2024 Tournament of Champions final game 6.
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 | $4,000 | $5,400 | $16,600 |
$13,399
Winner: $250,000 + advances to Jeopardy! Masters |
$16,600
21 R, 0 W |
| Troy | $6,600 | $9,400 | $19,800 |
$6,399
3rd place: $50,000 |
$18,000
19 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Ben! 文瀚 | $1,400 | $3,400 | $3,200 |
$6,400
2nd place: $100,000 |
$10,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| SPEECHMAKING | NAME THE RIVER | NEWER MACHINES & INVENTIONS | ORGANIZATIONS | SILENCE, LETTERS! | WELCOME TO THE BIG LEAGUES |
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$200
[25]
In 1917 Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on this country that was practicing "cruel & unmanly" submarine warfare
Germany
Yogesh
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$200
[26]
Bullhead City &Laughlin
the Colorado
Troy
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$200
[27]
3D printers aren't great for mass production but excel with these models, whose name is partly from the Greek for "first"
a prototype
Troy
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$200
[28]
Since the 1990s, an organization to save this animal has been entering runners in costume in the London Marathon
a rhinoceros
Yogesh
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$200
[29]
The terminal "S" in this word for pieces of trash is really just garbage
debris
Ben! 文瀚
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$200
[30]
In 1992 England's top soccer clubs broke away from their historic football league to form this elite entity
the Premier League
Yogesh
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$400
[23]
In a 1951 speech General Douglas MacArthur shared that "Old soldiers never die, they just" do this
fade away
Troy
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$400
[24]
Aranjuez, near Madrid,& Talavera de la Reina
the Tagus
Yogesh
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$400
[21]
A major advantage of using hydrogen fuel cells to generate electricity is that their only byproducts are heat & this
water (water vapor)
Ben! 文瀚
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$400
[18]
The voice of CEOs in Washington is the organization called Business this, also what's seen here
a roundtable
Yogesh
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$400
[19]
Make no mistake--you don't pronounce either the "X" or the "S" in this French term for a slip-up
a faux pas
Ben! 文瀚
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$400
[22]
In 2020 MLB gave retroactive major league status to 7 of these leagues that existed from 1920 to 1948
the Negro Leagues
Troy
|
|
$600
[1]
Speaking to striking miners in 1912, this matronly activist warned of blood being spilled if guards were not soon called off
Mother Jones
Ben! 文瀚
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$600
[8]
Fallujah, Iraq &Raqqa, Syria
the Euphrates
Troy
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$600
[9]
The IoT is short for this, which connects commonplace items to the web & collects data
the Internet of Things
Yogesh
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$600
[11]
Helping preserve a heritage, the British group Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg is also known as this Language Society
Welsh
Troy
|
$600
[4]
I accuse the only "C" in this word meaning to charge with a crime of being useless
indict
Ben! 文瀚
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$600
[20]
In 1924 the NHL added its first U.S. team, this New England squad
the Boston Bruins
Troy
|
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$800
[2]
Following this man's death in 1948, prime minister Nehru stated, "The light has gone out of our lives"
Mahatma Gandhi
Yogesh
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$800
[5]
Lyon &Avignon
the Rhône
Yogesh
Ben! 文瀚
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$800
[6]
With a name like another musical instrument, the "O-" this uses an optical sensor & keyboard to make violin music
the O-bow (an optical bow)
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$800
[3]
The headquarters for this global law enforcement group are found at 200 Charles de Gaulle Road in Lyon, France
INTERPOL
Yogesh
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$800
[7]
Trippy! Merriam-Webster says the only silent "J" in English is in the name of this drug
marijuana
Troy
|
$800
[10]
The Indiana Pacers debuted in 1967 in this new big league; it's gone, but the team is still around
the ABA
Troy
|
|
DD
$2,800
[12]
In 1735 attorney Andrew Hamilton spoke in defense of freedom of the press at this man's trial
Zenger
Troy
|
$1,000
[13]
Jeffersonville, Louisville &Evansville
the Ohio
Troy
|
$1,000
[14]
It's the alliterative term for a computer system based on the brain
a neural network
Yogesh
|
$1,000
[15]
2024 marks 100 years of this group with a mission "to build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke"
the American Heart Association
Ben! 文瀚
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$1,000
[16]
Remember, only the first "M" is silent in this memory aid
a mnemonic
Troy
|
$1,000
[17]
This league's 20-yard-deepend zonemeans Cody Fajardo has more options close to the goal line than Patrick Mahomes does
the CFL (Canadian Football League)
Ben! 文瀚
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| BOOKS & AUTHORS | CLASSICAL MUSIC IS IN SESSION | JEOPORTMANTEAU! | DIRECTORS ACTING | UNDERGROUND | MIND THE GAP |
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$400
[30]
Her sister Emily & brother Branwell are buried with her in the family vault in Haworth, England; Anne is buried elsewhere
Charlotte Brontë
Yogesh
|
$400
[29]
This 18th century group of violin concerti is "Le quattro stagioni" in Italian
The Four Seasons
Troy
|
$400
[28]
Buttercup in "Toy Story" films+item symbolizing an endless supply of food
a unicornucopia
Yogesh
|
$400
[27]
Steven Spielberg showed up for a second or 2 in this John Landis comedy playing a Cook County tax assessor
The Blues Brothers
Ben! 文瀚
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$400
[26]
SNOLAB, the "SNO" for Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, is way down under this Canadian province
Ontario
Ben! 文瀚
|
$400
[25]
The Gap stores hit Wall Street in 1976 with an IPO, short for this, of $18
an initial public offering
Yogesh
|
|
$800
[4]
A former chairman of CNN, he has written biographies of Steve Jobs & Elon Musk
Isaacson
Yogesh
|
$800
[21]
Premiering in 1749, "Music for the Royal" these got set off to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession
fireworks
Yogesh
|
$800
[22]
Pill that cures nothing+Spanish dance
a placebolero
Ben! 文瀚
|
$800
[11]
This Munich-born documentary & film legend played Keg Jeggings on "Parks & Rec" & voiced Shrimply Pibbles on "Rick & Morty"
Herzog
Ben! 文瀚
|
$800
[24]
Running underground for much of its course, this river with the same name as a desert ends at Soda Dry Lake
Mojave
Yogesh
|
$800
[23]
Diastema is the clinical term for a gap between these
teeth
Yogesh
|
|
$1,200
[2]
Thisauthor born Lula Carson Smith earned fame at the keyboard as a novelist under this married name
Carson McCullers
Yogesh
|
$1,200
[9]
In 1991 his "Liverpool Oratorio" premiered in the city's Anglican Cathedral, which once said no to his choirboy services
Paul McCartney
Troy
|
$1,200
[20]
A temporary stay+a writer for a newspaper or magazine
a sojournalist
|
$1,200
[8]
Thisdirector of "Her" donned a dress in "Bad Grandpa .5", playing the elderly Gloria
Spike Jonze
Troy
|
$1,200
[16]
Seen here is an old elevated highway in Boston & the same area after the road was buried as part of the huge project called this
the Big Dig
Ben! 文瀚
|
$1,600
[19]
To shuck properly, look for the gap between the oyster's shell & use your knife to sever this muscle
the adductor
Ben! 文瀚
|
|
$1,600
[1]
A dessert made from a family recipe is the title of this Charmaine Wilkerson novel that became a Hulu series in 2023
Black Cake
|
$1,600
[7]
The New York Times called this piece with a name in the title "Beethoven's trifle... featured on Baby Einstein albums"
"Für Elise"
Yogesh
|
$2,000
[12]
Mysterious object that propels a movie plot+extremely fastidious
MacGuffinicky
Troy
|
$1,600
[6]
Thisdirector of "Out of Africa" went in front of the screen for Stanley Kubrick in "Eyes Wide Shut"
(Sydney) Pollack
Troy
|
$1,600
[13]
It's a homophone of a word meaning the opposite of easy or soft, but this soft rock made possible the ancient tunnel city of Derinkuyu
tuff
|
$2,000
[18]
Gap junctions allow communication between cells as molecules pass from this semifluid cell substance to another
cytoplasm
Troy
|
|
$2,000
[3]
Max Brod edited this author's letters & diaries & published a 1937 biography of him
Kafka
Troy
|
$2,000
[10]
There is a sense of foreboding in theovertureto his 1862 opera "La forza del destino", or "The Force of Destiny"
Verdi
Yogesh
Ben! 文瀚
|
DD
$4,200
[15]
A buffet in Stockholm +a house of ill repute
a smorgasbordello
Ben! 文瀚
|
$2,000
[5]
Viggo Mortensen starred in "Eastern Promises" from this horror master, who then acted in Viggo's directorial debut "Falling"
Cronenberg
Yogesh
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$2,000
[14]
You can go under this square, the heart of Old Seattle, to see bits of what the city looked like before a great fire in 1889
Pioneer Square
Ben! 文瀚
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DD
$9,600
[17]
Near where Virginia, Kentucky & Tennessee meet, you'll find this pass named for a son of George II
the Cumberland Gap
Ben! 文瀚
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This glandular organ that starts to shrink at puberty is known for being where the cells key to adaptive immunity develop
the thymus