2024Jeopardy! Masterssemifinal game 1.
James Holzhauer — the self-described "final boss" ofJeopardy!from Las Vegas, Nevada
Yogesh Raut — a cognitive and behavioral scientist from Vancouver, Washington
Victoria Groce — a writer and television personality from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victoria | — | $9,800 | $18,000 |
$9,999
3rd place: 0 match points |
$14,000
19 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Yogesh | — | $2,600 | $24,400 |
$36,001
Winner: 3 match points |
$18,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| James | — | $3,800 | $13,000 |
$13,098
2nd place: 1 match point |
$13,000
18 R, 2 W |
| SCANDINAVIA | WE QUOTE THE REALITY TV SHOW | AN INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING | BOOK NOIR | LIKE A "G"6 | MUSCLE CARS |
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$200
[26]
Norway has the longest coastline in Europe & one of the most jagged due to these long narrow inlets
fjords
Victoria
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$200
[24]
"I open the door, & Khloé slams the door right in my face. & it infuriates me, like I literally want to kill her... I'm so angry"
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Yogesh
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$200
[25]
In 2023 IBM introduced a platform called this name "X", "to train, tune and distribute models with generative AI"
Watson
James
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$200
[20]
Chapter 2 of "The Maltese Falcon" has a 100-word description of this man rolling a cigarette
Sam Spade
James
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$200
[12]
It's an attic, like a small Parisian one where an artist might stay
a garret
James
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$200
[22]
(Lisa Ann Walter delivers the clue.) Designed to dominate NASCAR, the Plymouth Superbirdshows its racing origins in its aerodynamic nose & its huge wing type of this device designed to counteract lift & keep the rear end on the track
a spoiler
Victoria
James
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$400
[7]
A trip to Copenhagen wouldn't be complete without visitingthis180-year-old theme park with rides, lush scenery & entertainment
Tivoli
James
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$400
[23]
"Impersonating Beyoncé is not your destiny, child"
RuPaul's Drag Race
James
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$400
[21]
It's the name on the no-strings award of $800,000 given to one the organization calls a "fellow" & others, a genius
MacArthur
Yogesh
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$400
[6]
His color-titled Easy Rawlins novels like "A Little Yellow Dog" get the noir tag; he says, "People say it, & I let them"
Mosley
Victoria
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$400
[19]
Juan Moreira was a famous one around the Rio de la Plata
a gaucho
Yogesh
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$400
[27]
(Lisa Ann Walter delivers the clue.) Featuring a mammoth 455-cubic-inch V8 engine, the1970 Buick GSXzoomed around with an impressive 350 horsepower & 510 foot-pounds of this
torque
James
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$600
[2]
This peninsula that forms the mainland of Denmark accounts for about 70% of the country's total area
Jutland
James
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$600
[18]
"You are the new head of household"; also, "Rachel is a complete ho-bag. Seriously, girl?... Straight-up jealous of me... since day 1"
Big Brother
Yogesh
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$600
[10]
Here's a Mensa question for you: "Can you think of an American tree whose name contains all five vowels?" (it's this)
sequoia
Victoria
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$600
[5]
HarperCollins Noir is the French publisher of this director's first novel, "Heat 2", continuing the story of a film of his
(Michael) Mann
James
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$600
[15]
Terry Butler, born in Birmingham, England in 1949, is better known as this
Geezer
Yogesh
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$600
[28]
(Lisa Ann Walter delivers the clue.) Melissa Schemmenti, my character on "Abbott Elementary", loves Italian stuff, but in real life, I love this legendary American muscle car that was rolled out by Dodge in 1970 & rebooted to great acclaim in 2008; I've owned four
a Challenger
Yogesh
James
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$800
[1]
Best known for his system of binomial nomenclature, in the 1740shebecame a professor at the University of Uppsala
Linnaeus
Victoria
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$800
[17]
"I've never given a handshake for a showstopper before... That is a fantastic cake. Well done"
The Great British Baking Show (or The Great British Bake-Off )
Victoria
James
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$800
[9]
An antiquated classification for one with a very low IQ combined with a French-derived word to give us this 2-word term
idiot savant
James
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$800
[3]
A masterful creator of amoral heroes, she made noir even out of sunny Greece in "The Two Faces of January"
Highsmith
Victoria
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$800
[14]
Meriones unguiculatus, it's a popular childhood pet
a gerbil
Victoria
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$800
[29]
(Lisa Ann Walter delivers the clue.) Pontiac introduced the sporty Firebirdin 1967; in 1969 it brought out this even more powerful variant that took its name from a series of races held at tracks across the country
the Pontiac Trans Am
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$1,000
[4]
Between 946 & 1957 Norway haad at least 7 kings with this name
Haakon
James
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$1,000
[16]
"Seaside's so beautiful! Look at the garbage"
Jersey Shore
Yogesh
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DD
$3,600
[11]
This scale was co-developed by psychologists at a U.S. university & in France
the Stanford–Binet
Victoria
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$1,000
[8]
Titles don't get much noirer than this, of Dorothy B. Hughes' novel about Dix Steele & of the movie with Bogie & Gloria Grahame
In a Lonely Place
Victoria
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$1,000
[13]
This Chinese tree is known to drop all of its leaves on the same day
a ginkgo
Victoria
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$1,000
[30]
(Lisa Ann Walter delivers the clue.) Count off the barrels in its carburetor, the speeds in its transmission & its dual exhaust pipes to get the numeric name of this classic 1964 Oldsmobile
the 442
James
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| PARTY LIKE IT'S 1884 | BROADWAY | ANCIENT LIT | THAT'S JUST LAWFUL | YOU OWE US AN "OLOGY" | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER |
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$400
[30]
In December ametal tipbrought it to a total height of 555 feet, 5.125 inches--the tallest human-built structure in the world
the Washington Monument
Yogesh
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$400
[29]
Betty Buckley made her Broadway debut as Martha Jefferson in this musical
1776
Victoria
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$400
[28]
A Euripides play tells the sufferings of Hecuba & the other women of this city who are taken into slavery after its fall
Troy
Victoria
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$400
[27]
The 4th Amendment enforces the right of people to be secure in their houses "against unreasonable" these 2 pluralized things
searches & seizures
Victoria
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$400
[26]
The dogmatic type of this talks about God; the moral type is concerned with human behavior
theology
Yogesh
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$400
[17]
Battle of Little Bighorn aka gets some cinematic schooling from Edward James Olmos to give us a line in the Lord's Prayer
Custer's Last Stand and Deliver Us from Evil
Yogesh
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$800
[7]
In June 1884hearrived in America with 4 cents in his pocket & a letter of introduction to Thomas Edison
Nikola Tesla
Yogesh
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$800
[21]
Ben Platt & Laura Dreyfuss sang "Only Us" in this musical; Ben & Kaitlyn Dever, in the movie version
Dear Evan Hansen
Victoria
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$800
[25]
As a Sophocles play opens, this title king of Thebes is trying to save his city from a plague
Oedipus
Yogesh
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$800
[19]
It's not hard, it's an interest granted by deed to use land owned by another for a specific limited purpose, like a right-of-way
an easement
Victoria
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$800
[16]
You can tell an Algerian nuthatch from an Andean tit-spinetail? You must be an expert in this!
ornithology
Yogesh
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$800
[18]
Darlin', can't you hear a title ABBA distress signal that gets motor oil treatment & becomes an acronym for kissing & such
S.O.S.T.P.D.A.
Victoria
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$1,200
[6]
In October he received a patent for photographic film; his camera would come a few years later
Eastman
James
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$1,200
[13]
The title character of this Tony-winning musical is a 16-year-old with a rare genetic disorder that causes rapid aging
Kimberly Akimbo
James
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$1,200
[2]
Not the way I'd teach science, but Lucretius decided to explain "the nature of things" in a long poem of these 6-foot lines
hexameter
Yogesh
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$1,200
[14]
Note the year in "Black's Law Dictionary" for a hanging this: "(2000)... attached to the ballot by a single point"
a chad
Yogesh
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$1,200
[15]
From Greek for "knowledge", it's the study of knowledge
epistemology
Victoria
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$1,200
[20]
Slumber-averse Beastie Boys song summoning Andy Samberg's TV cops to Dante's infernal echelons
"No Sleep Till Brooklyn 99 Circles Of Hell"
James
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$1,600
[3]
Independent Republicans who backed Democrat Grover Cleveland in the 1884 election were called these, from Algonquian
Mugwumps
Yogesh
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$1,600
[12]
The musical "Mack and Mabel" looked at the romantic & work partnerships of Mack Sennett &this silent screen star
(Mabel) Normand
Victoria
Yogesh
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$1,600
[23]
These pastoral poems by Virgil are also known as "The Bucolics"
the Eclogues
Yogesh
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$1,600
[11]
The Supreme Court often pulls a GVR: grant certiorari; vacate the prior decision; this "R" returning the case to a lower court
remand
Yogesh
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$1,600
[5]
It's the branch of metaphysics concerned with the study of being
ontology
James
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$2,000
[24]
WWII B-29 piloted by Paul Tibbets that gets a multicolored June holiday feting Elizabeth Bennet's victory over the walking dead
Enola Gay Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
James
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$2,000
[4]
In January this composer's opéra-comique "Manon" premiered in Paris
Massenet
Victoria
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$2,000
[1]
The song "Tea For Two" comes from this 1925 musical in which one Louise Groody played the woman mentioned in the title
No, No, Nanette
James
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DD
$8,200
[9]
Aristophanes' animal-titled works include "The Birds", "The Frogs" & this one that's actually about litigious Athenians
The Wasps
Yogesh
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$2,000
[10]
CJS is shorthand for this widely used legal encyclopedia with a Latin name
Corpus Juris Secundum
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$2,000
[8]
Psychopathology is another name for this 2-word discipline, the study of mental disorders
abnormal psychology
Yogesh
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DD
$3,000
[22]
Carson McCullers novel about a gonzo journalist who hits the road with bandmates to sing songs like "Hold Me Now"
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter S. Thompson Twins
Victoria
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In 1612 John Smith published a Powhatan word list including these 2 words familiar to us today, one worn in pairs & one wielded
moccasins & tomahawk