2024Jeopardy! Mastersquarterfinal game 6.
Mattea Roach — a writer and podcast host from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
James Holzhauer — the self-described "final boss" ofJeopardy!from Las Vegas, Nevada
Victoria Groce — a writer and television personality from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victoria | — | $6,000 | $29,600 |
$23,999
Winner: 9 match points |
$16,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| James | — | $1,400 | $17,600 |
$11,200
2nd place: 5 match points |
$20,000
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mattea | — | $1,400 | $7,000 |
$0
3rd place: 1 match point |
$7,000
11 R, 1 W |
| THE COLD WAR | LETTER PERFECT | CHANGING IT UP | THE COLORS OF TELEVISION | STARTS & ENDS WITH R | CHEESING IN PUBLIC |
|
$200
[26]
It was the 3-word phrase for drills in which schoolkids crawled under desks to somehow protect themselves from a nuclear blast
duck and cover
Victoria
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$200
[25]
Part of Marriott International, this upscale hotel chain is found in 25 countries & territories
W
Mattea
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$200
[27]
This FX show with Paper Boi & Earn took a break from the hip-hop world to showcase a mock doc on the making of "A Goofy Movie"
Atlanta
Mattea
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$200
[28]
Jennifer Coolidge has a slight problem while staying at this title place: "Please! These gays, they're trying to murder me"
the White Lotus
Mattea
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$200
[29]
You might use this stuff to reinforce concrete
rebar
Victoria
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$200
[30]
Conrad Veidt, cheesing in "The Man Who Laughs", has been called an inspiration for this comic book character
the Joker
Victoria
|
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$400
[5]
Numeric nickname of the group of imprisoned & blacklisted movie professionals who refused to testify to Congress
the "Hollywood Ten"
Victoria
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$400
[24]
It's the nickname of the music legend seen here
Q (for Quincy Jones)
Mattea
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$400
[18]
Here I was thinking the 2nd epilogue of this Tolstoy tome would have more Pierre & Natasha, not a critique of the great man theory
War and Peace
James
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$400
[22]
Rose, on this show: "Like we say in St. Olaf: Christmas without fruitcake is like St. Sigmund's Day without the headless boy"
The Golden Girls
Victoria
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$400
[17]
Something that goes into developing mouths, or a household servant of yore
retainer
|
$400
[16]
Back in the 1840s a British photographer instructed folks to "say" these dried fruits so people's mouths wouldn't move much
prunes
James
|
|
$600
[2]
The end of the Cold War was hastened by this 8-letter Russian policy that Mikhail Gorbachev promoted
glasnost
James
|
$600
[23]
It's the single-letter stock symbol for U.S. Steel
X
Victoria
|
$600
[7]
The Guardian says this song switches styles from "ballad, to operatic excess, to hard-rock, to reflective coda"
"Bohemian Rhapsody"
Mattea
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$600
[21]
The many physicians who have practiced on this drama include Holley Fain & James Pickens Jr. as Drs. Canner & Webber
Grey's Anatomy
James
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$600
[15]
This type of technician might use a CT scan to make images of your body
radiographer
James
|
$600
[9]
Pope for around 30 days in 1978, he was known as "The Smiling Pope" & was the first to choose a double name
John Paul I
James
|
|
$800
[1]
In 1972 the U.S. & USSR took a first step toward reducing the threat of nuclear war via these "Talks"
SALT
James
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$800
[12]
Equivalent to Mr., this letter placed before a man's name is a Burmese title of respect
U
Mattea
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$800
[4]
Chapter 40 of this novel sails into a play format, beginning with the stage direction "Midnight, forecastle"
Moby-Dick
James
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$800
[20]
In 1966 Bruce Lee fought crime as Kato on this series
The Green Hornet
James
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$800
[14]
In legal terms & elsewhere, it refers to a reply or response
rejoinder
James
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$800
[10]
The smiling subject of "The Laughing Cavalier" by this artist is thought to be an unmarried Dutch merchant
Hals
James
|
|
$1,000
[3]
From the late 1940s through the 1980s, the U.S. pursued this "restrictive" strategy of curbing Soviet expansion
containment
Victoria
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$1,000
[13]
Published in 1963, it was Thomas Pynchon's debut novel
V
Victoria
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$1,000
[6]
This author's "White Jazz" breaks from the hardboiled narrative to feature excerpts from Hush-Hush, a Tinseltown tabloid
James Ellroy
Mattea
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$1,000
[8]
Dana Carvey was Clinton "Jafo" Wonderlove on this show adapted from a 1983 film about a high-tech police helicopter
Blue Thunder
Victoria
|
DD
$5,800
[19]
This device allows air to get from a scuba diver's oxygen tanks & into the diver's lungs
regulator
James
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$1,000
[11]
Thisancient philosopher who developed atomic theory emphasized cheeriness; many paintings show him cheesing it up
Democritus
Victoria
|
| CLASSICAL IS IN | THEY DID BAD | STAR WORDS | ON THE DIRECTOR'S RÉSUMÉ | PLACES | FIND THE GREEK LETTER IN... |
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$400
[29]
Early in life, Richard Strauss completed dozens of these, from the German for "song"
lieder
Victoria
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$400
[26]
The sentence of deer poacher David Berry Jr. included a monthly viewing of this movie
Bambi
Victoria
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$400
[30]
Sirius B is one of these diminutive-sounding remnants of burned-out stars
white dwarfs
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$400
[28]
He gave us the 1979 short "Last Hustle in Brooklyn" & the 1994 semi-autobiographical "Crooklyn"
Spike Lee
Mattea
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$400
[23]
The word vilnis meaning "surge" gives us the name of the capital of this country
Lithuania
James
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$400
[21]
...a word describing a young woman in a sweet, innocent & sympathetic theatrical role
nu (in inge nu e)
James
|
|
$800
[12]
His 1875 opera caused quite the stir with depictions of women smoking cigarettes, somewhat taboo at the time
Bizet
Victoria
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$1,200
[13]
Plot Ein a military cemetery in France holds 94 men who received this alliterative step from the U.S. Army, then execution
dishonorable discharge
James
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$800
[24]
Most neutron stars we've found are these, named for the way they emit bursts of radiation at regular intervals
pulsars
Victoria
|
$800
[27]
She starred in 2008's "Nights and Weekends", her directorial debut; she's had some bigger hits since
Gerwig
Mattea
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$1,200
[5]
The biggest gap in the Pan-American Highway is this one, a 60-mile stretch of jungle that's treacherous for migrants
the Darién Gap
Mattea
|
$800
[20]
...the species of mushrooms that produce a hallucinogenic experience
psi (in psi locybin)
James
|
|
$1,200
[10]
Mendelssohn used sections from Psalms & 1 Kings for his oratorio about this biblical prophet
Elijah
Victoria
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$1,600
[7]
This German shepherd of the Bidens' has gained notoriety by biting several Secret Service agents
Commander
James
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$1,200
[4]
This noun is a measure of a size in Earth talk, but in star talk it's a measure of the brightness of a star
magnitude
James
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$1,200
[16]
"The Sound Barrier" is not as famous as some of his later efforts, like "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
(David) Lean
James
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$1,600
[8]
John van Leeuwen was the first to swim 16-mile Foveaux Strait between New Zealand's South Island & this island further south
Stewart Island
Victoria
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$1,200
[19]
...another Greek letter; what we're going for is 3 of the 5 letters
eta (in th eta )
Mattea
|
|
$1,600
[11]
At age 19 this virtuoso pianist won a gold medal with a one-act opera based on a poem by his countryman Pushkin
Rachmaninoff
Victoria
James
|
$2,000
[25]
A book called "The Wolf of Investing" offers financial tips from this man convicted of money laundering & securities fraud
(Jordan) Belfort
James
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$1,600
[2]
Astronomers think stars in the tightly bound groups called these clusters are some of the oldest stars in the universe
globular clusters
Victoria
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$1,600
[6]
"Duck, You Sucker!", starring Rod Steiger & James Coburn & set in revolutionary Mexico, is one of this European's lesser-known works
Leone
Victoria
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$2,000
[22]
The world'sbiggest Buddhist shrineis near this city, once Indonesia's capital & an initial syllable longer than the current capital
Yogyakarta
Mattea
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$1,600
[18]
...the name of a wise Centaur who mentored Achilles in Greek myth
chi (in Chi ron)
James
|
|
$2,000
[14]
After writing his only opera, "Duke Bluebeard's Castle", he served in the Hungarian Soviet Republic's music directorate
Bartók
Victoria
|
DD
$14,000
[15]
Though nicknamed for a lethal weapon regulated by Congress in 1934, he doesn't seem to have killed anyone; kidnapped, yes
Machine Gun Kelly
Victoria
|
$2,000
[3]
The stage that makes up most of a star'sexistence, it's the two-wordclassificationfor stars undergoing nuclear fusion
the main sequence
Victoria
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$2,000
[1]
He spoke the silent language of horror in 1922's "Nosferatu"
Murnau
Victoria
|
DD
$4,200
[9]
This spot in London was once where religious types grew vegetables; looks like an "N" got dropped along the way
Covent Garden
James
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$2,000
[17]
...the word for a building like the former Tewksbury one in Massachusetts or where excess spending puts you
rho (in poo rho use)
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In 1530 he made his last confession & wished that "I had served God as diligently as I have done the king"
Cardinal Wolsey