2024Jeopardy! Mastersquarterfinal game 11.
Matt Amodio — a quantitative researcher from New York, New York
James Holzhauer — the self-described "final boss" ofJeopardy!from Las Vegas, Nevada
Yogesh Raut — a cognitive and behavioral scientist from Vancouver, Washington
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yogesh | — | $4,200 | $10,200 |
$0
3rd place: 10 match points (advance to semifinals) |
$10,200
12 R, 0 W |
| James | — | $4,800 | $16,400 |
$25,015
Winner: 9 match points (advance to semifinals) |
$10,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Matt | — | $1,400 | $12,400 |
$24,800
2nd place: 2 match points (eliminated): 6th place: $50,000 |
$10,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| "NORTH", "SOUTH", "EAST", "WEST" | A WORD FROM THE BIBLICAL WOMAN | TECHNOLOGY | LET'S APARTMENT-SIT FOR ANNA | POP CULTURE CREATIONS | 4 DIFFERENT VOWELS |
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$200
[24]
This islet is roughly equidistant from Havana & Homestead, Florida
Key West
James
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$200
[22]
"They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, & we know not where they have laid him"
Mary Magdalene
James
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$200
[26]
Lens is a platform that helps climate scientists affordably access imagery from these craft, like the Planetscope ones
satellites
Yogesh
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$200
[27]
Accidentally opened her laptop--aww, wallpaper of I'm guessing a nephew with a suitcase & bush hat, dressed as this bear
Paddington
James
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$200
[19]
"SCTV" alum John+a song by the Miracles- "Around"=this 50 Cent title
"Candy Shop"
James
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$200
[30]
It's an 8-letter indirect reference to something
allusion
Matt
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$400
[23]
A 2018 agreement with Greece put this new name on the map of the Balkans
North Macedonia
Matt
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$400
[21]
"Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth"
Delilah
James
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$400
[25]
After launching this text-based app, Mark Zuckerberg took to Twitter & posted the meme of Spider-Men pointing at each other
Threads
James
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$400
[14]
That cap means she's a Trump supporter--oh no, I missed a word; she must take classes in this Israeli self-defense system
Krav Maga
Matt
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$400
[18]
Drake's real first name+IRL New York "Hotel" in "Home Alone 2"=this actress
Aubrey Plaza
James
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$400
[29]
It's the "C" in the condition OCD
compulsive
Matt
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$600
[9]
Rikers Island is in this tidal strait
the East River
Matt
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$800
[2]
"Take this child away, & nurse it for me, & I will give thee thy wages... I drew him out of the water"
Pharaoh's daughter
Yogesh
James
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$600
[11]
TheR1Sfrom this car company is an all-electric SUV with a nearly 400-mile battery range
Rivian
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$600
[13]
Anna's closet has a denim jacket on a hanger with jeans--this north-of-the-border ensemble, ready to go
a Canadian tuxedo
James
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$600
[17]
An anatomical exhibition in Vegasx 3=this 2022 film with Pete Davidson
Bodies Bodies Bodies
James
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$600
[28]
Thiscrop goes from plants in the Andes to seeds in your bowl
quinoa
Yogesh
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$800
[8]
This area of the nation of Georgia declared independence in 1992; Russia & not many others cheer it on
South Ossetia
James
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$1,000
[1]
"Dost thou still retain thine integrity? Curse God, & die"
Job's wife
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$800
[6]
VPN for short, it may use the IPsec protocol suite to tunnel encrypted data across the internet's "series of tubes"
virtual private network
James
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$800
[12]
What's in the fridge? This parsley & tarragon salad dressing invented in Calif., homemade, not the Seven Seas version
green goddess
James
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$800
[16]
"Superfly" singer Mayfield+"MMMBop" band=this "8 Mile" director
Curtis Hanson
Yogesh
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$800
[20]
Keep driving past the suburbs & you'll be in this area of often well-to-do residents
exurbia
Yogesh
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$1,000
[7]
This Indian state has a 1,350-mile border with Bangladesh
West Bengal
Yogesh
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DD
$1,600
[10]
"It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts & of thy wisdom"
the Queen of Sheba
Matt
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$1,000
[4]
A text-to-video system by OpenAI is named this, after the Japanese word for sky
Sora
Matt
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$1,000
[3]
What's on the fridge? A photo of her & her girls at this Vermont ski resort, "the Beast of the East"
Killington
James
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$1,000
[15]
Title of a Gene Kelly film- "rain" +a "Psycho" death location =this line from a hit 2014 Becky G song
singin' in the shower
James
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$1,000
[5]
This type of diplomatic mission in a foreign country used to be more common than embassies, but there aren't any more
a legation
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| MOVIE MEMES: WHO SAID IT | OUT IN THE WORLD | MUSIC IN BOOKS | IS THIS THING AWNING? | IN CONCEIVABLE | HISTORICAL CRISES |
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$400
[26]
1993:"Life finds a way"
Dr. Ian Malcolm
Yogesh
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$400
[27]
The Basilica di Santa Crocein this city contains the tombs of Galileo, Machiavelli & other great Italians
Florence
Matt
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$400
[28]
At the start of this Ralph Ellison novel, the nameless narrator listens to Louis Armstrong in an underground room
Invisible Man
Yogesh
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$400
[23]
Yes, specifically a velarium, which covered the audience in these such as the one of Pompeii, the oldest known Roman one
amphitheater
Matt
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$400
[29]
Usually said with a satisfying flourish, this French word is proclaimed when something appears as if by magic
voilà
Yogesh
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$400
[30]
(George Stephanopoulos delivers the clue.) JFK installed the first practical White House taping system a couple of months before this crisis, which is how we know that during a lighter moment someone said, "Let's make Bobbymayor of Havana"
Cuban Missile Crisis
Matt
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$800
[25]
1997:"It's been 84 years..."
Rose
James
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$1,200
[2]
Visit Gibraltar & you're sure to see this tailless primate, actually a species of macaque
Barbary ape
Matt
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$800
[11]
In this Nick Hornby novel, Rob puts Chuck Berry's "Back In The USA" & "Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye in his top 5
High Fidelity
James
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$800
[22]
No, it's the column-supported roof of this covered entranceway to a home
a portico
James
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$1,200
[14]
In "Foundation " Isaac Asimov pithily wrote that this "is the last refuge of the incompetent"
violence
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$800
[7]
(George Stephanopoulos delivers the clue.) My new book "The Situation Room" recounts some tense moments in that White House room, like during the Bosnian War, when this woman asked Colin Powell, "What's the point of having this superb military if we can't use it?"
Albright
Matt
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$1,200
[24]
2002:"I don't like sand"
Anakin
Yogesh
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$1,600
[1]
This "Grand" palace was where Napoleon lived at Versailles (guess the "Petit" one was too petit)
the Grand Trianon
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$1,200
[9]
In "Misery" Paul Sheldon thinks about this Cyndi Lauper song after Annie Wilkes goes wild with an axe
"Girls Just Want To Have Fun"
James
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$1,200
[21]
Yes, the ones that give shoppers shade when they come out of Macy's flagship store in this New York City square
Herald Square
James
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$1,600
[15]
Are you terse, concise or taciturn like the Spartans? Then this adjective describes you (but maybe not the clue)
laconic
Yogesh
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$1,200
[5]
(George Stephanopoulos delivers the clue.) A shooting war between nuclear powers qualifies as a crisis, like in 1969, when atiny islandon the Soviet-Chinese border saw fierce fighting between the Red Army & this one, the PLA
People's Liberation Army
Matt
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$1,600
[17]
1994:"So, you're telling me there's a chance"
Lloyd Christmas
James
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$2,000
[3]
Mexico is home to many of these underground pools with a name from the Mayan language
cenote
Matt
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$1,600
[10]
This Londoner has her narrator watch "Top of the Pops" & dance to "Thriller" in her 2016 novel "Swing Time"
Zadie Smith
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$1,600
[20]
Maybe, ask the rabbi: you're at a Jewish wedding & the canopy the bride & groom are under is called this
chuppah
Matt
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$2,000
[16]
81.8% as long as "conceivable", in chemistry it's the term for the number of electron pairs an atom has to share with another atom
covalence
Matt
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$1,600
[6]
(George Stephanopoulos delivers the clue.) In the 1861 Trent Affair, the Union seizedtwo Confederate envoys from a British ship, not pleasing this often-abrasive prime minister known as "Lord Pumice Stone"
Lord Palmerston
James
Matt
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$2,000
[13]
2001:"One does not simply walk into Mordor"
Boromir
Matt
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DD
$4,600
[4]
This golden object was stolen by the Persians from India; Pahlavi shahs used reproductions for their coronations
Peacock Throne
Matt
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$2,000
[12]
The Sinfonietta by Czech composer Leos Janacek features prominently in this Murakami book partly set in a world with 2 moons
1Q84
Yogesh
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$2,000
[19]
No, we're indoors, &that's this structure over an altar; it can end in just "N" or in "N-O", & one at St. Peter's is pretty elaborate
a baldachin
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DD
$6,800
[18]
Rejoice, sinners! The Latin for "indulgence" or "grace" gives us this adjective meaning easily pardoned
venial
James
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$2,000
[8]
(George Stephanopoulos delivers the clue.) Three years before World War I, anti-German feeling in France & Britain grew when Germany sent a singlegunboatto Morocco in what's known as the crisis of this port down the coast from Casablanca
Agadir
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In April 2020 Chief Master Sergeant Roger Towberman became the first enlisted member of this
Space Force