Show #8988 2023-12-06 (taped 2023-11-07) Champions Wildcard

2023 Champions Wildcard Hearts quarterfinal game 6.

Contestants

Patrick Hume — a client operations director from Van Nuys, California

Kate Freeman — a financial manager originally from Lake Orion, Michigan

Ed Coulson — an economics and real estate professor from Dana Point, California

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ed $2,600 $4,400 $14,600 $20,401
Winner: semifinalist
$13,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Kate $200 $2,200 $9,000 $7,799
3rd place: $5,000
$10,000
15 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Patrick $4,000 $7,200 $10,200 $18,001
2nd place: $5,000
$13,200
20 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

REAL MEN OF SCIENCE WATERY SONGS HOUSE PARTY OUT OF CON TEXT I JUST WANT A LOVER LIKE ANY OTHER WHAT DO I "GET"
$200 [10]
These small glass or plastic dishes used to culture microorganisms are named for a German bacteriologist
Petri
Kate
$200 [3]
Arthur Freed published the lyrics to this in the 1920s but it took another 2 decades plus for Gene Kelly to immortalize it
"Singin' In The Rain"
Kate
$200 [21]
This house in Massachusetts is actually on Turner Street, not Pyncheon Street as in the 1851 novel
House of the Seven Gables
$200 [23]
A memoir:"On Feb. 4, 2004... Larry drove me to the women's prison in Danbury, Connecticut"
Orange Is the New Black
Patrick
$200 [24]
Trust your friends--don't pass up this type of set-up evening, also the title of several TV shows including one Nikki Glaser hosted
blind date
Patrick
$200 [30]
A bite-size piece of chicken
a nugget
Kate
$400 [6]
373.15 is the boiling point of water on the scale named for this Scottish scientist
(Lord) Kelvin
Kate
$400 [2]
In 1984 Prince "never meant 2 cause U any sorrow" with this colorful tune
"Purple Rain"
Patrick
$400 [20]
Hansel could tell you that building one of these houses requires more sugar than timber
a gingerbread house
Patrick
$400 [22]
By Stephen King: "The inmates made jokes about the chair... they called it Old Sparky, or the Big Juicy"
The Green Mile
Patrick
$400 [25]
Despite the pandemic & post-#Me Too caution, the organization SHRM says 1/3 of American workers have found love here
at work (at the office)
Ed
$400 [29]
Take aim at this "date" set for completion of a task
target date
Patrick
$600 [7]
Galileo used a supernova in 1604 to disprove this ancient Greek's theory that the universe never changes
Ptolemy (Aristotle)
Kate Patrick
$600 [1]
In 1970 this "Travelin' Band" wondered "Who'll Stop The Rain"
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Patrick
$600 [19]
Billed as "the most shocking tale of carnage ever seen", Rob Zombie's first movie was titled "House of 1000" these
Corpses
Patrick
$800 [11]
"Dantes crossed the awful threshold and the door closed noisily behind him... he was in prison"
The Count of Monte Cristo
Kate
$600 [26]
You're a Gemini? An astrologer might suggest a lover born under this water bearer sign for a really deep connection
Aquarius
Ed
$600 [14]
Rise to the occasion & say this informal word for an outfit or costume
a getup
Patrick
$800 [8]
Christiaan Huygens was an early telescope developer & found the moon Titan when he looked at this planet
Saturn
Ed Kate
$800 [4]
"I Go Swimming" appeared on the album this British singer plays live
Peter Gabriel
Patrick
$800 [16]
From words for "house study", it's the study of the relations of organisms to one another & to their environment
ecology
Ed
DD $1,000 [12]
This 1849 work says, "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is... prison"
Civil Disobedience
Kate
$800 [27]
Maybe you'll find one on this app with a buzzy name, founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd
Bumble
Kate
$800 [13]
Do you recollect this plant seen here?
a forget-me-not
Ed
$1,000 [9]
Introduced in 1855, hisprocess using blasts of air to remove impurities made the mass production of steel possible
Bessemer
Patrick
$1,000 [5]
The 2 title items in this Carpenters tune, No. 2 in '71, "always get me down"
"Rainy Days And Mondays"
Ed
$1,000 [18]
In 1899 the first juvenile court in the nation was organized at this Chicago house co-founded by Jane Addams
Hull House
$1,000 [17]
"At last news arrived... that Raskolnikov shunned everybody and that in prison he was unpopular with the convicts"
Crime and Punishment
Patrick
$1,000 [28]
Just remember that the root of this word for a strong, often one-sided attachment is Latin fatuus, "foolish"
infatuation
Kate
$1,000 [15]
A plain in northwest Tanzania
the Serengeti
Kate

Double Jeopardy! Round

HODGEPODGE DOUBLE TALK CLASSIC COMIC STRIPS AFRICAN CUISINE DEWEY DECIMALS
$400 [27]
In the wee hours of Jan. 7, 2023 he was elected Speaker of the House on the 15th ballot; he was voted out about 9 months later
Kevin McCarthy
Ed
$400 [26]
In a nursery rhyme it precedes "pumpkin eater, had a wife and couldn't keep her"
Peter, Peter
Kate
$400 [28]
Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley wrote a poem about a "Little Orphant" named this who would later inspire a comic strip
Annie
Kate
$400 [21]
Mealie is the name for this cereal plant that is used to make mush & batters
corn
Kate
$400 [29]
In 1883 Melvil Dewey took this job at Columbia College
librarian
Patrick
$400 [30]
The representation of a number in the decimal system is called its decimal expansion; for 1/4, it's this
0.25
Patrick
$800 [25]
A Connecticut town gave its name to this tick-borne disease that was first identified in the 1970s
Lyme disease
Ed
$800 [22]
It's the name of the Darlings' nursemaid/dog in "Peter Pan", or what you might call your grandmother
Nana
Ed
$800 [7]
Even with inflation this "Peanuts" character was always willing to give her advice for 5 cents
Lucy
Kate
$800 [20]
Doro wat, stewed chicken often eaten with injera bread, is a national dish of this East African country
Ethiopia
Kate
$800 [23]
They're Donald Duck's 3 nephews
Huey, Dewey & Louie
Ed
$800 [24]
Each numeral from 0 to 9 is a decimal one of these, from a word meaning "finger"
digit
Patrick
$1,200 [13]
A flexible spine allows this fastest dog breed to have all 4 feet off the ground at the same time when galloping
a greyhound
Kate
$1,200 [8]
In 2015, these'80s legends released "Paper Gods", their 14th studio album
Duran Duran
Patrick
$1,200 [6]
It followed the imaginative adventures of a 6-year-old boy & his trusty toy tiger
Calvin and Hobbes
Patrick
$1,200 [17]
Angola's cuisine is influenced by this European country that brought ingredients from its Brazilian colony
Portugal
Patrick
$1,200 [15]
Jazz instrument on which Miles Dewey Davis III was a legendary virtuoso
a trumpet
Ed
$1,200 [1]
Though not required, "trailing" these to the right of a decimal point are often used to show levels of accuracy
zeros
Patrick
$1,600 [11]
1978 saw the deaths of 2 popes: Paul VI & then, less than 2 months later, this pope
Pope John Paul I
Ed
$1,600 [9]
This Washington city famous for its sweet onions has been described as "the town so nice they named it twice"
Walla Walla
Kate
$1,600 [5]
You could say it's wife Helga who wears the skins in the family in this strip
Hägar the Horrible
Ed
$2,000 [19]
They go gaga in Ouagadougou for riz gras, this country's national dish of rice with cabbage & eggplant
Burkina Faso
Kate
$1,600 [14]
On May 1, 1898 Commodore George Dewey & his fleet sailed into this bay
Manila
Ed
$1,600 [2]
One of the 2 baseball statistics, both expressed to 3 decimal places, that make up the stat OPS
slugging percentage (or on base percentage)
Ed
$2,000 [12]
"Deep in my heart, I do believe" this folk song has been called the anthem of the civil rights movement
"We Shall Overcome"
Ed
$2,000 [10]
In 2015, a new member of the panda family was born at the Smithsonian National Zoo & given this name, not Newborn
Bei Bei
$2,000 [4]
Though his original strip ended in 1975, this character lives on as Georgia's state 'possum
Pogo
DD $3,000 [18]
Granularsemolinagoes by this name which is also the name of a stew made in Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia
couscous
Patrick
DD $3,000 [16]
U.S. educator & psychologist John Dewey helped develop this philosophic branch associated with William James
pragmatism
Ed
$2,000 [3]
Founded in 1792, it reported prices in 1/8 or 1/16 of a dollar before moving to a decimal system in the 21st century
the New York Stock Exchange
Ed Patrick

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS NAMES

Subject of a 2003 film, his 1947 obituary said he fathered at least 100 & died of a heart attack at 14, at a California ranch

Seabiscuit

Kate "Who is Will Rogers?" — wagered $1,201
Patrick "Who is Seabiscuit?" — wagered $7,801
Ed "Who is Seabiscit" — wagered $5,801

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