Show #9066 2024-03-25 (taped 2024-02-26) Invitational

2024Jeopardy!Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Amy Schneider — a writer from Oakland, California

Austin Rogers — a bar owner and author from New York, New York

Celeste DiNucci — an arts strategist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Celeste $600 $2,400 $800 $0
3rd place: $5,000
$800
12 R, 6 W
Austin! $4,000 $5,600 $9,600 $7,904
2nd place: $5,000
$9,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Amy $4,800 $7,600 $28,600 $28,600
Winner: semifinalist
$25,200
27 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THINKING ABOUT THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE THE THEATER LET'S GET A DRINK SO NICE, WE NEED THE ANSWER TWICE NAME THAT TOON WORDS READ BACKWARDS
$200 [30]
Maybe just Chuck the Nifty to his pals, he began ruling with the title "emperor of the Romans" in 800
Charlemagne
Amy
$200 [25]
In ancient Greek theater, where these were often characters, they appeared on a platform called the theologeion
gods
Amy
$200 [26]
A regular B & B is Bénédictine & brandy; if you're drinking a Kentucky B & B, this other "B" is an ingredient
bourbon
Austin!
$200 [29]
Noelia performs a solo trapeze act at this Vegas venue
Circus Circus
Amy
$200 [27]
It's the fitting name of Bob & Helen Parr's eldest son in "The Incredibles"
Dash
Austin!
$200 [28]
A ruminant races backwards & becomes this last name of actor Oliver & musician Lou
Reed (from deer)
Austin! Amy
$400 [8]
Established within the Holy Roman Empire in 1719, this principality boasts a population of about 40,000
Liechtenstein
Austin!
$400 [5]
Inspired by the drama of "The Winner Takes It All", this musical premiered in London in 1999 & played its 9,000th show there in 2022
Mamma Mia!
Celeste
$400 [10]
This potent potable is not just the star ingredient of a Caruso; it's also a winning declaration in a card game
gin
Amy
$400 [22]
Jimi Hendrix' "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" opens with riffs using this pedal
a wah-wah pedal
Celeste Austin!
$400 [23]
When she reveals she's pregnant, Fred promises to keep the peace with her mother
Wilma Flintstone
Celeste
$400 [24]
Read backwards, a Japanese word for dried seaweed becomes this metal
iron (from nori)
Celeste
$600 [21]
Ill-be have d Holy Roman Empire troops sacked Magdeburg in 1631 in this war that lasted for a certain time
the Thirty Years' War
Amy
$600 [6]
Barbara Loden, seen here, played a character based on Marilyn Monroe when this playwright's "After the Fall" premiered
Arthur Miller
Amy
$600 [11]
Real Madagascar vanilla is one of the spices in this "original spiced rum" brand, & I totally mean to pull rank here
Captain Morgan
Austin!
$600 [1]
Jacques Offenbach composed music for this lively dance as part of an 1858 operetta
the can-can
Austin!
$600 [20]
This character who debuted in 1967 was sort of a clueless Tarzan
George of the Jungle
Celeste
$600 [17]
A word preceding "chart" for a step-by-step guide becomes this big canine
wolf (from flow)
Amy
$800 [14]
Frederick III of this royal family had a good Holy Roman run, ruling from 1452 to 1493
the Habsburgs
Austin!
$800 [7]
New Yorkers see plays in Central Park; Londoners, at the Open Air Theatrein this park
Regent's Park
Amy
$800 [19]
Motorcyclists know this name for the cocktail of Cognac, triple sec & lemon juice
a Sidecar
Austin!
$800 [3]
This Pacific Northwest city bears the name of an indigenous people Lewis & Clark met in 1806
Walla Walla
Amy
$800 [2]
In a 2008 film, the rotund character with this 2-letter name joins a tiger, crane, mantis, viper & monkey to defeat a snow leopard
Po
Amy
$800 [16]
A set of enzymes from a cow's stomach lining becomes this, slang for what might buy you a plate of fish & chips
tenner (from rennet)
Amy
$1,000 [13]
The 1648 peace of this region said "peace out" to a lot of the power of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III
Westphalia
Amy
$1,000 [18]
Teatro Astor Piazzolla, named for the composer & musician seen here, is in this South American capital city
Buenos Aires
Austin!
DD $1,600 [12]
One origin story of this cocktail involves the early morning hours after a long night in Sausalito
a Tequila Sunrise
Austin!
$1,000 [4]
In art history, it preceded Surrealism
Dada
Amy
$1,000 [9]
Voiced by John Mulaney in"Into the Spider-Verse", Spider Ham isn't called Peter Parker, but rather Peter this
Peter Porker
Celeste
$1,000 [15]
A runner who sets the tempo of a race rewinds & becomes this shortened word for a TV opening that might begin "previously on"
a recap (from pacer)
Amy

Double Jeopardy! Round

PANHANDLE STATES THE GRAMMYS' GREAT MOMENTS MARINE BIOLOGY IAMB A POET FIVE GUYS SAY IT IN LATIN
$400 [27]
This state's 100-mi. Emerald Coast is a stretch of white sand beaches along the emerald-green waters of the Gulf of Mexico
Florida
Austin!
$400 [22]
In 1988 he gave an iconic performance of "Man In The Mirror" backed by a gospel choir
Michael Jackson
Celeste
$400 [28]
In 2022 the deepest fish, a snailfish, was found at over 27,000 feet in the Izu-Ogasawara one of these deep ocean depressions
a trench
Celeste
$400 [29]
Bill Shakespeare here! Prithee complete my line, "Shall I compare thee to" this?
a summer's day
Celeste
$400 [24]
Pierpont is the middle name of this mogul who arranged the merger of 2 companies to form General Electric in 1892
Morgan
Amy
$400 [30]
You know, in good faith or the real deal, like a rock star; with an "S" at the end, it means your credentials
bona fides
Austin!
$800 [26]
The Bitterroot Mountains, part of the Rockies, straddle this state's panhandle & Montana to the east
Idaho
Austin!
$800 [21]
In 2008 Beyoncé joined her idol Tina Turner on this song, & they were "rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river"
"Proud Mary"
Celeste
$800 [11]
The Venus sea fan, a soft type of this, has numerous polyps that grow together in a fanlike pattern, with each polyp having 8 tentacles
a coral
Celeste
$800 [1]
In Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken", "I took the one" that was this
less traveled by
Amy
$800 [23]
On June 9, 1981, hewas drafted out of San Diego State by both the Padres & the then-San Diego Clippers; he'd hit Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame
Tony Gwynn
Austin!
$800 [5]
This cool Latin phrase means "intrinsically" or "by itself"
per se
Celeste Amy
$1,200 [3]
When founded in 1887, this largest city in the Texas panhandle was known as Ragtown
Amarillo
Celeste Amy
$1,200 [20]
In 2024 Joni Mitchell performed at the Grammys for the very first time, singing this classic that begins, "Rows & floes of angel hair"
"Both Sides, Now"
Celeste
DD $1,000 [15]
The heaviest bony fish at a weight of more than 6,050 pounds, it has a celestial name & dines mainly on jellyfish
a sunfish
Amy
$1,200 [2]
Iam the "I" in "I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain", & what do you mean I'm obsessed with death?
Dickinson
Amy
$1,200 [12]
In 2023 this entrepreneur called the public face of artificial intelligence was out & back in as the head of OpenAI
Sam Altman
$1,200 [6]
As a legal term, this 3-word phrase can be a status prohibiting a diplomat to enter a foreign country
persona non grata
Amy
$2,000 [25]
Watching humpback whales is a must in this Alaska panhandle national park, the state's southeasternmost
Glacier Bay
$1,600 [14]
"Lady Marmalade" was originally a hit for this legend, who in 2002, joined P!nk, Christina Aguilera & others on a rendition of it
LaBelle
Amy
$1,600 [16]
This member of the weasel family is the only marine mammal that catches fish with its forepaws, not its mouth
a sea otter
Amy
$1,600 [9]
I, William Wordsworth, wrote this iambic line that precedes "that floats on high o'er vales and hills"
I wandered lonely as a cloud
Amy
$1,600 [13]
In 1959, this Japanese crown prince broke a 1,400-year tradition by choosing his ownwife
Akihito
Celeste Austin!
$1,600 [7]
Literally "without which not", this phrase means "a necessity"
sine qua non
Amy
DD $6,000 [4]
West Virginia's northern panhandle is bordered on the north & west by this river
the Ohio
Amy
$2,000 [19]
In 1975 he brought down the house with the politically charged "You Haven't Done Nothin"'
Stevie Wonder
Celeste
$2,000 [17]
When buried in the sand, skates & rays rely on these holes near the eyes for breathing oxygen
spiracles
Celeste Austin!
$2,000 [10]
Aye, I did write "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" & many another bonny iambic work, & ye needn't call me sir!
(Walter) Scott
Celeste Austin! Amy
$2,000 [18]
This Spanish surrealist whose work is often exhibited with Dali's painted "Dog Barking at the Moon" in 1926
Joan Miró
$2,000 [8]
Q.E.D. is short for this, meaning "which was to be demonstrated"
quod erat demonstrandum
Amy

Final Jeopardy!

NOTORIOUS FIGURES

Never even a soldier, this man lied that his nickname came from a shrapnel wound while fighting in the Argonne

Al Capone

Celeste "Who is Bullitt?!? ☹" — wagered $800
Austin! "WhoWhat is How can I beat Amy? (Well only!) shots on me!" — wagered $1,696
Amy "Who is Colonel Parker?" — wagered $0

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