2024 Champions Wildcard play-in game 1.Hosted by Buzzy Cohen.Game entered from TuneIn audio presentation.
Nik Berry — a social studies teacher from Baltimore, Maryland
Julie Sisson — a library circulation assistant from Everett, Washington
Anji Nyquist — a hand model and podcast host from Minneapolis, Minnesota
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anji | $0 | $2,000 | $400 |
$0
3rd place |
$400
6 R, 3 W |
| Julie | $1,000 | $1,000 | $1,600 |
$2
2nd place |
$13,200
18 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Nik | $2,400 | $5,400 | $17,200 |
$17,199
Winner: advance to Champions Wildcard |
$13,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| GRAND MARSHALS OF THE ROSE PARADE | LETTER PERFECT | THE COLORS OF MUSIC | BREAK-UPS | STOP! | HAMMER TIME |
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$200
[27]
This legendary animator was grand marshal in 1966; he died later that year
Disney
Julie
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$200
[6]
This letter was used by the Romans to represent 1,000
M
Julie
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$200
[23]
Van Morrison:"____ Eyed Girl"
Brown
Nik
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$200
[22]
This power couple wed March 9, 1796; being the emperor of France has its perks: he nullified the marriage in 1809
Napoleon & Josephine
Anji
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$200
[26]
Around 1900 in Kansas, she wanted folks to stop drinking, so she began taking a hatchet to local saloons
Carrie Nation
Anji
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$200
[30]
Known for its cephalofoil, this fierce fish can grow 20 feet long
a hammerhead shark
Anji
|
|
$400
[13]
This beloved voice of the Dodgers did the honors in 2014
(Vin) Scully
Julie
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$400
[9]
This letter is used to define a generation & also as a label for superhero mutants
X
Nik
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$400
[4]
John Mellencamp:"____ Houses"
Pink
Julie
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$400
[21]
This plastic couple got together in 1961; they split in 2004, but in 2011 she welcomed him back to her dream house
Barbie & Ken
Nik
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$400
[25]
In 1780, British lieutenant colonel Bannister Tarleton & his raiders tried to stop this "Swamp Fox" in the Carolinas
Francis Marion
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$400
[29]
Countless hammers have swung since this org.'s founding in 1976, helping to house millions worldwide
Habitat for Humanity
Julie
|
|
$800
[7]
She was grand marshal as a child star in 1939 & also got the call in 1989 & '99
Shirley Temple
Julie
|
$600
[10]
Sometimes it's a consonant, sometimes it's a vowel & its homophone is an interrogative
Y
Julie
|
$600
[2]
Chris de Burgh:"The Lady In ____"
Red
Julie
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$600
[19]
Rob in this Nick Hornby novel deals with Laura's departure as with most things, by thinking a lot about old records
High Fidelity
Nik
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$600
[24]
In the early 1790s Haydn stopped in Bonn, Germany & met this young musical genius who would become Haydn's pupil
Ludwig van Beethoven
Julie
|
$600
[28]
Christopher Lee played this bloodthirsty immortal 7 times for Britain's Hammer Films
Dracula
Anji
|
|
$1,000
[14]
In 1955, shortly after becoming chief justice of the U.S., he served as grand marshal
Earl Warren
Nik
|
$800
[11]
This letter stands for the currency of Albania; when it comes before F in English words, it's often silent
L (for the lek)
Anji
|
$800
[1]
R.E.M.:"____ Crush"
Orange
Anji
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$800
[18]
These Mexican painters wed in 1929 & divorced after a volatile decade; remarried in 1940, they had a rocky 2nd marriage
Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera
Nik
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$800
[17]
In the 1960s the French military stopped using this fortified line of defense named for a war minister
Maginot Line
Anji
|
$800
[3]
House majority whip from 1995 to 2003, this Texas Republican was known as "The Hammer"
Tom DeLay
|
|
DD
$3,000
[8]
He got the nod in 1953 as a senator from California; he rode again in 1960
Richard Nixon
Julie
|
$1,000
[12]
It looks just like the Greek letter rho, but it's not "R"
P
|
$1,000
[5]
Sting:"Fields Of ____"
Gold
Julie
|
$1,000
[15]
This couple fell in love while filming "Cleopatra"; they wed in '64, divorced after a decade, remarried in 1975--& split again in 1976
Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton
Nik
|
$1,000
[16]
On Nov. 5, 1605 he tried to blow up Parliament to stop the persecution of Roman Catholics in England
Guy Fawkes
Nik
|
$1,000
[20]
The tomb of this English king, the victor at Agincourt, calls him "Hammer of the Gauls"
Henry V
|
| A CITY ON THE WATER | WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES | OVER CASTE | IAMB WOMAN | HEAR ME ROAR |
|
$400
[5]
Daytona Beach, Florida:this ocean
the Atlantic
Nik
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$400
[29]
Although it sounds like it has to do with a Southern peanut, it really pertains to the job held by Newsom & DeSantis
gubernatorial
Nik
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$400
[30]
The all-too-simple premise of the game show in this 2012 film--kids murder each other
The Hunger Games
Nik
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$400
[28]
These creatures of the genus Apis have a strict caste system with male drones, female workers & a queen on top
honeybees
Anji
Julie
|
$400
[27]
George Eliot's poem "God Needs Antonio" praises this master maker of musical instruments
Stradivarius
Julie
Nik
|
$400
[20]
It's not just carnivores--the harts of the red type of this roar to drive rival males away
deer
Julie
|
|
$800
[1]
Easton, Maryland
the Chesapeake Bay
Nik
|
$800
[22]
Though it sounds like a laughing beer, it's really a hubbub, maybe in a pub, bub
brouhaha
|
$800
[21]
The all-too-simple premise of the game show hosted by Richard Dawson in this 1987 film--criminals are murdered
The Running Man
|
$800
[12]
Taking their name from words meaning "oak" & "wizard", they were the priestly upper caste of the ancient Celts
the Druids
Nik
|
$800
[26]
Lady Mary Chudleigh's "To the Ladies" warns fiancees that this "and servant are the same / But only differ in the name"
wives
Julie
|
$800
[19]
The Kalolo-Lozi people call the roar & mist that the Zambezi River makes as it forms this "the smoke that thunders"
Victoria Falls
Nik
|
|
$1,200
[2]
Montreal, Quebec
the St. Lawrence River
Nik
|
$1,200
[8]
Meaning to throw out of a window, this term gained fame after a 1618 incident in Prague where 2 officials were so thrown
defenestration
Nik
|
$1,200
[11]
Dev Patel wins big on a game show in this 2008 film
Slumdog Millionaire
Julie
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$1,200
[13]
A term for a member of the New England cultural elite, it's also the name of the highest Hindu caste
the Brahmins
Nik
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$1,200
[23]
She loved her iambs, as in "Because I could not stop for Death"
Dickinson
Julie
|
$1,200
[16]
Written in 1792, this French song asks, "Do you hear in the countryside the roar of those savage soldiers?"
"La Marseillaise"
Anji
Julie
Nik
|
|
$1,600
[3]
Pierre, South Dakota
the Missouri
Julie
|
$1,600
[9]
Meaning a silly or flighty person, this word with 2 sets of double "B"s was mentioned in "King Lear" as a demon's name
flibbertigibbet
|
$1,600
[6]
In "Quiz Show" this Brit had all the answers on "Twenty One" as Charles Van Doren; do you have the question?
Ralph Fiennes
Nik
|
$1,600
[14]
The naked type of this hyphenated rodent lives in a colony that uses a caste system with one breeding female
a mole-rat
Nik
|
$2,000
[25]
Her 1883 "1492" celebrates "A virgin world where doors of sunset part, / Saying, 'Ho, all who weary, enter here!'"
Emma Lazarus
|
$1,600
[17]
Akira Ifukube used a leather glove coated in pine-tar resin & a double bass to create this character's roar in 1954
Godzilla
Nik
|
|
$2,000
[4]
Shelburne, Vermont
Lake Champlain
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DD
$5,400
[10]
Sigmund knows that this is from the German for "damage" & "joy" & I'm getting a certain amount of it right now
schadenfreude
Nik
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$2,000
[7]
In "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind", a woman has the choice of Brad Pitt, Matt Damon or Bachelor No. 3 on this classic show
The Dating Game
Julie
Nik
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$2,000
[15]
The mid-19th century "Caste War" of this peninsula pitted native Mayans against Ladinos of European descent
the Yucatán Peninsula
Nik
|
DD
$8,600
[24]
The 44 sonnets in an 1850 volume by her are largely in iambic pentameter
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Julie
|
$2,000
[18]
Alphabetically first in Old Testament books comes this prophet who says, "The Lord will roar from Zion"
Amos
|
Originally known as Longacre, it got its name after a newspaper moved its offices there in 1904
Times Square