2023 Champions Wildcard Clubs quarterfinal game 9.
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
| 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 |
| 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
|
| 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
|
This series grew out of a screenplay titled "Murdoch"
Succession