Dargan Ware — an attorney and writer from Bessemer, Alabama
Sondra Venable — a standardized patient from New Orleans, Louisiana
Cindy del Rosario — a hospice and palliative care nurse from Denver, Colorado (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cindy | $1,000 | $3,000 | $11,400 |
$14,801
2nd place: $3,000 |
$14,000
17 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Sondra | $2,800 | $4,200 | $7,400 |
$3,399
3rd place: $2,000 |
$7,400
10 R, 0 W |
| Dargan | $3,200 | $5,200 | $35,600 |
$26,200
New champion: $26,200 |
$28,400
28 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| HOW'S YOUR GULF GAME? | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME | DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN | THIS IS WHAT WE TRAINED FOR! | MOVIE IMPROVISATIONS | DADDY, IS THERE REALLY A... |
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$200
[27]
Part of the Ionian Sea, the Gulf of Corinth separates the Peloponnese from the central part of this nation
Greece
Dargan
|
$200
[23]
To help in anticipating the flooding of this river, the Egyptians created a 12-month calendar
the Nile
Cindy
|
$200
[28]
We're not in Springfield c. the '90s, so this 4-word directive meaning "relax" feels udderly outdated, man
don't have a cow
Sondra
|
$200
[29]
That's Dr. African Giant Pouched Ratto you, as the critter is trained to detect this infectious lung disease that killed Doc Holliday
tuberculosis (TB)
Cindy
|
$200
[30]
After her "Bridesmaids" character learned an extra in a scene was single, this actress ad-libbed she'd "climb that like a tree"
(Melissa) McCarthy
Dargan
|
$200
[22]
No:This expert British murder solver, hereportrayed by Angela Lansbury
Miss Marple
Sondra
Dargan
|
|
$400
[19]
An inlet of the Pacific, this other Gulf of Mexico bears the name of a U.S. state
the Gulf of California
Dargan
|
$400
[8]
Marine chronometers use springs to tick away time since this swinging device is disrupted by the movements of a ship
a pendulum(s)
Dargan
|
$400
[26]
This 2-word demand isn't calming, so save it for the kitchen, like if you want the volume of a sauce reduced via gentle boiling
simmer down
Dargan
|
$400
[24]
On April 17, 1961 1,500 CIA-trained exiles landed on the southern coast of this country; 1,100 were captured by April 19
Cuba
Cindy
|
$400
[25]
A Variety headline: he "improvised so much on 'Mrs. Doubtfire' that 2 million feet of film was shot", with 972 boxes of outtakes
Williams
Cindy
|
$400
[21]
No: A.I. generated the TikTok image of this pig/human eventually killed by Tim Cheese
John Pork
|
|
$600
[1]
The northern part of this sea, the Gulf of Bothnia is almost blocked off from the rest of it by the Aland Islands of Finland
the Baltic Sea
Sondra
|
$600
[4]
Beginning in the 6th c. or earlier, the Chinese kept time by using this slow-burning odorous material, like sandalwood
incense
Dargan
|
$800
[15]
Word to the wise: Using this "frigid" 7-letter portmanteau during an argument to mean calm down is unlikely to have the intended effect
chillax
Sondra
|
$600
[2]
In "The Hunger Games", Katniss' training included "Some advice. stay alive" from this guy; coach of the year, obviously
Haymitch Abernathy
Dargan
|
$600
[7]
"Jaws" isn't exactly a laugh riot, but this Roy Scheider improv reaction to seeing the shark for the first time sure was funny
you're gonna need a bigger boat
Sondra
|
$600
[13]
No, as the representation of the sea; yes, as asingerfor The Monkees
Davy Jones
Dargan
|
|
$800
[3]
West of Hainan, this gulf gave its name to a resolution presented by LBJ to Congress in 1964
Tonkin
Cindy
|
$800
[6]
Lord Kelvin was an early proposer of this kind of clock, citing the independent "time of vibration of a sodium particle"
an atomic clock
Cindy
|
$1,000
[18]
Leave this phrase of 3 4-letter words in the '50s, when it may have originated in dialogue on TV's "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
cool your jets
|
$800
[16]
Laurence Tisch (at 20!), & Laura Lang, former CEO of Time Inc., got their business chops at this Pennsylvania school
Wharton
Cindy
|
$800
[11]
"The Princess Bride" saw Billy Crystal improv-ing about an MLT, a this, lettuce & tomato sandwich "where (the 'M') is nice & lean"
mutton
|
$800
[14]
Yes, though he passed into folklore by traipsing along in a tin hat planting fruit trees
Johnny Appleseed
Sondra
|
|
$1,000
[5]
This Middle Eastern country's only sea access is through its 16 miles of coastline on the Gulf of Aqaba
Jordan
Dargan
|
$1,000
[9]
The 24-hour Shepherd Clockis set to this, named for a borough of London & adopted as the astronomical standard in 1925
Greenwich Mean Time
Cindy
|
DD
$2,600
[10]
As the title of a 1972 Eagles song, this phrase is pretty innocuous; as an imperative to calm down, it may raise some hackles
"Take It Easy"
Cindy
|
$1,000
[17]
We spy future chefs joining a different CIA--this school that began as the New Haven Restaurant Institute in 1946
the Culinary Institute of America
Sondra
|
$1,000
[12]
Gotta have a Christopher Guest movie line, like Fred Willard's in this film: "He went after her like she was made outta ham"
Best in Show
Cindy
|
$1,000
[20]
No: this man for whom a summery gin & lemon juicecocktailis named
Tom Collins
Dargan
|
| HISTORY | TV PERSONALITIES | SOLD! TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER | PHILOSOPHY ABCs | CAT OF 5 TALES | "PASS"WORDS |
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$400
[20]
The Choson Dynasty ruled this land for just over 500 years
Korea
Dargan
|
$400
[29]
In 2025, he announced he was leaving the "NBC Nightly News" desk to focus on "Dateline" full time
(Lester) Holt
Cindy
|
$400
[14]
A skull from this dinosaur that was discovered in South Dakota was put up for auction by Sotheby's
a Triceratops
Cindy
|
$400
[22]
V:Plato believed in the four cardinal ones of these, & Christians added the three theological ones of St. Paul
virtues
Dargan
|
$400
[23]
In a book by Beverly Cleary, a kitten with white paws has this title name
Socks
Dargan
|
$400
[30]
In 2000, David Letterman thanked his docs on-air for a quintuple one of these, calling one "Michelangelo with a bone saw"
a bypass
Dargan
|
|
$800
[21]
Officially his title was First Lord of the Treasury, but Sir Robert Walpole is considered to be the first Brit to hold this office
prime minister
Dargan
|
$800
[28]
Besides being the TV "Science Guy", he also calls himself an "engineer, comedian, author and inventor"
Nye
Dargan
|
$800
[16]
Believed to be from Kerman in Iran, the gorgeously woven 17th century Clark sickle-leaf one of these sold for $34 million in 2013
a rug (a Persian carpet)
Cindy
|
$800
[18]
H:Epicurus was fond of this doctrine in which pleasure is derived from good things
hedonism
Cindy
|
$800
[12]
In "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", it "vanished quite slowly beginning with the end of the tail"
the Cheshire Cat
Sondra
|
$800
[24]
Ironically this word meaning "behind the times" is kind of behind the times compared to, say, "cheugy"
passé
Sondra
|
|
$1,200
[1]
On his first voyage to India, Vasco da Gama set off from this city & arrived at Kerala's Kappad Beach just under a year later
Lisbon
Dargan
|
$1,200
[4]
Crikey!Hiskids Bindi & Robert are all grown up & keeping his legacy alive through their own wildlife conservation efforts
(Steve) Irwin
Cindy
|
$1,200
[19]
In 2020, somebody ponied up $3.4 million for the1968 Ford Mustang GTthat this actor drove in a famous chase scene in "Bullitt"
McQueen
Dargan
|
$1,200
[5]
C:This Greek school of thought rejected social conventions; in the modern sense, it's being distrustful
cynicism
Dargan
|
$1,200
[8]
Jiji is a cat that helps this girl's "Delivery Service" in Eiko Kadono's fanciful tale, later adapted by Studio Ghibli
Kiki
|
$1,200
[9]
The KJV calls them "debts", but some versions of the Lord's Prayer use this term for the no-nos you forgive & ask forgiveness for
trespasses
Cindy
|
|
$2,000
[3]
This Athenian whose name is now synonymous with legislator revised the codes of Draco to make them more humane
Solon
Dargan
|
$1,600
[17]
TV chef Ina Garten acquired this moniker after purchasing a specialty food store of the same name
The Barefoot Contessa
Sondra
|
$1,600
[26]
The 2021 sale of his painting "Home for Thanksgiving" for the Saturday Evening Post raised funds for a branch of the American Legion
Rockwell
Cindy
|
$2,000
[7]
D:Hegel wrote of these that test the truth of assertion
a dialectic
Dargan
|
$1,600
[10]
In Roald Dahl's "Edward the Conqueror", Louisa believes a stray is a reincarnation of this Hungarian & dubs him Franz
Liszt
Dargan
|
$1,600
[15]
An 1846 note warned the Donner Party their planned route was nearly this, a word that's rarely good in the context of mountain travel
impassable
Dargan
|
|
DD
$6,400
[2]
For 4 days in 1863, New York City was the scene of riots over inequitable exemptions in this process
the military draft
Dargan
|
$2,000
[27]
Known for her signature red glasses, this talk show host of the '80s & '90s recently turned 90
(Sally Jessy) Raphael
Cindy
|
$2,000
[25]
In 2024 a rare complete set of his woodblock prints "Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji" sold for $3.6 million; seems like a bargain
Hokusai
Dargan
|
DD
$4,000
[6]
F:Non sequiturs & vicious circles are types of these, from the Latin for "deceit"
fallacies
Dargan
|
$2,000
[11]
Bustopher Jones & Skimbleshanks are light on their paws in this poetic piece from 1939
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Dargan
|
$2,000
[13]
This feeling that fits the category is the last word of a 1995 Terrence McNally play title
compassion
Dargan
|
Calling it "a particle that cannot be detected", physicist Wolfgang Pauli 1st proposed this in 1930; it was detected in 1956
a neutrino