Show #9017 2024-01-16 (taped 2024-01-03) Champions Wildcard

2024 Champions Wildcard Group 1 quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

Sharon Stone — an early childhood intervention manager from Round Rock, Texas

Katie Palumbo — a museum membership specialist from Amawalk, New York

Andy Tirrell — a political science and international relations professor from San Diego, California

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Andy	$5,000	$6,400	$21,800	$23,600 Winner: semifinalist	$18,000 21 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Katie	$2,800	$5,400	$-1,000	$-1,000 3rd place: $5,000	$-1,800 17 R (including 1 DD), 10 W
Sharon	$600	$600	$6,100	$100 2nd place: $5,000	$6,200 8 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD GEOGRAPHY	1980s PRO WRESTLING	A MATTER OF LAW	HATS IN OTHER WORDS	OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS	MAJOR "KEY" ALERT
$200 [12] Formed at the end of the last ice age, this sea includes the Gulf of Bothniain the north & the Gulf of Gdanskin the south the Baltic Sea Andy Katie	$200 [30] In 1987 a reported 93,173 filled Michigan's Silverdome to see the IIIrd holding of this "crazed" event WrestleMania Andy	$200 [29] From Latin for "to let in", it describes evidence that may be considered by a judge or jury admissible Katie	$200 [25] A vaquero is a type of one a cowboy hat Andy	$200 [21] About the size of a billiard ball, the eye of this bird is the largest of any land animal an ostrich Katie	$200 [23] It's also called a love bite a hickey Katie
$400 [7] The largest desert in Asia at about 1,200 miles long & 600 miles wide, it has a name from Mongolian meaning "waterless place" the Gobi Katie	$400 [27] Better get ready, brother! This alliterative WWE legend who flexed "24-inch pythons" played Thunderlips in "Rocky III" Hulk Hogan Katie	$400 [28] It's the kinetic term for a litigant's request to a judge for a decision on an issue a motion Katie	$400 [24] Boil an egg this way if you want a solid inside hard boiled Andy	$400 [20] The rockhopper species of this flightless bird is one of the smallest & earns its name by bounding along the craggy shore penguin Andy	$400 [22] In "His Girl Friday" Rosalind Russell defines journalism as "peeking through" these openings & "stealing pictures off old ladies" the keyholes Katie
$600 [6] Thisarchipelago nation is home to more than 100 active volcanoes, including Mount Bromo Indonesia Andy	$600 [13] This hold did rock when Ric "Nature Boy" Flair made Ricky Steamboat sleep like a baby in a classic 1989 match a cradle Sharon	$600 [4] Chapter 12 of this federal code covers its application to family farmers & family fishermen the Bankruptcy Code Katie	$600 [9] A type of quark or kind of toy tops	$600 [10] For decades, these songbirds were employed in mining to detect toxic gases before miners were overcome canaries Katie	$600 [17] Lester "The Long Fellow" Piggott & Steve Cauthen, "The Kentucky Kid", were these track stars--a different kind of track jockeys
$800 [2] In 1889 a climber said this African mountain was 19,833 feet; re-measurements have been shrinking it ever since Mount Kilimanjaro Andy	$800 [14] Randy Savage went by this nickname, also the first Top 40 hit for the Village People in 1978 "Macho Man" Andy	$800 [3] A lawsuit that's dismissed "without" this can be refiled; "with" this means it can't prejudice Katie	$800 [5] The country with Volcán Barú as its highest point Panama Andy	$800 [11] Many North American lakes are named for this bird; in 1892 Pres. Harrison stayed at one in the Adirondacks & heard the bird's mad laugh a loon Andy	$800 [15] A detox or rehab facility is a safer & more lasting way to quit an addiction than this one cold turkey Katie
$1,000 [1] Ancientgeoglyphsof animals & figures, known by this name, were etched into the arid Pampa Colorada Plain of Peru more than 2,000 years ago the Nazca Lines Andy	$1,000 [26] Time to get rowdy, this wrestler who was from Canada, but had the right ancestry for the get up, hit the ring in a kilt Roddy Piper Andy	$1,000 [18] A 1968 ruling said this amendment's unreasonable search & seizure clause doesn't prohibit frisking of suspected criminals the Fourth Amendment Katie	$1,000 [8] A tin or container for tablets or lozenges a pill box Katie	DD $1,800 [19] With a wingspan of about 7 feet, the largest eagle in the Amazon is this species named for foul bird-like women of Greek myth (the) harpy (eagle) Katie	$1,000 [16] It's the NATO phonetic alphabet code word that fits the category Whiskey

Double Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY AMERICANS	HALF A CATEGORY	BALLET	TV CLIFFHANGERS	AUTHORS AS BOOK CHARACTERS	RHYME TIME
$400 [30] On May 21, 1932, 5 years to the day after Lindbergh, she became the second to fly solo & nonstop across the Atlantic (Amelia) Earhart Andy	$400 [29] During this "Show" seen by many on February 3, 2002, U2's Bono flashed his jacket's American flag lining the Super Bowl Halftime Show Andy	$400 [27] Choreographing the farcical ballet"The Bright Stream"helped make Alexei Ratmanskythe artistic director of this famed Moscow company in 2004 the Bolshoi Sharon	$400 [25] While repeating his wedding vows in the 4th season finale of "Friends", Ross mistakenly said her name instead of fiancée Emily's Rachel Sharon	$400 [24] In Dan Simmons' novel "Drood", Wilkie Collins meets the perplexing title character while traveling with this author in 1865 Charles Dickens Katie	$400 [18] A labyrinth fad a maze craze Katie Sharon
$800 [11] Not Mr. Fortune, but this flamboyant publisher of a major business magazine is seen here (Malcolm) Forbes Sharon	$800 [12] Eng was half of the conjoined twosome who in the 19th century were billed as this pair Siamese Twins Andy Katie	$800 [17] Oddly, Little Red Riding Hood & the Big Bad Wolf appear in the wedding scene of this Tchaikovsky fairy tale ballet Sleeping Beauty Katie	$800 [23] In its Season 5 mid-season finale, Agent Hank Schrader discovered that his brother-in-law was actually the drug lord Heisenberg Breaking Bad Andy	$800 [6] In Ellen Meister's "Dorothy Parker Drank Here", the plucky title scribe literally & wittily haunts the halls of this hotel the Algonquin Katie	$800 [20] A random cursory look a chance glance Katie
$1,600 [9] The 2nd Armored, "Hell on Wheels", was the 1st army division commanded by father & son: this Gen. in 1940 & George S. IV in 1975 Patton Andy	$1,200 [13] Abe Lincoln once declared that the U.S. government "cannot endure, permanently half" this & "half" this half slave & half free Sharon	$1,200 [16] Temps de poisson, a jump in which the legs are together with crossed feet & back arched, means "time of" this animal fish Andy	$1,200 [1] Season one of this series ended with Jack & Locke looking into the hatch that Locke had just blown open Lost Katie	$1,200 [3] Part of "Becoming George Sand" details her relationship with this equally brilliant composer Chopin Sharon	$1,200 [21] A flying feudal man-at-arms tethered & held by a child, hopefully, on a windy day a knight kite Katie
$2,000 [10] Brought back to his place in history by a 2023 movie, hewas the main organizer of the March on Washington Bayard Rustin	$1,600 [14] Thisarmored military vehicle looks like a tank with front wheels a half-track	$1,600 [15] In this 1912 ballet the title satyr-like character is tantalized by the scarf of a lovely nymph The Afternoon of a Faun Sharon	$1,600 [2] This Apple TV+ show employed a time jump to 2003 & the reveal that a NASA director was now in... Russia For All Mankind Andy	DD $1,500 [4] "Vanessa and Her Sister" by Priya Parmar refers to Vanessa Bell & this literary sibling Virginia Woolf Sharon	$1,600 [7] Mallet noise hammer clamor Andy
DD $5,000 [8] Mario Savio led the 1964 free speech protests at this California univ. & protested Sonoma State fee hikes late in his life in 1996 the University of California at Berkeley Andy	$2,000 [28] Thomas Hardy rhymed war is odd: "You shoot a fellow down / You'd treat if met where any bar is, / Or help to" this fractional coin half a crown Katie	$2,000 [26] In a comic ballet Coppélia is a life-sized one of these created by mad doctor Coppélius a doll Katie Sharon	$2,000 [19] When Picard is assimilated by the Borg at the end of Season 3 of "Star Trek: TNG", this 1st officer gives the order to fire at him Riker Andy	$2,000 [5] This Nobel-winning Mexican poet is a character in the meta-graphic novel "Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires" Octavio Paz Katie	$2,000 [22] A false taipan a fake snake Katie

Final Jeopardy!

NEW NATIONS

In September 2023 the U.S. recognized 2 new nations in free association with New Zealand: Niue & this archipelago

the Cook Islands

Sharon "What is I hope he bet it all" — wagered $6,000

Andy "What are the Cook Islands" — wagered $1,800

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