Show #9058 2024-03-13 (taped 2024-02-08) Tournament of Champions

2024 Tournament of Champions final game 2.

Contestants

Ben Chan — a philosophy professor from Green Bay, Wisconsin

Troy Meyer — a music executive from Tampa, Florida

Yogesh Raut — a social and personality psychologist from Vancouver, Washington

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Yogesh	$3,400	$4,800	$20,400	$40,800 2nd place	$12,400 18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Troy	$4,200	$5,800	$46,800	$46,800 Winner: 1 match point	$25,400 25 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Ben! 文瀚	$4,200	$5,600	$10,400	$10,400 3rd place: 1 match point	$10,400 14 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS	VIRTUO-SO GOOD	"BIT"TING AT THE CHAMPS	THE CLOCK & THE CALENDAR	REAL NAMES OF UNREAL PEOPLE	SMASH THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON
$200 [18] The Fryderyk Chopin Museum & the Copernicus Science Center Warsaw Ben! 文瀚	$200 [26] Berlioz mastered this 6-string instrument but said the sound of a dozen of them playing in unison "is almost absurd" the guitar Troy	$200 [28] To live together as if married, even if not cohabiting Ben! 文瀚	$200 [27] An impatient Mandarin speaker might tap his wrist & say di da, where an American would say this tick-tock Yogesh	$200 [29] Archie's pal Forsythe P. Jones III goes by this unflattering name Jughead Troy	$200 [30] A 1992 Pulitzer went to the Morning News of this city for its reporting on extensive misconduct by Texas police Dallas Yogesh
$400 [5] The Silver Pagoda & the Memorial Stupa to thousands of victims at the former Tuol Sleng Prison Phnom Penh Ben! 文瀚	$400 [25] Improvising woodwind virtuoso Eric Dolphywas a pioneer in the genre known as free this jazz Ben! 文瀚	$400 [21] A substance that suppresses the activity of another; the protease type combats HIV an inhibitor Ben! 文瀚	$400 [24] Months on the Islamic calendar traditionally begin when this type of moon is sighted in the western sky the crescent moon Troy Ben! 文瀚	$400 [23] Horatio Magellan are the first & middle names of this cereal seller & man of the sea Captain Crunch Yogesh	$400 [22] A 1957 issue of Apparel Arts Magazine had this subtitle, which would eventually be shortened--or refitted?--to GQ Gentlemen's Quarterly Troy
$600 [3] Noryangjin Fish Market & Samsung's Leeum Museum of Art Seoul Troy	$600 [16] Like members of the Bach family, Marcel Dupré was a master of this weighty instrument & wrote extensively on technique the organ Yogesh	$600 [20] Every bartender needs these aromatic compounds that add flavor & complexity to cocktails bitters Ben! 文瀚	$600 [17] Fittingly given its name, the U.S. Navy began using this kind of time in 1920 & the Army in 1942 military time Troy	$600 [19] Robert Underdunk Terwilliger is the real name of this vengeful "Simpsons" character Sideshow Bob Troy	$600 [15] This publication that later Rockwell & rolled was named for being printed in time to make a weekend mail delivery in Philly The Saturday Evening Post Troy
$800 [2] St. Michael's Orthodox Cathedral & Marshal Tito's mausoleum Belgrade Troy	$800 [11] On the album "Songs from the Labyrinth", Sting went strings, reviving centuries-old songs from John Dowland, master of this the lute Troy	$800 [10] "Geographic" term for an array of binary data used to create an image a bitmap Yogesh	$800 [9] On the French Revolutionary calendar, Dec. 21 was the 1st day of Nivôse, a month named for this weather condition snow Yogesh	$800 [7] On "Gotham" Robin Lord Taylor walked the walk as this villain, aka Oswald Cobblepot The Penguin Ben! 文瀚	$800 [8] Anna Wintour had the fashion sense to become editor-in-chief of this publication in 1988 Vogue Yogesh
DD $1,400 [4] Museo Botero &Plaza de Bolívar Bogotá Troy	$1,000 [12] Thiscomposer and violin virtuoso revolutionized playing technique, including newmethodsof fingering & tuning Paganini Troy	$1,000 [13] Grossly excessive, like tuition at the Ken Jennings School of Necromancy & Horticulture exorbitant Ben! 文瀚	$1,000 [14] The Julian calendar had leap years--Feb. 23 lasted 48 hours--& the first one was this last full year of Julius Caesar's life 45 B.C. Troy Ben! 文瀚	$1,000 [1] Please, Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs is so formal! Just call the character this the Wizard of Oz Ben! 文瀚	$1,000 [6] Roger Ebert was just 24 when he began to light up the Chicago movie scene as the film critic for this newspaper the Chicago Sun-Times Yogesh

Double Jeopardy! Round

"H" IS FOR HISTORY	OFFICIAL STATE STUFF	17th CENTURY WRITING	SKY & SEA	SINGERS	DIACRITICAL THINKING
$400 [26] The period of time from March to July of 1815 when Napoleon escaped Elba & ran wild in France is known as this the Hundred Days Yogesh	$400 [27] Connecticut likes this burly beast as its state animal; Mocha Dick was a notorious 19th century one a sperm whale Yogesh	$400 [28] In his first speech in "Paradise Lost", he says let's not rebel against one prohibition--we have pruning to do! Adam Yogesh Troy	$400 [29] Not always circular, this type of coral reef encloses a lagoon an atoll Yogesh	$400 [30] This singer's 2023 N.Y. Times obituary said her biggest hit was "a breathtaking rendition of... 'Nothing Compares 2 U"' Sinéad O'Connor Ben! 文瀚	$400 [24] To be fully correct in this language, you have to put a little hook over the R in the name of its native speaker Antonin Dvořák Czech Yogesh
$800 [9] "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?" was perhaps sung by citizens of these ramshackle areas named for a Depression-era prez Hoovervilles Yogesh	$1,200 [13] Oregon's state fish is this type of salmon, also a name for a wind that blows in the Rockies chinook Troy	$800 [21] As you see, there aregeesein France but Jean de La Fontaine's book of fables included the hen that laid these valuables golden eggs Troy	$800 [22] The EPA gives us the AQI, short for this index, which goes from "good" to "hazardous" Air Quality Index Ben! 文瀚	$800 [25] This Spanish singer with a flamenco background has hits like "Malamente" & "Con Altura", a collab with J. Balvin Rosalía Troy	$800 [23] In Hawaiian, the single open quote mark called the 'okina is a this stop, a sound made by opening & closing a certain body part a glottal stop Yogesh
$1,200 [3] It's the term for the migration of Muhammad & his followers to Medina before Mecca's fall in the year 630 the Hijrah Yogesh	$1,600 [12] Alaska's state gem is this green one, a historically important crafting item to the Inupiaq jade Troy	$1,600 [6] Loving a good sequel like the rest of us, this author completed "The Pilgrim's Progress Part 2" around 1684 Bunyan Yogesh	$1,200 [7] At the beach, beware of riptides, rip currents & this, which despite its name won't drag you offshore into deep water the undertow Yogesh	$1,200 [18] In 1999 she had a hit with "Candy" & would later get to sing as the voice of Rapunzel in "Tangled" Mandy Moore Troy	$1,200 [11] This mark under the C in soupçon (a little bit) softens that sound & makes things much classier than saying "soup-con" a cedilla Troy
$1,600 [2] What's known as this New England city's "Convention" was spurred by dissatisfaction in the War of 1812 Hartford Ben! 文瀚	$2,000 [14] From Boulder to Pueblo, Colorado residents celebrate thisas their state flower the columbine Troy	$2,000 [20] In "To Althea, from Prison", poet Richard Lovelace wrote, "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars" one of these a cage Troy	$1,600 [8] Bioaerosols are microbes that flourish in this innermost part of the atmosphere the troposphere Troy	$1,600 [1] Thissinger's "Dance The Night" appears in "Barbie"; she also makes an appearance in the movie as a mermaid Dua Lipa Troy	$1,600 [15] I'm getting a sense of déjà vu; I feel like I've said it's l'accent grave over the A & l'accent this over the E, like, a second ago aigu Troy
$2,000 [4] The "March of the 10,000" involved the heavily armored Greek soldiers known by this name, trapped behind enemy lines Hoplites Yogesh	DD $21,800 [19] Arizona's state fossil is this tree product; Arizona is also home to a forest full of it petrified wood Troy	DD $9,200 [10] In his 1624 history of Virginia & New England, he included the famous story of his rescue John Smith Yogesh	$2,000 [16] The Arabic for "wind" gives us this 2-syllable word for a Sudanese wind that produces violent sandstorms haboob Troy	$2,000 [5] Michelle Zauner, lead vocalist of this band, named it for a meal that might include tamago kake gohan (rice mixed with raw egg) Japanese Breakfast Troy	$2,000 [17] Umlaut is a German word; this, for the 2 dots as in Zoë to show a vowel is in a separate syllable, comes from Greek diaeresis Ben! 文瀚

Final Jeopardy!

BOOKS OF THE BIBLE

This book is named for a tribe of Israel that carried out judgment of the idolaters of the golden calf

Leviticus

Ben! 文瀚 "What is Leviticus?" — wagered $0

Yogesh "What Leviticus" — wagered $20,400

Troy "What is Leviticus?" — wagered $0

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