>1>Champions Wildcard play-in game #2 - Friday, January 12, 2024>div>
>2024 Champions Wildcard play-in game 2.
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>Contestants >r> >table>
>Jeopardy! Round
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>Rachel Clark, a director of client strategy from Washington, D.C.

>Matthew Ott, an accountant from La Crescenta, California

>Daniel Ciarrocchi, a writer from Baltimore, Maryland

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<tr> <td class="category"> ble> >d class="category_name">JUST DESERTS>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr>
ble> >d class="category_name">NBA HISTORY>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr> ble> >d class="category_name">KIDDY LIT>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr> ble> >d class="category_name">NICKNAMES>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr> ble> >d class="category_name">COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr> ble> >d class="category_name">MINING FOR "ORE">tr> >d class="category_comments">(Buzzy: "O-R-E" will be in each correct response.)>tr> </tr> <tr> <td class="clue"> <tr> <td>
    $200 >25
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_1_1" class="clue_text">In this Bible book, the children of Israel "were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the Desert of Sinai" >Exodus>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Matthew
<tr> <td>
    $200 >26
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_2_1" class="clue_text">In the 1990s this Chicago Bulls guard was the MVP of the NBA Finals a record 6 times Jordan>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Rachel
<tr> <td>
    $200 >27
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_3_1" class="clue_text">This 1885 book is subtitled "Tom Sawyer's Comrade" >>Huckleberry Finn>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Daniel
<tr> <td>
    $200 >28
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_4_1" class="clue_text">Referring to the extensive quarries there, it's "the Granite State" (Daniel: What is Vermont?)
>r />New Hampshire>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Daniel>Matthew
<tr> <td>
    $200 >29
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_5_1" class="clue_text">In 1919 this school was established as the Southern Branch of the University of California UCLA>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Rachel
<tr> <td>
    $200 >30
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_6_1" class="clue_text">It's a vibration of the soft palate while you sleep snore>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Rachel
</tr> <tr> <td class="clue"> <tr> <td>
    $400 >24
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_1_2" class="clue_text">The barchan type of this is crescent-shaped & is formed by a constant wind coming from one direction (Daniel: What's a sandstorm?)
>r />a sand dune>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Daniel>Rachel
<tr> <td>
    $400 >5</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_2_2" class="clue_text">In June 2002 this Lakers coach became the all-time leader in playoff victories by winning his 156th game Phil Jackson>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Daniel
<tr> <td>
    $400 >23
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_3_2" class="clue_text">In a J.M. Barrie play, she & her brothers Michael & John get sprinkled with fairy dust & fly off into the night Wendy>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Rachel
<tr> <td>
    $400 >22
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_4_2" class="clue_text">King Louis XIV was known as "Louis the Great", "Louis the Grand Monarch" & "Le Roi Soleil", meaning this Sun King>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Matthew
<tr> <td>
    $400 >12
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_5_2" class="clue_text">Colleges in this state include Black Hills State University & Oglala Lakota College South Dakota>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Rachel
<tr> <td>
    $400 >19
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_6_2" class="clue_text">Come one, come all to ye olde inn & enjoy our bill of fare & flagons of ale as in days of this yore>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Rachel
</tr> <tr> <td class="clue"> <tr> <td>
    DD: $2,500 >18
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_1_3" class="clue_text">Canteens empty! I'm going to perish in the Chihuahuan Desert!>--
but look, it's this 1,900-mile-long river! the Rio Grande>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Rachel
<tr> <td>
    $600 >2</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_2_3" class="clue_text">In 2001 the Vancouver Grizzlies relocated to this U.S. city Memphis>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Rachel
<tr> <td>
    $600 >13
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_3_3" class="clue_text">This feline friend of Winnie-the-Pooh appears in "The House at Pooh Corner", but not in the original book Tigger>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Rachel
<tr> <td>
    $600 >8</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_4_3" class="clue_text">Stockbroker Jordan Belfort's nickname, it's the title of Scorsese's 2013 biopic of him "The Wolf of Wall Street">r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Rachel
<tr> <td>
    $600 >10
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_5_3" class="clue_text">Opened in 1865, this N.E. college was started by a scientist for an increasingly industrialized America [Buzzy reads "N.E." as "New England".]
(Matthew: What is Smith? College?)
>r />m class="correct_response">MIT>r />r />>r>>table>
>Matthew
>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
<tr> <td>
    $600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512505" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">20
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_6_3" class="clue_text">A germ cell, perhaps for a plant >m class="correct_response">a spore>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Rachel
</tr> <tr> <td class="clue"> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512477" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">15
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_1_4" class="clue_text">The Namib Desert of West Africa is home to a mountain variety of this member of the horse family [ERRATUM: The Namib Desert is in southwestern Africa, not in the region of West Africa.]
>r />m class="correct_response">the zebra>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Matthew
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512480" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">3
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_2_4" class="clue_text">In 1995 this Houston Rockets center scored a then-record 131 points in a 4-game NBA Finals >m class="correct_response">Hakeem Olajuwon>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Daniel
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512483" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">14
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_3_4" class="clue_text">He illustrated his own "Where the Wild Things Are" as well as several of the "Little Bear" books for kids >m class="correct_response">Sendak>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Daniel
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512485" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">7
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_4_4" class="clue_text">This French tennis player & shirt tycoon was "the Crocodile" >m class="correct_response">Lacoste>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Rachel
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512489" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">9
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_5_4" class="clue_text">This university in West Virginia is named for the Supreme Court Chief Justice who raised the court to a position of power >m class="correct_response">Marshall>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Rachel
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512506" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">21
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_6_4" class="clue_text">U.S. Navy rank abolished for good in 1986 >m class="correct_response">Commodore>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Daniel
</tr> <tr> <td class="clue"> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512493" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">17
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_1_5" class="clue_text">La Guajira desert is connected by gas pipeline to nearby Barranquilla in this South American country (Buzzy: Barranquilla, a big city in [*].)
>r />m class="correct_response">Colombia>r />r />>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512481" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">4
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_2_5" class="clue_text">The NBA's Coach of the Year Trophy is named for this longtime Celtics coach >m class="correct_response">Auerbach>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Matthew
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512494" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">16
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_3_5" class="clue_text">In Janell Cannon's "Stellaluna", one of these flying animals is adopted by a family of birds >m class="correct_response">a bat>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Rachel
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512486" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">6
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_4_5" class="clue_text">A Yat, as in "Where y'at?", is a person from this Southern U.S. city >m class="correct_response">New Orleans>r />r />>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512490" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">11
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_5_5" class="clue_text">The Daily Wildcat is the college newspaper from this Southwestern university >m class="correct_response">Arizona>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Matthew
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512491" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">1
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_6_5" class="clue_text">Classical music greats Horowitz & Rostropovich each put out an album of tunes they used as these crowd-pleasers >m class="correct_response">encores>r />r />>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
</tr>

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

Daniel Matthew Rachel
$2,000 $2,200 $3,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Daniel Matthew Rachel
$2,400 $3,000 $9,700

Double Jeopardy! Round

<tr> <td class="category"> ble> <tr>
A GENRE CATEGORY>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr>
ble> <tr>MY "SON", THE PRESIDENT>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr> ble> <tr>OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr> ble> <tr>3 LITTLE LETTERS>tr> <tr>(Buzzy: Each response must be three letters only.)>tr> ble> <tr>MARINE LIFE>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr> ble> <tr>SPRECHEN SIE DEUTSCH?>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr> </tr> <tr> <td class="clue"> <tr> <td>
    $400 >25
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_1_1" class="clue_text">Sitcom is short for this >m class="correct_response">situational comedy>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Daniel
<tr> <td>
    $400 >24
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_2_1" class="clue_text">Chronologically, he was the first who fits the category >m class="correct_response">Jefferson>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Matthew
<tr> <td>
    $400 >29
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_3_1" class="clue_text">Julie Taymor directed the 2006 opera "Grendel", which retold this classic tale from the monster's point of view >m class="correct_response">>Be
owulf>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Rachel
<tr> <td>
    $400 >30
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_4_1" class="clue_text">In 2001 it merged with Time Warner >m class="correct_response">AOL>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Daniel
<tr> <td>
    $400 >23
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_5_1" class="clue_text">This, used to filter food from water by certain whales, is a keratinized structure, much like hair or nails >m class="correct_response">baleen>r />r />>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
<tr> <td>
    $400 >27
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_6_1" class="clue_text">This interjection used after someone sneezes means "health" in German >m class="correct_response">>Ge
sundheit>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Daniel
</tr> <tr> <td class="clue"> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512551" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">21
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_1_2" class="clue_text">Mecha is a genre of anime typically featuring giant these resembling people >m class="correct_response">robots>r />r />>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 >13
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_2_2" class="clue_text">He was preceded & succeeded as president by the same man >m class="correct_response">Benjamin Harrison>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Matthew
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 >28
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_3_2" class="clue_text">Andre Gretry, "the Moliere of music", composed a 1784 opera about this crusading king (Matthew: Who's Richard III?)
>r />m class="correct_response">Richard I>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Matthew>Rachel
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 >12
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_4_2" class="clue_text">Yasir Arafat was the head of it from 1969 to 2004 >m class="correct_response">the PLO>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Daniel
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 >22
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_5_2" class="clue_text">The most intelligent of all invertebrates is thought to be O. vulgaris, the common type of this cephalopod >m class="correct_response">octopus>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Rachel
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 >26
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_6_2" class="clue_text">It's how you say "good morning" in German >m class="correct_response">>gu
ten Morgen>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Matthew
</tr> <tr> <td class="clue"> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512507" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">6
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_1_3" class="clue_text">Some people describe a sentimental film as a "three-" this accessory picture (Daniel: What is... act?)
>r />m class="correct_response">handkerchief>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Daniel>Rachel
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512510" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">4
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_2_3" class="clue_text">He beat Clinton-->DeWitt Clinton-->in 1812 >m class="correct_response">Madison>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Rachel
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512513" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">1
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_3_3" class="clue_text">Rossini's opera about this tragic title character is subtitled "Il Moro di Venezia" >(D
aniel: What's Madame Butterfly?)
>r />m class="correct_response">Otello>r />r />>r>>table>
>Daniel
>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512515" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">9
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_4_3" class="clue_text">Russia's Tupolev Tu-144 was the world's first type of this speedy jet (Matthew: What's a MiG?)
>r />m class="correct_response">an SST>r />r />>r>>table>
>Matthew
>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512563" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">16
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_5_3" class="clue_text">Males of this small marine creature carry the fertilized eggs in a brood pouch beneath a prehensile tail >m class="correct_response">a seahorse>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Daniel
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512568" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">20
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_6_3" class="clue_text">In German, what's mine is mein & what's yours is this rhyming word (Matthew: What's jein ["YINE"]?)
>r />m class="correct_response">>dein>r />r />>r>>table>
>Matthew
>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
</tr> <tr> <td class="clue"> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512508" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">7
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_1_4" class="clue_text">This 2000 film is the most recent Best Picture Oscar winner in the sword-&-sandal genre >m class="correct_response">>Gl
adiator>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Matthew
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512511" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">3
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_2_4" class="clue_text">For refusing to shine the boots of a British officer as a child, he got a saber across the face >m class="correct_response">Jackson>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Rachel
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 >2</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_3_4" class="clue_text">The name of this Italian opera house means "theater at the stairway" >m class="correct_response">La Scala>r />r />>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   DD: $3,400 >10
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_4_4" class="clue_text">Headquartered in Atlanta, this agency, established in 1946, grew out of a U.S. anti-malaria program >m class="correct_response">the CDC>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Matthew
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512564" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">15
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_5_4" class="clue_text">The loggerhead species of this reptile often feeds on jellyfish in the open seas >m class="correct_response">turtle>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Rachel
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 >19
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_6_4" class="clue_text">The OED calls these German fashion statements "leather shorts as worn in alpine regions" >m class="correct_response">>Le
derhosen>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Daniel
</tr> <tr> <td class="clue"> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 >8</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_1_5" class="clue_text">Video games with wide-open worlds & roles are named for this playground spot >m class="correct_response">a sandbox>r />r />>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   DD: $5,000 >5</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_2_5" class="clue_text">He whipped 2 former presidents in the same election by an electoral score of 435-88-8 >m class="correct_response">Wilson>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Rachel
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 >18
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_3_5" class="clue_text">The full title of this Wagner opera includes the words "and the Singer's Contest on the Wartburg" >m class="correct_response">>Ta
nnhäuser>r />r />>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512560" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">11
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_4_5" class="clue_text">The Honda Fourtrax Recon is this type of transport that can give you a real lift in the desert >m class="correct_response">an ATV>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Matthew
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512565" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">14
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_5_5" class="clue_text">This name for a common sea snail is also that of a blue-violet flower >m class="correct_response">periwinkle>r />r />>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=512570" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">17
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_6_5" class="clue_text">German term for a novel about the education & coming of age of a young protagonist >m class="correct_response">>Bi
ldungsroman>r />r />>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
</tr>

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Daniel Matthew Rachel
$4,800 $8,800 $22,300
(>lock game)

>[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

<tr> <td class="category">
<table> <tr>d class="category_name">LITERARY INSPIRATION>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr>
</tr> <tr> <td class="clue"> <tr> <td id="clue_FJ" class="clue_text">A book by historian Thomas Carlyle that Dickens said he'd read 500 times has this title subject that Charles would write about himself>r>>$3,199>r>>r>>$8,800>r>>r>>$0>table>>the French Revolution </tr>
>Daniel>What is architecture?>Matthew>What is poverty?>Rachel>What is
r id="clue_FJ_stuck"> able>

Final scores:

Daniel Matthew Rachel
>$1,601 $0 $22,300
>2nd place >3rd place Winner: advance to Champions Wildcard
>Ga
me dynamics: Game dynamics graph

>Coryat scores:

Daniel Matthew Rachel
$4,800 $7,000 $17,400
11 R,
>4 W
>12 R
(including 1 DD),
>4 W
>23 R
(including 2 DDs),
0 W
> href="help.php#combinedcoryat">Combined Coryat>:
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>Game tape date: 2024-01-03
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