2025-2026 Second Chance competition week 2, semifinal game 2.
Michelle Tsai — a tutor originally from Honolulu, Hawaii
Molly Murray — an English professor from New York, New York
Bob Callen — a retired librarian from Lexington, Kentucky
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob | $1,000 | $2,200 | $-1,800 |
$-1,800
3rd place: $2,000 |
$-1,800
5 R, 3 W |
| Molly | $1,600 | $2,800 | $13,200 |
$26,400
2nd place: $3,000 |
$13,200
14 R, 1 W |
| Michelle | $7,200 | $10,400 | $22,800 |
$26,401
Finalist |
$25,000
33 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| U.S. PLACE NAMES | YOUNG ADULT NOVELS | CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT | A PROVERBIAL MESS | "C.B." | WHAT'S YOUR HANDLE? |
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$200
[19]
This university town in North Carolina was founded in 1793 & named for the location of a Church of England building
Chapel Hill
Michelle
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$200
[30]
As the book's title suggests in Lauren Kate's "Fallen", Lucinda Price falls for the mysterious Daniel Grigori, one of these beings
an angel
Molly
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$200
[17]
In a classic holiday pop song, it's what "I saw mommy" doing "underneath the mistletoe last night"
kissing Santa Claus
Michelle
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$200
[27]
"Where is the heart is home"
home is where the heart is
Molly
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$200
[20]
Typically this type of repast consists of coffee & some baked goods
continental breakfast
Michelle
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$200
[25]
A controller with 2 grip handles & X & O buttons was released with this gaming console celebrating its 30th anniversary in the U.S. in 2025
PlayStation
Bob
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$400
[18]
You'll find this 2-word city with a state in its name in the Hampton Roads area
Virginia Beach
Michelle
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$400
[29]
In the "Percy Jackson & the Olympians" adventure books, Percy finds out that this god is his father
Poseidon
Michelle
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$400
[16]
In 2007, his"Noel" became the first Christmas album since Kenny G's "Miracles" to top the Billboard 200
Josh Groban
Michelle
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$400
[26]
"Many spoil the broth cooks too"
too many cooks spoil the broth
Michelle
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$400
[13]
Similar to a clambake, this type of feast that's also a party likely involves Dungeness items, along with corn & potatoes
a crab boil
Bob
Michelle
|
$400
[24]
The flat handles retract automatically on the Model 3 EV made by this company
Tesla
Michelle
|
|
$600
[4]
This Westchester County city abuts Wakefield in the Bronx--both are plantation names associated with George Washington
Mount Vernon
Bob
|
$600
[28]
Cassandra Clare's "City of Glass", the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters, is book 3 in this lethal series
The Mortal Instruments
|
$600
[7]
A perennial hit originally from this duo! says, "Last Christmas, I gave you my heart, but the very next day, you gave it away"
Wham!
Molly
|
$600
[8]
"Angels fear fools in rush to tread where"
fools rush in where angels fear to tread
Michelle
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$600
[12]
Joe Burrowgave up his LSU Tiger stripes to become a big cat withthisNFL franchise in 2020
Cincinnati Bengals
Michelle
|
$600
[21]
Arm day finally pays off when you circle your body around this apparatus with 2 handles & a heavy rump used in men's gymnastics
pommel horse
Michelle
|
|
$800
[3]
The name of this state capital likely comes from a word used by the Seminoles to mean "old town"
Tallahassee
Michelle
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$800
[1]
Rose & Lissa attend this secret boarding school hidden in rural Montana for paranormal royalty & their protectors
Vampire Academy
Bob
|
$800
[14]
In "A Christmas Story: The Musical", Ralphie sings, "What you really need to be a cowboy... is" this "carbine action BB gun"
Red Ryder
Bob
|
$800
[9]
"A raise to it takes a village child"
it takes a village to raise a child
Michelle
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$1,000
[11]
This Latin phrase refers to any event or speech that justifies a declaration of war
a casus belli
Molly
|
$800
[22]
A shortage of foreign materials during the '40s led this Italian company to use burnished cane to make thehandleof its bamboo bag
Gucci
Molly
|
|
$1,000
[5]
This once-booming town at the confluence of the Mississippi & Ohio is in an area of Illinois known as "Little Egypt"
Cairo
Michelle
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$1,000
[2]
Just a teenager when shewrote her first YA novel, "Solitaire", she's known for the "Heartstopper" romance comics
Alice Oseman
|
$1,000
[15]
Voicing the conductor in this film, Tom Hanks says, "Sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see"
The Polar Express
Michelle
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$1,000
[10]
"Sincerest flattery of form is the imitation"
imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
Michelle
|
DD
$1,800
[6]
When you analyze information in a manner that tends to bolster your preexisting beliefs, it's called this
confirmation bias
Michelle
|
$1,000
[23]
This type of simple machine is in the name of a horizontally inclined doorhandle
a lever
Bob
|
| THE '20s | RESTAR-AUTEURS | HITTING YOU WITH HARD SCIENCE | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS | TOONS IN TUNES | LADY & THE STAMP |
|
$400
[25]
Born in Gdansk (then Danzig), he introduced his eponymous temperature scale in 1724
Fahrenheit
Michelle
|
$400
[24]
Novelist Stewart O'Nan portrays a bittersweet "Last Night at the Lobster", about a dying restaurant in this chain
Red Lobster
Michelle
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$400
[29]
The name of a direct-to-consumer genetic info company includes this number, the total chromosome pairs in a typical human cell
23
Michelle
|
$400
[28]
Pre-princess, Diana Spencer was an assistant at a school for tiny tots called Young England this
Kindergarten
Molly
Michelle
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$400
[27]
Coolio's song about this kid says, "It's goin' down in the laboratory, there's no young boy cartoon genius better"
Dexter
Michelle
|
$400
[30]
In 1971, Patricia Roberts Harris, seen here, became the first Black woman to sit on the board of a major U.S. corporation, this computer giant
IBM
Molly
|
|
$800
[10]
In August 1521 the Aztec Empire ended; its last ruler, Cuauhtémoc, this man's nephew & son-in-law, was captured
Montezuma
Michelle
|
$800
[23]
This actor & presenter of the glories of Italian food made his movie directorial debut with the restaurant tale "Big Night"
Stanley Tucci
Molly
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$800
[22]
Here's some really hard science; the pink form of this igneous rock is prized for use in countertops & more
granite
Molly
|
$800
[21]
The National Board Exam for this Asian medical technique is called in full this "with point location"
acupuncture
Michelle
|
$800
[26]
The Sex Pistols asked, "Who killed" this Disney creature, "gentle pretty thing who only had one spring"
Bambi
Molly
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$1,200
[11]
A 2020 stamp honors this esteemed late journalist & moderator of PBS' "Washington Week"
(Gwen) Ifill
Michelle
|
|
$1,200
[3]
He came to power after leading the march on Rome in October 1922
Mussolini
Michelle
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$1,200
[5]
He's seenherearound the time he published his early novel "Bone in the Throat" about a Manhattan sous-chef
Anthony Bourdain
Molly
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$1,600
[20]
Coral polyps excrete hard skeletons made of this, CaCO3; get enough of the little guys together & you get a reef
calcium carbonate
Michelle
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$1,200
[6]
O'Reilly Auto Parts sells the flux this (currently out of stock) but not the plutonium it needs for time travel
a capacitor
Molly
|
$1,200
[15]
In "One Week", the Barenaked Ladies mention Aquaman & this character, aka Usagi Tsukino aka Princess Serenity
Sailor Moon
|
$1,600
[12]
A recruitment poster overlaid with code appears on the 2022 forever stamp titled "Women" these experts "of WWII"
Cryptologists
|
|
$1,600
[4]
In 2022 a draft of the majority opinion written by this Supreme Court justice overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked to the press
Alito
Molly
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$1,600
[8]
Ezra Tull runs the title establishment in this city in Anne Tyler's "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant"
Baltimore
Michelle
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$2,000
[19]
The 1930s added a zeroth law of this, saying 2 objects in thermal equilibrium with a 3rd are in equilibrium as well
thermodynamics
Bob
Michelle
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$1,600
[1]
Sanctioning is a synonym for this word, also what you want to happen to your parking ticket at that fancy shopping mall
validation
Michelle
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$1,600
[16]
Devo sang of this rhyming monkey of "Powerpuff Girls" fame, "I'm wound tight, hot-wired, about to explode"
Mojo Jojo
Michelle
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$2,000
[13]
Rejected by U.S. flight schools for her race & gender, this aviator got her pilot's license in France & her ownstampin 1995
(Bessie) Coleman
Michelle
|
|
$2,000
[9]
In 1429 Joan of Arc took up arms against the English to bring succor to this besieged city
Orléans
Molly
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$2,000
[14]
Documentarian Matt Tyrnauer directed a 2025 film about this man, whose black cod with miso is a signature
"Nobu" (Matsuhisa)
Molly
|
DD
$4,000
[2]
Latin for "hair" gives us the name of these blood vessels
capillary vessels (capillaries)
Michelle
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$2,000
[7]
These are known as "great circles" that pass through the Earth's poles
meridians
|
$2,000
[17]
Nicki Minaj namedrops this Autobot nemesis in a 2019 song title & also tells of her predilection for rum
Megatron
Bob
Michelle
|
DD
$6,000
[18]
The "Columbian Exposition" series features the first U.S. commemorative postage stamps, including 7 stamps that feature her
Queen Isabella
Michelle
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Before his sudden death in 2004, this journalist & author was researching the unsolved assassination of PM Olof Palme
Stieg Larsson