Show #8948 2023-10-11 (taped 2023-08-30) Champions Wildcard

2023 Champions Wildcard Spades quarterfinal game 8.

Contestants

Karla Fossett — a senior content administrator from Saco, Maine

Robert Won — a math professor from Washington, D.C.

Sam Stapleton — a college consultant from Los Gatos, California

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sam $7,000 $8,600 $30,800 $30,800
Winner: semifinalist
$22,800
25 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Robert $2,600 $6,600 $4,600 $4,600
2nd place: $5,000
$12,600
17 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Karla $1,000 $2,000 $7,600 $0
3rd place: $5,000
$7,600
11 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

STATE THE ITEM SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER THE CALIFORNIANS SURELY YOU JOUST TAKE MY "Y", PLEASE!
$200 [12]
You get your hole cards & then deal with the flop in this card game, but you're far from done
Texas hold 'em
Robert
$200 [5]
Since 2014 Michael Che & Colin Jost have co-hosted this "SNL" sendup of TV news programs
Weekend Update
Sam
$200 [27]
Some of the great sights of Giza are the pyramids & my van on the bank of this river
the Nile
Sam
$200 [25]
In 2010, the Cali Hall of Fame inducted this Facebook dude, even though he's totally from New York, for reals
Zuckerberg
Robert
$200 [24]
King Arthur set up the diamond jousts, a series of 9 annual tournaments all won by this knight
Lancelot
Sam
$200 [17]
Take this toy I use to "walk the dog"; I tried that "warp drive" trick, & now I'm in traction
a yo-yo
Sam
$400 [11]
This Disney show about a pop star leading 2 very separate lives debuted in 2006
Hannah Montana
Sam
$400 [4]
This "SNL" character who is most definitely his own thing starred in a Halloween special in 2017; any questions?!
David S. Pumpkins
$400 [28]
I drove on the left to park my van beside this river, right near the U.K.'s Houses of Parliament
the Thames
Karla
$400 [19]
Shyeah, this Chief Justice known for his commission spoke for the Court in Brown v. Board of Education, you know?
Warren
Robert
$400 [23]
This synonym for jousting that sounds like a pinball term refers to the barrier between the opponents
tilt (tilting)
Sam Robert
$400 [16]
Take this crossbar with 2 U-shaped pieces; my oxen are on strike, & they refuse to wear it
a yoke
Sam
$600 [8]
One outcome of this educational video game that bore the name of this 19th c. historical route? "You have died of dysentery"
The Oregon Trail
Sam
$600 [3]
This "SNL" icon: "N.Y.'s hottest club is whimsy... this place has everything ... kufi hats, congas, MTV's Dan Cortese..."
Stefon
Sam
$600 [29]
Darned van broke down for good on River Road in Baton Rouge, beside this river
the Mississippi
Robert
$600 [18]
"Yo" as in Yosemite, this bro established a gnarly photography department at the Cali School of Fine Arts in 1946
Ansel Adams
Robert
$600 [22]
The National Jousting Association says the first recorded joust came in this year, same as the Battle of Hastings
1066
Karla
$600 [15]
Take this pack animal I brought back from Asia; it grunts so much I can't sleep at night
a yak
Robert
$800 [9]
It's not a Birmingham jail; it's Southern Comfort, sloe gin, amaretto & orange juice
an Alabama Slammer
Sam
$800 [1]
He debuted the character of Wayne Campbell with a "shwing!" & a prayer on "SNL" in 1989
Mike Myers
Sam
$800 [30]
Everyone remember where we parked! The van's in Al Qurnah, Iraq, where this 1,700-mile-long river joins the Tigris!
the Euphrates
Robert
$1,000 [7]
Like, for sure not a native, this father of the H-bomb totally helped create Lawrence Livermore Lab at U.C. Berkeley
Teller
Karla
$800 [21]
Today, joust fans, a bloody treat! Sir Harry has challenged Sir Gary to battle "à outrance", which means this
to the death
$800 [14]
Please take my "Learn to" do this CD; if I hear "Alpine Honeymoon" one more time, I'll go bananas
yodel
Robert
$1,000 [10]
Check out this equine doing its thing as only it can
a Tennessee Walking Horse
$1,000 [2]
In a real "Celebrity Jeopardy!" game, this"SNL" actress blew us away with her knowledge of the Hanseatic League
Jane Curtin
Sam
$1,000 [26]
Unlike Mr. Knievel, the van doesn't try to jump this river that forms part of the boundary between Idaho & Oregon
the Snake River
Robert
DD $2,600 [6]
Whoa, this guy moved to Cali in 1852, got a near-monopoly in its railroads & founded a university? Nice
(Leland) Stanford
Sam
$1,000 [20]
Most jousting was unregulated & illegal until given official sanction for the first time by this English king in 1194 A.D.
Richard I (the Lionhearted)
Sam
$1,000 [13]
Take this role in "Fiddler on the Roof"; I wanted to play it, but Bea Arthur's old Broadway costume doesn't fit me
Yenta
Robert

Double Jeopardy! Round

AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL BASEBALL MOVIE HAIKU OTHER RED, WHITE & BLUE FLAGS BOOK CLUB GRAB A "B"ITE WORDS WITHIN WORDS
$400 [27]
Marilyn, I think what was lacking in your marriage to that baseball guy was a Pulitzer, & I have one of those! So whaddya say?
Miller
Robert Karla
$400 [19]
"Ease his pain", it said/ A voice that whispered through corn/ Doc Graham got to play
Field of Dreams
Karla
$400 [14]
One of the few Asian nations to escape imperialism, itsflagtook the colors of liberty used by its allies in World War I
Thailand
Sam
$400 [30]
Charles Dickens rose to fame with "The Posthumous Papers of" this "Club"
Pickwick
Karla
$400 [28]
It's just side pork that's been cured & smoked
bacon
Karla
$400 [29]
I'm antireligious, but I prayed when this blew out at 90 miles per hour
a tire (in an tire ligious)
Karla
$800 [26]
Imelda, you're a 1950s Manila beauty queen! Nice! But marry me & be my first lady (& you'll get shoes! Lots of shoes!)
Marcos
Robert
$800 [15]
Jimmy once a pro/ Alas, war calls men away/ Nine gals beats no gals...
A League of Their Own
Robert
$1,200 [12]
The historic arms of Dubrovnik are included on this Balkan country's red, white & blue-stripedflag
Croatia
Sam
$800 [23]
Sherlock's big brother, he could be found every evening at the Diogenes Club
Mycroft
Sam
$800 [24]
Pears available in winter include the Bosc & this one
Bartlett
Karla
$800 [20]
The evangelical Protestant claimed to have seen a cherub, a type of this
an angel (in ev angel ical)
Robert
$1,200 [25]
Sorry about your hubby Marcellus' death, Octavia! But it's 40 B.C. & I love Y--no, I'm not into Egyptian girls. Why?
Mark Antony
Sam
$1,200 [9]
Lupus & Tanner/ Skilled not inside the diamond/ Buttermaker drinks
The Bad News Bears
Sam
$1,600 [5]
From 1748 to 1814, this nation flew the Danish flag; it added adark blue cross within the white cross on the red fieldin 1821
Norway
Karla
$1,600 [7]
7th graders Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia & Stacey founded this club in a 1986 kids novel; around 250 titles later, it's still in business
the Baby-Sitters Club
Robert
$1,200 [8]
Resembling tiny heads of cabbage, these are referenced as being in Belgium as early as the 13th century
Brussels sprouts
Sam
$1,200 [18]
If the Low Countries were cut off from other anesthetics, this could be used in the Netherlands
ether (in N ether lands)
$1,600 [22]
Mary, in 1936, I wanna make you wife number 2! I'm gonna unearth the world for you in East Africa!
Louis Leakey
$1,600 [2]
Annie's got problems/ Nuke & Crash are enamored/ The "big show" awaits
Bull Durham
Robert
$2,000 [4]
Britannica says the white disk on this landlocked Asian nation's flag seenherehonors the Japanese
Laos
Sam
$2,000 [6]
Lord Peter Wimsey frequents the Egotists' Club in mystery stories by this woman
Dorothy L. Sayers
$1,600 [3]
How about a Caprese salad: fresh mozzarella, tomatoes & this herb
basil
Sam
$1,600 [17]
The employees commiserated about the avariciousness of the boss--he really is a this
a miser (in com miser ated)
Sam
$2,000 [21]
'Cilla Mullins, it's the 17th c., baby, & I'm speaking for myself. Come on, li'l mama! We'll have 10 kids & make Plymouth rock!
John Alden
Karla
$2,000 [1]
Cicotte, Weaver, Joe/ The Black Sox accept their fate/ Gambling mars the game
Eight Men Out
Sam
DD $7,000 [13]
Samoa'sflagincludes stars that represent this constellation
the Southern Cross
Sam
DD $8,000 [16]
A 1989 bestseller begins, "My father has asked me to be the fourth corner at" this
the Joy Luck Club
Robert
$2,000 [10]
You can bake, steam or simmer this winter squash; it's flesh is sweet
butternut
Karla
$2,000 [11]
The physician felt a rush of adrenaline when he barely avoided nicking this artery entering the kidney
renal (in ad renal ine)
Sam Karla

Final Jeopardy!

FINE ART

An early owner of this 1889 painting full of blue & green noted how well the artist "understood the exquisite nature of flowers!"

Irises

Robert "What is Love you Mom and Dad! ♡" — wagered $0
Karla "What is Water Lilies?" — wagered $7,600
Sam "What is even happening right now?!?" — wagered $0

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