2023-2024 PrimetimeCelebrity Jeopardy!quarterfinal game 1.Ken Jennings hosts.
Utkarsh Ambudkar — an actor originally from Baltimore, Maryland
Emily Hampshire — an actor and writer originally from Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Mark Duplass — a filmmaker and actor originally from New Orleans, Louisiana
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark | $1,700 | $2,500 | $14,400 |
$30,197
2nd place: $30,000 to Blink Now |
$17,200
31 R (including 2 DDs), 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| emilY | $-800 | $-1,400 | $-2,600 |
$0
3rd place: $30,000 to GLAAD |
$-1,100
5 R, 10 W |
| Utkarsh | $1,600 | $400 | $6,800 |
$30,201
Winner: semifinalist |
$18,000
36 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 2 DDs) |
| ANTS | BIG-SCREEN BASKETBALL | HEY! THAT'S NOT AN ELEMENT! | OUI, OUI, HISTORY | CHICKEN FIVE WAYS | ALSO AN ANIMAL SOUND |
|
$100
[3]
Ants inhabit every continent except this one (whose first syllable, ironically, is "ant")
Antarctica
Mark
emilY
|
$100
[20]
This former "Cheers" bartender is the white man who jumps in "White Men Can't Jump"
Woody Harrelson
Mark
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$100
[28]
Einsteinium, curium, snookium
snookium
Utkarsh
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$100
[11]
A children's book tells of how this emperor met his "Bunnyloo" in 1807 when he was forced to flee an attacking pack of rabbits
Napoleon
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$100
[1]
You can get royally full on this dish that calls for cubed chicken, mushrooms, a sherry cream sauce and a few slices of toast
chicken à la king
Mark
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$100
[23]
The very first of these microblogging posts was sent by company cofounder Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006
a tweet
Utkarsh
|
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$200
[27]
Considered a delicacy by the Aztecs, escamoles, or ant larvae, is a dish that originated in this country
Mexico
Utkarsh
|
$200
[15]
1997.Five words: state championship clinched by dog
Air Bud
|
$200
[2]
Zinc, zirconium, zambonium
zambonium
emilY
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$200
[30]
Constructed for the 1889 World's Fair, this iconic structure was originally scheduled to be torn down by 1910
the Eiffel Tower
emilY
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$200
[26]
Said to have been invented in Glasgow in the 1970s, this spiced Indian curry is often called a national dish of Britain
chicken tikka masala
Mark
emilY
Utkarsh
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$200
[22]
To make natural rubber, start by collecting latex by cutting slits in this layer of the rubber tree
the bark
|
|
$300
[21]
If you can't make it to the Houston Zoo, check out these types of ants on the zoo's live webcam
leaf cutter ants
Mark
emilY
Utkarsh
|
$300
[9]
The title of 2020 documentary "The Last Dance" comes from words emblazoned on the front of this team's 1997-98 playbook
the Chicago Bulls
Mark
|
$300
[25]
Californium, floridium, tennessine
floridium
Mark
emilY
Utkarsh
|
$300
[29]
Known for her lavish spending sprees, this wife of Louis XVI must've lost her head after being nicknamed "Madame Deficit"
Marie Antoinette
Mark
|
$300
[19]
A debate that continues to tear the country apart: should chicken wings come with a side of blue cheese or this dressing
ranch
Mark
|
$300
[12]
A Dutch term for a seller of ineffective medicines led to this word for an incompetent physician
a quack
Mark
Utkarsh
|
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$400
[16]
Offering a 60th ant-iversary version in 2016, Uncle Milton has sold tens of millions of these instructive toys since 1956
ant farms
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$400
[7]
Is there anything Denzel Washington can't do?! Turns out he's even good at basketball, as seen in this 1998 joint
He Got Game
Utkarsh
|
$400
[18]
Gold, silver, bronze
bronze
Mark
Utkarsh
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$500
[17]
The peace treaty that ended World War I was signed here, in this stately residence's Hall of Mirrors
Versailles
Mark
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$400
[13]
For a flavorful chicken Marsala, chefs recommend using real Marsala, a fortified wine made on this Italian island
Sicily
emilY
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$400
[6]
This word follows Chesapeake, Hudson and Guantanamo in the names of bodies of water
bay
Utkarsh
|
|
$500
[14]
Ants crawl on a seemingly infinite loop in this Dutch artist's 1963 work "Möbius Strip II"
M.C. Escher
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$500
[8]
Roger Ebert called this 1994 doc the best film of the 1990s, & "one of the great moviegoing experiences of my lifetime"
Hoop Dreams
Mark
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$500
[10]
Germanium, italium, francium
italium
Mark
|
DD
$1,000
[24]
After being given the key to this prison overthrown in 1789, the Marquis de Lafayette re-gifted it to his pal George Washington
the Bastille
Utkarsh
|
$500
[4]
In Japan, these succulent chicken skewers are grilled over a smokeless type of charcoal called binchotan
yakitori
emilY
Utkarsh
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$500
[5]
Players of this instrument "are just belligerent, and cocky, and you know just hard-headed" according to Wynton Marsalis
the trumpet
Mark
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| RANDOM U.S. STATE FACTS | POST-APOCALYPTIC POP CULTURE | OUT OF BREATH | BOOK DEDICATIONS | MEDITATION | FROM Z TO A |
|
$200
[16]
The state with the most counties east of the Mississippi is this one, also the biggest U.S. peanut producer
Georgia
Mark
|
$200
[2]
Will Smith was so smitten with his canine co-star in this 2007 film that he wanted to adopt her
I Am Legend
Utkarsh
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$200
[15]
In a typical human body, this organ beats about 100,000 times per day
heart
emilY
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$200
[28]
Morbidly true to form, Lemony Snicket dedicates the first book in this Y.A. series "to Beatrice--darling, dearest, dead"
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Utkarsh
|
$200
[13]
Consistent meditation practice has been shown to shrink the amygdala, known as the "fight or flight" center of this organ
the brain
Utkarsh
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$200
[1]
A football referee gets this animal-inspired nickname thanks to the standard black & white striped uniform
a zebra
Utkarsh
|
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$400
[29]
California closes down state offices on March 31, the day honoring this labor leader
Cesar Chavez
Mark
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$400
[3]
In his first-ever TV interview, Cormac McCarthy sat down with Oprah Winfrey after she selected this bleak novel for her book club
The Road
emilY
Utkarsh
|
$400
[22]
It's the only planet in our solar system whose name is not derived from Greek or Roman mythology
Earth
Utkarsh
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$400
[24]
Can we talk? This comic legend dedicated her 2014 autobiography to Kanye West, "because he'll never ...... read it"
Joan Rivers
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$400
[14]
"The Atlantic" described this 4-letter meditation app as "one of the most popular apps in existence, full stop"
Calm
emilY
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$400
[12]
You'd say this four-letter word while reciting the Greek alphabet, or, when greeting Michael Douglas' wife
zeta
Utkarsh
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$600
[30]
Yeehaw! Paniolos are Hawaii's equivalent of these workers, also the name of a Texas pro sport team
cowboys
emilY
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$600
[4]
Over 11 total seasons of "The Walking Dead", this "Z" word was surprisingly never used by a character
zombie
Mark
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$600
[23]
According to a 2006 song, when they tried to make Amy Winehouse go here, she said "no, no, no"
"Rehab"
Mark
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$800
[26]
Shededicated 1946's "The Hollow" to "Larry & Danae, with apologies for using their swimming pool as the scene of a murder"
Agatha Christie
Mark
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$600
[19]
"Om" is a familiar example of one of these, a word or phrase repeated over & over as the focal point for a meditation
a mantra
Utkarsh
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$600
[11]
In a classic 1986 Nintendo game, Link tries to rescue this title princess from Ganon
Zelda
Utkarsh
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$800
[6]
Massachusetts and Virginia are two of four states that have this word in their official names
Commonwealth
Utkarsh
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$800
[7]
Moviegoers were snack-shamed for chewing popcorn too loudly during this mostly silent film directed by John Krasinski
A Quiet Place
Utkarsh
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$800
[18]
During World War I, Germany deployed a massive, fort-demolishing howitzer nicknamed Bigthis
Bertha
Utkarsh
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$1,000
[27]
Toni Morrison dedicated this masterpiece to "sixty million and more"--the number of African victims claimed by slavery
Beloved
Mark
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$800
[20]
Time magazine once called this meditation guru "the poet prophet of alternative medicine"
Deepak Chopra
Utkarsh
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$800
[10]
Last name of the musician who had kids named Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet & Diva
Zappa
Mark
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$1,000
[5]
One of this state's claims to fame is being first with a moving assembly line for manufacturing an entire car
Michigan
Mark
Utkarsh
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$1,000
[8]
Kevin Costner starred in two post-apocalyptic films in the 1990s: "Waterworld" and this misfire about a nameless drifter
The Postman
Mark
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DD
$2,500
[17]
As Taylor Swift knows all too well, this type of person has an intense dislike of something
hater
Mark
|
DD
$2,000
[25]
This author of "The Fountainhead" dedicated 1957's "Atlas Shrugged" to 2 different men: her husband and her lover
Ayn Rand
Mark
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$1,000
[21]
A state of attention often cited as the goal of meditation practice; it's loosely defined as "being present in the moment"
mindfulness
Utkarsh
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$1,000
[9]
This fitness program began when an aerobics instructor swapped out his usual music with salsa & merengue songs
Zumba
Mark
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Discovered in the '60s and '70s, Cygnus X-1 was the first of these light-trapping gravitational bodies to be identified
black holes