2024 Tournament of Champions final game 3.
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
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yogesh | $3,200 | $4,600 | $29,600 |
$35,601
Winner: 1 match point |
$18,600
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Troy | $0 | $2,800 | $15,200 |
$30,400
3rd place: 1 match point |
$13,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ben! 文瀚 | $4,600 | $5,800 | $17,800 |
$30,401
2nd place: 1 match point |
$17,800
16 R, 0 W |
| LOOK AT THE MAP | HEALTH & MEDICINE | KHAN YOU DIG IT? | FESTIVALS | SONGS OF YOUTH | CROSSWORD CLUES "R" |
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$200
[30]
Let's look at the two main islands of this alliterative Caribbean country
Trinidad & Tobago
Troy
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$200
[29]
Doing this lifesaving procedure to the beat of "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees can help keep a proper rate
CPR
Troy
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$200
[28]
To improve London's natural biodiversity Mayor Sadiq Khan released a family of these dam rodents into a wetland in West London
beavers
Ben! 文瀚
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$200
[27]
Traditionally, thelights sent aloftin Taiwan's Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival are made from this paper
rice paper
Ben! 文瀚
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$200
[26]
In 2004 Natasha Bedingfield sang, "Today is where your book begins, the rest is still" this title word
unwritten
Troy
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$200
[25]
What's all this noise?(6 letters)
racket
Troy
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$400
[9]
This Mediterranean capital has endured for more than two millennia
Algiers
Yogesh
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$400
[20]
As seen in theX-ray, the patient has this sideways curvature of the spine that's often diagnosed in adolescence
scoliosis
Yogesh
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$400
[21]
In 2021 Lina Khan began serving as chair of this agency, FTC for short
the Federal Trade Commission
Troy
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$400
[22]
It's held for about 2 weeks each May, & in 2023 awarded its Palme d'Or to "Anatomy of a Fall"
the Cannes Film Festival
Yogesh
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$400
[23]
Inspired by her bestie, Tay Tay sang when "somebody tells you they love you" at this title age "you're gonna believe them"
15
Yogesh
Troy
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$400
[24]
A clever trick or stratagem(4 letters)
ruse
Yogesh
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$600
[4]
More than 40 inhabited islands make up the groups known as the Inner & Outerthese
Hebrides
Yogesh
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$600
[10]
Jaundice can be a symptom of this liver inflammation that has 5 main viruses labeled A-E
hepatitis
Troy
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$600
[11]
This singer lent her voice to the band Rufus in the 1970s; as a solo performer, she had a hit with "I'm Every Woman"
Chaka Khan
Yogesh
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$600
[14]
An art studio called Poetic Kinetics created the ginormous floating astronaut for the 2014 edition of this So Cal music festival
Coachella
Troy
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$600
[12]
"No regrets, just love, we can dance until we die", sang Katy Perry, who was "livin"' one of these, also her album title
Teenage Dream
Troy
|
$600
[17]
A spinning spit for cooking meat(10 letters)
rotisserie
Yogesh
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$800
[2]
It's the geographically appropriate name for the troubled country seen here
East Timor
Ben! 文瀚
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$800
[7]
In this early stage of periodontal disease, your gums may become swollen & bleed
gingivitis
Yogesh
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$800
[8]
According to a 13th century "Secret History", this leader was born clutching "a clot of blood the size of a knucklebone"
Genghis Khan
Troy
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$800
[5]
Every summer the Bayreuth Music Festival in Bavaria presents works by this composer
Wagner
Yogesh
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$800
[1]
Nate Ruess & this band implored, "We are young so let's set the world on fire"
fun.
Ben! 文瀚
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$800
[19]
The nose knows it's inflammation of its mucous membranes(8 letters)
rhinitis
Ben! 文瀚
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$1,000
[3]
Much of Argentina is covered by these vast plains that extend from the Atlantic coast to the foothills of the Andes
the Pampas
Ben! 文瀚
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$1,000
[13]
Most recover fully from this syndrome, GBS for short, that affects the peripheral nervous system & is named for 2 French Drs.
Guillain-Barré
Ben! 文瀚
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DD
$2,600
[15]
The Aga Khans hold this title as leaders of the Shiite Nizari Ismaili sect
imams
Troy
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$1,000
[6]
Blue for Krishna is just one of the hues in this festival of colors on the day of the full moon
Holi
Ben! 文瀚
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$1,000
[16]
Fresh out of high school, thisR&B singer's smash debut album "American Teen", had songs like "Young Dumb & Broke"
Khalid
Troy
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$1,000
[18]
Fishie doing a ridealong on a shark(6 letters)
a remora
Troy
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| ANCIENT HISTORY | BOOKS BY REPORTERS | MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS | IT'S A FACT! | THE NAME ON THE OSCAR | ENDS IN "IX" |
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$400
[30]
It's thought Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang died after ingesting this liquid element that he believed would make him immortal
mercury
Yogesh
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$400
[29]
In 1923 E.B. White was fired by the Seattle Times; he'd later find success with this 1945 tale about a mouselike boy
Stuart Little
Troy
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$400
[28]
A real high point of this city is the nearly 360-foot-tall memorial to José Martí in Revolution Square
Havana
Yogesh
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$400
[27]
As of January 1, 2024, California has a new state this, a golden chanterelle
a mushroom
Yogesh
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$400
[26]
Best Actor, 2012, for "Lincoln"
Daniel Day-Lewis
Troy
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$400
[25]
To make a new version of something, like The Chemical Brothers' adaptation of "Voodoo People" by The Prodigy
a remix
Troy
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$800
[3]
Crimes punishable by death in this 282-law collection included robbery, false accusation & priestesses drinking with commoners
the Code of Hammurabi
Ben! 文瀚
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$800
[12]
Newspaperman Ben Hecht wrote the novel "Erik Dorn" & then wrote for the movies with this director's "Spellbound"
Hitchcock
Troy
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$800
[23]
Thisnational monument & natural wonder attracts people from all over to Utah; the one for our dearly departed pets is different
Rainbow Bridge
Troy
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$800
[14]
Unlike other cats, this fastest one doesn't have fully retractable claws
a cheetah
Yogesh
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$800
[17]
Best picture, 2019, starring Song Kang Ho & Cho Yeo Jeong
Parasite
Ben! 文瀚
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$800
[24]
This 2-syllable word means to attach, like a postscript to a letter or a label to a package
affix
Yogesh
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$1,200
[2]
In "Meditations" this Roman emperor reminds himself not to be irritated at other people's bad breath: "That's the way his mouth is"
Marcus Aurelius
Troy
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$1,200
[7]
Willard Motley wrote novels as well as Bud Billiken newspaper columns for this city's Black weekly The Defender
Chicago
Ben! 文瀚
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$1,200
[22]
Native American leaders want the name of this first U.S. natl. monument changed, saying it's offensive & based on a mistranslation
Devils Tower
Yogesh
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$1,200
[10]
Belize, in Central America, was formerly a colony called this
British Honduras
Troy
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$1,200
[16]
Best Supporting Actor, 2019, for "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood"
Brad Pitt
Yogesh
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$1,600
[19]
This comic book hero who battles the Romans with his pal Obelix was introduced in 1959
Asterix
Yogesh
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$1,600
[1]
Praising the defense of democracy, Pericles' funeral oration of 431 B.C. was given for soldiers fallen in this conflict
the Peloponnesian War
Ben! 文瀚
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$1,600
[6]
This New Journalism leader wrote the novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons", about early 21st century college life
(Tom) Wolfe
Ben! 文瀚
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$2,000
[21]
Located on Israel's Mount of Remembrance, this memorial center commemorates the victims & the heroes of the Holocaust
Yad Vashem
Yogesh
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$1,600
[8]
In the U.S. a quadrillion has this many zeros
15
Yogesh
Troy
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$1,600
[15]
Best Supporting Actress, 1973, for "Paper Moon"
Tatum O'Neal
Yogesh
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$2,000
[18]
It means verbose or redundant
prolix
Yogesh
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$2,000
[4]
The Pyramidsof Meroë in modern-day Sudan were built in the land of this 4-letter ancient kingdom
Kush
Yogesh
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$2,000
[13]
This scribe worked the baseball beat for a N.Y. paper but got his potatoes with the story collection "Guys & Dolls" & whatnot
Runyon
Ben! 文瀚
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DD
$5,600
[9]
Dedicated to the memory of great Frenchmen, it's the final resting place of women too, including Marie Curie & Simone Veil
the Pantheon
Troy
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$2,000
[11]
Stepping down in 2024 after 52 years on the throne, she had the longest reign of any Danish monarch
Margrethe (II)
Ben! 文瀚
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$2,000
[5]
Best Director, 2014, for "Birdman" & 2015, for "The Revenant"
(González) Iñárritu
Ben! 文瀚
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DD
$12,200
[20]
This town at the foot of Mont Blanc hosted the first Winter Olympics in 1924
Chamonix
Yogesh
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Of the 9 countries that have produced a U.N. Secretary-General, this nation is the only one from its hemisphere
Peru