2024Jeopardy! Mastersquarterfinal game 7.
Mattea Roach — a writer and podcast host from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Amy Schneider — a writer from Oakland, California
Matt Amodio — a quantitative researcher from New York, New York
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | — | $4,800 | $8,000 |
$16,000
3rd place: 1 match point |
$8,000
15 R, 3 W |
| Amy | — | $7,400 | $26,400 |
$36,001
Winner: 4 match points |
$14,000
17 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Mattea | — | $1,600 | $18,000 |
$18,000
2nd place: 2 match points |
$14,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| "M" & "M"s | FLOWERS | LIKE THERE WOULDN'T BE SHAKESPEARE | COMING TO AMERICA | PLANE TALK | TRAILBLAZING WOMEN IN SPORTS |
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$200
[27]
Newspapers, radio & television, & now the internet, collectively
mass media
Mattea
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$200
[25]
Named for its foul odor, this large, rare flower blooms once every several years & lasts only a day or two
corpse flower
Matt
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$200
[26]
When it comes to characters in this play, I'm savoring the flavor of Flavius, veering to Varro & Calphurnia dreamin'
Julius Caesar
Mattea
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$200
[28]
On January 1, 1892 17-year-old Annie Moore of County Cork became the first person processed here
Ellis Island
Mattea
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$200
[29]
Tower, requesting this, permission to proceed within a controlled airspace
clearance
Amy
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$200
[30]
(Billie Jean King delivers the clue.) One of the best female soccer players in history, shewas only 15 when she became a member of the U.S. women's national team & when sheretired in 2004 she held a then-record of 158 international goals
Mia Hamm
Mattea
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$400
[22]
Cash carried for impulse purchases or for emergency use, like when a date goes bad
mad money
Amy
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$400
[23]
Sweet! Get a whiff of this flowering plant--scientific name, Cestrum nocturnum--whose fragrance permeates the neighborhood
night-blooming jasmine
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$400
[4]
She tells her 2 sisters, "I know what you are; and like a sister am most loath to call your faults as they are named"
Cordelia
Matt
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$600
[13]
A 1950 act named for these "persons" allowed thousands of homeless European refugees to resettle in the United States
displaced persons
Amy
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$400
[15]
Last name of Bill, creator of the first mass-produced business jet in the early 1960s
Lear
Matt
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$400
[24]
(Billie Jean King delivers the clue.) Breaking barriers & setting records, in2008she became the first woman to win an Indy car series race & in2009she raced to a historic 3rd-place finish in the Indianapolis 500
Patrick
Matt
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$600
[11]
Lactation from a female equine
mare's milk
Matt
Mattea
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$600
[12]
Famous in song, it's Austria's national flower
edelweiss
Mattea
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$600
[7]
Ain't no dinner party like a tragic Shakespeare dinner party! This title guy kills his daughter & stabs the empress
Titus Andronicus
Matt
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$800
[10]
Until 1952 the Japanese-born immigrants known as these were barred from U.S. citizenship
Issei
Amy
Mattea
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$600
[18]
These flaps used to control a plane's roll & banking are located out near the tips of the wings
ailerons
Mattea
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$600
[21]
(Billie Jean King delivers the clue.) Considered by many to be the greatest female athlete ever, in 1992shebecame the first woman to win the heptathlon at consecutive Olympic games
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Matt
Amy
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$800
[3]
An identifying symbol stamped into a product by its creator
a maker's mark
Amy
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$800
[8]
Less prescribed these days but long used, a heart drug called digitalis is made from the purple variety of this flower
foxglove
Matt
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$800
[6]
Stephano says to this character, "Drink, servant monster, when I bid thee"
Calaban
Amy
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$1,000
[9]
During World War II, workers from Mexico helped alleviate the U.S. labor shortage via this program, from Spanish for "arm"
Bracero
Mattea
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$800
[17]
It's the general term for a wing, fin or other airplane part that produces lift as it moves through the air
an airfoil
Amy
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$800
[20]
(Billie Jean King delivers the clue.) Told she'd never walk again, this athleteovercame polio to become the first American woman to win 3 gold medals in track & field at a single Olympics
(Wilma) Rudolph
Matt
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$1,000
[2]
This Whittier poem says, "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: It might have been!"
"Maud Muller"
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$1,000
[5]
Blooming late summer into fall, these are the "stars" of the garden
Aster
Matt
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$1,000
[1]
The settings in this play are Milan, a forest near Milan & the title city
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Mattea
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DD
$3,000
[14]
From 1960 to 1962 a covert program called Operation Pedro Pan brought thousands of children to the U.S. from this country
Cuba
Amy
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$1,000
[16]
Ideal flying conditions with no cloud layer below 10,000 feet & pilots able to see for at least 10 miles are CAVU, this a
ceiling and visibility unlimited
Amy
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$1,000
[19]
(Billie Jean King delivers the clue.) The "Divine Miss M" of tennis, this trailblazer dominated the game in the 1930s, won the Triple Crown at Wimbledonin 1939, including the mixed doubles with, um... Bobby Riggs, & she was also one of my early coaches
Alice Marble
Matt
Mattea
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| GETTING MEDIEVAL ON YOU | IN THIS CORNER... | OH, THOSE DUTCH! | PARENTS & KIDS | OSCARS FOR MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING | 12 OR MORE LETTERS |
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$400
[30]
The Albigensian one of 1209 to 1229 & the Stedinger one of the 1230s are 2 of the lesser known of these medieval campaigns
the Crusades
Mattea
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$400
[29]
This state's extreme northwest is one of the four corners
New Mexico
Matt
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$400
[24]
A polder is land reclaimed from the sea after the resourceful Dutch build one of these levees
a dike
Mattea
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$400
[27]
Regression in this process when you thought it was done is frustrating, but remember, no one walks down the aisle in a diaper
potty training
Mattea
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$400
[26]
Makeup artist Ve Neill used moss to make Michael Keaton look like he crawled out from underneath a rock for this 1988 film
Beetlejuice
Mattea
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$400
[28]
It's the process of getting off a plane or ship
disembarcation (or disembarkment)
Amy
Mattea
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$800
[22]
Everything has its season, everything has its time, like the donation of Italian land by this Carolingian king to the pope
Pippin (III)
Matt
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$800
[16]
Part of this stretch with a colorful French name, Menton is the last town in southeast France before you reach Italy
the Côte d'Azur
Matt
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$800
[23]
A remnant of the Dutch colonial empire is the southern third of this Caribbean island, the non-French part
Saint Martin
Mattea
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$800
[21]
When a state supreme court ruling began to curtail this procedure, Alabama rammed & jammed through legislation protecting it
IVF
Amy
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$800
[25]
Frances Hannon & Mark Coulier won the award for this 2014 Wes Anderson film set in Zubrowka
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mattea
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$1,200
[10]
Charles Goodyear accidentally discovered this process that improves rubber's strength & elasticity
vulcanization
Matt
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$1,200
[4]
The byname of this 13th century saint is Dr. Angelicus, or "angelic dr.", but doesn't that kind of sound like a Marvel villain?
Aquinas
Amy
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$1,200
[15]
St. Sophia Churchshows the strong historic links to Russia in Harbin, a city near the northeast corner of this country
China
Mattea
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$1,200
[19]
Ted Lasso's Richmond team plays at the stadium named for this Dutch soccer legend & Ted discovers the "total football" he played
(Johan) Cruyff
Amy
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$1,200
[20]
In California, for a judge to declare you this kind of minor, you must be 14, not living with your parents & self-supporting
emancipated
Mattea
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$1,200
[9]
This man has won 7 Academy Awards for makeup, including one for his work on "An American Werewolf in London"
(Rick) Baker
Amy
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$1,600
[11]
Many reptiles reproduce via this 15-letter "virgin birth" method by which embryos develop from unfertilized eggs
parthenogenesis
Matt
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$1,600
[3]
The 14-volume Mishneh Torah, a Talmud commentary by this man, covered ethics, civil laws & even physics
Maimonides
Mattea
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$1,600
[14]
On a cape in the southwest corner of Portugal, this 15th c. prince set up a place for explorers & geographers to share skills
Henry the Navigator
Amy
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$2,000
[1]
In Rembrandt's time the greatest Dutchlandscapepainter was this tree-loving guy named Jacob
Jacob van Ruisdael
Matt
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$1,600
[18]
Really the "long" & the "short" of it, it's the parenting cliche that reigns supreme per the website The Bump
the days are long but the years are short
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$1,600
[8]
For this 2015 film, Lesley Vanderwalt got the idea for Furiosa's look from an image of a girl with clay across her forehead
Mad Max: Fury Road
Mattea
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$2,000
[12]
If you watch "7 Little Johnstons" or "Little People, Big World", you might know that this is the most common form of dwarfism
achondroplasia
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$2,000
[2]
Pisa'scathedralis a notable example of this architectural style that was dominant in Western Europe until Gothic came along
Romanesque
Amy
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$2,000
[13]
Togofrom southeast Angola to northwest Botswana you cross this Namibian strip named for a 19th century German leader
the Caprivi Strip
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DD
$5,200
[7]
In 1950 he said there's a cloud beyond Pluto where long-period comets come from
Oort
Mattea
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$2,000
[17]
The anti-affection parenting ideas of John B. Watson, the father of this -ism, chilled the youth of his grandchild Mariette Hartley
behaviorism
Matt
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$2,000
[6]
In her 2021 acceptance speech, hairstylist Mia Neal thanked Viola Davis & "the spirit of" this blues singer
Ma Rainey
Mattea
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DD
$10,600
[5]
Regarding his firing of Douglas MacArthur, who defied orders, Pres, Truman later wrote, "I could no longer tolerate his" this
insubordination
Amy
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Hearing about the speech that launched this eponymous process, the head of the CIA wondered if Nikita Khrushchev had been drunk
destalinization