Responses for Show #8947 - Tuesday, October 10, 2023

2023 Champions Wildcard Spades quarterfinal game 7.

Contestants

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Robert Kaine, an editor from Los Angeles, California

Joe Velasco, a director of customer care originally from La Mirada, California

Morgan Briles, a librarian from Norman, Oklahoma

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Jeopardy! Round responses

NOT SO RECENT SCIENCE
NASCAR GEOGRAPHY
(Ken: We need the state where each NASCAR track is located.)
COMPOSERS & THEIR KIN
HERALDRY
MOIST THINGS
(Ken: This was number one on David Letterman's "Top 10 Rejected Jeopardy! Categories" list.)
GO ____
    $200 14
the metric system

Robert
    $200 10
(Robert: What is Ohio?)

Florida

MorganRobert
    $200 8
(Joe: Who is... Thomas Haydn?)
...
(Ken: Joe, you forgot your own name; he's [*].)
[Laughter]

Joseph (Haydn)

MorganJoe
    $200 27
Jerusalem

Joe
    $200 1
towelette

Robert
    $200 2
Go fish

Joe
    $400 15
(Robert: What are telescopes?)

photography (photographs from a camera)

Robert
Triple Stumper
    $400 9
California

Morgan
    $400 22
(Joe: Who is Bach?)
(Ken: Uh, more specifically?)

Johann Sebastian Bach

Joe
    $400 3
blood

Morgan
    $400 4
(Ken: Of London, yeah.)

fog

Morgan
    $400 6
go with the flow

Robert
    $600 18
Aristotle

Morgan
    $600 11
Alabama

Morgan
    $600 23
Mozart

Morgan
    $600 28
an eagle

Morgan
    $600 5
carrot cake

Joe
    $600 7
to go the extra mile

Joe
    $800 19
(Robert: What is magnesium?)

phosphorus

JoeRobert
    $800 12
Virginia

Joe
    $800 24
Wagner

Robert
    $2,500 29
(Ken: [Seeing Morgan shimmy] Is that the Daily Double dance?)
(Morgan: Yes, the shimmy. "The shimmy", that's what Katie [Couric] called it.)

the Northwest Passage

Morgan
    $800 21
Spanish moss

Morgan
    $800 16
to go to the mat

Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
(Ken: In a light bulb, you got it.)

a filament

Morgan
    $1000 13
New York

Morgan
    $1000 25
Queen Victoria

Morgan
    $1000 30
his standard

Triple Stumper
    $1000 26
lachrymal glands

Triple Stumper
    $1000 17
go fly a kite

Morgan

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

Morgan Joe Robert
$3,200 $2,000 $200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Morgan Joe Robert
$11,300 $3,400 $200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

NICE SIDE WHISKERS!
BRANDO
(Ken: We'll give you the role, you name the film.)
I WROTE THAT LINE
(Ken: Give us the author.)
GAS
FOOD
LODGING
    $400 27
Asimov

Morgan
    $400 1
The Godfather

Robert
    $400 29
(Ken: Yes, Pride and Prejudice.)

Austen

Morgan
    $400 15
(Robert: [Exhales deeply] Sorry.)

propane

JoeRobert
    $400 7
(Robert: What is a... jumping bean?)
...
(Ken: Unfortunately, fava [*] don't jump; this is just full of [*].)

beans

Robert
Triple Stumper
    $400 30
(Morgan: What is Hotel 6?)
...
(Ken: You're giving 'em a little too much credit, Morgan.)

Motel 6

MorganRobert
    $800 26
Van Buren

Morgan
    $800 2
A Streetcar Named Desire

Joe
    $800 28
(Ken: Yes, Moby-Dick.)

Melville

Robert
    $800 16
hydrogen

Robert
    $800 8
(Joe: Will you give me GAS for $2000?)
(Ken: I'll try.)
[Laughter]

a pork barrel

Joe
    $800 24
best Western

Robert
    $1200 18
(Joe: Who is Strauss?)
(Ken: More specifically?)
...
(Ken: That's correct, yes.)
[Laughter]
(Ken: I am not messing with you, Joe, I promise.)

Johann Strauss

Joe
    $1200 4
On the Waterfront

Robert
    $1200 25
(Ken: That's in One Hundred Years of Solitude by [*].)

Gabriel García Márquez

Triple Stumper
    $1200 11
mustard gas

Morgan
    $1200 12
egg

Robert
    $1200 23
a pension

Triple Stumper
    $1600 3
General Burnside

Morgan
    $2,000 5
(Ken: He was in the remake in the '60s.)

Mutiny on the Bounty

Robert
    $2,000 21
(Ken: The novel is The Jungle.)

Upton Sinclair

Joe
    $1600 10
butane

Joe
    $1600 13
a bun

Morgan
    $1600 22
Coronado

Robert
    $2000 17
(Joe: Who is Ferdinand?)
(Robert: Who is Franz Ferdinand?)
...
(Ken: Joe, you need to work on your Josephs.)

Franz Joseph

MorganJoeRobert
    $2000 6
(Ken: That's the biker gang movie--[*].)

The Wild One

Triple Stumper
    $2000 20
(Ken: That's in [*]'s The Prince.)

Machiavelli

Triple Stumper
    $2000 9
laughing gas

Joe
    $2000 14
a chestnut

Robert
    $2000 19
the Pierre

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Morgan Joe Robert
$18,900 $10,200 $8,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

NEW ZEALAND
RobertWhat is LEGO?
$1,400
JoeWhat is Canterbury?
$10,000
MorganWhat is Westminster?
$6,000
Canterbury

Final scores:

Morgan Joe Robert
$12,900 $20,200 $7,200
2nd place: $5,000 Winner: semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Morgan Joe Robert
$17,200 $9,800 $8,200
22 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 14 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 14 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W

Combined Coryat: $35,200

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Game tape date: 2023-08-30
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