Show #8991 2023-12-11 (taped 2023-11-07) Champions Wildcard

2023 Champions Wildcard Hearts quarterfinal game 9.

Contestants

Emma Saltzberg — a campaigns director from Brooklyn, New York

Donesh Olyaie — a marketing director from Los Angeles, California

Amal Dorai — a venture capital investor from San Francisco, California

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Amal	$7,800	$8,600	$11,200	$22,400 2nd place: $5,000	$11,800 16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Donesh	$3,200	$4,600	$12,600	$0 3rd place: $5,000	$12,600 20 R, 4 W
Emma	$0	$2,200	$15,000	$25,201 Winner: semifinalist	$14,200 16 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

GOT YOUR NAME TAG?	IT'S THE GENEVA CONVENTION	THE MUSIC OF CANADA	HYDROLOGY	CIRCLE TIME	F-STOP
$200 [27] Here you go, Mr. Winnerof this decisive 1805 naval battle the Battle of Trafalgar Amal Donesh	$200 [15] Article 1 of the 1864 first convention called for protection of military hospitals & these vehicles ambulances Amal	$200 [19] You oughta know Flea & Dave Navarro played on this Ottawa singer's "You Oughta Know" Alanis Morissette Donesh	$200 [17] This term for the surface flow of excess rainwater sounds like an additional contest after a tie runoff Emma	$200 [29] If you saw the movie "Signs", you know the formation seenhereis one of these geometric feats a crop circle Emma	$200 [30] The nape of the neck the scruff Amal
$400 [25] May I just sayyou're an inspiration to millions & richly deserve this 2014 award the Nobel Peace Prize Amal	$400 [11] When Geneva is cited on "Hogan's Heroes", it's usually the 1929 convention devoted to protection of them prisoners (POWs) Donesh	$400 [28] We'll give you more than 5 cents if you know this Alberta band hit No. 1 in 2001 with "How You Remind Me" Nickelback Emma	$400 [16] A structure such as the Pont du Gard, designed to transport water from a remote source, usually by gravity an aqueduct Emma	$400 [26] In target archery hitting this center circle garners you 10 points the bullseye Amal	$400 [2] A recurring theme in a musical or literary work a motif Amal
$600 [21] We hopeyou'll be signing copies of this work, your fullest description of the ideal state the Republic Donesh	$600 [14] This country signed in 1949 with the reservation that it could use the red shield of David as a symbol Israel Donesh	$600 [23] It was all about "Love" as this crooner from British Columbia was on top of the jazz albums chart in 2019 Michael Bublé Donesh	$800 [8] Effluent is wastewater that flows from one of these facilities, like NYC's Bowery Bay a treatment plant Donesh	$600 [9] All official distances from New York City are measured from this point at the intersection of 59th Street, 8th Avenue & Broadway Columbus Circle Donesh	$600 [1] A role in "Rocky Horror", or low-class folks Riff Raff Amal
$800 [4] You might not want to wear yourtagif there's anyone here from this land you ruled from 1971 to 1986 Haiti Amal	$800 [12] The 1906 convention called for ratifications to be filed in this nearby national capital Bern Donesh	$800 [10] This Ontario rocker ruled the '80s with hits like "Cuts Like A Knife" Bryan Adams	$1,000 [18] In the Americas this hydrological line stretches from Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska down to southern Patagonia the Great Divide (the Continental Divide) Emma	$800 [24] In the U.K., a sign with 3 arrows going around in a circle indicates one of these, also called a traffic circle a roundabout Donesh	$800 [3] To take off--your hat, for example doff Amal
$1,000 [6] Oops, they left offyour last name; that's okay, Mr. 10th President, everyone knows it's this Tyler Amal	$1,000 [13] A 1977 protocol covers peoples fighting "against racist regimes in the exercise of their right of" this hyphenated choice self-determination	$1,000 [20] This "Fly By Night" power trio formed in Toronto in 1968; Neil Peart joined in '74 (cue the drum solo) Rush Amal	DD $3,000 [7] The gradual movement of water through porous openings in rock or soil, it's also a way to make coffee percolate (percolation) Amal	$1,000 [22] Parallel to the equator, it runs along 66 degrees, 30 minutes south latitude the Antarctic Circle Amal Donesh	$1,000 [5] To interrogate a friendly spy after a mission debrief Amal

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE COUNTRY'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER…	DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES	THE 7 DEADLY SIN-ONYMS	HOME ON THE RANGE	ARTS	CRAFTS
$400 [20] Lies in a Tasmanian blackwood coffin, with a slouch hat & a sprig of wattle Australia Donesh	$400 [30] "Citizen Kane"(1941) (Orson) Welles Amal	$400 [1] "O, beware, my lord, of" this synonym for envy jealousy Donesh	$400 [28] Let's give thanks to Kraft for making the Stove Top brand of this all year long stuffing Donesh Emma	$400 [23] This architect fell in love with the Arizona desert & built Taliesin West, his winter home, in Scottsdale Frank Lloyd Wright Emma	$400 [25] It can refer to an open-air freight car, a cable car conveyance for skiers or a craft on the Canale Grande a gondola Donesh
$800 [22] Is honored with a pyramid-shaped memorial in Nasr City Egypt Emma	$800 [29] "Play Misty for Me"(1971) Clint Eastwood	$800 [19] A talking gecko might tell you it's a 5-letter synonym for avarice greed Emma	$800 [27] This creamy pasta dish was created in the early 1900s; the Italian chef created it for his wife, but put his own first name on it Alfredo Emma	$800 [24] Mozart's Serenade No. 13 in G major has this nickname that includes the time of day it was intended for "A Little Night Music" Donesh Emma	$800 [26] Before powered airplanes, the Wright brothers built a successful type of this 6-letter flying craft in 1902 a glider Donesh
$1,200 [4] Has a monument flanked by inscriptions from Pericles' funeral oration Greece Donesh	$1,200 [21] "The Virgin Suicides"(1999) Sofia Coppola Donesh	$1,600 [9] For lust:A perfume from Alfred Dunhill Desire	$1,200 [14] Also a way to cook eggs, it's an easy way to prepare salmon--simmer it in a liquid poach Amal	$1,200 [13] As in Louis Comfort Tiffany'swork, an undulating line, often in the form ofvine tendrils, is characteristic of this style Art Nouveau Donesh Emma	$1,200 [10] In 1976, with Gene Roddenberry looking on, this Space Shuttle was rolled out of an Air Force hangar Enterprise Donesh
$1,600 [3] Is entombed in Plac Pilsudskiego Poland Emma	$1,600 [5] "Eraserhead"(1978) (David) Lynch Donesh	DD $2,000 [18] "Pride" synonym paired with "The Id" in a Freud title ego Emma	$1,600 [15] Use whatever combination of seafood that you prefer for this stew created by Italian immigrants in San Francisco cioppino Donesh	$2,000 [7] The one-syllable name of this Japanese theatrical form comes from a word meaning "talent" or "skill" noh Amal	$1,600 [11] With "craft" in their name, these crafts, such as the PACV, were used by the U.S. in Vietnam to cross marshes & paddies a hovercraft Donesh
$2,000 [2] Lies in Hietaniemi Cemetery near the tomb of Marshal Mannerheim Finland	$2,000 [6] "The 400 Blows"(1959) Francois Truffaut	$2,000 [17] Meaning sloth, it's from the Latin negative of dolere, "to feel pain" indolence Emma	$2,000 [16] One of the mother sauces, brown sauce also goes by this more sophisticated ethnic name espagnole Amal	DD $3,000 [8] The full title of this modernist Stravinsky ballet includes "Pictures from Pagan Russia in Two Parts" The Rite of Spring Amal	$2,000 [12] Jason & his band of heroes sailed on this ship while in search of the Golden Fleece the Argo Emma

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY LITERATURE

Thomas Pynchon wrote that this novelist "in 1948 understood that despite the Axis defeat... fascism had not gone away"

Orwell

Amal "Who is Orwell?" — wagered $11,200

Donesh "Who is Roth?" — wagered $12,600

Emma "Who is Orwell?" — wagered $10,201

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