Show #8983 2023-11-29 (taped 2023-11-06) Champions Wildcard

2023 Champions Wildcard Hearts quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

Henry Baer — a software engineer from San Francisco, California

Nell Klugman — a museum educator from Brooklyn, New York

Rhone Talsma — a product support specialist from Chicago, Illinois

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Rhone $4,800 $7,800 $10,600 $5,199
2nd place: $5,000
$10,600
23 R, 5 W
Nell $1,200 $2,400 $12,400 $3,599
3rd place: $5,000
$8,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Henry $0 $1,800 $8,000 $5,399
Winner: semifinalist
$11,200
12 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD DISCOGRAPHIES A, B OR C LUCK OF THE DRAW READING RAINBOW A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS
$200 [13]
Pennsport & Northern Liberties are neighborhoods in this big city
Philadelphia
Nell
$200 [23]
"Sonic Highways":this Dave Grohl band
Foo Fighters
Nell
$200 [25]
Alphabetically, it's the first letter that does not begin a state name
B
Nell
$200 [28]
From the Latin for "instill with life", it's thecreationof a motion picture from a series of still images
animation
Rhone
$200 [30]
In the Alex Cross series, James Patterson immediately followed "Roses Are Red" with this title
Violets Are Blue
Rhone
$200 [29]
We don't see what was so good about this 2-word term for the worldwide 1930s economic disaster
the Great Depression
Nell
$400 [14]
Miami districts include "Little Haiti" & "Little" this city, home to many exiles from Cuba
Havana
Rhone
$400 [1]
"Houses of the Holy":these rockers
Led Zeppelin
$400 [24]
Not a blood type
C
Rhone
$400 [27]
A prehistoric drawing on stone can be called a petroglyph or this, like art sometimes seen as an urban nuisance
graffiti
Rhone
$400 [22]
Stephen Crane based this story on the experience of a soldier at the Battle of Chancellorsville
The Red Badge of Courage
Rhone
$400 [26]
Both pleasant & painful, as in a memory
bittersweet
Henry
$600 [15]
Just north of downtown Seattle is this "Hill", though the state government is in Olympia
Capitol Hill
Rhone
$600 [2]
"In the Lonely Hour":this singer
Sam Smith
Rhone
$600 [7]
In the name of the outfit that first broadcast the U.S. House in 1979, this precedes "SPAN"
C
Henry
$600 [21]
To draw in this liberated style means without support or the guidance of instruments
freehand
Nell
$600 [12]
"Anne of Windy Poplars" is a sequel to this 1908 classic
Anne of Green Gables
Rhone
$600 [20]
Alliterative 2-word term for action by one's own forces causing casualties to one's own troops
friendly fire
Henry
$800 [16]
The TV home of Mary Richards, this city's Kenwood neighborhood lies along Lake of the Isles
Minneapolis
Henry
$800 [3]
"It's the Girls!":this divine singer
Bette Midler
Rhone
$800 [5]
A vitamin found in vegetables & dairy products, it's also called retinol
vitamin A
Rhone
$800 [8]
From the name of an 18th century man, it's aprofile portraitdrawn in black
a silhouette
Henry
$1,000 [11]
Julien Sorel is the amoral hero of this novel by French author Stendhal
The Red and the Black
Nell
$800 [19]
2-word term for something supposedly confidential but actually known quite generally
open secret
Rhone
$1,000 [17]
A real Charleston, S.C. neighborhood was the inspiration for this "Row" in the opera "Porgy & Bess"
Catfish Row
$1,000 [4]
"Girl" (2014):this "Happy" guy
Pharrell Williams
Henry
$1,000 [6]
Used as an abbreviation for the standard unit of weight for gems
C
Rhone
$1,000 [9]
From the Italian for "exaggerate", it's adrawingof a person in which certainaspectsare magnified for comic effect
a caricature
Henry
DD $3,400 [10]
In a children's classic by Scott O'Dell, San Nicolas Island is better known as this title place
the Island of the Blue Dolphins
Henry
$1,000 [18]
This computer language gets oxymoronic when it follows "advanced"
BASIC
Rhone

Double Jeopardy! Round

MAKING WAVES FAREWELL TO THE CHIEF METRICKY PROBLEMS BARRE TENDERS BEN FRANKLIN'S DRINKER'S DICTIONARY LET'S HAVE A "BALL"
$400 [14]
Thisactor played Johnny Utah, an FBI agent undercover as a surfer dude in 1991's "Point Break"
(Keanu) Reeves
Rhone
$400 [26]
December 14, 1799 at his home in Virginia
George Washington
Nell
$400 [30]
32,000 ounces make a short one; 3,274 more make a metric one
a ton
Rhone
$400 [29]
In 1990, he& choreographer Mark Morris founded a touring company called the White Oak Dance Project
Baryshnikov
Rhone
$400 [27]
"His head" (not his bonnet) "is full of" these buzzers
bees
Rhone
$400 [28]
If you went stompin' at the Savoy, you know it was one of these for dancing
a ballroom
Rhone
$800 [15]
Also a 1963 hit by The Surfaris, thisis one surfing move I can easily do myself
a wipeout
Henry
$800 [13]
July 4, 1826
Thomas Jefferson (or John Adams)
Rhone
$800 [22]
Metric cowboys wear 37.85-liter hats instead of these
a 10-gallon hat
Henry
$800 [6]
In 2015, this prima ballerina made her Broadway debut in "On the Town"
Misty Copeland
Nell
$800 [18]
"He's had a thump over the head with" this biblical strongman's "jawbone"
Samson
Rhone Nell
$800 [5]
To put something into long-term storage, perhaps with small spheres of naphthalene
mothball
Nell
$1,200 [19]
When you're inside a wave's hollow but stillriding, you're said to be in this colorful waiting area
the green room
Rhone
$1,200 [12]
December 26, 1972 in Kansas City, Missouri
Truman
Henry
$1,200 [3]
That grain of salt you're taking is just .0648 of this basic metric unit
a gram
Rhone
$1,200 [7]
In 1989, heagain danced with the Kirov Ballet, the first time since his defection 28 years earlier
Rudolf Nureyev
$1,200 [4]
"He sees" these (Ben probably didn't mean Walter Payton & Dick Butkus)
bears
Rhone
$1,600 [17]
Answers inside this fortune-telling toy include "signs point to yes" & "ask again later"
a Magic 8 Ball
Nell
$1,600 [20]
The name of this sportcombines snowboarding with something you just learn to go with
flowboarding
Rhone Henry
DD $1,800 [1]
August 2, 1923 in San Francisco, California
Harding
Henry
$1,600 [2]
The measure abbreviated cu yd equals .765 of this
a cubic meter
$1,600 [25]
Audiences fauned all over this Kyiv-born dancer when he came to Paris with Diaghilev in 1909
Nijinsky
$1,600 [8]
A drunk is "half way to" this site of the second skirmish of the Revolution
Concord
Nell
$2,000 [16]
Fungus that discharges a cloud of spores when mature
a puffball
$2,000 [24]
Born at the beach--Cocoa Beach, Florida--hebecame both the youngest & the oldest surfing world champion
Kelly Slater
Rhone
$2,000 [11]
On July 23, 1885 just days after completing his memoirs, he died of cancer at his New York home
Ulysses S. Grant
$2,000 [21]
"THE ACRE" anagrams to this measure, 2.47 acres
a hectare
Rhone
$2,000 [23]
This ballerina known for her "Dying Swan" role starred in the 1916 silent film "The Dumb Girl of Portici"
Anna Pavlova
$2,000 [9]
The unsteady fellow has "lost his" this, which has a handle called the tiller
rudder
Rhone
DD $5,600 [10]
To prevent someone from joining a group by voting against him
blackball
Nell

Final Jeopardy!

A BIT OF BRITAIN

In disarray, it was sold at auction in 1915 to a local Wiltshire man, who would donate it to the British government 3 years later

Stonehenge

Henry "What is the Stone of Scone???" — wagered $2,601
Rhone "What is the Magna Carta?" — wagered $5,401
Nell "What is the Stone of Scone?" — wagered $8,801

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