2023 Champions Wildcard Spades quarterfinal game 7.
Robert Kaine — an editor from Los Angeles, California
Joe Velasco — a director of customer care originally from La Mirada, California
Morgan Briles — a librarian from Norman, Oklahoma
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan | $3,200 | $11,300 | $18,900 |
$12,900
2nd place: $5,000 |
$17,200
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Joe | $2,000 | $3,400 | $10,200 |
$20,200
Winner: semifinalist |
$9,800
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Robert | $200 | $200 | $8,600 |
$7,200
3rd place: $5,000 |
$8,200
14 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| NOT SO RECENT SCIENCE | NASCAR GEOGRAPHY | COMPOSERS & THEIR KIN | HERALDRY | MOIST THINGS | GO ____ |
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$200
[14]
Lavoisier was one of the men on the committee that came up with this measurement system in the 1790s
the metric system
Robert
|
$200
[10]
Daytona International Speedway
Florida
Morgan
Robert
|
$200
[8]
Though he wrote a number of operas, Michael Haydn is far less famous than this older brother
Joseph (Haydn)
Morgan
Joe
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$200
[27]
In heraldry, a cross surrounded by 4 small crosses is known as the Crusaders' cross or the cross of this city
Jerusalem
Joe
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$200
[1]
This 9-letter word for a small piece of paper used for cleansing often follows "moist"
towelette
Robert
|
$200
[2]
2-word response to an opponent who asks for cards you don't have
Go fish
Joe
|
|
$400
[15]
In 1891 Brucia, the 323rd asteroid discovered, was unique as it was the first one found by using these
photography (photographs from a camera)
Robert
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$400
[9]
Sonoma Raceway
California
Morgan
|
$400
[22]
His 18th child, Johann Christian, wrote operas for the King's Theatre in London
Johann Sebastian Bach
Joe
|
$400
[3]
When heraldic images are termed "sanglant", it means they are symbolically stained with this
blood
Morgan
|
$400
[4]
In chapter I of "Bleak House" this is "everywhere... up the river... down the river... in the eyes & throats..."
fog
Morgan
|
$400
[6]
In a rhyming phrase, it means to move with the prevailing trend
go with the flow
Robert
|
|
$600
[18]
Around 335 B.C., this Greek founded the Lyceum, where he taught logic & observation
Aristotle
Morgan
|
$600
[11]
Talladega Superspeedway
Alabama
Morgan
|
$600
[23]
At the age of 3 in Salzburg, he began to mimic the keyboard playing of his 7-year-old sister Nannerl
Mozart
Morgan
|
$600
[28]
A symbol of the Byzantine Empire, the double-headed this was made the national emblem of the Russian Federation in 1993
an eagle
Morgan
|
$600
[5]
This moist cake with cream cheese icing is probably the most popular cake named for a garden root veggie
carrot cake
Joe
|
$600
[7]
Make more effort than required, like by walking 1,760 more yards
to go the extra mile
Joe
|
|
$800
[19]
The discovery of this element in 1669 has led to a lot of friction--in matches
phosphorus
Joe
Robert
|
$800
[12]
Martinsville Speedway, Richmond Raceway
Virginia
Joe
|
$800
[24]
We hope that Liszt was on the guest list when his daughter Cosima married this "Die Walkure" composer in 1870
Wagner
Robert
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$1,000
[30]
A principle used as a basis for judging, or, in heraldry, a monarch's long, tapering flag
his standard
|
$800
[21]
This Iberian plant seenherehanging from trees needs to be in a moist habitat
Spanish moss
Morgan
|
$800
[16]
In a wrestling metaphor, to fight fiercely
to go to the mat
|
|
$1,000
[20]
In 1879, after thousands of failures, Edison found a simple scorched cotton thread worked best as one of these
a filament
Morgan
|
$1,000
[13]
Watkins Glen International
New York
Morgan
|
$1,000
[25]
Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, was a composer as well as the brother-in-law of this British queen
Queen Victoria
Morgan
|
DD
$2,500
[29]
The white at the top of the Canadian territorialcoat of armsrepresents polar regions; the wavy blue line--this trade route
the Northwest Passage
Morgan
|
$1,000
[26]
From the Latin for "tear", these glands keep the eyeballs moist
lachrymal glands
|
$1,000
[17]
A synonym for "get lost"; you might tell Ben Franklin to do it
go fly a kite
Morgan
|
| NICE SIDE WHISKERS! | BRANDO | I WROTE THAT LINE | GAS | FOOD | LODGING |
|
$400
[27]
Before becoming a prolific author, hetaught biochemistry
Asimov
Morgan
|
$400
[1]
"Family" man Don Vito Corleone
The Godfather
Robert
|
$400
[29]
"Of neither Darcy nor Wickham could she think, without feeling that she had been blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd"
Austen
Morgan
|
$400
[15]
It's the most common U.S. residential liquefied petroleum gas
propane
Joe
Robert
|
$400
[7]
An energetic person is full of these, maybe the fava type
beans
Robert
|
$400
[30]
If you're looking at a long time in Tempe, try Studio 6, the extended-stay version of this chain
Motel 6
Morgan
Robert
|
|
$800
[26]
Hewas both the 8th vice president & the 8th president
Van Buren
Morgan
|
$800
[2]
Blanche's brother-in-law Stanley
A Streetcar Named Desire
Joe
|
$800
[28]
"Why didn't you tell me that that infernal harpooneer was a cannibal?"
Melville
Robert
|
$800
[16]
Having learned from the Hindenburg, modern airships use helium in place of this explosive gas
hydrogen
Robert
|
$800
[8]
Government money that a congressman steers toward his home district
a pork barrel
Joe
|
$800
[24]
What some say the movie "Stagecoach" is, or a hotel chain with more than 4,000 hotels
best Western
Robert
|
|
$1,200
[18]
Here's this waltz king at around age 50
Johann Strauss
Joe
|
$1,200
[4]
Terry Malloy, who could've been a contender
On the Waterfront
Robert
|
$1,200
[25]
"Remedios the beauty stayed there wandering through the desert of solitude... maturing in her dreams without nightmares"
Gabriel García Márquez
|
$1,200
[11]
Used in WWI & against Iraq's Kurds, it's named for its smell
mustard gas
Morgan
|
$1,200
[12]
To urge on, or a food item that is judged by a process known as candling
egg
Robert
|
$1,200
[23]
Spelled the same way as a type of regular payment, it's a small European hotel or boarding house
a pension
|
|
$1,600
[3]
Here's this general late in life, still sporting his signature side whiskers
General Burnside
Morgan
|
DD
$2,000
[5]
Rebellious naval Lt. Fletcher Christian
Mutiny on the Bounty
Robert
|
DD
$2,000
[21]
"The men upon the floor were going about their work. Neither squeals of hogs nor tears of visitors made any difference to them"
Upton Sinclair
Joe
|
$1,600
[10]
C4H10chemically, it's used in refrigeration & in cigarette lighters
butane
Joe
|
$1,600
[13]
Diana Prince occasionally has to take her hair out of this to become Wonder Woman
a bun
Morgan
|
$1,600
[22]
A San Diego icon, the Hotel del this has been hosting guests, including presidents, since the 1880s
Coronado
Robert
|
|
$2,000
[17]
Hislong reign over Austria-Hungary ended with his death in 1916
Franz Joseph
Morgan
Joe
Robert
|
$2,000
[6]
Johnny, leader of the Black Rebels
The Wild One
|
$2,000
[20]
"In the actions of all men... where there is no impartial arbiter, one must consider the final result"
Machiavelli
|
$2,000
[9]
It's the common name for nitrous oxide, often used in dentistry to relieve pain
laughing gas
Joe
|
$2,000
[14]
A story or joke that's been repeated often, maybe too often
a chestnut
Robert
|
$2,000
[19]
Escoffier was once the chef of this elegant French-named hotel at Fifth Avenue & 61st Street
the Pierre
|
Christchurch is the largest city in this New Zealand region that shares its name with an English city known for a church begun in the 6th century
Canterbury