Show #9068 2024-03-27 (taped 2024-02-26) Invitational

2024Jeopardy!Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 6.

Contestants

Brandon Blackwell — a writer and TV personality originally from Jamaica, New York

Jennifer Quail — a wine-tasting consultant from Dowagiac, Michigan

Alex Jacob — an online trivia league host from Tulsa, Oklahoma

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Alex $1,800 $6,600 $14,200 $0
3rd place: $5,000
$14,200
18 R, 1 W
Jennifer $1,400 $1,600 $11,000 $22,000
Winner: semifinalist
$7,200
13 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Brandon $5,000 $6,200 $23,600 $18,799
2nd place: $5,000
$13,000
20 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

TRENDING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS EQUINE WORDS AUTO PARTS 101 CRUISE LINES PORTS OF CALL
$200 [30]
In 2024 a 40-ounce quencher tumbler from this company seemed harder to get than the same-named NHL trophy
Stanley
Brandon
$200 [27]
A modification of a Portuguese guitar, it became popular in Hawaii in the late 19th century
ukulele
Alex
$200 [26]
3-letter word meaning to hound with continued fault-finding
nag
Alex
$200 [14]
When driving a pal's treasured 1964 Pontiac GTO, go easy on this pedal that releases the crankshaft
the clutch
Brandon
$200 [21]
As this character, Tom Cruise radioed the tower, "This is Ghost Rider requesting a flyby" but was told the pattern was full
Maverick
Alex
$200 [22]
No stop at this Mexican port is complete without watching the cliff divers do their thing off La Quebrada
Acapulco
Brandon
$400 [29]
Oxford dictionaries once defined this 2-word event as when a group of strangers "perform a pointless act & then disperse"
a flash mob
Brandon
$400 [28]
The double-action type of this instrument has 2 reeds tuned to the same note for extra fun when using the bellows
an accordion
Jennifer Brandon
$400 [15]
The high version of this hairstyle was worn by Barbara Eden in "I Dream of Jeannie" & has been seen on Ariana Grande
a high ponytail
Brandon
$400 [13]
The star method is used to tighten these fasteners; follow each with the one diagonally opposite
lug nuts
Alex
$400 [20]
Client Rod Tidwell gets agent Jerry Maguire to say this 4-word phrase again & again, louder each time
show me the money
Alex
$400 [23]
Cruises in this country will likely begin at the port city of Piraeus, just 7 miles from the capital
Greece
Alex
$600 [5]
The manual for this robotic '90s toy says, "You can feed me by inserting your fingertip into my mouth"
a Furby
$600 [6]
Ben Franklin made a "glass" type of this instrument, totally different from the "mouth organ" type
a harmonica
Brandon
$600 [9]
This equine term refers to an old veteran such as a politician or soldier who's served a long time & has a lot of experience
a war horse
Jennifer
$600 [12]
Thebeltthat drives your alternator, water pump & other important components is known by this snaky adjective
serpentine
Alex
$600 [19]
In this comedy, Tom as studio exec Les Grossman dances to "Low" by Flo Rida & T-Pain & says, "This is... when the job gets fun"
Tropic Thunder
Alex
$600 [16]
Many cruising to the Western Caribbean will set sail from this Texas city, the largest U.S. cruise port outside of Florida
Galveston
Jennifer
$800 [1]
Co-founder Tom Anderson was your first friend on this social media platform; in 2005 he sold his company
Myspace
Alex
$800 [2]
The Greek for "wood" gives us the name of this instrument that's struck with padded mallets
xylophone
Brandon
$800 [8]
These vertical pieces of wood, usually 2x4s, form the framework of an interior wall
a stud
Jennifer
$800 [11]
It's what Tesla calls the place you stick the charger into; Ford & GM have agreed to use Tesla charging tech in their EVs
the (charge) port
$800 [17]
"I am the world's last barman poet", Tom declaims in this film, "America's getting stinking on something I stir or shake"
Cocktail
Alex
$800 [24]
The light over this river's estuary at Le Havre was one reason the city calls itself the cradle of Impressionism
the Seine River
$1,000 [4]
This 4-letter photo-editing app has given rise to a meme that describes a person with a specific fashion aesthetic
VSCO
Brandon
DD $1,000 [3]
Also known as an etherophone, this boxy electronic instrument was used by The Beach Boys
a theremin
Brandon
$1,000 [7]
Asked by Herod what she wanted, the daughter of Herodias replied, "Give me here John Baptist's head in" one of these platters
a charger
$1,000 [10]
A seal between 2 mechanisms, the "head" one seals the combustion part of an engine to allow oil & coolant to circulate properly
a gasket
Brandon
$1,000 [18]
Tom Cruise tells Max von Sydow in this flick, "If you don't kill me, precogs were wrong & pre-crime is over"
Minority Report
Alex
$1,000 [25]
Once you arrive at this Jamaican port whose name means "8 rivers", you can swim with dolphins or visit Margaritaville
Ocho Rios
Alex

Double Jeopardy! Round

DURING JAMES BUCHANAN'S PRESIDENCY ARCHITECTS WORLD LITERATURE MUSIC COLLABS I'VE GOT A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU THE 3 "R"s
$400 [28]
In January 1861 President Buchanan sent supplies & reinforcements to this fort, but the ship turned back when fired upon
Fort Sumter
Jennifer
$400 [30]
One of the masterminds behind the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was Daniel Burnham of this Midwestern "School"
the Chicago School
Jennifer Brandon
$400 [26]
This French novelist's 1843 swashbuckling book "Georges" follows a mixed-race adventurer who leads a slave rebellion
Dumas
Alex Jennifer
$400 [25]
He had a collab with Miles Davis called "Can I Play With U?", included on a "Sign o' the Times" reissue
Prince
Brandon
$400 [5]
A twisting injury can cause this type of bone fracture characterized by a helical break
a spiral fracture
Jennifer
$400 [23]
Types of this household tool include slotted, hex & Robertson
screwdriver
Brandon
$800 [27]
In 1860 California mountain man John Adams, nicknamed this, died from a head wound suffered while wrestling one of his pet bears
Grizzly
Jennifer
$800 [29]
In the 1960s Black architect Paul Williams co-designed the Ira Aldridge Theater at this D.C. university
Howard
Brandon
$1,200 [7]
Made into a Scorsese film with Andrew Garfield, this novel by Shusaku Endo follows 17th century Jesuit priests in Japan
Silence
Alex
$800 [24]
This country singer collaborated with Leon Bridgeson the song "If You Were Mine"
Miranda Lambert
Jennifer
$800 [4]
It's the outer & narrower bone of the lower leg
the fibula
Jennifer
$800 [22]
Big laxative has made good use in its ads of this word for the problem its products treat
irregularity
Brandon
$1,600 [13]
New York City's citizens, including 103 who gave $1,000 each, raised the funds to build this church; the cornerstone was laid in 1858
St. Patrick's
Alex
$1,200 [10]
He saw himself as a trimtab, a small but powerful rudder, for humanity, & his tombstone says, "'Call me Trimtab'-Bucky"
Fuller
Alex
$1,600 [8]
In 1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz, author of this tale of ancient Rome, became the first Polish person to win a Nobel Prize in lit
Quo Vadis
Brandon
$1,200 [15]
In 1986 Run-DMC collabed with Aerosmith on a version of this song that VH1 called history making
"Walk This Way"
Alex
$1,200 [1]
2 regions of this bone are the manubrium, which joins with the first ribs, & the xiphoid process, which is just fun to say
the sternum
Jennifer
$1,200 [21]
This type of pilot in the early days of aviation would travel the country giving stunt-flying exhibitions
barnstormer
Alex
$2,000 [14]
Regular mail across the continent began with this stage line & antonymically communication went under water via the transatlantic cable
the Overland Stage
$1,600 [11]
With his impressive Duomo in Florence, he was called the architect who "renewed Roman masonry work"
Brunelleschi
Alex
$2,000 [9]
This Chilean author of "The Savage Detectives" has gained wide fame in English translation since his early death in 2003
Roberto Bolaño
$1,600 [16]
1990s hip-hop duo, Black Star, was a collaboration between Talib Kweli & this rapper, also known as Yasiin Bey
Mos Def
Jennifer Brandon
$1,600 [2]
This bone extends from the scapula to the ulna
the humerus
Jennifer
$1,600 [20]
Also a tropical cocktail, it's a person who transports illegal liquor, no matter what type
a rumrunner
Jennifer
DD $5,000 [6]
On December 2, 1859 he rode to the gallows on his coffin & remarked, "This is a beautiful country"
John Brown
Jennifer
$2,000 [12]
During her Pritzker Prize acceptance speech, she said her secular & modern childhood in Iraq was an influence on her career
Hadid
Brandon
DD $11,400 [17]
In this Hermann Hesse novel, Harry Haller reads a treatise about his dual inner self, caught between a man & a lupine creature
Steppenwolf
Brandon
$2,000 [18]
Billie Holiday & this sax player first linked up in 1934; soon enough they gave each other nicknames, Lady Day & Prez
Lester Young
Jennifer Brandon
$2,000 [3]
Overproduction of the hormone somatotropin causes this form of gigantism marked by increased bone size
acromegaly
$2,000 [19]
From the Latin for "earth" & meaning to make a planet suitable for human habitation, it dates back to a 1942 sci-fi story
terraforming
Jennifer

Final Jeopardy!

OLD WORDS

First appearing in an English dictionary in 1623, mesonoxian means pertaining to this word

midnight

Jennifer "What midnight? (Hi Mom!)" — wagered $11,000
Alex "What is I♡U S[incomplete A]" — wagered $14,200
Brandon "What is asleep?" — wagered $4,801

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