Jamie Ding game 2.
Andrew Ford — a data scientist from Madison, Wisconsin
Shannon Thomas — a nonprofit professional from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jamie Ding — a bureaucrat and law student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,633)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jamie | $4,000 | $8,400 | $34,000 |
$3,933
2-day champion: $26,566 |
$32,000
36 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Shannon | $-200 | $1,200 | $-800 |
$-800
3rd place: $2,000 |
$-800
6 R, 4 W |
| Andrew | $5,400 | $5,600 | $1,600 |
$882
2nd place: $3,000 |
$7,800
12 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| AND THE WINNER IS... | THE GREAT BRITISH SPELLING SHOW | WE HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON | BOARD GAMES | TECH HISTORY | GRIM GOOSE & GRIMM |
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$200
[24]
This team, in a 2025 World Series Game 7 thriller over the Toronto Blue Jays
the Dodgers
Shannon
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$200
[20]
Time to play some tenacious "D" with this action of resisting attack
D-E-F-E-N-C-E
Jamie
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$200
[28]
Busting, a natural & doubling down after splitting are all terms from this card game
blackjack
Shannon
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$200
[29]
2 friends inspired by the success of Scrabble created this wedge-fest with 6,000 questions in its original version
Trivial Pursuit
Andrew
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$200
[26]
The electromagneticdental pluggerpatented by George Green in 1875 is what's known simply as this at the dentist today
a drill
Jamie
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$200
[30]
It's the 2-word weapon used to maim a trio of visually impaired rodents & honestly, I've never seen such a sight in my life
a carving knife
Jamie
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$400
[25]
Rafael Nadal, of this clay court event every year ever (OK, just 14 times from 2005 to 2022)
the French Open
Jamie
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$400
[17]
Looks like we're going into this political party once led by Tony Blair
L-A-B-O-U-R
Andrew
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$400
[18]
Caleb Williams, Carmy's Restaurant on TV & the Jukumari are all these
bears
Jamie
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$400
[21]
You can steal bills from the bank & skip out on paying rent in the Cheater's Edition of this classic game, because... fun?
Monopoly
Jamie
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$400
[23]
Art history lectures & vacation recaps benefitted from this mid-20th century machine
a slide projector
Jamie
Andrew
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$400
[27]
A bit displeased upon hearing his name spoken aloud, he "seized his left foot with both hands and tore himself in two"
Rumpelstiltskin
Jamie
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$600
[7]
This K.C. guy, MVP of the 2020, 2023 & 2024 Super Bowls
Mahomes
Andrew
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$600
[2]
It's a long, slender filament of wool or an important part of a diet; either way, spell it like they do in Durham & Derby
F-I-B-R-E
Shannon
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$600
[13]
Kelly Rowland, Grigori Rasputin (per new style) & Abraham Lincoln were all born under this sign
Aquarius
Jamie
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$800
[5]
The New Yorker once joked that this game's moral lesson is "Never apologize for your success, unless doing so sarcastically"
Sorry!
Andrew
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$600
[9]
In the '80s Warren Lieberfarb of Warner Bros. pushed for this optical disk format; "Rocky" & "The Mask" in 1997 were early releases
DVD
Andrew
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$600
[14]
A rough 4 days for this guy who "took ill on Thursday" & was "buried on Sunday"; once again, that was written for kids
Solomon Grundy
Jamie
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$800
[16]
Secretariat, clinching a Triple Crown with a 31-length win in this 1973 race
the Belmont Stakes
Jamie
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$800
[3]
Let a 2018 movie title be your guide to this word describing an item you prefer over any other
F-A-V-O-U-R-I-T-E
Jamie
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$800
[10]
This color is in AKAs of Aaron Chwatt, the Lakota leader Mahpiua-Luta & a "Captain America" villain
red
Jamie
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$1,000
[4]
This ancient Chinese game is played with 361 pieces called stones
Go
Andrew
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$800
[1]
Acousticmirrorsbuilt in England starting around 1915 to detect aircraft were a forerunner of this tech that got serious in the '30s
radar
Andrew
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$800
[6]
Sit down & have a bier as you read how a tailor first met his beautiful bride--asleep & imprisoned in "The Glass" this
"Coffin"
Jamie
Shannon
Andrew
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$1,000
[11]
This skier, birth name the not-as-fun Breanna, in the downhill for the USA's first gold at Milan Cortina 2026
(Breezy) Johnson
Shannon
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$1,000
[12]
If you get caught nicking a tin of butter biscuits from Harrods, you may go to this very British 4-letter word for a lockup
G-A-O-L
Jamie
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$1,000
[19]
Places this word is abbreviated as an "X": AX in fashion, FX in intl. commerce & EXO in a Microsoft platform
exchange
Shannon
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DD
$2,400
[8]
The times they were a-changin': by 1999, Hasbro changed this game's pink-&-blue-peg-holding station wagons to minivans
( The Game of ) Life
Andrew
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$1,000
[15]
"Genius on Hold" is a film about Walter Shaw, whose ideas led to inventions like this--I dial your home & your mobile rings
call forwarding
Jamie
Shannon
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$1,000
[22]
He "cut out all the calves' and sheep's eyes", tossed them in a woman's face & the marriage is off; "Clever" him? No, psycho him!
Hans
Jamie
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| HISTORIC STATEMENTS | THAT "BEING" THE TITLE | LANDLOCKED! | A REAL WORK OF ART | POP CULTURE RHYME TIME | HABITS UNBECOMING |
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$400
[22]
Otto von Bismarck, earning an epithet: "The great questions of the time are decided... by" this "and blood"
iron
Jamie
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$400
[30]
This Wilde & witty play about mistaken identity has the subtitle "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People"
The Importance of Being Earnest
Jamie
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$400
[27]
It's a North-Central African nation bounded by Niger & Sudan, or the name of that kid who crashed his dad's BMW at the '94 prom
Chad
Shannon
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$400
[28]
Who else but this Spaniard could have served up 1941's "Soft Self Portrait with Grilled Bacon"?
Salvador Dalí
Shannon
Andrew
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$400
[29]
Thisband gets knocked down, but they get up again, you're never gonna keep them down
Chumbawamba
Jamie
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$400
[24]
It's the word for doing 2 or more things at the same time, which sounds productive, but experts say it makes your brain tired
multitasking
Jamie
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$800
[26]
Shortly after leaving the Nation of Islam in 1964, he declared, "It's the ballot or the bullet. It's liberty or it's death"
Malcolm X
Jamie
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$800
[25]
(Aaron Sorkin presents the clue.) I told Nicole Kidman that I wasn't looking for a Lucille Ball impersonation inthis2021 film that I wrote & directed about a week in the life of Lucy & Desi Arnaz
Being the Ricardos
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$800
[21]
A U.S. state of landlockedness, it's bordered by 6 others, including Montana to its north & Colorado to its south
Wyoming
Jamie
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$800
[1]
In Oslo you can look at "The Kiss", an 1897 painting by this man in which the lovers' faces meld into one
Munch
Jamie
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$800
[23]
Thisshort-lived TV series set in the '80s helped launch the careers of stars like Jason Segel & Linda Cardellini
Freaks and Geeks
Jamie
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$800
[6]
In wartime it's damaging the enemy's supplies; the "self-" type refers to undercutting your own efforts
sabotage
Jamie
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$1,200
[16]
Campaign strategist James Carville made this 4-word statement into a catchphrase in 1992
it's the economy, stupid
Jamie
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$1,200
[13]
Daniel Day-Lewis starred in the film adaptation of this Milan Kundera novel set in 1968 Prague
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Jamie
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$1,200
[3]
Enjoy the Pushkin Museum& the Stephen the Great Monumentbut not an offshore ocean cruise in Chisinau, capital of this Euro nation
Moldova
Andrew
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$1,200
[20]
ARubenspainted for Antwerp & now in the Prado is one of the great works called this, adulation by wise men you might say
The Adoration of the Magi
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$1,200
[18]
Theywon a Grammy, & "Girl, You Know It's True", the Grammy was revoked after a lip-synching scandal
Milli Vanilli
Jamie
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$1,600
[12]
This word for obsessively perusing bad news on your mobile device gained traction during the pandemic, when most of us were doing it
doomscrolling
Jamie
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$2,000
[19]
"From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever", said Chief Joseph of this tribe in 1877
the Nez Perce
Jamie
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$1,600
[8]
The title of this Y.A. novel by Stephen Chbosky alludes to the introverted teen Charlie
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Jamie
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$1,600
[2]
They're prairie provinces, not port provinces; these are the only two Canadian provinces without a saltwater coast
Alberta & Saskatchewan
Andrew
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$1,600
[14]
Many works by this American depict one solitary white woman; in 1955's "South Carolina Morning", she's Black
Hopper
Jamie
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$1,600
[7]
In 2022, comedian Jenny Slate charmed at the box office voicing this anthropomophic fellow "with Shoes On"
Marcel the Shell
Andrew
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$2,000
[17]
RBP is short for this type of procrastination, a new-ish term for mindless stuff you do at night when you should be sleeping
revenge bedtime procrastination
Jamie
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DD
$3,600
[5]
According to Suetonius, Caesar uttered this phrase as he took a big gamble & crossed the Rubicon
the die is cast ( alea iacta est )
Jamie
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$2,000
[15]
This work by Sartre says that "man is a useless passion"
Being and Nothingness
Jamie
Shannon
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$2,000
[4]
India shares a more than 400-mile border with this country ruled by King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
Bhutan
Jamie
Andrew
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$2,000
[9]
Around 1490 Leonardo drew this depiction of the body using proportions laid down by an ancient Roman architect
Vitruvian Man
Andrew
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$2,000
[10]
Sibling rivalry got funny in the routine "Mom Always Liked You Best" by this duo
The Smothers Brothers
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DD
$8,000
[11]
Add 2 letters to a word for "loitering" to get this word for faking an illness to get out of work
malingering
Andrew
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One of its epigraphs is from Genesis 30, about Leah, Rachel & Rachel's servant Bilhah
The Handmaid's Tale