2024Jeopardy! Masterssemifinal game 2.
Amy Schneider — a writer from Oakland, California
Victoria Groce — a writer and television personality from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Yogesh Raut — a cognitive and behavioral scientist from Vancouver, Washington
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yogesh | — | $4,000 | $13,200 |
$1
2nd place: 4 match points |
$7,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Victoria | — | $11,200 | $27,200 |
$27,200
Winner: 3 match points |
$18,000
22 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Amy | — | $-200 | $-3,000 |
$-3,000
3rd place: 0 match points |
$-3,000
8 R, 6 W |
| I'LL BE BACH | PODCASTS | TRIPLE LETTER FUN | FURNITURE | OUR VAST PAST | PERIODICALS |
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$200
[25]
J.S. Bach was a force in this music style that, roughly speaking, began in 1600 & ended in 1750, when Bach ended too
baroque
Amy
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$200
[26]
Fitting title of a podcast about 20th c. Hollywood, or the first 4 words of "As Time Goes By", heard in "Casablanca"
You Must Remember This
Amy
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$200
[27]
3 Ps:A period of learning under an experienced worker
apprenticeship
Yogesh
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$200
[28]
This type of cupboard gets its name from its former use: storing weapons
an armoire
Victoria
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$200
[29]
James Cook gave this name to his first landfall in Australia because of a plethora of new plant species there
Botany Bay
Victoria
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$200
[30]
"A trusted theatre resource since 1884", it first used its black & yellow logo in the 1950s
Playbill
Yogesh
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$400
[17]
Music based on the sufferings of Jesus on the cross; Bach wrote a "St. John" as well as a "St. Matthew" one
a passion
Yogesh
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$400
[22]
On "Crime Stories with"her, this legal commentator & former prosecutor asks tough questions
Grace
Yogesh
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$400
[23]
3 Us:A smaller group within a society with its own behaviors & attitudes
a subculture
Amy
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$400
[24]
Tradition says the first piece of this woven furniture to arrive in America was a baby cradle on the Mayflower in 1620
wicker
Victoria
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$400
[5]
Ending in 1868, Japan's peaceful Tokugawa period is also known by this name, the former name of Tokyo
the Edo period
Yogesh
|
$400
[18]
In 2021 this magazine changed its name to Scout Life, reflecting a new diversity in its parent organization
Boys' Life
Yogesh
|
|
$800
[10]
Bach's solo suites for this instrument got new exposure after an 1890 find by a kid browsing sheet music in Barcelona
the cello
Yogesh
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$600
[19]
In 2020 the staff of this Ira Glass radio program & podcast became the first-ever recipients of a Pulitzer Prize for audio reporting
This American Life
Victoria
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$600
[13]
3 Gs:Denis Quilley played this rolein "Hamlet" in 2000
the gravedigger
Yogesh
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$600
[21]
This piece of furniture is the title of a song by Wet Leg; it's also repeated all day long in the chorus
a chaise longue
Victoria
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$600
[4]
Depictedhereis the unique meeting between Henry VIII & Francis I dubbed "The Field of" this costly fabric
the Cloth of Gold
Victoria
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$600
[9]
This mag has been rocking & rating since 1936, when the public had little reliable info to buy a console radio or straight razor
Consumer Reports
Victoria
|
|
$1,000
[15]
This workin 32 sections has been called "a musical peak that almost all major pianists have attempted to scale"
the Goldberg Variations
Victoria
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$800
[1]
You could say this podcast hosted by Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes & Will Arnett is a no-brainer
SmartLess
Victoria
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$800
[11]
3 Cs:A papal letter intended for the whole church
an encyclical
Amy
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$800
[20]
Footstool options include the ottoman, which offers storage, & this, also a word for a clump of grass, which does not
a hassock
Victoria
Amy
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$800
[2]
Nicknamed Buck, this lawyer & co-commander at the Alamo is believed to have died early on in the fight from a bullet to the head
Travis
Yogesh
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$800
[6]
Look on grandpa's toilet tank for issues of this magazine of the U.S. past founded by Civil War historian Bruce Catton
American Heritage
Yogesh
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|
DD
$5,000
[16]
In 1721 Bach dipped into the masterpiece bin & dedicated a series of works to the Margrave of this
Brandenburg
Victoria
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$1,000
[14]
In 2021 this neuroscientist & tenured California professor launched his popular "Lab" health podcast
Andrew Huberman
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$1,000
[12]
3 Ts:Word for a rickety old car that makes a lot of noise
a rattletrap
Amy
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$1,000
[8]
In 1994 Herman Miller introduced this ergonomic chair, called "the world's most coveted office chair"
the Aeron chair
Victoria
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$1,000
[3]
Herodotus relates that this man was a "hemerodromos", or professional runner; he made a legendary one
Pheidippides
Victoria
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$1,000
[7]
This periodical named for financier Clarence W. is a sister publication of The Wall Street Journal
Barron's
Yogesh
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| BRIDGES | FLAVOR PROFILE? | ONE-WORD MOVIE TITLES | SAY IT "IN" LATIN | THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT | ETERNAL SUNSHINE |
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$400
[17]
In March 2024 a Baltimore bridge named for this man tragically collapsed
Key
Yogesh
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$400
[21]
Add "-ly" to this "spicy" 6-letter word & it means very cautious or tentatively
ginger
Yogesh
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$400
[24]
At the end of this Christopher Nolan film, a shaken Guy Pearce asks, "Now, where was I"?
Memento
Yogesh
Amy
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$400
[27]
It means "before birth" & is the title of a 1993 No. 1 album
In Utero
Amy
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$400
[30]
Keats' "Ode on Melancholy" wants you to wallow in sadness, so "No, no, go not to" this mythic river of forgetfulness
Lethe
Yogesh
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$400
[29]
A state song says, "The cattle crop the clover, / And its breath is in the air, / While the sun is shining over / Our beloved" this
Delaware
|
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$800
[14]
A Cold-War-flavored word for a Russian, it simply means "Russian", & is the name of an island & abridgelinking it to Vladivostok
Russky
Victoria
Amy
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$800
[20]
This oxide of uranium is processed, not baked & probably not what you want on your birthday
yellowcake
Victoria
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$800
[25]
Charles Boyer tries to drive Ingrid Bergman crazy in this thriller we're sure you've seen before
Gaslight
Yogesh
|
$800
[26]
A sculpture of King Decebalus is 180' high & carved into a Danube cliff, so you need to see it this way, Latin for "where it is"
in situ
Victoria
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$800
[1]
"One calm summer night", the title figure of this Edwin Arlington Robinson poem "went home and put a bullet through his head"
Richard Corey
Yogesh
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$800
[28]
Geomagnetic solar storm plus: auroras visible everywhere! Minus: it fries satellites, like the 38 made by this Musk-y co.
Starlink
Amy
|
|
$1,200
[13]
Santiago Calatrava designed Dallas' Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge over this river, part of an effort to rejuvenate the river basin
the Trinity
Victoria
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$1,200
[15]
If you have a cottage garden, you will definitely want to plant this flower, a member of the pink family
a sweet William
Victoria
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$1,200
[18]
Deeming light speed too slow, the villain in this film opts for "ludicrous speed", then things get plaid
Spaceballs
Amy
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$1,600
[9]
Penitents can feel relieved when they hear this phrase that comes right after the Latin for "I absolve you from your sins"
in nomine patris
Yogesh
Amy
|
$1,200
[3]
"The Awful Rowing Toward God" by this American was published in 1975, the year after she took her own life
(Anne) Sexton
Yogesh
Amy
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$1,200
[7]
Completes the title of an Iron Maiden song based on J. Robert Oppenheimer & the atom bomb, "Brighter than..."
a Thousand Suns
|
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$1,600
[11]
Apedestrian suspension bridgeis part of a trail leading to this end-of-the-alphabet Swiss village
Zermatt
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$1,600
[10]
"See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" is a signature song by this seminal blues guitarist, sometimes called the "Father of the Texas Blues"
Blind Lemon Jefferson
|
$2,000
[2]
The title of this Ethan Hawke sci-fi flick is spelled using the letters representing the 4 DNA bases
Gattaca
Victoria
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$2,000
[8]
It means for oneself, especially when going to court without a lawyer
in propria persona
Yogesh
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$1,600
[5]
He wrote about how the world keeps spinning while we suffer & grieve in poems like "Musée des Beaux Arts" & "Funeral Blues"
Auden
Yogesh
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$1,600
[23]
The idea that public knowledge sets problems right is said as "sunlight is the best" this, based on a Louis Brandeis essay
disinfectant
Victoria
|
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$2,000
[12]
The "Father of Railways", this builder of early 19th c. locomotives also designed the Gaunless railway bridge in Durham
(George) Stephenson
Victoria
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$2,000
[19]
"Pineapple Head" is a collection of essays by this Japanese author
Banana Yoshimoto
Victoria
|
DD
$7,600
[6]
This Sidney Lumet drama is set at the Union Broadcasting Systems
Network
Yogesh
|
DD
$6,000
[16]
This narrative device is in contrast to beginning a story ab ovo ("from the egg")
in medias res
Victoria
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$2,000
[4]
In "Sympathy", this poet wrote, "I know why the caged bird beats his wing till its blood is red on the cruel bars"
(Paul Lawrence) Dunbar
Victoria
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$2,000
[22]
The first person to see a spacecraft named for him launched was Eugene Parker, "Father of" the field known by this sunny term
heliophysics
Victoria
Amy
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FDR gets credit for implementing this as a concept in the U.S. & the metaphor was used by FDR Jr., running for office in 1966
safety net