Show #8986 2023-12-04 (taped 2023-11-06) Champions Wildcard

2023 Champions Wildcard Hearts quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Kristen Thomas-McGill — a graduate student and historian originally from Louisville, Kentucky

Finn Corrigan — a student and postal clerk from Vista, California

Julia Markham Cameron — an attorney from Brooklyn, New York

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Julia $600 $3,000 $12,600 $19,600
Winner: semifinalist
$12,600
19 R, 2 W
Finn $2,400 $3,600 $10,400 $8,600
3rd place: $5,000
$10,400
14 R, 1 W
Kristen $2,400 $1,800 $8,600 $17,200
2nd place: $5,000
$12,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE BRITISH BANDS I THINK WE LEFT SOMEONE OUT A GREEN THUMB GIVE THE "DEVIL" HIS 'DO
$200 [27]
A publisher bet him that he couldn't write a book using 50 or fewer words; the result was "Green Eggs and Ham"
Dr. Seuss
Finn
$200 [22]
He is the lead singer of Culture Club
Boy George
Julia
$200 [28]
The authors of the Bible's gospels: Matthew, Luke, John &...
Mark
Julia
$200 [24]
For cutting tall grass, "one" of these curved blades on a long, bent handle "fits all"
a scythe
Julia
$200 [29]
Head to a Wyoming national monument for a "close encounter" with this monolith
Devils Tower
Finn
$200 [30]
The name of this cut is also the sound of electric clippers; in 2012 Robert Pattinson made news when he got one
a buzz cut
Finn
$400 [18]
"Now We Are Six" is a collection of rhymes from this "Winnie-the-Pooh" author
Milne
Julia
$400 [21]
Classics from these groundbreaking British punkers include "Anarchy In The U.K." & "Pretty Vacant"
the Sex Pistols
Julia
$400 [26]
The last 4 vice presidents: Harris, Pence, Biden &...
Cheney
Julia
$400 [11]
Thisexotic flower can be cultivated in a backyard hothouse
an orchid
Julia
$400 [23]
3-word hyphenated term for an "attitude" with a tendency to take risks
devil-may-care
Kristen
$400 [25]
The clean-cut men's style known as the "Ivy League" is also called this, after a New Jersey school
a Princeton
Julia
$800 [6]
As well as kids' books, this 19th century author wrote "Examples in Arithmetic" & other math textbooks
(Lewis) Carroll
Kristen
$600 [16]
Liam Gallagher heckled his brother Noel at an "MTV Unplugged" show for this British band
Oasis
Finn
$600 [19]
The Jackson 5 consisted of Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon, Michael &...
Tito
Julia
$600 [8]
As their name implies, schizocarps are fruits that do this when they become ripe
part (split in two)
Kristen
$600 [1]
Ecclesiastical changes in 1983 eliminated the job of this adversarial examiner first appointed in 1587
the devil's advocate
Finn
$600 [20]
Moe, part of this trio, typically sported the haircut known as a bowl cut
the Three Stooges
Julia
$1,000 [5]
David McKee's stories of this patchwork elephant subtly convey the message that it's OK to be different
Elmer
$800 [2]
Bananarama had a hit with this song, appropriately enough, in the mean, hot days of August 1984
"Cruel Summer"
$800 [15]
The 4 men who served as 5-star generals during WWII were Arnold, MacArthur, Marshall &...
Eisenhower
Finn Kristen
$800 [9]
These flowers with a name partly from Greek for "water" can be blue or pink, depending on the acidity of the soil
hydrangeas
Kristen
$800 [12]
To make these, mash up the yolks with seasonings & return them to the white part
deviled eggs
Kristen
$800 [4]
In the '90s Kid of Kid 'n Playrocked a high top this hairstyle that's shaved on the bottom & long on top
a fade
Julia Kristen
DD $1,600 [7]
An out-of-control dog meets his match in John Grogan's him "and the Kittens"
Marley
Kristen
$1,000 [3]
The Clash had its biggest hit with this song that says, "the Sheik he drove his Cadillac"
"Rock The Casbah"
Finn
$1,000 [17]
The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse are Conquest, War, Famine &...
Death
Julia Kristen
$1,000 [10]
The RHS, it sponsors the famous Chelsea Flower Show
the Royal Horticultural Society
Kristen
$1,000 [13]
Jabez Stone enlists the aid of a statesman to help save his soul in this story by Stephen Vincent Benet
"The Devil and Daniel Webster"
Julia
$1,000 [14]
In the lost Leonardo work "Salvator Mundi", Jesus has the long, spiraling curls called these
ringlets

Double Jeopardy! Round

MATH WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS MOVIE DIRECTORS MASSAGE IN A BOTTLE A BIRD IN THE HAND 2 IN THE BUSH
$400 [19]
It's the absolute value of negative 143
143
Julia
$400 [30]
This crime is in Nevada's capital
arson (in C arson City)
Kristen
$400 [25]
Alfred Hitchcock, "The Master of" this tense feeling, defined it as when the audience knows more than the characters
suspense
Finn
$400 [27]
Your massage oil may contain this vitamin, aka alpha-tocopherol; it's thought to promote wound healing
vitamin E
Julia
$400 [24]
It's the bird in the hands here; Hans Christian Andersen wrote of an "Ugly" one
a duckling
Finn
$400 [16]
The 2 Presidents Bush were both graduates of Yale University, attending in these 2 decades
the '40s & the '60s
$800 [21]
A sexagesimal system is based on this number
60
Finn
$800 [20]
This wind in Maine's
a gust (in Au gust a)
Kristen
$800 [6]
In the '80s this sitcom actress made a successful move to directing with "Jumpin' Jack Flash" & "Big"
Penny Marshall
$800 [22]
It's the fat extracted from the beans used to make chocolate; turns out it softens & lubricates the skin
cocoa butter
Finn
$800 [23]
That's not a chick in the hand but this bird with a longer name
a chickadee
Kristen
$800 [15]
In the names of both the Presidents Bush, "W" is short for this
Walker
Julia
$1,200 [28]
Also a type of equation, it describes functions of the formf(x) = ax2+ bx + c
quadratic
Kristen
$1,600 [2]
This tree in Tennessee's
ash (in N ash ville)
Finn
$1,200 [3]
You'll find illustrations from "Ed Wood" & "Sweeney Todd" among the 1000+ in the book "The Art of" this director
Tim Burton
Finn
$1,200 [7]
Many massage oils have the scent of this purplish plant "the herb of love" that's a member of the mint family
lavender
Finn
$1,200 [9]
It's perhaps the most fittingbirdto hold the symbol of peace in its beak
a dove
Kristen
$1,200 [12]
The 2 daughters of the last President Bush
Jenna & Barbara
Julia
$1,600 [26]
The area of a parallelogram equals b times h, short for these 2 measures
base & height
Julia
DD $1,800 [1]
This noodle in California's
ramen (in Sac ramen to)
Kristen
$1,600 [5]
This director of the miniseries "Small Axe" & the film "12 Years a Slave" is not the same guy as the movie star who married Ali MacGraw
Steve McQueen
Julia
$1,600 [17]
If your massage oil is scented, it may also be used for this, the use of fragrance to help with mood or behavior
aromatherapy
Kristen
$1,600 [10]
On its leg, the bird is undergoing this zoologicalprocess, also called ringing
banding
$1,600 [13]
2 sons of George H.W. Bush have been governors, of these 2 states
Florida & Texas
Julia
$2,000 [29]
Calculated as the ratio of s to r, this measure of an angle is similar to the word that r stands for
a radian
Kristen
$2,000 [8]
This Roman poet in Rhode Island's
Ovid (from Pr ovid ence)
Kristen
$2,000 [4]
Long before "Spider-Man", hefirst made his name with "The Evil Dead" when he was just 22
Sam Raimi
Finn
$2,000 [18]
Essence of this, which Thomas More called "the herb sacred to remembrance", is used as a scent in massage oils
rosemary
Julia
DD $3,000 [11]
The type of hawk seenhereis found in the name of this olden occupation of the guy holding it
falconer
Kristen
$2,000 [14]
The 2 Democratic opponents George W. Bush beat in presidential elections
Gore & Kerry
Kristen

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY NOVELS

The Atlanta History Center says this novel was "both beloved & condemned from almost the moment of its publication" in 1936

Gone with the Wind

Kristen "What is Gone with the Wind?" — wagered $8,600
Finn "What hi Mom + Dad" — wagered $1,800
Julia "What is Gone With the Wind?" — wagered $7,000

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