Responses for Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! game #1 - Sunday, September 25, 2022

2022-2023 Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! quarterfinal game 1.
Mayim Bialik hosts.

Contestants

Andy Richter, a comedian from Yorkville, Illinois

Ego Nwodim, a comedian from Baltimore, Maryland

Simu Liu, an actor from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

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Jeopardy! Round responses

JEOPARDY! & THE 10 RINGS
TELLING A BEDTIME STORY
THE RICHTER SCALE
SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER
THE WILD WEST
DIONNE WARWICK
    $100 1
Tolkien

Simu
    $100 13
Little Red Riding Hood

Andy
    $100 16
Caltech

Andy
    $100 26
reindeer

Ego
    $100 7
[Applause for Andy's run of the category]

cowboy

Andy
    $100 8
(Andy: Let's start with DIONNE WARWICK for $100.)
(Ego: Trying to be nice to me.)
(Andy: No, I'm not.)
(Ego: Better get this right.)
(Andy: You'll see!)

Whitney Houston

Ego
    $200 2
"The Twelve Days of Christmas"

Andy
    $200 14
"The Little Mermaid"

Simu
    $200 17
(Simu: Damn it!)
(Ego: I know, dunnit feel bad when you don't get one everyone thinks you're gonna get? It feels real bad. ...Real bad.)

China

Andy
    $200 27
(Mayim: Yes, very important for our industry.)
(Simu: Yep.)

a tweet

Simu
    $200 3
trails

Andy
    $200 9
the Bee Gees

Andy
    $300 20
Jupiter

Simu
    $300 15
(Simu: Uh... what is--what is Horton?)

the Cat in the Hat

Simu
    $300 18
the Mississippi

Andy
    $300 28
a blurb

Simu
    $300 4
a stagecoach

Andy
    $300 10
AIDS

Andy
    $400 21
Lily Tomlin

Andy
    $400 23
Hansel & Gretel

Andy
    $400 19
Lisbon

Simu
    $400 29
a Celtic

Andy
    $400 5
Tombstone

Andy
    $400 11
(Andy: What is [*] for you?)
[Accepted without comment]

"I Say A Little Prayer"

Andy
    $500 22
boxing

Andy
    $500 24
(Andy: Who is the Little Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe?)
(Mayim: No.)
(Andy: Ohh!)
(Simu: He got one wrong!)
(Ego: Whaaa?)
(Simu: Inconceivable!)
(Andy: Oh. I know it now.)
(Mayim: You don't get another chance!)
(Andy: I know.)

Old Mother Hubbard

Andy
Triple Stumper
    $500 25
the San Andreas

Andy
    $500 30
(Mayim: Andy spent years as Conan O'Brien's No. 2, but so far tonight, he's No. 1!)

a monogram

Andy
    $500 6
Calamity Jane

Andy
    $500 12
Burt Bacharach

Ego

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

Simu Ego Andy
$0 $600 $2,700

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Simu Ego Andy
$1,200 $700 $5,500

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

QUEEN ELIZABETH II
DIRECT ME TO THE DIRECTOR
CATS & DOGS
TASTY PHRASES
ALPHABETICALLY LAST
"R"ELIGION
(Mayim: Each response will start with "R".)
    $200 17
(Simu: What is Wales?)
(Ego: What is England?)

Scotland

SimuEgoAndy
    $200 7
(Simu: Can you tell we're in show business?)

Hitchcock

Simu
    $200 14
a golden retriever

Simu
    $200 10
sour grapes

Andy
    $200 30
spades

Andy
    $200 20
(Simu: What is the Vatican?)

Rome

SimuEgo
    $400 26
a purse

Andy
    $400 5
Wonder Woman

Andy
    $400 15
(Mayim: So far Andy controls both the universe and our Jeopardy! game board, but can he continue to sustain his big lead over Simu and Ego? We'll be back with more Celebrity Jeopardy! right after this...)

a tail

Andy
    $400 22
to put a cherry on top

Simu
    $400 29
Ringo Starr

Andy
    $400 1
a rabbi

Andy
    $600 25
Corgis

Simu
    $600 6
Tarantino

Ego
    $600 3
the Great Dane

Andy
    $600 21
spilling the beans

Ego
    $600 28
Rebel Without a Cause

Andy
    $600 12
reincarnation

Ego
    $800 23
(Prince) Philip

Simu
    $800 8
E.T.

Andy
    $800 2
(Andy: What is a Himalayan?)

a Siamese

Andy
Triple Stumper
    $800 16
cream of the crop

Simu
    $2,000 11
Vermont

Andy
    $800 13
Ra

Simu
    $1000 24
the coronation

Andy
    $1000 9
Jordan Peele

Ego
    $1000 4
(Simu: Whew! Um... Felt good about that one.)
(Mayim: Well done! Nice!)

the Maine Coon

Simu
    $1000 18
(two) peas in a pod

Ego
    $1000 27
Zimbabwe

Andy
    $1,000 19
Ramadan

Ego

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

Simu Ego Andy
$3,400 $2,900 $9,500

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Simu Ego Andy
$5,600 $5,500 $13,300

Triple Jeopardy! Round

APOLOGIES
YOU'RE PROBABLY GOING TO HATE THIS
BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE
THE SKELETAL SYSTEM
"AB"s WORKOUT
(Mayim: Each response starts with "A-B".)
FASHION WITH BUZZY COHEN
(Buzzy: I'm Buzzy Cohen--Jeopardy! champion, host, and snappy dresser with clues about fashion.)
    $300 24
a mouse

Andy
    $300 30
taxes

Ego
    $300 28
Trevor Noah

Simu
    $300 29
ribs

Andy
    $300 21
absence

Andy
    $300 19
the aviator

Simu
    $600 1
(Mayim: We are back. Welcome to the first ever Triple Jeopardy! Round! Quick refresher: questions will range from three to fifteen hundred dollars, and there are three Daily Doubles at play. So there's going to be more than a few opportunities for Simu and Ego to ensure that Andy doesn't return for a second straight semifinal. Let's take a look at the categories in Triple Jeopardy!...)

2001: A Space Odyssey

Andy
    $600 5
Monday

Andy
    $600 27
Mindy Kaling

Simu
    $600 12
vertebrae

Andy
    $600 20
abdominals

Simu
    $600 15
the boutonniere

Andy
    $900 23
The Princess Bride

Andy
    $900 6
biting your tongue

Ego
    $900 26
Ali Wong

Ego
    $900 10
marrow

Ego
    $900 2
the abominable snowman

Andy
    $900 16
(Andy: You learn something every day!)

a monk strap shoe

Triple Stumper
    $3,000 8
(Ego: Mm. Mm-mm-mm. I am so sorry. [Re-reads clue under her breath at high speed])

Emily Dickinson

Ego
    $1200 9
the Do Not Call List

Ego
    $1200 25
Sarah Silverman

Andy
    $1200 13
(Andy: What is the breast--oh, uh, what is the shoulder blade?)
(Mayim: No.)
(Andy: Oh! Damn it!)

the collarbone

Andy
Triple Stumper
    $1200 3
abdicate

Simu
    $1200 17
(Ego: What is a wide-brim hat?)

a fedora

EgoAndy
    $1500 22
Puck

Simu
    $1500 7
mosquitoes

Ego
    $1500 14
Bo Burnham

Ego
    $1,500 11
the knee

Ego
    $1,500 4
(Simu: No, you see, I'm not excited about it 'cause I could lose more money!)
(Mayim: You need to be excited about it!)

abyss

Simu
    $1500 18
seersucker

Andy

Scores at the end of the Triple Jeopardy! Round:

Simu Ego Andy
$11,600 $10,000 $21,100

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES
(Mayim: [To Simu] Surrounded by Rome.)
...
(Simu: I don't--I don't think anybody was expecting this.)
...
(Simu: It was--and literally because I answered "the Vatican" earlier...)
(Ego: It's in your head.)
(Mayim: It was in your head.)
...
(Andy: That's--that's Jeopardy! The Final question--if you don't know the Final question, you can just go home. And I'm... gonna go home.)
(Mayim: That's the best description of Jeopardy! I've ever heard.)
...
(Simu: [His head in his hands] Oh my God! I have to come back?)
EgoWhat is Togo ?!????!!
$10,000
SimuWhat is Vatican City?
$11,600
AndyWhat is Lichtenstein?
$2,200
Vatican City

Final scores:

Simu Ego Andy
$23,200 $0 $18,900
Winner: semifinalist 3rd place: $30,000 to God’s Love We Deliver 2nd place: $30,000 to the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Simu Ego Andy
$11,900 $13,000 $19,900
21 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 18 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 45 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $44,800

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Game tape date: 2022-09-11
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