Show #9044 2024-02-22 (taped 2024-01-19) Champions Wildcard

2024 Champions Wildcard Group 2 final game 2.

Contestants

Mira Hayward — a podcast host from Portland, Oregon (subtotal of $2,800)

Jesse Matheny — a customer success specialist originally from Huntington, Indiana (subtotal of $2,800)

Deb Bilodeau — a restaurant server from San Francisco, California (subtotal of $21,600)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Deb	$1,600	$5,900	$10,300	$0	$8,200 15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Jesse	$2,800	$4,600	$20,400	$600	$14,200 17 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Mira	$5,000	$5,800	$5,600	$0	$10,600 16 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITALS	THE KEY WORD IN THE LITERARY SUBTITLE	40 YEARS AGO: 1984	ADVERTISING SLOGANS	TV CHARACTERS	BUILDING A NEW WORD
$200 [29] This Kenyan metropolis outdoes Denver by a few hundred feet in the mile high capital city club Nairobi Mira	$200 [30] Colorful in 1877:"Horse" Black Beauty Jesse	$200 [26] These 2 nations signed a joint declaration on the future of Hong Kong China & the U.K. Deb	$200 [27] This brand that "takes a licking & keeps on ticking" reset its slogan in 2021 to "we don't stop" Timex Mira	$200 [25] (Jason Alexander presents the clue.) I worked for 9 wonderful seasons with Julia-Louis Dreyfuswho danced into politics as this veep in 2012; Julia is truly queen of the castle with 11 Emmys to prove it Selina Meyer Jesse	$200 [28] Poet Robert stops by the woods on a snowy evening to chomp on a synonym for chomp & develops this chilly condition frostbite Mira
$400 [14] It was the capital of Gran Colombia before it was the capital of (regular) Colombia Bogotá Deb	$600 [12] A Vonnegut novel much about mortality:"Death" Slaughterhouse-Five	$400 [21] Bob Woodward's "Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of" this comic offended some of its subject's friends & family John Belushi Mira	$400 [23] This city recently updated its slogan to "What happens here, only happens here" Las Vegas Deb	$400 [22] "What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons", said this character played by Jon Hamm Don Draper Jesse	$400 [20] An auto picks up golfer Nicklaus to become this crime carjack Jesse
$600 [13] Thiscapital of Cambodia is at the junction of the Mekong & the Tonlé Sap Phnom Penh Mira	$800 [11] Challenging to pre-Civil War Americans:"Lowly" Uncle Tom's Cabin Mira	$600 [17] He lost the presidential election to Reagan, carrying only the District of Columbia & Minnesota, his home state Mondale Mira	$600 [18] Power up with this brand that today says it's "still going!" Energizer Deb	$600 [16] This3-namer turns it up to eleven playing a superpower character of that name on "Stranger Things" Millie Bobby Brown Jesse	$600 [19] To bound or leap drinks Macallan to play this kids' playground game hopscotch Deb
$800 [10] It's not just the capital--it's also one of Morocco's 4 imperial cities Rabat Mira	$1,000 [4] Evelyn Waugh, re-evaluated... wait, that's not the right word:"Ryder" Brideshead Revisited Mira	$800 [7] At the Winter Olympics, this American won gold with a four-and-a-half minute program that featured multiple triple jumps Scott Hamilton Deb	$800 [9] The name of this baked cracker brand completes its slogan "Want it. Need it..." Cheez-It	$800 [15] It's the name of the course Annalise Keating taught & the name of the show that Viola Davis starred in as Annalise Keating How to Get Away with Murder Jesse	$800 [1] A set of squares like our game board adds a fastener to get nothing done politically gridlock Mira
$1,000 [5] Climbing up on Medvednica Hill, I could see this end-of-the-alphabet city's light & pictured its 13th c. invasion by Mongols Zagreb Deb	DD $2,500 [24] An 1854 series of essays:"Woods" Walden Deb	$1,000 [6] This airline launched by Richard Branson made its inaugural flight from London to the United States Virgin Atlantic Jesse	$1,000 [8] Capital One asks this 4-word question What's in your wallet? Jesse	$1,000 [3] Peyton was the last name of the title character Edie Falco played on this series that premiered in 2009 Nurse Jackie Mira	$1,000 [2] A harbor for a ship docks with a loose coat or robe to be this type of word, like spork or mockumentary portmanteau Deb

Double Jeopardy! Round

FROM PAGE TO SCREAM	BRIT SPEAK	HOW MANY TIMES?	SHALL THE PEOPLE DANCE	BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR	BLOWIN' IN THE WIND
$400 [25] Author Ira Levin claimed credit for first suggesting Mia Farrow as the lead in this 1968 adaptation of his horror novel Rosemary's Baby Mira	$400 [26] Can we level with you? A British landlord doesn't rent out an apartment but lets one of these a flat Jesse	$400 [27] Mercury:Just over 4 times each Earth year revolves around the Sun Jesse	$400 [28] The Hawaiians who developed this dance to honor gods or chiefs never thought there'd be a special Aulani version hula Deb	$400 [29] War in Somaliland pitted the dervishes of Sheik Mohammed Abdullah Hassan against British troops mounted on this desert animal camels Mira	$400 [30] Whether the wind is blowing off or toward Lake Michigan can decide whether pitchers or hitters will have the edge at this NL ballpark Wrigley Field Jesse
$800 [23] That pesky Pazuzu sure causes some head turning in a film franchise based on this 1971 novel by William Peter Blatty The Exorcist Deb	$800 [18] It's the British name for the professional seen here a barrister Deb	$800 [22] Billy Bob Thornton:6 times, most recently in October 2014 how many times he's been married Jesse	$800 [20] The name tells you this is the country to visit in order to perfect your funk carioca Brazil Mira	$800 [21] Therulerwith this title was forced by the Young Turk rebels to recall parliament, which he'd suspended 30 years earlier the Ottoman sultan (emperor) Deb	$800 [24] A tower in Athens shows the 8 winds in an ancient Greek systemization; Boreasis the strong wind from this compass direction north Deb
$1,200 [3] Both this 2002 Naomi Watts film & the 1991 Japanese novel on which it is based are firm arguments for streaming over VHS The Ring Jesse	$1,200 [17] It's our equivalent of an off-licence a liquor store	$1,200 [7] Sir John Gielgud:More than 500 times, one seen here perform as Hamlet Deb	$1,200 [11] Emerging from Pashtun tribes, the attan is the national dance of this country & involves encircling a drummer Afghanistan Mira	$1,600 [4] The czar had to sign off in 1906 when this nation, not Russia, became Europe's first to grant women the right to vote Finland	$1,200 [9] Antarctic downslope winds, which can average nearly 50 mph, get their speed from this force, rather than the atmosphere gravity Deb
$1,600 [2] Daphne du Maurier penned this tale of gulls gone wild that later became an Alfred Hitchcock film The Birds Jesse	$2,000 [13] We associate it more with a type of wax but it's what the Brits call kerosene paraffin Mira	$1,600 [6] Jimmy Connors & Novak Djokovic just before serving a big point:As many as 30 times or more bounce the ball Deb	$1,600 [19] A sirtaki features in the movie about this life-loving Greek, who teaches the proper Brit Basil to dance it on the beach Zorba Deb	$2,000 [15] Tough to win a race giving a 60-mile head start as Robert Scottdid landing at McMurdo Sound when this man landed at the Bay of Whales Amundsen Mira	$1,600 [10] In 1944, this specific type of tropical storm thatdamageddozens of Navyshipswas named for Admiral Halsey a typhoon Jesse
$2,000 [1] "The Turning" is a 2020 film adaptation of an 1898 supernatural story by this author Henry James Mira	DD $5,000 [12] Also the last name of an English painter, it's Brit-speak for a police officer constable Mira	$2,000 [8] Ohio's Sherrod Brown:3 times, starting in 2006 be elected to the Senate Jesse	$2,000 [14] English Morris dancing has a form named for this area of rolling hills & lovely towns like Tetbury & Tewkesbury the Cotswolds	DD $7,400 [5] The history book "The Sleepwalkers" says this event not only stirred war fever in Austria but ended the life of an advocate for peace the assassination of Ferdinand (Archduke Ferdinand's death) Jesse	$2,000 [16] The Tehuantepecer is named for the gulf just south of the same-named isthmus, this country's narrowest point Mexico

Final Jeopardy!

ON VACATION IN ITALY

About 30 miles from Florence, a little hill gives this tiny Tuscan town its name, familiar to American visitors

Monticello

Mira "What is... uh oh (in Italian) Go Deb & Jesse! ♡" — wagered $5,600

Deb "What sorry I forgot... [arrow] thanks Mom + Dad" — wagered $10,300

Jesse "What is Washington" — wagered $19,800

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