Show #9020 2024-01-19 (taped 2024-01-03) Champions Wildcard

2024 Champions Wildcard Group 1 quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Rachel Clark — a director of client strategy from Washington, D.C.

Erin Portman — a high school English teacher from Naperville, Illinois

Bryan White — a senior regulatory compliance analyst originally from Santa Maria, California

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bryan $1,000 $1,800 $12,200 $1,900
3rd place: $5,000
$12,200
18 R, 4 W
Erin $2,200 $8,600 $11,200 $20,200
Winner: semifinalist
$13,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Rachel $3,600 $5,400 $10,000 $11,201
2nd place: $5,000
$11,400
15 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICA BEFORE 1800 THE BOOK TITLE ANIMAL LET'S PLAY A GAME BRITISH TV MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS FROM S TO Y
$200 [19]
By 1791 the national debt was more than $75 million, most incurred as a result of this
the Revolutionary War
Bryan
$200 [27]
A 1919 sequel by Thornton W. Burgess, "Mrs. Peter ____"
Rabbit
Bryan
$200 [22]
OK, so we're actually going to play D&D--guess it's time to select the DM, this person
Dungeon Master
Rachel
$200 [23]
"Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS" was an episode of this time-traveling British series
Doctor Who
Rachel
$200 [30]
Major League Baseball's Cardinals play their home games at this sudsy arena
Busch Stadium
Bryan Erin
$200 [6]
To move side to side, or to influence someone to change course
sway
Bryan
$400 [18]
John Winthrop's nephew George Downing, of Downing Street fame, was among the first 9 graduates of this school in 1642
Harvard
Erin
$400 [26]
A Stark tale indeed:"A Feast for ____"
Crows
Rachel
$400 [21]
On a Monopoly board, a question mark marks the 3 spaces labeled this
Chance
Erin
$400 [10]
One of the many hats Phoebe Waller-Bridge wore for this Brit-com is writer; in 2019, she took home an Emmy for those efforts
Fleabag
Erin
$400 [29]
When Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic in 1927, this was the name of his plane
the Spirit of St. Louis
Rachel
$400 [5]
This verb can mean to kill; in slang, crack someone up; or more recent slang, kill with one's fashion
slay
Erin
$800 [15]
During an outbreak of this disfiguring disease in 1764, Paul Revere & his family quarantined at home: others were sent to pest houses
smallpox
Bryan Erin
$600 [25]
"____'s Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Cat's
Bryan
$600 [20]
If you lose your last territory in this game, you're eliminated, & the player who did it gets your cards
Risk
Rachel
$600 [2]
2-time Oscar winner Maggie Smith played the Dowager Countess Violet Crawley on this series
Downton Abbey
Erin
$600 [28]
The oldestbridgestill spanning the Mississippi connects St. Louis with this Illinois city that has a logical name
East St. Louis
Erin
$600 [4]
It's the kind of school where one trains for the priesthood
a seminary
Bryan
$1,000 [16]
In 1579, during his circumnavigation of the world, he dropped anchor near San Francisco & claimed the region for England
Drake
Erin
$800 [13]
Let's toss around "Mrs. Frisby & the ____ of NIMH"
Rats
Bryan Erin
$800 [12]
In Stratego, the pieces that don't move are the bombs & this, & the object of the game is to capture your opponent's
flag
Bryan
$800 [8]
From this sitcom created in 1992:Eddy: "Sweetie, what are you drinking?"Patsy: "Oh this? Chanel No. 5"
Absolutely Fabulous
Rachel
$800 [7]
The classic 1944 Judy Garland film "Meet Me in St. Louis" was directed by this man, her soon-to-be husband
(Vincente) Minnelli
Erin
$800 [1]
The Apennines are mainly made up of this, one of the 3 basic kinds of rock
sedimentary
Rachel
DD $3,200 [17]
Reconstructed in the 1930s, the original Governor's Palacein this colonial capital was built from 1706 to 1722
Williamsburg
Erin
$1,000 [14]
Not just for the birds, & a Man Booker Prize finalist:"____ English"
Pigeon
$1,000 [11]
You get 60 seconds to guess your teammate's sketch in this game that spawned a TV version
Pictionary
Rachel
$1,000 [9]
The title of this series about gangsters in 1900s England refers to razors sewn into a certain part of their hats
Peaky Blinders
Rachel
$1,000 [24]
In 1673 these 2 French explorers passed through the region that became St. Louis
Joliet & Marquette
Erin
$1,000 [3]
To taint or tarnish
sully
Bryan

Double Jeopardy! Round

ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES MUSICAL THEATER AGRICULTURE NEWER WORDS & PHRASES EXISTENTIALISM FAMOUS FORGERIES
$400 [21]
Cultural attractions in Bangkok include Wat Pho & Wat Arun, temples of this religion
Buddhism
Bryan
$400 [16]
In 2023 Marty McFly & Doc Brown landed on Broadway in the musical based on this film
Back to the Future
Bryan
$400 [22]
More than half of the world's farmers use a nitrogen-based fertilizer that's processed from this gas
ammonia
Erin Rachel
$400 [30]
Well, it makes sense that this directional term would refer to a right-handed person
a northpaw
Erin
$400 [1]
In "Fear & Trembling", Søren Kierkegaard imagines the anxiety of this biblical figure when God asks him to sacrifice his son
Abraham
Erin
$400 [28]
Performed in London in 1796, "Vortigern and Rowena" was a newly discovered play supposedly by him
Shakespeare
Bryan
$800 [5]
This Nepalese capital sits in a bowl-shaped valley near the border with Tibet
Kathmandu
Rachel
$800 [15]
In a 2014 revival of this musical, Alan Cumming played the emcee & Michelle Williams made her Broadway debut as Sally Bowles
Cabaret
Bryan
$800 [12]
This founder of Microsoft became America's largest private owner of farm land, with around 250,000 acres in 18 states
Gates
Bryan
$800 [29]
To take a very small amount, as of psychedelics, perhaps to boost one's mood, rather than to get high
microdosing
Rachel
$800 [17]
Walter Kaufmann called "Notes from Underground" by this Russian "the best overture to existentialism ever written"
Dostoevsky
Erin
$800 [25]
In the 1990s a diary surfaced purporting to be written by this London serial killer from the 1880s
Jack the Ripper
Bryan
$1,200 [2]
The name of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of this nation, means "red hero"
Mongolia
Erin
DD $1,400 [9]
Of course it features the title song that says, "Come and meet those dancing feet on the avenue I'm taking you to..."
42nd Street
Rachel
$1,200 [6]
In 1915 International Harvester introduced its first one of these with an onboard engine to power the thresher
the combine
Erin
$1,200 [11]
Similar to LOL, IJBOL is short for "I just" did this
burst out laughing
Erin
$1,200 [18]
In 1927 Martin Heidegger wrote about this "& Time"; Jean-Paul Sartre later pondered this same word "& Nothingness"
Being
Bryan
$1,600 [27]
Lee Israel forged & sold hundreds of letters purportedly from the likes of Edna Ferber & this "Blithe Spirit" author
Coward
Bryan
$1,600 [3]
You'll find Seoul stretching along the banks of this river
the Han
Rachel
$1,600 [8]
This corny musical that garnered 9 Tony nominations in 2023 takes place, where else, but in Cob County
Shucked
Rachel
$1,600 [7]
India produces about two-thirds of the world's supply of this rice with a more delicate aroma than jasmine rice
basmati rice
Bryan
$1,600 [10]
The Galaxy Note, with its giant screen, was so large that it was called this blended word
phablet
Rachel
$1,600 [19]
Texas prof Robert Solomon appears in this animated Linklater film to link existentialism to a life of purpose & exuberance
Waking Life
Bryan
$2,000 [26]
On trial for selling a work by this Delft master to the Nazis, a Dutch artist avoided a death sentence by proving he'd forged it
Vermeer
$2,000 [4]
Historically a junction between East & West, this capital of Oman lies on a strategic waterway bordering Southeast Arabia
Muscat
Rachel
$2,000 [14]
This recent show intertwines the stories of Orpheus & Eurydice & that of Persephone & the king of the underworld
Hadestown
Bryan
$2,000 [13]
Thisformer governor of Iowa served 8 years as Obama's secretary of agriculture & now has the same position under Biden
Tom Vilsack
Rachel
$2,000 [23]
This portmanteau word means a trio of romantic partners, not an open relationship
a throuple
Erin
$2,000 [20]
A common maxim is "existence precedes" this other "E" term; the main thing is we're here, free to create meaning in our lives
essence
Bryan
DD $5,000 [24]
Clifford Irving gambled (wrongly) that this reclusive billionaire wouldn't step forward to debunk a forged 1971 "autobiography"
Howard Hughes
Erin

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN ARTISTS

In the 1920s he used wire, string & other materials to fabricate "models in motion" for a miniature circus scene

(Alexander) Calder

Rachel "Who is Calder" — wagered $1,201
Erin "Who is Calder?" — wagered $9,000
Bryan "Who is Johns? I ♡ Emma" — wagered $10,300

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