Harrison Whitaker game 2.
Lynette Perloff — an assessment specialist originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Greg Saunders — an insurance reinspector from Bridgeport, Connecticut
Harrison Whitaker — a researcher originally from Terre Haute, Indiana (whose 1-day cash winnings total $34,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison | $6,600 | $11,000 | $23,800 |
$25,000
2-day champion: $59,801 |
$27,200
35 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Greg | $1,400 | $2,200 | $5,800 |
$8,001
2nd place: $3,000 |
$5,800
10 R, 1 W |
| Lynette | $0 | $400 | $4,000 |
$7,995
3rd place: $2,000 |
$4,000
6 R, 2 W |
| PLAYING A CLASSICAL NUMBER | THE NAACP IMAGE AWARDS | 3 OF A KIND | I'M A SWOLE MAN | ABOVE DECK | AMERICAN REVOLUTION |
|
$200
[23]
In 1948, at age 84, this Strauss not of the waltzing family wrote "Four Last Songs"
Richard (Strauss)
Harrison
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$200
[27]
2023's Jackie Robinson Sports Award went to this tennis legend; as she won 7 Wimbledon singles titles, we'd say she deserved it
Serena Williams
Harrison
|
$200
[26]
Bells of Ireland, aster, narcissus
flowers
Harrison
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$200
[30]
Stop!Hammer curltime--elbows at your sides, then curl a dumbbell up slowly & squeeze this muscle with two heads at the top of the movement
the bicep
Harrison
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$200
[28]
This 8-letter word that's juuuust above deck means to figure out a cryptic message
decipher
Harrison
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$200
[29]
(Ken Burns presents the clue.) A mix of Black, Native American & white sailors helmed the flotilla oftroopsduring Washington's crossing of the East River after a defeat in New York & during Washington'scrossingof this river before his victory at Trenton
the Delaware
Harrison
Greg
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$400
[22]
His 1875 Symphony No. 3 in D major quickly became music to Russian ears
Tchaikovsky
Lynette
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$400
[11]
Swoon! Regé-Jean Page took home Best Actor in a Drama Series as the Duke of Hastings on this streaming show
Bridgerton
Harrison
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$400
[21]
Domain, phylum, order
taxonomic groups (ranks or levels)
Harrison
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$400
[25]
No doubt, I've gotten super ripped doing this exercise, but 49 reps at 225 pounds like Stephen Paea at the 2011 NFL combine? Not yet
bench presses
Greg
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$400
[24]
This word that means an inadequate supply of something contains an entire planet
a dearth
Harrison
|
$400
[20]
(Ken Burns presents the clue.) The 1777-'78 winter headquarters for the patriots would briefly be the 4th largestcityin America; up to 20,000 men, women & children of many cultures & creeds lived in log cabins in this area, the site of a former ironworks that George Washington called "a dreary place"
Valley Forge
Harrison
|
|
$600
[2]
This part of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, op. 125 was chosen as the anthem of the E.U. in 1985
the "Ode To Joy"
Harrison
|
$600
[4]
Best Music Video / Visual Album in 2025 went to Kendrick Lamar for this track dissing Drake
"Not Like Us"
Harrison
|
$600
[10]
Juventus, Ajax, AC Milan
soccer teams
Greg
|
$600
[12]
It's a synonym for nothing, but you get something from even one of these, a quads & hamstrings exercise; but 12-15 is better
squat
Harrison
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$600
[7]
It can refer to a sunken log, a heavy post on a wharf or a big fan of Jerry & the band, man
a deadhead
Harrison
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$600
[19]
(Ken Burns presents the clue.) During the Battle of Long Island, Washington made the error of failing to protect a pass in the Gowanus Heightsthat allowed the British to successfully flank his army, a slip-up made more surprising since George did this job from ages 17-20
a surveyor
Greg
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|
$800
[1]
His 1910 Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major is dubbed the "Symphony of a Thousand" due to the legion of musicians needed
Mahler
Harrison
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$800
[9]
This "Doubt" actress booked a win for Nonfiction Literary Work for "Finding Me"
(Viola) Davis
Harrison
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$800
[8]
Pentatonix, straight no chaser, the Whiffenpoofs
a capella groups
Harrison
|
$800
[15]
Time to check out a dude doing some walking these; your hips & glutes will thank you, bro
lunges
Greg
|
$800
[6]
It's the term for a 10-legged crustacean; look it up
a decapod
Harrison
|
$800
[5]
(Ken Burns presents the clue.) When artillery had to get from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston, 55 guns were shipped 300 miles, often gliding on snow by sled, in a logistical operation led by this man, later the nation's first Secretary of War
(Henry) Knox
|
|
DD
$1,400
[3]
This composer who raised the profile of English music made his opus 33 in 1897 the patriotic-sounding "Banner of St. George"
Elgar
Harrison
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$1,000
[16]
Thislate Georgia U.S. representative; "Good Trouble" was good indeed, winning Outstanding Documentary in 2021
(John) Lewis
Harrison
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$1,000
[17]
Steller's sea cow, golden toad, Labrador duck
extinct species
|
$1,000
[18]
Go "up" & build your delts with these 2 feet-off-the-ground exercises, one done palms facing out, one palms in
pull-ups & chin-ups
Harrison
|
$1,000
[14]
In the Anglican Church, every priest is first ordained as one of these serving the church
a deacon
Harrison
|
$1,000
[13]
(Ken Burns presents the clue.) In 1781, General Cornwallis was tasked with finding a deep water port in Virginia that could serve the Royal Navy's largest warships; his engineers chose this harbor--the port became the site of Cornwallis's surrender
Yorktown
Harrison
|
| WORLD GEOGRAPHY | MASHED-UP PLAY TITLES | I'M INSIDE YOUR HEAD | SPILL THE "T" | MOVIE SETTINGS | COLORFUL LANGUAGE |
|
$400
[20]
Bordered on one side by the Negev Desert, this desert is also a peninsula that covers some 23,500 square miles
Sinai
Harrison
|
$400
[18]
"The Merry Wives of Errors"
The Merry Wives of Windsor & The Comedy of Errors
Greg
|
$400
[30]
The filiform & foliate papillae are on this organ; the foliate have taste buds but the filiform don't
the tongue
Greg
|
$400
[26]
What a mess! I've spilled a bottle of this, used as a paint thinner & obtained from conifer resins
turpentine
Greg
|
$400
[1]
"Anora" auteur Sean Baker previously made "the Florida Project" using footage shot on an iPhone at this theme park
Disney World
Harrison
|
$400
[24]
The center of a town or hamlet; The Kinks were the "Preservation Society" for it
the village green
Harrison
|
|
$800
[19]
About 3,800 miles west of Pearl Harbor, Apra Harbor in this U.S. territory that's part of the Marianas saw fighting in 1944
Guam
Greg
|
$800
[17]
"The Glass Tin Roof"
The Glass Menagerie & Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Greg
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$800
[29]
My hypophysis is: if it sits below the hypothalamus & helps control the adrenal glands, then it's this gland aka hypophysis
the pituitary
Greg
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$800
[27]
I was making a chicken coconut curry & spilled the bottle of this ground yellow seasoning all over the kitchen counter
turmeric
Harrison
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$800
[10]
Villa del Balbianelloon Lake Como was used as the setting for the wedding of this pair in "Attack of the Clones"
Anakin & Padmé
Harrison
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$800
[25]
We're so sorry, but your frequent flier miles can't be used on the 27th because that's one of these
a blackout date
Lynette
|
|
$1,200
[6]
This 220-square-mile Alpine lake formed by the Rhone River is also known as Lac Léman
Lake Geneva
|
$1,600
[4]
"A Woman Being Earnest"
A Woman of No Importance & The Importance of Being Earnest
Harrison
|
$1,200
[9]
The buccinator isn't an Ahnold movie about terminating male deer--it's a flat muscle on the inner wall of this part of your face
(inside of) the cheek
Lynette
|
$1,200
[2]
Blimey! How did I spill this lidded mug of ale? Probably by imbibing one too many?
a tankard
|
$1,200
[11]
In "Die Hard", Bruce Willis welcomed pals to the party at this fictional building
Nakatomi Plaza
|
$1,200
[21]
The Minnesota Vikings of the 1970s had formidable defenders known as these after a novelty song
the Purple People Eaters
Harrison
|
|
$2,000
[8]
Darwin is the capital city of this part of Australia
the Northern Territory
Harrison
|
$2,000
[5]
"You Can't Take It with Dinner"
You Can't Take It with You & The Man Who Came to Dinner
Harrison
Lynette
|
$1,600
[16]
Not as tough as the surrounding enamel, this material making up the bulk of your teeth is still harder than bone
dentin
Harrison
Lynette
|
$1,600
[14]
I was visiting the bride-to-be & spilled the contents of a trunk containing this, from Old French for bundle
trousseau
Lynette
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$1,600
[12]
2025 marks the 100th anniv. of Robert Altman's birth & the 50th of this movie of his about musicians & politics in the title city
Nashville
Harrison
|
$1,600
[22]
When I realized that Dimwitty had been brutally killed along with Papa Smurf, I screamed this
blue murder
Lynette
|
|
DD
$5,400
[7]
The borders of this capital city, the birthplace of Simón Bolívar, spill into the state of Miranda
Caracas
Harrison
|
DD
$4,600
[3]
"The Piano's Black Bottom"
The Piano Lesson & Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Harrison
|
$2,000
[28]
The hammer, anvil & stirrup form a Rube Goldberg-esque segment of the ear collectively known as these, from Latin for "small bone"
the ossicles
|
$2,000
[15]
Mistakes were made--I spilled a vial containing this isotope of hydrogen in water; yes, it's radioactive
tritium
Harrison
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$2,000
[13]
Thisfilmstarring Brendan Gleeson & Colin Farrell was filmed on several Irish islands to create the title locale
The Banshees of Inisherin
Harrison
|
$2,000
[23]
One who attacks another for being a Communist; actor Adolphe Menjou said, "I am" one
a red-baiter
Lynette
|
A 2018 book about this company once valued at $9 billion was titled "Bad Blood"
Theranos