Show #10 2023-01-12 (taped 2022-11-06) Celebrity

2022-2023 PrimetimeCelebrity Jeopardy!quarterfinal game 8.

Contestants

Torrey DeVitto — an actor from Huntington, New York

Candace Parker — a basketball player from Naperville, Illinois

Patton Oswalt — a Grammy and Emmy Award-winning comedian from Portsmouth, Virginia

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Patton $2,400 $4,700 $28,200 $54,400
Winner: semifinalist
$26,300
47 R (including 4 DDs), 2 W
Candace $-400 $-200 $-200 $1,960
3rd place: $30,000 to Mamba & Mambacita Sports Foundation
$2,800
9 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Torrey $-800 $-1,000 $-400 $3,200
2nd place: $30,000 to Planned Parenthood
$5,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

A TORY PARTY THE 50 STATES OTHER FAMOUS VOLUNTEERS LETTER, PERFECT PLENTY OF FISH I LOVE MY DAD
$100 [16]
Jonathan Boucher was a Loyalist or Tory during this event, but dedicated his history of it to his friend George Washington
the American Revolution
Patton
$100 [11]
Arizona's Saguaro National Park is named for a candelabra-shaped type of this plant
a cactus
Patton
$100 [1]
A superhero on film playing Marvel's Black Widow, this actress spent 8 years as a global ambassador for Oxfam
Scarlett Johansson
Patton
$100 [23]
Grammar-wise, let's begin with this indefinite article used before a singular noun
A
Patton
$100 [26]
The popular food fishes marketed as Chilean sea this are actually species of toothfishes
bass
Torrey
$100 [6]
Phil Dunphy, on this sitcom: "I'm the cool dad... I'm hip... I text. LOL, laugh out loud. OMG, oh my God. WTF, why the face"
Modern Family
Candace
$200 [17]
In 2022 Tory Party members of Britain's "House of" these included Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone & the Earl of Minto
Lords
Patton
$200 [12]
Created to serve the former Northwest Territory, Northwestern University is in Evanston in this state
Illinois
Candace
$200 [2]
Volunteers in this Christian group founded by William Booth can become "soldiers"
the Salvation Army
$200 [24]
"Greetings", Robert De Niro's film debut in 1968, was also the first movie in the U.S. to get this rating
X
Patton Candace
$200 [27]
Thisshark gets its name from the shape of a prominent body part
hammerhead
Torrey
$200 [7]
He came to dadhood later in life, after his boy Luke grew up... & after cutting off Luke's hand... & blowing up his daughter's planet
Darth Vader
Patton
$300 [18]
Canada's Tory Party is looking to unseat this second-generation prime minister & Liberal Party leader
Justin Trudeau
$300 [13]
In "Field of Dreams" a question is asked, "Is this heaven?"--No, it's this Midwestern state also known as "the Corn State"
Iowa
Candace Torrey
$300 [3]
Hereis the logo of the Cajun Navy Ground Force, whose volunteers sprang into action after 2016 floods in this "Bayou State"
Louisiana
Patton
$400 [21]
It precedes "Claudius" in the title of a 1934 historical novel by Robert Graves
I
Patton
$300 [28]
Several small species of the herring family go by this name, particularly when they're canned in oil
sardines
Candace
$300 [8]
Loving dad Liam Neeson, in this 2008 pic: let my daughter go, cool. If not, "I will look for you. I will find you. & I will kill you"
Taken
Patton
$400 [19]
One of the great figures of Britain's Tory Party was this man whose historic term as prime minister began May 10, 1940
Churchill
Patton
$400 [14]
Connecticut is bordered to the west by New York & to the east by this, another 2-word state
Rhode Island
Patton Candace
$400 [4]
Robert Scott, an ace of the Flying Tigers volunteer Air Force of World War II, wrote a book about his career called "God Is My" this
Co-Pilot
Patton
$500 [22]
A Roman 500, or a report card grade you'd prefer not to see
D
Candace Torrey
$400 [29]
Originally from the Indo-Pacific, this venomous fish with a big cat in its name has become an invasive species in the Atlantic
lionfish
Patton Candace
$400 [9]
Pop to Pete, Janie, Zuzu & Tommy in a classic film, he's seen here with his own daughters Kelly & Judy
Jimmy Stewart
Patton
$500 [20]
In Australia a moderate segment of this environment-focused party is sometimes called the Tree Tories
the Green Party
$500 [15]
Hells Canyon & Snake River sound daunting, but Sun Valley & its ski lodges in this state offer respite
Idaho
Torrey
$500 [5]
Beforeher son was president, Lilian Carterworked in India1966-1968 for this government agency begun by John F. Kennedy
the Peace Corps
Patton
DD $800 [25]
It's the 17th letter of the alphabet, & before you start counting on your fingers, it's also James Bond's gadget man
Q
Patton
$500 [30]
This name for a flatfish with both eyes on the same side of its head is also a verb meaning to struggle ineffectively
flounder
Patton
$500 [10]
Milo Ventimiglia was Jack Pearson, father of Kevin, Kate & Randall on this NBC drama, & now we're getting a bit choked up thinking about it
This Is Us
Patton

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE MOVIES TRIANGLES COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES EVERYDAY ITALIAN THE 20th CENTURY GLOOMY AUTHORS
$200 [1]
"The Way of Water" is the subtitle of the long-awaitedsequelto this James Cameron film set on Pandora
Avatar
Patton
$200 [21]
A gable is a triangle-shaped feature on this part of a house
the roof
Torrey
$200 [26]
Brainiacs know that M.I.T. stands for this Boston-area school
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
$200 [11]
"When the Moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's" this, that's love
amore
Torrey
$200 [16]
World War II officially began on September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded this country
Poland
Patton
$200 [6]
"Everything is evil" wrote the 19th century poet Giacomo Leopardi, who exemplified this glass-half-empty -ism
pessimism
Patton
$400 [2]
The 2022 film "Blonde" stars Ana de Armas as this film icon & recreates an iconic moment from "The Seven Year Itch"
Marilyn Monroe
Torrey
$400 [22]
"Jules & Jim" is a classic film about this geometric situation; some have asked why Catherine isn't in the title
a love triangle
Patton
$400 [27]
Until disallowed by the L.A. Coliseum, a live bear would take the field at home football games for this school
UCLA (the University of California Los Angeles)
Candace
$400 [12]
Rachael Ray says her very first word was this, the Italian word for wine
vino
Torrey
$400 [17]
He developed his famous anti-choking maneuver in 1974 &herehe is as his daughters demonstrate it
Heimlich
Patton
$400 [7]
In Kuniko Tsurita's book of manga "The Sky Is Blue with a Single Cloud", it's this kind of cloud from a nuclear bomb
a mushroom cloud
Patton
$600 [3]
His powerful performance as the Joker in "The Dark Knight" won him a posthumous Supporting Actor Oscar
(Heath) Ledger
Candace
$600 [23]
You need a triangle for this action to set up billiard balls for the break shot
racking
Patton Torrey
$800 [29]
In 1873, a university in Nashville was named for this wealthy commodore who eventually donated $1 million
(Cornelius) Vanderbilt
Candace
$600 [13]
Hopefully, you haven't had any bad encounters with these photographers who follow the famous to get their shots
paparazzi
Patton
$600 [18]
The Hay-Pauncefote Treaty of 1901 allowed the U.S. to build & operate this waterway in Central America
the Panama Canal
Patton
$600 [8]
Called "Roald the Rotten" by his own wife, he created memorable villains like Miss Trunchbull in "Matilda"
(Roald) Dahl
Patton
$800 [4]
"The Gold Rush", "The Kid" & "City Lights" are silent films that this comic legend wrote, directed & starred in
(Charlie) Chaplin
Patton
$800 [24]
On this holiday generally in March, Jews traditionally eat triangular pastries called Hamantaschen
Purim
$1,000 [30]
Founded in 1693, the oldest college in Virginia is the college of this royal pair
the College of William & Mary
Patton
$800 [14]
Spelled as one word or 2, it means outdoors, as in dining outdoors
al fresco
Patton
$800 [19]
At the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, this president was fatally shot, dying 8 days later
McKinley
$800 [9]
"The unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence" is part of the "Country" of this author; how's your day going?
Lovecraft
Patton
$1,000 [5]
The title of this 2019 Korean film refers to the relationship of the destitute Kim family & the wealthy Park family
Parasite
Patton
DD $4,300 [25]
A triangle roughly formed by Florida, Puerto Rico & this place is notorious for swallowing up boats & planes without a trace
Bermuda
Patton
DD $8,600 [28]
Since 1917 Columbia University has announced these awards for fields including journalism & literature
the Pulitzers
Patton
$1,000 [15]
Italian for "baked earth", it's the type of pottery seenheremade of baked clay
terra cotta
Candace
$1,000 [20]
"Oh, the humanity" when 36 lives were lost as this airship burst into flames while landing in New Jersey
the Hindenburg
Patton
$1,000 [10]
His plays like "Waiting for Godot" explore the meaninglessness of life & even a Nobel Prize didn't make him happy
Samuel Beckett
Patton

Final Jeopardy!

CORPORATE MASCOTS

Born on an island in a sea of milk, this pitchman was jokingly disavowed by the U.S. Navy by saying he is not in personnel records

Cap'n Crunch

Candace "Who is" — wagered $240
Torrey "Who is I have no clue?" — wagered $2,000
Patton "Who is Cap'n Crunch" — wagered $7,200

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