2024Jeopardy! Mastersquarterfinal game 9.
Matt Amodio — a quantitative researcher from New York, New York
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 | — | $13,600 | $46,000 |
$50,000
Winner: 13 match points |
$23,200
28 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| James | — | $6,200 | $19,600 |
$31,514
2nd place: 6 match points |
$13,000
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Matt | — | $-200 | $2,200 |
$2,200
3rd place: 1 match point |
$2,200
5 R, 3 W |
| THAT'S A DATED REFERENCE | LEGAL ABBREVIATIONS | I WANT CANDY | SPORTS JEOPARDY!LIVES AGAIN! | OVER THE HILLS | & FAR AWAY |
|
$200
[26]
On Jan. 4, 1958 this 184-pound man-made object burned up in Earth's atmosphere
Sputnik
James
|
$200
[20]
The ADA, short for this, was signed into law by George H.W. Bush
the Americans with Disabilities Act
Victoria
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$200
[27]
The Cactus Candy Company of Arizona is famous for its candy flavored with the juice of this fruit
prickly pear
James
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$200
[19]
Ralph Kiner: "The reason the Mets have played so well at" this stadium "is they have the best home record in baseball"
Shea Stadium
Victoria
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$200
[29]
Like the cliffs of Dover, the Chiltern Hills of the London basin are composed of this type of soft limestone
chalk
Victoria
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$200
[30]
This alliterative hyphenated word uses a synonym for tossed
far-flung
James
Matt
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$400
[25]
Centuries after her death, she was canonized on May 16, 1920, & a French national holiday for her is on the 2nd Sunday in May
Joan of Arc
Victoria
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$400
[21]
An option for those who have not incorporated is filing a DBA, meaning this
doing business as
Victoria
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$400
[17]
Popular in the South, this old-fashioned meringue-based, nougat-like candy sounds heaven sent
divinity
Victoria
|
$400
[18]
In 1979 Paul Newman finished second in this long auto race that's been held in France since 1923; come on, we haven't got all day
the 24 Hours of Le Mans
James
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$400
[4]
The Siebengebirge in Germany can translate to this in English, more famously a set "of Rome"
Seven Hills
Matt
|
$400
[28]
If you're out of this, the distance within which a voice can be heard, you're not going to be much good as a snoop
earshot
Victoria
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|
$600
[7]
On Oct. 15, 1858 he debated his opponent for the 7th & last time; on Jan. 5, 1859 he was named the winner in the Illinois Senate race
Douglas
James
|
$600
[22]
Federal tax law is enacted in this, IRC for short
the Internal Revenue Code
Victoria
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$600
[12]
Consisting of a variety of chocolate-covered nuts, fruits, caramels & more, this candy takes the trick
bridge mix
James
|
$600
[14]
"Wide World of Sports" opened with ski jumper/crasher Vinko Bogataj, symbolizing this phrase
the agony of defeat
Victoria
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$600
[3]
In 1983 Pontiac Township merged with another locality to become this "colorful" place
Auburn Hills
|
$600
[10]
This 6-letter word is used for work done from home & of a TV broadcast done outside of the studio
remote
Victoria
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$800
[6]
On June 22, 1611 mutineers put him, his son & 7 others off the discovery & onto a small boat in what would be named his bay
Hudson
Victoria
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$800
[23]
Abbreviated POA, it's a document that allows one person to make legal decisions for another
power of attorney
James
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$800
[15]
Jelly Belly puts out Every Flavour Beans, including earthworm & earwax, under the name of this Harry Potter confectioner
Bertie Bott
James
Matt
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$800
[13]
In the 1979-80 NHL season, he scored 15 goals & had 26 assists for the Hartford Whalers; not a bad season... for a 51-year-old
(Gordie) Howe
Victoria
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$800
[1]
Kenya's Cherangany Hills form the western edge of this vast valley that's volcanically active
the Great Rift Valley
Victoria
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$800
[9]
The U.S. Air Force song says, "Off we go into" this place, "climbing high into the sun"
the wild blue yonder
James
|
|
$1,000
[5]
On August 15, 1947 he became the first prime minister of India, a job he held until his death 17 years later
Nehru
James
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$1,000
[24]
Abbreviated SJ, it means the judge rules in a case without a full trial
a summary judgment
Victoria
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$1,000
[16]
Often flavored with rosewater, lokum is another name for this jelly confection
Turkish delight
James
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$1,000
[8]
After grabbing 20 rebounds vs. Iowa & Caitlin Clark in 2024, this LSU star used her Vogue photo shoot to declare for the WNBA draft
(Angel) Reese
Victoria
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$1,000
[2]
A plateau of Balochistan, the largest province in this country by area, includes the Chagai Hills on its northern border
Pakistan
Victoria
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DD
$4,200
[11]
It can mean an island far removed from others in its archipelago as well as something atypical in any group
an outlier
Victoria
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| SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE | IF YOU BUILD IT | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE | THAT'S RIGHT, 16-LETTER WORDS | LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO READ | BLAXPLOITATION FILMS |
|
$400
[13]
This nation's 12 official languages include Ndebele, Sotho, Xhosa & Zulu
South Africa
James
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$400
[16]
If one of these structures is formed by 2 symmetrical double curves ending in a point at the top, its called an ogee
an arch
James
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$400
[18]
This 1811 battle ended Tecumseh's plans for a confederacy of tribes
Tippecanoe
James
Matt
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$400
[30]
An M.D. who specializes in putting you under
anesthesiologist
James
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$400
[20]
Chess, reverse imagery & the poem "Jabberwocky" appear in this sequel from the 1870s
Through the Looking-Glass
Victoria
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$400
[21]
This title character from a 1972 film was an 18th century African prince before his monstrous transformation
Blacula
Victoria
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|
$800
[10]
Cryptophasia is the term for this unusual type of language that only its pairs of speakers understand
twin language (or twin talk)
Victoria
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$800
[15]
Around 1175 William of Sens copied elements from Notre Dame in the rebuilding of this English cathedral after a fire
Canterbury Cathedral
James
Matt
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$800
[8]
Under federal law, members of the Native American church are allowed to ingest this hallucinogenic cactus in ceremonies
peyote
Matt
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$800
[29]
It's how you're speaking when you talk on the spur of the moment
extemporaneously
Matt
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$1,200
[3]
Released posthumously, "Look at the Birdie" collected 14 ofhispreviously unpublished stories
Vonnegut
James
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$800
[22]
Gordon Parks was a photographer for Life magazine before directing Richard Roundtree in this 1971 film
Shaft
James
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|
$1,200
[7]
This fictional language in "Game of Thrones" has more than a dozen different words for horse
Dothraki
James
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$1,600
[11]
Buildings designed by this Chicago "Father of Skyscrapers" include one at State & Madison that now bears his name
Sullivan
Victoria
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$1,200
[5]
Quanah Parker was a leader of this Western tribe, perhaps the greatest horsemen of all native peoples
the Comanche
Victoria
James
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$1,200
[28]
A military attack undertaken in response to a prior attack by a foe
counteroffensive
James
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$1,600
[2]
Altamont stands in for Asheville, North Carolina in this book, Thomas Wolfe's first novel
Look Homeward, Angel
Victoria
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$1,200
[23]
AKA "the Hammer", this actor & ex-Kansas City Chiefstarredwith fellow football player Jim Brown in "Three the Hard Way"
Fred Williamson
|
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$1,600
[6]
Spoken by millions in Southeast Asia, it follows "Mon" in the name of a language family
Khmer
James
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$2,000
[14]
With a name from a village in Greece, it's asupporting columnsculpted in the form of a draped female figure
a caryatid
Victoria
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$1,600
[19]
In 1998, this firstwomanto become principal chief of the Cherokee Nation wasawardeda Presidential Medal of Freedom
Mankiller
Victoria
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$1,600
[27]
Stalin-era policy that forced peasants onto big farms
collectivization
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$2,000
[1]
Published in the 1880s, his utopian novel "Looking Backward" was set in the year 2000
Bellamy
Victoria
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$1,600
[24]
This 1974 film had Pam Grier in the title role; Tarantino paid homage to it with a similarly named film also starring Pam
Foxy Brown
James
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|
$2,000
[9]
"The Epic of Gilgamesh" was written in Akkadian, which supplanted this, considered the world's oldest written language
Sumerian
Matt
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DD
$20,800
[12]
Trained in the Georgian style, James Hoban won a contest & the commission to build this, beginning construction in 1792
the White House
Victoria
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$2,000
[17]
The Iroquois League of New York was originally composed of the Cayuga, Mohawk, Seneca & these 2 "on" the list
the Onondaga & the Oneida
Victoria
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$2,000
[26]
It's the science of charges & their associated fields & forces
electromagnetism
James
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DD
$7,400
[4]
Miles Halter heads to boarding school in this young adult novel whose title refers to a girl, not a state
Looking for Alaska (by John Green)
James
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$2,000
[25]
A 2019 biopic included the making of this 1975 comedy about a pimp settling scores
Dolemite
Victoria
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Almost twice the size of Texas but with the population of Lubbock, this part of Australia rejected statehood in a 1998 referendum
the Northern Territory