Tom Devlin game 3.
Jake Tomlin — a middle school teacher from Lynchburg, Virginia
Elijah Perseus Blumov — a poet and podcaster from Evanston, Illinois
Tom Devlin — an attorney from Washington, D.C. (whose 2-day cash winnings total $43,199)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom | $7,000 | $9,400 | $27,800 |
$30,000
3-day champion: $73,199 |
$24,800
33 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Elijah | $-1,600 | $-600 | $3,400 |
$1
3rd place: $2,000 |
$3,400
5 R, 3 W |
| Jake | $0 | $1,400 | $7,800 |
$7,800
2nd place: $3,000 |
$7,800
14 R, 4 W |
| PRESIDENTIAL FACTS | BEER ME | DISNEY CHARACTERS | THAT'S TOTALLY SUS | TOUGH 6-LETTER VOCAB | "SAINT" SOMEWHERE |
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$200
[28]
The youngest president to die, he was 46, younger than Tom Brady & John Mayer are now
Kennedy
Tom
Jake
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$200
[27]
The Whistling Oysterwas once on display at this beer brand's storehouse in Dublin
Guinness
Tom
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$200
[25]
Thislegendary warrior maiden of China gained a superpower for her 2020 live-action remake
Mulan
Tom
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$200
[26]
It was on this date in 1957 when a British news show reported on the bumper crop of spaghetti trees in Switzerland
April 1
Tom
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$200
[29]
The Latin for "of whom" gives us this word for the minimum number of people needed to start a meeting
quorum
Tom
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$200
[30]
It's a straight shot down I-35 for 2 hours or so going from Duluth to this city, home of the F. Scott Fitzgerald birthplace
St. Paul
Tom
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$400
[9]
The president seenheregot married while in office; his secondwifewas a widow 16 years his junior with this first name
Edith
Jake
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$400
[23]
In 1985 the founder of the Boston Beer Company introduced a beer named for this revolutionary patriot
Sam Adams
Jake
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$400
[24]
In "Aladdin", Jafar's sidekickis a sarcastic parrot with this villainous name
Iago
Elijah
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$400
[22]
The film "The Boy Next Door" had an Achilles heel--Jennifer Lopez was gifted a "first edition" of this epic poem by Homer
the Iliad
Tom
Elijah
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$400
[19]
It's a verb where you use the namesake app (privately, as not to expose your un-hipness) to identify a new song on the radio
Shazam
Tom
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$400
[21]
Completed in 1959, this waterway includes an almost 190-mile stretch between Montreal & Lake Ontario
the St. Lawrence Seaway
Tom
|
|
$600
[16]
Abraham Lincoln called this amendment "a king's cure for all the evils" & added, "it winds the whole thing up"
the 13th Amendment
Jake
|
$600
[2]
Microbrewer Vinnie Cilurzo is credited with making the first double this, a hoppy craft brew with a foreign country in its name
an IPA
Tom
|
$600
[3]
A song about him says, "No one's slick as... No one's quick as... No one's neck's as incredibly thick as" him
Gaston
Tom
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$600
[5]
A 1928 New York Times headline read, "Confidence man jailed" for selling this alliterative landmark
Brooklyn Bridge
Tom
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$600
[7]
Here's an example from Spain of this circular tower
turret
Elijah
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$600
[20]
Geographically speaking, the backup band of this "Now, Now" singer should be named The Grenadines
St. Vincent
Jake
|
|
$800
[11]
This New Yorker's bid for reelection was hampered by an 1837 financial panic & a depression that followed
Van Buren
Jake
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$800
[1]
Brewed since 1928, this beer sponsored the Jamaican women's bobsled team for a time
Red Stripe
Tom
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$800
[4]
He says, "Some people are worth melting for"
Olaf
|
$1,000
[12]
Senatorial brother Armand D'Amato was found guilty of this 2-word crime, using the postal service to get money under false pretenses
mail fraud
Tom
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$800
[15]
John Glenn helped popularize this Yiddish-ish word for a mechanical malfunction
glitch
Jake
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$800
[14]
This London wood, not wort, is home to Abbey Road Studios & Lord's Cricket Ground
St. John's
Tom
|
|
$1,000
[10]
Benjamin Harrison said the "combinations of capital commonly called" these are "dangerous conspiracies"
trusts
Tom
Jake
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$1,000
[8]
Launched in 1995, this Belgian-style wheat beer with a lunar name is brewed with orange peel
Blue Moon
Tom
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$1,000
[17]
In this film Catherine O'Hara voiced Sally, a rag doll resentful of her creator Dr. Finkelstein
The Nightmare Before Christmas
|
DD
$2,600
[6]
A boy "known by the sobriquet of" this tells Oliver Twist about a free place to stay in London; what could go wrong?
the Artful Dodger
Tom
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$1,000
[18]
Harking back to Greek mythology, this end-of-the-alphabet word is for a gentle west wind
zephyr
Elijah
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$1,000
[13]
On Nov. 11, 1493 Columbus sighted a Lesser Antilles island & named it this, honoring the man of Tours & his feast day
St. Martin
Elijah
Jake
|
| AN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE MAN | YOU ARE WRONG | ALLITERATIVE POP CULTURE | TRANSPORTATION | AN ILL WIND | BOOK ENDS |
|
$400
[18]
For Michelangelo, the genesis of working at this landmark was 1508; after a delay due to non-payment, a final amen came in 1512
the Sistine Chapel
Jake
|
$400
[29]
In America of yore, sly raccoons would often leave the dogs hunting them literally doing this
barking up the wrong tree
Tom
|
$400
[28]
Per the opening narration of "Star Trek", "space" is this
the final frontier
Tom
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$400
[30]
This 2-word term for aerial lifts used by skiers also refers to a public transport option in San Francisco
a cable car
Tom
|
$400
[27]
Thiscalm central part of a hurricane usually forms when sustained wind speeds go above 74 miles per hour
the eye
Jake
|
$400
[26]
The last chapter of "Persuasion" begins, "Who can be in doubt of what followed?" & what was not in doubt was this event
marriage (a wedding)
Tom
|
|
$1,200
[1]
In his manual for rulers, he wrote, "Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised"
Machiavelli
Jake
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$800
[17]
To tell someone they're wrong; before "myself", it implies inconsistency, but Walt Whitman didn't care
I contradict myself
Elijah
|
$800
[15]
In Spanish, this singer & rapper's name is El Conejo Malo
Bad Bunny
Tom
|
$800
[23]
Mocked as the "Big Ditch", it connected the Hudson River to the Great Lakes
the Erie Canal
Tom
|
$800
[20]
Around this island, a cold wind called the gregale sometimes approaches hurricane force & menaces ships
Malta
Jake
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$800
[25]
The last sentence of this Darwin book mentions "the Creator" who originally breathed life "into a few forms or into one"
On the Origin of Species
Jake
|
|
$1,600
[10]
Palestrina's famous setting of this opening part of the Mass came long before Mr. Mister's No. 1 hit
Kyrie (eleison)
Tom
Jake
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$1,600
[22]
The Supreme Court majority has been accused of "acute ethnocentric myopia" (1978) & "judicial hubris" (2024) in these
dissents
Tom
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$1,200
[9]
It ends with the lines "Oh, No. It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast"
King Kong
Elijah
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$1,200
[5]
The Knucklehead & the Panhead are historic engine styles of this U.S. company's iconic 2-wheeled rides
Harley-Davidson
Jake
|
$1,200
[13]
It's the Fujita scale number of the deadliest tornado; "Twister" has the lines "None of you have ever" seen one? "Just one of us"
(F)5
Tom
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$1,200
[8]
The "End" of this E.M. Forster novel is "It'll be such a crop of hay as never!"
Howards End
Jake
|
|
$2,000
[2]
Shown on amedal, Sigismondo Malatesta was lord of Rimini but also one of these mercenaries, from "condurre", to conduct or lead
the condottieri
Tom
|
$2,000
[21]
Corrigenda are fixes to an article from an author who made a mistake; this Latin plural refers to fixes of editorial goofs
errata
Tom
|
$1,600
[4]
In 2025, Phil Robertson, the patriarch of the Louisiana family featured on this reality show, passed away
Duck Dynasty
Tom
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$1,600
[11]
1787 Constitutional Convention delegates watched in amazement as one of these new vessels was tested on the Delaware River
a steamboat
Tom
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$1,600
[14]
There's nothing saintly about these feared hot, dry winds that fanned the 2025 Altadena & Malibu fires
the Santa Ana winds
Tom
|
$1,600
[7]
The ending of this Wilson Rawls tale reveals the title botanical location: near the graves of beloved dogs
Where the Red Fern Grows
|
|
DD
$6,000
[16]
Marsilio Ficino knew this family & founded his Platonic Academy, an intellectual hub of the It-Ren, at their villa near Florence
the Medici
Tom
|
DD
$4,000
[12]
The French are generous with terms for blunders, having given us faux pas & this 5-letter word for a public mistake
gaffe
Tom
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$2,000
[3]
Released in 2001, it was Shakira's breakthrough hit in the United States
"Whenever, Wherever"
Jake
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$2,000
[24]
The 1956 bill creating this vast national network of roads passed the Senate 89-1; Russell Long of La. opposed raising the gas tax
the Interstates
Tom
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$2,000
[19]
Thunderstorms & temperature inversions can cause this sudden change in wind speed or direction, often creating turbulence
wind shear
Tom
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$2,000
[6]
At the end of this novel, Newland Archer looks up at the apartment of the love of his life & heads back to his hotel
The Age of Innocence
Elijah
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An airport at this South American city is named for archaeologist Maria Reiche, who was known as the "Lady of the Lines"
Nazca