2024 Champions Wildcard Group 2 quarterfinal game 7.
Nicole Rudolph — an associate dean from Williston Park, New York
Kat Jepson — an artist from Roanoke, Virginia
Long Nguyen — a retired engineer from Las Vegas, Nevada
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long | $4,000 | $6,600 | $26,400 |
$28,001
2nd place: $5,000 |
$16,800
26 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Kat | $2,400 | $5,000 | $28,000 |
$52,801
Winner: semifinalist |
$21,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Nicole | $-200 | $1,000 | $3,000 |
$3,000
3rd place: $5,000 |
$3,000
4 R, 2 W |
| LENDING YOU A POKER HAND | RHYMING PHRASES | OH, THE PLACES YOU "CAN" GO! | DUCK SOUP | IT HAPPENED IN CONGRESS | 50 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME |
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$200
[6]
The Bicycle cards website points out 5 of a kind is only possible with these as part of the game, something "most poker purists" shun
a joker (wild cards)
Long
|
$200
[19]
In song, it was used to describe an arachnid making its way up a drainage pipe
itsy-bitsy
Kat
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$200
[23]
It's a 100-mile-long peninsula on the east coast of Florida, or a cape that's a small part of it
Canaveral
Long
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$200
[21]
In 2015 Kim Kardashian told NPR she was "too cool" for this puckering selfie expression
duck face
Kat
|
$200
[30]
In 1870 Congress censured Tennessee's Roderick Butler for selling an appointment to this academy
West Point
Long
|
$200
[25]
She invited us to "Come Into My House" & also deal with the "Wrath Of My Madness"; we bow down before this Queen
Queen Latifah
Kat
Nicole
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$400
[5]
Paul Newman uses more than luck & skill to get the 4 jacks that beat Robert Shaw in this 1973 movie about a big con
The Sting
Long
|
$400
[18]
It's a planned function where someone famous is introduced to & socializes with audience members
meet & greet
Long
|
$400
[22]
Acausewaylinks the Zona Hotelera to the Mexican city of this name
Cancun
Long
|
$400
[20]
Thanks to a duck saying its name, this company said its brand recognition jumped from 11% to 94% in 14 years
Aflac
Long
|
$400
[24]
In 1789 Congress hotly debated "a day of public" this for the new Constitution; a November day was eventually chosen
Thanksgiving
Nicole
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$400
[26]
In 1986 it was "6 'N The Mornin"' for him in the studio but in 2000 it was "SVU" for him on TV
Ice-T
Long
|
|
$600
[4]
Edward G. Robinson wins a poker duel with this hand in "The Cincinnati Kid"; poker & movie fans debate the realism of the game
a straight flush
Long
|
$600
[17]
Definitions of this include a country at war, a new night club, a good place for Wi-Fi
a hot spot
Kat
|
$600
[8]
Named for a German travel guide, the "Baedeker raids" were bombing attacks on historic British sites like this cathedral city
Canterbury
Nicole
|
$600
[16]
Not the Muscovy duck, but this other "M" duck is thought to be the ancestor of most domestic duck breeds
a mallard
Kat
|
$600
[13]
A 1958 congressional act established this agency, making a giant leap possible 11 years later
NASA
Kat
|
$600
[27]
Billboard said he is "often cited as hip-hop's GOAT behind the boards... a lead rapper on... 1988's 'Straight Outta Compton"'
Dr. Dre
Long
|
|
$800
[3]
The "dead man's hand" of 2 pair, black aces & 8s, was reportedly held by him when he was shot dead in 1876
Hickok
Long
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$800
[10]
This bit of advice could be translated as "pretend to be successful until you become so"
fake it till you make it
Kat
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DD
$1,000
[1]
"The accent is on the 'Can"', said the woman announcing the name of this newly chosen, yet-to-be-built capital in 1913
Canberra
Long
|
$800
[11]
Thispresidential daughter had pet ducks that often waddled their way into thefountainon the White House South Lawn
Caroline Kennedy
|
$800
[12]
Congress first did this March 3, 1845 in the waning hours of John Tyler's presidency, by votes of 41-1 & 127-30
to override a veto
Nicole
|
$800
[28]
Some numbers: 3 years after taking 9 bullets, he had a Billboard 200 No. 1 debut with "Get Rich Or Die Tryin"' in 2003
50 Cent
Kat
|
|
$1,000
[2]
Thislate legendary player won the World Series of Poker two years in a row by having his 10-2 become a full house
(Doyle) Brunson
Long
|
$1,000
[9]
A police helicopter providing surveillance is idiomatically one of these & doesn't need to blink either
an eye in the sky
|
$1,000
[7]
Thisnational monument in Arizona preserves hundreds of pre-Columbian cliff dwellings
Canyon de Chelly
Long
|
$1,000
[15]
In 2018, a hotduckof this species with the name of a form of Chinese appeared in New York City; folks fell in love with it
Mandarin
Long
|
$1,000
[14]
After the close Nixon-Humphrey race, the House passed a resolution to abolish this system, 338-70, but the Senate didn't
the electoral college
Kat
|
$1,000
[29]
"Backed by rap's archetypal hype man in Flavor Flav", this Public Enemy leader was a "Rebel Without A Pause" in 1987
Chuck D
Nicole
|
| WISTFUL THINKING | SIBLINGS OF NOTE | THERE'S A VACCINE FOR THAT | VWLLSS CMPNS | DOCUMENTARIES | "RH" FACTOR |
|
$400
[1]
John Greenleaf Whittier noted, "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these" 4 words
it might have been
|
$400
[30]
Last name of Joseph, publisher of the New York World, & of brother Albert, who ran the less well-known New York Morning Journal
Pulitzer
Long
|
$400
[28]
Biothrax protects against this disease that's transmitted to humans from farm animals
anthrax
Long
|
$400
[26]
A shoe brand:RBK
Reebok
Long
|
$400
[29]
The documentary series "Five Came Back" chronicles the stories of directors like William Wyler & John Huston during this war
World War II
Long
|
$400
[12]
Unlike the large bird, as the first name of "Better Call Saul" actress Seehorn, it rhymes with Shea
Rhea
Long
|
|
$800
[2]
In "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", this nobleman sadly wrote of Cadiz, "Here all were noble, save nobility"
Byron
Long
|
$800
[24]
A dynamic trio in this game, the Polgar sisters are Susan, Sofia & Judit, who beat Boris Spassky
chess
Kat
|
$1,200
[4]
Breathe easy! We'll only make you identify the "R" in RSV, this syncytial virus, & let you know there's a vaccine available
respiratory
Kat
|
$800
[21]
"The original craft coffee":PTS
Peet's
Long
|
$800
[27]
The doc subtitled "The Greatest Party That Never Happened" follows this failed festival that left folks stranded in the Bahamas in 2017
Fyre Fest
Kat
|
$800
[25]
This part of a missile or torpedo contains the explosive or chemical agent
the warhead
Kat
|
|
$1,200
[8]
In "Dandelion Wine" he was not a "Ray" of sunshine, saying, "some people turn sad awfully young... no special reason"
Bradbury
Kat
|
$1,200
[23]
In the 1930s John of this last name was a senator, his brother William was House speaker & William's daughter Tallulah was a stage star
Bankhead
Long
|
$1,600
[3]
There are vaccines to protect against this inflammation of the lining of the brain & spinal cord
meningitis
Long
|
$1,200
[5]
Outdoorsy co-op from the Seattle area:R
REI
Kat
|
$1,200
[15]
"The Quiet Epidemic" makes the case for the existence of the chronic kind of this disease named for a New England town
Lyme disease
Kat
|
$1,200
[18]
Where were you in '62? Maybe working as one of these on roller skates at a drive-in restaurant
a carhop
Kat
|
|
$1,600
[9]
This Angeleno poet & barfly wrote, "I felt like crying, but nothing came out"
Bukowski
Long
Kat
|
$2,000
[22]
A new method of prostate surgery was pioneered by & punningly nicknamed for Robert, brother of this 20th century French novelist
Proust
|
$2,000
[7]
A vaccine by any other name: both DTaP & Tdap offer sweet protection against tetanus, pertussis & this
diphtheria
Kat
|
$1,600
[6]
Casual clothes from Japan:NQL
Uniqlo
Long
|
$1,600
[13]
The 1956 underwater documentary "The Silent World" was co-directed by Louis Malle & this French oceanographer
Cousteau
Long
|
$1,600
[17]
This type of doctor specializes in arthritis & autoimmune diseases
a rheumatologist
Long
|
|
$2,000
[10]
One benefit of reading this Stephen Chbosky book: "Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody"
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Kat
|
DD
$11,000
[14]
Marcel's kid sister Suzanne Duchamp caught the bug for this movement with artworks like "Accordion Masterpiece"
Dada
Long
|
DD
$7,000
[20]
The CDC wants you to know that the 4 vaccine shots for this are fairly painless & now given in the arm, not the stomach
rabies
Kat
|
$2,000
[11]
High-end camera company:LC
Leica
Kat
|
$2,000
[16]
In "The Fog of War" Errol Morris interviewed this man who was Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968
McNamara
Nicole
|
$2,000
[19]
Thesemuscles of the upper back, major & minor, help stabilize the shoulder girdle & scapula
your rhomboids
|
An article written after his 1935 death asked, "Will some crown prince arise to take his place?"
Huey Long