Responses for Show #8969 - Thursday, November 9, 2023

2023 Champions Wildcard Clubs quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

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Matt Takimoto, an elementary school teacher from Moraga, California

Jen Jazwinski, a youth services librarian from Algonquin, Illinois

Charlie Fonville, a producer from Los Angeles, California

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Jeopardy! Round responses

CLASSICAL MUSIC
FAMOUS FORMER TEACHERS
A LITTLE LEGALESE
POTPOURRI
OPERATION
ALTERED STATES
(Ken: Tell us which of the 50 we've anagrammed in these clues.)
    $200 14
the New York Philharmonic

Charlie
    $200 1
Jon Hamm

Charlie
    $200 30
contempt

Charlie
    $200 25
(Ken: [Holds up hand] Yeah, it looks like a mitten.)

Michigan

Matt
    $200 24
Iran

Jen
    $200 12
Florida

Triple Stumper
    $400 15
violin

Jen
    $400 2
Billy Crystal

Charlie
    $400 21
quid pro quo

Matt
    $400 13
Dred Scott

Charlie
    $400 23
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Triple Stumper
    $400 26
(Ken: You're standing in it, yes.)

California

Matt
    $600 4
a concerto

Matt
    $600 3
Gene Simmons

Jen
    $600 16
a retainer

Matt
    $600 7
messenger

Jen
    $600 22
Munich

Charlie
    $600 27
Missouri

Jen
    $800 6
(Jen: What is... harpsichord?)

the organ

JenMatt
    $800 10
Lin-Manuel Miranda

Charlie
    $800 19
chattels

Triple Stumper
    $800 8
Cerberus

Jen
    $800 17
Incheon

Matt
    $800 28
Washington

Matt
    $1000 5
the Enigma Variations

Matt
    $1000 11
Sting

Charlie
    $2,600 20
defamation

Jen
    $1000 9
(Matt: What's the Aegean?)

the Strait of Gibraltar

Matt
Triple Stumper
    $1000 18
Desert

Jen
    $1000 29
Nebraska

Jen

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

Charlie Jen Matt
$3,000 $1,600 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Charlie Jen Matt
$3,800 $7,000 $4,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

MATH SYMBOLS
OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS
CHANGING WHITE HOUSE TOWEL MONOGRAMS
(Ken: You need to give the full monogram of each successor we ask about.)
EAT
PRAY
"LOVE"
    $400 28
sum (summation)

Triple Stumper
    $400 1
The Social Network

Charlie
    $400 6
JFK

Matt
    $400 29
(Matt: What's... hamburger?)

Swedish meatballs

JenMatt
    $400 30
kneeling

Jen
    $400 11
a tunnel of love

Matt
    $800 27
comma

Matt
    $800 2
Slumdog Millionaire

Jen
    $800 26
(Ken: Johnson to Nixon, right.)

RMN

Matt
    $800 18
a mushroom

Matt
    $800 24
the chaplain

Charlie
    $800 10
love handles

Charlie
    $1200 21
braces

Matt
    $1200 3
All About Eve

Charlie
    $1200 23
(Ken: Yes, Truman.)

HST

Jen
    $1200 17
peas

Charlie
    $1200 14
5

Jen
    $1200 9
Toughlove

Jen
    $1600 19
a ray

Matt
    $5,400 4
All the President's Men

Charlie
    $1600 22
(Ken: After Clinton, that's right.)

GWB

Matt
    $1600 12
butterfly

Matt
    $1600 15
(morning) dew

Jen
    $1600 7
a love apple

Jen
    $2000 20
a radical

Matt
    $2000 5
(Jen: What is Lonesome Dove?)
...
(Ken: Different McMurtry novel--[*].)

Terms of Endearment

Jen
Triple Stumper
    $5,500 25
(Charlie: WJW?)
(Ken: No, I'm sorry, after Reagan we have [*]--George Herbert Walker Bush.)

GHWB

Charlie
    $2000 13
focaccia

Matt
    $2000 16
Albrecht Dürer

Triple Stumper
    $2000 8
(Matt: What is brightest?)
...
(Ken: Yes, you remembered the category.)

loveliest

JenMatt

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Charlie Jen Matt
$8,100 $15,400 $15,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICAN AUTHORS
(Ken: [To Charlie] Won the Nobel Prize that year; always considered himself a Southern regional author, but had fans all over the world.)
CharlieWho is William Faulkner?
$8,100
JenWho is Faulkner?
$15,400
MattWho... is Sinclair Lewis?
$15,400
William Faulkner

Final scores:

Charlie Jen Matt
$16,200 $30,800 $0
2nd place: $5,000 Winner: semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Charlie Jen Matt
$9,800 $13,800 $15,400
14 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 20 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $39,000

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Game tape date: 2023-10-17
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