flag
TJ
|
$800
[25]
Robert Louis Stevenson's poem with the same name as a mass for the dead has the line "Home is the sailor, home from sea"
Requiem
|
DD
$1,000
[21]
Pat Morita, who played Mr. Miyagi in "The Karate Kid", himself learned from Fumio Demura, one of these, "teacher" in Japanese
a sensei
Grace
|
$800
[20]
When an adverb boldly goes in the middle:I VISIT PINE FLINT
a split infinitive
Grace
|
$800
[16]
Kelly Ripa & Mark Consuelos met--& played a couple--on this TV soap before marrying in real life
All My Children
TJ
|
|
$1,200
[4]
Blarney Castle is a tourist attraction in this region of Southern Ireland
County Cork (Cork County)
Spencer
|
$1,600
[7]
Justice Sotomayor's scathing dissent of a 2024 decision: "It makes a mockery of the principle... that no man is" these 3 words
above the law
TJ
|
$1,200
[11]
Written for his dying father, his "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" tells us to "rage against the dying of the light"
(Dylan) Thomas
Spencer
|
$1,200
[3]
The No. 1 assistant in a pro kitchen, the person with this title schedules shifts, assists with menu planning & orders food supplies
a sous-chef
Spencer
|
$1,200
[8]
What a subject & its verb should be in:ENTER GAME
agreement
TJ
|
$1,200
[13]
A documentary about the NASA Moon landings & a TV drama in which the Soviets landed there first share this title
For All Mankind
Spencer
|
|
$1,600
[5]
There's a body of water with this name off Greenland's coast & another one near Corpus Christi
Baffin Bay
|
DD
$2,000
[1]
In 1958's Cooper v. Aaron, the Court unanimously said that Arkansas had to abide by this ruling from 4 years earlier
Brown v. Board of Education
TJ
|
$1,600
[17]
"In her sepulchre there by the sea, in her tomb by the sounding sea" is from this poet's lament for "Annabel Lee"
Poe
TJ
|
$1,600
[2]
This French-derived word before another title, like empress or queen, means the woman is a wealthy widow
dowager
Spencer
|
$1,600
[9]
Another word for dependent, as in clause:INSURED BOAT
subordinate
|
$1,600
[14]
Paul Scofield won an Oscar for his portrayal of Sir Thomas More in this film, based on a play in which he also starred
A Man for All Seasons
Spencer
|
|
$2,000
[12]
This region of the North Atlantic is isolated by 4 ocean currents that surround it
the Sargasso Sea
|
$2,000
[22]
In 2005's Roper v. Simmons, the court said execution for crimes committed before the age of 18 was this, barred by the 8th Amendment
cruel & unusual punishment
Spencer
|
$2,000
[18]
A castle in Italy gave its name to this Rainer Maria Rilke book of "Elegies"
the Duino Elegies
|
$2,000
[19]
This 8-letter title refers to the wife of an Indian prince
a maharani
TJ
|
$2,000
[10]
Tense denoting something completed before something else:PET CARP FEST
past perfect
TJ
|
$2,000
[15]
It's thefilmin which Bette Davis delivers the line, "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night"
All About Eve
Spencer
|
Passing on in 2025, Aliza Magen, who helped track down terrorists in the 1972 Munich attack, became this agency's top-ranking woman
Mossad