Show #9434 2025-11-13 (taped 2025-10-07) Regular

Harrison Whitaker game 3.

Contestants

Sheila Collins — an attorney from San Jose, California

David Lewis — a subterranean tour guide from Seattle, Washington

Harrison Whitaker — a researcher originally from Terre Haute, Indiana (whose 2-day cash winnings total $59,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Harrison $7,400 $12,200 $30,600 $32,000
3-day champion: $91,801
$31,400
34 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)
David $400 $-200 $1,400 $1,405
3rd place: $2,000
$1,400
5 R, 3 W
Sheila $600 $1,800 $6,600 $10,100
2nd place: $3,000
$6,600
13 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

WHOSOLVEDIT? WORLD HISTORY LET'S GET BAKING COLLEGE LIFE PLAYING THEIR REAL MOM OR DAD DROP IT...
$200 [16]
In "The Adventure of the Empty House", he explains to his pal "Colonel Moran's motive in murdering the honourable Ronald Adair"
Holmes
Harrison Sheila
$200 [24]
Hamilcar Barca was a Carthaginian general during the First Punic war; this son of his took over in the second one
Hannibal
Harrison
$200 [22]
(Dame Prue Leith presents the clue.) Here's a tip--you can make all kinds of deliciousappetizers without the fuss by using the store-bought, ready-rolled type of this alliterative dough
puff pastry
Harrison
$200 [30]
The student magazine at this university called the annual St. Patrick's Day "Run of the Gingers" "a moving display of Irish pride"
Notre Dame
Sheila
$200 [29]
Not only did daughter Alice play her as young Liz Lemon on "30 Rock", she also coined the line "I want to go to there"
(Tina) Fey
Harrison
$200 [28]
From a word for pocket-forming sandwich breadto get this moniker for dear old dad
pa (from pita)
Sheila
$400 [3]
With the name of a "Thin Man" woman, this owner of a cat named Nick solves the murder of an art collector in "Claws for Alarm"
Nora Charles
David
$400 [23]
The "Red Summer" of this year post-WWI included the massacre of Black sharecroppers looking to unionize in Elaine, Arkansas
1919
David
$400 [15]
Though you can bake them year-round, coconut macaroons are a traditional unleavened treat during this Jewish holiday
Passover
Sheila
$400 [25]
No 0.0, Alpha Delta at this Ivy League school in New Hampshire was the fraternity that inspired "Animal House"
Dartmouth
Harrison
$400 [26]
John Cromwell played de-aged dad James on the "Freak Show" & "Asylum" versions of this scary series
American Horror Story
Harrison
$400 [27]
From an adjective describing someone with good mannersto get this word for someone from Warsaw
Pole (from polite)
Harrison
$600 [2]
James Patterson had this Washington, D.C. detective on the case & tracking 2 killers in "Kiss the Girls"
Alex Cross
$600 [9]
Constructed between the 11th & 13th centuries, thetemplesof Bagan in Myanmar were built as places of worship for this religion
Buddhism
Harrison David
$600 [14]
(Dame Prue Leith presents the clue.)It's been described as a cross between a pancake & a popover. And despite its name, there's nothing little about it. And it's not from the Netherlands; actually, a diner in Seattle gets the credit for it
a Dutch baby
Harrison
$600 [5]
Order up! Iona's track & field director gave 2025 MAAC champ distance runner Lachlan Wellington this tasty nickname
"Beef"
Harrison Sheila
$600 [6]
Titus Welliver's son Quinn played a youthful version of his detective Harry on this drama; son Eamonn did it on him: "Legacy"
Bosch
$600 [12]
From a word for a group of roomsto get this name for a boy Johnny Cash sang about
Sue (from suite)
David
$800 [1]
Sharing his single name with an English poet, this Robert B. Parker Boston P.I. looked into a coed's murder in "Small Vices"
Spenser
Sheila
$800 [7]
During his 13-year imprisonment at the Tower of London, this adventurer grew tobacco outside his posh lodgings
Raleigh
Harrison
$800 [20]
Though commonly deep-fried, these small southern balls of cornmeal can also be baked in a mini muffin pan--shh!
hush puppies
Harrison
$800 [10]
A 1961 Rose Bowl prank had flip cards in the stands spell this local Pasadena college's name; the Wash. band stopped mid-song in surprise
Caltech
Harrison
$800 [11]
Sean Harmon stepped into his father mark's investigative shoes at least 7 times on "NCIS" in this role
Gibbs
$800 [13]
From a word for someone who drops byto get this, which shields your eyes
a visor (from visitor)
Harrison
$1,000 [4]
C. Auguste Dupin discovers that an orangutan escaped & killed Mme. l'Espanaye & her daughter Camille in this Poe story
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
Harrison
DD $2,200 [8]
Opposite the Maginot Line, this "Line" that spanned from Kleve to Basel shared its name with a mythic Germanic hero
Siegfried Line
Harrison
$1,000 [21]
(Dame Prue Leith presents the clue.) The flaky texture of a croissant is the result of repeatedlyfoldingbutter into the dough, creating alternating layers in a process called this, like a photo coated in plastic
laminating
David Sheila
$1,000 [18]
In 2022 this college affiliated with Columbia U. enjoyed a day with a big sub--"750 feet of sandwiches... from Milbank to the quad"
Barnard College
Harrison
$1,000 [19]
Last name of dad Mark & son Michaelwho played Hiram Lodge on "Riverdale" at various points in the character's life
Consuelos
$1,000 [17]
From a word meaning lack of seriousnessto get this synonym for a tax
levy (from levity)
Harrison

Double Jeopardy! Round

DEMOCRACIES PLANTS & ANIMALS THERE'S A NAME FOR THAT JOB JUKEBOX MUSICALS OPPOSITES A TRACT
$400 [24]
In 2025 this country's Liberal Party rode a wave of no-to-51st-statehood nationalism for a comeback victory
Canada
Sheila
$400 [30]
The "7 hour flower" that blooms for a single night before dying is pollinated by a long-tongued species of this winged mammal
a bat
Harrison Sheila
$400 [10]
That underappreciated person who does any & every thing on a movie or TV lot is a P.A., standing for this
production assistant
Harrison
$400 [22]
"American Idiot" is based on the music of this band
Green Day
Harrison
$400 [19]
With -se at the end, it's a synonym for "to build"; ending in -ze, it's build's antonym
raise (raze)
Sheila
$400 [29]
A fierce foe of this, as in an 1855 tract, Thomas Wentworth Higginsonwas also an editor who is one reason we have Emily Dickinson's poetry today
slavery
Sheila
$800 [25]
This body of water is not entirely a democra-sea, with Freedom House rating Bulgaria free, Ukraine partly, Turkey not
the Black Sea
Harrison
$800 [28]
Yams & potatoes are examples of these, edible underground stems that store energy for the following season
tubers
Harrison
$800 [4]
Sales associates at Kate Spade have this inspiring title, even if they're not named Calliope or Terpsichore
muse
Sheila
$800 [9]
"Winter", "Spring", "Summer" or "Fall", the one that features the songs "Love To Love You Baby" & "Bad Girls"
Summer
David
$800 [20]
In traditional wedding vows, you take your partner "for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer & in" these 2 conditions
sickness & health
Harrison
$800 [27]
This Marx-Engels tract was barely off the presses in 1848 when Europe was racked by revolts in several countries
The Communist Manifesto
Harrison
$1,200 [11]
Does he have a Southern accent?Gabriel Boricfrom Punta Arenas in the Magallanes region is this nation's youngest ever president
Chile
Harrison
$1,200 [26]
The jaguar's spots are different from other cats in that these flowery-named circular markings have black spots in the middle
rosettes
Harrison
$1,200 [5]
Not all that many of them around these days, but as the Old English root suggests, a wainwright makes & repairs these
wagons
David Sheila
$1,200 [21]
"Movin' Out" features over 2 dozen of his greatest hits
Billy Joel
David
$1,200 [3]
Opposite-named type of poker that splits the pot, apparently popular in Omaha
high-low
Sheila
$1,200 [8]
Dr. Benjamin Rush, "father of" this movement, wrote a tract saying liquor causes fighting, foul breath, gout, epilepsy & suicide
temperance
Sheila
$1,600 [2]
The book "The Death of Democracy" is subtitled "Hitler's Rise to Power & the Downfall of" this, named for where its Constitution was adopted
the Weimar Republic
Harrison
$1,600 [23]
For years, a lab in Bodega Bay run by UC Davis has worked to bring back the white type of this mollusk from the brink of extinction
abalone
Sheila
$1,600 [17]
Need a men's hat, tie or handkerchief? Go see the person with this 11-letter title
haberdasher
Harrison
$1,600 [16]
"Ain't Too Proud" tells the life & times of this Motown group whose hits include "Ain't Too Proud To Beg" & "My Girl"
The Temptations
Harrison
DD $2,000 [13]
It's an antonym of fearful; you can also get a less-used antonym of it just by dropping the initial "in"
intrepid
Harrison
$1,600 [12]
The many tracts of John Wesley included "Thoughts Upon" this denomination he helped found
Methodism
Harrison
$2,000 [7]
In democratic monarchies, some want the king job gone; in Japan, they protestedas this emperor gave way to Naruhito in 2019
Akihito
Harrison
$2,000 [6]
Sometimes called a money plant, this succulent that can be grown indoors shares its name with a gemstone
the jade plant
$2,000 [18]
There's a military officer's rank in this word for the head steward of a palace or other big fancy household
majordomo
Sheila
$2,000 [1]
In "Just in Time", Jonathan Grofftransformed himself into this crooner of hits like "Mack The Knife" & "Beyond The Sea"
(Bobby) Darin
Harrison
$2,000 [14]
Some African peoples are nomadic; some have this opposite lifestyle, from Latin for "sit" & often applied to tubby Westerners
sedentary
Harrison
DD $2,000 [15]
The title of this tract by Thomas Paine is found within the title of an August 1789 French declaration
Rights of Man
Harrison

Final Jeopardy!

CIVIL WAR VETERANS

12 years before his death out West, he led a charge at the Battle of Trevilian station in 1864

(George Armstrong) Custer

David "Who is Custer" — wagered $5
Sheila "Who is Custer? ♡ ♡ you Alex, Theo, Jamie, + Mike!" — wagered $3,500
Harrison "Who is Custer?" — wagered $1,400

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