2025-2026 Second Chance competition week 3, semifinal game 2.
Ricky Chandak — a financial assurance senior from Boston, Massachusetts
Dondi DeMarco — an operations executive from New York, New York
Emily Johnson — a dog walker from Honolulu, Hawai'i
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emily | $200 | $1,400 | $13,600 |
$26,600
2nd place: $3,000 |
$13,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Dondi | $4,200 | $7,200 | $17,200 |
$27,201
Finalist |
$17,200
20 R, 0 W |
| Ricky | $3,000 | $4,800 | $12,400 |
$7,400
3rd place: $2,000 |
$10,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| LITERATURE OF ITS ERA | TIME FOR "SECOND"s | THAT'S CONSTITUTIONAL | CELEBRITIES | GET THAT PAPER | GRUB HUB |
|
$200
[30]
Can't get much more Regency than her dedicating "Emma" to the prince regent--& a 2018 discovery shows he bought a copy
(Jane) Austen
Emily
|
$200
[28]
Distance runners hope for this renewed feeling of energy after a period of initial fatigue
second wind
Dondi
|
$200
[29]
"The President... shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high" this duo
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Dondi
|
$200
[26]
They announced their recent engagement with "Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married"
Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce
Emily
|
$200
[27]
Dried shark skin can be used in woodworking as this kind of paper due to its abrasive surface
sandpaper
Ricky
|
$200
[23]
Mid-City's Parkway Bakery & Tavern calls these sandwiches "the shotgun house of New Orleans cuisine"
po' boys
Dondi
|
|
$400
[24]
William Dean Howells' "A Hazard of New Fortunes", featuring a self-made millionaire, has an apt title for 1889 & this "Age"
the Gilded Age
Ricky
|
$400
[25]
As Vice President Kamala Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff was known formally by this title
Second Gentleman
Emily
|
$400
[20]
"No Person shall" have this job "who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen"
Senator
Emily
|
$400
[21]
On August 1, 2025, flags in Tallahassee, Florida flew at half-staff to commemoratehislife & legacy
Hulk Hogan
Ricky
|
$400
[17]
It's filter paper treated with a water-soluble dye made from lichens & used as a pH indicator
litmus
Ricky
|
$400
[22]
This New England soup has been on Legal Sea Foods' menu for more than 40 years
clam chowder
Ricky
|
|
$600
[16]
A 1776 play by Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger gave this name to Germany's "storm and stress" literary movement
Sturm und Drang
Dondi
|
$600
[1]
Joan Riverssaid, "I was really born as a comedian at this Chicago institution"
Second City
Ricky
|
$800
[14]
The 24th Amendment says the right to vote "shall not be denied... by reason of failure to pay" this tax "or other tax"
a poll tax
Dondi
|
$600
[7]
"Finding Your Roots" revealed that these two--one a TV host, the other a senator--are actually distant cousins
RuPaul Charles & Cory Booker
Emily
|
$600
[10]
This word for material used to decorate a room can also describe an NPC-like boring person
wallpaper
Emily
|
$600
[11]
Santa Fe & San Antonio both claim ownership of this delicacy consisting of corn chips covered in chili
Frito pie
Dondi
|
|
$800
[4]
Julius Caesar's lucid prose is classed as part of the era of Latin lit named for this great orator, killed the year after Caesar
Cicero
Ricky
|
$800
[2]
Any action or response ingrained into your habit or character is deemed this
second nature
Ricky
|
DD
$1,000
[6]
"Each State shall have at Least one Representative"; Delaware & this 13th state got exactly that... one
Rhode Island
Emily
|
$800
[8]
Growing up, Charlize Theron's first language was this one developed from Dutch
Afrikaans
Ricky
|
$800
[12]
As a verb, this 4-letter word can mean to cheat; as a noun, it's about 500 sheets of paper
a ream
Dondi
|
$800
[18]
Omaha is rye-t to claim this sandwich with corned beef & Russian dressing as a hometown hero
a Reuben
Dondi
|
|
$1,000
[5]
A novel of a femme fatale, "Zuleika Dobson" is set "in the midst of" this U.K. era, the first decade of the 20th century
the Edwardian Era
Emily
Ricky
|
$1,000
[3]
Per this rule, the rate of momentum change of a body is equal to the magnitude & direction of the force imposed on it
Newton's Second Law of Motion
Ricky
|
$1,000
[15]
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure" these 2 words
domestic Tranquility
Emily
Dondi
|
$1,000
[9]
Shewas the original Evita on Broadway & originated the role of Norma Desmond in London
Patti LuPone
Dondi
|
$1,000
[13]
Thisthin type of paper used to make delicate shoji paper screens for sliding doors literally translates to "Japanese paper"
washi
|
$1,000
[19]
Kauai is famous for kulolo, a dessert made from coconut milk, sugar & this 4-letter root vegetable also used to make poi
taro
Dondi
|
| WINNING IS DIFFICULT! | ARCHITECTURE | ONLY CONNECT | WHAT HAPPENS IN ONSCREEN VEGAS | IN THE DICTIONARY | MISH-MAPS |
|
$400
[29]
The Army thought Sitting Bull had 800 warriors for this 1876 battle; winning was difficult--nay, impossible--as there were 2,000
Little Bighorn
Ricky
|
$400
[22]
The most elegant & ornate major order of Greek architecture, it also has the longest name
Corinthian
Dondi
|
$400
[30]
An invite on GCal, short for this, is the standard way many college students today suggest getting together
Google Calendar
Emily
|
$400
[27]
Right after departing work at the White House, hebegan practicing as "Dr. Vegas" in 2004
Rob Lowe
Dondi
|
$400
[26]
It means "occurring often"; when it's a verb meaning "to visit often", the stress can shift to the second syllable
frequent
Dondi
|
$400
[21]
The site of a military base in Cuba moves west along the coast to the site of a failed incursion & becomes this
Guantánamo Bay of Pigs
Emily
|
|
$800
[28]
Russia took the L in this 1853 to 1856 war, surrendering Southern Bessarabia & opening the Danube to shipping for all nations
the Crimean War
Emily
|
$800
[13]
French for "sleep" gives us this word for a window jutting from a sloping roof, often attached to a bedroom
a dormer
Dondi
|
$800
[24]
Hey, let's play first U.S. Post Office within its state's present boundaries! Natchez, Nov. 29, 1799
Mississippi
Ricky
|
$800
[25]
Why can't we remember a thing from last night in this film? Because we obviously had a great bleeping time
The Hangover
Ricky
|
$800
[23]
Whether half or full, one theory for its name is a British town known for its wrestling matches
nelson
Emily
|
$800
[11]
The capital of Arkansas moves to a massive limestone promontory at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula & becomes this
Little Rock of Gibraltar
Emily
|
|
$1,200
[18]
...Even if you win the popular vote! But Samuel Tilden ended up 1 Electoral College vote short & this guy from Ohio became president
Hayes
Ricky
|
$1,200
[1]
Frank Lloyd Wright's curving & sloping design for this museum made art hard to hang & view straight, but it still looks cool
the Guggenheim
Emily
|
$1,200
[12]
This social media platform where you can read about helpful painters & creepy intruders says it's in 345,000 neighborhoods
Nextdoor
Emily
|
$1,200
[7]
Comedian Deborah Vance took steps to avoid Pentatonix taking over part of her Vegas residency on this show
Hacks
Ricky
|
$1,200
[4]
It's a type of responsive prayer, or in the secular world, an often long & tedious list of complaints
a litany
Dondi
|
$1,200
[10]
The world's largest inland body of water gets relocated to the site of the first manned lunar landing & becomes this
the Caspian Sea of Tranquilty
Ricky
|
|
$1,600
[19]
In 31 B.C. after his forces weren't quite shipshape at the Battle of Actium, he & his lady friend were not long for the world
Mark Antony
Dondi
|
$2,000
[3]
The Californiachampagnebrand is spelled with a "K", this projecting part with a "C"
a corbel
Ricky
|
$1,600
[14]
In the USA of 1950 it's been estimated 1 working woman in 13 spent her day sitting at this apparatus connecting callers
a switchboard
Dondi
|
$1,600
[16]
A billionaire offers a million to spend one night with a man's wife inthis1993 film; wink wink, nudge nudge--say no more
Indecent Proposal
Dondi
|
$1,600
[5]
The process of sending a criminal suspect to another country, or a performance of "Cry Me A River"
rendition
|
$2,000
[9]
A body of water moves from a volcanic caldera in Oregon to the site of a TV series in Central Missouri, becoming this
the Crater Lake of the Ozarks
Emily
Ricky
|
|
$2,000
[20]
Ghiberti won the 15th c. competition to design this city's baptistry doors by opening his studio & listening to onlookers' ideas
Florence
Emily
|
DD
$2,600
[2]
Le Corbusier inspired this crudely named "ism" marked by exposed structures & the heavy-feeling use of raw concrete
brutalism
Emily
|
$2,000
[15]
Before his death in Chatham on Cape Cod in 1622, this English-speaking Patuxet man interpreted for his Pilgrim pals
Squanto
Ricky
|
$2,000
[17]
In "Lost in America" a Desert Inn exec has the obvious reply to this actor asking for his lost nest egg back--"I beg your pardon?"
Albert Brooks
Dondi
|
$2,000
[6]
From the same root as "puncture" comes this uneasy pricking of one's conscience
compunction
|
DD
$4,000
[8]
The capital of Haiti relocates to a maritime province of Canada & becomes this
Port-au-Prince Edward Island
Ricky
|
Those returning from a 1920s expedition to Asia popularized this name for the buaja darat, or land crocodile
Komodo dragon