>1>Show #8953 - Wednesday, October 18, 2023>div>
>2023 Champions Wildcard Spades final game 1.

Contestants

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> href="showplayer.php?player_id=16978" rel="external">Lucy Ricketts>, a book designer and freelance illustrator from Atlanta, Georgia

> href="showplayer.php?player_id=16996" rel="external">Josh Saak>, a traffic engineer from Boise, Idaho

> href="showplayer.php?player_id=16990" rel="external">Sam Stapleton>, a college consultant from Los Gatos, California

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Jeopardy! Round

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>THE 1600s
>td>
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>A DAY AT THE RACES
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>DINING OUT IN NEW YORK
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>OOH, LOOK, SHINY THINGS!
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>"SMOKE"
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>MIRRORS
>td>
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504237" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">19>td>
>After observing a comet in 1682, he proved it was the same one seen in 1607, 1531, 1456... <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504245" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">30>td>
>Betting on the same horse to win, place & show is betting "across" this <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504239" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">21>td>
>There are likely fewer sheep there nowadays, but Sheep Meadow is in this 843-acre area, not far from Tavern on the Green <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504248" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">27>td>
>In song, he "had a very shiny nose... you would even say it glows" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504232" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">15>td>
>A building used for curing meat <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504250" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">28>td>
>Minimum number of mirrors needed to make a kaleidoscope <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504223" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">5>td>
>For nearly 40 years, until 1679, New Hampshire was part of this colony <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504226" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">3>td>
>In this type of race, a licensed horse owner may bet on the winner & then buy it <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504240" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">20>td>
>We suspect vodka lovers more than tea aficionados gravitate to this restaurant dating back to 1927 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504249" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">25>td>
>Referring to its rapid movement & shiny surface, quicksilver is an old name for this liquid metal <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504233" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">14>td>
>In song, the 5 words that precede "all covered with snow" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504251" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">26>td>
>In 1668 Newton placed a mirror in one of these devices to create a much better image <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504224" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">4>td>
>The oldest opera for which complete music still exists is Jacopo Peri's 1600 work about this lover of Orpheus <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504238" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">18>td>
>Age of a sophomore horse, it's also the usual age of horses in a derby race <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504229" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">10>td>
>Enjoy the raw bar at the Oyster Bar, an institution at this transportation hub since 1913 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504241" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">17>td>
>By making them durable, Herbert Lieberman was the Henry Ford of these> shiny discs, seen on skates & Michael Jackson <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504234" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">13>td>
>Industrial chimney attached to a factory <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504244" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">16>td>
>Before the advent of this device in the 1911 Indy 500, passengers called riding mechanics watched for cars coming up behind <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >DD: $1,000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504225" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">6>td>
>After hoarding food rations, he & his son were kept at bay, literally, by mutineers who set them adrift in 1611 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504246" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">24>td>
>The quarter pole is 2 furlongs before this <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504230" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">8>td>
>Robert De Niro co-owns this grill named for the neighborhood it's in <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504242" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">22>td>
>These artificial gems are named for a river that begins in the Alps & flows through Germany <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504222" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">1>td>
>Proverbial location where political deals are struck away from the eyes of the public <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504235" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">11>td>
>There is evidence that Precolumbian Mesoamericans used this black volcanic rock with a Roman name to make mirrors <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504228" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">7>td>
>In the early 1600s this British king said that he could make a man a lord but "only God almighty can make a gentleman" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504247" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">29>td>
>It means to assign weights to equalize the competition <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504231" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">9>td>
>Per Se is a NYC restaurant where this chef of the French Laundry has augmented his reputation <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504243" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">23>td>
>Small bits of pyrite in this> alliterative blue rock give the appearance of gold specks <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504227" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">2>td>
>A parachuting firefighter <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504236" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">12>td>
>"Equine" name for a mirror mounted on a frame that can be tilted

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

Sam Josh Lucy
$4,600 $800 $2,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Sam Josh Lucy
$4,600 $5,000 $4,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

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<tr> <tr>able>
>IN CRISIS MODE
>td>
<tr> <tr>able>
>YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE LEFT THE COUCH
>td>
<tr> <tr>able>
>ROCK & ROLL BOOKSTORE
>td>
<tr> <tr>able>
>ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB
>(Ken: In this category we will need the entire name of each response.)
<tr> <tr>able>
>A FABRIC-ATED CATEGORY
>td>
<tr> <tr>able> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> able> >Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:
>3 LITTLE WORDS
>td>
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504267" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">21>td>
>On Dec. 19, 1776 he published "The American Crisis. Number I" (of 16) <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504269" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">26>td>
>Soccer-playing teens are prone to Osgood-Schlatter disease, mainly seen as a swelling just below this joint <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504271" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">20>td>
>"Nowhere Man" is Robert Rosen's take on "The Final Days of" this Beatle <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504272" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">27>td>
>I'm just talkin' 'bout this composer who won a 1971 Oscar for best original song for "Theme From Shaft" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504274" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">28>td>
>This fabric used in coats usually comes from the Bactrian type <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504278" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">18>td>
>In prayer this phrase traditionally follows "Hail Mary" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504262" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">13>td>
>As part of this crisis, JFK announced a naval blockade Oct. 22, 1962 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504255" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">5>td>
>This contact sport injury resulting from a blow to the head has several grades; with grade I, you stay conscious <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504257" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">8>td>
>"Gold Dust Woman" can only be a biography of this member of Fleetwood Mac <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504273" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">17>td>
>Born in Ukraine in 1920, this> American violin virtuoso led a '60s fight to save Carnegie Hall from demolition <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504266" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">11>td>
>Fabric made from this tall grass is all the rage in part due to its antibacterial properties <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504261" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">7>td>
>I'm on your side; I'll always do this, the same as "step up to home plate", for you <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504268" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">16>td>
>It began Nov. 4, 1979 & lasted 444 days <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504265" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">12>td>
>It's the most common sports sprain & also common is your buddy telling you to just walk it off <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504258" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">9>td>
>A book claims that "the year that rock exploded" was 1971, the year of this Carole King album including "I Feel The Earth Move" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >DD: $4,000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=504253" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">3>td>
>He won the 1984 Best Actor Oscar for a movie named for a different character Lucy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1200 23>td>
This lace named for a town in France was paired in song with "a pretty face and a ponytail hanging down" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1200 19>td>
In a 1988 political speech, they came before "no new taxes" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 14>td>
Speculative attacks on the baht triggered this continent's financial crisis of 1997-98 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 10>td>
This type of neck injury results from a sudden jerking of the head in one direction like from a rear-end collision <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 4>td>
Danny Sugerman wrote a few books about The Doors & one called "Appetite for Destruction" about this group <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 1>td>
In 1786 this German immigrant founded his fur business that would make him one of the richest men in America <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 30>td>
This woven fabric used for suits sounds like a poetic contraction referencing the future <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 24>td>
Proverbially, it "is better than none" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >DD: $4,000 15>td>
The first armed U.N. Peacekeeping Force was established on Nov. 7, 1956 in response to this Mideast crisis <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 22>td>
Acute mountain sickness can develop into the pulmonary or cerebral type of this accumulation of fluid <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 6>td>
"Waging Heavy Peace" is this musician's tale from Ontario boyhood to rock star & member of CSNY <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 2>td>
>He resigned from the Supreme Court in 1969 amid criticism of his financial dealings <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 29>td>
Sails & beach umbrellas are 2 items traditionally made of this hempen or flaxen cloth <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 25>td>
This phrase for a non-working appliance contains a diminutive of "Friedrich"
Sam Josh Lucy
>$12,600 >$16,600 $9,200
>Final Jeopardy! Round
</table> </tr> <tr>
>NATURAL LANDMARKS
>td>
<tr> <td id="clue_FJ" class="clue_text">The Washburn-Langford-Doane expedition happened upon it in 1870 & named it for the regularity of its activity able> >Final scores:
Sam Josh Lucy
>$15,200 >$25,200 $14,200
>td> >td>
>Game dynamics: Game dynamics graph

>Coryat scores:

Sam Josh Lucy
$10,600 >$16,600 $13,000
17 R
>(including 1 DD),
2 W		 19 R,
>3 W		 >15 R
(including 1 DD),
>1 W
(including 1 DD)

>Combined Coryat: $40,200

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Game tape date: 2023-08-31
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