2023 Champions Wildcard Spades quarterfinal game 1.
Dane Reighard — a writer and editor from Los Angeles, California
Emily Seaman Hoy — an attorney from Houston, Texas
Burt Thakur — a project engineer from Palm Springs, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burt :) | $-600 | $1,600 | $7,200 |
$0
3rd place: $5,000 |
$9,200
15 R, 7 W (including 1 DD) |
| Emily | $3,200 | $4,800 | $3,600 |
$3,600
2nd place: $5,000 |
$3,600
12 R, 5 W |
| Dane | $4,000 | $3,200 | $10,800 |
$5,800
Winner: semifinalist |
$12,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| GEOGRAPHY "B" | FIGHTERS | ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED? | A BUG'S LIFE | NATIVE AMERICANS | A CATEGORY ABOUT NOTHING |
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$200
[12]
This capital city of Iraq was founded around 762 A.D.
Baghdad
Emily
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$200
[27]
ThisMMA champ made her big screen debut among some veteran actions stars in "The Expendables 3"
Ronda Rousey
Dane
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$200
[28]
"O mighty Caesar! Dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, shrunk..."
Julius Caesar
Burt :)
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$200
[23]
Known as Armeeameisen in German, these conspicuously mobile ants move about in long, orderly columns
army ants
Burt :)
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$200
[30]
A member of the Kaw Nation of Kansas, Charles Curtis, was vice president under this man from 1929 to 1933
Herbert Hoover
Burt :)
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$200
[24]
Nothing, as a tennis score
love
Emily
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$400
[10]
Home to about 5.4 million, it's the province seen here
British Columbia
Dane
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$400
[25]
In 2023 ringtv.com ranked heavyweight Oleksandr Usyk as the world's best boxer P4P, standing for this
pound for pound
Emily
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$400
[26]
"The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell"
Macbeth
Emily
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$400
[22]
The chigoe is a sand-dwelling variety of this insect
a flea
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$400
[29]
The book "Weaving the Dream" is the story of Mabel McKay, a renowned Pomo maker of these
baskets
Burt :)
Emily
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$400
[14]
Nothing, en Español
nada
Dane
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$600
[5]
A British colony until 1973, this country made up of many islands is only about 60 miles SE of Florida
the Bahamas
Dane
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$600
[18]
Before turning to MMA, UFC champ Henry Cejudo won a 2008 Olympic gold medal in freestyle this
freestyle wrestling
Burt :)
Emily
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$600
[15]
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"
Hamlet
Burt :)
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$600
[7]
The field & house types of this insect are sold as laboratory subjects, frog food & bait
crickets
Emily
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$600
[4]
Big Cypress Reservation is home to this "tribe of Florida"
the Seminoles
Emily
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$600
[13]
The "hour" for a military action to start
zero hour
Dane
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$800
[6]
Look way up in the Himalayas to find this small country of Asia
Bhutan
Emily
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$800
[19]
On Nov. 25, 1980 this "sweet" boxer defeated Roberto Duran, who said no mas in their rematch
Sugar Ray Leonard
Emily
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$1,000
[2]
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players"
As You Like It
Burt :)
Dane
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$800
[17]
This garden pest controller is the state insect of Delaware & Massachusetts
a ladybug
Emily
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$800
[16]
The most commonly spoken Native American language in the U.S. is this one famously used by "Code Talkers" in World War II
Navajo
Burt :)
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$800
[8]
William Cowper: "What peaceful hours I once enjoyed... but they have left an aching" this
void
Dane
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$1,000
[3]
The 2 countries of South America that begin with "B" are these 2
Bolivia & Brazil
Emily
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$1,000
[21]
In 1982 middleweight great Marvin Hagler changed his first name to this, an adjective often applied to him
Marvelous
Burt :)
|
DD
$1,200
[11]
"The isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not"
The Tempest
Dane
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$1,000
[1]
Used by scientists to clean flesh off bones being prepared for research, dermestids are a type of this insect
beetles
Burt :)
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$1,000
[20]
It was the "spectral" central ritual of the messianic 19th century religion founded by the Paiute Wovoka
the Ghost Dance Movement
Dane
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$1,000
[9]
9-letter word for lack of existence, or a person of no importance
nonentity
Dane
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| SOUTH AFRICA | THEY PLAYED WYATT EARP | SIGNS & SYMBOLS | EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY | HODGE PODGE | PROVERB VS. PROVERB |
|
$400
[28]
The urban complex of Soweto adjoins this metropolis of about 6 million, the nation's leading industrial & commercial city
Johannesburg
Burt :)
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$400
[25]
Burt Lancaster took the role in the 1957 film that could only be called "Gunfight at" this place
the O.K. Corral
Dane
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$400
[27]
Even before it was immortalized by Poe, this bird was a near-universal symbol of ill omen
the raven
Dane
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$400
[29]
Egyptians weren't happy with Hapi, the god of this river, when floods wiped out their mud-brick homes
the Nile
Dane
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$400
[30]
In 1874 Charles Hodge argued that the perfection of this human sense organ makes it obvious we were designed
the eye
Emily
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$400
[23]
I'm supposed to "beware of Greeks bearing gifts"--but if they bring me a gift one of these, I shouldn't look in its mouth... hmmm
a horse
Dane
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$800
[16]
Of South Africa's 12 official languages, this 4-letter African one is the most spoken in the country
Zulu
Burt :)
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$800
[15]
In 1993's "Tombstone", heplayed Earp to Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday
Kurt Russell
Burt :)
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$800
[26]
On home builders' home plans the spot where this item will go is symbolized here
a stove
Emily
Dane
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$800
[22]
A lotus represented Upper Egypt; this reed plant was a symbol of Lower Egypt
papyrus
Emily
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$800
[24]
In 1994, Member of Parliament Margaret Hodgenominated this man as leader of Britain's Labour Party
Tony Blair
Dane
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$800
[17]
OK, OK--"He who hesitates is lost"... but aren't I supposed to do this before I leap?
look
Emily
|
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$1,200
[6]
Parts of this coastal city & its suburbs wind up towards & around Table Mountain
Cape Town
Burt :)
Dane
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$1,200
[5]
In 1994's "Wyatt Earp", he played Earp to Dennis Quaid's Doc Holliday
Kevin Costner
Dane
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$1,200
[13]
Proofreadersuse asymbolthat lookslikea tic-tac-toeboard toindicate "insert" this
a space
Burt :)
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$1,200
[10]
This tome was a collection of spells, charms & magical formulas for the deceased to use in the afterlife
the Book of the Dead
Burt :)
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$1,200
[11]
Comic book supervillain Cameron Hodge is an arch-foe of this group of mutant superheroes
the X-Men
Burt :)
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$1,200
[12]
If this is "mightier than the sword", then why the heck do "actions speak louder than words"?
the pen
Dane
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DD
$2,000
[2]
The majestic Victorian City Hallin East London, South Africa held the firsthearingof the post-apartheid TRC, this commission
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Burt :)
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$1,600
[7]
After he solved crimes in L.A. as Jim Rockford, he played the aging Earp doing the same in "Sunset"
James Garner
Dane
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$1,600
[9]
Thecompass rose, which contains the cross of St. George, symbolizes this church's communion
the Anglican
Burt :)
Emily
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$1,600
[21]
In Old Egypt, this cross shaped like a "T" with a loop at the top was a symbol of life
an ankh
Burt :)
|
DD
$2,000
[14]
James Boswell recounted this British man of letters' affection for his cat Hodge, for whom he bought oysters
Dr. Samuel Johnson
Dane
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$1,600
[18]
Wait a minute--"Opposites attract", but these "flock together"? huh?
birds of a feather
Dane
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$2,000
[3]
South Africa's national bird is the blue variety of this avian; also warriors once wore its feathers into battle
a (blue) crane
Burt :)
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$2,000
[8]
Long before he was Grandpa Walton, heplayed Earp in "Winchester '73"
Will Geer
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$2,000
[4]
In heraldry, this word follows "bend" to denote adiagonal lineending in the lower left
a bend sinister
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$2,000
[1]
This "City of the Sun" was home to the cult of the Sun god Ra
Heliopolis
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$2,000
[20]
"Drummer Hodge", a poem by this "Mayor of Casterbridge" author, recounts a young soldier's burial
Thomas Hardy
Burt :)
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$2,000
[19]
So do I need a bigger kitchen, or not? "Many hands make light work", but "Too many cooks spoil" this stuff
the stew (the broth)
Dane
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Both issued in April, 80 years apart, the first proclamations by these 2 presidents each declared national days of mourning
Andrew Johnson & Harry Truman