Will Riley game 2.
Jenna LaFleur — a freelancer from Washington, D.C.
Steve Riddell — a business manager from Euless, Texas
Will Riley — an engineer originally from Houston, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Will! | $4,000 | $5,400 | $19,600 |
$28,801
2-day champion: $45,602 |
$15,000
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Steve | $2,200 | $4,400 | $9,200 |
$0
3rd place: $2,000 |
$9,200
17 R, 3 W |
| Jenna! | $1,600 | $7,600 | $14,400 |
$9,199
2nd place: $3,000 |
$14,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| HISTORIC LEADERS | LIT-POURRI | THAT'S PROBABLY ILLEGAL | MILD TV SPOILERS | K2 | YAS QUEENS |
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$200
[6]
According to his brother & successor Raúl, before his 2016 death, this man said he wanted no public memorials or tributes
Fidel Castro
Steve
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$200
[3]
Surrealism was inspired by the logic (or its lack) in these; poet Robert Desnos interpreted those of listeners on radio
dreams
Will!
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$200
[30]
AKA "false making", this crime can apply to art, like 450 pieces in Italy in 2024 that were not in fact by Klimt et al.
forgery (counterfeiting)
Will!
Steve
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$200
[27]
On this show Logan Roy gives control over to... cussin'! According to The Ringer, he drops the F-bomb 402 times
Succession
Jenna!
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$200
[20]
Some call it a frappe
a milkshake
Steve
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$200
[29]
The borough's role in history includes 1657's Flushing Remonstrance, which helped put religious freedom in this part of the Constitution
the First Amendment (the Bill of Rights)
Jenna!
|
|
$400
[5]
Roman dictator Quintus Hortensius ended centuries of struggle between the privileged patricians & these, the general citizens
plebeians
Will!
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$400
[7]
In the 1930s serious poet W.H. Auden edited an anthology of light verse, including "Sing a song o' sixpence / A bagful of" this
rye
Will!
Jenna!
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$400
[24]
You're indicted for this; your wives Etta, Flo, Bridget, Mindy, Nan & Gwen put up bail for you... & really prove the case
polygamy
Jenna!
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$400
[26]
On the last episode of this show, the title family meet at a New Jersey diner & the unthinkable happens--Meadow jaywalks!
The Sopranos
Will!
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$400
[19]
A memento
a keepsake
Steve
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$400
[14]
The "Miracle Mets"brought the house downin New York in 1969, but their house came down when this got demolished
Shea Stadium
Jenna!
|
|
$600
[4]
Like the little girl here, millions of followers engaged in loyalty dances to show their devotion to this leader
Chairman Mao
Will!
Steve
|
$600
[15]
"The Sheltering Sky" is set on this continent but Paul Bowles named the hero Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea
Africa
Steve
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$800
[23]
New York lists 5 degrees of this; 5th is a misdemeanor but 1st, with use of an incendiary device, is a felony that can get you 25 years
arson
Will!
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$600
[25]
In the 3rd episode of "Mad Men", we learn the true identity of this character--he's a dog lover! He gives his daughter a pooch
Don Draper
Steve
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$600
[8]
A ringer
a lookalike
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$600
[13]
What's been called the biggest event in the history of Queens is the 1909 opening of the Queensboro Bridge over this river
the East River
Will!
|
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$800
[1]
The support of working-class followers helped propel this man to the presidency of Argentina in 1946
Perón
Will!
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$800
[21]
Not a fan of her verse novel, Edward FitzGerald wrote on her death, "No more 'Aurora Leigh's, thank God", enraging her husband Robert
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Steve
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$1,000
[22]
Thailand hands out sentences as long as 60 years for this crime, a term from the French for injuring royal dignity
lèse-majesté
Jenna!
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$800
[17]
Not to give too much away, but the first name of the title novelist played by Nathan Fillion on this show is Richard
Castle
Jenna!
|
$800
[9]
One's wingman
a sidekick
Jenna!
|
$800
[12]
This airport in Queens is named for a NYC mayor who left his seat in Congress to be a pilot in World War I
LaGuardia
Will!
|
|
$1,000
[2]
Her lover Grigory Orlov helped organize the 1760s coup that made her an empress
Catherine the Great
Steve
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$1,000
[28]
One of Andrew Lloyd Webber's less successful shows was a 1975 musical about the book characters Bertie Wooster & this valet
Jeeves
Jenna!
|
DD
$2,400
[18]
This crime refers to illegally transporting booze or taping & selling that Doobie Brothers concert
bootlegging
Jenna!
|
$1,000
[16]
In Season 1, Episode 1 of "Bridgerton", this actor, as Lord Anthony, rides a horse
Jonathan Bailey
|
$1,000
[10]
A stevedore
a dockworker
Steve
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$1,000
[11]
As the name says, the Kew-Forest School, where Donald Trump went from K through 7th, serves Kew Gardens & this area
Forest Hills
Will!
|
| ISLANDS | RUSSIAN COMPOSERS | SCIENCE GLOSSARY | FILM TITLE PAIRS | SAY "LOVE" | MOVING WORDS & PHRASES |
|
$400
[30]
Some 3,000 brown bears inhabit this largest Alaskan island & its archipelago
Kodiak Island
Will!
Steve
|
$400
[5]
Rachmaninoff was known for his concerti featuring this instrument & was considered its leading virtuoso of his time
the piano
Will!
|
$400
[28]
Genetics is the study of this, a word centuries older for all characteristics passed down via the bloodline
heredity
Jenna!
|
$400
[1]
1996:Leonardo DiCaprio & Claire Danes
Romeo + Juliet
Will!
|
$400
[16]
"Love Story", the novel & the film, gave us this memorable line about not apologizing
love means never having to say you're sorry
Steve
|
$400
[24]
'Twas the night before Christmas & "not a creature was" doing this
stirring
Steve
|
|
$800
[29]
It's separated from mainland China by astraitof the same name
Taiwan
Jenna!
|
$800
[23]
Dimitri Tiomkin, one of the composers who shaped Hollywood film music, made theme songs a big thing on this 1952 Gary Cooper Western
High Noon
Steve
|
$800
[27]
The polymer cellulose is called a polysaccharide, meaning it is composed of molecules of these
sugars
Will!
|
$800
[2]
1997:George Clooney & Chris O'Donnell
Batman & Robin
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$800
[15]
The title period of this novel by Gabriel García Márquez is the 1870s to the 1930s
Love in the Time of Cholera
Steve
|
$800
[17]
It's the movement of people from one social class or level to another; I'm going to opt for the upward type
mobility
Steve
|
|
$1,200
[4]
The islands of the Seychelles are spread over hundreds of thousands of square miles in this ocean
the Indian Ocean
Steve
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$1,200
[22]
This composer was miffed when Alexander III's only comment on his 1890 "Sleeping Beauty" ballet was "very nice"
Tchaikovsky
Will!
|
$1,200
[8]
Humans are mammals that have this 12-letter structure, with all the bones on the inside
an endoskeleton
Jenna!
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$1,200
[11]
2009:Amy Adams &Meryl Streep
Julie & Julia
Jenna!
|
$1,200
[10]
"You that way; we this way" is the last line in this Shakespeare play
Love's Labour's Lost
Will!
|
$1,200
[13]
It's theroadwayyou take when you take your time; the Midwest's Meeting of the Great Riversone lives up to its designation
the scenic route
Steve
|
|
$2,000
[7]
This group of self-governing Danish islands lies about halfway between the Shetland Islands & Iceland
the Faroe Islands
Jenna!
|
$1,600
[26]
Prokofiev got to tour Disney on a U.S. visit--maybe it helped him score "Alexander Nevsky" for this great director back home
Eisenstein
Will!
|
$1,600
[9]
Iodine is this type of element & is used as the filler gas in the same type of lamp
a halogen
Jenna!
|
$1,600
[3]
2018:Will Ferrell & John C. Reilly
Holmes & Watson
Jenna!
|
DD
$2,000
[12]
The June 1915 issue of Poetry magazine contained an angry letter from Ezra Pound as well as this poem by T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Jenna!
|
$1,600
[18]
Moving word meaning to deliver or send a thought, as in please ____ my heartfelt thanks or sympathies
convey
Steve
|
|
DD
$6,200
[6]
In 1902 an eruption of Mount Pelée on this French island destroyed the city of Saint-Pierre
Martinique
Will!
|
$2,000
[25]
He began writing his "Leningrad Symphony" in 1941 during the city's siege by the Germans before being evacuated
Shostakovich
Will!
|
$2,000
[21]
In winter, chipmunks enter this not-quite-hibernating state, from the Latin for "numbness"
torpor
|
$2,000
[20]
2019:Jodie Turner-Smith &Daniel Kaluuya
Queen & Slim
Jenna!
|
$2,000
[14]
In addition to its title question, this Cole Porter standard asks, "Why should it make a fool of me?"
"What Is This Thing Called Love?"
|
$2,000
[19]
It can mean one traveling on foot or be the British word for the itemshown
perambulator
Steve
Jenna!
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Legend says that for military aid, Robert Bruce gave half of a symbol of Scotland's monarchy to the King of Munster, who turned it into this
the Blarney Stone