2024Jeopardy!Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 9.
Sam Buttrey — a bon vivant and man about town from Pacific Grove, California
Colby Burnett — a high school college counselor from Chicago, Illinois
Lilly Chin — a robotics professor from Decatur, Georgia
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lilly | $400 | $2,000 | $3,000 |
$3,000
3rd place: $5,000 |
$8,000
10 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Colby | $3,600 | $4,800 | $14,800 |
$5,199
2nd place: $5,000 |
$13,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Sam | $2,800 | $4,600 | $24,400 |
$29,601
Winner: semifinalist |
$15,000
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| TAILOR'S VERSION | CURRENT EVENTS | REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS | AUTHORS AT WAR | SAME LAST 3/ FIRST 3 LETTERS |
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$200
[11]
Not quite full bespoke, MTM is this type of custom suit & also describes a type of tailoring
made-to-measure
Sam
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$200
[28]
On April 8th, a total this will be seen across the heart of the U.S.; it will be the last visible from the contiguous U.S. until 2044
an eclipse
Sam
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$200
[30]
A section of I-75 in Florida is alliteratively known as this animal "Alley"
Alligator
Colby
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$200
[18]
Germany defeated Serbia in the final of the 2023 FIBA World Cup for men's national teams in this sport
basketball
Sam
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$200
[23]
When he landed on Utah Beach on D-Day, J.D. Salinger is reported to have had 6 chapters of this work in his jacket
The Catcher in the Rye
Lilly
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$200
[29]
Animal you "play" when feigning death&a brief & succinct explanation of an event
possum & summary
Sam
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$400
[15]
Hooks & bars are a popular alternative to hooks & these, because the bars can go closer to the garment's edge
eyes
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$400
[27]
As campaigning continued in chilly New Hampshire, he ended his presidential run in sunny Tallahassee
DeSantis
Colby
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$400
[22]
The African clawed variety is an exception, but most frogs use this body part to catch their prey
the tongue
Colby
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$400
[5]
As of 2021, women also got to compete in the Olympic C1 & C2 races in this type of "C"raft
canoe
Sam
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$400
[17]
As a 2nd lieutenant in the czar's army, he saw the siege of Sevastopol & wrote about it in his "Sevastopol Sketches"
Tolstoy
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$400
[14]
The way a softball pitch is thrown&having both male & female characteristics
underhand & androgynous
Lilly
|
|
$600
[24]
This method fixes holes using needle & thread without patches; it was news when Grace Coolidgewas seen doing it to Calvin's socks
darning
Sam
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$600
[6]
Will it be "How soon they forget" or "Always remembered"? He caught the Super Bowl 58-winning pass for Kansas City
Mecole Hardman
Sam
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$600
[21]
The fire kind of this amphibian defends itself from predators by spraying poison from behind its eyes
a salamander
Lilly
Colby
|
$600
[2]
The team version of this is an Olympic sport that somewhat resembles soccer, but players throw the ball rather than kick it
handball
Sam
|
$600
[16]
During World War II Frank Herbert served as a photographer in this U.S. Navy group that builds bases, airfields & bridges
the Seabees
Sam
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$600
[1]
United one piece of film with another&wood used in a chest to help repel moths
spliced & cedar
Sam
|
|
$800
[25]
Thismeasurement can be about 30" on a 5'10" man
an inseam
Colby
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$800
[7]
This politician passed away while incarcerated at the IK-3 penal colony north of the Arctic Circle
Navalny
Colby
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$800
[19]
Pogona is the genus name for the 8 species of this lizard lovingly known as "beardies"
the bearded dragons
Lilly
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$800
[3]
Australia beat England in 1877 to win the first of the international cricket games known by this 2-word term
test matches
Sam
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$1,000
[9]
This author of "Going After Cacciato" was wounded by shrapnel from a grenade in Vietnam & received a Purple Heart
Tim O'Brien
|
$800
[12]
Preceder of fasciitis in a foot problem&plaid Scottish cloth
plantar & tartan
Sam
|
|
$1,000
[26]
Sewn in a double layer, this part of a shirt adds strength & structure at the shoulders, ya big ox!
the yoke
|
$1,000
[8]
A 40-foot-high replica of a 300s A.D. statue of this Roman emperor was unveiled by the Capitoline Museums
Constantine
Colby
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$1,000
[20]
From a Latin word for "blind", this worm-like amphibian spends most of its life underground
the caecilian
|
$1,000
[4]
French for "servant", in pro cycling it's a rider whose job is to help a team's leader win, not to win individually
a domestique
|
DD
$1,800
[10]
As a P.O.W., Kurt Vonnegut survived the 1945 Allied firebombing of this German city because he was working underground
Dresden
Colby
|
$1,000
[13]
1890s job title of the German seen here&8-letter type of parrot seen here
a chancellor & lorikeet
|
| THE 14th CENTURY | IN MY FEELINGS | ART & CRIME | LONG WORDS | YOU NAMED YOUR BAND WHAT? | "G"OING PLACES |
|
$400
[22]
One cause of the 1337 start of the Hundred Years' War was when the III king of this name made a claim for the French throne
Edward
Sam
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$400
[28]
4-letter delight; in the 17th century it was first used for a sung musical work
glee
|
$400
[26]
"Vanished Smile", a true crime book by R.A. Scotti, is subtitled "The Mysterious Theft of" this artwork
the Mona Lisa
Sam
|
$400
[30]
14 letters:Christian doctrine laid out by Paul in Romans 8:29-30, so god doesn't just know all but foreknows all
predestination
Sam
|
$400
[4]
This band's name was the nickname that Rivers Cuomo's biological dad used for him
Weezer
Colby
|
$400
[24]
This Scottish city is known for local slang such as "gallus", which means bold or daring
Glasgow
Sam
|
|
$800
[23]
In a big climate switch, the Medieval Warm Period gave way to this "diminutive" era
the Little Ice Age
Sam
|
$800
[27]
This bloody period of the French Revolution ended with the execution of its leader Robespierre & his associates
The Terror
Colby
|
$800
[25]
These twins & notorious London gangsters painted portraits & landscape paintings while in the clink
the Krays
Sam
|
$800
[19]
14 letters:Newish nonmedical umbrella term for people whose brains work or develop differently
neurodivergent
Lilly
Colby
|
$800
[29]
We have "High Hopes" you'll know that this group's name is not from a Smiths song but one by an obscure group called Name Taken
Panic! at the Disco
Lilly
|
$800
[21]
Antigua & Quetzaltenango are sites in the highlands of this country
Guatemala
Colby
|
|
$1,600
[12]
What is today this seaport on a peninsula was captured by the Ottomans in 1354, their first foothold in Europe
Gallipoli
Lilly
|
$1,200
[13]
It was "Primal" in the title of a Richard Gere & Edward Norton film
Fear
Colby
|
$1,200
[1]
Art forger Elmyr de Hory is included as a subject in "F for Fake", a rare documentary by this film auteur
Orson Welles
|
$1,200
[18]
13 letters:An adjective meaning outside of the power of a court of law
extrajudicial
Sam
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$1,200
[7]
This group of anarchists with a nonsensical name gained fame with its pro-drinking earworm "Tubthumping"
Chumbawamba
Sam
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$1,200
[8]
The International Civil Rights Center & Museum in this city is housed in a former Woolworth's, a site of a nonviolent protest
Greensboro
Lilly
|
|
$2,000
[11]
In the 1380s, this Oxford theologian led an effort that translated the Bible into English
Wycliffe
Colby
|
$1,600
[15]
It's the second word of "The Tell-Tale Heart"; the narrator admits that he was dreadfully so
nervous
|
$1,600
[2]
A painting by Vermeer was one of the works stolen from this Boston museum in 1990
the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Lilly
|
$1,600
[14]
13 letters:Toothed dino bird of the Jurassic period whose fossil is seen here
Archaeopteryx
Lilly
|
$1,600
[6]
A statuary store on Route 46 in New Jersey unwittingly bestowed its name on this power pop group
Fountains of Wayne
Colby
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$1,600
[9]
This area stretches roughly from Paradise Point to Coolangatta in Queensland & largely consists of beach resorts
the Gold Coast
Sam
|
|
DD
$10,600
[20]
During the Great Schism beginning in 1378, Robert of Geneva reigned as Clement VII, this 8-letter type of guy
antipope
Sam
|
DD
$5,000
[16]
Freud's works helped popularize this loanword for a general sense of dread or unease
angst
Lilly
|
$2,000
[3]
After he caught a body in 1606, this artist fled Rome & took his chiaroscuro skills to Malta
Caravaggio
Lilly
|
$2,000
[17]
14 letters:A sequence of fantastic & weird images, as seen perhaps in a dream or while hallucinating
phantasmagoria
Lilly
Sam
|
$2,000
[5]
This band with songs like "1985" & "Today Is Gonna Be A Great Day", the "Phineas & Ferb" theme, riffed on a Steve Martin sketch for its name
Bowling for Soup
Colby
|
$2,000
[10]
This place in India was dubbed "the Rome of the Orient", since it was a center for the Roman Catholic Church in the East
Goa
Colby
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A girl in a 1950 novel walks into this & "got in among the coats and rubbed her face against them"
a wardrobe