Harrison Whitaker game 7.
Matylda Urbaniak — a law student from Queens, New York
Josh Chen — a stay-at-home dog dad from Arlington, Virginia
Harrison Whitaker — a researcher originally from Terre Haute, Indiana (whose 6-day cash winnings total $182,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison | $3,200 | $5,200 | $26,600 |
$25,601
7-day champion: $208,201 |
$23,000
25 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Josh | $3,400 | $4,800 | $12,800 |
$12,795
2nd place: $3,000 |
$9,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Matylda | $2,200 | $3,600 | $5,200 |
$5,200
3rd place: $2,000 |
$5,200
10 R, 0 W |
| GREATER L.A.: A CULTURAL MELTING POT | POTPOURRI | THAT'S GOTTA BE A MYTH | THE COUNTY LINE | I HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE | &/OR |
|
$200
[30]
Don't forget it, Jake, it's this area, home to a Golden Dragon Parade held for more than a century & an annual Moon Festival
Chinatown
Josh
|
$200
[28]
Although this company says it's unintentional, the blue & white collar of the redheaded girl in its logo spells "Mom"
Wendy's
Matylda
|
$200
[27]
This shoe company named for a Greek goddess is valued at... $100 billion? You have gotta be kidding!
Nike
Josh
|
$200
[29]
"You'd catch 'em surfin' at Del Mar, Ventura County line" in a 1963 hit by these fellas
The Beach Boys
Harrison
|
$200
[26]
My buddy Horst wants to climb this 14,000-foot peak in the Alps just SW of Zermatt, but I'll stick with the Disneyland ride
the Matterhorn
Harrison
|
$200
[25]
Durable & strong, or a horsey house
stable
Josh
|
|
$400
[19]
downtownla.com says after sushi in Little Tokyo, visit a stream in James Irvine Japanese Garden & "pause for your moment of" this
zen
Josh
|
$400
[24]
This Midwest school's "Purple Mafia", including Zach Braff, David Schwimmer & Julia Louis-Dreyfus, muscled into sitcoms
Northwestern
Josh
|
$400
[7]
NASA director Abe Silverstein said he chose this name because the image of riding a chariot across the Sun seemed appropriate
Apollo
Josh
|
$400
[23]
The late Nipsey Hussle was "sitting in my cell... having dreams about the day they crack the gate" of this county place
the (county) jail
Matylda
|
$400
[22]
Liam & Saoirse can show me around this capital; I want to see the nearly 400-foot spire of it on O'Connell Street--oh, there it is
Dublin
Matylda
|
$400
[21]
To shave & trim away, or a dried plum
prune
Matylda
|
|
$600
[8]
"O" yes! In 2023 a 1.6-mile stretch of Pico Boulevard was designated a corridor repping this Mexican state, home to the Zapotec
Oaxaca
Josh
|
$600
[3]
A 19th century minister created an early version of this s'more fixture to have a bland taste so it wouldn't drive people to lust
Graham cracker
Harrison
Josh
|
$600
[2]
Images of bulls & dragons line the magnificent Ishtar Gateof this ancient Mesopotamian city
Babylon
Harrison
|
$600
[13]
He's sung about county lines on "Darkness On The Edge Of Town", "The River", "Born In The U.S.A." & more--I'm sensing a theme here
Springsteen
Matylda
|
$600
[11]
My Paraguayan compadres want me to come to Luque & see the Museodel this Spanish word Sudamericano
Fútbol
Harrison
|
$600
[20]
Impend & appear large, or a cloth-making machine
loom
Harrison
|
|
$800
[9]
A museum focused on Americans with ancestry from this nation in the Southern Caucasus is set to open in Glendale in 2026
Armenia
Matylda
|
$800
[5]
In the 1940s an old cantaloupe given to an Illinois lab by a woman nicknamed "Moldy Mary" helped mass produce this medicine
penicillin
Josh
|
$800
[4]
The U.S. Air Force's first operational ballisticmissilehad this Nordic name, appropriate for bringing thunder from the skies
Thor
Harrison
|
$800
[14]
On "Hot Fun In The Summertime", he & the Family Stone sang about a "county fair in the country sun"
Sly
Matylda
|
$800
[12]
My friend Phirun promises a heartwarming time at the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center in this country
Cambodia
Harrison
|
$800
[1]
To patch together & jury-rig, or to repair those Manolo Blahniks
to cobble
|
|
$1,000
[10]
A quote on the Filipino WWII Veterans Memorial says this "was not our last battle-field. We are still fighting for equity"
Bataan
Harrison
|
$1,000
[18]
Often called the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, this man shared a name with a legendary founder of Rome
Romulus (Augustus)
Harrison
|
$1,000
[6]
Only fragments remain of the once grand Templeof her in Western Turkey
Artemis
Josh
|
$1,000
[15]
"Coward Of The County" was a No. 3 hit for this country star & roast chicken magnate
Kenny Rogers
|
$1,000
[16]
Tatiana knows I love super-deep freshwater lakes, so it's off to this one that the Barguzin River flows into
Baikal
Harrison
|
DD
$1,000
[17]
Quell & suppress, or a racquet sport
squash
Harrison
|
| TITLES IN HISTORY | 20th CENTURY NOVELS THAT GOT FILMED | "-GRAM" PICS | ORGANIZATIONS | TELEVISION | LAW SCHOOL WITH JOHN GRISHAM |
|
$400
[17]
Paul Robeson & many others have sung, "Go down, Moses, way down in Egypt's land, tell" this fellow, "Let my people go"
the Pharaoh
Matylda
|
$400
[23]
Black literary agent Ron Hobbs found white author Ernest Tidyman to write the first novel about this private eye who became a '70s icon
Shaft
Josh
|
$400
[24]
#bun #oven
a sonogram
Matylda
|
$400
[29]
An early pioneer of the birth control movement, Margaret Sanger founded what today is this organization
Planned Parenthood
Harrison
|
$400
[30]
Once a PBS staple with LeVar Burton, this kids' series has been rebooted with viral librarian Mychal Threets as the host
Reading Rainbow
Harrison
|
$400
[26]
(John Grisham presents the clue.) My narrator Rudy Baylor hits rock bottom financially, but at least he can't be evicted because, as he notes, this code has a marvelous provision which grants an automatic stay in all legal proceedings against a debtor
the bankruptcy code
Harrison
|
|
$1,200
[8]
Thisnoble title that precedes Marshal in a job that once ran the stables for English kings & now is ceremonial & all about coats of arms
Earl
|
$1,200
[7]
This novel by Winston Groom describes the title character as 6'6", 242 pounds & with an IQ of nearly 70
Forrest Gump
Harrison
|
$800
[22]
#Tupac Lives #Coachella2012
a hologram
Harrison
|
$800
[27]
Founded in 1980, it's recently gotten companies to stop offering camel & horse rides at the Giza pyramids due to animal abuse
PETA
Harrison
|
$800
[28]
Garnering 6 acting Emmy nominations, he played the often-abrasive but brilliant Dr. Gregory House
(Hugh) Laurie
Harrison
|
$800
[25]
(John Grisham presents the clue.) In books of mine, Patrick Lanigan is "The Partner" & Kyle McAvoy is this title person, an entry-level lawyer who'd sure like to be partner some day
an associate
Matylda
|
|
$1,600
[3]
The wife of a monarch may be called "Queen" this; imperial China had the title Shufei or "pure" this
Consort
Harrison
Josh
|
$1,600
[2]
It's Edith Wharton's novel about a farmer with unforgiving land & an awful marriage
Ethan Frome
Harrison
|
$1,200
[9]
#All Shook Up
a seismogram
Josh
|
$1,200
[6]
It's what the C-E-F originally stood for in UNICEF
Children's Emergency Fund
|
$1,200
[21]
In 2004 viewers said farewell to this HBO series with episodes called "An American Girl in Paris: Part Une & Part Deux"
Sex and the City
Harrison
|
$1,200
[1]
(John Grisham presents the clue.) In one of my books, Clay Carter goes from being a public defender to earning tens of millions as the "King of" these, also course number 502 at Ole Miss, my alma mater
Torts
Harrison
|
|
$2,000
[5]
In the 9th century, Al-Ma'mun, who held this title meaning "successor", tried to end sectarian division in Islam
caliph
Harrison
|
$2,000
[4]
Springtime & Italy change the outlook of 4 women in a World War I-weary world in this novel by Elizabeth von Arnim
The Enchanted April
|
$1,600
[14]
#AtoZThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
pangram
Josh
|
$1,600
[10]
Part of a network that includes food banks & meal programs, it's the nation's largest domestic hunger-relief organization
Feeding America
|
$1,600
[20]
"Loot" stars this "SNL" alum as an ultra-wealthy divorcée, giving away all her moola
Maya Rudolph
|
$1,600
[13]
(John Grisham presents the clue.) In "The Client", an FBI agent threatens 11-year-old Mark, saying a person who knows something about a crime & withholds the info from the FBI might be guilty of this
obstructing justice
Harrison
|
|
DD
$4,400
[11]
Though he runs Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman still has this 2-word royal title as on tape day his father continues to live & reign
crown prince
Josh
|
DD
$5,400
[16]
In a 1972 novel Joanna tries to shake up the wives of this suburb but ends up as glassy-eyed as the rest
Stepford
Harrison
|
$2,000
[15]
#Uneven Bars
a histogram
Harrison
|
$2,000
[12]
After seeing the living conditions in pre-state Israel, Henrietta Szoldfounded this U.S. organization of Jewish women
Hadassah
|
$2,000
[19]
The title drug-addicted RN struggled to balance her personal problems & her hospital job on this show
Nurse Jackie
Josh
|
$2,000
[18]
(John Grisham presents the clue.) In "The Chamber", anattorney & his grandpawho's on death row discuss Barefoot v. Estelle, a 1983 case about an appeal on these regarding the facts of the case rather than procedural issues
the merits
|
The novelization of a 1977 movie awarded this character a medal at the end, righting a perceived wrong
Chewbacca