Harrison Whitaker game 12.
Shannon Mastick — a patent attorney from Granger, Indiana
Krish Patel — an undergraduate student from Plano, Texas
Harrison Whitaker — a researcher originally from Terre Haute, Indiana (whose 11-day cash winnings total $309,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison | $4,200 | $7,000 | $17,200 |
$21,000
12-day champion: $330,000 |
$22,200
29 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Krish | $2,200 | $3,600 | $5,600 |
$399
2nd place: $3,000 |
$5,600
13 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Shannon | $1,800 | $1,800 | $5,400 |
$0
3rd place: $2,000 |
$5,400
7 R, 1 W |
| YOUR SWEET 16th (CENTURY) | LET'S TALK TURKEY | WEIGHTS & MEASURES | QUEST: LOVE | SQUIRREL FRIENDS | WORDS THAT DIFFER BY ONE LETTER |
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$200
[25]
In 1588 this fleet led by the Duke of Medina-Sidonia had around 130 ships, 8,000 seamen & 19,000 soldiers; then it didn't
the Spanish Armada
Harrison
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$200
[26]
A breed of cat, goat & rabbit carry this former name for the capital of Turkey
Angora
Harrison
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$200
[27]
When talking area, 43,560 square feet is equal to one of these units
an acre
Harrison
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$200
[28]
In Act IV of an opera, Cyrano rises from his deathbed to visit this woman, the love of his life, one last time
Roxane
Harrison
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$200
[30]
Scrat, a prehistoric saber-toothed squirrel obsessed with acorns, was introduced in this 2002 animated film
Ice Age
Harrison
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$200
[23]
A glance&any member of British nobility
peek & peer
Krish
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$400
[18]
Consolidating power in this empire c. 1512, Selim I killed his brothers, many of their sons & even some of his own, save Suleyman
the Ottoman Empire
Krish
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$400
[19]
Alexander the Great creatively solved this ancient puzzle named for the capital of Phrygia in modern day Anatolia
the Gordian Knot
Harrison
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$400
[24]
A mnemonic to approximately translate from these liquid units to gallons, "multiply by 2 & divide by 9"
liters
Krish
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$400
[20]
Can we pull you for a chat? In 2025 Amaya & Bryan were the toast of the villa, coupling up to win $100,000 on this reality show
Love Island
Harrison
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$400
[29]
Frostbite Falls was the animated home of this flying squirrel, Bullwinkle's pal
Rocky (the Flying Squirrel)
Harrison
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$400
[22]
Malice&a connected group of rooms
spite & suite
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$600
[3]
Heading west after leaving Spain, he rounded the strait later named for him in 1520
Magellan
Krish
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$600
[10]
Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann excavated this ancient city at present day Hisarlik
Troy
Harrison
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$600
[4]
A measure of the quantity of heat, the BTU, short for this, is approximately equal to 1,055 joules
the British Thermal Unit
Harrison
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$600
[9]
Oh, to find a glass of wildly expensive champagne named for this monk, cellar master at the Abbey of Hautvillers from 1668 to 1715
Dom Pérignon
Harrison
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$600
[13]
The full title of the series starring this purple dinosaur was him "& Friends"; one of those friends was a squirrel named Scooter McNutty
Barney
Harrison
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$600
[21]
A starting place for racehorses&a sullen look of displeasure
post & pout
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$800
[1]
It's the last name of Giovanni, who became Pius IV in 1559; Gio was one of 4 family members to robe up, so... nepo-pope?
Medici
Krish
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$800
[11]
Turkey's inland Sea of Marmara is accessed through the Bosporus & this strait
the Dardanelles
Krish
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$800
[14]
Can you take the pressure? Units of measure for pressure include millibars & millimeters of this element
mercury
Shannon
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$800
[5]
In Greek myth, Demeter searched for this daughter until she got a tip-off that Hades was holding her & gave up
Persephone
Harrison
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$800
[17]
Who lives in a spacesuit under the sea?Thisscience-loving squirrel & friend of SpongeBob
Sandy Cheeks
Krish
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$800
[7]
A dish best served cold&money made
revenge & revenue
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DD
$1,000
[2]
"The true treasure of the Church is the most holy gospel of the glory and grace of God" is no. 62 in this document posted in 1517
the 95 Theses
Krish
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$1,000
[12]
The Library of Ahmed III & the Hagia Irene are sights to see in this palace complex in Istanbul
Topkapi Palace
Harrison
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$1,000
[15]
Shocking as it may seem, this unit constitutes a flow of one coulomb of electricity per second
an ampere
Krish
Shannon
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$1,000
[6]
"We love Mountaineer football" to this city named for a man named Zackquill, for a victory chorus of "Take Me Home, Country Roads"
Morgantown
Harrison
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$1,000
[16]
You may know this squirrel from such Nintendo games as his "Bad Fur Day" & his "Pocket Tales"
Conker
Harrison
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$1,000
[8]
Door component&a poetic foot
a jamb & an iamb
Harrison
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| FROM THEIRNEW YORK TIMESOBITUARY | OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD LITERARY TITLES | ENDS IN "F" | SONGS IN THE MOVIE | FREE | BIRD |
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$400
[27]
1948: "News of the assassination... only a few days after he had finished a five-day fast... spread quickly"
Gandhi
Krish
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$400
[26]
"The Son of Neptune" is the second book in the Y.A. series "Heroes of Olympus" by him
Riordan
Harrison
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$400
[25]
A defendant's foe in a civil suit
the plaintiff
Harrison
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$400
[28]
1985:"Fire In the Twilight"& "Don't You (Forget About Me)"
The Breakfast Club
Harrison
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$400
[29]
Walt Whitman is often called "the father of" this style of poetry liberated from the constraints of formal meter
free verse
Harrison
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$400
[30]
Ostriches are gastroliths, eating stones to digest food; rocks go to this lower part of the stomach designed for grinding
gizzard
Shannon
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$800
[22]
1967:"Noted writer... sometimes characterized as the 'O. Henry of Harlem'"
Hughes
Krish
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$1,200
[10]
"A Princess of Mars" by this author is the first novel in a series featuring John Carter
Burroughs
Harrison
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$800
[20]
A bundle of wheat, for instance
a sheaf
Harrison
Krish
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$800
[23]
1984:"Big Bottom","Stonehenge","Sex Farm"
This Is Spinal Tap
Harrison
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$800
[24]
This 2007 Bruce Willis movie has New Hampshire's state motto in its title
Live Free or Die Hard
Shannon
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$800
[4]
These "stellar" birds are known to fly in synchronous groups called murmurations, perhaps to avoid prey
starlings
Harrison
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$1,200
[6]
1980:"His four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games madehimperhaps the greatest athlete in track & field history"
Owens
Harrison
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$1,600
[11]
In this Vonnegut novel, the only place Winston Niles Rumfoord can exist without disappearing is on the largest moon of Saturn
The Sirens of Titan
Harrison
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$1,200
[5]
Gothic & grotesque are nothing fancy as typefaces go--in America, they describe sans-this typefaces
serif
Krish
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$1,200
[13]
1967:"Scarborough Fair/ Canticle","Mrs. Robinson"
The Graduate
Krish
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$1,200
[19]
The economic policy of free trade also goes by this French term
laissez-faire
Shannon
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$1,200
[3]
Osprey populations rebounded after this 3-letter insecticide was banned; it weakened their eggs' shells
DDT
Shannon
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$1,600
[7]
1964:"Only one other president lived to be 90--John Adams, the second president"
Hoover
Krish
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$2,000
[12]
The erotic short stories in "Delta of Venus" by this woman were written for a collector that Henry Miller knew
Anais Nin
Krish
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$1,600
[9]
Thishyphenated art term means the design projects just a little from the background
bas-relief
Harrison
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$1,600
[14]
1967:"The Bare Necessities","I Wan'na Be Like You","Trust In Me"
The Jungle Book
Harrison
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$1,600
[18]
This word for any free feature of a hotel begins with a word that ends prayers
amenities
Krish
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$1,600
[1]
Flamingoesare this type of alliterative eater, turning their heads upside down to get their grub
filter feeders
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$2,000
[8]
2025:"Principaldesignerof the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human"
Robert Jarvik
Krish
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DD
$6,000
[21]
A Samuel R. Delany novel where an exploding star is mined for a vital element shares its name with this PBS program
Nova
Harrison
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DD
$3,000
[17]
German & French give us this 9-letter word for a recurrent musical theme associated with a specific character
a Leitmotif
Harrison
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$2,000
[15]
2000:"I'll Fly Away","In The Jailhouse Now","I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow"
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Shannon
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$2,000
[16]
Feeling radiant? Human bodies emit a faint glow that may be caused by these, atoms or molecules with an unpaired electron
free radicals
Harrison
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$2,000
[2]
You can tell the dwarf type of this bird from its taller cousin not only by height but also by the lack of wattle
cassowaries
Shannon
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After an escape under darkness, a U.S. general told an Adelaide newspaper these 3 famous words on March 20, 1942
I shall return