Show #9033 2024-02-07 (taped 2024-01-17) Champions Wildcard

2024 Champions Wildcard Group 2 quarterfinal game 3.

Contestants

Taylor Clagett — a marketing director originally from Chesapeake Beach, Maryland

Lisa Sriken — a lawyer from New York, New York

Justin White — a director of orchestra personnel from Overland Park, Kansas

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Justin $1,400 $400 $3,600 $600
3rd place: $5,000
$5,800
8 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Lisa $4,600 $6,600 $11,000 $2,000
2nd place: $5,000
$15,000
20 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Taylor $4,000 $5,600 $15,600 $8,200
Winner: semifinalist
$16,000
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. NATIONAL FORESTS LITERATURE BINGO AHHH, THE FRENCH WHAT DO YOU COLLECT? SPORTS PROFESSORS THE "ICK"
$200 [25]
Montana's Flathead National Forest is home to this carnivore & many creatures below it on the food chain
the grizzly bear
Taylor
$200 [27]
"N", 2005: Llewelyn Moss decides to take off with millions in drug money in this Cormac McCarthy tale; Llewelyn comes to regret that
No Country for Old Men
Taylor
$200 [29]
This national heroine of France was canonized on May 16, 1920, nearly 500 years after her death
Joan of Arc
Taylor
$200 [30]
Obviously someone fully prepared for squalls, a brolliologist collects these
umbrellas
Lisa
$200 [28]
"The Ol' Perfessor"Casey Stengel, won 2 World Series titles as a player with the Giants, then seven more as amanagerof these crosstown rivals
the Yankees
Lisa
$200 [26]
Someone with this criminal profession can also be called a dipper, a fingersmith or a cutpurse
a pickpocket
Lisa
$400 [24]
The Allegheny National Forest in this state is a prized source of black cherry wood used in furniture making
Pennsylvania
Lisa
$400 [21]
"G", 1992: "G" is for this mystery writer who wrote "I Is for Innocent"
Sue Grafton
Justin
$400 [22]
After Pierre's death, Marie Curie was appointed to his professorship in 1906 & became the first woman to teach at this U. in Paris
the Sorbonne
Lisa
$400 [23]
In "Diner", Daniel Stern plays an avid collector of these; when wife Ellen Barkin says, "Who cares" what's on the flip side?, uh-oh
LPs (records)
$400 [14]
Brainy Italian soccer star Gianluca "Il Professorino" Pessotto got his nickname for wearing these, though not on the pitch
eyeglasses
Lisa
$400 [19]
A 16-year-old wrote this 19th century waltz that shares its name with paired eating utensils
"Chopsticks"
Taylor
$600 [18]
This carnivorous plant can be found in North Carolina's Croatan National Forest, the only true coastal natl. forest in the East
the Venus flytrap
Taylor
$600 [15]
"O" (No!), 1898: William S. Porter was convicted of embezzlement; after prison, he put out short stories under this name
O. Henry
Lisa
$600 [20]
We fell for Audrey Tautou after seeing her in the title role of this 2001 film about a lonely waitress who falls in love
Amélie
Lisa
$600 [3]
Marie Osmond is a noted collector of these, including several of herself & Donny
dolls
Lisa
$600 [13]
For years a star on the Red Army team, in 1989 Igor "The Professor" Larionov became one of the first Soviets to play in this league
the NHL
Justin
$600 [8]
Naples, Florida has been called the "capital of the world" for this paddle sport rising in popularity
pickleball
Lisa
$800 [9]
The 1.6 million acres of Arizona's Kaibab National Forest are divided by a natural wonder that is divided by this river
the Colorado River
Justin Taylor
$800 [4]
"B", 1956: Appropriately, "Giovanni's Room" by this man from Harlem is about an American living in Paris
(James) Baldwin
Taylor
$800 [2]
After her mom died in the 1890s, her dad put her in an orphanage where nuns taught her to sew, leading to an iconic career in fashion
Coco Chanel
Lisa
$800 [16]
Labeorphilists collect beer bottles; tegestologists collect these, to protect furniture from labeorphilists?
coasters
Justin
$800 [1]
Nicknamed "The Professor" for her intelligent shotmaking, Agnieszka Radwanska won 20 titles on the WTA, this tour
the Women's Tennis Association
Lisa
$800 [6]
This noun is used for pranksters of myth like Anansi & Loki
trickster
Lisa
$1,000 [10]
With over 600 miles of fishable streams, Eldorado National Forest is an angler's delight in these eastern California mountains
the Sierra Nevadas
Taylor
$1,000 [7]
"I", 1819: Rebecca is a Jewish heroine in this Sir Walter Scott novel & was played on film by future Judaism convert Liz Taylor
Ivanhoe
Taylor
$1,000 [12]
Barely over 5 feet tall but a giant in his field, this artist gave us "Au Salon de la rue des Moulins" in the 1890s
Toulouse-Lautrec
DD $2,200 [17]
Vladimir Nabokov was an avid collector of these, called babochkas or "bow ties" in his native Russian
butterflies
Justin
$1,000 [11]
You don't see a lot of players nicknamed both "The Professor" & "Mad Dog", but this Hall of Fame Braves pitcher of the '90s pulled it off
Greg Maddux
Taylor
$1,000 [5]
In "Oil!", Upton Sinclair writes, "Water and oil would spout up over the top of" this framework, "staining it... black"
derrick
Taylor

Double Jeopardy! Round

IT HAPPENED IN FEBRUARY ANTHROPOLOGISTS QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT DO ME A FLAVOR TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER NUMERICALLY PREFIXED
$400 [23]
In February 1991 Iraqi forces began a retreat from this nation, ending the Persian Gulf War
Kuwait
Justin
$400 [28]
Ruth Benedict's interest in the culture of this country led to the 1946 book "The Chrysan themum and the Sword"
Japan
Taylor
$400 [26]
He proclaimed, "Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die"
Jacob
$400 [20]
Jelly Belly makes a jelly bean that tastes like this candy--the black kind, not the red
licorice
Taylor
$400 [25]
Ralph Wiggum, Lenny Leonard, Waylon Smithers
The Simpsons
Taylor
$400 [21]
Longer word for the temperature scale with 100 as the boiling point of water
centigrade
Justin
$800 [22]
Following a referendum, the strongly Catholic nation of Ireland made this action legal February 27, 1997
divorce
$800 [29]
In 1902 Franz Boas established the USA's first department of anthropology at this NYC school
Columbia
Taylor
$800 [27]
The lines "A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace" come from this book
Ecclesiastes
Taylor
$800 [19]
Thomas Jefferson was an early fan of this ice cream flavor, making his own with bean pods from France
vanilla
Taylor
$800 [24]
Maggie, Michonne, Negan
The Walking Dead
Taylor
$800 [18]
This term refers to walking & standing on 2 feet, like a T-rex or a human
bipedal
Justin
$1,200 [1]
Following a conference, these 3 leaders signed the Yalta agreement in February 1945
Churchill, FDR & Stalin
Lisa
$1,200 [11]
Forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs' life & novels inspired TV's Temperance Brennan, nicknamed this
"Bones"
Lisa
$1,200 [30]
"Take us the" these "the little" these "that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes"
foxes
$1,200 [8]
It's the 2-word registered name for Cheetos' super spicy, tongue-scorching snacks
Flamin' Hot
Lisa
$1,200 [6]
Susan Ross, Uncle Leo, David Puddy
Seinfeld
Lisa
$1,200 [17]
Thistype of multipart painting, like Giotto's 14th century work, can deliver a unity of subject
a triptych
Taylor
$1,600 [7]
Calling for the abolition of private property & for workers of the world to unite, it was published in February 1848
The Communist Manifesto
Lisa
$2,000 [9]
Bruno Latour studied groups like this La Jolla biological institute's scientists who he saw motivated by competition, not just truth
the Salk Institute
DD $1,200 [16]
The second verse of this book begins, "Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel..."
Numbers
Taylor
$1,600 [3]
In 2018 Coca-Cola launched 2 fruity local flavors, California Raspberry & this, from the company's home state
Georgia Peach
Taylor
$1,600 [5]
Will Graham, Jack Crawford, Dr. Chilton
Hannibal
Justin
$1,600 [14]
Based on the 8 endpoints of the lines, ahashtag or pound signis also known as this
an octothorpe
Taylor
$2,000 [12]
This amendment to the Constitution was ratified in February 1951, limiting a president to 2 terms or a maximum of 10 years total
the 22nd
Taylor
DD $4,000 [2]
In 1927 Davidson Black identified this "man" as a member of the human lineage on the basis of a single tooth found in North China
Peking Man
Lisa
$2,000 [15]
From Judges 6, "The spirit of the Lord came upon" this man, "and he blew a trumpet"
Gideon
$2,000 [4]
For baking, you can buy a purple extract that tastes like this purple yam from the Philippines
ube
Lisa Taylor
$2,000 [10]
Deputy Clementine Johnson, Deputy Travis Junior, Deputy Trudy Wiegel
Reno 911!
Lisa
$2,000 [13]
On their fourth day of confinement, the tale tellers recount stories of tragic love in this 14th century work
The Decameron
Lisa

Final Jeopardy!

WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD

Achilles Tatius wrote that it "was like a mountain... at the top of this mountain rose a second sun"

the Lighthouse at Alexandria

Justin "What is the Colossus of Rhodes?" — wagered $3,000
Lisa "What is •ᴗ•" — wagered $9,000
Taylor "What is the Collosus of Rhodes?" — wagered $7,400

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