Show #8947 2023-10-10 (taped 2023-08-30) Champions Wildcard

2023 Champions Wildcard Spades quarterfinal game 7.

Contestants

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

Scores

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

Jeopardy! Round

NOT SO RECENT SCIENCE NASCAR GEOGRAPHY COMPOSERS & THEIR KIN HERALDRY MOIST THINGS GO ____
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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

Double Jeopardy! Round

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

Final Jeopardy!

NEW ZEALAND

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

Robert "What is LEGO?" — wagered $1,400
Joe "What is Canterbury?" — wagered $10,000
Morgan "What is Westminster?" — wagered $6,000

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