2024Jeopardy!Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 4.
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
| 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) |
| 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 |
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$200
[30]
Maybe just Chuck the Nifty to his pals, he began ruling with the title "emperor of the Romans" in 800
Charlemagne
Amy
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$200
[25]
In ancient Greek theater, where these were often characters, they appeared on a platform called the theologeion
gods
Amy
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$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!
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$200
[29]
Noelia performs a solo trapeze act at this Vegas venue
Circus Circus
Amy
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$200
[27]
It's the fitting name of Bob & Helen Parr's eldest son in "The Incredibles"
Dash
Austin!
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$200
[28]
A ruminant races backwards & becomes this last name of actor Oliver & musician Lou
Reed (from deer)
Austin!
Amy
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$400
[8]
Established within the Holy Roman Empire in 1719, this principality boasts a population of about 40,000
Liechtenstein
Austin!
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$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
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$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
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$400
[22]
Jimi Hendrix' "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" opens with riffs using this pedal
a wah-wah pedal
Celeste
Austin!
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$400
[23]
When she reveals she's pregnant, Fred promises to keep the peace with her mother
Wilma Flintstone
Celeste
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$400
[24]
Read backwards, a Japanese word for dried seaweed becomes this metal
iron (from nori)
Celeste
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$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
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$600
[6]
Barbara Loden, seen here, played a character based on Marilyn Monroe when this playwright's "After the Fall" premiered
Arthur Miller
Amy
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$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!
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$600
[1]
Jacques Offenbach composed music for this lively dance as part of an 1858 operetta
the can-can
Austin!
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$600
[20]
This character who debuted in 1967 was sort of a clueless Tarzan
George of the Jungle
Celeste
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$600
[17]
A word preceding "chart" for a step-by-step guide becomes this big canine
wolf (from flow)
Amy
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$800
[14]
Frederick III of this royal family had a good Holy Roman run, ruling from 1452 to 1493
the Habsburgs
Austin!
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$800
[7]
New Yorkers see plays in Central Park; Londoners, at the Open Air Theatrein this park
Regent's Park
Amy
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$800
[19]
Motorcyclists know this name for the cocktail of Cognac, triple sec & lemon juice
a Sidecar
Austin!
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$800
[3]
This Pacific Northwest city bears the name of an indigenous people Lewis & Clark met in 1806
Walla Walla
Amy
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$1,000
[18]
Teatro Astor Piazzolla, named for the composer & musician seen here, is in this South American capital city
Buenos Aires
Austin!
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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!
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$1,000
[4]
In art history, it preceded Surrealism
Dada
Amy
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$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
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$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
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| 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!
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$400
[22]
In 1988 he gave an iconic performance of "Man In The Mirror" backed by a gospel choir
Michael Jackson
Celeste
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$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
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$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
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$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!
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$800
[26]
The Bitterroot Mountains, part of the Rockies, straddle this state's panhandle & Montana to the east
Idaho
Austin!
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$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
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$800
[1]
In Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken", "I took the one" that was this
less traveled by
Amy
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$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!
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$800
[5]
This cool Latin phrase means "intrinsically" or "by itself"
per se
Celeste
Amy
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$1,200
[3]
When founded in 1887, this largest city in the Texas panhandle was known as Ragtown
Amarillo
Celeste
Amy
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$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
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$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
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$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
|
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$2,000
[25]
Watching humpback whales is a must in this Alaska panhandle national park, the state's southeasternmost
Glacier Bay
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$1,600
[13]
In 1959, this Japanese crown prince broke a 1,400-year tradition by choosing his ownwife
Akihito
Celeste
Austin!
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$1,600
[7]
Literally "without which not", this phrase means "a necessity"
sine qua non
Amy
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|
DD
$6,000
[4]
West Virginia's northern panhandle is bordered on the north & west by this river
the Ohio
Amy
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$2,000
[19]
In 1975 he brought down the house with the politically charged "You Haven't Done Nothin"'
Stevie Wonder
Celeste
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$2,000
[17]
When buried in the sand, skates & rays rely on these holes near the eyes for breathing oxygen
spiracles
Celeste
Austin!
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$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
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$2,000
[18]
This Spanish surrealist whose work is often exhibited with Dali's painted "Dog Barking at the Moon" in 1926
Joan Miró
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$2,000
[8]
Q.E.D. is short for this, meaning "which was to be demonstrated"
quod erat demonstrandum
Amy
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Never even a soldier, this man lied that his nickname came from a shrapnel wound while fighting in the Argonne
Al Capone