Matt Massie game 4.
Kelly Cui — a student from Cambridge, Massachusetts
Katie Kornacki — a professor of English from Hartford, Connecticut
Matt Massie — an attorney originally from South Charleston, West Virginia (whose 3-day cash winnings total $79,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $4,800 | $6,400 | $9,400 |
$18,800
2nd place: $3,000 |
$10,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 1 DD) |
| Katie | $2,600 | $4,200 | $10,600 |
$20,000
New champion: $20,000 |
$10,600
15 R, 1 W |
| Kelly | $2,000 | $4,600 | $5,200 |
$1
3rd place: $2,000 |
$6,600
9 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| PLACES IN WORLD HISTORY | BOOK TOURS | WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE... | DIE HARD | DESCRIBING THE OLYMPIC EVENT | FIN"AL" WORDS |
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$200
[6]
Defying Portugal in 1822, on the banks of the Ipiranga River Pedro I declared this country's independence
Brazil
Matt
|
$200
[12]
Chapter 2 of this Cervantes classic is "Treats of the First Sally the Ingenious" title guy "Made from Home"
Don Quixote
Matt
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$200
[30]
A collector of rare these, like Bill Gates; he dropped $30 million on the Codex Leicester!
(rare) books (manuscripts)
Katie
|
$200
[29]
If you want to roll 8 the hard way in craps, your dice need to show these 2 numbers
four & four
Katie
|
$200
[26]
Perform for 9.58 seconds; tie world record set in 2009; point to sky
the 100-meters
|
$200
[24]
It refers to the back or upper surface of an animal, like certainfins
dorsal
Katie
|
|
$400
[4]
Dorothy McKibbin, the gatekeeper of this New Mexico city where the Manhattan Project was based, wasn't told what was being built there
Los Alamos
Kelly
|
$400
[9]
The narrator of this '50s book was "filled with dreams of what I'd do in Chicago, in Denver, and then finally in San Fran"
On the Road
Matt
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$400
[27]
A Spartan supersoldier in the United Nations Space Command, like Master Chief in this "heavenly" gaming franchise
Halo
Matt
|
$400
[28]
An instruction manual for this game listed its contents as "5 dice, dice cup, 10 bonus chips, score pad"
Yahtzee
Katie
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$400
[25]
Lie on your back on the 50-pound namesake item; slide into history at about 90 mph
a luge
Matt
Katie
|
$400
[22]
Pronounced differently, it can mean associated with birth, or a former province of South Africa
Natal (natal)
Matt
|
|
$600
[3]
In 1683 Polish king John III Sobieski led a multinational force relieving a siege of this central European city by the Ottomans
Vienna
Matt
|
$600
[8]
This title character of kid lit got to Earth all the way from asteroid B-612
the Little Prince
Matt
|
$600
[21]
This kind of scientist, like Ross Geller on "Friends", who used the one-word job description "dinosaurs"
paleontologist
Kelly
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$600
[19]
Referring to its Pop-O-Matic dice device, a board game has used the slogan "There's more" this "in the bubble"
Trouble
Matt
|
$600
[23]
Be unbelievably proficient with a rope, hoop, ball, clubs & ribbon
rhythmic gymnastics
Katie
|
$600
[15]
It describes a government composed of 2 legislative chambers
bicameral
Kelly
|
|
$800
[2]
At the battle of Waterloo in 1815, 72-year-old Field Marshal Blücher commanded the forces of this German kingdom
Prussia
Matt
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$800
[5]
In search of America, this author grabbed his poodle & took off for some "Travels with Charley" in 1962
Steinbeck
Matt
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$800
[16]
A rep for this government agency, like Jamie Lee Curtis in "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
the IRS
Matt
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$800
[18]
A game called Ludus duodecim scriptorum, 12-lined game, was the ancient Roman version of this game that uses two dice
backgammon
Matt
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$800
[11]
Easily confused with a body part; row, row, row your boat with an oar in each hand
sculling
Katie
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$800
[14]
A topical medication like miconazole, for combating athlete's foot
an antifungal
Matt
Katie
|
|
DD
$1,000
[1]
After an 1885 siege, the Mahdists slaughtered the British defenders of this city at the junction of the Blue & White Niles
Khartoum
Matt
|
$1,000
[7]
The title of this Terry McMillan novel refers to Ms. Payne, a divorced 42-year-old woman, & a trip to Jamaica
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Katie
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$1,000
[17]
This type of psycholog"ist", just like B.F. Skinner--except I won't raise my kid in an air-conditioned box
behavioral (behavioralist)
Kelly
|
$1,000
[13]
This game named for a Tanzanian island gives you 3 dice & 20 chips; lose all your chips & you're the winner
Zanzibar
Matt
|
$1,000
[20]
Your fencing foe must get the point (not the edge), mask to feet; no translation needed at the Paris Games
épée
Matt
Kelly
|
$1,000
[10]
You dip a bit into philosophical vocabulary when you call something this kind of "threat" to the survival of a person or a country
existential
Kelly
|
| JAMAICA | MOVIE SEQUELS | COMPLETE THE QUOTE | BLOOM COUNTY | OPUS | BILL THE CAT |
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$400
[24]
In 2022, as many in Jamaica wanted to jettison the British monarchy, this couple made a goodwill visit with awkward moments
William & Kate
Matt
|
$400
[22]
As Miles Teller reminded us on the "SNL" 50th anniversary show, it wasn't "Top Gun II" but "Top Gun:" this word
Maverick
Matt
|
$400
[25]
In a 1940 film W.C. Fields says, "On a trek", this wine tool was lost & "we were compelled to live on food & water"
a corkscrew
Katie
|
$400
[29]
In "Bloom County", a stressed Opus enjoyed breaks in a patch of these, with the familiar puffy white seed heads
dandelions
Matt
|
$400
[27]
Paganini wasted no time when he revolutionized music for this instrument with his 24 caprices, Opus 1
the violin
Matt
Kelly
|
$400
[30]
The cat's got me on the hook for $250 after it destroyed a Söderhamn ottoman I bought at this chain; maybe I'll get an Återlöga
IKEA
Katie
|
|
$800
[21]
In 1958 Jamaica joined with several other Caribbean countries in forming the W.I.F., this regional "Federation"
West Indies Federation (West Indian)
Matt
Katie
|
$800
[18]
John C. Reilly reprised his title voice role in a 2018 sequel as this guy who "Breaks the Internet"
(Wreck-It) Ralph
Kelly
|
$800
[23]
About the immorality of men, Oscar Wilde wrote, "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at" these
the stars
Katie
|
$800
[26]
An Amsterdam museum of this flower said during its 1600s "mania", a single bulb sold for 3 times a merchant's annual income
a tulip
Matt
|
$800
[20]
Sousa composed the "Washington Post" march; Johann Strauss II's Opus 279 is the "Morning Papers" this dance tune
a waltz
Katie
|
$800
[28]
Not sure how kitty used my account on this service advertised by Gronk & the Mannings, but he lost me $150 on the Breeders' Cup
FanDuel
Kelly
|
|
$1,200
[3]
The makers of this Bob Marley biopic found their thrill at Strawberry Hill, a hotel that's one of the movie's authentic locations
One Love
Matt
|
$1,200
[5]
"The Matrix" sequels all had words starting with "Re" in their titles:"Reloaded" ,"Revolutions" &, in 2021, these
Resurrections
|
$1,200
[12]
James Brown meant dudes like Clyde Stubblefield when he said he was gonna "give" this musician "some" before a solo
the drummer
|
DD
$1,400
[17]
Flowers of the star-of-this Mideastern city bloom in May, not around Christmas
Bethlehem
Kelly
|
DD
$1,000
[15]
Chopin's Opus 57 is a berceuse, a word for this type of song, thought to be inspired by a little girl named Louisette Viardot
a lullaby
Matt
|
$1,200
[19]
I paid a hundred bucks for some sheets of paper to learn the designs of Akira Yoshizawa in this art--pussums, you owe me
origami
Matt
|
|
$1,600
[1]
Though the island is known for its Rastafarians, its largest religious group is this numerical Protestant millennialist sect
Seventh-day Adventist
Katie
|
$1,600
[4]
The subtitle of the sequel to this Sandra Bullock film was "Armed & Fabulous"
Miss Congeniality
Katie
|
$1,600
[6]
According to Friedrich Nietzsche, "If you gaze for long into" one of these bottomless basins, it "gazes also into you"
the abyss
Matt
|
$1,600
[16]
Popular for its vibrant colors, the Dutch type of this flower is grown from a bulb
an iris
Kelly
|
$1,600
[11]
Premiered in 1948, Arnold Schoenberg's Opus 46 is "a survivor from" this Polish city's ghetto & includes the Shema prayer
Warsaw
Matt
|
$1,600
[14]
It sure didn't take the cat long to hoover up $200 worth of the Ossetra type of this
caviar
|
|
$2,000
[2]
Jamaica's economy is dominated by tourism, remittances & exports of this mineral, the chief ore of aluminum
bauxite
Matt
|
$2,000
[7]
Bruce Campbellgave us the now iconic line, "Gimme some sugar, baby" in this "Evil Dead" sequel
Army of Darkness
Matt
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$2,000
[8]
Hamlet wondered about taking "arms against" these metaphoric waters "and by opposing end them"
a sea of troubles
|
$2,000
[9]
Bearing flowers in late fall, this 2-word shrub of the Eastern U.S. with yellow, twisted petals casts a spell against inflammation
witch hazel
|
$2,000
[10]
This French composer with a hyphenated name loved to travel to North Africa, as heard in his Opus 60, "Suite algérienne"
Camille Saint-Saëns
|
$2,000
[13]
Looks like Dr. Patches Adams got himself a CAT scan! That's also called a CT scan--CT, short for this--& that heart one cost $6k!
computed tomography
|
Some 200 years after her birth, she was awarded the rank of General in Maryland's National Guard on Veterans Day 2024
Harriet Tubman