Responses for Show #9070 - Friday, March 29, 2024

2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 8.

Contestants

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Ben Ingram, a business control specialist originally from Florence, South Carolina

Dhruv Gaur, a grad student from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Victoria Groce, a writer and television personality from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE ANCIENTS SPEAK
STATE FLAGS
A STANDOUT STAND-UP
PENALTIES & BONUSES
CLASSIC AD SLOGANS & JINGLES
13-LETTER WORDS
    $200 21
anger

Ben
    $200 22
In God We Trust

Ben
    $200 28
vice president

Victoria
    $200 17
a bounty

Victoria
    $200 29
(Victoria: What is now it's time for [*]?)
(Ken: Yes, stick with [*].)

Doublemint

Victoria
    $200 8
interrogation

Dhruv
    $400 24
Sophocles

Victoria
    $400 23
South Dakota

Dhruv
    $400 20
Halle Berry

Dhruv
    $400 18
(Victoria: What is death?)
(Ken: Can you be more specific?)

death by stoning

Victoria
    $400 30
(Ken: Were you a [*], Victoria?)
(Victoria: I was, in fact.)

a Toys "R" Us kid

Victoria
    $400 4
a daguerreotype

Dhruv
    $600 9
Herodotus

Dhruv
    $600 3
(Ben: What is the Dipper?)
(Ken: Can you be more specific?)
(Ben: What is the Little Dipper?)

the Big Dipper (Ursa Major)

DhruvBen
    $600 25
(Ken: Oh no, that's the great [*].)
(Victoria: Sorry.)

Albert Brooks

Triple Stumper
    $600 19
a golden parachute

Victoria
    $600 12
Motel 6

Victoria
    $600 5
parliamentary

Dhruv
    $2,000 10
(Ken: It is [*], talking up his art skills; maybe his lyre playing?)

Nero

Dhruv
    $800 1
New Hampshire

Victoria
    $800 26
the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Victoria
    $800 15
forfeiture

Victoria
    $800 13
(Victoria: What is Doublemint?)

Certs

Victoria
Triple Stumper
    $800 6
ethnocentrism

Triple Stumper
    $1000 11
Diogenes

Victoria
    $1000 2
Nevada

Victoria
    $1000 27
(Dhruv: What is Salvation Army?)

Goodwill

VictoriaDhruv
    $1000 16
a lagniappe

Ben
    $1000 14
(Ben: What is Dart?)
...
(Ken: "Quick, Henry, the [*]!" A lot of 110-year-olds at home very angry with you three for not knowing that. Back to you, Victoria.)
[Laughter]
(Victoria: I can outrun them.)

Flit

Ben
Triple Stumper
    $1000 7
surreptitious

Dhruv

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Victoria Dhruv Ben
$3,400 $5,400 -$1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria Dhruv Ben
$7,600 $5,200 -$200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS
BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s
A WARMING TREND
MR. OR MRS. SONG
EPONYMS
    $400 1
(Amerigo) Vespucci

Victoria
    $400 30
(Tennessee) Williams

Ben
    $400 21
amniotic fluid

Victoria
    $400 6
chestnuts

Ben
    $400 29
"Mr. Brightside"

Victoria
    $400 25
a leotard

Ben
    $2,000 5
(Ben: What is silver?)
(Ken: No, I'm sorry, "estaño" is like "stannous", for [*].)

tin

Ben
    $800 28
Shaw

Ben
    $6,400 15
chimera

Dhruv
    $800 7
(Victoria: What's a swift?)

a hummingbird

Victoria
Triple Stumper
    $800 27
Winehouse

Victoria
    $800 19
bloomers

Ben
    $1200 16
Maradona

Victoria
    $1200 9
Chekhov

Victoria
    $1200 11
alleles

Victoria
    $1200 8
a Snuggie

Victoria
    $1200 24
Joe DiMaggio

Ben
    $1200 14
(Ben: What is Saxophone?)

Sax

DhruvBen
    $1600 2
Quito

Triple Stumper
    $1600 3
the Days of Wine and Roses

Victoria
    $1600 4
bilirubin

Ben
    $1600 13
borscht

Ben
    $1600 23
Counting Crows

Victoria
    $1600 18
Mozart

Dhruv
    $2000 17
(Victoria: Who is Chávez?)
...
(Ken: Chávez had been gone for many years, it's [*].)

Nicolás Maduro

Victoria
Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
Crimes of the Heart

Victoria
    $2000 12
the cell cycle

Victoria
    $2000 26
Ezekiel

Victoria
    $2000 22
"Mr. Tambourine Man"

Victoria
    $2000 20
Hector

Ben

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria Dhruv Ben
$22,800 $14,400 $5,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S.S.R.I.P.
(Ken: [To Ben] That's nice--7-6-5-4; I see what you did there, Ben, even if you didn't.)
(Ben: No.)
...
(Ken: [To Dhruv] He was one away.)
...
(Ken: [To Victoria] That's good news for you and your daughter.)
BenWhat is Uzbekistan
$1,854
DhruvWhat is Ukraine?
$8,401
VictoriaWhat is Uzbekistan? Hi, Nora! ♡
$6,001
Uzbekistan

Final scores:

Victoria Dhruv Ben
$28,801 $5,999 $7,654
Winner: semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Victoria Dhruv Ben
$22,800 $7,600 $7,800
28 R,
3 W		 12 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W		 12 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $38,200

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Game tape date: 2024-02-27
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