Show #9036 2024-02-12 (taped 2024-01-18) Champions Wildcard

2024 Champions Wildcard Group 2 quarterfinal game 6.

Contestants

Dan Wohl — a high school history teacher from Brooklyn, New York

Donna Matturri — a librarian from Columbus, Ohio

Sriram Krishnan — a consultant from Falls Church, Virginia

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sriram $2,000 $4,800 $13,200 $26,400
Winner: semifinalist
$13,200
15 R, 1 W
Donna $4,400 $4,900 $20,700 $14,900
2nd place: $5,000
$19,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Dan $1,400 $2,200 $6,000 $7,000
3rd place: $5,000
$3,400
12 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

POP CULTURE VS. AIRLINE LOGOS INITIALS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE SOME VERY MOVING WORDS LIFE IN THE 1920s GENIUS: MLK/X
$200 [8]
In 1966 The Royal Guardsmen set the scene "in the clear blue skies over Germany" for a song titled "Snoopy Vs." this guy
the Red Baron
Donna
$200 [29]
This airline's kangaroologowas first used in 1947; ithas gotten considerably more stylized since then
Qantas
Donna
$200 [14]
Booted out of Iceland, set foot in Vinland:L.E.
Leif Erikson
Donna
$200 [10]
Stylishly showy, or in song, what is done "through the snow"
dashing
Dan
$200 [15]
Thiscanine companion first appeared in newspapers in January 1925
Sandy
Donna
$200 [30]
(Kelvin Harrison Jr. presents the clue.) My character, MLK, felt a moral obligation to speak out regarding this conflict in Asia, although it would end up alienating him from Lyndon B. Johnson& his allies
the Vietnam War
Dan
$400 [7]
"Red vs. Blue" are 2 armies in an animated series that's an offshoot of this "angelic" video game franchise
Halo
Donna
$400 [4]
Its red triangular logo is called a widget
Delta
Dan
$400 [13]
P.M. of Israel in the 1970s:G.M.
Golda Meir
Donna
$400 [9]
To go forward, perhaps to the next playoff series; a kid may plead to get one on their allowance
an advance
Donna
$400 [28]
Referring to a new kind of music & popularized by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it was a nickname for the decade
the Jazz Age
Sriram Donna
$400 [24]
(Kelvin Harrison Jr. presents the clue.) A 1964speechdelivered by Malcolm Xafter he left the Nation of Islam, stated his Black nationalist philosophy, & he spoke of the ballot or this deadly word
bullet
Donna
$600 [1]
On this series, Casey Webb travels the country, taking on eating challenges like a 4-pound Reuben or a gallon-sized sundae
Man v. Food
Sriram
$600 [18]
Seen here, is this airline's logo; she represents the spirit of welcome you might not find on the mainland
Hawaiian
Dan
$600 [5]
Pseudonym of an intrepid early 20th century newspaperwoman:N.B.
Nellie Bly
Donna
$600 [27]
In South Africa, to travel by ox wagon; in space, to travel by enterprise
to trek
Dan
$600 [16]
This Chinese tile game became a craze in the U.S., especially among women, even in the pool
mahjong
Dan
$600 [3]
(Kelvin Harrison Jr. presents the clue.) A man who was raised Quaker & sang the blues with Lead Belly, Bayard Rustindrew from Gandhi's example to help inspireMLKto follow this 11-letter form of peaceful resistance
nonviolence
Sriram
$800 [2]
In an Edgar Wright film, this title slacker vies with Ramona Flowers' 7 evil exes, as well as "the World"
Scott Pilgrim
Dan
$800 [19]
In 2019 Aer Lingus refreshed this symbol on its logo by giving it a slight backward tilt
a shamrock
Sriram
$800 [11]
Slid into being Russia's P.M.from 2012-2020:D.M.
Dmitry Medvedev
Sriram
$800 [23]
Check my this as I lyrically not satirically lay it out empirically; it pairs with ebb to denote regular change
flow
Sriram
$800 [22]
This "sweet" song was introduced in the '20s & so were the Harlem Globetrotters, who would later make it their theme
"Sweet Georgia Brown"
Sriram
$800 [17]
(Kelvin Harrison Jr. presents the clue.) The series highlights the tragedies & triumphs of Coretta Scott King&this wife of Malcolm X; togetheras widows, they would attend the Black National Political Convention in 1972
Betty Shabazz
Sriram
$1,000 [6]
In "The People vs." this man, Woody Harrelson says, "I'm your dream client. I'm the most fun, I'm rich, & I'm always in trouble"
Larry Flynt
Donna
$1,000 [20]
This symbol has been on Air Canada's logo for more than 85 years
a maple leaf
Donna
$1,000 [12]
5th wife of Henry VIII & possibly Thomas Culpeper's sneaky link: C.H.
Catherine Howard
Donna
$1,000 [25]
Let's hurry around the city to find this same-named part of an old-fashioned skirt
a bustle
Donna
DD $2,500 [21]
In a 1925 speech she said, "We have got to free women from enforced, enslaved maternity"
Margaret Sanger
Donna
$1,000 [26]
(Kelvin Harrison Jr. presents the clue.) Since they marched together, went tojailtogether & even had apillow fighttogether right before Martin's death, MLK &this minister are referred to as the civil rights twins on the show
Ralph Abernathy

Double Jeopardy! Round

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS OCEANOGRAPHY MUSICIANS OF THE 1960s HOMES INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS RHYMING SYNONYMS
$400 [10]
In the epilogue to "Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows", she & Ron Weasley are married & have 2 children, Rose & Hugo
Hermione Granger
Dan
$400 [23]
Launched in 1978, the Seasat satellite took measurements such as the height of these, but not for the benefit of surfers
waves
Sriram
$400 [13]
"Butch" Snipes in Seattle & "Baby Boo" Young in Tennessee are thought to have inspired this star to play guitar with his teeth
Jimi Hendrix
$400 [26]
You can visit his home in Vienna, but if you want to see the famous couch, you have to go to his London home
Sigmund Freud
Donna
$400 [30]
African nations that are members of OPEC include Nigeria & this one that borders the Mediterranean Sea & Egypt
Libya
Dan
$400 [27]
3 & 4 letters long, these 2 words refer to the foremost part of a ship
the bow or the prow
$800 [7]
Roald Dahl wrote of this book-loving girl with telekinetic powers
Matilda
Sriram
$800 [24]
These ecosystems consisting of polyps provide a habitat & food for about 25% of the world's marine life
coral reefs
Sriram
$800 [14]
Pete Townshend admits that he "made a huge leap into the absurd" when he decided this title album guy "would play pinball"
Tommy
Sriram
$800 [21]
In 1890 Claude Monet bought a farmhouse in this French town on the Epte River
Giverny
Dan
$800 [15]
Dealing less with local programs than the World Bank, this fund with 190 member nations works to stabilize exchange rates
the IMF
Sriram
$800 [17]
Fastening part of a necklace & to understand
clasp & grasp
Donna
$1,600 [4]
Mellors' lover, she was known as Connie to friends & family
Lady Chatterley
Donna
$1,200 [25]
The current named for these Spanish islands off northwest Africa helps lessen the heating effect of the Sahara
the Canary Islands
Donna
$1,200 [1]
Dave Davies of this British band claims he cut the speaker cone of his amp with a razor blade to get a distorted sound on "You Really Got Me"
The Kinks
Dan
$1,200 [8]
Thisdirector went to England in the early '60s to make "Lolita" & lived out his years at Childwickbury Manor
Kubrick
Sriram
$1,200 [11]
We do "declare" that members of the Brussels-based WCO, or World this Organization, deal with 98% of all trade
the World Customs Organization
Dan
$1,200 [18]
Gizmo of "Gremlins" fame frightfully screamed these 2 words after seeing a camera flash
bright light
Donna
$2,000 [5]
Roland Deschain is the gunslinging protagonist of this Stephen King series
The Dark Tower
Donna
$1,600 [28]
There are about 6,000 species of this color algae, division Rhodophyta, including laver & dulse
red algae
Dan
$1,600 [2]
The horrific 16th Street Baptist Churchbombingin 1963 inspired this singer to write "Mississippi Goddam"
Nina Simone
Dan
$1,600 [9]
Monte Cristo Cottagewas the boyhood home of Eugene O'Neill, who set this "long" play there
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Donna
$2,000 [16]
The U.S. refused to pay reparations to Nicaragua, run by this party, in 1986, as the Intl. Court of Justice has no enforcement powers
the Sandinistas
Sriram
$1,600 [19]
Sounds that are fit for a mouse or old bones
squeak & creak
Sriram
DD $5,000 [6]
Michael Connelly named this LAPD detective after a 15th century Dutch painter
Harry Bosch
Donna
$2,000 [29]
At 27,480 feet, Milwaukee Depth, the deepest point in the Atlantic, lies in a trench named for this island
the Puerto Rico Trench
$2,000 [3]
In 1967, this folk singer released the song "Children Of Darkness", written by Richard Fariña, her late brother-in-law
Joan Baez
Donna
$2,000 [22]
In 1879 Jefferson Davis paid $5,500 for this Biloxi home whose name suggests its "beautiful view"
Beauvoir
DD $4,200 [12]
Founded in 1831 to support the conquest of Algeria, this organization requires members to use assumed names
the French Foreign Legion
Dan
$2,000 [20]
You'll find this pair of 4-letter synonyms between 2 hills or mountains
a dale or a vale
Dan

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. STAMPS

This Roman numeral appeared on stamps in a 2022 series for the 50th anniversary of an anti-discrimination law

IX

Dan "What is IX" — wagered $1,000
Sriram "What is IX" — wagered $13,200
Donna "What is LXII?" — wagered $5,800

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