Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! game #8 - Sunday, November 13, 2022

2022-2023 Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! semifinal game 2.

Contestants

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Joel Kim Booster, a comedian from Chicago, Illinois

Wil Wheaton, an actor from Burbank, California

John Michael Higgins, an actor from Boston, Massachusetts

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Jeopardy! Round

SEE WHAT I DID THERE?
THAT BOOK YOU'VE BEEN MEANING TO READ
AT THE STORE
GOING THROUGH SOME CYCLES
THE EDWARDIAN ERA
THE "A" LIST
(Mayim: "A" is the first letter of each response.)
    $100 21
Alexander Gardner here: during this war, I took photos 2 days after Antietam, the first battlefield to be photographed so soon
    $100 10
Physicist Stephen Hawking penned 1988's "A Brief History of" this--I'll get to it, briefly
    $100 28
Customers have been known to customize their orders with 25 pumps or more of vanilla or syrup in their cinnamon dolce latte here
    $100 13
Washing machines use this noisy cycle to extract moisture from freshly laundered clothes
    $100 30
If you do talk about "Fight Club", you can talk about how he played the narrator of that film
    $100 5
Found in baseball box scores, it means how many people were there
    $200 22
Cheerio! I'm Sir Roger Bannister, the first man to run this distance in under 4 minutes, seen here on the same track 50 years later
    DD: $300 2
You dug the musical with Cosette, Javert & all the sad songs; now it's time to pry open this Victor Hugo novel from 1862
    $200 27
This assemble-it-yourself-at-home furnishings retailer began in Sweden & today operates more than 400 stores worldwide
    $200 14
Velocipede a pedale was an Old French term for what we know today as this
    $200 29
If you are "Thinking Out Loud", perhaps you are thinking of this singer/songwriter seen here
    $200 4
In 2021 fugitive Brian Laundrie ended his days in Fla.'s Myakkahatchee Creek area, home to these long & toothy critters
    $300 25
I'm staying anonymous, but I put my initials on a train, a form of graffiti called this
    $300 1
Before I can read the "Edge of Reason" sequel about this plucky, single British woman, I've got to read her "Diary"
    $300 26
"Fitch" pairs with this surname in the name of a clothing store chain
    $300 15
He focused his "ol' blue eyes" on folk & pop songs for his 1968 album "Cycles"
    $300 17
This saga of novels & films had fans divided into Team Edward & Team Jacob, boiling down to sparkly vampire or werewolf?
    $300 3
These of Judy Garland, like on a movie still, are among the most coveted of Hollywood stars
    $400 24
I'm lead architect James Polshek & I kept a bridge motif in mind designing this man's presidential library in Little Rock
    $400 6
Over the years, this novel about Holden Caulfield has been frequently challenged for its sex & profanity; I'm in!
    $400 19
This convenience store took its name in 1946 from the extended hours between which its stores were open
    $400 16
Spots on this appear in 11-year cycles & can be several times the size of the Earth
    $400 11
Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine called this late guitarist "the Mozart of our generation"
    $400 9
To avoid a libel lawsuit, news stories about someone accused of a crime use this word meaning "accused"
    $500 23
I'm this 1-named Renaissance sculptor & I did a bust, now in Florence, of another 1-named dude, Brutus
    $500 7
David Foster Wallace's weighty tome titled "Infinite" this; we kid you not, it took him 4 years to write it
    $500 20
Ron Johnson, Apple's former senior VP for retail, came up with this name for the counter where you take your broken MacBook
    $500 18
In 1953 sir Hans Krebs got this big prize for describing the cycle by which living cells obtain energy
    $500 12
Vincent Price's last appearance on the big screen was this 1990 film starring Johnny Depp as the title character with unusual appendages
    $500 8
Animation puts images on a screen; this longer word is the technology of lifelike motorized puppets

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Michael Wil Joel
$200 $1,300 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Michael Wil Joel
$400 $3,800 $1,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC SHIPS
THE BIBLE
A TRIP TO THE MUSEUM
BODY PART PHRASES
MUSICAL THEATER
DRIVING IN L.A.
    $200 25
This boat that brought over the first Pilgrims reached what is today Massachusetts in November 1620
    $200 10
In "the six hundred and first year", second month, 27th day, the earth was dried & this vessel's occupants could leave it
    $200 26
Spring or any other season is a lovely time to visit the Musee d'Orsay in this city
    $200 6
Brides or grooms may succumb to these, a reluctance to wed, not a case of frostbite
    $200 22
In "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown", this character sings "My Blanket and Me"
    $200 30
L.A. fans are notorious for pulling out of this venue onto Vin Scully Avenue around the 7th inning to beat the traffic
    $400 13
Launched in 1953, the USS Albacore was a research ship that pioneered the "teardrop" hull shape for this type of vessel
    $400 8
Called "kings" in a Christmas carol, these visitors to the young Jesus brought a trio of gifts: gold, frankincense & myrrh
    DD: $5,200 5
Prince's Cloud #2 Blue Angel electric guitar is on display at this Cleveland museum
    $400 15
To fall in love in a surprisingly complete manner is to do so this way, mentioning body parts on 2 extremes
    $400 21
In September 2022 Lea Michele stepped into the role of Fanny Brice in the revival of this show
    $400 12
L.A. lore says when Johnny Carson asked Bette Davis how a young actress could get into here, Bette said, "Take Fountain"
    $600 27
The HMS Beagle took this scientist on an 1830s voyage to South America, where the sites influenced his theories of evolution
    $600 2
There was some serious sibling rivalry with these first 2 sons of Adam & Eve
    $600 9
Visitors to Chicago's Field Museum can gaze upon Sue, one of these dinosaurs
    $600 16
When you "keep" someone at this distance, you're not sure of their intentions & don't want them too close to you
    $600 14
The Tony-winning Best Musical of 2011, it features the songs "Two by Two" & "Joseph Smith American Moses"
    $600 11
You can tell "The Big Sleep" was written 80+ years ago--the hero drives "through Pasadena & almost at once I was in" groves of these
    $800 29
Since Dec. 7, 1941 the USS Arizona has lain at the bottom of this Hawaiian location
    $800 4
Matthew 5:5 says, "Blessed are" this group "for they shall inherit the earth"
    $800 23
The National Air & Space Museum & the National Museum of the American Indian are part of this Washington, D.C. complex
    $800 17
From World War II came a reminder to be careful what you say around others because these "sink ships"
    DD: $6,400 19
A small Jewish village in Russia, Anatevka is the setting for this musical
    $800 1
This person who takes your keys may be a future star; Bill Paxton did that job at the Beverly Hills Hotel
    $1000 28
This U.S. ship from the War of 1812 is nicknamed "Old Ironsides"
    $1000 7
This 5-letter word refers to the "bread from heaven" eaten by the Israelites as told in the Book of Exodus
    $1000 24
Head to Bloomsbury in London to visit this national museum & its famous collection of mummies & other antiquities
    $1000 18
When you need to concentrate on your ultimate goal, remember to "keep" this, a rhyming phrase involving visual organs
    $1000 20
"Hairspray" & "Cry-Baby" are both based on movies by this cult film director
    $1000 3
The 1950 movie with this title is about an hour & 50 minutes; it'll take about that long to drive the same-named 22-mile road

Scores at the Double Jeopardy! Round commercial break (after clue 15):

Michael Wil Joel
$0 $12,800 $5,400

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Michael Wil Joel
$600 $17,000 $14,800

Triple Jeopardy! Round

BRUSH UP YOUR HEBREW
HISTORIC EVENTS
A TRIP ON THE GULF STREAM
SPORTS STARS
AMERICAN FOLKLORE & LEGENDS
COMPUTER SCIENCE WITH MATT AMODIO
(Matt Amodio: I'm Matt Amodio, Jeopardy! superchamp and Yale Ph.D. focusing on artificial intelligence and machine learning, and we'll talk computer science together.)
    $300 16
A good first word to learn is this one meaning both "hello" & "peace"
    $300 23
In 1927, this American became an international idol by flying solo across the Atlantic in his plane Spirit of St. Louis
    $300 17
The Gulf Stream becomes the North Atlantic Drift & keeps the west of this cold-sounding island country warmer than the east
    $300 26
This golf great won his first Masters in 1997 at age 21 & 4 since then
    $300 5
A story goes that asked by his father if he'd chopped down a cherry tree, this boy admitted it, saying, "I cannot tell a lie"
    $300 22
(Matt Amodio delivers the clue.) Before the hard disk era, the storage of data or programs known as this word took more cumbersome forms, like huge circular drums & reels bearing hundreds of feet of tape
    $600 15
A frequent source of comedy is new speakers who mix up michnasayim, pants, with mishkafayim, these--but you don't have reading pants
    $600 9
In the 1605 "Gunpowder Plot", Guy Fawkes & fellow conspirators tried to blow up this English legislative body
    DD: $6,000 18
The Gulf Stream warms Cape Hatteras & adjacent areas of this state
    $600 25
In 2008 this Jamaican sprinter came from out of the blue to set the first of many world records; Olympic gold would follow
    $600 4
It's the legendary hairy humanlike creature of the Pacific Northwest also known as sasquatch
    $600 30
(Matt Amodio delivers the clue.) Able to recognize patterns & help solve problems, neural networks are designed in imitation of this roughly 3-pound item
    $900 12
Unlike if you're at Trader Joe's, if you're speaking Hebrew, this dip has a guttural first letter & 2 long vowels
    DD: $5,000 6
This 1803 deal doubled the size of the young United States
    $900 19
An undersea area called the Charleston Bump attracts fish like this one to part of the Gulf Stream's course
    $900 10
Winner of 20 Grand Slam singles titles, this tennis great recently announced his retirement from competitive play
    DD: $600 2
This giant lumberjack & hero of logging camps had a giant blue ox named Babe as a companion
    $900 20
(Matt Amodio delivers the clue.) In this code that's the basis for digital computing, my beloved Cleveland Guardians would've retired Bob Feller's number 10011 & Jim Thome's 11001
    $1200 13
Abba is this relative; Jesus says, "Abba... all things are possible unto thee... not what I will, but what thou wilt"
    $1200 7
Thousands of Cherokee & other Native Americans died along the 1830s relocation route known by this sad name
    $1200 24
Leaving this Florida city, or its "West" neighbor, we'll have to cross the Gulf Stream to sail to the Bahamas
    $1200 11
After retiring from the Houston Rockets, this 7'6" center became president of the Chinese Basketball Association
    $1200 1
William the this ruled England; High John the this is a figure of liberation in African-American folklore
    $1200 21
(Matt Amodio delivers the clue.) A statistician who annoyed some computer scientists by butting into our field, John Tukey came up with this 8-letter word for the programs that tell a computer what to do
    $1500 14
In Hebrew verb tenses, atid means this; Yesh Atid, or "there is a" this, is an Israeli political party
    $1500 8
Hopes were high when this predecessor to the United Nations first met in 1920, but it didn't live up to the hype
    $1500 29
Along this country, the west edge of Scandinavia, the Gulf Stream carries 10 sverdrups of water--that's right, 10 sverdrups
    $1500 27
Jackie Joyner-Kersee was the first woman to win this 7-event track & field competition at back-to-back Olympics
    $1500 3
This mythic animal of the West is usually depicted as a rabbit with antelope horns
    $1500 28
(Matt Amodio delivers the clue.) This word means a procedure for solving a computational problem; it can be simple, like the steps of long division, or complicated, like the ones search engines use to deliver results

Scores at the end of the Triple Jeopardy! Round:

Michael Wil Joel
$5,400 $32,200 $19,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

ADVENTURE NOVELS
The villainess in this French novel kind of undercuts the title when she says, "among these four men two only are to be feared"

Final scores:

Michael Wil Joel
$10,800 $42,200 $38,600
3rd place: $50,000 for the Actors' Equity Foundation, including the Entertainment Community Fund Winner: finalist 2nd place: $50,000 for Selah Neighborhood Homeless Coalition

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Michael Wil Joel
$5,700 $17,900 $13,900
12 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 38 R
(including 3 DDs),
4 W		 28 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $37,500

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Game tape date: 2022-10-02
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