2024Jeopardy!Invitational Tournament final game 2.
Andrew He — a stay-at-home dad from Concord, California
Victoria Groce — a writer and television personality from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Amy Schneider — a writer from Oakland, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amy | $3,800 | $8,800 | $26,000 |
$37,601
2nd place: 1 match point |
$12,000
12 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Victoria | $3,800 | $6,800 | $37,600 |
$52,001
Winner: 1 match point |
$27,200
30 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Andrew | $1,800 | $3,000 | $8,600 |
$16,600
3rd place |
$8,600
12 R, 1 W |
| "A" TO "A" COUNTRIES | PARENTING | ACHES & PAINS | WORKING HARD, HARDLY WORKING | POP CULTURE IS SPRINGING OUT ALL OVER | SLANGUAGE |
|
$200
[29]
The official language of this small country is Catalan
Andorra
Victoria
|
$200
[30]
The CDC has an online this "vs. lean time" tool to see how much your kids are sedentary vs. exercising
screen time
Victoria
|
$200
[26]
Johns Hopkins defines this as persistent, long-standing pain that may be on & off or continuous
chronic pain
Andrew
|
$200
[27]
A 2022 study said this state had the longest average work week, 41.4 hours; commercial fishing & drilling for oil ain't easy
Alaska
Andrew
|
$200
[28]
"I love Paris in the spring time", says one of the classic songs by this American composer
Cole Porter
Victoria
|
$200
[25]
An update of "taking care of" this is "standing on" this, which Drake helped popularize
business
|
|
$400
[21]
First millennium monk Mesrop Mashtots is credited with creating this nation's alphabet, seen here
Armenia
Victoria
|
$400
[22]
Young Burt Bacharach hated taking these with Miss Raymond & they're a source of conflict in many a home
piano lessons
Victoria
|
$400
[10]
More common in women, this type of sharp, stabbing headache is named for what it feels like is stabbing your eye or head
an ice pick headache
Victoria
|
$400
[23]
In September 2016 the this Note 7 was recalled, as it really wasn't supposed to catch on fire
(Samsung) Galaxy
Andrew
|
$400
[1]
The only movie to pair Fred Astaire & Judy Garland is this holiday classic
Easter Parade
|
$400
[24]
It means to respond quickly & sharply to criticism, not to applaud in return
to clap back
Andrew
|
|
$600
[5]
In 1967 this Balkan nation was declared the world's first atheist state
Albania
Victoria
|
$600
[20]
It contains 5 consecutive consonants & it's the safest way to cut the little ones' hotdogs
lengthwise
Victoria
|
$600
[12]
Many aches & pains are treated with NSAIDs, these
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
Victoria
|
$600
[16]
In 2003 an 80-hour work week & 24-hour shifts were established as upper limits for these post-first-year internship doctors
residents
Amy
|
$600
[2]
Charles Melton represents the first month in the title of this 2023 film that also stars Natalie Portman & Julianne Moore
May December
Victoria
|
$600
[15]
This adjective that usually connotes evil means "really" or "very" in New England slang, as in "the Red Sox are ____ awesome"
wicked
Victoria
|
|
$800
[3]
Not soccer, but pato, a combination of polo & basketball, was declared the national sport there in 1953
Argentina
Andrew
|
$800
[19]
A tough question for parents; Dr. Ellen Libby wrote a book on the issue & says it can rotate from kid to kid, if that's any help
Who is your favorite child?
|
$800
[11]
Lord Byron rhymed this old-time word for feverish pain with "plague you"
ague
Amy
|
$1,000
[18]
In 1963 this company known for synthetic materials came out with a shoe "leather" called Corfam, & dang, my feet are still hot!
DuPont
Victoria
|
$800
[7]
Asked to describe a perfect date, a pageant contestant in this film says, "April 25 because it's not too hot, not too cold"
Miss Congeniality
|
$800
[14]
This 4-letter slang word for excellent actually goes back to the 1960s; some say its first letter stands for "pretty"
phat
|
|
$1,000
[6]
The desert-dwelling fennec fox is its national animal
Algeria
Amy
|
$1,000
[9]
If mom has sole custody, dad's parenting time is called this
visitation
Amy
|
$1,000
[13]
This word for achy inflammation of thefluid sacsaround a joint comes from Latin for "bag" or "purse"
bursitis
Amy
|
DD
$4,400
[17]
This traditional term for Japan's famously hard-laboring male office workers references both wages & gender
a salaryman
Amy
|
$1,000
[8]
Duncan Sheik & Steven Sater won Tonys for the score of this musical about 19th century students
Spring Awakening
Andrew
|
$1,000
[4]
Akin to friends with benefits, this portmanteau word is an undefined & noncommittal romantic arrangement
a situationship
Victoria
|
| NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | CONSONANT-VOWEL x3 | A SECRET CHORD | DAVID PLAYED | IT PLEASED THE LORD |
|
$400
[23]
In a novel by Stephen King, she's a senior at Ewen High who is bullied by her peers (at their own peril)
Carrie
Victoria
|
$400
[24]
The Grotto of our Lady of Lourdes at this Indiana school is one-seventh the size of the original in France
Notre Dame
Amy
|
$400
[27]
Wait, what? Students taught E. coli bacteria how to solve these number puzzles?! I'm kinda freakin' out
sudoku
Victoria
|
$400
[28]
Wagner shook up people's ideas of harmony with the chord named for this lover of Isolde
Tristan
Andrew
|
$400
[29]
In 2007 David Beckham signed a $250 million contract to play for this MLS team
the L.A. Galaxy
Victoria
|
$400
[30]
Lord Denning was pleased to report no security risk in a scandal of this decade, involving a government minister &Christine Keeler
the 1960s
Amy
Andrew
|
|
$1,200
[3]
Wole Soyinka's "The Interpreters" follows 5 young men who return home to this country after studying abroad
Nigeria
Victoria
|
$800
[11]
Coca-Cola tycoon Asa Candler donated $1 million & 75 acres of land for what became this Atlanta university
Emory
Amy
|
$800
[25]
Boze-dee-boze-dee-bop! Ziddy bop! It's just this old-time term for a male escort
a gigolo
Andrew
|
$800
[14]
He lived until 1827 but his last time as soloist with an orchestra was in 1808, opening his 4th piano concerto with a gentle chord
Beethoven
Victoria
|
$800
[26]
This40-year-old slugger retired after a 2016 season in which he hit .315, with 38 home runs & 127 RBIs
Ortiz
Victoria
|
$800
[8]
It pleased the 18th c. philosopher Lord Monboddo to think that these Asian creatures, the largest apes then known, are human
orangutans
Victoria
|
|
$1,600
[2]
Justin Quayle carefully tends to his plants while seeking his wife's killer in this John le Carré thriller
The Constant Gardener
Victoria
|
$1,200
[6]
A Scottish Terrier is the fitting mascot of this Pittsburgh school
Carnegie Mellon
Amy
|
$1,200
[16]
It's the Spanish diminutive of "house"
casita
Amy
|
$1,200
[13]
This 1959 Miles Davis album begins with Bill Evans' piano, including a famous pair of chords
Kind of Blue
Victoria
|
$1,200
[15]
Jessica Jones, played by Krysten Ritter, had to deal with Kilgrave, played by him
(David) Tennant
Victoria
|
$1,200
[5]
As the year 2001 neared, Lord Falconer was happy when Tony Blair put him in charge of the huge structure then called this
the Millennium Dome
|
|
$2,000
[22]
George Eliot's works named for title characters include "Adam Bede", "Silas Marner" & this alliterative one
Daniel Deronda
Victoria
|
$1,600
[9]
This consortium of colleges in California includes Pitzer & Pomona
the Claremont Colleges
Andrew
|
$2,000
[18]
Related to the word lagoon is this one meaning a gap, as in historical records
a lacuna
Amy
|
$1,600
[1]
A mighty, anguished chord in his 10th symphony might have something to do with his wife Alma's affair with Walter Gropius
Mahler
Victoria
|
$1,600
[19]
This David played those great guitar solos on Pink Floyd's songs "Time" & "Money", to name just 2
(David) Gilmour
Victoria
|
$1,600
[7]
This Lord was no doubt delighted by the birth of his son Winston in 1874
Randolph Churchill
Victoria
Andrew
|
|
DD
$11,200
[4]
The first name of this title character of a Defoe novel is an old word for a prostitute
Moll Flanders
Victoria
|
$2,000
[12]
The Kellogg School of Management is part of this university
Northwestern
Andrew
|
DD
$12,000
[17]
Catholics hoping for special grace may pray this, said for 9 consecutive days
a novena
Amy
|
$2,000
[10]
Something called a tritone substitution is found in the chords of "Lush Life", a classic by this Duke Ellington collaborator
Strayhorn
Victoria
|
$2,000
[20]
David Bowie played the baby-stealing Goblin King in this 1986 film
Labyrinth
Victoria
|
$2,000
[21]
This lord was pleased to be the husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, but not to be mysteriously killed in 1567
Lord Darnley
Andrew
|
A peasant who became the king of Phrygia created this intricate problem that was solved in 333 B.C.
the Gordian Knot