2024 Tournament of Champions final game 4.
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 | $3,000 | $6,400 | $20,400 |
$15,200
3rd place: 1 match point |
$20,400
23 R, 0 W |
| Troy | $6,600 | $8,000 | $33,200 |
$25,599
2nd place: 1 match point |
$20,000
21 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Ben! 文瀚 | $200 | $1,800 | $12,800 |
$25,600
Winner: 2 match points |
$9,000
14 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| THAT'S SO 18th CENTURY | TYPES OF POEMS | FOOD & DRINK | ON THE WEB | TV DRAMA | CHAMP CHANGE |
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$200
[25]
Russia annexed this peninsula between the Black Sea & the Sea of Azov in 1783; wouldn't be the last time they tried that, either
Crimea
Ben! 文瀚
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$200
[30]
Pindar was famed for these poems; Alexander Pope wrote one "On Solitude"
odes
Yogesh
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$200
[29]
Slightly sweet & chewy, they're the littletapioca pearlsin the tea
boba
Yogesh
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$200
[28]
"The pins you save live on your boards" on this site
Pinterest
Ben! 文瀚
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$200
[27]
At the Golden Globes in 2024, he said, "This is a nice moment for me", when he won for "Succession"
Kieran Culkin
Yogesh
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$200
[26]
An Olympic award changes a letter & becomes this lever
a pedal (from medal)
Yogesh
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$400
[15]
This 12,000-foot volcano in Japan erupted in 1707 but thankfully has been dormant for the ensuing 300+ years
Fujiyama
Yogesh
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$400
[23]
Haiku masters Buson & Issa had to master this many syllables to craft their works
17
Ben! 文瀚
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$400
[22]
A caffè Americano is this dark strong coffee diluted with hot water
espresso
Troy
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$400
[24]
This site "enables anyone to be a creator", as Noah Beck found out when 9 seconds of lip-syncing made him famous
TikTok
Yogesh
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$400
[20]
Season 1 of this Netflix series focused on Pablo Escobar, played by Wagner Moura
Narcos
Ben! 文瀚
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$400
[21]
A 4-games-to-0 result in the World Series changes its second letter to "T" & becomes this adjective
steep (from sweep)
Ben! 文瀚
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$600
[4]
In 1789 the Marquis de Launay, gov. of this landmark, didn't give up its munitions to the people so easily; bad move
the Bastille
Yogesh
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$800
[8]
Famous in the sonnet-verse, Petrarch devoted hundreds of poems in his "Canzoniere" to this woman, his love
Laura
Troy
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$600
[1]
With spinach as a star ingredient, the dish seenheregoes by this 2-word name, partly after a city
quiche Florentine
Ben! 文瀚
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$600
[6]
This "in the gaming community is the problem we are trying to solve", said a founder of the platform of that name
Discord
Troy
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$600
[2]
In the daytime drama world, Shemar Moore rose to fame in the '90s as Malcolm Winters on this soap opera set in Genoa City
The Young and the Restless
Troy
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$600
[19]
Satisfaction taken in winning trades a "D" for a "Z" & becomes this award for winning
prize (from pride)
Yogesh
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$800
[3]
On May 1, 1776, Adam Weishaupt founded the Perfectibilists, a branch of this "enlightened" secret society... oh dear, I may've said too much
the Illuminati
Troy
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DD
$1,000
[11]
A villanelle is a 19-line poem consisting of 5 tercets & a concluding (do the math) one of these
a quatrain
Ben! 文瀚
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$800
[13]
Aubergine caviar is another name for this smoky Mediterranean spread made with roasted eggplant
baba ghanoush
Troy
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$800
[17]
This search engine with a double-talk animal name emphasizes privacy, saying it doesn't track searches or collect user info
DuckDuckGo
Yogesh
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$800
[18]
Shestarred on dramas like "The Leftovers" & "The Gilded Age"
Carrie Coon
Yogesh
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$800
[10]
A championship flag trades one of its "N"s for a "D" & becomes this dangling thing
pendant (from pennant)
Ben! 文瀚
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$1,000
[7]
Not thrilled with the colonies in 1774, Britain's parliament passed 4 punitive measures known not so nicely as these acts
the Intolerable Acts
Troy
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$1,000
[9]
For this grave work, Yeats chose words he had already written: "Cast a cold eye, on life, on death. Horseman, pass by"
his epitaph
Yogesh
Ben! 文瀚
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$1,000
[14]
They're not lemons, butthis4-letter citrus fruit from Asia, whose juice & zest are used in Japanese cuisine
yuzu
Troy
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$1,000
[16]
Called "China's Google", this search engine became the first Chinese company to be listed on the NASDAQ 100
Baidu
Troy
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$1,000
[5]
President Obama said his favorite character on "The Wire" was this stickup man portrayed by Michael K. Williams
Omar (Little)
Yogesh
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$1,000
[12]
A verb meaning to admit, as into a hall of fame, changes a letter & becomes this verb meaning to infer from reasoning
induce (from induct)
Troy
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| MAKING A PASS | LOST WORKS | WHAT THE "H"? | FAMOUS WOMEN | MOVIE SONGS | EXTINCT ANIMALS |
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$400
[25]
Winter storms sometimes close the over-8,000' Sylvan Pass located in the Wyoming part of this national park
Yellowstone
Yogesh
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$400
[26]
According to one guy who read the lost memoirs of this 19th century poet & lord, the book was "fit only for a brothel"
Byron
Yogesh
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$400
[27]
This word is medical speak for really bad breath
halitosis
Troy
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$400
[28]
In 2023 all living first ladies gathered in Atlanta to pay tribute to this first lady who passed away at 96
Rosalynn Carter
Ben! 文瀚
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$400
[30]
A non-"Let It Go" song from "Frozen" says these "are better than people. Sven, don't you think that's true?"
reindeer
Troy
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$400
[29]
The Narragansett pacer, a breed of this, became extinct sometime in the 19th century
a horse
Ben! 文瀚
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$1,200
[3]
A group of ill-fated pioneers gave this pass near Truckee in California its name
the Donner Pass
Ben! 文瀚
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$800
[24]
In 1903 this "Maple Leaf Rag" composer lost a trunk worth of music scores that possibly contained a ragtime opera
Joplin
Yogesh
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$800
[23]
Arabic gives us this word referring to food from an animal slaughtered in accordance with Islamic law
halal
Troy
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$800
[22]
For over 15 years, shewas one of the most powerful people in the world
Merkel
Ben! 文瀚
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$800
[21]
"Now I'm laughing to the bank", rap$ thi$ man in "Am I Dreaming" over the end credits of "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse"
A$AP Rocky
Troy
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$800
[20]
The Sumatran type of this predator is still around, but the Javan & Bali subspecies are no more
a tiger
Yogesh
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$1,600
[2]
Located near the foot of Mount Kallidromo, this Greek mountain pass has a name that means "hot gates"
Thermopylae
Troy
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$1,200
[18]
The lost 9-hour cut of this Erich von Stroheim silent film with a deadly sin as its title likely showed money can't buy happiness
Greed
Troy
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$1,200
[19]
A classic song says, "waiting 'round the bend, my" this person, "Moon River & me"
huckleberry friend
Yogesh
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$1,200
[4]
In 1924 she began working with the American Foundation for the Blind & for over 40 years was its leading ambassador
Keller
Yogesh
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$1,200
[12]
This song shot to No. 1, 2, 3 o'clock after being featured in the 1955 film "Blackboard Jungle"
"Rock Around The Clock"
Ben! 文瀚
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$1,200
[9]
In 2021 the FWS declared extinct the stirrupshell & 7 other species of these mollusks that form serious attachments
mussels
Troy
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$2,000
[6]
Rudyard Kipling referred to this Asian pass as a "narrow sword-cut in the hills"
the Khyber Pass
Yogesh
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$2,000
[16]
This Frenchman's controversial urinal from a 1917 show is lost; you can look at (but not use) a replica at the Tate Modern
Duchamp
Yogesh
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$1,600
[17]
It's a fancy 9-letter way to say a forerunner or an omen, as of spring
harbinger
Troy
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$1,600
[1]
Subject of a 2023 film, in 2013, shebecame the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage for protection
Nyad
Troy
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$1,600
[11]
"All Is Love", "Rumpus" & "Food Is Still Hot" are numbers by Karen O & the Kids for this kids' book adaptation
Where the Wild Things Are
Yogesh
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$1,600
[10]
The Stephens Island wren on an isle just off this country's South Island was eaten to extinction by a lighthouse keeper's cats
New Zealand
Yogesh
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DD
$14,000
[15]
The first major U.S.-German battle of World War II took place in February 1943 at Kasserine Pass on this continent
Africa
Troy
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DD
$5,000
[8]
In the lost ancient epic "Aethiopis", the Ethiopian king Memnon fights for Troy & is killed by this Greek hero
Achilles
Ben! 文瀚
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$2,000
[14]
The Beach Boys mentioned these Mexican sandals in "Surfin' U.S.A."
huaraches
Troy
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$2,000
[5]
Referred to as the "Jackie Robinson of tennis", she was named Female Athlete of the Year in 1957 & 1958 by the Associated Press
Althea Gibson
Troy
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$2,000
[7]
Irish singer Glen Hansard starred in this 2007 movie & won an Oscar for co-writing "Falling Slowly"
Once
Ben! 文瀚
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$2,000
[13]
This sirenian of the Bering Sea was unknown until 1741 when Georg Steller first described it; within 30 years, it was extinct
Steller's sea cow
Yogesh
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Near Kirkbean on Solway Firth, U.S. Vice Admiral Jerauld Wright presented a memorial plaque honoring this man
John Paul Jones