2023 Champions Wildcard Spades quarterfinal game 4.
Joe Feldmann — a technology professional from Bethesda, Maryland
Amanda Ganske — a product marketing manager from Austin, Texas
Brendan Sargent — a small business owner originally from Worcester, Massachusetts
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brendan | $4,800 | $7,000 | $15,800 |
$5,999
2nd place: $5,000 |
$15,800
20 R, 2 W |
| Amanda | $-400 | $0 | $11,000 |
$0
3rd place: $5,000 |
$10,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Joe | $1,200 | $2,200 | $12,800 |
$22,800
Winner: semifinalist |
$10,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE | MOVIES AS TV NEWS STORIES | I HAVE A PREPOSITION FOR YOU | FRANKLY | MADEIRA | I DON'T GIVE A... |
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$200
[27]
Indonesia's the place to see this ape whose name comes from Malay for "person of the forest"
an orangutan
Amanda
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$200
[1]
Rocky Balboa has begun training Adonis Johnson; will Adonis have the eye of the tiger? That's up next in sports
Creed
Amanda
Joe
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$200
[28]
These 2 prepositions are absolutely critical in a crossword puzzle
across & down
Amanda
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$200
[25]
The Imperial Hotel he designed in Tokyo survived quakes & wars but was demolished in 1968
Frank Lloyd Wright
Brendan
Amanda
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$200
[29]
In addition to its famous wine, Madeira farmers grow a dwarf species of this tropical fruit of the genus Musa
banana
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$200
[30]
Starchy tuber from Africa
a yam
Brendan
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$400
[26]
Go deep (though not 20,000 leagues) to find Architeuthis dux, this rarely seen cephalopod
a giant squid
Amanda
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$400
[12]
A crime novelist, dead in his mansion under mysterious circumstances. Benoit Blanc, on the case. Eyewitness News starts now
Knives Out
Brendan
Joe
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$400
[14]
As a noun, it's your rear; as a preposition, it means toward the rear
behind
Brendan
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$400
[24]
He penned 1981's "God Emperor of Dune"
(Frank) Herbert
Joe
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$600
[17]
In the 1470s this explorer worked & lived in Madeira & married Felipa, the daughter of one of its governors
Columbus
Joe
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$400
[23]
The Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridgeis near this landmark
the Hoover Dam
Brendan
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$600
[15]
The Amur tiger, aka this tiger, ranges from southeastern Russia to northern China
the Siberian tiger
Brendan
Joe
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$600
[9]
2 musicians dressed like undertakers led police on a wild chase through Chicago. Their car, & many others, did not survive the trip
The Blues Brothers
Brendan
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$600
[13]
It means against, whether in a legal action or a sports contest
versus
Brendan
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$600
[11]
Frank Ocean's first label album was "Channel" this color, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard charts
Orange
Brendan
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$800
[16]
Madeira wine is fortified with this spirit to raise the alcohol content to about 20%
brandy
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$600
[19]
Westphalian & Bayonne are types of this cut of meat
ham
Brendan
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$800
[5]
Formosan rock macaques are only found in Japan & in the mountains & forests of this Asian island
Taiwan
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$800
[4]
A young man from Mumbai won big on a game show tonight; the winning final answer? Aramis, from "The Three Musketeers"!
Slumdog Millionaire
Joe
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$800
[10]
Meaning "more distant than", it also follows "the great" to denote the afterlife
beyond
Amanda
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$800
[7]
He won 3 Oscars as a director, including one for "It Happened One Night"
(Frank) Capra
Brendan
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DD
$1,000
[22]
The Atlantic Ocean archipelago of Madeira is an autonomous region of this nation
Portugal
Amanda
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$800
[18]
Wrestling throw that puts an opponent on the canvas back-first
a body slam (a powerslam)
Brendan
Amanda
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$1,000
[2]
We have good hope you can tell us this alternate name for the African buffalo (it lives in Africa, by the way)
a Cape buffalo
Brendan
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$1,000
[3]
An APB is out for a man who escaped a southern chain gang; authorities noted the man's amazing blue eyes & "failure to communicate"
Cool Hand Luke
Brendan
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$1,000
[6]
You "go" this "to get" this to make a social situation go smoothly
along
Amanda
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$1,000
[8]
This composer got a Pulitzer for "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"
Frank Loesser
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$1,000
[21]
The British temporarily occupied Madeira during the wars named for this man
Napoleon
Amanda
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$1,000
[20]
Unit of weight; it's equal to 3.89 grams
a dram
Amanda
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| EX-SOVIET REPUBLICS | ALPHABET POP | LOOK IN THE CABINET | NUN BUT THE BRAVE | ARCHITECTURE TERMS | NUMBERS 4 LETTERS |
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$400
[15]
The disaster at this facility near the city of Pripyat in 1986 contaminated large areas of northern Ukraine
Chernobyl
Joe
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$400
[1]
Turn up the radio, it's "Life Goes On", Billboard's first ever Korean language No. 1 hit by this group
BTS
Brendan
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$400
[6]
The Judiciary Act of 1789 created this Cabinet job
Attorney General
Brendan
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$400
[23]
Spanish nun María de Gaucin is said to have left her convent to become a matadora, one of these, & then returned
a bullfighter
Amanda
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$400
[30]
Miss this term for the main body of a church & it sounds like you don't know Jack
the nave
Joe
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$400
[18]
The day begins:4-1-23-14
dawn
Amanda
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$800
[14]
Thesemountains between the Black & the Caspian Seas straddled Georgia's northern border
the Caucasus
Joe
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$800
[2]
This rap trio, in 1986: "Wasn't me she was foolin', 'cause she knew what she was doin', when she told me how to walk this way"
Run-DMC
Amanda
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$800
[7]
In 1981 the Maritime Administration was transferred from Commerce to this Cabinet department
Department of Transportation
Joe
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$800
[24]
In 1831 Catherine McAuley founded the Sisters of Mercy in this world capital to care for the poor & destitute
Dublin, Ireland
Brendan
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$800
[29]
The Philadelphia Museum of Artwas designed as a vast temple in this style inspired by antiquity
neoclassicism
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$800
[19]
A Canaanite god:2-1-1-12
Baal
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|
$1,200
[13]
When the ice from the last glacial age melted, the exposed lands of this northernmost Baltic nation turned green
Estonia
Joe
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$1,200
[3]
This U.K. reggae-pop band with hits in the '80s & '90s took its name from a British unemployment form
UB40
Amanda
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$1,200
[9]
The first Cabinet secretary in the line of presidential succession
the Secretary of State
Joe
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$1,600
[26]
Dating back to 1609, the Loreto nuns use the same "rule" as this male teaching order founded in 1534
the Jesuits
Joe
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$1,200
[16]
Thislow wall on the top of a castle may feature crenellation
a parapet
Amanda
Joe
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$1,200
[20]
It's ready for war:1-18-13-25
an army
Amanda
Joe
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$1,600
[12]
The largest nation in Central Asia, this landlocked "stan" has abundant mineral & petroleum resources
Kazakhstan
Amanda
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$1,600
[4]
Their Texas boogie rock hits include "Gimme All Your Lovin" & "Sharp Dressed Man"
ZZ Top
Brendan
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$1,600
[8]
The secretary of this newest Cabinet department is last in the order of presidential succession, behind Veterans Affairs
Homeland Security
Brendan
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$2,000
[27]
It's the classic work in which you'll find "The Nun's Priest's Tale"
The Canterbury Tales
Brendan
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$1,600
[17]
Along with Tuscan, Ionic, Corinthian & composite, it's the 5th of the orders in ancient architecture
Doric
Brendan
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$1,600
[21]
The thread of a long story:25-1-18-14
a yarn
Amanda
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$2,000
[11]
Following the independence of Belarus in 1991, its capital Minsk became the headquarters of this organization, the C.I.S.
the Commonwealth of Independent States
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$2,000
[5]
Red Foo & Sky Blu, shown here
LMFAO
Brendan
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DD
$4,200
[10]
At the time of its establishment in 1849, this Cabinet department was also known as the Home Department
the Department of the Interior
Joe
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DD
$3,000
[25]
3-word title of Sister Helen Prejean's powerful account of being a death row counselor
Dead Man Walking
Amanda
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$2,000
[28]
The construction technique of vertical posts & crosspieces is called "post & lintel" or "post &" this
beam
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$2,000
[22]
A shade of blue:3-25-1-14
cyan
Amanda
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In this nation of 360,000 people, you can walk along the boundaries of the Eurasian & North American tectonic plates
Iceland