2024Jeopardy! Masterssemifinal game 3.
Amy Schneider — a writer from Oakland, California
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 | — | $5,200 | $10,800 |
$10,800
2nd place: 4 match points |
$17,800
21 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| James | — | $5,200 | $21,400 |
$20,278
Winner: 4 match points |
$17,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Amy | — | $0 | $1,200 |
$1,200
3rd place: 0 match points |
$1,200
6 R, 2 W |
| SHORT KINGDOMS | THERE'S "A" NOUN FOR THAT | LET'S PLAY BINGO! | A STATE CAPITAL WORD | CHAPEAU-POURRI | MASTERING THE PLANET'S FUTURE |
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$200
[10]
In 1736 German adventurer Theodore I was crowned king of this island of the Bonapartes, but he ghosted that same year
Corsica
Victoria
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$200
[11]
A person or thing that's out of place in time
an anachronism
Victoria
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$200
[20]
This Oscar winner for "Chicago" credits bingo for her start after her family won enough money to send her to dance lessons
Catherine Zeta-Jones
James
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$200
[2]
Celebrating an explorer, a big event of 1893 was the World's this Exposition
Columbia n
Victoria
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$200
[25]
The bonnet rouge was called this "cap" in the French Revolution, one of the 3 things being fought for
liberty
James
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$200
[30]
(Bill Nye delivers the clue.) As CEO of the nonprofit Planetary Society, I advocate for space exploration, following in the footsteps of this first Society president who introduced me to the wonders of astronomy as my professor at Cornell University
Sagan
Victoria
|
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$400
[9]
The short-lived Qin Dynasty lasted from 221 to 206 B.C. & was followed by this other 3-letter dynasty
Han
James
|
$400
[12]
It's a furniture covering originally meant to protect against an old type of hair oil
antimacassar
James
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$400
[19]
In the bingo lingo of game callers, this 2-digit number is sometimes called an "Adele" after that singer's third studio album
25
Victoria
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$400
[3]
The type of book that tells you where to find a certain word in another book
concord ance
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$400
[24]
This hatworn by the French Foreign Legion is in the name of their official magazine
a képis
Amy
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$400
[29]
(Bill Nye delivers the clue.) Don't believe that a species can change the whole world? You wouldn't have been able to breath Earth's atmosphere until some 2 billion years ago after newly evolved organisms like blue-green algae startedcreating oxygenas a by-product of this process
photosynthesis
Amy
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$600
[8]
In the 1860shewas the sole emperor of an attempt at a French-influenced Mexican Empire
Maximilian
Victoria
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$600
[13]
It's an old-timey word for a balloonist
an aeronaut
Victoria
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$600
[18]
Bingo, the large orange gorilla on this TV show, played drums in their band & was voiced by Daws Butler
The Banana Splits
|
$600
[4]
This Middle Eastern capital city has the Lion of Judah on its city seal
Jeru salem
Victoria
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$600
[23]
A Frenchwoman named Caroline Reboux created this bell-shaped chapeau
a cloche
Victoria
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$600
[28]
(Bill Nye delivers the clue.) In a 2021 appearance before Congress, I encouraged bold investment in this energy technologythat hasn't yet been proven practical but might one day provide virtually limitless clean, safe power
fusion
Victoria
|
|
DD
$1,000
[1]
In 1814 this historic German state was made into a kingdom for a little while, largely through the influence of England
Hanover
Victoria
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$800
[14]
From Latin for to wander or stray, it's something that deviates from the norm
an aberrance (or abberation)
Victoria
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$800
[17]
Playing the game in this movie, Johnny Knoxville suggests making it "strip bingo" & that's just the beginning
Bad Grandpa
James
Amy
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$800
[5]
Using up all one's resources is doing this to them, also a word for an experience like a marathon
exh austin g
Victoria
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$800
[22]
Catherinette hats, worn by unmarried women 25 & older, are named for Saint Catherine, a patron of these, aka hatmakers
milliners
James
|
$800
[27]
(Bill Nye delivers the clue.) My book "Undeniable" explains that because the Earth is not a closed system, but is constantlyreceivingenergy from the Sun, the process of evolution does not violate the second law of this, as some doubters have argued
thermodynamics
Victoria
|
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$1,000
[7]
This empire that shares its name with a big West African country began by defeating the short-lived Sosso Kingdom c. 1235
Mali
James
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$1,000
[15]
It's the grammatical case that marks the direct object of a verb
(the) accusative
James
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$1,000
[16]
He beat out Shecky Greene for the role of Larry David's dad in episodes of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" like "Kamikaze Bingo"
Shelley Berman
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$1,000
[6]
The act of yielding control of territory, like of Hong Kong
han dover
James
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$1,000
[21]
Cherchez la femme--this femmewho has a bonnet named for her & perhaps for her homicidal ways
Charlotte Corday
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$1,000
[26]
(Bill Nye delivers the clue.) On my podcast "Science Rules" my guests & I discuss such diverse topics as racism in science, Neanderthal sex & the mass extinction thatended this geologic period some 66 million years ago
Cretaceous
James
|
| UNREAL ESTATE | ACTUAL PLACES | MOVIE CHANGE A LETTER | PSYCH | TOUGH CROSSWORD CLUES | JOURNALISTS |
|
$400
[30]
St. Petersburg, Missouri is the fictional hometown of Tom Sawyer & was based on this town where Mark Twain grew up
Hannibal
James
|
$400
[25]
Due to an agreement with the Anangu people, one can no longer climb to the top of this Down Under monolith
Uluru
Amy
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$400
[26]
It's 1935 in spooky Cold Mountain Penitentiary & a horse-donkey hybrid is headed to the electric chair
The Green Mule
Amy
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$400
[27]
Using a small request to get a yes to a bigger one is this technique named for a body part & a portal
foot in the door
James
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$400
[28]
Fertile soil(4 letters)
loam
James
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$400
[29]
Her resumé includes helping Richard Nixon write his memoirs (1974-75) & anchoring ABC World News (2009-2014)
Diane Sawyer
James
|
|
$800
[7]
In her first novel, Lucy Maud Montgomery created this fictional community on Prince Edward Island
Avonlea
Victoria
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$800
[24]
In Gilbertese, "ti" is said with an "S" sound, so now you know how to say the name of this country that includes the Gilbert Islands
Kiribati
James
|
$800
[1]
In this cult classic, young Bud Cort falls in love with a purplish hue
Harold and Mauve
Victoria
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$800
[5]
Psychologists now often call autism "ASD", the "S" for this term, representing the condition's wide range of symptoms
spectrum
James
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$800
[15]
Italian for "don't bow, pluck"(9 letters)
pizzicato
Amy
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$800
[12]
In 2023shereceived the Columbia Journalism Award, the highest award bestowed by that graduate school
(Christiane) Amanpour
Victoria
|
|
$1,200
[6]
Torquilstone Castle is assaulted in order to free Saxon prisoners held there in this 1819 novel
Ivanhoe
James
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$1,200
[23]
There's not much vegetation in this Upper Midwest national park that's basically between the Cheyenne & White Rivers
Badlands
Victoria
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$1,600
[20]
Noted Big Apple criminals Leo DiCaprio & Daniel Day-Lewis get matching coifs leaving much hair on the forehead
Bangs of New York
James
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$1,200
[3]
This person's "fallacy" is the belief that after 5 straight heads, the next flip has a more than .5 probability of being tails
a gambler
Victoria
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$1,200
[9]
Staircase post(5 letters)
newel
Victoria
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$1,200
[11]
This legendary radio correspondent became a CBS VP after WWII, but soon just had to get back behind the microphone
Murrow
James
|
|
$1,600
[8]
This author has written several books about Lucy Barton & made up Amgash, Illinois for Lucy to grow up in
Elizabeth Strout
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$2,000
[22]
This city on Kyushu in Japan came to world notice when chemical factories poisoned its fish, then its people, with mercury
Minamata
Victoria
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$2,000
[21]
Huckster preacher Burt Lancaster heads into that little kitchen food closet to get a snack
Elmer Pantry
James
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$1,600
[4]
A 2022 revision of the DSM-5 includes PGD, short for this lasting disorder that can follow the death of a loved one
prolonged grief disorder
Victoria
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$1,600
[16]
Direction Muslims face when praying(5 letters)
qibla
Victoria
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$1,600
[13]
This "60 Minutes" correspondent has interviewed everyone, including her retirement-bound colleague Steve Kroft in 2019
(Lesley) Stahl
Amy
|
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$2,000
[18]
In a novella by H.P. Lovecraft, the title "Horror" of this Massachusetts town is a hideous monster evoked by occult magic
Dunwich
James
|
DD
$6,000
[2]
FDR enjoyed summering on this island found in the title of a 1960 film about him
Campobello
Victoria
|
DD
$5,000
[19]
The Axel Foley theme goes classical as a legendary soprano fights crime in Southern California
Beverly Sills Cop
James
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$2,000
[10]
Jung said this part of the psyche is never personally acquired but owes its "existence exclusively to heredity"
the collective unconscious
Amy
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$2,000
[17]
Scottish soup(4 letters-1 letter-6 letters)
cock-a-leekie
Victoria
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$2,000
[14]
This correspondent didn't wish to "be a footnote to somebody else's life "--specifically ex-hubby Ernest Hemingway
Martha Gellhorn
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As it's rarely found in pure form, one explanation of its name is that it comes from Greek for "not alone" or "not one"
antimony