2024Jeopardy! Mastersquarterfinal game 3.
Matt Amodio — a quantitative researcher from New York, New York
Mattea Roach — a writer and podcast host from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
James Holzhauer — the self-described "final boss" ofJeopardy!from Las Vegas, Nevada
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James | — | $6,800 | $45,200 |
$46,108
Winner: 4 match points |
$19,600
23 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Mattea | — | $1,200 | $5,600 |
$5,758
3rd place: 1 match point |
$5,600
9 R, 1 W |
| Matt | — | $12,000 | $19,200 |
$19,200
2nd place: 1 match point |
$14,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| 18th CENTURY NAMES | DAYS OF GUNS N' ROSES | WEIGHT OF THE WHIRLED | THE STATE I'M IN | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER | MASTERING ITALIAN COOKING |
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$200
[26]
A character on "Black Sails", this pirate with ties to Charleston was saved from execution by a pregnancy
Anne Bonny
Mattea
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$200
[16]
"Take me down to" this Guns N' Roses song "where the grass is green & the girls are pretty, oh won't you please take me home"
"Paradise City"
Matt
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$200
[20]
A couple of the apothecary type of these weigh 960 grains:USE CON
ounces
James
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$200
[24]
Terlingua has been called one of Texas' most famous one of these 2-word sites, a specter of its heyday as a hub for mining cinnabar
a ghost town
James
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$200
[25]
This playground pavement game has a potent potable in its name
hopscotch
Matt
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$200
[30]
(Giada De Laurentiis delivers the clue.) Mincemeat is used in thealla bolognesetype of this classic 4-letter sauce, while the alla napoletana, made with a big chunk of beef, is often called "Sunday sauce" in America
ragù
James
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$600
[6]
Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples, & Marie Antoinette were among the 16 children of this empress & archduchess
Maria Theresa
James
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$400
[15]
A 1991 compilation album by this Sixx-shooting band looked back at a "Decade of Decadence"
Mötley Crüe
James
|
$400
[19]
It's 6.35 kilograms:NOTES
stone
Mattea
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$400
[23]
Daniel Boone National Forest & the International Museum of the Horse can be found in this state
Kentucky
James
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$400
[22]
This adjective deals with the creation & use of low-temperature phenomena
cryogenic
Matt
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$400
[29]
(Giada De Laurentiis delivers the clue.) Literally "bone with a hole" in Italian, this hearty veal dish needs time to braise to let the marrow in the shanks add rich flavor to the dish
osso buco
Matt
|
|
$800
[2]
His "A Dictionary of the English Language" was published in 2 volumes in 1755
Johnson
Matt
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$600
[14]
Deadly on Billboard, this hair metal band had Top 10s with "Talk Dirty To Me" & "Unskinny Bop"
Poison
James
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$600
[18]
It's used to account for extremely small particles:ROMAN NAG
nanogram
|
$600
[7]
This lake in Idaho comes from French for "heart of an awl"
Coeur d'Alene
Matt
|
$600
[21]
In the U.S., form N-400 is an application for this process that may also require fingerprints
naturalization
Mattea
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$600
[28]
(Giada De Laurentiis delivers the clue.) The simplest dishes can often be the most satisfying, like this classic Roman dish that uses nothing more than pasta, salted water, pepper &pecorino romano
cacio e pepe
James
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$1,000
[1]
Born enslaved in what is now Haiti, he led the movement to end slavery & gain Haitian independence
Toussaint Louverture
James
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$800
[13]
"Here I Go Again", talking about Tawny Kitaen's acrobatics on David Coverdale's Jaguar hood in a classic video by this group
Whitesnake
James
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$800
[17]
10 Talmudic these equaled 600 minas back in the day:LETS TAN
talents
James
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$800
[4]
This hah-bah on Mount Desert Island in Maine is called "the Gateway to Acadia National Park"
Bar Harbor
Matt
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$800
[10]
Type of container meaning "2-handled" & often holding wine; the Acropolis museum has a 3,400-year-old one
amphora
Matt
|
$800
[27]
(Giada De Laurentiis delivers the clue.) One of my favorite dishes to make is alemony roasted chickennamed for this beautiful city on the Gulf of Salerno whose coast is known for breathtaking views
Amalfi
Matt
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|
DD
$5,000
[11]
In 1792 he surprised London concertgoers with his Symphony No. 94
Haydn
Matt
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$1,000
[9]
Rolling Stone gave us an oral history of this song by Extreme, "1991's iconic ballad"; now hold me close, don't ev-ah let me go
"More Than Words"
James
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$1,000
[5]
It makes quite the system:ADIOS OUR VIP
avoirdupois
Matt
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$1,000
[3]
This state is not famous as a source of jazz talent, but Bix Beiderbecke was born there
Iowa
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$1,000
[8]
It's the term for a blank page found at either the beginning or the end of a book
flyleaf
Matt
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$1,000
[12]
(Giada De Laurentiis delivers the clue.) Rich in omega-3 fatty acids, anchovyadds amazing umami flavor, but if you hate the texture, try this traditional fermented Italian fish sauce that's just anchovies & salt
colatura
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| DEATH OF A WRITER | MOVIE SERIES CHARACTERS | TOO MUCH | HOBBIES & PASTIMES | WORLD RELIGION | THE RESPONSE'S GPA |
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$400
[26]
This Pulitzer Prize winner was hit & killed in 1949 as she tried to cross Peachtree Street in Atlanta
(Margaret) Mitchell
James
Mattea
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$400
[27]
This character died in "The Matrix Revolutions" but she's back in "The Matrix Resurrections"
Trinity
Mattea
|
$400
[28]
An economic surplus or oversupply; in 2015 there was a worldwide one of crude oil, sending prices down
glut
Matt
|
$400
[30]
Do be a bit "knotty" & tell us the name of this craft that produced the groovy plant holder seen here
macramé
James
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$400
[29]
Around 1693 Jacob Ammann founded this Mennonite group whose teachings stress separation from the world, hard work & humility
the Amish
Mattea
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$400
[19]
2.0:Lazarus Naturals makes creams & gummies out of it
CBD
Mattea
|
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$800
[25]
He died in 1984 at the home of Johnny Carson's ex-wife Joanne, not one of his swans but a close friend to the end
Capote
Mattea
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$800
[22]
In "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes", it's centuries after the time of this Andy Serkis character, but his legacy & name live
Caesar
Mattea
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$800
[14]
In the 19-teens one company had a monopoly on this invention that taught us to say "cha-ching"
the cash register
Matt
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$800
[13]
Get into archery & you'll learn that this verb means to put feathers on your arrows
fletch
Matt
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$800
[6]
Meant to be read to the dead, the "Bardo Thodol" of this religion is designed to help the soul face death & prepare for its next rebirth
Buddhism
James
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$800
[18]
3.0:It's on a blackboard in "Glengarry Glen Ross"
A-B-C
James
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$1,600
[1]
A friend of Shakespeare, this "Song: To Celia" poet & playwright was buried standing up in Westminster Abbey
Ben Jonson
James
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$1,200
[12]
Starting in 1939 Cesar Romero, a "Latin from Manhattan", played this lovable Mexican "Kid" in a series of Westerns
the Cisco Kid
James
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$1,200
[8]
Lines 2 & 3 of this Shakespeare play are "Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die"
Twelfth Night
Matt
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$1,200
[7]
Believe it or not, some enjoy as a hobby this practice of trying to find water using a tree branch or a Y-shaped divining rod
dowsing
Matt
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$1,200
[3]
According to Islam, the 114 chapter-like suras of the Koran were revealed to Muhammad by this angel
Gabriel (or Jibreel)
Matt
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$1,200
[15]
2.75:Immigration policy program announced June 15, 2012
DACA
James
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|
$2,000
[23]
Legend has it that this ancient playwright died when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head
Aeschylus
Matt
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$1,600
[20]
Geoffrey Rush plays this leg-losing captain in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series
Barbossa
James
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$1,600
[9]
This king lost his treasure in a bay called the Wash & provoked the barons with too much taxation
John
Matt
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$1,600
[11]
On May 1st, we'll be in rural England with bells on... our pants, to do this traditional folk dancing
Morris dancing
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$1,600
[4]
One of the main deities of Hinduism, this "auspicious one" is sometimes represented as a herdsman, a beggar or a cosmic dancer
Shiva
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$2,000
[17]
1.75:This body wants to win back the House of Representatives
DCCC (the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee)
Matt
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DD
$8,400
[2]
This author from Sauk Centre, Minnesota died in a nursing home in Rome in 1951
Sinclair Lewis
James
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$2,000
[21]
In 2024this actorturned 95, was immortalized at the Chinese Theatre & again played a dad in "Kung Fu Panda 4"
James Hong
James
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$2,000
[10]
At the center of the 1980s era of excess, this Spanish resort is supposed to have gotten its name from an exclamation of "Beautiful sea!"
Marbella
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$2,000
[24]
Florence Temko popularized this word for folding & cutting paper into intricate designs
kirigami
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$2,000
[5]
Around the world, like in Milan, arereplicasof the Rebbe's House in Brooklyn, center of this movement of Hasidic Judaism
Chabad (or Habad)
Mattea
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DD
$20,000
[16]
3.6:Limerick rhyme scheme
A-A-B-B-A
James
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1 of the "Big Four" at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference & a former journalist, he'd supported the Impressionists & Alfred Dreyfus
Clemenceau