2025-2026 Second Chance competition week 1, final game 2.
Eugene Huang — a teacher from Paramus, New Jersey (subtotal of $6,000)
Dave Widmayer — a trivia host from Portland, Oregon (subtotal of $0)
Pete Johnston — a filmmaker and educator originally from Alma, Michigan (subtotal of $0)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pete | $800 | $1,400 | $13,400 | $26,800 |
$13,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Dave | $3,600 | $6,600 | $20,000 | $11,599 |
$17,600
25 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Eugene | $2,200 | $3,200 | $11,200 | $19,800 |
$11,200
14 R, 0 W |
| THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS, IN CASH | HISTORIC AMERICANS | JOB-BREVIATIONS | BROADWAY | THAT'S (A WORD FROM THE) ITALIAN! | LANDFORM HO! |
|
$200
[29]
The most expensive of the 12 days was hiring 10 of these jumpin' dudes, which set you back $15,580
lords a-leaping
Dave
|
$200
[28]
On June 17, 1972 security guard Frank Wills called the police about a break-in at this complex
Watergate
Eugene
|
$200
[25]
No need for business attire--or any attire--if you have this type of employment arrangement, WFH for short
work from home
Dave
|
$200
[30]
In 2017 & 2018, Bette Midler was simply divine as the matchmaking Miss Levi in this show
Hello, Dolly!
Eugene
|
$200
[22]
It's from the Italian for "my lady" & from the American for "Like A Virgin"
Madonna
Dave
|
$200
[26]
Djursland in Denmark is one of these landforms, from words meaning "almost" & "island"
peninsula
Pete
Eugene
|
|
$400
[20]
$750 got you a pair of these; the wood pigeon is a relative but doesn't sound as cool when you sing the name
turtle doves
Eugene
|
$400
[27]
In a 2025 film, Rami Malekplays Douglas Kelley, the Army shrink who evaluated Nazi war criminals in this city
Nuremberg
Dave
|
$400
[24]
Forgot the password to your work computer again? For help logging in, call someone from I.T., short for this
information technology
Dave
|
$400
[21]
Nominated for 9 Tonys, this musical imagines what would have happened if one half of the star-crossed lovers survived & thrived
& Juliet
Pete
|
$400
[17]
This job is "the heart of Starbucks", according to the company
barista
Pete
|
$400
[15]
A sheet-like flow of magma that cuts through rock layers is called this, also a word for a levee that stops water flow
a dike
Pete
Dave
|
|
$600
[19]
OK, each one of these was $115 & change, & you needed 3, so your total came out to $346
(three) French hens
Pete
Dave
|
$600
[8]
Swiss immigrant Albert Gallatin headed this Cabinet dept. 1801-1814, the longest tenure--Swiss, so probably not the War Dept.
Treasury
Pete
|
$600
[23]
Good luck getting in touch with Boris from payroll today; he's OOO, this
out of office
Pete
|
$600
[7]
In 2023 Jessica Chastain starred as Nora Helmer in a revival of this play
A Doll's House
Eugene
|
$600
[6]
Meaning "clever, witty saying", it's a short phrase to summarize an intention; for Cub Scouts, it's "Do Your Best"
motto
Pete
|
$600
[14]
This type of elongated valley forms between 2 faults in the Earth's crust; there's a "Great" one in Africa
rift
Dave
|
|
$800
[18]
So! many! birds in the song! & for $13,125, the 7 of these should have been able to do the butterfly at an Olympic level!
swans a-swimming
Pete
|
DD
$1,000
[2]
Mad that this pres. didn't recognize the new USSR, diplomat William Bullitt Jr. teamed with Freud on a savage psycho-biography of him
Woodrow Wilson
Dave
|
$800
[3]
Now that you're working on the sales floor, you'll be the customers' first P.O.C., short for this, so look sharp!
point of contact
Dave
|
$800
[10]
On Broadway in 2025, "John Proctor Is the Villain" re-examines this play during the height of the #metoo movement
The Crucible
Eugene
|
$800
[5]
It's from the Italian for "square" or "marketplace"; it's also the last name of a guy who squared up & hit 427 career home runs
piazza
Eugene
|
$800
[13]
Visiting England? Stuff yourself with the Cheddar this steep, narrow canyon in the Mendip Hills
gorge
Dave
|
|
$1,000
[1]
This 11-piece band charged $3,715 for the gig, but that was cost-effective, as you got a group to back you for the tune
11 pipers piping
Dave
|
$1,000
[9]
Not Robert E. Lee, a mere colonel, but brigadier Gen. Joseph Johnston was the highest-ranking U.S. Army officer to do this in 1861
switch over to the Confederacy (defect or secede)
Dave
|
$1,000
[4]
Is your team making progress toward company goals? (Translation: are you getting a bonus?) Check the KPIs, or key these
performance indicators
Pete
Dave
|
$1,000
[11]
Following his death in 2005, hebecame the first African-American playwright to have a Broadway theater named after him
Wilson
Pete
|
$1,000
[16]
We have the framework of a clue--it's the covered shelter seen here
a pergola
Dave
|
$1,000
[12]
The 350,000-square-mile Sohm, off Newfoundland, is N. Am.'s largest of the flat, very deep expanses of seafloor called abyssal these
plain
Dave
|
| 19th CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS | VOCABULARY | IN LONDON'S NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY | COP ROCK | YE OLDE SCIENCE | PULLING YOUR WAIT |
|
$400
[30]
Susan Wallace, wife of "Ben-Hur" author Lew, coined an immortal phrase in "the patter of" these, a poem about the steps of a child
little feet
|
$400
[25]
Popularized in the 1990s, it's to bestow a present on someone else that was originally bestowed upon you
regift
Eugene
|
$400
[24]
She is featured leading a 1982 Conservative Party conference in Brighton
Thatcher
Pete
|
$400
[29]
Thom Yorke once said this band's song "Karma Police" was for "everyone who works for a big firm. It's a song against bosses"
Radiohead
Eugene
|
$400
[22]
A chariot wheel would drop a pebble every 400 spins to show one mile in the ancient version of this device now used in cars
an odometer
Dave
|
$400
[27]
The longest-serving monarch-in-waiting in British history, he was a retirement benefits-eligible 73 when he finally got the big gig
Charles III
Dave
|
|
$800
[28]
The first Mexican-American author in English, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton set the novel "The Squatter & the Don" in this state
California
|
$800
[5]
Used both positively & negatively, this Yiddish word means a lot of nerve or gall
chutzpah
Dave
|
$800
[23]
A 1953 shot of these 2 scientists standing in front of their original double-helix model made the cut
Watson & Crick
Dave
|
$800
[26]
In a 1973 protest song, Bob Marley admits "I shot the sheriff" in self-defense, but denies committing this other crime
shooting the deputy
Dave
|
$800
[21]
An ancient mention of an early type of this object calls it a "south-pointer" that could help jade hunters navigate
a compass
Dave
|
$800
[20]
Proverbially, if you pour this slow, sticky, thick syrup in January, be prepared to wait awhile
molasses
Dave
|
|
$1,200
[4]
New Englander Margaret Fuller, editor of the Dial, was a major figure in this philosophy of revealed truth & a unified creation
transcendentalism
Eugene
|
$1,200
[1]
From Sanskrit, this synonym for expert is used of political commentators like George Will & Jessica Tarlov
pundit
Eugene
|
$1,200
[15]
This fashion designer is in the gallery; so's her dad, a musician of some note, & mom, both as a subject & a photographer
Stella McCartney
Pete
|
$1,200
[6]
This reggae song by Inner Circle was the theme to the reality series "Cops" for over 30 years
"Bad Boys"
Pete
|
$1,200
[19]
In the 2nd century B.C., Hipparchus determined this celestial distance at around 60.5 Earth radii, just a bit high
the distance to the Moon
Dave
Eugene
|
$1,200
[9]
At 18 to 22 months, this animal has the longest gestation period of any mammal, & I bet Mama never lets those kids forget it
elephants
Dave
|
|
DD
$2,000
[16]
An older sister wrote about this youngest one's "Tenant of Wildfell Hall", "The choice of subject was an entire mistake"
Anne Brontë
Pete
|
$1,600
[2]
It's the word for a work of art in 3 sections or panels & often used as an altarpiece
triptych
Pete
|
$1,600
[14]
Annie Leibovitz took the 1992 shot of this music & transportation mogul who sent himself to space on his own ship
Richard Branson
Eugene
|
$1,600
[7]
It's no small tusk, er task, to decipher this trippy Beatles song, whose lyrics include a sighting of "Mister City P'liceman"
"I Am The Walrus"
Dave
|
$2,000
[18]
The secret formula of this incendiary Byzantine weapon that was impervious to water is still unknown
Greek fire
Eugene
|
$1,600
[10]
Numbers 14:33 says, "Your children shall wander in the wilderness" this many years
40
Pete
|
|
$2,000
[17]
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood published poems by this sister to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who drew her likeness
Christina Rossetti
|
$2,000
[3]
From Greek for "to teach", it describes something intended to teach or inform, but can also mean preachy or moralizing
didactic
Pete
|
$2,000
[13]
If you don't know thisma them atician is honored on Floor 2, you've failed his test & simply aren't human
Turing
Dave
|
$2,000
[12]
"Mama, take this badge off of me" is the first line of this Dylan song, written for a movie scene about the death of a lawman
"Knockin' On Heaven's Door"
Pete
|
DD
$5,000
[8]
The ancient Romans used this 2-word farming concept with a revolving "food, feed & fallow" planting method
crop rotation
Dave
|
$2,000
[11]
A functionary tries to hold it together on the edge of an empire in J.M. Coetzee's novel "Waiting for" them
the Barbarians
|
A store's mingling of displays of 2 different holidays inspired a poem & years later, a 1990s film with this name
The Nightmare Before Christmas