Show #8968 2023-11-08 (taped 2023-09-14) Champions Wildcard

2023 Champions Wildcard Diamonds final game 2.

Contestants

Aaron Craig — an attorney originally from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (subtotal of $10,000)

Jilana Cotter — a senior data analyst from Dade City, Florida (subtotal of $3,000)

Emily Sands — a project manager from Chanhassen, Minnesota (subtotal of $30,400)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Emily	$3,600	$6,200	$16,200	$11,799	$16,200 22 R, 1 W
Jilana	$3,200	$7,200	$24,000	$0	$12,800 17 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Aaron	$4,600	$4,800	$-2,800	$-2,800	$2,800 14 R, 7 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES	THE "A" TEAM	I PITY DA FOOD!	ON THE OLD MAP	METALLICA	L____O
$200 [27] Sir, your 1704 book "Opticks" laid the foundation for the science of spectrum analysis! You totally rock! Newton Emily	$200 [1] They've represented Los Angeles, the state of California, the city of Anaheim & "Los Angeles of Anaheim" the Angels Jilana	$200 [28] Garlic bulbs are broken up into segments called these for cooking cloves Jilana	$200 [30] Called New Towne when Harvard College was established, the city soon got this name Cambridge Aaron	$200 [29] In 1987 the album "Ride the Lightning" by Metallica achieved this status of 500,000 copies sold gold Emily Aaron	$200 [26] It's a long rope with a loop on one end, used to rope cattle a lasso Aaron
$400 [25] That translucent pink egg you made is amazing! I think that will sell for $18.5 million at a 2007 auction at Christie's one day! Fabergé Aaron	$400 [2] Look out below! It's Colorado's NHL team! the Avalanche Jilana	$400 [23] Slaughterhouses don't have to ask & pay for USDA grades for this meat, be it in chop, loin or rib form pork Emily	$400 [22] 1990 was the end for this country whose districts included Neubrandenburg, Leipzig & Karl-Marx-Stadt East Germany Emily	$400 [21] Champagne is generally fermented invatsof this alliterative alloy stainless steel Emily	$400 [19] How low can you go? Perhaps to this place on the border of heaven or hell limbo Emily
$600 [24] Loved your Mar. 4, 1841 speech, despite the weather! 1 hour, 45 minutes of awesome! Now it's clear skies for your presidency! William Henry Harrison Jilana	$600 [3] They're the Giants' cross-bay rivals the Oakland A's Jilana	$600 [18] Cook boneless this fowl until the internal temp is 165 degrees; that's a rough day for a capon a hen (chicken) Aaron	$600 [9] Separate states until 1964, Tanganyika & Zanzibar combined to form this country Tanzania Jilana	$600 [20] This metal was discovered in 1789; it took until 1896 to find out that it was radioactive uranium Emily	$600 [15] The opposite of staccato, it's a direction to play music smoothly legato Jilana
$1,000 [17] You got the Eastern Roman Empire to pay a ton of gold per year! Will you speak to our "Scourge of God" fan club? Attila the Hun Aaron	$800 [4] This nickname of a Texas school's teams comes from the "A" in "A&M" the Aggies Aaron	$800 [6] To really like something, or a finely chopped sweet pickle on a hot dog relish Emily	$800 [7] Hereis a map of this former country in 1945; nowthe region today Czechoslovakia Aaron	$800 [13] Zr is the symbol for this chemical element used as a structural material in nuclear reactors zirconium Jilana	$800 [12] W.S. Gilbert wrote it for "The Mikado" libretto Emily
DD $3,200 [16] Will you sign my copy of the "Domesday Book" you commissioned, my king? It's a first edition from 1086 William the Conqueror Jilana	$1,000 [5] Sing a little song & tell us this nickname of Montreal's Canadian Football League team the Alouettes Emily	$1,000 [10] Gray & red-legged are 2 varieties of this game bird that can be roasted, broiled or braised; you, in the pear tree! Hide! a partridge Aaron	$1,000 [8] Since 1964 the former Northern Rhodesia has been this, now second from the end alphabetically Zambia Aaron	$1,000 [14] A policeman could tell you the U.S. half dollar today is about 92% this metal copper Aaron	$1,000 [11] If you run into this word on a menu, relax, it's just Spanish for "prawn" langostino Emily

Double Jeopardy! Round

A "C" IN ANATOMY	"THE" MOVIE	ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN	DEAR ABBEY	AT A LOSS FOR WORLDS	MORE THAN ONE MEANING
$400 [28] The collarbone, more technically known as this, is part of the pectoral girdle the clavicle Emily	$400 [29] This 1973 horror classic had Linda Blair take an extended look around The Exorcist Jilana	$400 [14] Popular with nutritionists, the brown type of this is intentionally left unmilled rice Jilana	$400 [30] This London landmark is the final resting place of 17 monarchs Westminster Abbey Jilana	$400 [26] This 1963 work was published in England with the title "Monkey Planet" Planet of the Apes Emily	$400 [23] Really gnarly, or a group of 12 dozen gross Emily
$800 [20] This part seenhereis often transplanted the cornea Jilana	$800 [27] Whitney Houston's version of "I Will Always Love You" is from this film The Bodyguard Emily	$800 [15] In 1900 this company introduced the Brownie camera, making photography accessible to the masses Kodak Aaron	$800 [7] The Great War was a most unpleasant disruption for the Crawley family & their servants on this PBS show Downton Abbey Aaron	$800 [25] At the end of Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End" this world is destroyed the Earth	$800 [22] A baby deer, or to court favor by flattery fawn Emily
$1,200 [17] These major neck arteries get their name from the Greek for "to stupefy" carotid arteries Aaron	$1,200 [10] "The Color of Money" was a sequel to this 1961 movie The Hustler Aaron	$1,200 [16] John Brown's raid on the federal arsenal in this town made him a martyr to the antislavery cause Harpers Ferry Emily	$1,600 [4] The legend of this liqueur says a monk invented it in 1510 at the Abbey of Fécamp Benedictine Jilana	$1,200 [24] Anne McCaffrey's written about "The Dragonriders of", "The Skies of" & "The Renegades of" this imaginary planet Pern Jilana	$1,200 [21] A long spear, a freshwater fish, or a diving position a pike Emily
$1,600 [18] It's Latin for "neck" & can mean the neck as well as the outer end of the uterus the cervix Emily	$1,600 [2] As this film ends Dustin Hoffman & Katharine Ross sit on a bus in eerie silence The Graduate Emily	$1,600 [3] The Cobb salad was invented at this Hollywood restaurant named for a hat the Brown Derby Emily	$2,000 [5] Catherine Morland is way into goth in this Jane Austen novel Northanger Abbey Jilana	$2,000 [8] Survivors escape to Bronson Beta in the 1933 Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer novel "When" this happens Worlds Collide Aaron	$1,600 [12] Polite & friendly, or maybe an amaretto cordial
$2,000 [19] If your left brain hemisphere needs to "cc" your right, it's a good thing they're connected by this"cc" corpus callosum Emily Aaron	$2,000 [1] The Hong Kong police thriller & cult film "Infernal Affairs" was remade as this Oscar winner starring Leo DiCaprio The Departed Aaron	$2,000 [13] The Cortland variety of these brown very slowly after they're cut, making them a good choice for garnishes apples Emily Aaron	DD $10,000 [6] St. Mary's Abbey in this city lent part of its name to a theatre that W.B. Yeats co-founded Dublin Jilana	DD $5,600 [9] It's the real name of the planet referred to in the title of a 1965 Frank Herbert novel Arrakis Aaron	$2,000 [11] Strictly accurate, or to demand, as a payment exact Aaron

Final Jeopardy!

EXPLORERS

Perhaps inspiring a line 2 centuries later, in 1774 he wrote that he was headed "farther than any other man has been before me"

Captain James Cook

Emily "Who is Magellan?" — wagered $4,401

Jilana "Who is Lewis?" — wagered $24,000

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