Harrison Whitaker game 5.
Rachel Bernstein — a teacher from Los Angeles, California
Lawrence Suba — a technical software trainer from Verona, Wisconsin
Harrison Whitaker — a researcher originally from Terre Haute, Indiana (whose 4-day cash winnings total $116,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison | $7,400 | $11,200 | $35,200 |
$44,399
5-day champion: $160,999 |
$32,800
34 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Lawrence | $1,600 | $1,800 | $600 |
$1,100
3rd place: $2,000 |
$600
3 R, 1 W |
| Rachel | $-200 | $2,200 | $13,000 |
$24,799
2nd place: $3,000 |
$13,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| NEVER HAVE I EVER | SECOND NOVELS | NO TIME TO SAY THE WHOLE WORD | THEIR MAIN INSTRUMENT | THAT'S BULL! | HAPPY 250th ANNIVERSARY, USPS |
|
$200
[27]
...done the pulled pork nachos challenge at Front Street Pub & eatery in Davenport in this Midwest state; you gotta eat 5 pounds!
Iowa
Rachel
|
$200
[25]
"The Beautiful And Damned" are detailed at the dawn of the Jazz Age in New York City courtesy of this returning champion
Fitzgerald
Rachel
|
$200
[26]
Of course Buttersmith made partner before me; he & Cobblethorpe go back to "prep" school
preparatory
Harrison
|
$200
[28]
Herbie Hancock &Billy Joel
the piano
Harrison
|
$200
[29]
Despite its pesky toxicity, this soft metal was preferred for use in bulla, the round seals for which papal bulls are named
lead
Harrison
Rachel
|
$200
[30]
The postal service was established in 1775, & he was chosen Postmaster General; in 1847, he appeared on one of the first twostampsissued
Benjamin (Ben) Franklin
Lawrence
|
|
$400
[23]
...run this company whose Class A stock was going for $809,000 a pop in 2025, but I have a few ideas for it going forward
Berkshire Hathaway
Harrison
|
$400
[22]
It's no mystery... her second novel featured Tommy & Tuppence in "The Secret Adversary" in 1922
Christie
Harrison
|
$400
[11]
I'm not going back to visit my old school--I have "opps" there
opponents
Harrison
|
$400
[21]
Sonny Rollins &Bill Clinton
the (tenor) saxophone
Rachel
|
$400
[18]
We assume indigenous peoples weren't consulted about the 1493 papal bulls protecting these 2 countries' rights in the New World
Spain & Portugal
Rachel
|
$400
[24]
Replaced by airplane service, the last mail route in Alaska carried by this ended in 1963
sled dogs (a dog sled)
Rachel
|
|
$600
[3]
...rapped like this group, "Well you can't, you won't & you don't stop, Mike D, come & rock the sure shot" (that's a lie, I 100% have)
the Beastie Boys
|
$600
[12]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "Half of a Yellow Sun" is about the Biafran War in this country
Nigeria
Harrison
|
$600
[10]
I can set up that meeting as soon as everyone lets me know their "avails"
availability
Lawrence
|
$600
[15]
Herb Alpert &Louis Armstrong
trumpet
Harrison
|
$600
[6]
Aptly enough, a 1567 bull from Pius V forbids "agitatio taurorum", aka this "cruel & base" sport, under threat of excommunication
bullfighting
Harrison
|
$600
[16]
Hope you bought a bunch of thestampsknown by this name when they were first issued in 2007 for 41 cents; they're still valid today
Forever stamps
Harrison
|
|
$800
[4]
...gone to the lounge on Floor 154, the highest one open to the public in this building, & I sure haven't gone all the way to 163
the Burj Khalifa
Harrison
|
$800
[13]
He had some help from war game designer Larry Bond on "Red Storm Rising", an instant bestseller
Clancy
Harrison
|
$800
[8]
Women working in offices were once assigned to the "steno" pool, from which one would be called to take dictation
stenographer
Harrison
|
$800
[1]
Tiny Tim &Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
the ukulele
Harrison
|
$800
[7]
History's only English pope, Adrian IV issued the 1155 bull "Laudabiliter", granting Henry II dominion over "the island of" this
Ireland
Rachel
|
$800
[17]
In 1895 10 African-American letter carriers in Washington, D.C. served as honorary pallbearers at this orator's funeral
Douglass
Harrison
|
|
$1,000
[5]
...owned this wildcat with tufted ears & only one working vowel, but if I did, I'd name it Bubastis
lynx
|
$1,000
[14]
"Something Happened" in 1974, but there's a "Catch"--the second novel from this man came 13 long years after his opening triumph
Heller
Harrison
|
$1,000
[9]
I just love the clean lines of that "mid-mod"furniture
mid-century modern
Lawrence
|
$1,000
[2]
Jack Benny &Joshua Bell
the violin
Harrison
Rachel
|
DD
$1,000
[19]
From a 1521 papal bull excommunicating Martin Luther: "He has been declared a" this, something you never want the pope to call you
a heretic
Rachel
|
$1,000
[20]
Astampcelebrating the 300th anniversary of Jamestown also featured the first named Native American on a stamp--her
Pocahontas
Harrison
|
| WEIRDLY NAMED CONFLICTS | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS | THIS IS NOT A SAFE SPACE | MOVIE MONOLOGUES | THE SOUTH PACIFIC | TENACIOUS, THEE |
|
$400
[28]
The 335 Years' War was between the British Scilly islands & this nation whose Stadtholder sat on the English throne
the Netherlands
Harrison
|
$400
[25]
The word "verb" is in the middle of this verb referring to what echoes do
reverberate
Rachel
|
$400
[27]
Floating in space without a suit? You won't explode--this "largest organ" is too strong--but you will puff up into a flesh balloon
the skin
Rachel
|
$400
[26]
America Ferrera said, "There's no woman in my life who those words aren't true for" about her speech in this film
Barbie
Rachel
|
$400
[30]
Ask a Girl Scout! This country that was once part of New Zealand dropped "Western" from its name in 1997
Samoa
Rachel
|
$400
[29]
The National Park Service reports this animalhereis powerful, aggressive, territorial & tenacious, bub
a wolverine
Rachel
|
|
$800
[21]
The Royal Australian artillery was brought in to fight these flightless birds that gave the war their name--the birds won
emus
Harrison
|
$800
[20]
College students shudder at the thought of this type of class one must take before moving on to more advanced matters
a prerequisite
Harrison
|
$800
[24]
A type of star in a binary system that sucks the gas & plasma from its companion star is appropriately named after this creature
a vampire star
|
$800
[14]
In "Pulp Fiction" this actor delivers a gripping speech about a gold watch kept safe in a nether region
Christopher Walken
Harrison
|
$800
[22]
The 2024 Olympic surfing competition took place at Teahupo'o, a village on this island
Tahiti
|
$800
[23]
This character relentlessly pursues Jean Valjean, but after catching the man, says "Go upstairs", then takes off
Javert
Rachel
|
|
$1,200
[19]
The war of the bucket was a medieval conflict between Modena & this Italian city that gave its name to a sausage
Bologna
Lawrence
Rachel
|
$1,200
[10]
"V" is for this quality of a fluid that causes it to resist flow
viscosity
Rachel
|
$1,200
[18]
A "rogue" one of these in our solar system might not spaghettify us, but the pull of its singularity would be nasty
a black hole
Harrison
|
$1,200
[3]
In "Jaws", Captain Quint delivers a monologue about the sinking of this ship in shark-infested waters near the end of World War II
the Indianapolis
Harrison
|
$1,200
[13]
The Tuamotu Archipelago is comprised of 76 of these, coral reefs that surround lagoons
atolls
Harrison
|
$1,200
[1]
The name Tenacious D comes from basketball, & few play more tenacious D than Alex Carusoof this 2025 NBA championship team
the Thunder
Harrison
|
|
$2,000
[5]
The Hudson's Bay Company & the North West Company clashed in a conflict named for this Native American dried meat treat
pemmican
Rachel
|
$1,600
[6]
Latin gives us this word for the philosophy of law
jurisprudence
Rachel
|
$1,600
[9]
GRB is short for this "burst" of energy--if one goes off just 1,000 light-years away, it's bye-bye us
a gamma ray burst
Harrison
|
$1,600
[7]
Asthistitle character, Colman Domingo delivers a stirring speech & refuses to resign from the SCLC in a recent biopic
Bayard Rustin
Harrison
|
DD
$1,200
[16]
James Cook's dad was a migrant from Scotland, so it's little surprise he named an island "New" this, for Dad's homeland
Caledonia
Harrison
|
$1,600
[2]
Lucretia Mott & this 3-named hero--not named Anthony!--began a women's rights movement in 1848 that led to the 19th Amend. in 1920
(Elizabeth Cady) Stanton
Harrison
|
|
DD
$4,800
[4]
Part of this numerical clash, the 1760s Fantastic War had no major battles--just troop movements when Spain invaded Portugal
the Seven Years' War
Harrison
|
$2,000
[11]
MRIs are part of this science that specifically studies the absorption of light & radiation by matter
spectroscopy
|
$2,000
[15]
In six billion years, our sun will become this type of star, & Earth, our poor little dirt ball, likely won't make it out intact, per NASA
a red giant
Harrison
|
$2,000
[8]
Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch & Ned Beatty all have monologues in this film from 1976
Network
Rachel
|
$1,600
[12]
Suva, this nation's capital, was once the center of Britain's South Pacific colonies
Fiji
Harrison
|
$2,000
[17]
Seen here is a circa 1841 bronze statuette of this mythological hero taming Pegasus, which does not look easy
Bellerophon
Harrison
|
In a British poem, this is "raddled with Napoleon's paint. Nose eaten by a less clear conqueror"
the Sphinx