2024Jeopardy!Invitational Tournament semifinal game 3.
Victoria Groce — a writer and television personality from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Sam Buttrey — a bon vivant and man about town from Pacific Grove, California
Matt Jackson — a grad student in computer science and public policy originally from Washington, D.C.
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $2,200 | $4,800 | $10,400 |
$1
3rd place: $10,000 |
$10,400
16 R, 1 W |
| Sam | $2,200 | $3,800 | $16,000 |
$27,001
2nd place: $10,000 |
$11,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Victoria | $2,000 | $6,000 | $27,000 |
$32,001
Finalist |
$17,000
23 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W |
| EUROPEAN CAPITALS | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY | QUASI-RELATED PAIRS | A CATEGORY MADE OF STEEL | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS | YOU CAN'T SPELL... |
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$200
[24]
One of this Swiss city's most famous landmarks is abear pitthat displays live specimens; the original pit dates to 1513
Bern
Matt
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$200
[30]
Fittingly, these teeth used to grind food take their name from the Latin for "millstone"
molars
Victoria
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$200
[28]
A layer of paint&a score of 7-7
coat & tie
Matt
Victoria
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$200
[27]
The steelhead, a variety of the rainbow type of this fish, can reach a weight of 55 pounds
a trout
Sam
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$200
[29]
Frankie Valli, of course, is a character in this musical about the Four Seasons
Jersey Boys
Matt
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$200
[21]
This group of folks living in proximity without "unity"
community
Sam
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$400
[22]
Once this capital's largest temple, the Olympieion, or temple of the Olympian Zeus, took nearly 7 centuries to build
Athens
Victoria
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$400
[23]
From Greek for "snail", it's a tube in the inner ear that's coiled like a snail's shell
cochlea
Sam
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$400
[4]
Mr. Harrelson& an insect sound associated with titillating news
Woody & buzz
Matt
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$400
[26]
Using modified oil barrels as instruments, steel bands of Trinidad are particularly associated with this pre-Lent celebration
Carnival
Sam
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$400
[25]
In 2004 Michael McKean donned a dress to play Edna Turnblad in this show
Hairspray
Victoria
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$400
[20]
This term for the column here without another instrument--the lute
fluted column
Sam
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|
$600
[9]
This nation's capital, Ljubljana, was destroyed by Attila the Hun in the 5th century but eventually rebuilt 700 years later
Slovenia
Matt
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$600
[7]
The name of these neck veins goes back to Latin words for throat & yoke
jugular
Sam
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$600
[3]
Food word for "bonkers"&makes a swift escape
nuts & bolts
|
$600
[12]
In 1983 this 7-foot wrestler defeated Big John Studd in a thrilling steel cage match in the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland
André the Giant
Matt
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$600
[17]
The name of this "Wicked" character comes from the initials of "The Wizard of Oz" author
Elphaba
Victoria
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$600
[15]
This word without "once", but I do not think it means what you think it means
inconceivable
Matt
|
|
$800
[8]
This capital founded by Norseman Ingólfur Arnarson in 874 is heated by water piped in from nearby hot springs
Reykjavik
Sam
Victoria
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$800
[6]
From the Greek word for "kidney", these units, about a million per kidney, filter waste from the blood
nephrons
Victoria
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$800
[1]
A master teacher of the lotus position&a double talk term for a toddler injury
a yogi & boo-boo
Victoria
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$800
[5]
Using an old steel saw in 1837, he created one of the 1st successful steel plows & his company was soon making 1,000 plows a year
(John) Deere
Victoria
|
$800
[13]
She's the faded glamour cat who sings "Memory" in "Cats"
Grizabella
Sam
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$1,000
[19]
This word for a tract or canal in your digestive system without "lime"
alimentary
Matt
|
|
$1,000
[11]
This city on the Danube that became a national capital in 1993 lies near Austria & Hungary & once served as Hungary's capital
Bratislava
Victoria
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$1,000
[10]
Used when sitting cross-legged, this longest muscle derives its name from Latin for "tailor", as tailors often sat that way
the sartorius
Victoria
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$1,000
[2]
An umpire's call&an inlet of a sea
safe & sound
Matt
Sam
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$1,000
[14]
Charles M. Schwab was the 1st pres. of this Pennsylvania-based steel corp. founded in 1904 & one of the world's largest in its time
Bethlehem Steel
Matt
Sam
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$1,000
[16]
In the eyes of Don Quixote, peasant girl Aldonza becomes this lovely lady, whom he has sought & dreamed of
Dulcinea
Matt
|
DD
$2,600
[18]
You can't spell this word meaning to belittle without "spar"
disparage
Victoria
|
| HISTORICAL QUOTES | TRAIN TALES | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT | PHOTOGRAPHERS | '90s MOVIE FUN | "C-U" LATER |
|
$400
[27]
In a memorandum to his fleet off Cádiz in 1805, he wrote, "Nothing is sure in a sea fight"
Nelson
Victoria
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$400
[25]
A book of timetables for railways & steamers helped the protagonist make his less-than-3-month journey in this 1873 novel
Around the World in Eighty Days
Victoria
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$400
[28]
Dating from the first century, the tower of this mythical strongman in Spain is said to be the oldest working lighthouse
Hercules
Matt
|
$400
[26]
This famed Western landscape photographer wrote a 1947 essay for the Encyclopedia Britannica on "Photographic Art"
Adams
Matt
|
$400
[29]
Billy Bob Thornton does his best James Carville in this 1998 film that fictionalized the first Clinton campaign
Primary Colors
Victoria
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$400
[30]
What we Yanks call a cookie, the Brits call this
a biscuit
Sam
|
|
$800
[9]
In Cairo in 1978 he said, "Peace is much more precious than a piece of land"
Sadat
Victoria
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$800
[24]
Elmore Leonard sold his 1953 short story "Three-Ten to" this city to Dime Western Magazine
Yuma
Sam
|
$1,200
[3]
The Bell Rock Lighthouse outside the Firth of Forth warns ships of navigation dangers in this sea
the North Sea
Victoria
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$800
[18]
The authenticity of Robert Capa's "Falling Soldier", showing a loyalist in 1936 at the start of this war, has been questioned
the Spanish Civil War
Victoria
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$800
[15]
Fred Gwynne's final film appearance came as a frustrated judge in this 1992 comedy
My Cousin Vinny
Matt
|
$800
[23]
In 1882 Robert Koch discovered a germ that ended the debate of whether this disease that claimed the life of Chopin is hereditary
tuberculosis
Matt
|
|
$1,200
[5]
In a 1790 speech in Dublin, John Curran said the price of liberty is "eternal" this
vigilance
Sam
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$1,600
[1]
A commuter named Rachel sees something suspicious in this Paula Hawkins psychological thriller
The Girl on the Train
Sam
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$1,600
[6]
Barnegat Lighthouse on Long Beach Island in this state's Ocean County was designed by future hero of Gettysburg George Meade
New Jersey
Sam
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$1,200
[11]
Frank Powolny took a 1943 photo of this actress with the "million-dollar legs" & it became a top World War II pin-up poster
Grable
Matt
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$1,200
[14]
Raul Julia & Anjelica Huston got a hand playing a loving couple in this 1991 flick
The Addams Family
Victoria
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$1,200
[22]
In an episode called "The Implant", Teri Hatcher tells Jerry Seinfeld, "By the way, they're real & they're" this
spectacular
Sam
|
|
$1,600
[4]
In an 1851 letter, Daniel Webster called this Boston building "the Cradle of American Liberty"
Faneuil Hall
Victoria
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$2,000
[17]
The theft of a fortune in gold in Victorian England is "The Great Train Robbery" by this late American thriller master
Crichton
Victoria
|
$2,000
[7]
Old Baldy, protecting the entrance to this river since 1817, is North Carolina's oldest standing lighthouse
the Cape Fear River
Victoria
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$1,600
[10]
The 1996 book "Down in the Garden" was a bestseller for this Australian-born photographer known for her baby pictures
Geddes
Victoria
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$1,600
[8]
When time-traveling Bruce Willis is sent to the psychiatric ward in this 1995 movie, he meets Brad Pitt, who is really bananas
12 Monkeys
Victoria
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$1,600
[21]
Nov. 25, the date the British cleared out of New York City in 1783, was once a blowout holiday called this day
Evacuation Day
|
|
$2,000
[13]
In 1884 General Charles Gordon wrote that if help didn't come soon, "the town may fall", the town being this African city
Khartoum
Victoria
|
DD
$5,400
[2]
This title train was filled with children "all in their pajamas and nightgowns" as it "raced northward"
The Polar Express
Sam
|
DD
$9,000
[19]
The Lanterna of this Italian port is the Mediterranean's tallest lighthouse; Antonio Columbo was a keeper in 1449 of the first ones there
Genoa
Victoria
|
$2,000
[12]
Known for his black & white photos, he was a consultant for the film "Funny Face" & Fred Astaire's character was based on him
Avedon
Victoria
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$2,000
[16]
Scriptwriter Quentin Tarantino first tried to get backing to make this 1993 Christian Slater film that Tony Scott ultimately made
True Romance
Victoria
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$2,000
[20]
Fancy word from French meaning a glimpse or an outline
aperçu
Matt
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It was named for a nearby river that explorer Gabriel Moraga named for one of a religious grouping of 7
Sacramento