Show #8959 2023-10-26 (taped 2023-09-12) Champions Wildcard

2023 Champions Wildcard Diamonds quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

Tony Freitas — a director of product engineering from Claremont, California

Mason Maggio — a songwriter from Los Angeles, California

Yoshie Hill — a program support specialist from Colma, California

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Yoshie $1,200 $1,200 $5,600 $11,200
Winner: semifinalist
$7,600
8 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Mason $4,200 $9,600 $7,600 $3,999
3rd place: $5,000
$13,600
25 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Tony $2,000 $2,800 $2,400 $4,800
2nd place: $5,000
$5,200
13 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY MOB HITS TAKE THE "A" TRAINING MAP HAPPY THE CAMERA MAN FASHION STATEMENTS
$200 [29]
The top secret payload when this company first launched its Dragon space capsule in 2010? A wheel of cheese
SpaceX
Tony
$200 [8]
Adriana La Cerva, Jimmy Altieri &Ralph Cifaretto all got whacked on this TV drama
The Sopranos
Mason
$200 [9]
NYU's Stern School of Business offers a Ph.D. in this financial record-keeping specialty
accounting
Mason
$200 [2]
It's name says whereit's at
South Africa
Mason
$200 [1]
Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt snapped a sailor kissing a nurse on the August 1945 day known as this
V-J Day
Mason
$200 [30]
You take these "off" to praise someone, but keep something "under" one to keep a secret
a hat
Mason Tony
$400 [28]
These organisms that form a class of marine mollusks are named for their 2-part shells connected by a hinged ligament
bivalves
Mason
$400 [22]
In this 1972 movie, prized racehorse Khartoum is the casualty of a disagreement between a movie producer & the mafia
The Godfather
Tony
$400 [10]
A degree in broadcasting will help prepare you for a career as one of these, like Al Michaels
announcer
Yoshie Tony
$400 [3]
Zone in on this country, important to world commerce
Panama
Mason
$400 [7]
Certain Robert Mapplethorpe photos prompted Congress to enact restrictions on grants given by this body
the NEA
Tony
$400 [19]
If you've surprised someone who's unprepared, you've caught him this way
with his pants down
Tony
$600 [15]
The cloud type of this releases a substance such as silver iodide into clouds to increase the chance of rain
cloud seeding
Tony
$600 [24]
"But I'm funny how? Funny like a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh?" says Tommy De Vito in this film
Goodfellas
Mason
$600 [12]
In L.A. you can study the Meisner technique at the Elizabeth Mestnik Studio of this
Acting
Mason
$600 [4]
A bit of serendipity will lead you to this country's name
Sri Lanka
Tony
$600 [11]
John Filo, an undergrad at this Ohio school, won a 1971 Pulitzer after capturing an iconic photo of a slain classmate
Kent State
Mason
$600 [20]
This phrase means a situation has been reversed; in the 19th c. that switch was easier: there weren't right & left ones
the shoe is on the other foot
Mason
$800 [16]
OpenAI, which developed ChatGPT, also came up with the AI tech used by this Microsoft search engine
Bing
Tony
$800 [25]
"When I got into family therapy, this was not the 'family' I had in mind", says Billy Crystal in this 1999 comedy
Analyze This
Mason
$800 [13]
Take classes like "Environmental Design" & "Regenerative Building" at Yale's School of this
Architecture
Yoshie
$800 [5]
Nationwhere Bolivar is buried
Venezuela
Mason
$800 [14]
Steve McCurry took a photo of an Afghan girl for this venerated magazine in 1984, then reunited with her 17 years later
National Geographic
Tony
$800 [21]
To be on this fastener is to be exact or precise
on the button
Mason
DD $2,800 [17]
Thisbiologist first gained acclaim for writing in 1937 with her article, "Undersea" in the Atlantic Monthly
Rachel Carson
Tony
$1,000 [26]
A 1995 Travolta mob film that Ray Romano took to TV in 2017
Get Shorty
Tony
$1,000 [27]
At Barnard College, courses in this field include "The Rise of Civilization" & "The Origins of Human Society"
anthropology
Mason
$1,000 [6]
Moderncountrythat's Hannibal's historic home
Tunisia
Mason
$1,000 [18]
In the 1840s this Civil War photographer took lessons in daguerreotypy from Samuel F.B. Morse
Brady
Tony
$1,000 [23]
Napoleon has been credited with coining the phrase "an iron hand in" one of these
a velvet glove
Mason

Double Jeopardy! Round

BOOKS & AUTHORS HALL OF FAMER BY POSITION JACQUES OF ALL TRADES LET'S GO LOBSTERING "HOUSE" OF REPRESENTATIVES
$400 [1]
"I, Claudius" author Robert Graves expressed the disillusion of many in "Goodbye to All That", his memoir of this war
World War I
$400 [26]
Joe Namath, Joe Montana
quarterback
Mason
$400 [2]
In 1973 he founded a nonprofit society dedicated to marine conservation
Cousteau
Mason
$400 [17]
To determine this on alobster, check whether the first pair of swimmerets are hard or feathery
the sex
Mason
$400 [5]
Confinement to your own home as legal punishment
house arrest
Mason
$400 [10]
Formed in 1995, it's a "canine" coalition of fiscally conservative Democrats in the House
Blue Dogs
Mason
$800 [3]
In 1986, the 50th anniversary of her bestseller, astampof her was released in a ceremony in Atlanta
Margaret Mitchell
Yoshie
$800 [27]
Bill Russell, Bill Walton
basketball centers
$800 [22]
Hewas president of France from 1995 to 2007
Jacques Chirac
Tony
$800 [18]
The American lobster is basically differentiated from the Pacific one by having these big enough to eat
claws
Yoshie Tony
$800 [6]
It means an unstable construction, though 25-foot versions have been created
a house of cards
Mason
$800 [11]
You must be 30 to be a U.S. senator & this minimum age to be a member of the House of Representatives
25
Yoshie
$1,600 [15]
Harry Bertram of Ellangowan is the actual hero of the 1815 "Waverley" tale "Guy Mannering" by this author
Sir Walter Scott
$1,200 [28]
Bob Feller, Bob Lemon, Bob Gibson
baseball pitchers
$1,200 [23]
A statue of this French missionary who hooked up with Jolliet represents Wisconsin in the U.S. Capitol
Jacques Marquette
$1,200 [19]
In a standardtrap, a lobster finds the bait in this aptly named room, moves on to the parlor, & can't leave
the kitchen
Mason
$1,200 [7]
A get-to-know-me party given by someone who's just moved in
a housewarming
Mason
$1,200 [12]
The states with only one representative are Wyoming, Vermont, the Dakotas, Delaware & this state
Alaska
Mason
DD $2,000 [4]
To Ian McEwan, there is no redemption, no amends, no this, the title of his novel made into a 2007 movie with Saoirse Ronan
Atonement
Yoshie
$1,600 [29]
Jerry Rice, Randy Moss, John Stallworth
wide receiver
$1,600 [24]
Last name of French papermaking brothers Jacques & Joseph, who pioneered the hot air balloon
Montgolfier
Tony
$1,600 [20]
Term for a tidal area used to store live lobsters, or where a stray dog might end up
a pound
Tony
$1,600 [8]
The AMA says, "physicians making" these "may sound like fabled history", but they have a place in medicine today
house calls
Yoshie
$2,000 [14]
Upset about taxes? Take it up with this committee, the House's main one for writing tax bills
the Ways & Means Committee
$2,000 [16]
Her novels "Show Boat", "Cimarron" & "Giant" were all turned into memorable Hollywood movies
Edna Ferber
Yoshie
$2,000 [30]
Gump Worsley, Shrimp Worters, Rat Westwick
(ice) hockey goalies
$2,000 [25]
A musical review of this singer-songwriter's works is called this man "is Alive and Well and Living in Paris"
Jacques Brel
Yoshie
$2,000 [21]
A legal Maine lobstermust measure at least 3 1/4 inches along this, the bony back shell
the carapace
Yoshie
$2,000 [9]
This European songbird takes its name from its habit of building nests in the eaves of homes
a house martin
Yoshie Tony
DD $6,000 [13]
The only Speaker of the House to become president was this Tennessee representative & 11th president
James K. Polk
Mason

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS FAMILIES

In 2020 a former U.S. ambassador to Ireland, the last of 9 siblings in this dynastic family, died at 92

Kennedy

Tony "What is Kennedy" — wagered $2,400
Yoshie "What is Kennedy" — wagered $5,600
Mason "What is Carnegie?" — wagered $3,601

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