Show #8954 2023-10-19 (taped 2023-08-31) Champions Wildcard

2023 Champions Wildcard Spades final game 2.

Contestants

Lucy Ricketts — a book designer and freelance illustrator from Atlanta, Georgia (subtotal of $14,200)

Josh Saak — a traffic engineer from Boise, Idaho (subtotal of $25,200)

Sam Stapleton — a college consultant from Los Gatos, California (subtotal of $15,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sam $1,800 $4,600 $5,000 $5,000 $15,000
20 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Josh $1,800 $4,800 $22,000 $22,000 $16,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Lucy $3,600 $6,000 $11,600 $17,100 $10,800
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! ROCKET MAN ISMs CULINARY QUOTES AUNTIE UP LET'S PLAY CARDS
$200 [19]
390 B.C.:These people usually associated with ancient France sack Rome
the Gauls
Josh
$200 [23]
Maurice "Rocket" Richard of this 1950s team's dynasty was the first NHL player to score 500 goals
the Canadiens
Josh
$200 [30]
The belief in the need to secure rights & opportunities for women equal to those of men
feminism
$200 [12]
Fran Lebowitz jokingly said, "My favorite animal is" this, but she didn't specify porterhouse or T-bone
a steak
Sam
$200 [27]
This superhero was raised by his Aunt May
Spider-Man
Sam
$200 [28]
In addition to 2 regular decks of 52 cards, the game of canasta uses 4 of these as wild cards
jokers
Sam
$400 [18]
410 A.D.:Under Alaric, these "Westerners" sack Rome
Visigoths
Lucy
$400 [14]
This "Rocket" was the first pitcher to win the Cy Young Award 7 times
Roger Clemens
Josh
$400 [24]
Late 19th century movement that characterizes the work seen here
Impressionism
Lucy
$400 [11]
This breakfast goody has been described as "an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis"
a bagel
Sam
$400 [1]
Aunt Chloe is the long-suffering wife of this Harriet Beecher Stowe character
Uncle Tom
Lucy
$400 [4]
The highes than dyou can have in five-card stud is called this
a royal flush
Sam
$600 [15]
455 A.D.:These people, whose name is now synonymous with pillage & destruction, sack Rome
the Vandals
Sam
$600 [20]
Jason Candle coaches football for the Rockets of this university that's in Ohio but sounds like it could be in Spain
Toledo
Sam
$600 [25]
It's the predominant religion of India
Hinduism
Lucy
$600 [9]
Mark Twain said that cauliflower "is nothing but" this vegetable "with a college education"
cabbage
Sam
$600 [2]
In "Pride & Prejudice", this heroine tours Pemberley with Mrs. Gardiner, a favorite aunt
Elizabeth Bennet
Lucy
$600 [13]
The suit cards of this fortune telling deck of cards are known as the minor arcana
tarot
Josh
$800 [16]
1084 A.D.:Having successfully invaded England 18 years before, they then sack Rome
the Normans
Sam
$800 [21]
ThisNBA center was "the Dream" leading the Houston Rockets to 1994 & 1995 NBA titles
Hakeem Olajuwon
Josh
$800 [26]
The name of this severe, sometimes fatal form of food poisoning comes from the Latin for "sausage"
botulism
Josh
$800 [8]
This president said, "You can tell a lot about a fellow's character" by his way of eating jellybeans
Reagan
Sam
$800 [3]
Ann Dowd won an Emmy for playing the tyrannical overseer Aunt Lydia on this dystopian favorite
The Handmaid's Tale
Josh
$800 [6]
Energy & Trainer cards are 2 of the 3 types in the trading card version of this game; make sure you have a good fit
Pokémon
Lucy
$1,000 [17]
1527 A.D.:Spanish & German troops working for this "Empire" end the High Renaissance by sacking Rome
the Holy Roman Empire
Lucy
$1,000 [22]
Rod "the Rocket" Laverof this country is tennis' only repeat Grand Slam winner
Australia
Sam
$1,000 [29]
A division of a group into mutually antagonistic factions, like the Catholic Church in 1054
schism
Josh
$1,000 [10]
Thackeray's "Ballad of" this dish calls it "a sort of soup or broth... or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes"
bouillabaisse
DD $1,800 [7]
Betsey Trotwood is great-aunt & guardian to this Dickens title character
David Copperfield
Lucy
$1,000 [5]
You play gin with 52 cards but pinochle with this many
48

Double Jeopardy! Round

PHILOSOPHIES IN A NUTSHELL PRESIDENTIAL ACTORS? MUSIC TERMS HOUSE HUNTERS INTERGALACTIC AIR APPARENT "UNK" IN THE TRUNK
$400 [29]
Nietzsche named the wild, creative impulse for Dionysus & the orderly one for this sun god
Apollo
Sam Josh Lucy
$400 [10]
Shetestified on the Hill, playing Anita Hill in "Confirmation"
Kerry Washington
Lucy
$400 [22]
This male voice range falls between tenor & bass
baritone
Sam
$400 [28]
This ex-planet's average distance of 3.7 billion miles from Earth could pose commuting problems
Pluto
Sam
$400 [30]
Thousands died in 1952 in a notorious smoggy event in this European capital
London
Josh
$400 [19]
The Siberian species of this small striped squirrel has been carrying ticks & disease across Europe
the chipmunk
Josh
$800 [24]
Henri Bergson saw this not as a series of moments but as a flow he called duration
time
Sam
$800 [5]
He spoke the line "Hokey religions & ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side"
(Harrison) Ford
Sam
$800 [9]
A direction to singers, the term "bouche fermée" literally means that your mouth should be this
closed
Josh Lucy
$800 [15]
You might want to wish upon Proxima this, a star only 4.2 light-years from our sun
Centauri
Josh
$800 [18]
This molecule, O3, is a pollutant low in the atmosphere; in the stratosphere, it absorbs harmful radiation
ozone
Sam
$800 [8]
This term for a dilapidated old auto like my '52 Chrysler refers to the sound it makes
a clunker
Josh
$1,200 [23]
His "Two Treatises of Government", which influenced Jefferson, said man has a natural right to liberty
John Locke
Lucy
$1,200 [3]
"Get Smart" & tell us the name of this actor, who was the voice of Inspector Gadget
Don Adams
Josh
$1,200 [4]
String players debate how much of this technique to use; a little adds warmth... too much & you get the nanny goat effect
vibrato
Lucy
$1,200 [11]
Not many are looking to settle in Valles Marineris, canyons discovered on this planet by Mariner 9 in 1972
Mars
Sam Josh Lucy
$1,200 [7]
Most air pollution comes from burning these alliterative combustibles that consist of organic remains
fossil fuels
Josh
$1,200 [14]
An underling of unquestioning obedience
a flunky
Josh
$2,000 [26]
Hobbes followed this -ism, not meaning he was greedy but that he reduced every experience to a physical process
materialism
Sam
$1,600 [1]
In between roles her husbands included Eddie Fisher & Senator John Warner
Elizabeth Taylor
Lucy
$1,600 [16]
German for "song", it's a German folk or art song
a lied
Josh
$1,600 [20]
If you have your heart set on this 2-letter moon of Jupiter, pack a coat; temperatures get below -225 degrees
Io
Josh
$1,600 [6]
Dust pollution from this "depleted" metal used on armor-piercing weapons may cause cancer
uranium
$1,600 [12]
To expose false claims, theories or legends
debunk
Sam
DD $10,000 [25]
This man who died around 347 B.C. said we perceive examples of things, not their ideal forms
Plato
Sam
$2,000 [2]
Two presidents share a surname with this actress, known for playing Detective Erin Lindsay on Chicago P.D.
Sophia Bush
Lucy
$2,000 [17]
This Italian word is used of music gradually getting softer, the same as decrescendo
diminuendo
Josh
DD $7,200 [21]
Want land? Buying on this moon of Saturn is a no-brainer; its 3,200-mile diameter is bigger than Mercury!
Titan
Josh
$2,000 [27]
PM is short for this, which can be composed of soot, smoke or dust in the air
particulate matter
Josh
$2,000 [13]
It's the activity the explorershereare practicing
spelunking
Sam

Final Jeopardy!

NAMES

The name Jennifer is an alteration of this name that in early Welsh literature belonged to the "first lady of the island"

Guinevere

Sam "What happens if Josh pulls a Cliff Clavin? :)" — wagered $0
Lucy "What is Guineviere>" — wagered $5,500
Josh "What is Regan" — wagered $0

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