2024Jeopardy! Mastersquarterfinal game 12.
Mattea Roach — a writer and podcast host from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Amy Schneider — a writer from Oakland, California
Victoria Groce — a writer and television personality from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victoria | — | $7,000 | $21,005 |
$21,005
Winner: 16 match points (advance to semifinals) |
$22,400
27 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| Amy | — | $3,800 | $7,800 |
$7,800
2nd place: 6 match points (advance to semifinals) |
$7,800
11 R, 1 W |
| Mattea | — | $3,600 | $2,800 |
$2,800
3rd place: 5 match points (eliminated): 5th place: $75,000 |
$6,400
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| A STANDING ORATION | SCIENCE FICTION | BUSINESS & PLEASURE | LET'S GET COOKING | FLOATING ON A STREAM OF TV | FOREIGN WORDS |
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$200
[30]
An 1863 article in a Pennsylvania newspaper gave 10 paragraphs to an Edward Everett oration, but only one to this speech
the Gettysburg Address
Mattea
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$200
[29]
In an 1897 H.G. Wells tale, these invaders were killed by "disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared"
the Martians
Mattea
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$200
[28]
This 3-letter company boasts it operates "approximately 900 theatres and 10,000 screens across the globe"
AMC
Victoria
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$200
[27]
Just like pasta, grilled vegetables can be made crisp yet tender this way, meaning "to the tooth" in Italian
al dente
Mattea
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$200
[24]
On this show, Martin Short tells Steve Martin, no concertina: "You are scoring a murder mystery, not DJing a hobbit's wedding"
Only Murders in the Building
Amy
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$200
[26]
"To life! To life"--this Hebrew toast means "to life"
l'chaim
Mattea
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$400
[21]
This defense attorney quoted A.E. Housman & Omar Khayyam in his defense for Leopold & Loeb
Darrow
Victoria
Amy
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$400
[22]
The title hero of this 1985 novel is a boy genius (last name Wiggin) on his way to battle school & who might just be Earth's savior
Ender's Game
Amy
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$400
[18]
It was the nickname of the man who collaborated with Elliot Handler to found a toy company in the 1940s
"Matt"
Victoria
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$400
[12]
Yeast is one of these agents added to dough to make it rise
a leavening agent
Mattea
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$400
[23]
In 2024 this bear voiced by Seth MacFarlane came back to life on Peacock; somehow, a toy truck named Dennis also gained sentience
Ted
Mattea
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$400
[25]
This 3-syllable German word is a theme that runs through a musical work
a Leitmotif
Victoria
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$600
[20]
Thisgospel singer gets the credit for getting MLK to go off-script and "tell them about the dream" in 1963
(Mahalia) Jackson
Victoria
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$600
[6]
Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness downloaded into a new body in this "organic" Richard K. Morgan book from 2002
Altered Carbon
Victoria
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$600
[17]
A company called Whitewater makes these, like the Aqua Drop & the Head Rush Mat Ride
water slides
Mattea
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$600
[11]
This verb can mean to bring up (like painful memories) or to coat food with flour or crumbs before frying
dredge
Victoria
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$600
[19]
We'd watch this Netflix title character deal with life & death(s) at Nevermore Academy any day of the week
Wednesday
Victoria
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$600
[3]
In 2017 a hit song taught many people that this Spanish word means "slowly"
despacito
Mattea
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$800
[5]
This master orator of the Roman Republic convinced the Senate that his rival Catiline was up to no good
Cicero
Amy
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$1,000
[15]
The title virus in this Neal Stephenson cyberpunk classic affects users offline & online, but Hiro Protagonist is on the case
Snow Crash
Amy
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$800
[16]
Teuscher of Switzerland makes these ultra-fancy chocolates in lavender & fleur de sel caramel flavors
truffles
Mattea
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$800
[10]
Seems straightforward: Latin for "to soak" gives us this verb that means to soak, usually fruit in liquid to soften it
macerate
Victoria
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$800
[14]
The pitch for this Freevee court show: "What if you (made) 'The Office' & Jim was a real person who didn't know that Dwight was an actor"
Jury Duty
Victoria
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$800
[1]
The name of this ski turn comes from the Norwegian region where it originated
telemark
Victoria
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$1,000
[7]
Don't confuse Ocala, Florida with this Native American leader who in 1834 stood up there & said, "I love my home, & will not go from it"
Osceola
Victoria
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DD
$1,400
[8]
In novels by Dan Simmons, the planet Hyperion has a capital named for this poet who wrote an epic about the sun god Hyperion
Keats
Victoria
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$1,000
[4]
The Icon of the Seas, the Oasis of the Seas & the Star of the Seas are operated by this company with a sea in its name
Royal Caribbean
Victoria
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$1,000
[9]
Want to sound fancy? Instead of saying "double boiler" or "water bath", use this French term; it's used formaking custards
a bain-marie
Victoria
Mattea
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$1,000
[13]
"Oh Lord, not Ekin-Su!" was Phaedra's memed reaction to a supposed murder in a Scottish castle on this competition show
The Traitors
Mattea
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$1,000
[2]
This Japanese game has an onomatopoetic name--it's the sound the little metal pinballs make
pachinko
Amy
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| DOWN IN THE VALLEY | PREHISTORIC CREATURES | POTPOURRI | THE "RH" FACTOR | A TOTAL BANGER | KILLER RIFFS |
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$400
[10]
If you crave sapu mhicha, sort of the water buffalo version of haggis, head for the Kathmandu Valley in this country
Nepal
Victoria
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DD
$5
[9]
Theropods ate flesh; these giants such as Apatosaurus & Australotitan used their long necks to eat high plants like giraffes do
sauropods
Victoria
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$400
[25]
It's the bovine term for when an icebergbreaks off from a glacier
calving
Victoria
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$400
[26]
Abattoir sounds nicer, but it's just a synonym for this horrible place
slaughterhouse
Mattea
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$400
[29]
On April 19, 1775 the first shots of the American Revolution were fired in these 2 towns
Lexington & Concord
Victoria
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$400
[28]
The bass line on this tune that opens the White Stripes' "Elephant" is played on a hollowbody guitar through a whammy pedal
"Seven Nation Army"
Victoria
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$800
[11]
A valley largely submerged by Lake Nasser bears the name of this ancient region of Egypt & Sudan
Nubia
Victoria
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$400
[22]
Thisschool-bus-sized dinosaur is the state fossil of Colorado, where the USA's first one was discovered in 1877
the Stegosaurus
Amy
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$800
[24]
This fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel shows not the physical molding of a body but God passing on the divine spark
The Creation of Adam
Mattea
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$800
[27]
A tree that grows in the Middle East & Mediterranean was prized in ancient times as a source for this resin used to make incense
myrrh
Victoria
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$800
[30]
After "a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet... the wall of the city shall fall" in this Bible book
Joshua
Victoria
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$800
[5]
Many think it's called "Stand By Me", which dominates its chorus, but a Clash song with a classic hook has this rhyming name
"Train In Vain"
Victoria
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$1,600
[12]
Chateau Kefraya is in this rich agricultural valley, the Napa of Lebanon
the Beqaa
Victoria
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$800
[6]
The asteroid believed to have killed off the dinosaurs struck this peninsula 66 million years ago
the Yucatan
Amy
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$1,200
[20]
In the 1990s the wreck of this ship of Blackbeard's was found off the coast of North Carolina
Queen Anne's Revenge
Amy
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$1,200
[18]
Los Angeles, New York & Austin are some of the cities served by this eavesdropping social media account
Overheard
Victoria
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$1,200
[23]
Providing fusion fuel in thermonuclear bombs, lithium-6 deuteride then transforms into this hydrogen isotope
tritium
Victoria
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$1,200
[7]
This Eminem & Cee-Lo song on the "Elvis" soundtrack borrows a "Jailhouse Rock" riff & a Rodgers & Hammerstein show title
"The King And I"
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$2,000
[13]
Add "brücken" to this river valley to get a southwest German state capital; note there's no Ruhrbrücken
Saar
Amy
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$1,200
[4]
Scientists at Bering Land Bridge National Preserve say these 2 types of mammals co-existed, but did they gorily tusk it out?No info!
mammoths & mastodons
Amy
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$1,600
[19]
The rabbit-eared bandicoot also goes by this 5-letter name, mate
a bilby
Victoria
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$1,600
[17]
Cefalù is one of Palermo's glorious beaches on it
the Tyrrhenian Sea
Mattea
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$1,600
[21]
The sea can be scary! A pistol type of this snaps its claws to create a 218 dB water pulse that's louder than a gunshot
a (pistol) shrimp
Victoria
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$1,600
[8]
Raphael Ravenscroft got a 27-pound check for the sax riff at this 1978 Gerry Rafferty Top 10 "address"... & the check bounced!
"Baker Street"
Victoria
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DD
$3,600
[1]
This valley a bit over 100 miles east of Pittsburgh gets its name from "one mountain" in a Native American language
Nittany
Mattea
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$1,600
[3]
A 2023 paper brings new evidence to a raging debate in paleontology saying yes, T. rex had these soft-tissue features
lips
Amy
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$2,000
[14]
The "Roman Carnival" overture of 1844 is one of this Frenchman's enduring works
Hector Berlioz
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$2,000
[15]
This Greek-derived word is a medical synonym for rhinitis; it can mean postnasal drip or inflammation of nasal tissues
catarrh
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$2,000
[16]
In quite the event, a 1908 explosion on the Podkamennaya or Stony this River was estimated to have the force of 15 megatons of TNT
Tunguska
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$2,000
[2]
Who else but ZZ Top would riff it up & take you to this "Texas town... They got a lot of nice girls... Have mercy, a-haw haw haw haw"
"La Grange"
Victoria
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"Down--steadily down it crept... downward with its lateral velocity. To the right--to the left" is in this 1842 tale
"The Pit and the Pendulum"