Show #8977 2023-11-21 (taped 2023-10-18) Champions Wildcard

2023 Champions Wildcard Clubs quarterfinal game 9.

Contestants

Sandy Olive — a high school English teacher from Saint Louis, Missouri

Ed Hashima — a community college history professor from Sacramento, California

Nick Heise — a technical solutions engineer from Madison, Wisconsin

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Nick $1,200 $3,400 $5,800 $1
2nd place: $5,000
$5,800
11 R, 2 W
Ed $3,800 $4,200 $29,600 $29,600
Winner: semifinalist
$22,200
23 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Sandy $1,800 $5,400 $10,600 $0
3rd place: $5,000
$8,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

A DROP IN WHICH OCEAN? CAR TUNES SPEAK OF THE DEVIL CHICKEN SOUP 2B OR NOT 2B ALL ABOUT ACTING
$200 [3]
Hanauma Bay, east of Waikiki
the Pacific Ocean
Nick
$200 [8]
"Baby, you're much too fast", Prince complained in this tune
"Little Red Corvette"
Sandy
$200 [17]
This Conan Doyle hero called gemstones "the devil's pet baits"
Sherlock Holmes
Ed
$200 [5]
Chickenfoot is a multi-pronged variation of this game that uses white game tiles with pips
dominoes
Sandy
$200 [6]
Crumbled rock /Russian currency
rubble & ruble
Sandy
$200 [20]
An old superstition says, "bad" this last full run-through in costume, "good show"
dress rehearsal
Nick
$400 [13]
The Gulf of Honduras
the Atlantic
Ed Sandy
$400 [9]
She's from Barbados & knows what she wants--"Shut Up And Drive"
Rihanna
Nick
$400 [18]
Baudelaire:"The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not" this
exist
Sandy
$400 [16]
Enjoy some jerk chicken in this Caribbean country where it originated
Jamaica
Sandy
$400 [7]
One who tells lies /moral toughness & character
fibber & fiber
Ed
$400 [21]
Stage backdrops are part of this; don't crash through it & don't, by overacting, "chew" it
scenery
Sandy
$600 [25]
The Sulu Sea
the Pacific
Ed
$600 [10]
"Drive" is the first track on this group's album "Automatic for the People"
R.E.M.
Ed
$800 [24]
The Book of Common Prayer: "From all the deceits of the world," this "and the devil, good Lord, deliver us"
the flesh
Ed
$600 [1]
An ancestor of Alex Haley, he was played on TV by Ben Vereen
Chicken George
Ed
$600 [14]
Speech that's too fast to understand / the end of a pitched roof
gable & gabble
Nick
$600 [22]
A purse is an example of a personal one of these onstage items
a prop
Ed
$800 [4]
The Laptev Sea
the Arctic Ocean
Sandy
$800 [11]
Hehad a 2-part request in the title of his 1988 No. 1 hit "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car"
Billy Ocean
Ed
$1,000 [30]
John Donne:"In best understandings, sin began, / angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then" him
man
Nick Sandy
$800 [2]
One of this state's official symbols is seen here
Rhode Island
$800 [15]
A fun activity in "hot" water / a fun activity in fast-running rivers
tubbing & tubing
Ed
$800 [23]
Your line "Amanda, I'm leaving you!" is part of dialogue; your action of crossing the stage & exiting is part of this
blocking
Sandy
$1,000 [26]
The Mozambique Channel
the Indian Ocean
Ed
$1,000 [12]
This number follows "Rocket" in the name of a classic Oldsmobile & of a song about it, often called the first rock & roll record
88
Ed
DD $2,600 [19]
This 17th c. work says, "Abashed the devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is... saw, and pined his loss"
Paradise Lost
Sandy
$1,000 [27]
During the 16th c. Wojna Kokosza, or "Chicken War" in this country, rebels ate nearly all of the region's poultry
Poland
Nick
$1,000 [28]
A British slang term meaning "swindle" / a British aristocrat such as a duke
nobble & noble
Ed
$1,000 [29]
Any follow-up interview or audition for a role you've already tried out for is called this
a callback
Ed

Double Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY SCRAPBOOK INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SHOWCASE TEACHING COMMUNICATION A PAIN IN THE "R"s MAKE THE PHRASE
$400 [19]
This imposing American landmark is seenhereas it looked in 1876
the Washington Monument
Sandy
$400 [12]
"Das Boot" portrayed both boredom & terror aboard one of these German craft during World War II
a U-boat
Sandy
$400 [11]
A method of assigning letter grades based on rank among the class is called "grading on" this, perhaps a bell one
a curve
Ed
$400 [14]
This "fruity" smartphone was a big hit when it debuted in 2002... then came the iPhone & Android
the BlackBerry
Nick
$400 [4]
Any mammal, including people, can contract this rhabdovirus disease affecting the nervous system & salivary glands
rabies
Sandy
$400 [9]
A boxer trying to get down to, say, 135 or 175 pounds for a fight is attempting to "make" this
weight
Nick
$800 [23]
Successful "Little" author seen here
Alcott
Sandy
$800 [20]
"The Motorcycle Diaries" dramatized a life-changing road trip by this future ally of Fidel Castro
Che Guevara
Sandy
$800 [13]
This president with only a little time at school called education "the most important subject which we... can be engaged in"
Lincoln
Nick Sandy
$800 [15]
This wireless technology is named for a 10th century Viking king
Bluetooth
Nick
$800 [5]
A lack of phosphate, vitamin D or calcium can cause this bone disease in children
rickets
Ed
$800 [10]
To discern, to complete writing a check or to engage in kissing, you "make" this
out
Sandy
$1,200 [24]
A 19th century political cartoon by British cartoonist James Gillray shows this man cutting up a globe
Napoleon
Ed
$1,200 [17]
Bérénice Bejoplayed 1920s actress Peppy Miller in this 2011 multi-Oscar winner from France
The Artist
Ed
$1,200 [21]
Sounding like an advantage in a foot race, this program recognizes parents as a child's first & most influential teacher
Head Start
Ed
$1,200 [16]
Karl Ferdinand Braun shared a 1909 Nobel Prize with this man for "the development of wireless telegraphy"
Marconi
Nick Ed Sandy
$1,200 [6]
It's what the R in the MMR vaccine stands for
rubella
Nick
$1,200 [1]
To act with speed, you "make" this, also said to make waste
haste
Ed
$1,600 [25]
This Russian seenhereset the table for future chemists
Mendeleev
$1,600 [18]
"City of God" is about 2 boys growing up in a violent favela in this South American country
Brazil
Sandy
$2,000 [28]
This organization started in 1990 with 500 idealistic young people working in schools in low-income communities
Teach for America
Ed
$1,600 [30]
Before home pay-per-view, if you wanted to see a big fight like Ali-Frazier, you went to a theater to watch it on CCTV, this
closed-circuit television
Ed Sandy
$1,600 [7]
Parents are advised not to give children aspirin because of its link to this potentially fatal syndrome
Reye syndrome
Ed
$1,600 [2]
An attempt that'll end in success or utter disaster is described in the rhyming phrase "make or..."
break
Nick
DD $7,000 [26]
Pictured here around 1890, hewas the original "Iron Man"
Bismarck
Ed
$2,000 [27]
The 2011 Oscar for Best Foreign Film went to director Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation", the first winner from this country
Iran
Sandy
DD $4,000 [22]
This term for a list of items to be covered in a course is from the Greek for "parchment label"
a syllabus
Ed
$2,000 [29]
In 1962 NASA teamed with AT&T to create this, the first active communications satellite
Telstar
Ed
$2,000 [8]
These viruses responsible for many respiratory infections share part of their name with a pachyderm
rhinoviruses
Sandy
$2,000 [3]
Something that serves as a substitute, especially of an expedient nature, is "make-" this
do
Sandy

Final Jeopardy!

TELEVISION

This series grew out of a screenplay titled "Murdoch"

Succession

Nick "What is Daredevil" — wagered $5,799
Sandy "What is Matlock?" — wagered $10,600
Ed "What is Matlock???" — wagered $0

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