2024Jeopardy! Mastersquarterfinal game 1.Ken Jennings hosts.
Victoria Groce — a writer and television personality from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Matt Amodio — a quantitative researcher from New York, New York
Mattea Roach — a writer and podcast host from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mattea | — | $3,400 | $7,400 |
$7,089
2nd place: 1 match point |
$8,400
11 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Matt | — | $3,200 | $800 |
$800
3rd place |
$8,800
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Victoria | — | $5,000 | $31,600 |
$29,867
Winner: 3 match points |
$25,800
26 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM... | INTERNET SLANG | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES | AMERICAN FICTION | 4-LETTER TV | YOU'RE REPEATING YOURSELF |
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[27]
...Down Under / Who looked at a mountain with wonder As high as can be / May 29th, '53 / Sadly, above Mallory's blunder
Hillary
Victoria
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[29]
Slang like "fanum tax" & "skibidi" baffle many; it's associated with this generation, a name that unfittingly follows Gen Z
Gen Alpha
Matt
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[30]
Jamaican jerk chicken & candied sweet potatoes can be part of a feast called Karamu, held on Dec. 31, the sixth day of this
Kwanzaa
Mattea
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$200
[20]
In a John Grisham book, there's Supreme murder & a New Orleans law student prepares this title document
Pelican Brief
Matt
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[25]
First name of Walter White's brother-in-law & one of the title "Venture Bros."
Hank
Matt
Victoria
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$200
[23]
Born to Chinese parents, he made his Carnegie Hall recital debut as a teen & would go on to create the Silk Road Project
Yo-Yo Ma
Victoria
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[26]
...Chile / Due to him, human rights went away / Prez in '74 / & for 16 years more / Times were rough under...
Pinochet
Matt
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[28]
In classical music an op. is an opus, but over on Reddit, an O.P. is an abbreviation for this
the original poster
Victoria
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[12]
California has a state holiday honoring this labor leader, observed around his March 31 birthday
Chavez
Victoria
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[19]
In 2022's "Remarkably Bright Creatures", Tova, the main character, forms an unusual friendship with one of these
an octopus
Mattea
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$400
[24]
Not a feline bone in his body, or any bone for that matter, he's SpongeBob's meowing pet
Gary
Mattea
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[22]
In productions of "Grease", this character, surname DiGregorio, is allegedly "the best dancer at St. Bernadette's"
Cha-Cha
Mattea
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[9]
...U.K. / As prime minister, a late '30s stay / Not so powerfully built / & don't call him Wilt / Churchill's here now you go away
Chamberlain
Matt
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[4]
If someone posts theskull emoji, it doesn't mean the user is dead inside, just dead from too much of this joyful activity
laughing
Victoria
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[11]
Horse racing, wrestling & archery are part of Naadam, a 5-day festival in this country said to date to the time of Genghis Khan
Mongolia
Mattea
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[13]
4 Chinese women meet regularly to eat, talk about their families & play mah-jong in this Amy Tan classic
The Joy Luck Club
Victoria
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[18]
Perhaps hopped up on the drink's caffeine, Maggie Simpson memorably dances to Britney Spears after drinking this
Buzz (Cola)
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[21]
Along with Too-Too the owl & Chee-Chee the monkey, this duck was what one might call a known associate of Doctor Dolittle
Dab-Dab the duck
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[8]
...Paris / A minister of war, don't you see / He drew his "line" / Around 1929 / But the Germans... they didn't agree
Maginot
Mattea
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[3]
NPC, short for this, can be a diss for someone you regard as one of the sheeple
non-player character
Mattea
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[10]
On June 7 this country remembers the Battle of Arica & celebrates the national flag, seen here
Peru
Mattea
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[7]
A Yeats poem gave Cormac McCarthy the title of this novel that follows a drug deal gone wrong
No Country for Old Men
Matt
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[15]
Fused organic & synthetic matter, they demanded conformity from Captain Picard
Borg
Matt
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[17]
This underwhelming squadron commander from "Catch-22" got a promotion caused by a computer with a sense of humor
Major (Major Major) Major
Victoria
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$1,000
[6]
...Maine / Speaker of the House, to be plain / Cleveland beat him for prez / So history says / & his last name, it rhymes, as it's...
Blaine
Victoria
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$1,000
[2]
It's a portmanteau word for someone who makes internet content with an animal, like with Esther the Wonder Pig on Instaham
petfluencers
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DD
$1,000
[1]
Held during the 5th month of the Chinese lunar calendar, this festival began as a search for poet Qu Yuan, who drowned in a Yangtze tributary
the Dragon Boat Festival
Mattea
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$1,000
[5]
Ernest J. Gaines wrote about one woman's life from slavery to the civil rights movement in "The Autobiography of" her
Miss Jane Pittman
Matt
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$1,000
[14]
"The Munsters" had a pet dragon named this who was known to scare off ne'er-do-wells
Spot
Matt
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$1,000
[16]
This author collaborated on "Romance" with Joseph Conrad
Ford Madox Ford
Victoria
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| REALLY TOUGH CAPITALS | CLASSIC MOVIES | DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS | AARON BURR & FRIENDS |
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[27]
This capital of Barbados does have the type of structure in its name, like the 1872 Chamberlain one
Bridgetown
Victoria
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[23]
This actor who starred in "Paper Moon" & "Barry Lyndon" passed away in 2023
(Ryan) O'Neal
Victoria
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[28]
Edmund Burke took on aesthetics with an aptly titled "Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and" this
Beautiful
Victoria
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[26]
DuPont chemist Stephanie Kwolek was the subject of a kids' book called "The Woman Who Invented the Thread That Stops" these
Bullets
Victoria
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[29]
Containing an archaic word for a wagon, it's just your basic builder of wagons
a wainwright
Victoria
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[30]
In 1851 Ole Bull offered him a job as an in-house playwright at a theater in Bergen
Henrik Ibsen
Victoria
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[5]
The names of these 2 Central American capitals include the full names of their countries
Guatemala City & Panama City
Matt
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[22]
He played asinister preacherin "The Night of the Hunter" & arevenge-seeking ex-conin "Cape Fear"
Robert Mitchum
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[12]
In Tokugawa Japan of the 17th to 19th c., the dominant thought was neo-this philosophy of a guy from across the Sea of Japan
neo-Confucianism
Mattea
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[6]
Known for its weird sound effects, this instrumentwas named for the Russian man who invented it in the 1920s
theremin
Matt
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[24]
It can be a noun or a verb! A shaved head of a monk, or to shave the head that way
tonsure
Matt
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[25]
Adeline Stephen published novels under this name
Virginia Woolfe
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[1]
Though it's in the middle of the island, not a port, Antananarivo is this country's capital
Madagascar
Matt
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$1,200
[21]
At the end of "My Man Godfrey", this actress surprises her man Godfrey with matrimony
(Carole) Lombard
Mattea
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$1,200
[4]
Thomas Kuhn is known for his talk of these frameworks whose "shifts" can change our worldview
paradigms
Victoria
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[7]
Widely known as the "Father of the Supercomputer", he built some of the most powerful & expensive computers of the last century
Cray
Victoria
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$1,200
[16]
It means (really) fertile, but with only 6 letters, plus sounds smarter & is more fun to say
fecund
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[15]
Née Coffin, she parted with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to organize the Seneca Falls Convention
Lucretia Mott
Victoria
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[2]
Alofi is the capital of this newly independent island state recognized by the U.S. in 2023
Niue
Victoria
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[13]
Woody Strode was the title "Sergeant Rutledge" in a 1960 Western courtroom drama directed by this quintessential Western auteur
(John) Ford
Matt
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[9]
This Scot who died in 1776 was a leader in empiricism, the belief that all knowledge is from experience
Hume
Victoria
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[8]
Missed it by that much! In 1876 Bell's application for a telephone patent beat this rival's filing by just a few hours
Gray
Victoria
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$1,600
[11]
This odd word from astronomy also means a combination of 2 feet in one meter in poetry
syzygy
Victoria
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[20]
Louis Armstrong called this Canadian "The Man with 4 Hands", while Duke Ellington nicknamed him the "Maharajah of the Keyboard"
Oscar Peterson
Victoria
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[3]
Bissau is the capital of Guinea-Bissau; this is the capital of regular Guinea
Conakry
Mattea
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[19]
Howard Hawks said a bush pilot & a dancer who fell in love helped inspire the story of this 1939 film
Only Angels Have Wings
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[10]
Aristotle was known to stroll while teaching, giving us this word for his followers or walking in general
peripatetic
Victoria
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DD
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[14]
In 1873 Helen Blanchard received a patent for one of these that could zigzag
a sewing machine
Matt
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$2,000
[17]
From Latin for "begin", it means just beginning or incoherent; its spelling includes a boys' school founded in 1896
inchoate
Victoria
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DD
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[18]
In 1877 Congress commissioned the Electoral Commission after he got 184 electoral votes but needed 185; it did not end well for him
Samuel Tilden
Victoria
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In 1694 the latest in bio-knowledge was Tournefort's "Elements of Botany" listing 698 of these, like Ambrosia & Chrysan themum
genera