Show #9019 2024-01-18 (taped 2024-01-03) Champions Wildcard

2024 Champions Wildcard Group 1 quarterfinal game 3.

Contestants

Nik Berry — a social studies teacher from Baltimore, Maryland

Kendra Westerhaus — a licensed psychologist from Pocatello, Idaho

Martha Bath — a retired CPA from Seattle, Washington

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Martha $5,000 $6,800 $9,600 $9,600
Winner: semifinalist
$9,600
13 R, 1 W
Kendra $200 $3,200 $4,800 $0
3rd place: $5,000
$4,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Nik $2,600 $4,200 $800 $799
2nd place: $5,000
$13,400
22 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

CLASSICAL MUSIC WHAT IN THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS...? TAKE IT BACK! VEGETABLE STEW THE PAST, PRESENTLY THE MISING LETER
$200 [24]
Keyboard specialist Domenico Scarlatti spent years making church music for this basilica, specifically for its Julian Choir
St. Peter's Basilica
Nik
$200 [21]
Making the best of a bad past situation, this ex-heavyweight champ from Brooklyn put out edibles in the shape of ears in 2022
Mike Tyson
Kendra Nik
$200 [29]
The slogan "Take Back Control" is credited with helping this event get approved in a 2016 U.K. referendum
Brexit
Nik
$200 [12]
This spudly bit of the song "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off" means "there's no difference, who cares?"
potato potahto
Kendra
$200 [28]
Defending a pardon he granted, this president told a congressional committee he wanted "to change our national focus"
Gerald Ford
Nik
$200 [20]
Playright
W (play w right)
Martha
$400 [26]
Unlike Vivaldi, Philip Glass left it up to the listener which time of year it was in his composition "The American" these
Four Seasons
Martha
$400 [10]
Goalie Patrick Roy said he couldn't hear what Jeremy Roenick said, due to "my 2" rings for winning this trophy plugging my ears
the Stanley Cup
Nik
$400 [25]
The campaign Reclaim Your Vote can tell you the deadline to do this in each state (Alabama: Oct. 21, 2024)
register to vote
Kendra
$400 [9]
Slice king, long maraicher & gherkin are all varieties of this gourd vegetable
a cucumber
Nik
$400 [22]
This Germanic people were separated from the Ostrogoths & in 378, not only defeated the Roman army but killed the emperor
the Visigoths
Kendra
$400 [15]
Consience
C (cons c ience)
Nik
$600 [23]
This type of musical mass for the dead has a Latin name; Benjamin Britten wrote a "War" one incorporating poetry & Latin prayers
a requiem
Martha
$600 [7]
In 1900 the U.S. beat the Brits in the first match for this international team tennis "Cup"
the Davis Cup
Martha
$600 [19]
Campaigns called Take Back the Tap, aiming to reduce Americans' passion for this, say it's not specially safe & bad for the planet
bottled water
Martha
$600 [1]
Last name of Albert, nicknamed "Cubby", who produced many James Bond films as well as "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
Broccoli
Martha
$600 [17]
The 15th century Church of Santa Maríain this city endured through the 1937 attack that inspired a classic work of art
Guernica
Kendra
$600 [6]
Soverein
G (soverei g n)
Nik
$800 [27]
The introduction to this Strauss waltz classic invites dancers to come to the ballroom floor
"The Blue Danube"
Nik
$800 [4]
In 2022 Chloe Kim was golden--again--defending her women's halfpipe Olympic title in this sport
snowboarding
Kendra
DD $1,000 [5]
In 2008 the Hindu American Foundation launched "Take Back" this practice that's much more than the physical postures of asana
yoga
Kendra
$800 [2]
The first prop this comic used was a Neighborhood Watch sign that he stole to show that the Watch wasn't very watchful
Carrot Top
Nik
$800 [16]
On Nov. 4, 1964 he was exiled from Iran; 15 years later, he was running the place
Khomeini
Kendra
$800 [13]
Fennig (old coin)
P ( p fennig)
Martha Kendra
$1,000 [30]
His 7th Symphony premiered in 1813 at a benefit after a battle & its second movement is seen as a funeral march
Beethoven
$1,000 [3]
Deferred payments in a 2000 MLB contract had this 53-year-old "Jr." making $3.6 million as the Reds' 4th-highest paid player in 2023
Ken Griffey Jr.
Kendra Nik
$1,000 [18]
TBTN for short, this movement against sexual violence has been marchingsince the 1970s
Take Back the Night
Kendra
$1,000 [8]
Thisyellow-fleshed root eaten as a vegetable is called a swede by the Brits
a rutabaga
Martha
$1,000 [11]
Numerical nickname for Mao's wife & her allies arrested after Mao's death for actions during the Cultural Revolution
the Gang of Four
Martha Nik
$1,000 [14]
Lim (to draw or outline)
N (lim n )
Martha

Double Jeopardy! Round

ON THE MAP A WOMAN'S PLACE MOVIE TITLES WITH NUMBERS IN THEM PAINFUL MEMORIES THE WRITER'S STRIKE AN "H" & "R" BLOCK
$400 [26]
Thisstate has 17 million acres of forests & about 44 people per square mile
Maine
Nik
$400 [27]
Monica Seles says the locker room for the top women players here looks like it's in Buckingham Palace
Wimbledon
Kendra
$400 [28]
The producers of "Tak3n" had a very particular set of skills to get this man back for time 3 in the role of Bryan Mills
Liam Neeson
Kendra
$400 [29]
Turn off the lights, apply a hot or cold compress to your neck & have a little caffeine at signs of this possibly days-long headache
a migraine
Nik
$400 [30]
Charles Dickens went to Lancashire to observe a strike in the industry of this plant fiber & wrote an 1854 article about it
cotton
Kendra
$400 [16]
Many state laws reduce liability for defamation if a newspaper issues this statement of withdrawal in a timely way
a retraction
Martha
$1,200 [5]
Thiscountry's Zambezi Riverborderwith Zambia is only a few football fields long
Botswana
Kendra
$800 [25]
Women "sizes 10-40" can shop at stores bearing this name, which includes a misspelling of founder Lena's first name on a bank form
Lane Bryant
$800 [14]
"Se7en" had this actor demanding, "what's in the box?!" & very much not liking what is in the box
Brad Pitt
Kendra
$800 [23]
Post-herpetic neuralgia is a complication of this disease caused by the same virus that gave you chickenpox
shingles
Nik
$800 [22]
Jurgis' journey through capitalism & exploitation takes him from worker to strikebreaker in this Upton Sinclair novel
The Jungle
Nik
$800 [12]
The legal money of a nation is said to be the "coin of the" this
the realm
Martha Nik
$1,600 [4]
The central town of the 100,000-square-mile area of Australia called the Red Centreis this community, named for Alice Todd
Alice Springs
Nik
$1,200 [18]
On Chartres Street in this U.S. city stands the Old Ursuline Convent, spared by a 1794 fire after ferocious prayer from the nuns
New Orleans
$1,200 [13]
In 2001 he was on film in "Thir13en Ghosts" as Arthur Kriticos & a year later, began an Emmy-winning life on TV as a "Monk"
Tony Shalhoub
Nik
$1,200 [15]
Posture training & diet changes can help relieve pain in the 2 joints that connect your lower jaw to your skull & go by this abbrev.
TMJ
Martha
$1,200 [19]
Jack Kelly's nonfiction book "The Edge of Anarchy" is about the 1894 strike against this man's railroad car company
Pullman
Kendra Nik
$1,200 [11]
It's the "tranquil" musical term for the combination of pitchesheard here
harmony
$2,000 [3]
Lying between Italy's "heel" & "toe", the Gulf of Tarantois an inlet of this sea named for a nymph of Greek mythology
the Ionian Sea
Kendra Nik
$1,600 [6]
Open for 10 days until the cops came in 1916, the Brownsville Clinic in Brooklyn was the USA's first to offer guidance about this
birth control
Nik
$1,600 [1]
You might say this Oscar winner became a godfather in 2002 playing a movie director who (virtually) created "S1m0ne"
Al Pacino
Kendra
$1,600 [8]
High in anthocyanins, cherries may ease pain from this arthritis often in the big toe & caused by excess uric acid
gout
Kendra Nik
$2,000 [21]
The striking miners have the sympathy of this French realist author in his 1885 novel "Germinal"
Émile Zola
$1,600 [9]
I say without fear of this, an extravagant exaggeration, Butterbean is the greatest boxer of all time
hyperbole
Kendra
DD $6,600 [24]
The U.K.'s second most populouscity, it lies in an industrial area near the geographic center of England
Birmingham
Nik
$2,000 [7]
Hillary Clinton was the first student ever asked to give the commencement address at this college
Wellesley
$2,000 [2]
In 2022 she played Gemma, a robotics engineer who brought "M3GAN" to life; maybe some "Girls" are more fun to hang out with
Allison Williams
Nik
$2,000 [17]
Moderate aerobic exercise like swimming may help with this 12-letter chronic condition of severe muscle & soft tissue pain
fibromyalgia
Nik
DD $6,000 [20]
Ken Kesey's "Sometimes a Great Notion" concerns a timber strike in Wakonda--not in Africa but in this state, Kesey's home
Oregon
Nik
$2,000 [10]
This calm & peaceful word describes weather or ahhh... those idyllic days of youth
halcyon
Martha

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY HISTORY

After the Vietnam War, Vietnam got bogged down in a campaign against this leader whom it managed to overthrow in 1979

Pol Pot

Nik "Who is Ho Chi Minh?" — wagered $1
Kendra "Who is Ho Chi Minh?" — wagered $4,800
Martha "Who is Ho Chi Minh?" — wagered $0

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