2023 Champions Wildcard Diamonds quarterfinal game 2.
Leah Wiegand — a stay-at-home mom from Austin, Texas
Pasquale Palumbo — a financial advisor from Hawthorne, New York
Isaac Applebaum — a corporate development analyst from Mountain View, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isaac | $0 | $3,800 | $6,700 |
$9,801
2nd place: $5,000 |
$9,800
16 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Pasquale | $2,800 | $2,200 | $4,900 |
$4,900
3rd place: $5,000 |
$7,400
17 R, 7 W (including 1 DD) |
| Leah | $2,200 | $800 | $7,600 |
$12,600
Winner: semifinalist |
$7,600
10 R, 3 W |
| THE REALLY OLD COLLEGE TRY | JUST KIDDING | A WOMAN OF THE WORLD | THE NAME OF THE GAME | ALWAYS SAY NEVER | STUPID PROVERBS |
|
$200
[30]
In 1638 the first class was in at this university, which consisted of 1 master in a single frame house & a college "yahd"
Harvard
Isaac
|
$200
[29]
Mitch Hedberg:"I like" this grain. It "is great when you're hungry & you want 2,000 of something"
rice
Pasquale
|
$200
[7]
She was in Kenya when she learned she had become queen on February 6, 1952
Queen Elizabeth II
Isaac
|
$200
[12]
Also a fireplace implement
poker
Leah
|
$200
[28]
Created by Bill Watterson, this comic strip kid says of class bully Moe, "Never argue with a 6-year-old who shaves"
Calvin
Pasquale
|
$200
[16]
"Fight" this "with fire"
fire
Isaac
|
|
$400
[1]
This university was formed around 1209 by people fleeing "town & gown" tensions in Oxford
Cambridge University
Isaac
|
$400
[3]
This "Price is Right" host: "Hate your job? There's a support group for that--it's called everybody. They meet at a bar"
(Drew) Carey
Leah
|
$400
[8]
An Asian prime minister for 15 years, shewas called "Indu" for short
Indira Gandhi
Isaac
|
$400
[13]
A war vessel of the most heavily armed class
battleship
Leah
|
$400
[27]
Line that precedes "they simply fade away" in a British army song
old soldiers never die
Pasquale
|
$400
[17]
An American proverb says, "Money begets" this
money
Pasquale
Leah
|
|
$600
[2]
Around 1257 the apparently unbashful theologian Robert de Sorbon founded the Sorbonne at the Univ. of this
Paris
Leah
|
$600
[4]
A. Whitney Brown:"I'm a" this "not because I love animals, but because I hate plants"
a vegetarian
Pasquale
Leah
|
$600
[9]
In 1767 this "Great" empress called a commission on legal reform
Catherine the Great
Isaac
|
$600
[14]
A hand weapon made of leather-covered metal
blackjack
Pasquale
|
$600
[26]
"He that fights and runs away may" these 5 words "but he that is in battle slain will never rise to fight again"
live to fight another day
Pasquale
|
$600
[20]
You'll find things are in order with "a place for" this "and everything in its place"
place for everything
Isaac
|
|
$800
[18]
Franz Joseph inaugurated the new mainbuildingof the university of this capital, the oldest university in the German-speaking world
the University of Vienna
Isaac
|
$800
[5]
The irreplaceable Robin Williams said, "To a 3-year-old" this guy "is a 6-foot rat!"
Mickey Mouse
Pasquale
|
$1,000
[11]
An exotic Dutch dancer & courtesan, shewas executed by the French in 1917 on charges of spying for the Germans
Mata Hari
Pasquale
|
$800
[15]
To overwhelm with wonder
to boggle
|
$800
[25]
In his "Ballad of East and West", this Brit wrote, "East is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet"
Rudyard Kipling
|
$800
[21]
"Nothing" does this "like success"
succeeds
Pasquale
|
|
$1,000
[19]
I come to wive it wealthily at the university of this, founded in 1222 by ex-University of Bologna students
Padua
Leah
|
$1,000
[6]
On "Between Two Ferns", this actor asked Ben Stiller, "Do you wish... you had ever followed your parents into comedy?"
Galifianakis
Pasquale
|
DD
$1,600
[10]
In 1993, True Path Party leader Tansu Cillerbecame the first female prime minister of this large Muslim country
Turkey
Isaac
|
$1,000
[23]
The art of negotiation between nations
diplomacy
Isaac
|
$1,000
[24]
Shelley said of this, "Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert"; Wordsworth said they "soar, but never roam"
skylark
|
$1,000
[22]
We're due for this proverb:"Give credit where credit is" this
due
Isaac
|
| A RIVER RUNS TO IT | "BABY" MOVIES | THE HISTORY CHANNEL | PEOPLE WITH MUPPET NAMES | NO, I DON'T NEED A DOCTOR | SMART ANSWERS |
|
$400
[11]
The Yakima:To this larger Pacific Northwest river
the Columbia
|
$400
[18]
Ruth Gordon played Mia Farrow's next-door neighbor in this scarefest
Rosemary's Baby
Pasquale
|
$400
[6]
We know the conqueror seenhereby this name
Genghis Khan
Pasquale
|
$400
[13]
Thisgrouchy librettist won a 1950 Pulitzer for his work on "South Pacific"
Oscar Hammerstein
Pasquale
|
$400
[1]
No, it's not a metallic sensory organ but a phrase meaning I'm insensitive to music & can't carry a tune
a tin ear
Pasquale
|
$400
[23]
Both Cervantes & Ben Franklin wrote, "A word to" these people "is enough"
the wise
Pasquale
|
|
$800
[12]
The Platte:This river that runs to another river
the Missouri
Pasquale
Leah
|
$800
[19]
Hilary Swank stars as Maggie Fitzgerald
Million Dollar Baby
Leah
|
$800
[7]
After being banished from Iceland, this colorful guy established a colony in Greenland around 985
Erik the Red
Isaac
|
$800
[14]
22nd & 24th POTUS
Grover Cleveland
Isaac
|
$800
[2]
It's a term for a short-tempered person, not a feverish condition felt above the eyebrows
hot-headed
Pasquale
|
$800
[24]
It's what the "I" stands for in the CIA (the one headed by William J. Burns)
Intelligence
Pasquale
|
|
$1,200
[30]
The Indus Riverflows 1,900 miles before emptying into this sea that shares its name with an adjacent peninsula
the Arabian Sea
Isaac
|
$1,200
[20]
Cary Grant & Katharine Hepburn grapple with a pet leopard
Bringing Up Baby
|
$1,200
[8]
Irish teenager Annie Moore made history here January 1, 1892
Ellis Island
Isaac
Pasquale
|
$1,200
[15]
The first player in the National League to be MVP two years in a row, he's known as Mr. Cub
Ernie Banks
Pasquale
|
$1,200
[3]
No, this is not a symptom of hepatitis but a deli appetizer smeared on rye bread; what am I...?
chopped liver
Pasquale
|
$1,200
[25]
In a Jay McInerney book title, these 2 words precede "Big City"
Bright Lights
Pasquale
|
|
DD
$1,500
[29]
The Vistula:This sea
the Baltic Sea
Isaac
|
$1,600
[21]
A wheelman for Atlanta bank robbers, Ansel Elgort plays a tinnitus-afflicted hero in this Edgar Wright flick
Baby Driver
Leah
|
$1,600
[9]
Around the 1850s archaeologists unearthed the great library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, capital of this ancient empire
the Assyrians
Isaac
|
$2,000
[17]
Nickname ofI. Lewis Libbywho grew up to be Vice President Cheney's powerful chief of staff
Scooter
Isaac
|
$1,600
[4]
No, my scapula doesn't have osteomalacia--I'm talking about a road sign meaning the highway's edge is not firm
soft shoulder
Leah
|
$1,600
[26]
A gem with this cutresembles two truncated pyramids set base to base
a brilliant cut
Leah
|
|
$1,600
[28]
The Hudson:"Upper" this bay
Upper New York Bay
|
$2,000
[22]
Ben Affleck directed this tale about the kidnapping of a little girl
Gone Baby Gone
|
$2,000
[10]
This 6th century Byzantine emperor, lawgiver & Christian expelled pagan teachers from the Athens Academy
Justinian (I)
Isaac
|
DD
$2,500
[16]
This patron saint of Mediterranean sailors lent his name to a phenomenon seen during storms
St. Elmo
Pasquale
|
$2,000
[5]
I don't personally have a gnarled extremity--this feature is on my old-fashioned bathtub
a claw foot
Leah
|
$2,000
[27]
This adjective that means "cunning" probably comes from the name of a "tamed" insectivore
shrewd
Isaac
|
Before creating this record label in 1959, its founder worked on a Lincoln-Mercury assembly line
Motown