2023 Champions Wildcard Spades quarterfinal game 2.
Greg Marrero — a school administrator from Huntington Beach, California
Katrina Hill — a program officer from Alexandria, Virginia
Lawrence Long — a nursing student and stay-at-home uncle from East Bend, North Carolina
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence | $2,600 | $7,800 | $22,600 |
$22,600
Winner: semifinalist |
$16,800
24 R (including 3 DDs), 4 W |
| Katrina | $1,200 | $4,400 | $6,400 |
$6,284
3rd place: $5,000 |
$6,400
13 R, 1 W |
| Greg | $4,000 | $4,600 | $8,600 |
$17,199
2nd place: $5,000 |
$8,600
12 R, 0 W |
| THIS IS MY COUNTRY | NAME: THE CLASSIC SONG | HEY, LAD-"E" | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ATTRACTIONS | FOOD FOR THOUGHT | 2 VOWELS, ONE CONSONANT |
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$200
[6]
1969-1974--Georges Pompidou
France
Lawrence
|
$200
[20]
"I wish that I had" his "girl... where can I find a woman like that?"
Jessie
Katrina
|
$200
[10]
Flying "may not be all plain sailing... but the fun of it is worth the price", said this woman, who would know
Earhart
Katrina
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$200
[15]
Of course you can tour our Sony Pictures Studio lot, which, back in the day, was this studio famous for its musicals
MGM
Lawrence
Greg
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$200
[21]
The B vitamins in these, whether deviled, poached or Benedict, may help to prevent brain shrinkage
eggs
Greg
|
$200
[30]
"Serpentine" feathery wrap
a boa
Katrina
|
|
$400
[5]
1957-1971--Papa Doc Duvalier
Haiti
Greg
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$400
[19]
"What's The Frequency", this guy? "Is your Benzedrine, uh huh, I was brain-dead, locked out, numb, not up to speed"
Kenneth
Lawrence
|
$400
[11]
In 1892 this founder of Christian Science moved to a house called Pleasant View in Concord, New Hampshire
(Mary Baker) Eddy
Lawrence
|
$400
[9]
Thisiconic venue has been presenting summer concerts for more than 100 years
the Hollywood Bowl
Katrina
|
$400
[22]
These colorful fruits of the genus Vaccinium are often called "brainberries"
blueberries
Greg
|
$400
[29]
Bravo at the bullfight
olé
Lawrence
|
|
$600
[4]
1999-2008--Thabo Mbeki
South Africa
Lawrence
|
$600
[18]
"You in that dress, my thoughts I confess, verge on dirty, come on", her; may we add, "Toora loora toora loo-rye-ay"
Eileen
Katrina
|
$600
[12]
She earned Oscar nominations for her screenplays for "When Harry Met Sally..." & "Sleepless in Seattle"
Nora Ephron
Katrina
|
$600
[8]
It covers over 4,200 acres & it's where you'll find the Greek Theatre & a world famous observatory
Griffith Park
Greg
|
$600
[23]
Pumpkin seeds are rich in Zn, this memory-enhancing element
zinc
Katrina
|
$600
[28]
An untouched tennis serve
an ace
Lawrence
|
|
DD
$1,000
[2]
1935-1944--Manuel Quezon
the Philippines
Lawrence
|
$800
[16]
"Help Me", this woman whose name repeats 13 times in the chorus, "Help me... get her out of my heart"
Rhonda
Lawrence
|
$800
[13]
In 1588 she is said to have donned a full suit of armor to rally English troops & sailors who were battling the Spanish
Queen Elizabeth I
Greg
|
$800
[1]
Long Beach is home to this historic ocean liner with a royal name
the Queen Mary
Lawrence
|
$800
[24]
Deep-water fish like wild salmon are rich in omega-3 these, essential to brain function
fatty acids
Katrina
|
$800
[27]
Simian word for "mimic"
ape
Katrina
|
|
$1,000
[3]
On the throne from 1951-1993--King Baudouin
Belgium
Greg
|
$1,000
[17]
"Ooh my little pretty one, pretty one, when you gonna give me some time", this woman? "M-m-m-my" this woman
Sharona
Lawrence
|
$1,000
[14]
She was the queen consort of Louis VII of France & Henry II of England
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Lawrence
|
$1,000
[7]
This sports venue popularly known as "The House that Kobe Built" was recently renamed the Crypto.com Arena
the Staples Center
Greg
|
$1,000
[25]
Monounsaturated fats in these "alligator pears" can lower blood pressure & promote a healthy brain
avocados
Lawrence
|
$1,000
[26]
Contend for superiority
vie
Lawrence
|
| LITERARY BIOGRAPHY | 20th CENTURY FOX HISTORY | WEAVE GOT SEWING CLUES | THE CONGO RIVER | MEN OF MICHIGAN | 4, 4 |
|
$400
[6]
A book about Poe "& the forging of American science" points out that in his one year at this school, Edgar was great at math
West Point
Lawrence
|
$400
[29]
In 1940, this odd couple comedy duo left Hal Roach Studios & soon signed with 20th Century Fox
Laurel & Hardy
Greg
|
$400
[1]
Some really awesome quilts can be made in this manner, also an adjective for any sort of haphazard or hodgepodge way
patchwork
Lawrence
|
$400
[28]
The Congo rises, in part, in the highlands of Zambia before traveling 2,900 miles in a giant arc to this ocean
the Atlantic
Greg
|
$400
[30]
Hi, my name is (what?) My name is (who?) My name is this Detroit rapper who has his own hip-hop channel
Eminem (Slim Shady)
Lawrence
|
$400
[19]
The Oxford English Dictionary has this synonym for a tie going back to a 1796 horse race
a dead heat
|
|
$800
[7]
Laura Dassow Walls tried to capture this many-sided man in a book published 200 years after his 1817 birth in Concord
Thoreau
Lawrence
|
$800
[17]
10 years after Newman & Redford, Tom Berenger & William Katt played this duo in their early days
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Lawrence
|
$800
[2]
Louis XIV loved these from Les Gobelins; here'sone of him visiting the factory in Paris
tapestries
Katrina
|
$800
[27]
A harrowing voyage up the Congo River around 1890 by Joseph Conrad was the basis for this 1902 tale
Heart of Darkness
Katrina
|
$800
[18]
He won an NCAA hoops title at Michigan State in 1979, then presto! He was the first overall NBA pick & it was Showtime
Magic Johnson
Katrina
|
$800
[20]
It's slang for the offspring of a celeb who becomes a celeb too
a nepo baby
Lawrence
|
|
$1,600
[9]
Jenn Shapland's "My Autobiography of" this "Heart is a Lonely Hunter" writer looks at her sexuality
Carson McCullers
Lawrence
|
$1,200
[16]
This actor plies Zac Efron with showbiz dreams, shots of booze & dancing in "The Greatest Showman"
Hugh Jackman
Katrina
|
$1,200
[3]
This ritzy word that means "put on" in French is a layered sewing technique
appliqué
|
DD
$1,000
[11]
These 2 capital cities, of the R.O.C & the D.R.O.C., lie across from each other on opposite banks of the Congo River
Kinshasa & Brazzaville
Lawrence
|
$1,200
[21]
Born in Flint, this prolific documentarian wrote the book "Dude, Where's My Country?"
Michael Moore
Lawrence
|
$1,200
[24]
One of these is to keep a bar of scented soap in with your dirty laundry when you travel to help clothes smell clean
a life hack
|
|
$2,000
[10]
"Super-Infinite" is a bio of this man of Shakespeare's time known for sexy poems & later, strongly moral sermons
John Donne
|
$1,600
[14]
The bombing of the city of Darwin is featured in this 2008 Baz Luhrmann epic
Australia
Lawrence
|
$1,600
[4]
In myth, this woman bought time by unweaving aburial shroudmeant for her husband's father, Laertes
Penelope
Lawrence
|
$1,200
[13]
The Boyoma Falls, below which the Congo River becomes more navigable, were once named for this explorer who sought Dr. Livingstone
Stanley
Greg
|
$1,600
[22]
Long before becoming New York's governor, & not beating Truman, this Owosso-born man graduated from the University of Michigan in 1923
Dewey
Lawrence
|
$1,600
[25]
The Nobel Banquet is held in Stockholm in this room that can hold 1,300 guests
the Blue Hall
|
|
DD
$7,800
[8]
Taken from the title of one of her poems, "Mad Girl's Love Song" is a biography about this 20th-century woman & her "Life Before Ted"
Sylvia Plath
Lawrence
|
$2,000
[15]
In this 1952 film assassins gun down the title Mexican revolutionary but miss his horse
Viva Zapata!
Lawrence
Greg
|
$2,000
[5]
This word from heraldry is also the name of a simple stitch consisting of repeating V shapes
chevron
|
$1,600
[12]
The river's basin supports the second largest rainforest on Earth, home to the Dryas monkey & this so-called pygmy chimpanzee
the bonobo
Katrina
|
$2,000
[23]
Tragically, this Grand Rapids man lost his life in an Apollo 1 training exercise along with Gus Grissom & Ed White
Roger Chaffee
|
$2,000
[26]
This situation means one negative consequence leads to another; Jim Collins popularized the term in his book "Good to Great"
a doom loop
|
In the early 1500s he produced a codex in words & pictures on the flight of birds, one of many subjects that interested him
Leonardo da Vinci