2023 High School Reunion Tournament quarterfinal game 1.Mayim Bialik hosts.
Rohit Kataria — a junior at Vanderbilt University from Wheelersburg, Ohio
Maya Wright — a senior at Emory University from Peachtree City, Georgia
Audrey Sarin — a senior at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo from Seattle, Washington
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
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| Audrey | $1,200 | $3,000 | $3,400 |
$0
3rd place: $5,000 |
$3,400
11 R, 2 W |
| Maya | $2,000 | $7,200 | $19,600 |
$20,800
Winner: semifinalist |
$17,400
24 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Rohit | $2,200 | $3,000 | $7,600 |
$7,175
2nd place: $5,000 |
$10,600
12 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| TECH TALK | REUNION SHOWS | LET'S TAKE A SPRING BREAK | BODIES OF WATER | CROSSWORD CLUES "T" | A CRASH COURSE IN JOHN GREEN |
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$200
[30]
Before takeoff, turn off your smartphone's wireless capabilities by turning on this setting
airplane mode
Rohit
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$200
[29]
Nixing a reunion while doing a reunion for this '90s show, Courteney Cox said, "We're not gonna do this again in 15 more years"
Friends
Rohit
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$200
[27]
If you can make it to the island of Hawaii, check out the Merrie Monarch Festival, billed as "the perpetuation of" this dance
hula
Maya
Rohit
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$200
[28]
In the acronym HOMES, it's the "H"
Huron
Maya
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$200
[10]
A storm--in Shakespeare or a teapot(7 letters)
a tempest
Audrey
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$200
[12]
(John Green presents the clue.) "The Fault in Our Stars" was largely inspired by a young friend, Esther Earl, who died of cancer at 16; & the title was inspired by a line in this Shakespeare play--"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves"
Julius Caesar
Maya
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$400
[23]
Hand-y term for a data storage device that plugs into a USB port
a thumb drive
Maya
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$400
[24]
To aid COVID relief in 2020, "Community" re-communitized, including this star seenherewho's kept pretty busy since leaving the show
Donald Glover
Maya
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$400
[25]
You can hang glide from sand dunes & visit the Wright Brothers Memorial in this state's Outer Banks
North Carolina
Maya
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$600
[7]
You'll find the United Arab Emirates at the south end of this body of water
the Persian Gulf
Rohit
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$400
[3]
Doorway part brides have been carried over(9 letters)
threshold
Maya
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$400
[6]
(John Green presents the clue.) The title of my novel about Aza & how her OCD affects her life comes from a philosophical joke in which the Earth is flat & resting on the shell of a reptile, & what is that reptile standing on? It's these all the way down
turtles
Maya
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$600
[20]
These days, more than 70% of Internet traffic is this type of video that typically uses data compression
streaming
Maya
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$600
[17]
Online during the pandemic, this NBC show's Ron Swanson told Leslie, "I've been practicing social distancing since I was 4"
Parks and Recreation
Rohit
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$600
[16]
Panama City, Florida is a great place to see these dolphins named for the shape of their snouts
bottlenose
Maya
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$800
[9]
Under an agreement first drawn up in 1903, the U.S. maintains a strategically important naval base on this Cuban bay
Guantanamo
Rohit
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$600
[2]
Math term for a digression(7 letters)
a tangent
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$600
[4]
(John Green presents the clue.) With a mission to increase awesome & decrease suck & to champion causes to help others, fans ofmy brother Hank & I& our Vlog Brothers videos are called these from the misreading of the name of a video game
Nerdfighters
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$800
[18]
Windows users do not want to encounter BSOD, this colorful but fatal-sounding error
the blue screen of death
Audrey
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$800
[19]
"Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding" was a 2003 TV movie reuniting David Hasselhoff & this womanas CJ--Jason Momoa's in the movie, too
Pamela Anderson
Maya
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$800
[14]
Spring break is major party time on the beaches of SPI, this Texas spot
South Padre Island
Maya
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$1,000
[13]
In ancient times the Dardanelles Strait was called this & was associated with the story of Hero & Leander
the Hellespont
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$800
[1]
Boss Tweed's corrupt Hall(7 letters)
Tammany
Rohit
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$800
[5]
(John Green presents the clue.) One meaning of this novel's title is the phenomenon where mapmakers put fake places on their mapsas a copyright trap to see if anyone is copying their maps
Paper Towns
Maya
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$1,000
[22]
Thousands of layers of material, like resin, are how one of these creates an object; the Rep Rap project led to a self-replicating one
a 3D printer
Audrey
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$1,000
[21]
A 2022 reunion of the Salt Lake City cast of this reality franchise found Jen Shah touching on some legal issues
Real Housewives ( of Salt Lake City )
Maya
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$1,000
[15]
If you can make it to Cancun, try a little of this; not afraid of heights, are you?
parasailing
Audrey
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DD
$1,800
[26]
Differing by a letter, these 2 rivers both rise in Switzerland; one is about 830 miles long & the other, more than 500
the Rhône & Rhine
Maya
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$1,000
[8]
A really fast heart rate(11 letters)
tachycardia
Maya
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$1,000
[11]
(John Green presents the clue.) I wrote alternating chapters with David Levi than for a novel that follows two very different teens--one gay & one straight--who share this same name
Will Grayson
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| NATIONAL ANTHEMS | PALINDROMES IN POP CULTURE | PARDON MY FRENCH | RELIGION HAS ITS PLACE | TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY | AN "F" IN HISTORY |
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$400
[30]
Heard here is this British national anthem that has the same melody as "My Country 'Tis Of Thee"
"God Save The Queen"
Audrey
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$400
[26]
Songs by this Swedish quartet include "Waterloo" & "Dancing Queen"
ABBA
Audrey
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$400
[27]
I feel like I've been here before; I have a sense of this, French for "already seen"
déjà vu
Audrey
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$400
[28]
"Kirk" is a Scottish word for church, &Greyfriar's Kirkhas stood for 400 years in this capital's Old Town
Edinburgh
Maya
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$400
[29]
As a young man, D.C.-born J. Edgar Hoover worked at this library as a messenger & in the cataloging department
the Library of Congress
Audrey
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$400
[25]
These essays were written "in favor of the new Constitution"
the Federalist Papers
Audrey
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$800
[23]
The name of this country's "Hatikvah" means "the hope"
Israel
Maya
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$800
[13]
Anna Faris wasn't there to see the end of this CBS sitcom in 2021, but Allison Janney was
Mom
Rohit
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$800
[9]
For obvious reasons, this classic, egg-based dessert has a French name meaning "puffed up"
a soufflé
Audrey
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$800
[22]
This type of house of worship can be decorated with inscriptions of Koranic verses, but no human figures
a mosque
Rohit
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$800
[24]
Known as "The Bod", the Bodleian Library at this British university contains 4 copies of the Magna Carta & a Gutenberg Bible
(the University of) Oxford
Rohit
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$800
[21]
One month after this royal was killed in 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Maya
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$1,200
[18]
This country's anthem contains lyrics in its 5 most widely spoken languages, including Xhosa, Zulu & English
South Africa
Maya
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$1,200
[5]
Ice Cube wasn't Xander but Darius in this film sequel subtitled "State of the Union"
XXX
Maya
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$1,200
[2]
Literally it's the "joy of living"
joie de vivre
Audrey
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$1,600
[4]
Jesus was a regular shulgoer--the King James Bible says, "as his custom was, he went into" this "on the Sabbath day"
the synagogue
Audrey
Maya
Rohit
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$1,200
[20]
NYC's Riverside Branch pioneered open these, despite librarians' fears that patrons would steal the books
open stacks
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$1,200
[14]
U.S., British & Iraqi forces retook this Iraqi city in the second battle of it at the end of 2004
the Battle of Fallujah
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$1,600
[17]
The familiar piece of music heardhereby this composer is the basis for the official anthem of the European Union
Beethoven
Maya
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$1,600
[6]
Surname of the actor seen here, also a musician & soundtrack composer
(Jeremy) Renner
Maya
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$2,000
[8]
It frequently follows "haute" to refer to the world of high fashion
couture
Maya
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$2,000
[3]
Here's a video clue of Hanoi's Tran Quoc Buddhist temple & if we had olfactory clues, you could smell the Hoi An this
incense
Audrey
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$1,600
[19]
This city's main public library, named for Mayor Harold Washington, has a teen learning center called YOUmedia
Chicago
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$1,600
[1]
The son of Japanese immigrants, he was the president of Peru from 1990 to 2000; his daughter ran for the job 3 times
Fujimori
Rohit
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$2,000
[16]
Named for one of its founding fathers, "La Dessalinienne" is this Caribbean country's anthem
Haiti
Rohit
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$2,000
[12]
John David Washington tries to save the world in this recent Christopher Nolan film
Tenet
Maya
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DD
$2,400
[7]
Meaning let the people do as they please, it's the belief that government should not interfere in the economy
laissez-faire
Maya
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DD
$3,000
[15]
The Naval Academyoneis pretty grand, though the word generally means "smaller than or subordinate to achurch"
a chapel
Rohit
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$2,000
[10]
Ashurbanipal, book lover & king of this ancient kingdom ruled from Nineveh, built the world's first known library in the 600s B.C.
Assyria
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$2,000
[11]
Like a university, a river in British Columbia is named for this explorer who reached its mouth in 1808
Simon Fraser
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In 1939 he lived on Toulouse Street in the French Quarter & chose the professional name that bonded him to the South
Tennessee Williams