Show #8958 2023-10-25 (taped 2023-09-12) Champions Wildcard

2023 Champions Wildcard Diamonds quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Phillip Howard — a naval officer from Santa Clarita, California

Emily Sands — a project manager from Chanhassen, Minnesota

Carlos Chaidez — a civil engineer from Burbank, California

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Carlos $600 $4,200 $13,400 $0
3rd place: $5,000
$13,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Emily $2,600 $4,200 $25,200 $23,599
Winner: semifinalist
$19,000
25 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Phillip $4,200 $6,400 $9,200 $8,400
2nd place: $5,000
$9,200
13 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

PRODUCE DISNEY PARK SONGS WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE BOOK 'EM, DAN-O ON THE "ROAD" AGAIN BETTER ASK FOR DIRECTIONS
$200 [22]
Big on vitamins A & C, this leafy vegetable also has a lot of fiber & acts as a mild laxative; look out, sailor man!
spinach
Emily
$200 [16]
"Yo ho, yo ho..."
Pirates of the Caribbean
Phillip
$200 [1]
Under the Brooklyn Bridge
the East River
Emily
$200 [13]
In 1977, hewrote "The Camera Never Blinks: Adventures of a TV Journalist"
Dan Rather
Phillip
$200 [6]
In 1804 a steam carriage was first put onto one of these; it could haul 70 men & 10 tons of iron for 10 miles
railroad
Emily
$200 [30]
Tropical cyclones in the southern hemisphere rotate in this timely direction
clockwise
Carlos Emily
$400 [23]
In 2008 a pair of Brits were out of their gourd, growing a 1,457-lb. one of these; smashing!
a pumpkin
Carlos
$400 [17]
"It's a world of laughter, a world of tears..."
It's a Small World
Carlos
$400 [2]
Beneath the Bay Bridge in Maryland:This bay
the Chesapeake
Carlos Emily
$400 [3]
From 1704 to 1713 he produced his own periodical, "The Review"; "Robinson Crusoe" washed ashore in 1719
Defoe
Carlos
$400 [7]
Swift American seen here
the roadrunner
Emily
$400 [29]
Direction that also means to swallow liquid hastily
down
Phillip
$600 [24]
Dr. Thomas Welch is credited with making the first unfermented juice from this fruit
a grape
Phillip
$600 [19]
"Grim, grinning ghosts come out to socialize..."
the Haunted Mansion
Emily
$600 [4]
Under the Petofi Bridge in Budapest:This river
the Danube
Carlos Emily
$600 [14]
"Standing Firm" & "Worth Fighting For" are two books by this ex-vice president
(Dan) Quayle
Phillip
$600 [10]
In this hit Lil Nas X mentions his "cowboy hat from Gucci"
"Old Town Road"
Emily
$600 [8]
Title direction for Arthur Sullivan's "Christian Soldiers"
onward
Emily
$800 [25]
When life gives you the Meyer type of this tree, expect plenty of fruit year-round
a lemon
Carlos
$800 [21]
"A Heffalump or Woozle is very confusel..."
Winnie the Pooh
Carlos
$800 [5]
Beneath the Rialto Bridge in Venice:This busy waterway
the Grand Canal
Phillip
$800 [15]
Whenhemade the 2005 "Time" 100 list, his book was described as "the novel that ate the world"
Dan Brown
Phillip
$800 [11]
Twin brothers Leigh & Leslie Kenoare famous as appraisers on this PBS program
Antiques Roadshow
Emily
$800 [9]
New York's single-word motto excelsior means "ever" this direction
upward
Phillip
$1,000 [26]
The name of this cylindrical vegetable means "little squashes" in Italian
zucchini
Emily
$1,000 [20]
"The bear band bears will play now in the good ol' key of G..."
the Country Bear Jamboree
Emily
DD $1,000 [18]
Beneath the Vasco da Gama Bridge in Lisbon:This River
the Tagus
Carlos
$1,000 [27]
Lemony Snicket should know this novelist penned "Adverbs" & "Watch Your Mouth"
Daniel Handler
$1,000 [12]
AKA "Mad Max 2"
The Road Warrior
Phillip
$1,000 [28]
In the army, it's an order to move the troops forward, or for a soldier to move up in rank
advance
Emily Phillip

Double Jeopardy! Round

PRODUCE ALSO ON THE MONOPOLY BOARD FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE WASN'T THAT AN '80s THING? SEE "NN"
$400 [12]
Not only didheproduce "Citizen Kane", he co-wrote, starred in & directed the film, too--talk about a best boy
Welles
Carlos
$400 [7]
Alliterative slang for crying
the waterworks
$400 [30]
An iconic 1930 image:"____ Gothic"
American
Phillip
$400 [29]
Alice Ballwas 23 & a college instructor in Hawaii in 1915 when she developed the first successful treatment for this, also known as Hansen's disease
leprosy
Emily
$400 [22]
A man... a woman in distress... ladder climbing... a giant ape... this video game that debuted in 1981 had it all!
Donkey Kong
Carlos
$400 [15]
We hope your dog doesn't suffer ennui when boarded in one of these establishments
a kennel
Emily
$800 [13]
In addition to exec producing "Michael Clayton", he got an Oscar nomination for Best Lead Actor
George Clooney
Emily
$800 [8]
Morgan Freeman's first regular TV gig
The Electric Company
$800 [27]
From 1912, more mechanical than nude: "Nude Descending a ____, No. 2"
Staircase
Phillip
$800 [26]
Nobel laureate Gertrude Elion helped develop drugs to treat herpes, gout & this, cancer of the bone marrow
leukemia
Emily
$800 [28]
The Wayfarer style of this brand of sunglasses was an '80s fave
Ray-Bans
Carlos
$800 [16]
Get thee to this synonym for a convent
nunnery
Carlos
$1,200 [14]
Thismega producer & creator of "Scandal" declared, "You can waste your lives drawing lines or you can live your life crossing them"
(Shonda) Rhimes
Carlos
$1,200 [9]
In baseball, this "punitive" measure began in 1997, & for the Yankees it was over $4.4 million
a luxury tax
Emily
$1,600 [4]
Picasso cubed it:"Les Demoiselles d'____"
Avignon
Emily
$1,200 [1]
Rosalind Franklin's X-ray photograph of this helped prove it to be a double-helix polymer
DNA
Emily
$1,200 [23]
"Say You, Say Me" is on his album "Dancing On The Ceiling"
Lionel Richie
Emily
$1,200 [19]
Manually sifting for gold in a river
panning
Emily
$1,600 [20]
As a producer, he was smart enough to hire himself to direct "A Beautiful Mind"; imagine that!
Ron Howard
Emily
$1,600 [10]
The president lives on it
Pennsylvania Avenue
Emily
$2,000 [5]
Francisco Goya:"The 3rd of ____, 1808"
May
$2,000 [3]
Called the first female M.D. in modern times, she helped found the London School of Medicine for Women in 1875
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell
$1,600 [24]
Hewas elected governor of Massachusetts in 1982 & 1986 & then it was on to the presidency--well, not quite
Dukakis
Carlos
$1,600 [18]
A chronological record of the events of successive years
an annal
Phillip
$2,000 [21]
"Top Gun" & "CSI" are just two of the projects of this last of Hollywood's mega producers
Jerry Bruckheimer
Emily
$2,000 [11]
A Latvian street?
Baltic Avenue
Carlos
DD $4,000 [6]
A group portrait by Rembrandt:"The ____ ____(The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq)"
The Night Watch
Emily
DD $5,000 [2]
Dorothy Hodgkin's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was for her work on this vitamin, whose deficiency causes pernicious anemia
B 12
Emily
$2,000 [25]
This stainless-steel car with gull-wing doors debuted in 1981; fewer than 10,000 were made
a DeLorean
Carlos
$2,000 [17]
Gould, Miller or Ford
Glenn
Emily

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC LETTERS

A letter from him begins, "On the thirty-third day after I had left Cadiz, I reached the Indian Ocean"

(Christopher) Columbus

Phillip "Who is Marco Polo?" — wagered $800
Carlos "Who isVascoMagellan?" — wagered $13,400
Emily "Who is Marco Polo?" — wagered $1,601

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