2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 2.
Jared Watson — a quality control specialist from Greenville, Texas
Ben Goldstein — a director of content marketing from Dexter, Michigan
Cris Pannullo — a customer success operations manager from Ocean City, New Jersey
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cris | $6,200 | $8,800 | $14,000 |
$0
3rd place: $5,000 |
$14,000
22 R, 5 W |
| Ben | $800 | $1,200 | $4,400 |
$100
2nd place: $5,000 |
$4,400
9 R, 1 W |
| Jared | $2,400 | $8,800 | $32,200 |
$32,200
Winner: semifinalist |
$20,600
21 R (including 3 DDs), 0 W |
| LET'S AUDIT A COLLEGE COURSE | ALL THINGS DISNEY | HISTORY | THE NEW TESTAMENT | MEMORY | SPEECH! PARTS OF SPEECH! |
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$200
[30]
It was a safe bet that this state U. offered gaming management I & also TCA 471, practicum in hotel education
UNLV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Ben
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$200
[25]
Naturally, he was the first animated character to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Mickey
Cris
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$200
[26]
Lasting from Aug. 1786 to Feb. 1787, Shays' Rebellion in our young republic was in protest of economic conditions, mainly high these
taxes
Cris
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$200
[28]
Agreeing to crucify Jesus, he washed his hands & said, "I am innocent of the blood of this just person"
Pontius Pilate
Jared
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$200
[29]
So you have a good memory for these? So do chimps, who in a 2023 study could recognize ones they hadn't seen for 25 years
faces
Ben
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$200
[27]
Fred Flintstone, Sweden, Roomba
nouns
Jared
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$400
[17]
Math 0407, linear algebra & matrix theory, does not sound like an easy A at this HBCU founded by Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee
Jared
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$600
[7]
Inspired by "The Princess and the Frog", Disneyland has a new eatery featuring southern dishes & named for this character
Tiana
Cris
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$400
[12]
The litter ofbroken glassin the streets of Germany gave this name to the pogroms of 1938
Kristallnacht
Ben
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$400
[13]
St. Paul wrote his epistle to the Philippians from here, also a creative spot for Martin Luther King Jr.
jail
Ben
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$400
[23]
Thisactress has an autobiographical memory like only 100 other humans & has no trouble remembering her lines, either
Marilu Henner
Jared
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$400
[22]
Neither,&, nor
conjunctions
Cris
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$600
[9]
Taking 340.612.01, epidemiologic basis for tuberculosis control at this U. in Baltimore? Thank you, as that sounds kinda important
Johns Hopkins
Cris
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$800
[19]
This song from "Three Little Pigs" became a rallying cry against the Great Depression & the rise of Hitler
"Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?"
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$600
[3]
In 1546 the council of this Italian city added Judith, Tobit & other books to the Catholic Bible
Trent
Cris
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$600
[5]
John 15:13 says, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for" these people
his friends
Jared
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$600
[14]
A hafiz or hafiza is someone who has memorized this
the Quran
Cris
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$600
[15]
Xem, xyrs, xemself
(neo)pronouns
Cris
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$800
[8]
Is anyone here a marine biologist?! Here, being this Jesuit university in Spokane, & you could be after learning about it in bio 403
Gonzaga
Cris
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$1,000
[20]
"A Spoonful Of Sugar" & "It's A Small World" are among the more than 200 songs these siblings wrote for Disney
the Shermans
Cris
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$800
[1]
This Italian family gave the world 4 popes:Leo X, Clement VII, Pius IV &Leo XI
the Medici
Cris
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$800
[4]
Acts 7 reports that he was stoned to death for speaking what the council thought was blasphemy against God
Stephen
Jared
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$800
[16]
A vivid memory of learning big news is a this "memory", named for a lighting accessory of mid-20th century news photography
flashbulb
Cris
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$800
[11]
Betwixt, between, beyond
preposition
Cris
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$1,000
[10]
History 383 at this military college of South Carolina examined patterns of war to 1763
the Citadel
Cris
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DD
$4,200
[24]
At Walt Disney World in 1975, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper & Jim Irwin attended the grand opening of this ride
Space Mountain
Jared
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$1,000
[2]
Japan returned to the control of an emperor in the 19th century in what is called this 5-letter restoration
Meiji
Cris
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$1,000
[6]
This apostle drew his sword & "smote the high priest's servant and cut off his right ear"
Peter
Jared
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$1,000
[18]
In comparing computer memory info, think before you give us this, the number of megabytes in a gigabyte
1,024
Cris
Jared
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$1,000
[21]
Yowza!Zoinks!Shazbot!
interjections
Cris
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| WORLD CITIES | DOUBLE THE SAME VOWEL | ALLOYS | ITALIAN AMERICANS | LITERARY GROUPS | THE '70s TOTALLY ROCKED |
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$400
[26]
A Novocastrian is a person from this city-upon-Tyne
Newcastle
Cris
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$400
[27]
Polartec pioneered this fabric perfect for sweaters & blankets, a synthetic material despite its sheep-ish name
fleece
Cris
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$400
[29]
Magnalium is a strong, lightweight alloy of these 2 elements
magnesium & aluminum
Cris
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$400
[28]
After 19 nominations, shewon her first daytime acting Emmy & in '23, she was honored with a lifetime achievement award
Susan Lucci
Jared
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$400
[30]
Poets like Bei Dao of the Misty School of Poetry were exiled from China following the 1989 protests in this Beijing square
Tiananmen (Square)
Ben
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$400
[5]
Only months after releasing 1979's "Highway To Hell", this group lost lead singer Bon Scott to acute alcohol poisoning
AC/DC
Ben
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$800
[23]
This Latvian capital is pretty much at the geographic center of the 3 Baltic states
Riga
Jared
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$800
[25]
The U.S. has no cranberry tycoon--Ocean Spray is an agricultural one of these
cooperative
Cris
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$800
[21]
Ferrocerium is used to make these rocky-sounding sparking devices in cigarette lighters
flint
Jared
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$800
[20]
As director of the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, hebecame a fixture on TV during the COVID pandemic
Fauci
Cris
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$800
[24]
A plaque at 50 Gordon Square, London honors this literary group that included Clive Bell & Leonard Woolf
Bloomsbury (Group)
Cris
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$800
[4]
This quartet gave us a tour of "Kashmir" in 1975 & enjoyed some "Custard Pie"
Led Zeppelin
Ben
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$1,200
[7]
We are marching to this city where the Peace of Vereeniging was signed in 1902, ending the Boer War
Pretoria
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$1,200
[6]
Traveling third class, over 700 passengers on the Titanic were in this cheapest section below decks; about 180 survived
steerage
Jared
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$1,200
[9]
Stellite, which coats saw teeth & lathes, got its name because its brilliance was like these
stars
Ben
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$1,200
[10]
He's in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his ice rink resurfacing machine
Zamboni
Jared
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$1,200
[22]
The 1926 literary magazine "Fire!!" featured Wallace Thurman & Countee Cullen, members of this New York movement
the Harlem Renaissance
Cris
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$1,200
[3]
"Fire in the sky"! After Montreux Casino burned during a Zappa gig, Deep Purple wrote this Top 5 hit with a killer lick
"Smoke On The Water"
Jared
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$2,000
[12]
About a third of this city's 15 million people live on the Asian side, while the rest live in Europe
Istanbul
Cris
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$1,600
[16]
Founded by a Norwegian missionary & formerly known as Godthåb, it's the capital & largest city of Greenland
Nuuk
Jared
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$2,000
[13]
Lydia in Asia Minor was the chief source in the ancient world of this naturally occurring alloy made of gold & silver
electrum
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$1,600
[15]
The screenwriting credits on the "Godfather" films are shared by these 2 men, the director & the original book's author
Coppola & Puzo
Jared
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$1,600
[19]
It's thought this famous name stuck after Edmund Duffy of the Brooklyn Eagle drew a caricature of the members as knights
Knights of the Algonquin Round Table
Ben
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$1,600
[2]
The '70s totally rocked long hair, as seen on this rock & roll band from Massachusetts whose 1976 debut album included "Rock & Roll Band"
Boston
Jared
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|
DD
$6,000
[8]
Fittingly, this capital is the Yukon headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Whitehorse
Jared
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$2,000
[17]
Related to the hyena, this striped mammal of southern Africa feeds mainly on insects & termite larvae
the aardwolf
Cris
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DD
$5,000
[11]
This 7-letter word for an alloy used in dentistry is also used to mean any combination of 2 or more substances
amalgam
Jared
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$2,000
[14]
In 1984 she made history as the first woman to be nominated for vice president by a major political party
Ferraro
Ben
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$2,000
[18]
The early 20th c. Stratford-on-Odéon literary circle hung out at this bookstore run by Sylvia Beach in Paris' Left Bank
Shakespeare & Company
Cris
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$2,000
[1]
I want you to want me to say Cheap Trick's 1978 live album "at" this arena in Japan is a hard rock masterpiece
Budokan
Jared
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The Royal Academy of Arts has this man's "La Fornarina" & in the 1800s the RAA's love of him made some artists retreat to an earlier style
Raphael