2024 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 1.
Ike Barinholtz — a producer, writer, and actor from Chicago, Illinois
Ben Chan — a philosophy professor from Green Bay, Wisconsin
Jared Watson — a quality control specialist from Greenville, Texas
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jared | $5,000 | $7,400 | $3,600 |
$3,600
2nd place: $10,000 |
$11,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ben! 文瀚 | $5,000 | $6,800 | $15,200 |
$9,599
Finalist |
$12,800
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Ike | $200 | $1,600 | $10,400 |
$0
3rd place: $10,000 |
$10,400
13 R, 1 W |
| GETTING HISTORICAL | BOOKS BY CHARACTERS | SPORTS MASCOT HISTORY | UNUSUAL NICKNAMES | THE MATERIAL WORLD | BEFORE & AFTER |
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$200
[29]
John Knox was the best-known leader of this country's Reformation, made official by a 1560 act of its parliament
Scotland
Ben! 文瀚
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$200
[26]
Hunting at sea, Matt Hooper &Captain Quint
Jaws
Jared
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$200
[27]
Starting his career at the San Diego Zoo, he's "an embryonic Charles Chaplin in... feathers", says his biography
the San Diego Chicken
Ike
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$200
[28]
You can see whyBMW E24 6cars were dubbed this predatory creature's nose
a shark
Ike
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$200
[30]
This material that went with feathers in public humiliation from times past might not have been as hot as you'd assume
tar
Jared
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$200
[24]
A venue for volleys & lobs where violators of military law are prosecuted
a tennis court-martial
Ben! 文瀚
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$400
[12]
To defend against missiles, Roman legions linked shields in a formation calledthe testudo, Latin for this land animal
a turtle (a tortoise)
Ike
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$400
[22]
Josef K. &the Examining Magistrate
The Trial
Ben! 文瀚
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$400
[21]
From 1979 to 1981 the Yankees fittingly had a mascot named this, also a word for a well-dressed man
Dandy
Jared
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$400
[20]
This first name of Herr Mendelssohn means "happy", but his manner got him the nickname "discontented Polish count"
Felix
Jared
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$400
[25]
For sheets, the Egyptian type of this feels real good, but the extra-long-staple kind is the best of the best
cotton
Ike
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$400
[23]
Actor lookalike who does the dangerous action scenes as an iconic red London vehicle
a stunt double decker (bus)
Ben! 文瀚
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$600
[4]
A 1493 papal decision split the New World between these 2 nations, or so they thought
Spain & Portugal
Ben! 文瀚
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$600
[1]
In a children's book, Stanley Yelnats &Zero
Holes
Ben! 文瀚
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$600
[10]
In 1979 Youppi! suited up for this MLB squad, prior to moving across town (& sports leagues) to the Canadiens
the Montreal Expos
Jared
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$600
[19]
Thishitter of the '40s & '50s was thin-shamed as the "Splendid Splinter"
Ted Williams
Ike
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$800
[7]
Doors on ancient Greek temples were often fitted with grills made of this alloy of copper & tin
bronze
Jared
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$600
[16]
A Knoxville color that's also a hit country song is served as a high grade tea from Sri Lanka & India
Tennessee Orange Pekoe
Jared
Ben! 文瀚
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$800
[5]
Calling himself an admiral in a bit of self-promotion, in 1853 he sailed 4 warships into the harbor of Uraga & refused to leave
Commodore Matthew Perry
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$800
[2]
Sethe &Baby Suggs
Beloved
Ben! 文瀚
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$800
[11]
This NFL team notes mascot Captain Fear lamented his lost ship, but friends, it was found & rebuilt at Raymond James Stadium!
the Buccaneers
Ike
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$800
[18]
Oxford is "city of dreaming"these topmost parts of some of its buildings, a phrase from a poem by Matthew Arnold
spires
Jared
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$1,000
[9]
This fabric with a raised design gets its name from a word for "twisted thread"
brocade
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$800
[15]
Nation's capital newspaper-caused psychological pain following an event of actual or threatened bodily harm
the Washington Post traumatic stress disorder
Jared
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$1,000
[6]
Wahunsenacawh was another name of the man the Jamestown colonists called this, like the people he led
Powhatan
Ben! 文瀚
Ike
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$1,000
[3]
Squealer &Old Major
Animal Farm
Jared
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$1,000
[13]
Since the 1990s Fred the Red has been a devil indeed for this team from the north of England
Man U (Manchester United)
Ben! 文瀚
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$1,000
[17]
Glasgow's Clyde Auditoriumwas opened in 1997 & soon became known as this animal of Texas & Central & South America
the armadillo
Jared
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DD
$1,800
[8]
This hard black wood from trees of the Diospyros genus shares its name with a magazine founded in 1945
ebony
Jared
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$1,000
[14]
Siam-set musical adaptation of Asimov's book about machines that follow 3 laws
The King and I, Robot
Ben! 文瀚
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| GITALONG, OLD PAINT | ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS | BOY GENIUS | BRIDGERS | BAKER | THE TALLEST ONE |
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$400
[30]
Her interest in Mexican folk art can be seen in a 1931 portrait of herself with her new husband, a fellow artist
Frida Kahlo
Ike
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$400
[29]
In the 1850s a familiar quotation of his may have been "I have a notebook full of famous things people said. Wanna see?"
Bartlett
Ben! 文瀚
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$400
[28]
At age 8, Sergei Prokofiev was taken to "Faust" & "Prince Igor"; he decided to write one of these too & in months composed "The Giant"
an opera
Ben! 文瀚
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$400
[27]
RO&AD Architects built a Dutchbridgethat parts the waters rather than going over them, so it's named for this biblical man
Moses
Ben! 文瀚
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$400
[25]
The thrill & amazement of a 1921 balloon race over Indianapolis inspired the name of this not just white bread brand
Wonder
Jared
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$400
[24]
On China's basketball team at the 2000 Olympics
Yao Ming
Ike
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$800
[17]
Rather than the Magi, Guido Renidepicted"The Adoration of" these rustic fellows
the Shepherds
Jared
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$800
[2]
This type of heart surgery involves taking a blood vessel from elsewhere & creating a new pathway around a blockage
bypass
Ben! 文瀚
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$800
[8]
In his teens Erik Demaine pioneered computational origami; at 20 he became this Boston-area school's youngest ever prof
MIT
Ben! 文瀚
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$800
[26]
Named for their designer, Bailey Bridgesmoved Allied troops, trucks & tanks; an 1,800-footonewas built over this German river in 1945
the Rhine
Ben! 文瀚
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$800
[22]
A special one of these baked at Passover 2022 for the president of Israel was 20' long by 3 1/2' wide by not very thick
matzah
Ben! 文瀚
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$800
[23]
In the Ramones
Joey
Ike
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$1,200
[16]
This painter who was totally for the birds gave us the oil-on-canvas "Washington Sea Eagle" around 1839
John James Audubon
Ben! 文瀚
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$1,200
[4]
Eden, New York has a museum devoted to this mouth-blown musical toy
a kazoo
Jared
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$1,200
[1]
By age 15, Flynn McGarry had created a culinary classic, changing one letter in a dish named for a duke to make this vegetarian creation
the beet Wellington
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$1,200
[19]
Samuel Lancaster built the scenic Benson Bridge across Multnomah Creek in this state but Simon Benson paid for it
Oregon
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$1,200
[21]
When his wife baked these, often served with gravy, Calvin Coolidge would drop one & stomp a foot to show its heaviness
a biscuit
Jared
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$1,200
[12]
On the 2001 World Series champion Arizona Diamondbacks
"the Big Unit" Randy Johnson
Ben! 文瀚
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$1,600
[15]
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! Seurat's "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" helped pioneer this -ism using small, detached strokes
Pointillism
Jared
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$2,000
[6]
This line on the hull of a ship that indicates the depth to which it can be loaded is named for a 19th century British merchant
the Plimsoll
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$2,000
[7]
This French prodigy wrote his masterpiece "The Drunken Boat" at 16 & was called an "infant Shakespeare"
Rimbaud
Ben! 文瀚
Ike
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$1,600
[18]
You might guess that Gustave Eiffel of tower fame built the Maria Pia Bridgeover the Douro River in this Portuguese city famous for wine
Oporto
Jared
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$1,600
[20]
What a card!Duff Goldmanrose to fame on this Food Network show whose title mentions his specialty
the Ace of Cakes
Ike
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$1,600
[11]
In the heartwarming sismance among the main actors on "Ted Lasso"
Hannah Waddingham
Ike
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$2,000
[14]
As it's by this painter, you might call an 1876 view of the Mediterranean at l'Estaque a "C" scape
Paul Cezanne
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DD
$8,600
[5]
Originally a stick or spindle used in spinning, it also came to mean women's work or the female side of a family
distaff
Jared
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DD
$4,000
[3]
Losing his brother Giulio 1915, he buried his grief in math & physics & soon wowed the admissions panel at college in Pisa
Fermi
Ben! 文瀚
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$2,000
[13]
Peter Wyss designed asky bridgenot to go anywhere but to attract tourists to Langkawi Islandoff the peninsular part of this country
Malaysia
Jared
Ben! 文瀚
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$2,000
[9]
In Chestnut Hill, Tennessee, you can tour, eat & shop at the visitor center of this alliterative baked bean brand
Bush's (Best)
Ike
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$2,000
[10]
Inboygenius, her name didn't lend itself to a category title
Lucy Dacus
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From the 470s B.C., Aeschylus' earliest surviving work has this title; he'd fought them repeatedly in the preceding years
The Persians