2024 Tournament of Champions final game 5.
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 | $6,600 | $8,800 | $38,800 |
$38,800
Winner: 2 match points |
$25,600
29 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Troy | $3,600 | $3,600 | $16,800 |
$18,401
2nd place: 1 match point |
$12,000
15 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| Ben! 文瀚 | $2,400 | $4,800 | $9,200 |
$16,801
3rd place: 2 match points |
$9,200
14 R, 1 W |
| "K"-TOWN | ANNUAL EVENTS | MUSICAL FILMS | 21st CENTURY WORDS | CHOOSE A PROTEIN | & 5 SIDES |
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$200
[30]
2 cities with this name in different states lie on the Missouri River
Kansas City
Troy
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$200
[29]
Oulu, Finland hosts the world championships for this; contestants strut their stuff with invisible instruments
air guitar
Ben! 文瀚
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$200
[28]
In a 2023 origin story, Timothée Chalamet shows off his singing & dancing skills as this iconic candy man
Wonka
Yogesh
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$200
[27]
To post a message originally posted by someone else on the service now known as X
retweet
Ben! 文瀚
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$200
[26]
This cone-shaped body organ produces blood proteins & stores glycogen for you, so easy on the Lagavulin
the liver
Ben! 文瀚
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$200
[25]
Perfect for the category, this landmark has 6.5 million sq. feet of office space but until 2011, had but 1 passenger elevator
the Pentagon
Yogesh
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$400
[19]
It's the capital of Sindh Province, Pakistan
Karachi
Ben! 文瀚
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$400
[22]
Bucyrus, Ohio's festival honoring this German sausage includes a pigtail contest for youngsters
bratwurst
Yogesh
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$400
[23]
Norman Jewison directed the 1973 film version of this musical about the most famous Jew & son of all
Jesus Christ Superstar
Yogesh
Troy
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$400
[24]
This word for a now-ubiquitous form of entertainment program comes in part from an Apple product
a podcast
Ben! 文瀚
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$400
[21]
The Murchison meteoritethat hit Earth in 1969 was found to contain organic compounds like these building blocks of proteins
amino acids
Ben! 文瀚
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$400
[20]
Hal Prince co-produced this New York City-set musical that opened on Broadway on Sept. 26, 1957
West Side Story
Yogesh
Troy
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$600
[13]
The largest city in Malaysia, it's just inland from the Strait of Malacca
Kuala Lumpur
Ben! 文瀚
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$600
[18]
Named for a stalagmite, each December the Rock of Ages Lantern Tours take visitors through this New Mexico national park
Carlsbad Caverns
Troy
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$600
[16]
Judy Garland was originally cast to play the title sharpshooter in this musical but was let go a month into filming
Annie Get Your Gun
Ben! 文瀚
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$600
[17]
What used to be a "buddy movie" depicting an affectionate relationship between 2 guys is now this blended word
a bromance
Yogesh
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$600
[15]
Rhinos don't have true horns; they're primarily composed of this fibrous protein found in hair
keratin
Yogesh
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$600
[14]
Ron Guidry, Pedro Martinez & this man, twice, are among Major Leaguers who have struck out the side on 9 pitches
Nolan Ryan
Yogesh
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$800
[5]
This capital of Malopolskie Province can also be spelled with 2 C's
Kraków
Troy
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$800
[1]
Each June Nebraskaland Days in North Platte features a golf classic & a rodeo named for this Wild West showman
Buffalo Bill
Yogesh
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$800
[2]
Reneé Rapp plays Regina George, head of the Plastics, in this 2024 high school musical
Mean Girls
Ben! 文瀚
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$800
[8]
You hit this annoying thing when a website demands a fee to read content kept "behind" it
a paywall
Yogesh
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$800
[12]
In 1921 Banting & Best first isolated this hormone, a protein composed of 2 chains linked by sulfur atoms
insulin
Troy
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$800
[11]
Carl Friedrich Gauss solved a math puzzle by constructing a regular-sided heptadecagon, a figure with this many sides
17
Yogesh
Troy
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|
DD
$1,800
[6]
It's the capital city on the Nile that fits the category
Khartoum
Troy
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$1,000
[3]
"The ride. The roar. The rally" is a motto for the annual motorcycle rally in this South Dakota city
Sturgis
Yogesh
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$1,000
[4]
In this 1963 musical a teen idol's fans sing, "We love you, Conrad, oh yes, we do, we love you Conrad, and we'll be true"
Bye Bye Birdie
Troy
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$1,000
[7]
From the French, it's the sport of running, jumping & climbing around & over urban obstacles
parkour
Yogesh
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$1,000
[9]
It's high in proline so we're giving this most abundant protein in the body that's in tendons, bones & skin some lip service
collagen
Ben! 文瀚
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$1,000
[10]
Done with this debut novel & newly wed, F. Scott Fitzgerald wept, as "I had everything I wanted & knew I would never be so happy again"
This Side of Paradise
Yogesh
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| VICE PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES | INTRODUCTORY WORDS | THE BOOK OF MORMONS | STATUES OF THE WORLD | BUSINESS PARTNERS | HORRORS! |
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$400
[25]
In 1992 he wrote, "The global environmental crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain"
Al Gore
Troy
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$400
[30]
A state of decay can be described as "rack &" this
ruin
Troy
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$400
[29]
Alan, Wayne, Merrill & Jay were some of the other members of this singing family, with hits like "One Bad Apple"
The Osmonds
Troy
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$400
[28]
Any statue substantially larger than life-size is one of these, like the Daibutsu or Great Buddha
a colossus
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$400
[27]
In 1964 Phil Knight & Bill Bowerman founded Blue Ribbon Sports; in the early 1970s, Swoosh! It became this company
Nike
Yogesh
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$400
[26]
Catriona Ward's "The Last House on Needless Street" is partly narrated by Olivia, one of these animals, & that can't be good luck
black cat
Yogesh
Troy
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$800
[24]
On June 22, 1804 this vice president wrote to his political adversary, "You have invited the course I am about to pursue"
Aaron Burr
Troy
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$800
[23]
With 58.33% of the letters in "introductory", it's a pipe to carry wiring or a person to carry information between 2 others
conduit
Yogesh
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$800
[22]
Though she no longer practices, this star of "27 Dresses" was raised in the Mormon faith & lives in Utah
Heigl
Yogesh
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$800
[21]
Atop Massachusetts' Captain's Hill is a statue of this Pilgrim whose "Courtship" is the subject of a famous poem
Miles Standish
Troy
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$800
[20]
After meeting Rick Rubin at a party, Russell Simmons became his partner in this record label that soon took off
Def Jam
Yogesh
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$800
[19]
His Christmas ghost story "The Haunted Man" sold 18,000 copies on its first day of publication in 1848
Dickens
Yogesh
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$1,600
[1]
It's the -ism that promotes the common man & in 2023 Mike Pence bemoaned "the siren song of" it "unmoored to" conservative ideas
populism
Yogesh
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$1,200
[17]
According to an old joke, it's what you call the person who graduates last in their medical school class
Doctor
Ben! 文瀚
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$1,200
[16]
Raised in the LDS Church, Paul Walker gained worldwide fame in this movie series before dying in a car accident in 2013
Fast & Furious ( The Fast & the Furious )
Yogesh
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$1,200
[5]
Amonumentto this Canadian Legend known for his Marathon of Hope event stands in Burnaby, British Columbia
(Terry) Fox
Ben! 文瀚
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$1,200
[18]
Google "Who founded Google?" & it's this pair, Stanford grad students in 1998
Page & Brin
Yogesh
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$1,200
[8]
This horror master turned director to translate his own novella "The Hellbound Heart" to the screen as "Hellraiser"
Barker
Yogesh
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$2,000
[15]
In a 1942 speech this progressive V.P. of FDR called the coming post-war period "the century of the common man"
Henry Wallace
Troy
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$1,600
[10]
It refers to the first note of a scale, bringing harmony to a piece of music
tonic
Yogesh
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$1,600
[2]
Dubbed the "Empress of Soul", this singer has won 7 competitive Grammys--4 solo & 3 with the Pips
Knight
Yogesh
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$1,600
[3]
In 1600 Tycho Brahe asked this German astronomer to join him in Prague; a statue there honors the pair
Kepler
Troy
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$1,600
[7]
Before launching a wellness studio, Elizabeth Cutler & Julie Riceco-founded this fitness company for indoor spinning
SoulCycle
Yogesh
Ben! 文瀚
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$1,600
[9]
H.P. Lovecraft wrote that the "U"s in the name of this "hellish entity" should sound "about like that in 'full"'
Cthulhu
Ben! 文瀚
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DD
$5,200
[4]
In 1948 Hubert Humphrey said the Democrats must "get out of the shadow of" these "rights" often used to counter civil rights
states' rights
Troy
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$2,000
[14]
It can mean a legal right in English or right in French
droit
Troy
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$2,000
[13]
In 2011 this lead singer of the Killers was part of the "I'm a Mormon" campaign
Flowers
Ben! 文瀚
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$2,000
[6]
One of the 7 Ancient Wonders was the statue of Zeus by this great Greek sculptor
Phidias
Yogesh
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$2,000
[12]
An audio oscillator was the first product from this pair who founded one of the original Silicon Valley startups in 1939
Hewlett & Packard
Yogesh
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DD
$15,200
[11]
The title of this 1962 Ray Bradbury novel is a Shakespeare line that rhymes with "by the pricking of my thumbs"
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Yogesh
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Zvartnots International Airport serves this capital & has the code EVN, all letters found in the city's name
Yerevan, Armenia