2024 Champions Wildcard Group 1 quarterfinal game 9.
Ittai Sopher — a news producer and journalist from New Orleans, Louisiana
Michael Menkhus — a data analyst from Kansas City, Missouri
Tamara Ghattas — an editor from Chicago, Illinois
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamara | $1,800 | $5,000 | $8,500 |
$8,500
2nd place: $5,000 |
$12,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Michael! | $6,600 | $8,000 | $20,800 |
$20,800
Winner: semifinalist |
$19,000
28 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Ittai =) | $3,600 | $3,000 | $5,400 |
$6,001
3rd place: $5,000 |
$5,400
10 R, 3 W |
| TOUCH SOME GRASS | "C" IN THE MIDDLE | THAT'S JUST TEARABLE! | FULL-COURT PRESS | 2-3 ZONE | COACHING BASKETBALL |
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$200
[28]
That's bent grass on the greens of this famed Georgia golf course formally opened in 1933
Augusta
Michael!
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$200
[24]
An advantage kept in reserve is this "up your sleeve"
an ace
Michael!
|
$200
[30]
Here's the satisfying sound of this fastening brand that was founded in 1952 getting unfastened
Velcro
Michael!
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$200
[29]
In 2000 the New York Daily News printed "Bush wins" after the Supremes rejected a recount in this state
Florida
Michael!
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$200
[27]
Billings & Albuquerque are in this time zone centered on the 105-degree west meridian
Mountain
Michael!
|
$200
[19]
Tex Winter, mentor to Phil Jackson, became famous for this type of offense with a geometric name
a triangle
Michael!
|
|
$400
[22]
Thisgrass used in fine Asian cuisine is also known as citronella
lemongrass
Michael!
|
$400
[18]
You want this to work when you exit a Skyvan at 10,000 feet
a parachute
Michael!
|
$400
[25]
Steve Wynn accidentally put a "$40 million elbow" through "Le Rêve", a 1932 painting of the mistress of this Spaniard
Picasso
Michael!
|
$400
[14]
The Sandusky Register affirmed this as the law of the land with 1920's "court declares that dry amendment is constitutional"
Prohibition
Ittai =)
|
$400
[26]
Recently, the Green Zone, a fortified area with government buildings & the U.S. embassy, has opened up to this Mideast city's people
Baghdad
Tamara
Ittai =)
|
$400
[13]
Fittingly, NBA great Michael Cooper led the Sparks of this city to a pair of WNBA championships
Los Angeles
Tamara
|
|
$600
[2]
No wonder this "grouchy" weed is so hard to eradicate; each individual plant can produce up to 150,000 seeds
crabgrass
Ittai =)
|
$600
[3]
You get to stick people with 1-inch needles & for their own good too if you become this specialist
an acupuncturist
Michael!
|
$600
[21]
Shred, split & sever are 5-letter synonyms for tear that begin with S; so is this, which doubles as a name of a noted guitarist
slash
Tamara
|
$600
[9]
The L.A. Times: Overturning it in 2022 was the "most significant curtailing of an established constitutional right"
Roe v. Wade
Tamara
|
$600
[8]
Losing other habitat, the Asiatic black bear & the monk vulture are surviving in this 155-mile-long strip with few humans
the Korean DMZ (Demilitarized Zone)
|
$600
[12]
In "I Came As a Shadow", John Thompson diagrammed his life as basketball coach at this D.C. university
Georgetown
Michael!
|
|
$800
[6]
This healthy "grass" food is prepared from the freshly sprouted leaves of the grain Triticum aestivum
wheatgrass
Tamara
|
$800
[1]
A peptic one of these is an erosion in the lining of the stomach or intestine
an ulcer
Ittai =)
|
$800
[15]
After tearing this, aka the calcaneal tendon: 3 or 4 weeks of immobilization, then high-heeled shoes should be a no-no for a while
the Achilles
Michael!
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$1,000
[10]
The Pittsburgh Courier told of Justice Harlan's lone dissenting opinion on this "separate but equal" case from 1896
Plessy v. Ferguson
Michael!
|
$800
[23]
In the 1970s, a section of Bostonhad this name more suited to a place where wars are fought
the Combat Zone
|
$800
[5]
Coaching 1899-1907, this pioneer of the sport is the only basketball coach in Kansas Jayhawks history with a losing record
Naismith
Ittai =)
|
|
$1,000
[7]
A type of grass that thrives near southern coasts shares its name with this oldest city in Florida
St. Augustine
Ittai =)
|
$1,000
[17]
Spanish for a place to board a ship; San Francisco has one on its eastern shore
embarcadero
Tamara
|
$1,000
[20]
Shakespeare plot twist! "Let the angel... tell thee" this man "was from his mother's womb untimely ripped"
Macduff
Tamara
Michael!
|
DD
$2,600
[11]
In 1803 the National Intelligencer covered the court case between James Madison & this "midnight appointee"
Marbury
Michael!
|
$1,000
[16]
When what's now this country was South West Africa, its southern 2/3 was a "police zone" set aside for white settlers
Namibia
Tamara
Ittai =)
|
$1,000
[4]
Real first name Glenn, this man had the prescription for the Celtics in 2008, taking them to the championship
Doc Rivers
Michael!
|
| HISTORIC BATTLES | DASHIELL HAMMETT | GAS EVERYWHERE | WHAT'S IN A NAME | THE TV SPIN-OFF SOURCE | SILENT-CONSONANT WORDS |
|
$400
[5]
The first major combat engagement for helicopter-transported U.S. troops was the battle of Ia Drang in this conflict
the Vietnam War
Michael!
|
$400
[12]
Hammett is famous for his 1930 novel about this coveted title object that was made by Turkish slaves in the castle of St. Angelo
the Maltese Falcon
Tamara
|
$400
[11]
A 2022 U.N. report on this gas said it has the same climate impact "whether it is emitted by a cow, or by a leaky valve in an oilfield"
methane
Michael!
|
$400
[29]
A bestseller across the ages, this book gets its name from the Phoenician port city where paper used to make it was traded
Bible
|
$400
[28]
More monster mash: "Angel"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Tamara
|
$400
[30]
This verb is used for working on dough, clay or muscles
knead
Michael!
|
|
$800
[4]
490 B.C.'s Battle of Marathon showed the Greeks for the first time that they could defeat a force of this mighty empire
the Persian Empire
Michael!
|
$800
[27]
In 1953 Hammett went before a committee chaired by this man & was asked about his association with the Communist Party
McCarthy
Michael!
|
$800
[16]
Boyle's law states that at a constant temperature the pressure of a gas is inversely proportional to its this
volume
Michael!
|
$800
[17]
Put this letter at the beginning of "organization" to get a monopolization technique named for a turn of the 20th century financier
M
Michael!
|
$800
[26]
"The Jeffersons", moving on up from Queens
All in the Family
Ittai =)
|
$800
[25]
As a verb it means "to become angry"; as a noun, it's a hair on a brush or a pig
bristle
Michael!
|
|
$1,200
[1]
During the Battle of Britain, the air force with this German name tried to smash England's defenses to prep for an invasion
the Luftwaffe
Michael!
|
$1,200
[9]
This L.A.-based hard-boiled novelist said Hammett's work took "murder out of the Venetian vase & dropped it into the alley"
Raymond Chandler
Tamara
Ittai =)
|
$1,200
[15]
Oganesson & radon are 2 radioactive members of this gas group on the periodic table
noble gases
Michael!
|
$1,200
[6]
After Romeo y Julieta cigars made a splash, in 1935 a competing brand was named this, after a Dumas character
Monte Cristo
Tamara
|
$1,200
[19]
Far-flung fiction: "Caprica"
Battlestar Galactica
Tamara
|
$1,200
[22]
In ancient Greek theater, Aeschylus reduced the number of the performers in this from 50 to 12
a chorus
Ittai =)
|
|
$1,600
[2]
A cavalry force of 3,000 Polish Hussars helped break the 1683 Siege of Vienna by forces of this empire & to win the ensuing battle
the Ottoman Empire
Michael!
|
$1,600
[23]
Many of Hammett's stories take place in this inner-city San Francisco neighborhood that shares its name with a cut of beef
the Tenderloin
Ittai =)
|
$1,600
[13]
Exoplanets a bit bigger than ours are "super Earths"; 51 Pegasi B, a gas giant that orbits near its star, is a "hot" this planet
Jupiter
Michael!
|
$2,000
[8]
The Comtesse du Cayla rose, seen here, was named for amistressof this king who survived Napoleon's Hundred Days
Louis XVIII
Ittai =)
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$1,600
[18]
"The Winchesters" were paranormal parents
Supernatural
|
$2,000
[21]
This word meaning poise ends with its silent B
aplomb
Tamara
|
|
$2,000
[3]
In 1862's Battle of Fredericksburg, Union troops crossed this long-named Virginia river, then may have wished they hadn't
the Rappahannock River
Ittai =)
|
$2,000
[24]
Hammett's long-time love, this playwright of "The Little Foxes", was happy to hear she was the inspiration for Nora Charles
(Lillian) Hellman
Tamara
|
$2,000
[14]
Emitted from trash mountains, these gases, LFGs for short, are a natural byproduct of organic decomposition
landfill gases
|
DD
$4,500
[7]
The name of this ocean liner was a Roman province that included what is now Portugal & western Spain
Lusitania
Tamara
|
$2,000
[10]
Hometown hockey heroes:"Shoresy"
Letterkenny
Michael!
|
DD
$7,000
[20]
Relevant or suitable, it comes from a French phrase meaning "to the purpose"
àpropos
Tamara
|
Janet Gaynor, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, her
Lady Gaga