Responses for 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 responses

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
the Civil War

Wil
    $100 10
Time

Michael
    $100 28
Starbucks

Michael
    $100 13
the spin cycle

Wil
    $100 30
Edward Norton

Joel
    $100 5
attendance

Michael
    $200 22
the mile

Michael
    $300 2
Les miserables

Joel
    $200 27
IKEA

Wil
    $200 14
a bicycle

Wil
    $200 29
Ed Sheeran

Joel
    $200 4
[NOTE: After online criticism that the clue was insensitive, a re-run of this episode aired 2022-12-29 modified the clue to instead read, "Marshes & swamps are preferred homes for these long & toothy critters, which might explain why 1.3 million of them live in Florida".]

alligators

Joel
    $300 25
a tag (tagging)

Wil
    $300 1
Bridget Jones

Joel
    $300 26
Abercrombie

Wil
    $300 15
Frank Sinatra

Joel
    $300 17
Twilight

Wil
    $300 3
autographs

Triple Stumper
    $400 24
Bill Clinton

Wil
    $400 6
The Catcher in the Rye

Wil
    $400 19
7-Eleven

Wil
    $400 16
the Sun

Michael
    $400 11
(Joel: Who is Kurt Cobain?)
(Wil: Who is Jimi Hendrix?)
...
(Wil: [Sighs] I put the Van Halen flare on my name and everything!)
(Joel: Sorry, Wil.)
(Wil: [Sighs] I can never show my face at the Van Halen convention ever again!)

Eddie Van Halen

WilJoel
Triple Stumper
    $400 9
alleged

Joel
    $500 23
Michelangelo

Triple Stumper
    $500 7
Jest

Wil
    $500 20
the Genius Bar

Wil
    $500 18
(Michael: What is photosynthesis?)
(Joel: The... the Nobel Peace Prize. [Lays his head down on his lectern])

the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

MichaelJoel
Triple Stumper
    $500 12
Edward Scissorhands

Wil
    $500 8
animatronics

Joel

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 responses

HISTORIC SHIPS
THE BIBLE
A TRIP TO THE MUSEUM
BODY PART PHRASES
MUSICAL THEATER
DRIVING IN L.A.
    $200 25
the Mayflower

Joel
    $200 10
the ark (Noah's ark)

Michael
    $200 26
Paris

Wil
    $200 6
cold feet

Joel
    $200 22
Linus

Joel
    $200 30
Dodger Stadium

Joel
    $400 13
a submarine

Joel
    $400 8
the magi (or the wise men)

Wil
    $5,200 5
the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Wil
    $400 15
head over heels

Wil
    $400 21
(Mayim: Just like that, you have tied first place with Wil.)

Funny Girl

Joel
    $400 12
Hollywood

Wil
    $600 27
Darwin

Michael
    $600 2
(Michael: Oh, gosh. [Looks down and chuckles] Who are... Ain--)
(Mayim: That's time.)
(Michael: --Cable!)

Cain & Abel

MichaelWil
    $600 9
a T. rex (Tyrannosaurus rex)

Joel
    $600 16
arm's length

Wil
    $600 14
The Book of Mormon

Wil
    $600 11
orange trees

Wil
    $800 29
Pearl Harbor

Wil
    $800 4
the meek

Wil
    $800 23
the Smithsonian

Wil
    $800 17
loose lips

Wil
    $6,400 19
Fiddler on the Roof

Joel
    $800 1
a valet

Joel
    $1000 28
the USS Constitution

Triple Stumper
    $1000 7
manna

Joel
    $1000 24
the British Museum

Wil
    $1000 18
eyes on the prize

Joel
    $1000 20
John Waters

Joel
    $1000 3
Sunset Boulevard

Joel

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
shalom

Wil
    $300 23
Charles Lindbergh

Michael
    $300 17
Iceland

Wil
    $300 26
Tiger Woods

Joel
    $300 5
George Washington

Wil
    $300 22
(Wil: What--is--magnetic tape? No.)
(Mayim: No.)
(Wil: That's--not--at all it. It's very much not that.)

memory

Wil
Triple Stumper
    $600 15
(Mayim: Yes. People often say, "I left my pants at home." Ha-ha.)

glasses

Joel
    $600 9
Parliament

Wil
    $6,000 18
North Carolina

Wil
    $600 25
Usain Bolt

Wil
    $600 4
Bigfoot

Joel
    $600 30
the (human) brain

Wil
    $900 12
(Mayim: That's right, and we pronounce it "HOO-mus" in Hebrew.)

hummus

Michael
    $5,000 6
the Louisiana Purchase

Wil
    $900 19
(Wil: What is a marlin?)

a swordfish

WilJoel
    $900 10
Roger Federer

Triple Stumper
    $600 2
Paul Bunyan

Michael
    $900 20
binary

Wil
    $1200 13
father

Joel
    $1200 7
the Trail of Tears

Joel
    $1200 24
(Joel: What is Key West?)
(Wil: What is Key Largo?)

Palm Beach

WilJoel
Triple Stumper
    $1200 11
Yao Ming

Joel
    $1200 1
Conqueror

Triple Stumper
    $1200 21
software

Triple Stumper
    $1500 14
future

Triple Stumper
    $1500 8
the League of Nations

Wil
    $1500 29
Norway

Michael
    $1500 27
the heptathlon

Triple Stumper
    $1500 3
a jackalope

Michael
    $1500 28
an algorithm

Wil

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 responses

ADVENTURE NOVELS
MichaelWhat The Three Musketeer?s
$5,400
JoelWhat The Three Musketeers? :)
$19,000
WilWhat is The Three Musketeers?
$10,000
The Three Musketeers

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:

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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