2022-2023 PrimetimeCelebrity Jeopardy!semifinal game 1.
Iliza Shlesinger — a comedian from New York City
Simu Liu — an actor from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Ike Barinholtz — an actor from Chicago, Illinois
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ike | $2,400 | $6,000 | $12,200 |
$22,601
Winner: finalist |
$19,400
37 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Simu | $1,000 | $1,400 | $4,000 |
$20,000
2nd place: $50,000 for Stop AAPI Hate |
$13,400
24 R, 4 W (including 3 DDs) |
| IliZA! | $300 | $1,700 | $3,900 |
$0
3rd place: $50,000 for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation |
$11,500
23 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| GAME ON | CURRENT EVENTS | POP MUSIC | 7-LETTER WORDS | LET'S TAKE A WALK | AUTUMN |
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$100
[1]
A woman in Canada used an existing R to place "quizzers" on 2 triple word scores to help score 365 points at once in this game
Scrabble
Simu
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$100
[6]
On Aug. 8, 2022 FBI agents executed a search warrant here, which Donald Trump calls "my beautiful home"
Mar-a-Lago
Ike
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$100
[11]
"Easy come, easy go, little high, little low", says "Bohemian Rhapsody" by this group
Queen
Ike
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$100
[17]
Sauerkraut is fermented this
cabbage
Simu
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$100
[22]
A Sony exec wanting to hear opera was the original impetus for this portable cassette player
the Walkman
Simu
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$100
[28]
In 2022 a possible 7th game of this, baseball's "Fall Classic", would be played Nov. 5, the latest date ever
a World Series
Ike
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$200
[2]
For me, it's left hand, green, right foot, blue & left hamstring, pulled playing this Hasbro game
Twister
Ike
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$200
[7]
The latest sad result of climate change: drought has largely deprived France, where Grey Poupon was born, of this condiment
mustard
Ike
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$200
[12]
This '60s group loved the waves with hits like "Surfer Girl", "Surfin' Safari" & "Surfin' U.S.A."
The Beach Boys
Simu
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$200
[18]
It can mean both clothes to wash & a place to do it
laundry
Simu
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$200
[23]
Captain Hook made prisoners do this, involving a board leading over the water; real-life pirates, not so much
walk the plank
Ike
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$200
[29]
Its grower says the Autumn Glory type of this fruit has "subtle notes of caramel", so it must be good for making caramel ones
an apple
IliZA!
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$300
[3]
Sweden's Mojang Studios is best known for this video game where you can build volcanoes or underground cities
Minecraft
Simu
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$300
[8]
In the 2022 U.S. Open, likely the last tournament of her incredible career, she lost in a valiant third-round match
Serena Williams
Ike
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$300
[13]
"Valerie" is a soulful tune from this singer who died too young in 2011
Amy Winehouse
IliZA!
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$300
[19]
In Judaism, observance of this seventh day of the week begins just before sunset on Friday
shabbat (or the sabbath)
Ike
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$300
[24]
Someone going home early Sunday morning in Saturday night's clothes is taking this stroll
the walk of shame
Ike
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$300
[30]
Autumn is the season for this gathering of crops found in the title of the painting seen here
the harvest
IliZA!
|
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$400
[4]
In 2021 a Wisconsin teen pulled 32 of these blocks & placed them back atop a tower of them in one minute without toppling it
Jenga
Simu
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$400
[9]
This 3-digit national hotline phone number for suicide prevention went live in 2022
988
IliZA!
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$400
[15]
In a 2018 release, Childish Gambino told us in this song, "Don't catch you slippin' now, look what I'm whippin' now"
"This Is America"
IliZA!
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$500
[21]
This pain reliever went on the market in 1899, long before ibuprofen
aspirin
Ike
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$400
[25]
There's tension in the wire & among the crowd when these circus performers take their walk high in the air
a tightrope walker
IliZA!
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$400
[27]
The colors in autumn leaves are from carotenoids, such as this Greek-letter one that also turns carrots orange
beta carotene
Ike
|
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$500
[5]
Cricket, 501 & Around the World are games involving tossing these, perhaps in a bar
darts
Ike
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$500
[10]
Subjected to Islamist death threats since the 1980s, this author was savagely attacked at a speaking engagement
Salman Rushdie
Ike
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$500
[16]
A hit from 2012, "I Will Wait" is by this band who, despite the "Sons" in their name, are unrelated
Mumford and Sons
Ike
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DD
$1,300
[20]
As the song says, life is a this, a restaurant with booze & live entertainment
a cabaret
Ike
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$500
[26]
When Nancy Sinatra sang "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'", she probably meant these repetitive bootsshe favored
go-go boots
IliZA!
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$500
[14]
October is the history month for this Asian-American ethnic group that includes Olivia Rodrigo & Jo Koy
Filipinos
Ike
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| THE IN MEMORIAM SEGMENT 1922 | FAMOUS NAMES ON THE MAP | DRAMA QUEENS | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" | SHAKESPEARE | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD |
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$200
[6]
Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole, delegate to Congress from this territory; Theodore Roosevelt wouldn't learn to say his name
Hawaii
Ike
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$200
[28]
This capital of Minnesota was named for an apostle
Saint Paul
IliZA!
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$200
[26]
Lena Headey is Cersei Lannister, Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, on this HBO series
Game of Thrones
Simu
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$200
[23]
So you saw an E.T.? Then it must have been piloting this, also called a flying saucer
a UFO
IliZA!
|
$200
[1]
I'm going over this guy's monologue for an audition... "To be, or not to be", OK... "bare bodkin"... "mortal coil"... I totally got this!
Hamlet
Simu
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$200
[14]
The statue of this top Greek god at Olympia stood nearly 40 feet high & showed him seated on a gold- & jewel-encrusted throne
Zeus
Simu
|
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$400
[7]
Pope Benedict XV, whose Peace Note of 1917 tried to end this terrible conflict
World War I
Ike
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$400
[27]
The names of this pair of explorers are on a Montana county, an Oregon river & a 4,900-mile trail
Lewis & Clark
Ike
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$400
[24]
Claire Foy & Olivia Colman play Elizabeth II at different ages on this Netflix drama
The Crown
Ike
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$400
[18]
A '90s dance was named for this "Family Matters" character whose catchphrase was "Did I do that?"
Urkel
IliZA!
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$400
[2]
In "As You Like It", Jaques says, "All the world's a" this, "& all the men & women merely players", so what say thee, players?
a stage
IliZA!
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$400
[22]
The only still-standing ancient wonder, they lie near Giza on a plateau on the Nile's west bank
the pyramids
Simu
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$600
[8]
William Desmond Taylor, director slain in one of early Hollywood's great scandals, at a site that's now a this Dress for Less
Ross
Simu
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$800
[20]
An 18th century British captain gave his name to these South Pacific islands, now a popular tourist destination
the Cook Islands
Simu
IliZA!
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$600
[5]
Daughter of Sigurd & Brunhilde, Queen Aslaug is seen in the History Channel drama about these title Norse warriors
Vikings
Ike
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$600
[17]
Everything is perfect in this type of imaginary land
Utopia
Ike
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$600
[30]
This Scottish play--which you'll name & we'll see if that ends up jinxing you--has the title guy kill king Duncan, for starters
Macbeth
IliZA!
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$800
[13]
The temple of Artemis was wrecked by these invaders who sound like they were wearing black & listening to Joy Division
the Goths
Ike
|
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$800
[11]
Surgeon William Stewart Halsted, who developed radical mastectomy to treat this disease
breast cancer
IliZA!
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
This alliterative Colorado "Peak" is named for a man who tried & failed to climb it in 1806; guess that was an "or bust"
Pikes Peak
IliZA!
|
$800
[9]
Things get steamy in Camelot for 1981's "Excalibur", with Helen Mirren as Morgana & Cherie Lunghi as her
Guinevere
IliZA!
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$800
[16]
This 4-stringed guitar has a Hawaiian name that means "jumping flea"
the ukulele
Simu
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$800
[29]
In a history play a woman complains that this chubby knight "hath eaten me out of house and home"
Falstaff
Ike
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DD
$1,000
[15]
The Pharos of Alexandria was one of these that stood on an island in the city harbor, with a fire lit at the top every night
a lighthouse
Simu
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$1,000
[12]
This man, who invented the landline in 1876
Alexander Bell
Simu
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$1,000
[19]
This strait between Asia & North America is named for a Danish explorer
the Bering Strait
Simu
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$1,000
[25]
In a lavish 1963 spectacle, Richard Burton played Mark Antony & she was Cleopatra
Elizabeth Taylor
Ike
IliZA!
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$1,000
[10]
Soba noodles are made from buckwheat; this other 4-letter type is made from wheat
udon
Ike
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$1,000
[3]
After killing the King & the Prince of Wales in "Henry VI, Part 3", this king with body image issues gets his own play
King Richard III
Ike
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$1,000
[21]
The ancient Greek Strabo said that this city's Hanging Gardens were watered from the Euphrates River
Babylon
Ike
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In 1986 Larry Harvey called a friend & said, let's do this, no one knows exactly why; it evolved into an annual festival in the desert
Burning Man