Responses for Show #9040 - Friday, February 16, 2024

2024 Champions Wildcard Group 2 semifinal game 1.

Contestants

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Mira Hayward, a podcast host from Portland, Oregon

Vince Bacani, a risk manager from Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Sriram Krishnan, a consultant from Falls Church, Virginia

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Jeopardy! Round responses

PRESIDENTIAL TV
(Ken: You need to name the president who is the focus of each of these TV movies or miniseries.)
FICTION & NONFICTION
A DOG'S LIFE
THAT'S GOT 2 HYPHENS
TRANSPORTATION
I'M CUBAN
    $200 30
Kennedy

Vince
    $200 24
Liz Cheney

Vince
    $200 29
a leash

Mira
    $200 25
father-in-law

Sriram
    $200 28
(Vince: What is [*]? No.)
(Ken: Correct, that is right.)
(Vince: [Surprised] Oh.)
[Laughter]
(Vince: Wow.)

Greyhound

Vince
    $200 27
Pitbull

Mira
    $400 6
FDR

Mira
    $400 23
Madame Bovary

Mira
    $400 22
(Ken: Yeah, no [*] for dogs.)
(Mira: Sad for them.)

chocolate

Mira
    $400 13
over-the-counter

Mira
    $400 26
a hearse

Vince
    $400 18
Desi Arnaz

Sriram
    $600 19
(Ken: From Independence, Missiouri, that's Robert Vaughn as [*].)

Harry Truman

Triple Stumper
    $600 3
Cleary

Sriram
    $600 21
kibble

Mira
    $1,600 12
a fleur-de-lis

Vince
    $600 1
a mule

Mira
    $600 16
(Vince: Who is "kuh-BAY-uh"?)
[Initially accepted as correct; reversed before Double Jeopardy!]

(Camila) Cabello

Vince
Triple Stumper
    $800 5
Nixon

Sriram
    $800 2
Persepolis

Sriram
    $800 7
distemper

Vince
    $800 11
a free-for-all

Vince
    $800 10
a tugboat

Mira
    $800 15
Gloria Estefan

Sriram
    $1000 20
(Ken: Yeah, crossing the Delaware, I guess.)

Washington

Mira
    $1000 4
Didion

Mira
    $1000 14
separation anxiety

Mira
    $1000 8
an aide-de-camp

Mira
    $1000 9
Spirit

Sriram
    $1000 17
(Ana) de Armas

Vince

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

Sriram Vince Mira
$4,000 $3,200 $5,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Sriram Vince Mira
$4,600 $4,600 $8,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY
MYTHOLOGY
SCIENCE STUFF
NOTABLE NAMES
DESCRIBING THE SONG
OH, "MY" WORD!
    $400 28
(Ken: That was very mean of you not to let Vince have that.)
[Laughter]
(Vince: Come on, man.)

Montreal

Sriram
    $400 30
(Vince: [Turning to Sriram] Sorry.)

Argonauts

Vince
    $400 29
(Sriram: [Hesitating to choose only remaining clue] Um...)
(Ken: Final clue in MYTHOL--?)
(Sriram: [Overlapping with Ken] Why don't y--why don't you transport that here?)
(Ken: I will transport it to the three of you.)

hemoglobin

Sriram
    $400 25
Earhart

Vince
    $400 20
(Ken: Yay, you didn't get shut out on the song category.)
(Mira: Finally, I didn't have to hear the song, so it worked out.)

"Thriller"

Mira
    $400 16
myopia

Vince
    $800 27
Saskatchewan

Mira
    $800 22
Prometheus

Vince
    $800 23
a photon

Mira
    $800 24
Marx & Engels

Mira
    $800 19
"Hotline Bling"

Sriram
    $800 14
the mynah

Mira
    $1200 26
Horseshoe

Sriram
    $1200 21
Echo

Mira
    $1200 10
his (the Tesla) coil

Triple Stumper
    $5,000 13
(Vince: Out of respect to my fellow contestants, all of it.)
...
(Vince: Who is Barr?)
...
(Ken: It was about rocketry, [*] is the scientist.)

Goddard

Vince
    $1200 15
"Piano Man"

Vince
    $1200 12
Mylar

Vince
    $1600 2
Newfoundland

Mira
    $4,000 3
Hera & Rhea

Mira
    $1600 8
angiosperm

Vince
    $1600 4
Shirley Chisholm

Triple Stumper
    $1600 18
"Just A Friend"

Sriram
    $1600 6
the myocardium

Vince
    $2000 1
[Vince selected the first clue.]
(Vince: What is Superior?)
...
(Ken: It's actually [*].)
(Vince: Oh, God.)
[Laughter]
(Vince: CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY $1600.)
(Ken: That's right, back on the horse.)

Huron

Vince
Triple Stumper
    $2000 11
(Ken: The Judgment of [*].)
(Vince: Oh, gosh.)
[Laughter]

Paris

Triple Stumper
    $2000 9
(Mira: What is Titan?)
...
(Ken: Titan's a moon of Saturn, this is [*].)

Ganymede

Mira
Triple Stumper
    $2000 5
(Sriram: Who is Scott?)

Ernest Shackleton

Sriram
Triple Stumper
    $2000 17
"Regulate"

Sriram
    $2000 7
(Vince: What is Mykonos?)

Mycenae

VinceMira

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Sriram Vince Mira
$9,000 $3,200 $18,400
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THEATER
(Ken: [To Vince] And I think our first ever trilingual First Nations thank you.)
VinceWhat is Cat on a Hot Tin Roof? Thanks/Merci/Niá:Wen
$0
SriramWhat is a dream come true (again)?
$0
MiraWhat is Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ♡ TY Vince&Sriram
$0
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Final scores:

Sriram Vince Mira
$9,000 $3,200 $18,400
2nd place: $10,000 3rd place: $10,000 Finalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Sriram Vince Mira
$9,000 $7,200 $16,000
13 R,
1 W		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 22 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $32,200

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Game tape date: 2024-01-19
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