Christa Fidel — a musician from Wellington, Florida
James Hirsh — a lawyer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Trey Hart — a grant writer from Petaluma, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $34,300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trey | $4,000 | $5,400 | $16,200 |
$24,200
2nd place: $3,000 |
$13,800
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| James | $3,800 | $5,600 | $20,400 |
$32,418
New champion: $32,418 |
$12,800
18 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Christa | $2,800 | $4,800 | $15,600 |
$15,600
3rd place: $2,000 |
$15,600
15 R, 0 W |
| ENDS IN "ELLA" | ABBREVIATED MAGAZINES | AMERICANS IN HISTORY | WHO WANTS GUM? | KIDDY LIT | FAKE DOCTORS, REAL ACTORS |
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$200
[22]
Used as an adjectival intensifier, this 5-letter word is thought to have originated in the Bay Area in the '80s
hella
Trey
|
$200
[20]
It's the ultimate in women's fashion:V
Vogue
Trey
|
$200
[30]
The great-grandfather of this traitor was an early governor of the Rhode Island colony
Arnold
James
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$200
[29]
Many soccer stars from this country go by a single name like Gum, aka Welington Pereira Rodrigues
Brazil
James
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$200
[11]
In 2025 the Plaza Hotel threw a 70th anniversary bash celebrating this precocious young (?) resident
Eloise
Trey
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$200
[16]
(Zach Braff presents the clue.) All doctors are superheroes to me, but in 2016, Benedict Cumberbatch went next level, taking this character from neurosurgeon to a guy who definitely didn't need the subway to get around New York
Doctor Strange
Trey
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$400
[21]
To kill this bacteria & not get sick from it, cook chicken to an internal temperature of at least 165 degrees
salmonella
Trey
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$400
[9]
A recent issue included "Top-Rated Tires":CR
Consumer Reports
Christa
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$400
[25]
Char Adams' book "Black-Owned" tells of David Ruggles, a Black bookstore owner of the 1830s whose home was a "stop" on this route
the Underground Railroad
James
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$400
[28]
A huge shopping center called GUM, or Glavny Universalny Magazin, sits on the northeast side of this square
the Red Square
Trey
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$400
[10]
Asked why he writes creepy books, this "Goosebumps" author says, "I just like to scare people!"
R.L. Stine
Trey
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$400
[15]
(Zach Braff presents the clue.) On "Scrubs", my best pal is my chocolate bear, Turk; on "Grey's Anatomy", Dr. Cristina Yang, played by this Emmy winner, says Meredith is her person & would even help with murdered corpse removal--we're on very different shows
(Sandra) Oh
James
|
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$600
[6]
Arroz Valenciana has been called a Filipino version of this dish
paella
Christa
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$600
[8]
It showcases international design, innovative homes & interiors:AD
Architectural Digest
Trey
|
$600
[24]
Serving three decades on the Tribal Council, Annie Dodge Waunekawas called the legendary mother of this Native American nation
the Navajo
Trey
|
$800
[3]
Latin for "gum" & "inflammation" gives us the name of this painful condition
gingivitis
James
|
$600
[2]
It begins, "In the great green room there was a telephone and a red balloon"
Goodnight Moon
James
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$600
[12]
(Zach Braff presents the clue.) One of the Men in Black looked like Alex Trebek? It seems like on "The X-Files"this lead character, an MD from Stanford, was in constant--what's the word I'm looking for?--jeopardy
Scully
James
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$800
[17]
Great timing! The first jar of this hazelnut cocoa cream spread left the factory in Italy on Monday, April 20, 1964
Nutella
Trey
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$800
[7]
Famous for its Index, it celebrated its 175th anniversary in 2025:H
Harper's
Christa
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$800
[26]
In 1893 Howard Hyde Russell founded a force to reckon with for the next 40 years: not the anti ‑bar or ‑tavern but the Anti-this League
Saloon
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$1,000
[23]
A cloud of luminous gas 1,000 light-years in diameter, the Gum this may be the remnants of a supernova
a nebula
Christa
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$800
[1]
Female characters with rhyming names include Fancy Nancy & this laughable gal & housekeeper in books by Peggy & Herman Parish
Amelia Bedelia
Trey
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$800
[13]
(Zach Braff presents the clue.) Projecting as Dr. Lahiri, this actress psyched herself up by giving herself the warrior name of Beyoncé Pad Thai
Mindy Kaling
Trey
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$1,000
[18]
Sesamoid bones function as pulleys & this is the largest one in the human body
the patella
James
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$1,000
[19]
It has used the slogan"Cook.Share.Celebrate.":ToH
Taste of Home
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$1,000
[27]
Shewrote "Battle Hymn Of The Republic" after visiting Union troops camped near Washington, D.C.
Julia Ward Howe
Christa
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DD
$1,400
[4]
In 1926 the former Weeghman Park was named this in honor of a chewing gum magnate
Wrigley Field
James
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$1,000
[5]
A mother & daughter are forced to flee their comfortable life in Mexico for a migrant worker camp in California in this girl "Rising"
Esperanza
Christa
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$1,000
[14]
(Zach Braff presents the clue.)Leslie Nielsen's Dr. Rumack says a woman has to get to a hospital, which is a big building with patients, but that's not important right now, in this classic 1980 film
Airplane!
Trey
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| WORLD CITIES | BROADWAY THEATRES | SPACE | BANNED CAMP | I'M ALL LOST | NO TIME TO SAY THE WHOLE WORD |
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$400
[24]
Tamaki Makaurau is an increasingly common alternate name for Auckland in this country
New Zealand
Christa
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$400
[19]
If you're keeping up with the Jones, "Real Women Have Curves: The Musical" played in 2025 at the venue named for this late actor
James Earl Jones
Trey
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$400
[30]
A great many of the stars in the Milky Way are this type, referring to a pair rotating around each other
binary
James
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$400
[25]
An out-of-control guano situation led to a 2008 ban on feeding pigeons in this city's St. Mark's Square
Venice
Trey
|
$400
[11]
The 10 Lost Tribes of this nation are so called because they disappeared from history following an Assyrian invasion
Israel
James
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$400
[6]
I have to analyze apaintingby Petrus Christus for my art history paper on the Northern "Ren"
Renaissance
Christa
|
|
$800
[20]
Brush up on your French for a visit here, where you can walk along the St. Lawrence before catching the Habs at the Bell Centre
Montreal
James
|
$800
[4]
In 1983 during the run of "Brighton Beach Memoirs", the former Alvin Theatre was renamed for this playwright
Neil Simon
Christa
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$800
[3]
The Schwarzschild radius of one of these is the distance from its center to its event horizon
a black hole
Trey
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$800
[26]
Food containing sheep's lung is a no-no in the U.S., so you'll have to go abroad to enjoy this traditional Scottish delicacy
haggis
Christa
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$800
[12]
Gustav Klimt's 3 paintings for the university of this city were rejected as perverted, then lost during World War II
Vienna
Trey
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$800
[7]
Philatelists evaluate stamps partly by the "perfs" around the edges
perforations
James
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$1,600
[21]
Semiconductors used in A.I. pour out of a science park in Hsinchu on this island
Taiwan
James
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$1,200
[16]
From 1982 to 2000 the Jellicle Ball was the main event at the Winter Garden, where this show ran 7,485 performances
Cats
Christa
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$1,200
[1]
Named for a 19th century astronomer, thepointsof sunlight that appear during atotal eclipseare called Baily's these
Baily's beads
Christa
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$1,200
[27]
This chatty must-have toy was banned from NSA HQ in 1999, for fear it would repeat things it "overheard"
a Furby
James
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$1,200
[13]
Most of the silent films by this director are lost, but in 2024, a real "searcher" in Chile found a 1918 Western
John Ford
Trey
|
$1,200
[9]
In the first 3 minutes of "Ballard" on Prime Video, the title cop knows she'll need a "psych eval" after subduing a suspect
(a psychiatric or psychological) evaluation
Trey
|
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$2,000
[23]
In Richard Nixon's "Six Crises", No. 4 is when his car is attacked in this S. Amer. city, where 61 years later the U.S. closed its embassy
Caracas
James
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$1,600
[17]
In the 1920s, a theatre was named for this member of the Barrymore family on condition she star in its first production
Ethel
James
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$1,600
[2]
An "M" in front of the number of a galaxy refers to this Frenchman who catalogued a bunch of them in the 18th century
Messier
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$1,600
[28]
For being associated with a revolution in Tunisia, this plant with fragrant white flowers was banned in some parts of China in 2011
jasmine
Trey
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$2,000
[15]
Agustín Lizárragare discovered this lost city 9 years before Hiram Bingham made a visit
Machu Picchu
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$1,600
[8]
In 2025 everyone in baseball was talking about Brewers rookie pitcher Jacob Misiorowski & his overwhelming "velo"
velocity
Trey
|
|
DD
$8,000
[22]
Like his famous grandfather, portrait artist Lucian Freud died at home in this city
London
James
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$2,000
[18]
We're sorry this caricaturist never got to draw the cast of "Moulin Rouge! The Musical" at the theatre named for him
Al Hirschfeld
Trey
|
$2,000
[5]
Named for a Dutch astronomer, this cloud beyond Neptune is likely the source of most long-period comets
the Oort cloud
James
Christa
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$2,000
[29]
Though grown in abundance in Southeast Asia, this fruit emits an odor so powerful that it's banned in most hotels there
a durian
Christa
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DD
$4,000
[14]
The location of the 1909 jeweled Alexander III Commemorative Imperial one of these has yet to be cracked
a Fabergé egg
Trey
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$2,000
[10]
The 1922 poem "The Waste Land" includes a line about a woman's husband who's been "demobbed"
demobilized
Christa
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Encountering one that snarls at him in an 1819 work, this title character exclaims, "My very dog... has forgotten me!"
Rip Van Winkle