2024Jeopardy!Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 1.
Andrew He — a stay-at-home dad from Concord, California
Pam Mueller — a justice researcher originally from Chicago, Illinois
Dan Pawson — a global health consultant from Arlington, Virginia
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dan | $2,400 | $3,200 | $6,400 |
$0
3rd place: $5,000 |
$6,400
12 R, 2 W |
| Pam | $4,400 | $6,800 | $16,800 |
$0
2nd place: $5,000 |
$16,800
21 R, 1 W |
| Andrew | $0 | $600 | $33,600 |
$33,601
Winner: semifinalist |
$18,400
20 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| THE HISTORIC 1990s | FIRST NAMES | MISSION: PLAUSIBLE | WHEATIES ATHLETES | BESTSELLING BOOKS | THE VOCABULARY OFICE ICE BABY |
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$200
[1]
Also known as sildenafil citrate, this little blue pill that debuted in 1998 also helps flowers stand up straight
Viagra
Andrew
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$200
[21]
It's the first name shared by Russian heads of state in 1924 & 2024
Vladimir
Dan
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$200
[23]
Start on April 17, 1973 by using 14 aircraft to deliver 186 packages; become this company with $21 bil. in revenue in Q1 of fiscal 2024
FedEx
Andrew
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$200
[29]
When this team won Super Bowl XXXI, Wheaties produced a special 24-ounce regional box that was sold in Wisc. & parts of Minnesota
the Green Bay Packers
Pam
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$200
[30]
"Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins" in this novel
The Hunger Games
Andrew
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$200
[16]
Mayhem is classified as this type of crime, which kinda rhymes with "dope melody"
a felony
Pam
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$400
[5]
Descended from the German V-2, these missiles used by Iraq during the Gulf War had greater range & lighter weight
Scuds
Dan
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$400
[22]
This Spanish name for boys & old fishermen literally means "Saint James"
Santiago
Pam
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$400
[24]
A 35-year Broadway run--unlikely, but Thelma Pollard did, doing makeup for the face behind the mask of this show's title character
The Phantom of the Opera
Dan
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$400
[12]
This baseball great & the number 755 were featured on the Wheaties box in 2002
Aaron
Andrew
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$400
[11]
We'll keep you in suspense... Jack Ryan Jr. is on the campus in "The Teeth of the Tiger" from this author
Clancy
Dan
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$400
[17]
"Check out the" this attention-getter in a song
the hook
Dan
Pam
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$600
[6]
It didn't end well in 1997 for this cult that believed a flying saucer was following comet Hale-Bopp
Heaven's Gate
Andrew
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$600
[15]
Owl tell you right now, Hedy, as in Hedy Lamarr, was short for this German name
Hedwig
Pam
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$600
[25]
Stay pregnant for a year! Plausible for you, no, but for the Florida type of this aquatic mammal that can weigh 3,600 pounds? No prob
a (Florida) manatee
Dan
Andrew
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$600
[28]
Often paired with Kerri Walsh Jennings on the beach, she appeared Kerriless on the Wheaties box in 2012
Misty May-Treanor
Pam
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$600
[10]
Chapter 1 of "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game" is about the changes caused by this New York Giant who terrified quarterbacks
Lawrence Taylor
Dan
Pam
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$600
[18]
Time to rock a mic, like athis, perhaps Gaiseric, a 5th century king of that Germanic people
a vandal
Pam
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$800
[3]
A Special Counsel looked into Pres. Clinton's dealings with this real estate co. founded by the Clintons & the McDougals
Whitewater
Andrew
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$800
[14]
Borrowed from Sanskrit & reflecting her Indian heritage, this first name of a D.C. VIP means "lotus flower"
Kamala
Pam
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$800
[26]
Solve the this TV host problem: 3 shut doors, new car-junk-junk. You pick A. He shows you B is junk. Do you switch to C?
Monty Hall
Andrew
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$800
[7]
Joan Benoit Samuelson, an Olympic champion of this race, was honored on a box in 1996
the marathon
Pam
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$800
[8]
By Feb. 2024 this juvenile journal, the first of almost 20, had spent 778 weeks on the N.Y. Times children's series list
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Pam
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$800
[19]
Slang for a convertible car with a soft cover
a ragtop
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DD
$1,000
[13]
This republic joined Serbia to fight against the secession of Slovenia & Croatia
Montenegro
Andrew
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$1,000
[4]
Girls' names derived from the color white include Alba & this one, like a character in "The Taming of the Shrew"
Bianca
Dan
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$1,000
[27]
Climb all 2,909 stairs to level 160 of this building that opened in 2010; you probably should get permission & remember... hydrate!
the Burj Khalifa
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$1,000
[2]
This Floridian tennis superstar appeared on a box in 1987, the year she won the first & only Wheaties Champions Award
(Chris) Evert
Pam
Andrew
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$1,000
[9]
Rhonda Byrne wrote this 2006 book, a hidden "principle of the universe", but don't tell anyone; scratch that. Tell me, now
The Secret
Pam
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$1,000
[20]
Vanilla Ice mysteriously can "flow like" one; it's also wielded by Tashtego
a harpoon
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| 19th CENTURY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS | THE DIRECTING BROTHERS | UNDENIABLE CHEMISTRY | IT'S A BIG COUNTRY | VIOLENT ART | OVERLAPS |
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$400
[19]
Harrison Gray Otis served briefly as a brigadier-general in this 1898 war while still publisher of the Los Angeles Times
the Spanish-American War
Dan
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$400
[24]
Jim Abrahams & the Zucker bros. piloted "Airplane!" & wrote this first "Police Squad" film that had Reggie Jackson attempt regicide
The Naked Gun
Pam
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$400
[18]
Chemists won an Ig Nobel for finding the right airborne amount of a compound from this Japanese horseradish to wake sleepers
wasabi
Pam
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$400
[27]
It's about 700 arid miles across this country from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf
Saudi Arabia
Dan
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$400
[29]
A 17th century work depicts David with the rather giant head of this man, bearing the wound on his forehead that killed him
Goliath
Andrew
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$400
[17]
Opposable digit held aloft to keep off precipitation
thumbrella
Dan
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$800
[20]
In 1889 the new owners of this paper had John Philip Sousa write a march about it for an awards ceremony
The Washington Post
Andrew
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$800
[25]
20 years later, Jim Carrey & Jeff Daniels were back for more Farrelly-directed fun in a sequel titled this "To"
Dumb and Dumber
Pam
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$800
[10]
C22H24N2O8is the formula of this antibiotic that's known for fighting acne but can take on cholera too
tetracycline
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$800
[28]
Its 700,000 square miles of land area are spread across more than 17,000 islands
Indonesia
Pam
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$800
[30]
Sanguine, a blood-red chalk, is apt for the category; in the 1790s this Spaniard used it to sketch Saturn eating his son
Goya
Andrew
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$800
[16]
Your self in psychoanalytic theory out in the yard digging tunnels with its paws
egopher
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$1,600
[9]
Beforehewas the big name in New York newspaper publishing, he published "The St. Louis Post-Dispatch"
Pulitzer
Andrew
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$1,200
[26]
Jay & Mark Duplass directed this very good "Superbad" actor as "Cyrus"
Jonah Hill
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$1,200
[5]
In 1976 the first of this type of rechargeable battery was developed in part by using layers of titanium disulfide
lithium-ion
Andrew
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$1,600
[3]
It borders Russia, China & nothing else
Mongolia
Andrew
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$1,200
[8]
Seen here is Rembrandt's 1636 blinding of this biblical figure, bereft of hair
Samson
Pam
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$1,200
[15]
A holy church table made from a hairy arachnid
an altarantula
Pam
Andrew
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$2,000
[23]
Joseph Medill, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, was a founder of the G.O.P. & helped make these debates happen in 1858
the Lincoln-Douglas debates
Andrew
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$1,600
[21]
Thesebrothers co-directed "Uncut Gems" & one is also a busy actor from "Oppenheimer" & "The Curse"
the Safdie brothers
Andrew
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$1,600
[4]
Let's see if your Os is running properly; this element, No. 76, is used to make hard alloys for phonograph needles
osmium
Andrew
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$2,000
[2]
With a population of more than 100 million, it covers about 900,000 square miles in the heart of Africa
DRC
Dan
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$1,600
[6]
Napoleon's go-to guy, he also sort of directed a horror pic, an oil of Marat in the bath in 1793 done soon after the killing
David
Pam
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$1,600
[14]
Niacin or folate reigning as the Roman goddess of the arts & war
vitaminerva
Pam
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DD
$10,000
[12]
In 1847 Frederick Douglass founded this antislavery paper whose name refers to what guided people escaping slavery
The North Star
Andrew
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$2,000
[22]
Last name of Joseph & Anthony, directors of "Avengers: Endgame"; hope they had some backend bucks
Russo
Dan
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$2,000
[1]
The number of variables that must be fixed to define a physical state is expressed in "degrees of" this, also a noble concept
freedom
Andrew
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DD
$8,600
[11]
Once claimed by Italy, Cyrenaica is an historic region & former province of this 650,000-square-mile land
Libya
Andrew
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$2,000
[7]
In 1637 Jusepe de Ribera painted this god, an art patron, tearing the skin off the leg of Marsyas the satyr
Apollo
Pam
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$2,000
[13]
Metronomic measure of music used for the medical study of tootsies
tempodiatry
Dan
Andrew
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The foremost member of the "Sochi Six", which was similar to a previous U.S. group, he died in a plane crash in 1968
(Yuri) Gagarin