The players in game four of the first-to-three 2024 ToC final, currently tied at one game apiece, are:
- Ben Chan, a philosophy professor from Green Bay, Wisconsin;
- Troy Meyer, a music executive from Tampa, Florida; and
- Yogesh Raut, a social and personality psychologist from Vancouver, Washington.
Jeopardy!
THAT'S SO 18th CENTURY // TYPES OF POEMS // FOOD & DRINK // ON THE WEB // TV DRAMA // CHAMP CHANGE
DD1 - 600 - TYPES OF POEMS - A villanelle is a 19-line poem consisting of 5 tercets & a concluding (do the math) one of these (Ben added 1,000.)
Scores at first break: Yogesh 3,000, Troy 6,600, Ben 200.
Scores entering DJ: Yogesh 6,400, Troy 8,000, Ben 1,800.
Double Jeopardy!
MAKING A PASS // LOST WORKS // WHAT THE "H"? // FAMOUS WOMEN // MOVIE SONGS // EXTINCT ANIMALS
DD2 - 1,600 - LOST WORKS - In the lost ancient epic "Aethiopis", the Ethiopian king Memnon fights for Troy & is killed by this Greek hero (Ben doubled to 10,000.)
DD3 - 800 - MAKING A PASS - The first major U.S.-German battle of World War II took place in February 1943 at Kasserine Pass on this continent (Troy doubled to 28,000.)
Troy was the lucky recipient of DD3, allowing him to double up and carry first place into FJ at 33,200 vs. 20,400 for Yogesh an 12,800 for Ben.
Final Jeopardy!
HISTORIC AMERICANS - Near Kirkbean on Solway Firth, U.S. Vice Admiral Jerauld Wright presented a memorial plaque honoring this man
Surprisingly, both Troy and Yogesh missed FJ. Ben, who stayed in the game by being correct on the first two DDs, doubled to 25,600, which was enough to prevail by just one point over Troy. Ben now takes the lead in the final with two wins vs. one for both Troy and Yogesh.
Final scores: Yogesh 15,200, Troy 25,599, Ben 25,600.
Correct Qs: DD1 - What is a quatrain? DD2 - Who is Achilles? DD3 - What is Africa? FJ - Who was John Paul Jones?
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