Harrison Whitaker game 13.
Paul Wenzel — a songwriter/musician from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Nicole Haase — a freelance journalist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Harrison Whitaker — a researcher originally from Terre Haute, Indiana (whose 12-day cash winnings total $330,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison | $5,800 | $8,800 | $18,800 |
$22,000
13-day champion: $352,000 |
$21,800
30 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Nicole | $1,400 | $4,000 | $7,200 |
$5,401
2nd place: $3,000 |
$7,200
9 R, 0 W |
| Paul! | $800 | $1,600 | $2,700 |
$3,603
3rd place: $2,000 |
$5,200
7 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
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$200
[30]
In this Edgar Allan Poe story, our loopy narrator kills an old man, but thinks he still hears part of his victim beating on
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
Paul!
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$200
[29]
If your commanding officer shouts "10-hut!", it's an altered form of this word, the opposite of "at ease"
attention
Harrison
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$200
[28]
In May 2025 the Spanish government called for the removal of nearly 70,000 listings on this rental platform
Airbnb
Paul!
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$200
[22]
NFL players "wear their hearts on their feet", picking worthy charities to display on the turf for "My Cause My" these shoes
Cleats
Harrison
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$200
[27]
"My Country, 'Tis Of Thee" calls the U.S. "land of" their "pride"
pilgrims'
Harrison
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$200
[26]
It comes after peregrine or Millennium
falcon
Nicole
|
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$400
[24]
Halfway through this Gillian Flynn novel, we move from one unreliable narrator, Nick, to his wife, Amy Dunne
Gone Girl
Harrison
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$400
[10]
It's the term for close-range combat between 2 aerial opponents; "Top Gun" is ruff--sorry, rife--with exciting ones
a dogfight
Harrison
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$400
[23]
Thirty something CEO Damola Adamolekun revamped this once-bankrupt chain & added seafood boil bags to its menu
Red Lobster
Harrison
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$400
[20]
The online site called the Dawg Pound Daily provides articles & history pertaining to this NFL squad
the Cleveland Browns
Nicole
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$400
[25]
Pride Rock is the scene of a joyous occasion in this 1994 film
The Lion King
Paul!
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$400
[18]
2-word name for acircle of mushroomsthat might inspire some supernatural visitors
a fairy ring
Harrison
|
|
$600
[11]
No doubts here, this narrator of "American Psycho" deadpans to another, "I'm utterly insane"
Bateman
Harrison
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$600
[15]
Britain had a Royal Horse one of these units, which used indirect fire, to provide mobile support to its cavalry units
Artillery
|
$600
[5]
Thistoy from Pop Mart with pointy ears & serrated teeth is sold in blind boxes so you never know which kind you might get
a Labubu
Harrison
|
$600
[7]
(J.J. Watt presents the clue.) When I was young, I wanted to be a great player like the "Minister of Defense", this Eagles & Packers legend who was an ordained Baptist preacher
Reggie White
Nicole
|
$600
[17]
The annual celebration known as Pride Month commemorates these riots that took place in Greenwich Village
the Stonewall Riots
Harrison
|
$600
[12]
It's the hyphenated way a lot of movie scenes end, gradually that is
a fade-out
Harrison
|
|
$800
[1]
The obsessive narrator in this du Maurier novel isn't the title woman; the previous Mrs. de Winter died suspiciously
Rebecca
Paul!
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DD
$1,000
[16]
The Iraq War that began in 2003 brought this initialism for a homemade bomb into common usage
IED
Harrison
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$800
[6]
For the first time since 1970, Osaka, Japan hosted one of these events, with nearly 200 pavilions from places all over the globe
a World's Fair
Nicole
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$800
[8]
In 2020, Katie Sowers, an offensive assistant with this West Coast team, became the first female coach at a Super Bowl
the 49ers
Harrison
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$800
[2]
Rubens, like other artists, depicted this mythological figure showing pride in his reflection
Narcissus
Harrison
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$800
[13]
This term for a servant can also be used to describe anyone with vast responsibilities
factotum
|
|
$1,000
[3]
Merricat Blackwood, who narrates her book "We Have Always Lived in the Castle", is a superstitious woman from a dark family
(Shirley) Jackson
Harrison
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$1,000
[19]
The lowest rank held by commissioned naval officers, it's the rank conferred upon graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy
ensign
Nicole
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$1,000
[9]
The first image from this observatory in Chile, named for a female astronomer, showed ten million galaxies around the Virgo Cluster
Vera Rubin
Harrison
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$1,000
[21]
In 2023 the NFL played a few games at Hotspur Stadium in this London enclave
Tottenham
Nicole
|
$1,000
[4]
One of the seven deadly sins, pride is also known by this term, a compound word
vainglory
|
$1,000
[14]
In Norse legend this dragon guarded the treasure of the Nibelung
Fáfnir
|
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$400
[26]
He received more than a thousand U.S. patents--the first, in 1869, was for an electrographic vote recorder
Edison
Harrison
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$400
[27]
The Adriatic Sea separates the Italian Peninsula from this other peninsula that's home to 11 nations
the Balkan Peninsula
Harrison
|
$400
[28]
The leaf seenherecame from one of the roughly 130 species of this type of tree, eh?
maple
Harrison
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$400
[29]
On the retirement of fashion-conscious athlete Roger Federer, Anna Wintour toasted, "He gives to the extent he has received"
Vogue
Nicole
|
$400
[30]
The Warner Bros. "Hunting Season" trilogy opens with this character saying, "Shh, be vewy, vewy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits"
(Elmer) Fudd (Mr. Fudd)
Harrison
|
$400
[22]
Cacography refers to bad this; doctors are said to have it
handwriting
Harrison
|
|
$800
[14]
4 months after the Civil War ended, he became president of Washington College in Lexington, now a university that's partly named for him
Lee
Harrison
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$800
[25]
This capital city is found in the coastal administrative region of Attica
Athens
Harrison
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$800
[24]
Though famous for hiding unmentionable bits on statues, leaves from this tree are also used to make perfume
fig
Nicole
|
$800
[18]
"George (Clooney's) last time in an Equity theatre was in June of 1986... he has never appeared on Broadway so... buckle up"
Playbill
Harrison
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$800
[23]
Rumi, Mira & Zoeynot only entertain fans but protect them from the supernatural in this 2025 film by Sony Pictures Animation
KPop Demon Hunters
Harrison
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$800
[21]
If you're a noctivagant, it means you're used to ambling about during this
nighttime
Paul!
|
|
$1,600
[2]
Heard here, one of his most famous compositions was introduced in Philadelphia in 1897
Sousa
Paul!
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$1,200
[13]
Pensacolais in Florida; Peniscolaon Spain's coast was the home & castle of Benedict XIII, one of these 15th century neg dudes
an antipope
Paul!
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$1,200
[5]
A leaf cluster from this tree can drop as a military honor or in Maine, via the hard-foraging eastern gray squirrel
the oak
|
$1,200
[7]
From Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Elko" in 1992: "It is autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die"
Rolling Stone
Harrison
|
$1,200
[15]
It's the 3-letter title of the movie with Nicolas Cage as a truffle hunter
Pig
|
$1,200
[9]
Containing 2 sets of double letters, it can be a supporting architectural structure, or support of any kind
a buttress
Harrison
|
|
$2,000
[8]
A college of social work at the University of Illinois, Chicago honors this social worker & co-founder of Hull House
(Jane) Addams
Harrison
|
$1,600
[1]
One of Egypt's busiest seaports & its second-most populous city, it's home to about 5 million people
Alexandria
Harrison
|
$1,600
[4]
Also called a red elm, this tree turns its name on its head by having large leaves with the texture of sandpaper
the slippery elm
|
$1,600
[6]
On an annual list in 2024: "4 Saudi Aramco...6 China National Petroleum...10 CVS Health"
Fortune
Harrison
|
$1,600
[16]
Fugitives, beware Duane Chapman, who gained fame on reality TV under this 4-word moniker
Dog the Bounty Hunter
Harrison
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$2,000
[11]
The spring tide is one of maximal range when the Sun & Moon are in this word that has 3 Ys & no other vowels
syzygy
Harrison
|
|
DD
$2,500
[3]
In her final decade, she spent time in a sanitarium, lived briefly in Europe, then returned to Springfield, where she died in 1882
Mary Todd Lincoln
Paul!
|
$2,000
[12]
According to myth the goddess Aphrodite was born off this island
Cyprus
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$2,000
[20]
Populus tremuloides is the formal name ofthis2-word tree known for its fluttering leaves
quaking aspen
|
$2,000
[17]
Dorothy Parker, 1957: "If Guy Allen had left his wife at another period, she would have held the enduring interest of her friends"
The New Yorker
Nicole
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$2,000
[19]
This outdoorsy Michigan musician has an album of songs to get you in the hunting mood, with 2 versions of "Fred Bear"
Ted Nugent
|
DD
$3,200
[10]
This word for a big burial place such as Giza can become plural when you take away the "S" at the end
a necropolis
Harrison
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The title of an absurdist play from 1957, it's also in the title of Marvel's highest-grossing film
Endgame