2024 Champions Wildcard play-in game 2.Game entered from TuneIn audio presentation.
Rachel Clark — a director of client strategy from Washington, D.C.
Matthew Ott — an accountant from La Crescenta, California
Daniel Ciarrocchi — a writer from Baltimore, Maryland
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel | $2,000 | $2,400 | $4,800 |
$1,601
2nd place |
$4,800
11 R, 4 W |
| Matthew | $2,200 | $3,000 | $8,800 |
$0
3rd place |
$7,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Rachel | $3,800 | $9,700 | $22,300 |
$22,300
Winner: advance to Champions Wildcard |
$17,400
23 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| JUST DESERTS | NBA HISTORY | KIDDY LIT | NICKNAMES | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | MINING FOR "ORE" |
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$200
[25]
In this Bible book, the children of Israel "were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the Desert of Sinai"
Exodus
Matthew
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$200
[26]
In the 1990s this Chicago Bulls guard was the MVP of the NBA Finals a record 6 times
Jordan
Rachel
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$200
[27]
This 1885 book is subtitled "Tom Sawyer's Comrade"
Huckleberry Finn
Daniel
|
$200
[28]
Referring to the extensive quarries there, it's "the Granite State"
New Hampshire
Daniel
Matthew
|
$200
[29]
In 1919 this school was established as the Southern Branch of the University of California
UCLA
Rachel
|
$200
[30]
It's a vibration of the soft palate while you sleep
snore
Rachel
|
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$400
[24]
The barchan type of this is crescent-shaped & is formed by a constant wind coming from one direction
a sand dune
Daniel
Rachel
|
$400
[5]
In June 2002 this Lakers coach became the all-time leader in playoff victories by winning his 156th game
Phil Jackson
Daniel
|
$400
[23]
In a J.M. Barrie play, she & her brothers Michael & John get sprinkled with fairy dust & fly off into the night
Wendy
Rachel
|
$400
[22]
King Louis XIV was known as "Louis the Great", "Louis the Grand Monarch" & "Le Roi Soleil", meaning this
Sun King
Matthew
|
$400
[12]
Colleges in this state include Black Hills State University & Oglala Lakota College
South Dakota
Rachel
|
$400
[19]
Come one, come all to ye olde inn & enjoy our bill of fare & flagons of ale as in days of this
yore
Rachel
|
|
$800
[15]
The Namib Desert of West Africa is home to a mountain variety of this member of the horse family
the zebra
Matthew
|
$600
[2]
In 2001 the Vancouver Grizzlies relocated to this U.S. city
Memphis
Rachel
|
$600
[13]
This feline friend of Winnie-the-Pooh appears in "The House at Pooh Corner", but not in the original book
Tigger
Rachel
|
$600
[8]
Stockbroker Jordan Belfort's nickname, it's the title of Scorsese's 2013 biopic of him
"The Wolf of Wall Street"
Rachel
|
$600
[10]
Opened in 1865, this N.E. college was started by a scientist for an increasingly industrialized America
MIT
Matthew
|
$600
[20]
A germ cell, perhaps for a plant
a spore
Rachel
|
|
$1,000
[17]
La Guajira desert is connected by gas pipeline to nearby Barranquilla in this South American country
Colombia
|
$800
[3]
In 1995 this Houston Rockets center scored a then-record 131 points in a 4-game NBA Finals
Hakeem Olajuwon
Daniel
|
$800
[14]
He illustrated his own "Where the Wild Things Are" as well as several of the "Little Bear" books for kids
Sendak
Daniel
|
$800
[7]
This French tennis player & shirt tycoon was "the Crocodile"
Lacoste
Rachel
|
$800
[9]
This university in West Virginia is named for the Supreme Court Chief Justice who raised the court to a position of power
Marshall
Rachel
|
$800
[21]
U.S. Navy rank abolished for good in 1986
Commodore
Daniel
|
|
DD
$2,500
[18]
Canteens empty! I'm going to perish in the Chihuahuan Desert!--but look, it's this 1,900-mile-long river!
the Rio Grande
Rachel
|
$1,000
[4]
The NBA's Coach of the Year Trophy is named for this longtime Celtics coach
Auerbach
Matthew
|
$1,000
[16]
In Janell Cannon's "Stellaluna", one of these flying animals is adopted by a family of birds
a bat
Rachel
|
$1,000
[6]
A Yat, as in "Where y'at?", is a person from this Southern U.S. city
New Orleans
|
$1,000
[11]
The Daily Wildcat is the college newspaper from this Southwestern university
Arizona
Matthew
|
$1,000
[1]
Classical music greats Horowitz & Rostropovich each put out an album of tunes they used as these crowd-pleasers
encores
|
| A GENRE CATEGORY | MY "SON", THE PRESIDENT | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT | 3 LITTLE LETTERS | MARINE LIFE | SPRECHEN SIE DEUTSCH? |
|
$400
[25]
Sitcom is short for this
situational comedy
Daniel
|
$400
[24]
Chronologically, he was the first who fits the category
Jefferson
Matthew
|
$400
[29]
Julie Taymor directed the 2006 opera "Grendel", which retold this classic tale from the monster's point of view
Beowulf
Rachel
|
$400
[30]
In 2001 it merged with Time Warner
AOL
Daniel
|
$400
[23]
This, used to filter food from water by certain whales, is a keratinized structure, much like hair or nails
baleen
|
$400
[27]
This interjection used after someone sneezes means "health" in German
Gesundheit
Daniel
|
|
$800
[21]
Mecha is a genre of anime typically featuring giant these resembling people
robots
|
$800
[13]
He was preceded & succeeded as president by the same man
Benjamin Harrison
Matthew
|
$800
[28]
Andre Gretry, "the Moliere of music", composed a 1784 opera about this crusading king
Richard I
Matthew
Rachel
|
$800
[12]
Yasir Arafat was the head of it from 1969 to 2004
the PLO
Daniel
|
$800
[22]
The most intelligent of all invertebrates is thought to be O. vulgaris, the common type of this cephalopod
octopus
Rachel
|
$800
[26]
It's how you say "good morning" in German
guten Morgen
Matthew
|
|
$1,200
[6]
Some people describe a sentimental film as a "three-" this accessory picture
handkerchief
Daniel
Rachel
|
$1,200
[4]
He beat Clinton--DeWitt Clinton--in 1812
Madison
Rachel
|
$1,200
[1]
Rossini's opera about this tragic title character is subtitled "Il Moro di Venezia"
Otello
Daniel
|
$1,200
[9]
Russia's Tupolev Tu-144 was the world's first type of this speedy jet
an SST
Matthew
|
$1,200
[16]
Males of this small marine creature carry the fertilized eggs in a brood pouch beneath a prehensile tail
a seahorse
Daniel
|
$1,200
[20]
In German, what's mine is mein & what's yours is this rhyming word
dein
Matthew
|
|
$1,600
[7]
This 2000 film is the most recent Best Picture Oscar winner in the sword-&-sandal genre
Gladiator
Matthew
|
$1,600
[3]
For refusing to shine the boots of a British officer as a child, he got a saber across the face
Jackson
Rachel
|
$1,600
[2]
The name of this Italian opera house means "theater at the stairway"
La Scala
|
$2,000
[11]
The Honda Fourtrax Recon is this type of transport that can give you a real lift in the desert
an ATV
Matthew
|
$1,600
[15]
The loggerhead species of this reptile often feeds on jellyfish in the open seas
turtle
Rachel
|
$1,600
[19]
The OED calls these German fashion statements "leather shorts as worn in alpine regions"
Lederhosen
Daniel
|
|
$2,000
[8]
Video games with wide-open worlds & roles are named for this playground spot
a sandbox
|
DD
$5,000
[5]
He whipped 2 former presidents in the same election by an electoral score of 435-88-8
Wilson
Rachel
|
$2,000
[18]
The full title of this Wagner opera includes the words "and the Singer's Contest on the Wartburg"
Tannhäuser
|
DD
$3,400
[10]
Headquartered in Atlanta, this agency, established in 1946, grew out of a U.S. anti-malaria program
the CDC
Matthew
|
$2,000
[14]
This name for a common sea snail is also that of a blue-violet flower
periwinkle
|
$2,000
[17]
German term for a novel about the education & coming of age of a young protagonist
Bildungsroman
|
A book by historian Thomas Carlyle that Dickens said he'd read 500 times has this title subject that Charles would write about himself
the French Revolution