Responses for Show #8737 - Tuesday, November 8, 2022

2022 Tournament of Champions special exhibition.

Contestants

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Mattea Roach, a writer and podcaster from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Matt Amodio, a post-doctoral researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Amy Schneider, a writer from Oakland, California

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ELECTION DAY
(Ken: That's today.)
HITS OF 2002
LESSER-KNOWN GEOGRAPHY
YOU SIT ON IT
NUMBER, PLEASE
(Ken: And finally, appropriately...)
REMEMBERING ALEX TREBEK
    $200 27
(Ken: Yes, I don't know why that's particularly convenient for farmers, but they just loved to vote on a [*].)

Tuesday

Matt
    $200 1
(Ken: Yes, Canada's proud.)

Nickelback

Mattea
    $200 28
Saskatoon

Amy
    $200 29
buns

Matt
    $200 25
(Ken: Now, I suspect you didn't notice this. The re--the numbers that were the responses in that category--[*], 23, 38, and then 74, which is larger than any of them, may be of specific relevance to your Jeopardy! streaks.)

40

Matt
    $200 30
(Ken: Yes, Diet Pepsi and a [*], breakfast of champions.)

Kit Kat

Amy
    $1,200 23
(Matt: Uh, I'd like to wager 1,200 of whatever we're playing for.)
...
(Ken: Springfield, Illinois and Abe Lincoln, that's correct.)

1860

Matt
    $400 6
(Ken: [After reading the clue] Even in a rehearsal game.)

"Hot In Herre"

Mattea
    $400 21
(Matt: What's... Caspian?)

the Black Sea

AmyMatt
    $400 22
booty

Matt
    $400 24
(Ken: I don't know if you noticed, but the numbers in that category--40, [*], 38 and 74, which is larger than all of them—)
(Amy: Uh….)
(Ken: [Looking at the board and realizing he accidentally gave away the answer to the $200 clue before its reveal] Oh, [bleep]!)
[Ken slaps his card onto the host's lectern; Matt presses his buzzer repeatedly.]
[Loud audience reaction]
(Ken: We'll just pretend.)
...
(Amy: I'll do NUMBER, PLEASE for $200.)
[Laughter and applause]
(Ken: Let's see if you know this one.)

23

Amy
    $400 26
Aquinas

Matt
    $600 5
a snap election

Amy
    $600 9
(Matt: [Exhales] What's... "Hot In Herre"?)
(Ken: No.)
[Laughter]
(Amy: What is... "I'm Coming Out"?)
...
(Mattea: One of my favorite songs from when I was like four.)
[Laughter]
(Ken: Wow!)
[Mattea flashes the peace symbol.]

"Get The Party Started"

AmyMattMattea
    $600 8
the United Arab Emirates

Amy
    $600 18
moon

Matt
    $600 14
38

Matt
    $600 16
(Eugene) Levy

Matt
    $800 4
Virginia

Mattea
    $800 10
Minogue

Matt
    $800 7
Bhutan

Mattea
    $800 17
Fanny

Amy
    $800 13
(Matt: What's... 50?)
(Ken: No, but it's an exhibition game; guess a number.)
(Amy: What is 7?)
(Ken: No, in fact, Matt was closer.)
(Mattea: Screw it, what's 503?)

74

AmyMattMattea
Triple Stumper
    $800 20
(Ken: Yes, nailing the Canadiana again.)

Sudbury

Mattea
    $1000 2
(Matt: Hi, Ken.)
(Ken: Hey.)
(Matt: I just wanted to say hi. What's [*]?)
[Laughter]

Dewey Defeats Truman

Matt
    $1000 12
(Amy: One of my favorite songs when I was 27.)
[Laughter and applause]

Mekhi Phifer

Amy
    $1000 3
Saint Lucia

Mattea
    $1000 15
(Ken: [*] Phillips is correct.)

Bum

Amy
    $1000 11
To infinity and beyond

Amy
    $1000 19
(Matt: What's semilunars?)
(Amy: What's... demi-lune?)
(Mattea: What are hemilunes?)
[Laughter]
...
(Ken: They are [*], apparently. You were all each not close to solving that.)
[Laughter]

Woodruff keys

AmyMattMattea
Triple Stumper

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

Amy Matt Mattea
$2,800 $1,000 $3,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Amy Matt Mattea
$3,800 $3,400 $2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

HOPE YOU READ MIDDLEMARCH
(Ken: America loves Middlemarch.)
WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE THE TREATY OF PARIS
MOVIE QUOTES
POTPOURRI
RHYMES WITH A SNOW WHITE DWARF
WRONG BUT EXCELLENT
(Ken: These are clues about incorrect responses Jeopardy! players have given in the past that are so hard we never would have dared go for them in reality.)
    $400 26
(Ken: It is, yes. What a fan.)
(Amy: Uh, PARIS, uh...)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
(Ken: Oh, sorry, we were just having a little too much fun; we won't get to the last four clues.)

a town

Amy
    $400 14
(Ken: You have found your category--POTPOURRI, it turns out.)
[Applause for Mattea running the category]

a strawberry

Mattea
    $800 16
honeymoon

Matt
    $800 25
France

Matt
    $800 24
(Matt: Um... what's... tell the truth?)
(Amy: What is... tell the legend?)
(Ken: No, it's closer.)
(Amy: Yeah.)
(Ken: Mattea's not a Western fan.)

print the legend

AmyMatt
Triple Stumper
    $800 13
gasket

Mattea
    $800 22
(Matt: Uh, what's covey?)
...
(Ken: Like Doc, with less than a minute to go.)

a flock

AmyMatt
    $800 18
(Mattea: Who's Lachine?)
...
(Ken: That's the lake.)
(Mattea: Oh, yeah.)

Champlain

MattMattea
    $1200 15
a doctor

Mattea
    $1200 4
the American Revolution

Matt
    $1200 23
The Usual Suspects

Amy
    $1200 12
Pac-Man

Mattea
    $1200 21
(Ken: Like Dopey, yes.)

Hopi

Mattea
    $1200 17
Kid Cudi

Mattea
    $1600 7
(Matt: MIDDLEMARCH, $1,600.)
(Ken: Yeah, why not?)
[Mattea chuckles.]

(George) Eliot

Matt
    $1600 3
the Napoleonic Wars

Mattea
    $2,800 2
(Ken: What would you like to wager?)
(Mattea: I would like to wager 2,800 magic beans.)
[Laughter]
...
(Ken: Yeah, [*], where he plays Churchill, that's correct.)

the Darkest Hour

Mattea
    $1600 11
Gatwick

Mattea
    $1600 20
(Matt: What's... sappy?)
...
(Ken: Yes, rhymes with Sleepy; they're all gonna rhyme with the same dwarf, Matt.)
[Laughter]

weepy

MattMattea
    $1600 9
Galen

Matt
    $2000 6
(Ken: See, this is why it's called HOPE YOU READ MIDDLEMARCH.)
(Matt: What's... Dorothy?)
(Ken: No.)
[Laughter]

Edward Casaubon

Matt
Triple Stumper
    $2,600 5
Crimean

Matt
    $2000 1
(Matt: What's... Spartacus?)
(Ken: No.)
[Laughter]
(Ken: That's Kirk Douglas.)
(Amy: What is... uh, From Here to Eternity?)
(Ken: No, but that is Burt Lancaster, style points.)
...
(Ken: [*], great movie.)

Sweet Smell of Success

AmyMatt
Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
Madame de Pompadour

Mattea
    $2000 19
(Matt: What's... tony?)
...
(Ken: Yeah, rhymes with Happy.)

snappy

AmyMatt
    $2000 8
Lamarck

Amy

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Amy Matt Mattea
$7,400 $3,600 $17,600
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

CHEMICAL ELEMENT NAMES
(Ken: [To Matt] And then I think... Euler--euterium, eulerium like Leonhard Euler?)
(Matt: Euler.)
(Ken: That's not correct. Brutal Final Jeopardy! question, you got half of 'em.)
...
(Ken: [To Amy] Well, I think between the two of you, you have the makings of a pretty good response there.)
[Amy chuckles.]
...
(Ken: Alex Trebek always loved the Tournament of Champions. He loved having fun on Jeopardy!, and he loved great players like these. Join us as the semifinal rounds begin tomorrow. So long, everyone.)
MattWhat einsteinium, are to eulerium?
$0
AmyWhat are Europium and
$6,496
MatteaWhat are Europium + Einstein-ium?
$0
einsteinium & europium

Final scores:

Amy Matt Mattea
$904 $3,600 $17,600
3rd place 2nd place Winner

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Amy Matt Mattea
$7,400 $2,200 $16,400
15 R,
5 W		 18 R
(including 2 DDs),
10 W		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $26,000

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Game tape date: 2022-09-20
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