2024 Champions Wildcard Group 1 semifinal game 3.
Ron Cheung — an economics professor from Lakewood, Ohio
Erin Portman — a high school English teacher from Naperville, Illinois
Michael Menkhus — a data analyst from Kansas City, Missouri
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael! | $4,400 | $7,400 | $17,800 |
$17,800
Finalist |
$19,800
26 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Erin | $0 | $600 | $2,600 |
$5,200
3rd place: $10,000 |
$2,600
7 R, 1 W |
| Ron | $1,000 | $2,800 | $8,200 |
$8,200
2nd place: $10,000 |
$14,400
20 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| THE ENGLISH PAST | PLATFORMING | SILENT H | A SQUARE MEAL | THE STATE'S MOST POPULOUS COUNTY | QUESTIONABLE MOVIES |
|
$200
[28]
Founded in 1753, this national antiquities collection was first housed in a London mansion called Montagu House
the British Museum
Michael!
|
$200
[30]
Of 11, 22 or 33, the height in feet of the board in Olympic platform diving
33
Michael!
|
$200
[24]
The host of a nightly news telecast, or the last runner in a relay race
anchor
Michael!
|
$200
[23]
The "original" flavor of this century-old woven cracker brand has 3 ingredients: whole grain wheat, canola oil & sea salt
Triscuit
Erin
|
$200
[27]
Cook County
Illinois
Ron
|
$200
[16]
In "Why Him?" this "Breaking Bad" star does not understand the appeal of James Franco (but his daughter does)
Cranston
Michael!
|
|
$400
[26]
This nickname for the Conservative Party has been used for centuries & comes from an Irish word for "outlaw"
the Tories
Ron
|
$400
[29]
2 types of elevating work platforms are a scissor lift & this type of crane with a fruit in its name
a cherry picker
Erin
|
$400
[18]
This exclamation of frustration by Homer Simpson was inspired by utterances of actor James Finlayson in Laurel & Hardy films
D'oh!
Ron
|
$400
[15]
This brand's ubiquitous singles now come in Swiss & pepper jack
Kraft
Michael!
|
$400
[10]
Laramie County
Wyoming
Michael!
|
$400
[17]
Ashton Kutcher & Seann William Scott search for a jalopy while aliens look for the continuum transfunctioner in this film
Dude, Where's My Car?
Ron
|
|
$600
[25]
This man became Lord Protector after leading a Roundhead army in the 17th century English Civil War
Cromwell
Michael!
|
$600
[6]
To help him do this job, Leopold Stokowski designed his own podium: round, with steps & covered in non-slip rubber
conducting (orchestra conductor)
Ron
|
$600
[13]
It can be submission to one of superior rank or asongwritten in imitation of an admired artist
homage
Ron
|
$600
[12]
This alliterative Japanese food container suggests your fare is going to be delivered within 4 sides
a bento box
Ron
|
$600
[4]
Maricopa County
Arizona
Michael!
|
$600
[20]
In this 1962 film former child star Bette Davis lives in a crumbling Hollywood mansion with her invalid sister
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Ron
|
|
$800
[19]
From 1830, what's now Manchester's science museumis the oldest surviving this type of building, part of a transport revolution
a train station
Michael!
|
$800
[9]
In carmaking a platform is the basic chassis & architecture; the Nissan 370Z & this luxe brand's QX70 used the same one
Infiniti
Ron
|
$1,000
[8]
From the name of a town in County Wicklow, it's an Irish walking stick or cudgel
a shillelagh
Michael!
|
$800
[1]
These little French teacakes whose name means "little oven" are often square
petit fours
Ron
|
$800
[2]
Fairfax County
Virginia
Ron
|
$800
[21]
Ice Cube tries to get out of the friend zone with Nia Long by offering to drive her kids to Vancouver in this 2005 film
Are We There Yet?
Michael!
|
|
$1,000
[14]
This "List" loosened up in 1965 as the 4 Beatles each got an MBE, being made members of the Order of the British Empire
the Queen's Honours List
Ron
|
$1,000
[11]
Upvote or downvote posts on this social media platform that has communities like AMA (Ask Me Anything) & Wall Street Bets
Reddit
Michael!
|
DD
$3,200
[7]
From the Dutch for "permission", it's a leave of absence granted to a member of the military
a furlough
Ron
|
$1,000
[5]
This revered San Francisco chocolatier sells squares of the sweet with peppermint bark or raspberry filling
Ghirardelli
Michael!
|
$1,000
[3]
Multnomah County
Oregon
Ron
|
$1,000
[22]
The title of this Coen Bros. film comes from a movie Joel McCrea wanted to make in Preston Sturges' "Sullivan's Travels"
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Ron
|
| THE ENGLISH PAST TENSE | OPERA | BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY | TECH TALK | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE | ARTFUL ROGERS |
|
$400
[16]
This irregular past tense verb is what I did to start our game of whist
dealt (led)
Erin
Ron
|
$400
[28]
In act IV of "La bohème", Musetta finds this woman half-dead; spoiler alert--by the end of the act, she's all dead
Mimi
Ron
|
$400
[25]
Peter the Great introduced regular minting of this currency in silver &herehe is, on one of his coins
the ruble
Michael!
|
$400
[27]
In soccer, goal or no can be decided using VAR, or video assistant this, meaning either the system or a person who uses it
referee
Michael!
|
$400
[22]
Peter Matthiessen climbed mountains in Nepal to see the snow type of this creature, the title of his National Book Award winner
a leopard
Erin
|
$400
[26]
Roger Waters & Roger "Syd" Barrett were founding members of this "colorful" band formed in 1965
Pink Floyd
Michael!
|
|
$800
[15]
This irregular past tense verb can mean completely tired out & exhausted
spent (worn)
Michael!
Ron
|
$800
[17]
Here is Placido Domingo being a little nosy as this character
Cyrano de Bergerac
Ron
|
$800
[24]
In 2021 El Salvador's govt. made all businesses accept this as payment & introduced the digital "Chivo Wallet"
bitcoin
Michael!
|
$800
[20]
The accepted levels of this technology go from 0 (a 1978 Buick Regal) to 5 (no pedals; doesn't exist yet)
self-driving cars
Erin
|
$800
[21]
After accepting a drink of liquor in a Washington Irving tale, Rip Van Winkle falls asleep for 20 years in these mountains
the Catskills
Michael!
|
$800
[29]
This movie critic tried his thumb at screenwriting with the 1970 film "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"
Ebert
Michael!
|
|
$1,200
[3]
A brother"ood" of irregular past tenses is stood, understood & this, meaning "resisted"
withstood
Erin
|
$1,200
[5]
Heard here is the famous "Toreador Song" from this opera
Carmen
Michael!
|
$1,200
[10]
Unemployment is supposed to fall as inflation rises & vice versa; under Pres. Ford, both rose & economists coined this word
stagflation
Michael!
|
$1,200
[13]
Seen here, is a more than 2,000-year-old one of these, also what you use to take notes in Kobo e Readers & ebooks
a stylus
Erin
|
$1,200
[9]
In the novel "Lost Horizon", the Kunlun Range is thought to be home to this lamasery whose name has become a synonym for utopia
Shangri-La
Ron
|
$1,200
[30]
Roles of this actor include a cousin of James Garner in "Maverick", Simon Templar &007
(Roger) Moore
Ron
|
|
$1,600
[2]
This word meaning "said not to do that thing" rhymes with "had" to traditionalists but with "maid" to many others
forbade
Ron
|
DD
$2,000
[6]
Benjamin Britten composed the music for an opera based on this sailor who shared Ben's initials
Billy Budd
Michael!
|
$1,600
[11]
Casa Loma, in this city, a financial center, was the passion of Henry Pellatt, who had to sell it when the Home Bank of Canada collapsed
Toronto
Michael!
|
$1,600
[18]
A Rand Corp. blog post says this, the "bedrock of most cybersecurity measures", is at risk when quantum computing scales up
encryption
Michael!
|
$1,600
[8]
"Der Zauberberg" in German, this Thomas Mann novel tells the story of a man who stays in a TB clinic for 7 years
Magic Mountain
Michael!
|
$1,600
[23]
Thisartful Cowboys quarterback didn't break into the NFL until he was 27 due to a 4-year commitment with theU.S. Navy
Roger Staubach
Michael!
|
|
$2,000
[1]
You don't say "I brod the fish before frying it", nor "I throd the needle", so why this word meaning "stepped"?
trod
Ron
|
$2,000
[7]
The first in a trilogy of operas by Philip Glass about great men who changed the world was him "On the Beach"
Einstein
Michael!
|
$2,000
[12]
In 1720 the value of this trading company's stock rose from 128 1/2 to 1,000, creating a disastrous "bubble"
the South Sea Company
Erin
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
This word, from the Greek for "life" & "measure", enabled Apple to introduce Face ID on the iPhone X
biometrics
Ron
|
$2,000
[4]
A Miskatonic Univ. team uncovers horrific artifacts in Antarctica in this author's "At the Mountains of Madness"
Lovecraft
Michael!
|
$2,000
[14]
This B-movie maven of "Attack of the Crab Monsters" fame filmed "The Little Shop of Horrors" in 3 days
Roger Corman
|
Also an author, this singer who had 5 Top 40 hits in the 1970s was called the "Pirate Laureate"
Jimmy Buffett