2024Jeopardy!Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 7.
Monica Thieu — a postdoctoral scientist from Atlanta, Georgia
Chuck Forrest — a lawyer from Marino, Italy
Sam Kavanaugh — an educator from Minneapolis, Minnesota
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam | $200 | $200 | $12,000 |
$7,600
Winner: semifinalist |
$11,600
13 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Chuck | $1,000 | $2,600 | $11,000 |
$6,199
3rd place: $5,000 |
$11,000
14 R, 2 W |
| Monica | $3,800 | $8,200 | $15,800 |
$7,599
2nd place: $5,000 |
$15,800
23 R, 2 W |
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$200
[29]
"Tomorrow Will Be Different" is by Sarah McBride, the first openly trans state senator from this state, known for being first
Delaware
Monica
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$200
[30]
After visiting Michael Jackson's family home in Gary, Ind., enjoy views of this Great Lake off I-94 East as you enter Benton Harbor
Lake Michigan
Chuck
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$200
[28]
Monopoly once added a few house rules, including all fees & taxes stashed in the middle of the board are yours when you land on this spot
Free Parking
Monica
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$200
[15]
In the preface to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" we learn that these calming words are on the front of the reference book
don't panic
Chuck
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$200
[17]
A mix of tomatoes, oranges, garlic & more, this bills itself as "the perfect complement to burgers, steak, chicken..."
A.1.
Sam
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$200
[26]
Under C:"A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head"
a cabbage
Monica
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$400
[27]
"The House of Hidden Meanings" is a 2024 memoir from this TV host & pop culture icon, both far from & totally a drag
RuPaul
Sam
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$400
[22]
Put Kingman in your rear view, cruise I-40 & you'll be in Standin' on the Corner Park in this Arizona city in 3 hours
Winslow
Sam
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$400
[21]
The nonprofit Free Software Foundation promotes this hyphenated type of software that, by definition, can be modified & shared
open-source
Monica
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$400
[20]
This catchphrase of Ed McMahon was uttered with creepy efficiency in "The Shining"
Here's Johnny
Chuck
Monica
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$400
[7]
The U.S. spent $100 billion to defend against this glitch that threatened to doom us all as 1999 ended
Y2K
Chuck
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$400
[9]
Under H:"An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another"
happiness
Chuck
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$600
[10]
This writer's "test" on gender disparity in Hollywood movies began as "The Rule" in a 1985 comic strip
(Alison) Bechdel
Monica
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$800
[2]
Enjoy 1,700 miles of the I-95 system, south from Bangor to this 2-word city whose name comes from Spanish for "mouse's mouth"
Boca Raton
Monica
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$600
[6]
R.E.M. titled a 1981 song for this broadcasting service that aimed to inform people under the grasp of the Soviets
Radio Free Europe
Chuck
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$600
[5]
Barney on "How I Met Your Mother" often implored his friends with this command that superheroes might receive
suit up
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$600
[12]
The first movie with this designation was "Henry & June" in 1990
NC-17
Monica
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$600
[11]
Under P:"A play in which the story is told without violence to the language"
a pantomime
Chuck
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$800
[14]
Oscar Wilde wrote 2 plays of "importance" but sadly, also a "Ballad" about this place of confinement
Reading Gaol
Chuck
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DD
$1,000
[18]
Columbia is about midway between these 2 same-state Midwest cities that squared off in the I-70 World Series in 1985
Kansas City & St. Louis
Sam
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$800
[1]
The Wilmot Proviso, which wanted no slavery in newly acquired Mexican lands, was a precursor to this political party
the Free Soil Party
Sam
Chuck
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$800
[3]
This memorable 1997 Apple ad campaign notably didn't end with a "-ly"
Think Different
Monica
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$800
[8]
Thistechnology introduced in 2019 brought faster connectivity all over an area
5G
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$800
[24]
Under N:"Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party"
nepotism
Monica
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$1,000
[23]
This playwright has used his uniquely gravelly voice to speak about gay rights & wrote the book for "La Cage aux Folles"
Fierstein
Monica
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$1,000
[16]
It's about 2 1/2 hours going west on I-80 from Davenport to this state capital
Des Moines
Chuck
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$1,000
[19]
The "free" type of this refers to an atom or molecule with a loose electron that can destabilize other molecules
a free radical
Monica
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$1,000
[4]
Written by Sia, this Shakira song from "Zootopia" can be heard in commercials for Disney World
"Try Everything"
Monica
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$1,000
[13]
The Russian creator of this ubiquitous weapon was quoted as saying, "I would prefer to have invented... a lawnmower"
an AK-47
Sam
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$1,000
[25]
Under Q:"A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it"
a quorum
Monica
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$400
[24]
William Baffin was the first to determine degrees of this by watching the Moon pass in front of a star in 1615
longitude
Sam
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$400
[26]
A painting on 2 panels, often hinged together; London's National Gallery of Art has the Wilton one
a diptych
Monica
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$400
[27]
Eccentricity measures how much this planetary path deviates from a circle
its orbit (an ellipse)
Sam
Chuck
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$400
[29]
Since 1908, theroundelhas been a symbol of this system that also contains "round"
the Underground
Monica
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$400
[30]
In film when characters explain the plot verbally, it's called this, also the name of a big public fair
exposition
Monica
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$400
[18]
Cordell Broadus, son of this rapper who, like us, asked "Who am I?", was a WR for UCLA & became a streetwear fashion designer
Snoop Dogg
Sam
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$800
[20]
In 1610 he reached Canada's James Bay; his crew soon mutinied & cast him & 8 others adrift, never to be seen again
Hudson
Sam
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$800
[25]
It means a picture made of inlaid tile, or pertaining to the guy to whom the 10 Commandments were revealed
mosaic
Monica
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$800
[23]
A "false thumb" or enlarged wrist bone on this animal helps it grasp bamboo stalks
a panda
Chuck
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$800
[28]
This numeral is topmost center on a standard circular dartboard
20
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$800
[12]
In Latin "fuscus" meant dark, hence this verb meaning to deliberately bewilder
obfuscate
Monica
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$800
[17]
Willow Smith, daughter of Will, hit the Top 40 by doing this title quite repeatedly, "back & forth"
"Whip My Hair"
Monica
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$1,200
[5]
In 1776 James Cook received the Copley Medal for a paper on preventing this disease by feeding his crew cress & an orange extract
scurvy
Monica
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$1,200
[15]
Sculptors sometimes use heat & chemicals to produce this green surface film on their bronzes
a patina
Monica
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$1,600
[1]
In thermodynamics this letter stands for entropy
S
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$1,200
[9]
In legend, the Siege Perilous was a seat at King Arthur's round table reserved for the knight destined to do this
find the Grail
Monica
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$1,200
[21]
It can mean a horse carriage for rent; add -ed to mean made commonplace by frequent use
a hackney
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$1,200
[13]
Kanye's 10-year-old daughter, she raps on her dad's 2024 track "Talking/Once Again"
North West
Monica
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$1,600
[6]
Born in the county of Devon, Francis Drake was knighted in 1581 & made mayor of this English Channel port there
Plymouth
Chuck
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DD
$2,000
[2]
Jean Arp coined this term for Alexander Calder's inert sculptures, often made from sheet metal
stabiles
Sam
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$2,000
[4]
CMEs for short, these blasts from the aura of plasma around the Sun can occur with solar flares
coronal mass ejections
Sam
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$1,600
[10]
These alliterative items seenhereare used to reduce friction
ball bearings
Monica
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$1,600
[19]
An attorney doesn't need to establish cause to exclude a prospective juror with this type of challenge
peremptory
Chuck
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$1,600
[14]
This Compton rapper died in 1995, but his son Lil thisis carrying on the hip-hop name
Eazy-E
Sam
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$2,000
[7]
In 1823 Hugh Clapperton & his party explored Nigeria & became the first Europeans to see this nearby large lake
Lake Chad
Chuck
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$2,000
[8]
Marcel Duchamp used mass-produced items for objects called these, like a bicycle wheel on a stool
readymade
Sam
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DD
$2,200
[3]
Devised by a 19th century German scientist, this scale measures a mineral's resistance to abrasion
Mohs hardness scale
Sam
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$2,000
[11]
The Aldar Headquartersbuilding, 23 stories tall & presumably, 23 stories wide, too, is in this emirate, southwest of Dubai
Abu Dhabi
Chuck
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$2,000
[22]
Meaning reverse or opposite, it's also a rhetorical device using contrast, such as "Give me liberty or give me death"
antithesis
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$2,000
[16]
Hip-hop artist Chris Rivers is the son of this "Big" guy born Christopher Rios, the first Latino solo rapper to go platinum
Big Pun
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TIMEmentioned "cruelty & enforced conformity" when summing up this novel with a "stonily silent narrator"
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest