Harrison Whitaker game 15.
Libby Jones — a recruiter from Davenport, Florida
Brendan Thomas — a historian from Fayetteville, Arkansas
Harrison Whitaker — a researcher originally from Terre Haute, Indiana (whose 14-day cash winnings total $373,999)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison | $4,400 | $6,600 | $21,000 |
$7,599
2nd place: $3,000 |
$22,000
25 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Brendan | $2,800 | $2,800 | $3,600 |
$7,199
3rd place: $2,000 |
$6,400
10 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Libby | $0 | $3,000 | $17,200 |
$24,801
New champion: $24,801 |
$15,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| STATE DEPT. NO-GOs | TELEVISION | A STACK OF "LEE" | GET SOME REST | PLENTY OF FLUIDS | A SICK DAY |
|
$200
[28]
On Feb. 24, 2022 Putin announced a "special military operation" in this country, so it may be best to steer clear for a bit
Ukraine
Libby
|
$200
[19]
In its run this show has followed the professional growth of Meredith from her intern days to chief of general surgery
Grey's Anatomy
Libby
|
$200
[27]
Wool, or to steal
fleece
Libby
|
$200
[30]
This day of holiness & rest observed by Jews begins at sunset each Friday
the Sabbath
Brendan
|
$200
[26]
A deep black & waterproof, this "Asian" ink is known for its permanence & is used in drawing & calligraphy
India ink
Libby
|
$200
[29]
Fatal once you've got symptoms, this disease transmitted by animal bites has an awareness day on Sept. 28
rabies
Harrison
|
|
$400
[22]
Carjacking & kidnapping are sadly common in Haiti, with the airport in this city "a focal point for armed activity"
Port-au-Prince
Libby
|
$400
[9]
Thisqueen of rap played the title role in "Bessie", a TV movie about "Empress of the Blues" Bessie Smith
Queen Latifah
Brendan
|
$400
[20]
In recent slang "on" this means your makeup, hair, nails, face & just whole vibe look amazing
fleek
Harrison
|
$400
[24]
Completes the Noël Coward lyric "Hindus & Argentines sleep firmly from 12 to 1, but Englishmen detest a..."
siesta
Brendan
Libby
|
$400
[23]
Bette Nesmith Graham invented "Mistake Out" but fittingly, corrected that with this new name that tells you it's a fluid
Liquid Paper
Harrison
|
$400
[25]
May 2 is Awareness Day for this, which afflicted olden sailors & still pops up in places that can't get fresh fruit easily
scurvy
Libby
|
|
$600
[21]
Dennis Rodman & the Harlem Globetrotters truly globetrotted with a controversial visit to this country in 2013, but you won't
the DPRK (North Korea)
Harrison
|
$600
[10]
After Ken Osmond played ingratiating teenager Eddie Haskell on this 1950s family sitcom, he became a cop with the LAPD
Leave It to Beaver
Brendan
|
$600
[17]
The alma mater of Keir Starmer & Mark Knopfler is this city's university
Leeds
Harrison
Brendan
|
$600
[14]
Some rest stops honor lawmen of this force with a type of road in its name like Dale Krings (I-280, Ca.) & Roy Caffey (I-26, S.C.)
Highway Patrol
Harrison
|
$600
[7]
Boil it all down 3 times & you'll get blackstrap, a grade of this sugarcane product
molasses
Harrison
|
$600
[5]
Feb. 28 is Rare Diseases Day & there are many, like hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, affecting these cooling glands
sweat glands
Harrison
|
|
$800
[6]
Crime, landmines & the terrorist group Ansarallah, "commonly referred to as" them, are reasons to steer clear of Yemen
the Houthis
Harrison
|
$800
[11]
Hacking itself, a security robot starts struggling with human emotions on this sci-fi show from Apple TV+
Murderbot
Brendan
|
$800
[3]
It's an internal organ associated with melancholy
the spleen
Harrison
|
DD
$1,000
[1]
Latin for "gap" or "yawn", it can be a break in work, often for TV productions over summer
a hiatus
Harrison
|
$800
[8]
Thecarthat won the USA's first official auto race in 1895 used this late-in-the-alphabet motor oil named for the parts it lubricates
Valvoline
|
$800
[16]
Chagas Disease Day is April 14, the 1909 date Carlos Chagasfirst diagnosed it in Minas Gerais state in this South American country
Brazil
Libby
|
|
$1,000
[13]
Though you may have had your heart set on a trip to its capital of Bamako, this landlocked nation gets a no from State
Mali
Brendan
|
$1,000
[12]
Olivia Colman & David Tennant starred in this Brit-dram about a shocking crime in a small seaside town full of secrets
Broadchurch
Harrison
|
$1,000
[4]
A special year of special grace in the Catholic Church
a jubilee
Harrison
|
$1,000
[2]
Hamlet gives us some basic music theory in these, his last words
the rest is silence
|
$1,000
[15]
Used to prepare animal hides, much of this acid comes from South American quebracho trees
tannic acid
|
$1,000
[18]
This condition of loss of melanin, a more noticeable issue for those with dark skin, has its own day on June 25
vitiligo
Libby
|
| A BOATLOAD OF TROUBLE | PLAYS BY CHARACTERS | HODGEPODGE | GEOGRAPHIC FILM TITLES | A COURSE OF HORSES | TIMELY WORDS |
|
$400
[26]
The body of Wallace Hartley, band leader aboard this vessel, was recovered fully dressed; hisviolinlater surfaced & was sold for $1.5 million
the Titanic
Harrison
|
$400
[29]
Mitch Mitchell, Eunice, Stanley Kowalski
A Streetcar Named Desire
Brendan
|
$400
[28]
Born near Warsaw, he composed "Twelve Études", Opus 10, in 1833
Chopin
Libby
|
$400
[19]
Before "The Banshees of Inisherin", Brendan Gleeson & Colin Farrell found themselves "In" this Belgian city
Bruges
Harrison
|
$400
[30]
To be recognized as one of these, a horse must be descended from one of 3 stallions of 17th & 18th century England
a Thoroughbred
Harrison
|
$400
[27]
A period of 1,000 years; some of you kids were probably born around the end of the last one
a millennium
Libby
|
|
$800
[22]
A Netflix doc called "Trainwreck: Poop Cruise" told of an ill-fated 2013 trip from this cruise line, not the party its name suggests
Carnival
Harrison
|
$800
[17]
Angus, Donalbain, Malcolm
Macbeth
Brendan
|
$800
[23]
There are 4 species of this type of venomous snake: one black & 3 green
a mamba
Harrison
|
$800
[18]
The high point of this 1993 romcom is some 2,500 miles from the title, on the observation deck of the Empire State Building
Sleepless in Seattle
Libby
|
$800
[24]
In legend, she went naked on a nag to reduce taxes imposed by her husband Leofric
Godiva
Harrison
|
$800
[25]
Literally meaning "the science of time", today it more commonly means a timeline of events
chronology
Brendan
|
|
$1,200
[21]
The crew of the doomed fishing boat Andrea Gail is the focus of this nonfiction bestseller, later a George Clooney film
The Perfect Storm
Libby
|
$1,200
[4]
Honey, Martha, George
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Libby
|
$1,200
[14]
Stomach pain & nausea are symptoms of these peptic issues, which are often caused by the H. pylori bacterium
ulcers
Harrison
|
$1,600
[2]
In this action film Kurt Russell was a trucker named Jack Burton, facing down Lo Pan, a 2,000-year-old evil magician
Big Trouble in Little China
Libby
|
$1,200
[6]
A palomino horse named Bamboo Harvester playedthisTV title role from 1961 to 1966
Mister Ed
Harrison
|
$1,200
[9]
An adjective meaning "time-related", it also describes an area of thecerebral cortex
temporal
Harrison
|
|
$2,000
[16]
After being torpedoed by a German U-boat in May 1915, this liner sank with a loss of about 1,200 lives
Lusitania
Libby
|
$1,600
[3]
Ethel Rosenberg, Roy Cohn, Prior Walter
Angels in America
Brendan
|
$1,600
[7]
A wing of the Louvreis named for this man, nicknamed "The Red Eminence"
Richelieu
Harrison
|
$2,000
[12]
Sydney Pollack directed this 1985 film that went on to win the Oscar for Best Picture
Out of Africa
Harrison
|
$1,600
[15]
Enjoyed in the summer in Ulaanbaatar, airag is a fermented mare's milk in this country
Mongolia
Harrison
|
$1,600
[10]
A place where things are joined, or a point in time in the phrase "at this" this
juncture
Libby
|
|
DD
$3,000
[11]
An 1898 court of inquiry said it was "unable to obtain evidence fixing the responsibility for the destruction of" this
the (U.S.S.) Maine
Libby
|
$2,000
[5]
Sister James, Father Flynn, Mrs. Muller
Doubt
Libby
|
$2,000
[8]
This word follows Mohorovicic in the name of the boundary between the Earth's crust & mantle
discontinuity
|
DD
$2,800
[1]
It's the only James Bond film with a country in its title
From Russia with Love
Brendan
|
$2,000
[20]
A cowboy tames a wild horse in this Frederic Remington sculpture that was copyrighted in 1895
Bronco Buster
|
$2,000
[13]
William Blake wrote of holding "infinity in the palm of your hand" & this vast period "in an hour"
eternity
Harrison
|
A 1959 4-cent stamp depicts an eagle & a maple leaf beneath the name of this project
the St. Lawrence Seaway