2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 7.
Ike Barinholtz — a producer, writer, and actor from Chicago, Illinois
Melissa Klapper — a professor from Merion Station, Pennsylvania
Ray Lalonde — a scenic artist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ray | $2,600 | $5,400 | $13,800 |
$21,800
2nd place: $5,000 |
$13,800
17 R, 0 W |
| Melissa | $3,200 | $3,800 | $21,400 |
$13,199
3rd place: $5,000 |
$13,600
14 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Ike | $2,400 | $4,800 | $14,800 |
$28,601
Winner: semifinalist |
$8,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| NONFICTION | I HEARD A RUMOR | HOBBIES & PASTIMES | "V"ACATION SPOTS | COCKTAILS | HAPPY HOUR |
|
$200
[17]
After taking on salt & cod, Mark Kurlansky peeled the many layers of this in a 2023 book
an onion
Ike
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$200
[27]
It can mean a rumor, or testimony in court based upon what she said she said
hearsay
Melissa
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$200
[26]
An apiarist is someone who raises & cares for these
bees
Ray
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$200
[28]
You haven't seen a palace until you've seen this place & its immense gardens designed by André le Nôtre
Versailles
Ray
|
$200
[29]
Perhaps you will be fresh as a daisy after imbibing this tequila cocktail whose name is Spanish for "daisy"
a margarita
Ike
|
$200
[30]
A bit embarrassed by its success, Michael Stipe of this band called "Shiny Happy People" "a really fruity, kind of bubblegum song"
R.E.M.
Ike
|
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$400
[16]
Michael Lewis' "Going Infinite" focuses on this man, crypto Gatsby
Sam Bankman-Fried
Ike
|
$400
[21]
Sans accent, it means to reveal a secret; with one, it's a scandal-revealing newspaper story
an exposé
Ike
|
$400
[25]
I'm choosing something by Adele next time we go out to do this, "empty orchestra" in Japanese
karaoke
Ray
|
$400
[18]
Don't miss the Isaac-Potts House, aka Washington's headquarters, on your visit to this national historical park in Pennsylvania
Valley Forge
Melissa
|
$400
[22]
This cocktail traditionally served in a copper mug gets its "kick" from lime juice, ginger beer & oh yeah, vodka
a Moscow mule
Ike
|
$400
[24]
She won a Grammy for her song "If It Makes You Happy" & later wrote a cookbook, "If It Makes You Healthy"
Sheryl Crow
Ray
|
|
$800
[13]
Clarissa Pinkola Estes told "Myths & Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype" in "Women Who Run with" these wild animals
the wolves
Melissa
|
$600
[20]
Merriam-Webster "spills" the story that using this word to mean a secret truth first gained prominence in Black drag culture
the tea
Ray
|
$600
[7]
"RC" on abaseball cardis used to stand for this & often makes it more sought after by collectors
a rookie card
Ike
|
$600
[12]
Tradition says you'll have eternal love if you kiss while floating under the Bridge of Sighs in this city
Venice
Melissa
|
$600
[4]
It was inevitable that Sarah Jessica Parker would put her name on bottled & canned versions of this cocktail
a Cosmopolitan (Cosmo)
Ray
Melissa
|
$600
[23]
It became the unofficial anthem of the Democratic Party after FDR used it in 1932 as his campaign song
"Happy Days Are Here Again"
Ike
|
|
$1,000
[15]
This New Yorker cartoonist tackled the topic of her aging parents in "Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?"
Roz Chast
|
$800
[8]
In a Klymaxx song a woman says if you want to be sure about your man, go powder your nose & have a "meeting in" this title place
the ladies room
|
$800
[5]
The pastime of skimming flat stones across calm water also has this double avian name
ducks & drakes
|
$800
[1]
View the underwater life of the Caribbean at Coral World Ocean Park in the U.S. portion of this archipelago
the Virgin Islands
Ike
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$800
[2]
To be reductive, it's a martini with an onion instead of an olive
a Gibson
|
$800
[9]
In 1988 it became the first song with no instrumental music to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100; perhaps if I whistle a bit...
"Don't Worry, Be Happy"
Melissa
|
|
DD
$1,600
[14]
In 1513 this Florentine civil servant knocked out a handbook for rulers of his time called "Il Principe"
Machiavelli
Melissa
|
$1,000
[19]
It's a shortened version of a word for info; in a web article, "Jennifer Lopez Drops" them on "Achieving Celebrity Status"
deets
Ray
|
$1,000
[6]
That's my jam! Strawberry specifically, to which I'm adding this coagulant, as the fruit naturally only has a little
pectin
Ray
|
$1,000
[11]
Cruise through Nizhny Novgorod on this waterway & maybe you'll hear the boatman singing
the Volga
Ray
|
$1,000
[3]
A powerful artillery piece of World War I gave its name to this numeric cocktail made with champagne & gin
a French 75
|
$1,000
[10]
Roy Rogers & Dale Evans sang this song as the closing theme to their TV series
"Happy Trails"
Ike
|
| FRENCH HISTORY | NUMERIC MOVIE TITLES | LECTURING YOU ON SCIENCE | LANGUAGES | A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS |
|
$400
[11]
A 2023 movie led to lively debate, e.g. historians: She died when Napoleon was on Elba, not on his way back; Ridley Scott: Shut up
Josephine
Ray
|
$400
[10]
Delivery of a message of critical importance is central to the plot of this 2019 Sam Mendes war film
1917
Ike
|
$400
[27]
In the 2000s astronomer Mike Brown lectured on "How I Killed" this former planet "& Why It Had It Coming"
Pluto
Ike
|
$400
[28]
It's the official language of Myanmar
Burmese
Melissa
|
$400
[29]
Premiering in Russia in 1890 & also known as "La belle au bois dormant", this ballet features Princess Aurora
Sleeping Beauty
Ray
|
$400
[30]
One who has a compulsive impulse to steal items they don't really need
a kleptomaniac
Ray
|
|
$800
[13]
The Vichy regime put these in public schools; the 2004 law banning head-scarves on students also banned large these on chains
crosses
Melissa
|
$800
[9]
Loosely based on a classic legal film, this Nikita Mikhalkov drama pits a racist juror against a pensive foreman
12
Ike
|
$800
[22]
The TED talk on how these bioluminescent insects communicate focuses on how they sync their flashes of light
fireflies
Ike
|
$800
[23]
Quinine & quinoa are words derived from this South American language
Quechua
Ray
|
$800
[5]
In 1967 this man joined the Kirov as a soloist but 8 years later, decided to stop Russian around & defected in Canada
Baryshnikov
Ike
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$800
[26]
In order to be one of these people who study the origin of words, you might want a degree in linguistics
an etymologist
Ray
|
|
$1,200
[14]
In the 5th century this eastern city, today home to the European Union's parliament, was Strateburgum, "Crossroads"
Strasbourg
Melissa
|
$1,600
[6]
After his character gets cancer in this 2011 film, Joseph Gordon-Levitt gets by with a little help from his friends
50/50
|
$1,200
[21]
The 1937 Nobel chemistry lecture on "The Structure of" these explains the progress in understanding starches
Carbohydrates
|
$1,600
[25]
Thiscountry that shares an island with Indonesia has about 850 separate languages
Papua New Guinea
Melissa
|
$1,200
[3]
It's the 1-letter title of Anthony Davis' bio-opera that made its Metropolitan Opera debut in 2023
X
|
$1,200
[16]
If you're using metaphors & similes to make a point, you're speaking this way
figuratively
Ike
|
|
$1,600
[12]
France's first socialist president, heserved two terms from 1981 to 1995
Mitterrand
Ike
|
$2,000
[7]
Mike Myers played legendary Big Apple nightclub owner Steve Rubell in this drama about a club Steve ran
54
Ike
|
$1,600
[2]
This Brit who wrote about the full circulation of the blood in the human body was a Lumleian lecturer from 1615 to 1656
Harvey
Melissa
|
$2,000
[24]
Also called Euskara, it's a remnant of the languages spoken in Western Europe before the region was Romanized
Basque
Ray
|
$1,600
[1]
In Philip Glass' opera "Akhnaten", the title king & this queen spend quality music time with their 6 kids
Nefertiti
Ray
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$1,600
[17]
Frances Willard, founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, was one
a prohibitionist
Ike
|
|
$2,000
[15]
In 1598 this edict named for the city where it was signed gave religious freedom to the French Protestants called Huguenots
Nantes
Melissa
|
DD
$7,600
[8]
Fellini felt he'd directed 7.5 films before making this 1963 gem
8 1/2
Ike
|
$2,000
[20]
A Harvard Smithsonian lecture called "Cosmic Train Wrecks" talks about our impending collision with this galaxy
Andromeda
Ray
|
DD
$8,000
[19]
Hindi & this language named for a region are the 2 most spoken first languages in India
Bengali
Melissa
|
$2,000
[4]
A word for a slender woman sometimes followed by "like", or an air-dwelling being that Scotland is full of, per a classic ballet
a sylph
Melissa
|
$2,000
[18]
From the Latin for "beauty", it's an adjective meaning having great beauty
pulchritudinous
|
Far from Rome, this first century poet wrote, "The leader's anger done, grant me the right to die in my native country"
Ovid