Today's players in the 2024 ToC are:
- Yogesh Raut, a social and personality psychologist from Vancouver, Washington;
- Jake DeArruda, a delivery routing assistant originally from Ludlow, Vermont; and
- Nick Cascone, an orthopedic physician assistant originally from Queens, New York.
Jeopardy!
SHALL WE DANCE? // ALLITERATIVE PHRASES // THAT'S IN ASIA // THE EMMYS // FEELING CHARITABLE // A LITTLE HISTOR"E"
DD1 - 600 - FEELING CHARITABLE - May 28, 1961, when the newspaper story "The Forgotten Prisoners" ran, is considered the founding date of this organization (Jake doubled to 13,200.)
Scores at first break: Nick 0, Jake 4,800, Yogesh 3,200.
Scores entering DJ: Nick 1,000, Jake 14,400, Yogesh 5,600.
Double Jeopardy!
NEW U.S. STAMPS FOR 2024 // WOMEN IN LIT // NAME THAT TOMB // BRITISH ACTORS & ACTRESSES // IN THE DICTIONARY // LESSER-KNOWN SCIENCES
DD2 - 1,200 - NAME THAT TOMB - Cyrus the Great's tomb still stands at Pasargadae in this country, but is gold sarcophagus is gone (Nick doubled to 11,600.)
DD3 (audio) - 2,000 - IN THE DICTIONARY - Spur-of-the-moment, or a piano piece that's meant to sound spontaneous, like Chopin's Opus 29 (On the very next clue from DD2, Nick dropped 10,000.)
Nick was poised to make a huge move on back-to-back DDs in DJ, but he missed DD3 and Yogesh took over from there, leading into FJ with 26,800 vs. 14,400 for Jake and 2,400 for Nick.
Final Jeopardy!
1950s POLITICS - In 1959 Bob Bartlett & Hiram Fong each won a coin flip to gain this alliterative title
Everyone was incorrect on a very challenging FJ clue. Yogesh dropped 2,001 to advance with 24,799..
Final scores: Nick 1, Jake 1,999, Yogesh 24,799.
Correct Qs: DD1 - What is Amnesty International? DD2 - What is Iran? DD3 - What is impromptu? (Note: this was also the title of a 1991 film in which Chopin was a main character.) FJ - What is senior senator?
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