2024 Champions Wildcard Group 1 quarterfinal game 8.
Alec Chao — a management and program analyst originally from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Connor Sears — a copy editor from Queens, New York
Johanna Stoberock — an adjunct professor and fiction writer from Walla Walla, Washington
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johanna | $1,000 | $2,400 | $7,600 |
$1,399
3rd place: $5,000 |
$7,600
11 R, 0 W |
| Connor | $-800 | $3,000 | $14,600 |
$13,799
2nd place: $5,000 |
$16,600
23 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Alec | $3,200 | $3,000 | $15,400 |
$29,201
Winner: semifinalist |
$13,200
16 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| START TALKING, SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER | DRINKING VESSELS | BACKWORDS & FOREWORDS | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS | ON MY HISTORIC CV | QUESTIONABLE SCIENCE IN POP SONGS |
|
$200
[8]
Her first line in "Othello" is "My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty"
Desdemona
Johanna
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$200
[26]
Champagne is traditionally served in this tall stemmed glass that shares its name with a musical instrument
flute
Johanna
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$200
[13]
A "timber" canine & to move in a stream
wolf & flow
Connor
|
$200
[27]
Bregagh Roadin Northern Ireland, an avenue of beech trees known locally as Dark Hedges, was used as King's Road in this HBO series
Game of Thrones
Connor
|
$200
[28]
1972: first tenured female faculty member, Columbia Law; 1993: nominated to Supreme Court to replace Byron White
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Johanna
Connor
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$200
[30]
Poison sang, "Every rose has its" this, but "smooth touch" varieties do exist
thorn
Johanna
|
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$400
[25]
Falstaff's first line in this non-history play is "Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king?"
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Johanna
|
$400
[12]
Used to drink this alcoholic beverage, a ceramico-chokocan have two blue rings on a white base on the inside of the cup
sake
Alec
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$400
[22]
A distinctive style of clothing & to boast
brag & garb
Connor
|
$400
[24]
Fashion center Carnaby Street is in this area of London with a rhyming name where mods congregated
Soho
Johanna
Connor
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$400
[7]
SECDEF, 1989 to 1993; also 8 years of veep experience
Dick Cheney
Alec
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$400
[29]
In "It's Hot (Some Like It Hot)", Jay-Z gets it wrong with the lyric "thirty-eight revolve like a sun 'round" this
Earth
Connor
|
|
$600
[2]
Her first speech is "What, jealous Oberon? Fairies, skip hence. I have forsworn his bed and company"
Titania
Alec
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$600
[10]
It sounds like an acrobat, but it's any flat-bottomed glass with no handle or stem
a tumbler
Connor
|
$600
[21]
Glossy & boat bottoms
sleek & keels
|
$600
[23]
Places to chow down on this Memphis street include B.B. King's Blues Club & Jerry Lee Lewis' Cafe & Honky Tonk
Beale Street
Connor
|
$600
[6]
441 A.D.: Beat up on Eastern Romans with bro; 445: murdered bro, became sole leader; 453: stopped living that barbarian life
Attila the Hun
Connor
|
$600
[4]
Their 1977 song "Dreams" claims, "thunder only happens when it's raining"; that's not always the case
Fleetwood Mac
Alec
|
|
$800
[1]
The opening line of this play is Orsino's "If music be the food of love, play on"
Twelfth Night
Johanna
Connor
|
$800
[3]
It can be a small drink as well as a pear-shapedgobletthat, as the name suggests, intensifies the aroma of brandy
a snifter
Alec
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$800
[15]
A division of a hospital & to pull back a bow string
draw & ward (ward & draw)
Connor
Alec
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$800
[18]
In 1973 West Germany set a speed limit of 62 mph on this due to the oil crisis; it was soon repealed
the Autobahn
Alec
|
$800
[17]
1905: introduced to the Russian royal family; 1915: personal advisor to the empress; 1916: doesn't quite make it to New Year's
Rasputin
Connor
|
$800
[20]
This group's "Speed Of Sound" says, "Planets are moving at the speed of light"; even hyper-velocity planets aren't that fast
Coldplay
|
|
$1,000
[9]
Title character Antonio begins this play saying, "In sooth I know not why I am so sad"
The Merchant of Venice
Alec
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$1,000
[11]
Emily Dickinson wrote, "I taste a liquor never brewed-from" these ale vessels "scooped in pearl"
tankards
Connor
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$1,000
[14]
A legal no-no & a horse gait
tort & trot
Alec
|
DD
$2,000
[5]
Important landmarks on this pioneer route included Chimney Rock in Nebraska & Fort Hall on the Snake River
the Oregon Trail
Alec
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$1,000
[16]
1351 B.C.: Egyptian queen 1,300 years before Cleopatra; 1912: portrait bust discovered in ruins of Amarna workshop, big hit at museum
Nefertiti
Connor
Alec
|
$1,000
[19]
We're not sure how Adele pulled off this title trick in a 2011 song, but she definitely wanted to "let it burn"
"Set Fire To The Rain"
Connor
|
| MOMENTS OF INSPIRATION | WHIRLED CAPITALS | FEAST DAYS OF CHRISTIANITY | NICKNAMES | PEOPLE WHO ARE PLACES | WHAT DO "U" STAND FOR? |
|
$400
[23]
Traveling to Italy on business, Henri Dunantfound himself helping the wounded at an 1859 battle & came up with this international aid organization
the Red Cross
Connor
|
$400
[24]
We hear the waffles are good:RUBS LESS
Brussels
Connor
|
$400
[8]
October 2 honors these heavenly beings said by St. Jerome to protect us from harm
guardian angels
Alec
|
$400
[29]
"Garden of the Gulf" & simply "The Island" are nicknames for this Canadian province
Prince Edward Island
Connor
|
$400
[30]
She's a Fugees singer, solo artist & not too high incline
(Lauryn) Hill
Connor
|
$400
[25]
It's the "U" in u-235, a radioactive isotope
uranium
Connor
|
|
$800
[16]
Late one night in her lab in 1981, Patricia Bath had the aha! that led to a method of eye surgery using not scalpels but these
lasers
Connor
|
$800
[7]
It's big in antiquity: HASTEN
Athens
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$800
[28]
January 6 is this feast day with a name from Greek that also means a sudden intuitive insight
Epiphany
Alec
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$800
[27]
A Beethoven piano sonata evoked a boat on Lake Lucerne at night for a German poet, leading to this nickname for the piece
the "Moonlight Sonata"
Johanna
|
$800
[26]
She's an actress, comedian & public square
Plaza
Alec
|
$800
[20]
Have you got assets of more than $30 million? Then you are not just a high net worth individual but a UHNWI, "U" for this
ultra
Connor
|
|
$1,200
[6]
Marvin Gaye realized, "I'd been singing too loud"; hence the groove of his 1971 hit that said, "Talk to me, so you can see" this
"What's Going On"
|
$1,200
[12]
It's called the "White City of the North":SILKEN HI
Helsinki
Alec
|
$1,200
[10]
The nativity of this son of Zechariah & precursor of Jesus gets its own day, June 24
John the Baptist
Johanna
|
$1,600
[17]
George Gershwin worked as a "song plugger" in the musical New York City area with this 3-word nickname
Tin Pan Alley
Johanna
|
$1,200
[4]
Heis the NBA's all-time leader in games played & an area often covered by one church & one priest
a (Robert) Parish
Connor
|
$1,200
[5]
Found on most everything you buy, UPC stands for this
a universal product code
Alec
|
|
$1,600
[1]
Walking through a Budapest park, hehad the idea that became the basis for alternating current & began drawing in the dirt with a stick
Nikola Tesla
Alec
|
$1,600
[14]
It's on a horn:BAA BAD SAID
Addis Ababa
Johanna
|
$1,600
[11]
Depictedhereby Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, & told of in Acts 9, "The Conversion of" this man has its own feast day on January 25
Saul (Saint Paul)
Connor
|
$2,000
[18]
Its wide range of responsibilities earned this Cabinet department the nickname "The Department of Everything Else"
Department of Interior
Connor
|
$1,600
[13]
He's a comedian, Comedy Store comedy club royalty & the land edge of a body of water
(Pauly) Shore
Connor
|
$1,600
[2]
Fujairah is one of the constituent members of the UAE, this federation
the United Arab Emirates
Connor
|
|
$2,000
[22]
Kary Mullishad to pull off the road when he got his Nobel-winning idea to copy DNA via PCR or polymerase this process
a chain reaction
Connor
|
$2,000
[15]
Mexico adjacent:MAP NOBLE
Belmopan
Alec
|
DD
$2,000
[21]
Corpus Christi & Whitsunday are examples of this type of feast that can fall on different dates in different years
a movable feast
Connor
|
DD
$2,400
[9]
This king's nickname of "Unready" meant "badly advised" in Anglo-Saxon, not "unprepared"
Ethelred
Alec
|
$2,000
[19]
He's a "Mamma Mia!" maybe papa & a narrow inlet of the sea in the British isles
a firth (Colin Firth)
|
$2,000
[3]
What used to be called UFOs are now UAPs short for this 3-word phrase
unidentified aerial (anomalous) phenomena
Alec
|
An intended sequel to this 1869 work centered on the Decembrists, a group of veterans who largely served in the Napoleonic Wars
War and Peace