2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 9.
Sean McShane — a tour guide from South Boston, Massachusetts
Deb Bilodeau — a restaurant server from San Francisco, California
Troy Meyer — a music executive from Tampa, Florida
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Troy | $4,200 | $7,000 | $38,400 |
$38,400
Winner: semifinalist |
$25,400
28 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Deb | $1,200 | $1,600 | $8,400 |
$8,400
2nd place: $5,000 |
$9,400
12 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Sean | $3,000 | $5,200 | $7,200 |
$5,999
3rd place: $5,000 |
$7,200
13 R, 2 W |
| SHAKESPEARE FOR EVERYONE! | OLYMPIC HISTORY | ISLANDS | MIDDLE X | WAITS | MEASURES |
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$200
[30]
To sum things up, this title guy passes over a very vengeful dude for the chief Lt. gig & does not get to live to regret it
Othello
Troy
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$200
[29]
The 1924 Games saw the debut of the motto "Citius, Altius, Fortius"--faster, higher, this
stronger
Troy
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$200
[26]
Monuriki, an uninhabited island of Fiji, became a tourist attraction after the release of this Tom Hanks film
Cast Away
Troy
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$200
[25]
A cheerful & tricky sprite, or in a different sense, Black Francis, as one of a group
a pixie
Sean
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$200
[24]
Jane Seymour served as one of these to Anne Boleyn, who had served as one to Katherine of Aragon
a lady in waiting
Troy
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$200
[23]
A mercury one of these devices measures atmospheric pressure in pounds per square inch
a barometer
Troy
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$400
[28]
This character says, "Make thick my blood; stop up the access & passage to remorse"; it's not her last experience with blood
Lady Macbeth
Sean
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$400
[27]
This sport got ugly in 1956 as recently invaded Hungary beat the USSR in the "Blood in the Water" match
water polo
Troy
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$400
[19]
The most populous island in the world, it's home to more than half of Indonesia's people
Java
Troy
Sean
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$400
[20]
Term for reproduction by an organism making copies of itself, or an orientation without carnal desire
asexual
Sean
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$400
[21]
Bernadine, Robin, Savannah & Gloria were "Waiting to" do this in a 1992 book title
exhale
Deb
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$400
[22]
In the 1670s Danish astronomer Ole Roemer was the first to show this was finite, now defined as 186,282 miles per second
the speed of light
Sean
|
|
$600
[15]
Awaking, this weaver says, "I have had a dream... man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream"
Bottom
Deb
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$600
[17]
In 1912 Martin Klein pinned Alfred Asikainen after an epic 11-hour, 40-minute bout in this hyphenated wrestling style
Greco-Roman wrestling
Sean
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$600
[18]
I took a pill in this third-largest of Spain's Balearic islands--what'd I miss?
Ibiza
Sean
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$600
[7]
Multiple blaring horns or warning hooters (that means put an S at the end of this high-score Scrabble word, y'all)
claxons
Troy
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$600
[3]
He had a Top 20 hit singing, "You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is the hardest part"
Tom Petty
Sean
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$600
[8]
For a measured pour, a bartender might rely on this double-sided metal cup; a versatile one is 2 oz. on one side, 1 on the other
a jigger
Sean
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|
DD
$1,000
[2]
Her last speech includes "Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper... thy sovereign"
Katherina
Deb
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$800
[11]
She took a silver medal in women's figure skating in 1994; Tonya Harding finished a medalless eighth
Nancy Kerrigan
Troy
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$800
[1]
In 1863, the ancient statue seenherewas discovered on this Greek island
Samothrace
Deb
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$800
[14]
This math adjective that means having a common axis often precedes "cable"
coaxial
Troy
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$800
[4]
At Jefferson's Monticello, the dining room fireplace conceals one of these that's linked to the wine cellar
a dumbwaiter
Deb
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$800
[13]
A blood test to measure cholesterol should calculate total cholesterol, LDLs, HDLs & these, named for a trio of molecules
triglycerides
Sean
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$1,000
[16]
This early play features Proteus & Valentine in the title roles (& it's not "Proteus & Valentine Take Manhattan")
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Troy
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$1,000
[12]
In 1904 Ralph Rose & Martin Sheridan broke a tie with a "throw-off" in this field event; Sheridan won with a spin of 127' 10 1/4"
discus
Troy
Sean
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$1,000
[6]
Sapporo is the capital of this Japanese island that also has double letters
Hokkaido
Troy
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$1,000
[10]
The ore of aluminum
bauxite
Troy
|
$1,000
[5]
Clifford Odets got it right with his one-act play "Waiting for" him
Lefty
Troy
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$1,000
[9]
A unit of weight in the apothecaries' system, it equals 20 grains; in another sense, it's a synonym for a moral principle
a scruple
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| 1924 | UNUSUAL WORDS | THE ARTS | OCCUPATIONS | MOVIE TAGLINES | THE HEAVENS & EARTH |
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$400
[30]
Thanks to Freud, this 2-letter word entered the English language in 1924
id
Deb
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$400
[28]
Those on the Big Island of Hawaii are familiar with the basaltic lava whose name consists of just this letter twice
A
Troy
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$400
[25]
This famed chorus ends part II of Handel's "Messiah"
Hallelujah
Sean
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$400
[29]
At the L.A. County Museum of Art, Stephanie Barron is a senior one of these in the Department of Modern Art
curator
Troy
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$400
[24]
This 2023 holiday horrorfest promised, "There will be no leftovers"
Thanksgiving
|
$400
[27]
It's the type of rock found in many of Yosemite's rock formations & in New Hampshire's nickname
granite
Deb
|
|
$800
[7]
This future president was born June 12 in Milton, Massachusetts
the first President Bush
Troy
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$800
[21]
Don't be stingy with the Cabernet at one of these parties of mass revelry named for everyone's favorite wine god
a bacchanal
Sean
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$800
[18]
Nicole Kidman starred in the 2006 film "Fur", "an imaginary portrait of" this female photographer
Arbus
Deb
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$800
[22]
More so than a nanny, this female employee concentrates on teaching the children in a home, not chaperoning
a governess
Deb
Sean
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$800
[23]
The title male fashion model in this comedy had "3% body fat. 1% brain activity"
Zoolander
Deb
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$800
[26]
The Cassini Division & the Roche Division surround this celestial body
Saturn
Deb
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$1,200
[5]
Working on a deadline, George Gershwin composed this piece in just a few weeks' time
Rhapsody in Blue
Troy
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$1,200
[17]
You'll need 3 "F"s to spell this word for a disorderly confusion given to us by the Scots
a kerfuffle
Troy
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$1,200
[1]
His many paintings of ballerinas include"The Dance Class", an oil from the 1870s
Degas
Deb
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$1,600
[9]
Longshoreman or this word that begins with a male name can be used for a worker who loads & unloads ships in a port
a stevedore
Sean
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$1,200
[20]
It was "No goats. No glory" for "The Men Who Stare at Goats", starring him as out-there Army officer Lyn Cassady
George Clooney
Troy
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$1,200
[14]
The name of this volcanic vent through which steam & gas are emitted comes from the Latin for "smoke chamber"
a fumarole
Troy
|
|
$1,600
[4]
Published in 1924, hernovel "So Big" was so big that it would win a Pulitzer Prize the next year
Edna Ferber
Troy
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$1,600
[15]
Giant monsters like Rodan or Mechagodzilla are these creatures in Japanese
kaiju
Troy
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$1,600
[2]
A 2024 show at the National Gallery of Art called"The Anxious Eye"focuses on this moody style, a nationality plus an -ism
German Expressionism
Deb
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$2,000
[13]
Terms for shoemakers include cobbler & this more archaic one derived from a type of Spanish leather
a cordwainer
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$1,600
[10]
It's part of a film series & we'll even front you "Harold & Kumar": "This time they're running from the joint"
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Troy
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$2,000
[12]
Intheseseismically active zones, one of Earth'stectonic platessinks as another one slides over it
subduction zones
Troy
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$2,000
[8]
This"Flying Finn" was the first athlete from his country to win 5 gold medals at a single Olympics
Nurmi
Troy
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$2,000
[16]
Something that moves counterclockwise or off course is said to have gone this manner that ends with some leg parts
widdershins
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$2,000
[3]
Ooh! The romantic 1841 ballet named for this doomed heroine always gives me "the Wilis"
Giselle
Troy
|
DD
$4,000
[11]
With a name from Latin for "copyist", this type of insurance specialist calculates risks & premiums
an actuary
Troy
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$2,000
[19]
"Revenge never looked so promising", promised this 2020 film starring Carey Mulligan
Promising Young Woman
|
DD
$11,800
[6]
Cepheids are the pulsating type of these stars that fluctuate in brightness
variable stars
Troy
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"The country is celebrating 100 years of freedom 100 years too soon", says "The Fire Next Time", published in this year
1963