2023 Champions Wildcard Spades final game 2.
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)
| 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 |
| 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
|
| 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
|
The name Jennifer is an alteration of this name that in early Welsh literature belonged to the "first lady of the island"
Guinevere