2023 High School Reunion Tournament semifinal game 1.
Avi Gupta — a senior at Stanford University from Portland, Oregon
Jackson Jones — a junior at Vanderbilt University from Louisville, Kentucky
Lucas Miner — a junior at Yale University from Miami, Florida
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lucas | $600 | $800 | $3,600 |
$4,802
3rd place: $10,000 |
$7,600
9 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jackson | $4,400 | $6,800 | $21,000 |
$19,780
Finalist |
$22,600
29 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| Avi | $-1,800 | $200 | $8,600 |
$6,652
2nd place: $10,000 |
$8,600
16 R, 3 W |
| HISTORIC NAMES | COLORS OF THE RAINBOW | U.S. SIGHTS | DISNEY MENAGERIE | NOVEL KEYWORDS | COMPLETE THE PANGRAM |
|
$200
[22]
The Iraq War that began in 2003 forced this dictator into hiding; he was later captured & executed
Hussein
Avi
|
$200
[29]
This genre of country music is fittingly Kentucky's state music
bluegrass
Avi
|
$200
[28]
Easel down the road to Goodland, Kansas to see the world's largest easel holding a painting of these state flowers
sunflowers
Jackson
|
$200
[30]
This flying elephant has his own ride at Disneyland
Dumbo
Lucas
|
$200
[25]
What the Dickens?: Orphans; criminals; kidnapping victims; London
Oliver Twist
Jackson
|
$200
[27]
The classic pangram:"The ____ brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
quick
Jackson
|
|
$400
[21]
Though she had 2 children with her first husband, she was unable to give Napoleon an heir, so he left her
Joséphine
Avi
|
$400
[13]
An early example of this hysteria occurred during the Palmer Raids in 1919, which targeted anarchists & other leftists
the Red Scare
Jackson
|
$400
[23]
On Wisconsin's 1,000-mile trail named for this period in Earth's history, you can seerocksleft from the Wisconsin glaciation
the Ice Age
Jackson
|
$400
[20]
This en"deer"ing character frolics in the forest with his animal friends Thumper & Flower
Bambi
Jackson
|
$400
[24]
From 1939:Migrant agricultural laborers; rural families; depressions; labor camps; California
The Grapes of Wrath
Jackson
|
$400
[26]
For an adult vacation guaranteed to be forgotten, "Pack my box with five dozen jugs of" this general term for booze
liquor
Avi
|
|
$600
[16]
After posting his 95 Theses on the door of a castle church, this Reformation leader was branded a heretic
Martin Luther
Jackson
|
$600
[12]
She's a golden ticket holder & champion gum-chomper in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
Violet
Avi
|
$600
[9]
Head to the Presidio & check out Industrial Light & Magic & the film production company named for this man
George Lucas
Lucas
Jackson
|
$600
[19]
In a 2022 remake, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is the voice of him, Pinocchio's conscience
Jiminy Cricket
|
$600
[10]
By Tolstoy:Married women; adultery; Russia
Anna Karenina
Jackson
|
$600
[14]
"Farmer Jack realized that big yellow" these bed coverings "were expensive"
quilts
Lucas
Avi
|
|
$800
[5]
The word lycée for a French public school goes back to lyceum, which was the name of a school founded by this ancient philosopher
Aristotle
Lucas
Jackson
|
$800
[2]
Near Newark are communities known as East, South & West this
Orange
Jackson
|
DD
$1,000
[7]
Monsieur Jacques is the mascot of the frog capital of the world, Rayne in this state's Acadia Parish, & even gets a statue
Louisiana
Jackson
|
$800
[18]
Introduced in "The Lion King", they're the pair seen here
Timon & Pumbaa
Avi
|
$800
[3]
From 2005:Vampires; high schools; schools; Washington (state)
Twilight
Jackson
|
$800
[11]
"We promptly judged" this old word "ivory buckles for the next prize"
antique
|
|
$1,000
[6]
This Native American of the Patuxet people aided the Pilgrims at Plymouth & acted as an interpreter
Squanto
Jackson
|
$1,000
[1]
Some of the oxygen we breathe is created by these of division chlorophyta, which can be single celled
green algae
Jackson
Avi
|
$1,000
[8]
You needn't go to Capri, Italy for one of these picturesque caves; visit the one "of the Redemption" in West Bend, Iowa
a grotto
Lucas
Avi
|
$1,000
[17]
In "Frozen", he's Kristoff's reindeer pal
Sven
|
$1,000
[4]
A Pulitzer winner: Marginality, social; mothers & sons; New Orleans
A Confederacy of Dunces
Avi
|
$1,000
[15]
Most birds don't, but "Jackdaws love my big Sphinx of" this mineral
quartz
Jackson
|
| ART MOVEMENTS | YOU'RE SUCH AN IDIOM! | AROUND THE WORLD | QUOTATIONS | A LOVELY ACCENT | THE LANTHANIDES OF MARCH |
|
$400
[25]
Renoir & Monet were part of the 1874 exhibition of this artistic movement
Impressionism
Lucas
|
DD
$200
[18]
If something is relatively easy to do or understand, then "It's not" this, Robert Goddard's field
rocket science
Jackson
|
$400
[26]
You can gaze upon many masterpieces at this museum & former royal residence on the Rue de Rivoli
the Louvre
Lucas
|
$400
[22]
In 1944 this teen wrote, "In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart"
Anne Frank
Avi
|
$400
[29]
In 2016 Adrián González challenged fellow Major League Baseball players to add the accent marks in their names to these
their jerseys
Avi
|
$400
[28]
Lanthanides are all rare earth elements, with promethium the rarest--not found in nature & all its isotopes have this unstable property
radioactivity
Avi
|
|
$800
[19]
An affiliation with Marcel Duchamp earned American ceramicist Beatrice Wood the nickname the "Mama of" this art movement
Dada
Jackson
|
$400
[30]
Oh, boy, you've got a problem now; you did this literally
opened up a can of worms
Avi
|
$800
[15]
It's the last name of tennis player Naomi as well as the Honshu city where she was born
Osaka
Lucas
|
$800
[21]
In "The Story of My Life", she wrote of the coincidence of one of her ancestors being "the first teacher of the deaf in Zurich"
(Helen) Keller
Avi
|
$800
[27]
The firstnameyou see on the screen has an Irish long accent, or fada, and is pronounced like this[Sinéad]
“shin-AID”
Jackson
|
$800
[24]
Contrast agents based on gadolinium provide clear scans from this x-ray-less type of imaging, commonly used for the brain
an MRI
Jackson
|
|
$1,200
[6]
In the 18th century British architects began a revival of this medieval style, pointed arches & all
Gothic
Lucas
|
$800
[23]
When you sever a connection, like with your cable company, you do this, something that's also done just after birth
cut the cord
Jackson
|
$1,600
[2]
Mya Thein Tan, one of these towering shrines in Myanmar, is built to resemble Mount Meru, sacred to Buddhists
a pagoda
Avi
|
$1,200
[12]
Thomas Edison gave us, "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent" this
perspiration
Jackson
|
$1,200
[13]
This Québécoise singer has an accent on her first "E" on some French-language albums, but not on English ones like "One Heart"
Celine Dion
Jackson
|
$1,200
[9]
Lutetium is used in the process of cracking petroleum, breaking down its large molecules in this type of facility
a refinery
Avi
|
|
$1,600
[4]
An outgrowth of the Baroque style, this frothy style that embraced natural elements originated in 18th century Paris
rococo
Jackson
|
$1,200
[16]
Danger! Danger! Beware of this animal in disguise
a wolf in sheep's clothing
Jackson
|
$2,000
[3]
Ushuaia, the southernmost city in Argentina, is in this archipelago with a fiery name
the Tierra del Fuego
Jackson
|
$1,600
[20]
"Throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet" was part of her dissent of dismantling the VRA
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Jackson
Avi
|
$1,600
[8]
An accent mark hovers over the name of Cate Blanchett's character in this 2022 film set in the world of classical music
Tár
Jackson
|
$1,600
[10]
This phenomenon of current zipping unimpeded through matter is associated with cold; cerium materials may enable it at room temp
superconduction
Avi
|
|
$2,000
[5]
As the name of this 18th century movement suggested, it tried to recreate the art of Greece & Rome
neoclassical
Jackson
|
$1,600
[17]
To hide a problem is to "sweep it" here
under the rug
Jackson
|
DD
$4,000
[7]
The book "Noah's Flood" proposed that the event happened when the Mediterranean burst into this sea 7,600 years ago
the Black Sea
Lucas
|
$2,000
[1]
In 1983 he predicted that "The computer will become the predominant medium of communication"
Jobs
Lucas
Jackson
|
$2,000
[14]
There's an accent over the final "E" in the name of this man who scored a hat trick for France in the 2022 World Cup Final
Kylian Mbappé
Lucas
|
$2,000
[11]
The existence of holmium was revealed in 1878 via this, the study of light over a range of wavelengths
spectroscopy
Jackson
|
Letters, pocket knives, C rations & steel helmets are among the tangible items referred to in the title of this modern war classic
The Things They Carried