2023 Champions Wildcard Clubs quarterfinal game 4.
Emily White — a marketing manager from Wilmington, Delaware
Brandon Deutsch — a law student from Long Beach, California
Nick Cascone — an orthopedic physician assistant originally from Queens, New York
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nick | $600 | $3,200 | $18,200 |
$24,401
Winner: semifinalist |
$17,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Brandon | $4,000 | $5,800 | $12,200 |
$12,001
2nd place: $5,000 |
$12,200
16 R, 1 W |
| Emily | $0 | $2,200 | $5,600 |
$11,200
3rd place: $5,000 |
$7,800
11 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| ANCIENT TIMES | CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS | INSECTS | ALSO A BEVERAGE | A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR | TALK CLEANLY TO ME |
|
$200
[1]
Ancient Greeks believed that wine was a gift from this god, the Greek equivalent of Bacchus
Dionysus
Nick
|
$200
[11]
1994:"____ Fiction"
Pulp
Brandon
|
$200
[6]
A variety of midge, a type of this, is believed to be the only insect species native to Antarctica
a fly
Brandon
|
$200
[23]
An elf or fairy; I swear I saw one in the garden!
sprite
|
$200
[24]
The name of this art form means folding paper, which is how the crane seenherewas made
origami
Nick
|
$200
[28]
In a familiar phrase, it precedes "as the driven snow"
pure
Emily
|
|
$400
[2]
Because of his work there, you could call the astronomer Hipparchus the "Colossus of" this island
Rhodes
Nick
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$400
[10]
1989:"____, ____ and videotape"
sex, lies
Brandon
|
$400
[16]
There are more than 2,700 species of these cellulose-eating isopterans sometimes called white ants
termites
Nick
|
$400
[18]
3-hole is one type of this piece of office equipment
a punch
Nick
|
$400
[25]
Useful in electronics crafts, this process similar to welding joins circuit components using a low melting point alloy
soldering
Brandon
|
$400
[12]
Liquor served without ice is straight or this clean word
neat
Nick
|
|
$600
[3]
Horrified by the carnage of war, Asoka, a 3rd century B.C. ruler in India, embraced this peaceful religion
Buddhism
Nick
|
$600
[9]
2000:"Dancer in the ____"
Dark
Brandon
|
$600
[15]
A giant species of this "100-legged" insect grows to 12 inches in length & eats lizards
a centipede
Nick
|
$600
[20]
Dustin Lance Black won an Oscar for writing this 2008 Sean Penn film
Milk
Brandon
|
$600
[26]
A simple method of printing and duplicating uses these cutouts; paint is sprayed through theremoved areas
a stencil
Nick
|
$800
[14]
Free from defects, like a playoff game-winning "reception" in 1972
immaculate
Brandon
|
|
$800
[4]
4 decades after Constantine, Roman emperor Julian sought to revive these types of cults & temples, from Latin for "rustic"
pagan
|
$800
[7]
1993, from Hong Kong: "Farewell My ____"
Concubine
Brandon
|
$800
[17]
Due to their long snouts, these cotton destroyers are sometimes called snout beetles
boll weevils
Brandon
|
$800
[21]
It's been used as a synonym for electric current since the 19th century
juice
Nick
|
$800
[27]
From the French for "to cut out", it's the craft of decorating a surface with paper shapes
découpage
Nick
|
$1,000
[29]
Spelled one way, it describes a large sum; spelled another, it's a toilet "Bol" cleaner
tidy
Nick
|
|
$1,000
[5]
Hetepheres was the mother of this great pyramid king; when her tomb was found, mummy's mummy was missing
Cheops (Khufu)
Nick
|
$1,000
[8]
2013:"____ Is the Warmest Color"
Blue
Brandon
|
$1,000
[19]
Just like chickens, some insects have this muscular organ in the digestive tract to grind food
a gizzard
Emily
|
$1,000
[22]
The dictionary says it's "a person regarded as being assured & artfully ingratiating in manner"
a smoothie
|
$1,000
[30]
Thiscraft of stitching fabric with a hook instead of a needle developed in the 19th century
crochet
Emily
|
DD
$2,600
[13]
From the Latin for "clean", it's a 6-letter adjective for virgin, hey! still not touched for the very first time
chaste
Nick
|
| '90s MUSIC | QUICK CITIES | BABY BOOKS | CARL SAGAN | BILLIONS & BILLIONS | OF "STAR"s |
|
$400
[5]
After years as a backup singer, shehit it big in 1994 with "All I Wanna Do"
Sheryl Crow
Brandon
Emily
|
$400
[27]
Hosts the annual Campeonato Mundial de Baile de Tango
Buenos Aires
Brandon
|
$400
[26]
Later editions of this novel have included a chapter of its rumored sequel "Buttercup's Baby"
The Princess Bride
Nick
|
$400
[8]
From 1971 to 1996, Carl Sagan was a professor at this Ithaca, New York Ivy League school
Cornell
Brandon
|
$400
[23]
There are a billion cubic these in a cubic meter
a cubic millimeter
Nick
|
$400
[24]
The movablebarrierwhere a horse race begins
a starting gate
Emily
|
|
$800
[4]
Thiscountry superstar's "Friends In Low Places" was named CMA Single of the Year in 1991
Garth Brooks
|
$800
[28]
It shares its name with a type of light yellow-brown envelope
Manila
Nick
|
$800
[18]
"Please, Baby, Please" is a kid's book from this director of "She's Gotta Have It"
Spike Lee
Brandon
|
$800
[9]
Sagan was among the first to suggest that Jupiter's moon Europamight have this & that it might contain life
oceans
Nick
|
$800
[15]
A report said more than 225 billion of these annoying 4-letter texts were sent in 2022; the FCC is on it
spam texts
Emily
|
$800
[16]
Luminous celestial object in Matthew that led the magi to the baby Jesus
the Star of Bethlehem
Nick
|
|
$1,200
[6]
This Seattle band's 1991 debut album was titled "Ten" for the uniform number of NBA player Mookie Blaylock
Pearl Jam
Emily
|
$1,200
[1]
Its200-foot-high monument to Columbusis on La Rambla
Barcelona
|
$1,200
[11]
"Baby Catcher" is the "Chronicles of a Modern" one of these
Midwife
|
$1,200
[10]
It was Sagan's award-winning PBS TV show about the universe
Cosmos
Emily
|
$1,200
[14]
Begun in 1960, the construction of this"High Dam" on the Nile cost about $1 billion
the Aswan
Brandon
|
$1,200
[19]
Any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea
a starfish
Emily
|
|
$1,600
[7]
In 1998thesegals had back to back No 1 hits with "There's Your Trouble" & "Wide Open Spaces"
the Dixie Chicks (The Chicks)
Nick
|
$2,000
[3]
Nigeria's most populous
Lagos
Brandon
|
$1,600
[29]
She's not sure if the father is Mark Darcy or Daniel Cleaver in this character's "Baby: the Diaries"
Bridget Jones
Emily
|
$1,600
[21]
A 1990photo of Earthtaken by this probe prompted Carl Sagan to call planet Earth "a pale blue dot"
Voyager
Nick
|
$1,600
[13]
One billion of these make up a second
a nanosecond
Emily
|
$1,600
[20]
In 1985 this Jefferson-less Grace Slick group had a No. 1 hit with "We Built This City"
Starship
Nick
Emily
|
|
$2,000
[12]
"Protect Ya Neck" was the first single by this hip-hop group with a martial arts-themed name
Wu-Tang Clan
Emily
|
DD
$2,200
[2]
Nicknamed "Hollywood North", it's about 1,100 miles north of the real thing
Vancouver
Emily
|
$2,000
[30]
This 1981 novel by Toni Morrison takes place on a Caribbean island
Tar Baby
|
DD
$5,000
[22]
Sagan co-authored a 1983 scientific paper that predicted that this climate condition would follow atomic war
nuclear winter
Nick
|
$2,000
[17]
Following this 19th century war, France was forced to pay its neighbor 5 billion francs in reparations
the Franco-Prussian War
Brandon
|
$2,000
[25]
It's estimated that during WWII, the European edition of this U.S. military newspaper topped a million in circulation
Stars and Stripes
Nick
|
The inscription on this, made in 1753, concludes, "unto all the inhabitants thereof"
the Liberty Bell