Show #8952 2023-10-17 (taped 2023-08-31) Champions Wildcard

2023 Champions Wildcard Spades semifinal game 3.

Contestants

Lucy Ricketts — a book designer and freelance illustrator from Atlanta, Georgia

Daniel Nguyen — a high school math teacher and doctoral student from San Jose, California

Joe Feldmann — a technology professional from Bethesda, Maryland

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joe $400 $2,800 $400 $0
3rd place: $10,000
$3,200
11 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Daniel $800 $3,200 $4,800 $4,800
2nd place: $10,000
$4,800
14 R, 4 W
Lucy $3,000 $3,200 $11,600 $11,600
Finalist
$20,000
23 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS "B" GIRLS DUST TO DUST COUNTDOWN SORT THROUGH THE WORD PROBLEM ANIMALS IN ITALIAN
$200 [28]
Known as "the Father of Pennsylvania", healso fathered 8 children with his first wife
Penn
Daniel
$200 [26]
On hiatus from Destiny's Child, she played Foxxy Cleopatra in "Austin Powers in Goldmember"
Beyoncé
Daniel
$200 [29]
During the 1930s this drought-ridden area of the Great Plains included parts of Kansas, Oklahoma & Texas
the Dust Bowl
Joe
$200 [27]
British Hanoverian kings: 4. George IV3. George III2. this king
George II
Lucy
$200 [30]
If train A leaves Oamaru at 9 a.m. at 70 mph & train B leaves Timaru at 1 p.m. going 80, this will still be New Zealand's capital
Wellington
Joe Lucy
$200 [13]
Don't be afraid--this animal is a pollo
a chicken
Daniel
$400 [24]
It's the last name of Moses, the father of Stephen, who settled 300 families in Texas in the 1820s
Austin
Lucy
$400 [25]
Guðmundsdóttir is the last name of this one-time Sugarcube singer
Björk
Lucy
$400 [23]
A dust bunny is found under furniture; this more "demonic" term is a dusty whirlwind found in a dry region
dust devil
Daniel
$400 [22]
The presidents:5. Monroe4. Madison3. this guy
Jefferson
Daniel
$400 [20]
Sally has 1/3 of a 5th Avenue candy bar, Eddie has 7/8 of a Mr. Goodbar; both are made by this company
Hershey
Joe Daniel
$400 [12]
This animal, gatto, got your lingua?
a cat
Joe
$600 [16]
Termed by history "the father" of it, in 1696 Peter the Great created this branch of the Russian military
Navy
Daniel Lucy
$600 [3]
At the age of 11, she joined Justin & Christina in the cast of the new "Mickey Mouse Club"
Britney Spears
Daniel
$600 [17]
In Genesis "God said unto" this creature "dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life"
the serpent
$600 [21]
The periodic table:4. beryllium3. lithium2. this element
helium
Joe
$600 [15]
Mr. Jenkins has 3 nickels, 13 dimes & 54 pennies; he can't afford a Phantom from this car company
Rolls-Royce
Lucy
$600 [11]
After all the gelato, I feel as big as a balena, one of these
a whale
Lucy
$800 [5]
Married to King Henry VIII, she was the mother of Edward VI
Jane Seymour
Lucy
$800 [1]
10 days after her release from rehab following a 1947 narcotics arrest, this "Lady" sold out Carnegie Hall
Billie Holiday
Lucy
$1,000 [8]
In "King Lear", Albany tells her, "You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face"
Goneril
$800 [4]
"The 12 Days Of Christmas" gifts:7. swans a-swimming6. geese a-laying5. these
golden rings
Joe Lucy
$800 [14]
The Statue of Liberty weighs 225 tons; how many have read this woman's poem "The New Colossus" on the pedestal wall?
Emma Lazarus
Lucy
$800 [9]
Tell Leon il cavallo, this animal, has arrived
a horse
Joe
$1,000 [6]
St. Ambrose credits this mother of Constantine with finding the True Cross of Jesus
St. Helena
$1,000 [2]
This"Empress of the Blues" performed with Benny Goodman & Louis Armstrong, among others
Bessie Smith
DD $2,400 [7]
In a poem named for him, Rudyard Kipling calls this man a "limpin' lump o' brick-dust"
Gunga Din
Lucy
$1,000 [18]
The states:49. Alaska48. Arizona47. this
New Mexico
Joe
$1,000 [19]
Bo makes 86 snow-balls in 1 3/4 hrs.; when will Bo know he has this 9-letter problem where ice crystals form in body tissues?
frostbite
Daniel
$1,000 [10]
Farfalle are these creatures, but please don't eat them
butterflies
Lucy

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE MOUNTAIN WEST SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES WORLD WRITERS WEEDER'S DIGEST ASTROLOGY TIME 3-LETTER WORDS
$400 [30]
Mount Whitney in this western range is the highest peak in the lower 48 states
the Sierra Nevada
Lucy
$400 [23]
In 1980 the U.S. & 64 other countries boycotted the Olympics held in this city
Moscow
Lucy
$400 [29]
In Vladimir Nabokov's "The Luzhin Defense", a master of this game loses his grip on reality
chess
Daniel
$400 [27]
Thismember of the parsley family that grows wild in Europe & the U.S. is a main flavoring agent in pickles
dill
Lucy
$400 [24]
From the Greek for "time observer", it's an astrological forecast based on time of birth & other factors
horoscope
Daniel
$400 [21]
A pig's digs
a sty
Lucy
$800 [20]
Shira is the westernmost of the 3 volcanic cones that make up this highest peak in Africa
Kilimanjaro
Daniel
$800 [22]
This city hosted the Summer Games in 1964, a first for Asia
Tokyo
Lucy
$800 [28]
Long a bestseller in this native land, Olga Tokarczuk found a world audience after her 2018 Man Booker & Nobel Prizes
Poland
Daniel
$800 [26]
Its name is from the French for "lion's tooth"
dents-de-lion (dandelion)
$800 [15]
Considered the first sign of the zodiac, it's often represented by a ram
Aries
Joe
$800 [19]
40 winks
a nap
Lucy
$1,200 [6]
It's the highest peak in the Cascade Range of the northwest
Mount Rainier
Joe Daniel Lucy
$1,200 [3]
Athens hosted the first Modern Olympics in 1896; this other European capital hosted the second games in 1900
Paris
Daniel
$1,200 [9]
Bertolt Brecht fled Germany in 1933 & left the U.S. in 1947 after being required to testify before this committee
HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)
Daniel
$1,200 [25]
Of the genus Digitaria, this common weed has a crustacean name
crabgrass
Daniel
$1,200 [14]
This 4-letter word describes a spot on the border of 2 zodiac signs
a cusp
Lucy
$1,200 [18]
Anonymous John's last name
Doe
Joe
$1,600 [4]
These mountains west of the Hudson possibly take their name from the Dutch for "wildcat creek"
the Catskills
Joe Lucy
$2,000 [2]
It took until 1956, but finally a Southern Hemisphere city hosted--this one
Melbourne
Joe Lucy
$1,600 [7]
Honoré was the first name of this French "Human Comedy" author
Balzac
Lucy
$1,600 [10]
In 2018 Monsanto was found liable for damages caused by this weed killer containing glyphosate
Roundup
Joe
$1,600 [12]
As Kris Kristofferson knows, the nativity of Jesus made him this zodiacal sign
a Capricorn
Daniel Lucy
$1,600 [17]
A small child, or a form of tater
a tot
Joe
$2,000 [5]
The highest peak in the Atlas Mountains, in the western part of the range, is Mount Toubkal in this monarchy
Morocco
DD $2,800 [1]
This city between Lake Mälaren & the Baltic Sea hosted the 1912 Olympics
Stockholm
Joe
$2,000 [8]
The first non-European winner of the Nobel Prize for lit, this Calcutta-born man is seen here with another Nobel winner
Rabindranath Tagore
$2,000 [11]
Orange hawkweedis also called the devil's type of this artistic tool
paintbrush
Lucy
DD $6,000 [13]
According to astrology, we are influenced not only by the planets but also by these objects, like Pallas & Vesta
asteroids
Lucy
$2,000 [16]
Not sew, but you do this to make lace using knots & loops
to tat

Final Jeopardy!

MILITARY HISTORY

A 1918 article titled "Do Not Shoot at" these said hunters were interfering with the U.S. Signal Corps' training of them

(carrier or homing) pigeons

Joe "What aredairplanes? Thanks!" — wagered $400
Daniel "What are blimps? Hi Mom!" — wagered $0
Lucy "WhatHorspigeons" — wagered $0

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