2023 Champions Wildcard Spades quarterfinal game 3.
John Bussard — a Marine aviator originally from Ringoes, New Jersey
Kendra Blanchette — a registered dietitian from Elk Grove, California
Evan Roberts — a chemistry teacher from Louisville, Kentucky
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evan | $1,000 | $4,000 | $6,000 |
$0
3rd place: $5,000 |
$6,000
12 R, 2 W |
| Kendra | $4,200 | $6,200 | $23,200 |
$17,999
Winner: semifinalist |
$18,000
20 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| John | $2,200 | $5,800 | $14,200 |
$14,200
2nd place: $5,000 |
$10,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| EARTH SCIENCE | PLEASE BEAR WITH ME | WE TRY TO STAY NEUTRAL | ART, FOR ART'S SAKE | STATE OF THE ESTATE | MIRROR WORDS |
|
$200
[11]
In a mining lode, the gangue is the junk & this is the mineral with the good stuff in it
ore
Kendra
|
$200
[3]
A Feb. 2023 headline said this movie about one seriously hopped-up ursine "snorts up $23 million opening weekend"
Cocaine Bear
Evan
|
$200
[12]
Gender-neutral baby names are on the rise, especially this one of Mr. Lautner or Ms. Swift
Taylor
Evan
|
$200
[6]
Joseph Karl Stieler's early 19th century portrait of this man captures his energy & ferocity
Beethoven
John
|
$200
[30]
Bill Gates' Xanadu 2.0
Washington
Kendra
|
$200
[21]
The kind of chatter some have "the gift of" & a sack that might hold a gift
gab & bag
Evan
|
|
$400
[17]
This temperature oscillation in the equatorial Pacific Ocean was also a nickname of the young Rafael Nadal
El Niño
John
|
$400
[4]
Wocka wocka! To voice this Muppet, Frank Oz said, "I had to flesh him out, so I made him desperately insecure"
Fozzie Bear
John
|
$400
[13]
In the 1970s baseball players & owners began to use a neutral 3rd person to resolve salary disputes in "binding" this
arbitration
Kendra
|
$400
[7]
He's the former stockbroker who painted women of Tahiti seen here
Gauguin
Kendra
|
$400
[29]
James Madison's Montpelier
Virginia
John
|
$400
[22]
A navigator's charts & unwanted inbox messages
spam & maps
Evan
|
|
$600
[18]
It's not just oil--Saudi Arabia has reserves of over 300 trillion cubic feet of this
natural gas
John
|
$600
[1]
Movie within a movie time! In "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent", Nic Cage & Pedro Pascal swoon over this Brit-based bear "2"
Paddington
Evan
|
$800
[15]
Lucky for you, when it comes to acids & bases, this pH number is neutral
7
Kendra
|
$600
[8]
Dali's "Persistence of Memory" features 3 of these objects appearing to wilt
watches (clocks)
Kendra
|
$600
[28]
W.K. Kellogg Manor House
Michigan
John
|
$600
[23]
Your best buddies & an open hand smack to the face
pals & slap
Evan
|
|
$800
[19]
Seismographers use the difference in speed between P waves & S waves to help locate this point
the epicenter (of an earthquake)
John
|
$800
[2]
This man as Jackie Moon, after a stunt on the court with a bear goes awry in "Semi-Pro": "If you have a small child, use it as a shield!"
Will Ferrell
John
|
$1,000
[16]
In 1927, hedid not go to a neutral corner after knocking down Gene Tunney who may have gotten a 14-second long count
Jack Dempsey
Evan
John
|
$800
[9]
She's the American-born expatriate whose work is seen here
(Mary) Cassatt
John
|
$800
[27]
The Biltmore Estate on 8,000 acres
North Carolina
John
|
$800
[24]
Ceramic vessels & a save made by a goalie
pots & stop
Evan
|
|
$1,000
[20]
Some ocean sediment is radiolarian ooze, made of these parts of tiny protozoans
little skeletons (shells)
|
$1,000
[5]
Phil Harris provided the bear necessities as this character in 1967's "The Jungle Book"
Baloo
Kendra
|
DD
$1,600
[14]
Soon after a beating by France at Marignano in 1515, this country decided expansion was out & neutrality was in
Switzerland
Kendra
|
$1,000
[10]
The unique modern stylings of this abstract Dutchman are seen in his "Broadway Boogie Woogie"
Mondrian
|
$1,000
[26]
The Asa Packer Mansion, home of the railroad magnate & founder of Lehigh University
Pennsylvania
John
|
$1,000
[25]
Money for the return of something lost & a compartment in a cabinet to keep it in
reward & drawer
Kendra
|
| WHERE'S THE PROBLEM? | HOW'S THE KING TAKING IT? | WAXING PHILOSOPHICAL | ANIMAL VERBS | LOONEY TUNES | MERRY MELODIES |
|
$400
[3]
Cirrhosis
the liver
John
|
$400
[9]
His diary for July 14, 1789, the day the Bastille was stormed, read, "Rien", meaning "nothing"
Louis XVI
Kendra
|
$400
[26]
This philosopher & partner of Engels took up residence in London after being expelled from Prussia in 1849
Marx
John
|
$400
[25]
To selfishly take more than one's share, especially of the road
hog
John
|
$400
[14]
In "Hare Tonic", he hopes to make wabbit stew fwom that twickster Bugs Bunny
Elmer Fudd
Evan
|
$400
[19]
The cheerful tune you'rehearingis this composer's overture to "H.M.S. Pinafore"
Sullivan
John
|
|
$800
[5]
Rhinitis
the nose
Kendra
|
$1,200
[11]
As quoted in "Die Hard", when this ancient guy "saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer"
Alexander the Great
Evan
|
$800
[27]
Seen here the death of this Athenian philosopher was immortalized by Jacques Louis David in 1787
Socrates
Kendra
|
$800
[24]
To live off the expenses of others, giving nothing in return
leech (to sponge)
Evan
|
$800
[15]
In "Buccaneer Bunny", he calls himself the "blood-thirstiest, shoot-'em firstiest, doggone worstiest"
Yosemite Sam
Kendra
|
$800
[20]
The Liberty Bell March by John Philip Sousa became this comedy troupe's theme song
Monty Python
John
|
|
$1,200
[6]
Silicosis
the lungs
John
|
$1,600
[12]
The work seenheredepicts this Trojan king pleading with Achilles to return his son's body
King Priam
Evan
|
$1,200
[28]
This 17th century French philosopher & mathematician accepted Queen Christina's refuge in Sweden & died there
Descartes
Kendra
|
$1,200
[4]
To crash into with great force, as when battering down a door
ram
Kendra
|
$1,200
[16]
An anvil, rocket skates & a do-it-yourself tornado kit are items Wile E. Coyote has bought from this corporation
Acme
Kendra
|
$1,200
[21]
This ode by Friedrich von Schiller is set to music in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
"Ode To Joy"
John
|
|
$1,600
[7]
Glossitis
the tongue
Kendra
|
$2,000
[13]
In this event that brought Mussolini to power, King Victor Emmanuel III refused to bring in the army to stop him
his March on Rome
|
$1,600
[29]
In "Metaphysics of Morals", this 18th c. man wrote that one who makes himself a worm can't complain if he's stepped on
Immanuel Kant
John
|
$1,600
[1]
To deceive or trick
outfox (to fox)
Evan
|
$1,600
[17]
I say, he got above-the-title billing in the punningly named "Of Rice and Hen"
Foghorn Leghorn
John
|
$1,600
[22]
This composer also known for ballets composed amerry waltzfor his opera "Eugene Onegin"
Tchaikovsky
|
|
$2,000
[8]
Ménière's disease
the ear
Evan
|
DD
$5,000
[10]
On March 7, 1774 George III complained of "outrageous proceedings at" this city, especially in its harbor
Boston
Kendra
|
$2,000
[30]
This philosopher's foundation convened an international war crimes tribunal to publicize U.S. atrocities in Vietnam
Bertrand Russell
|
$2,000
[2]
To hum, buzz or speak in a monotonous tone
drone
Kendra
|
$2,000
[18]
In "Hare-Way to the Stars", he informs Bugs that he's going to blow up the Earth because it obstructs his view of Venus
Marvin the Martian
Kendra
|
DD
$6,000
[23]
This 19th c. composer's Mazurka No. 9 (Op. 7 No. 5) is one of the peppier ones
Chopin
John
|
His 1904 will stipulated that "all the sums hereinbefore specified for prizes shall be used for prizes only"
Joseph Pulitzer