2024Jeopardy!Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 6.
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
| 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 |
| TRENDING | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS | EQUINE WORDS | AUTO PARTS 101 | CRUISE LINES | PORTS OF CALL |
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$200
[30]
In 2024 a 40-ounce quencher tumbler from this company seemed harder to get than the same-named NHL trophy
Stanley
Brandon
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$200
[27]
A modification of a Portuguese guitar, it became popular in Hawaii in the late 19th century
ukulele
Alex
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$200
[26]
3-letter word meaning to hound with continued fault-finding
nag
Alex
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$200
[14]
When driving a pal's treasured 1964 Pontiac GTO, go easy on this pedal that releases the crankshaft
the clutch
Brandon
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$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
|
| 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
|
First appearing in an English dictionary in 1623, mesonoxian means pertaining to this word
midnight