Responses for Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! game #14 - Wednesday, September 27, 2023

2023-2024 Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! quarterfinal game 1.
Ken Jennings hosts.

Contestants

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Utkarsh Ambudkar, an actor originally from Baltimore, Maryland

Emily Hampshire, an actor and writer originally from Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Mark Duplass, a filmmaker and actor originally from New Orleans, Louisiana

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ANTS
BIG-SCREEN BASKETBALL
HEY! THAT'S NOT AN ELEMENT!
(Ken: You'll tell us which of these elements is not on the periodic table.)
OUI, OUI, HISTORY
CHICKEN FIVE WAYS
ALSO AN ANIMAL SOUND
    $100 3
(Emily: Oh, boy, I-- Antinopolis.)
[Laughter]

Antarctica

MarkemilY
    $100 20
Woody Harrelson

Mark
    $100 28
(Ken: Yes, Snooki did not discover any chemical elements, as far as I know.)

snookium

Utkarsh
    $100 11
(Ken: Apparently an element in the life of [*]. Possibly a made-up one. Who knows? Who can say?)
(Mark: What a wimp he was.)

Napoleon

Triple Stumper
    $100 1
chicken à la king

Mark
    $100 23
(Ken: Now we know what celebrities do.)
(Mark: Yes!)
(Ken: [*]s!)
(Utkarsh: Can we run that one back?)
(Ken: It's a lot easier the second time.)

a tweet

Utkarsh
    $200 27
(Utkarsh: Got the Mexican question right, but blew the Indian one.)
[Laughter]

Mexico

Utkarsh
    $200 15
(Ken: How soon we forget. [*]. He's a dog, but he can play every sport.)
(Mark: I thought that was gonna be in the Oscars category.)
(Utkarsh: Yes, yes, agreed.)

Air Bud

Triple Stumper
    $200 2
(Ken: Yes, a Canadian knows what a zamboni is.)
(Emily: Yes, I do.)

zambonium

emilY
    $200 30
the Eiffel Tower

emilY
    $200 26
(Emily: What is butter chicken?)
(Utkarsh: What is chicken tikka?)
(Emily: That would have been my guess.)
(Utkarsh: Parents, I'm sorry.)
(Mark: What is tandoori chicken?)
...
(Emily: We're the worst.)
(Ken: Utkarsh, you were the closest, so I think your family's gonna be okay. [*].)
(Mark: All right.)
(Utkarsh: Oh, come on.)
(Emily: Oh, you're gonna get that after the commercial break. They're gonna give it to you.)
[Laughter]
(Utkarsh: Please, for my family's sake.)

chicken tikka masala

MarkemilYUtkarsh
Triple Stumper
    $200 22
(Ken: First, you gotta cut the [*]. Like a dog.)
(Mark: Animal sounds!)
(Emily: [*]! Quack!)
(Mark: It's gonna sound like that.)

the bark

Triple Stumper
    $300 21
(Emily: What are fire ants?)
(Utkarsh: What are builder ants?)
(Ken: Mark, once again doing nothing. Oh, he buzzes.)
(Mark: What are carpenter ants?)

leaf cutter ants

MarkemilYUtkarsh
Triple Stumper
    $300 9
the Chicago Bulls

Mark
    $300 25
(Emily: What is tennessine?)
(Mark: What is californium?)

floridium

MarkemilYUtkarsh
    $300 29
Marie Antoinette

Mark
    $300 19
(Mark: Clearly [*], geez.)
(Ken: Team [*].)

ranch

Mark
    $300 12
(Mark: What is a charlatan?)
...
(Ken: That's an animal sound, well done!)
(Emily: I finally understand this category!)
(Utkarsh: Take that, Mark!)
[Laughter]
(Mark: I just got it. I just got it.)

a quack

MarkUtkarsh
    $400 16
ant farms

Triple Stumper
    $400 7
He Got Game

Utkarsh
    $400 18
(Utkarsh: What is silver?)

bronze

MarkUtkarsh
    $1,000 24
(Utkarsh: Can I wager all of Mark's winnings?)
(Ken: I'm afraid not.)
(Mark: I'll give you 10%, though, if you want to do it that way.)
(Ken: Marxist Jeopardy!.)
(Utkarsh: I'm gonna—well, look, my wife doesn't let me gamble, so just flip the whole thing. $1,000, please.)
(Ken: Okay, betting it all on it.)
(Utkarsh: I'm wild, baby!)
...
(Utkarsh: What is Shawshank?)
[Laughter]
(Ken: I like it. It's kind of the Shawshank of Paris, or it was, [*].)

the Bastille

Utkarsh
    $400 13
(Emily: Why did I do that? What is marsala?)
...
(Emily: Did I do that?)
(Ken: That would have been funny, but I'm afraid not.)

Sicily

emilY
Triple Stumper
    $400 6
bay

Utkarsh
    $500 14
M.C. Escher

Triple Stumper
    $500 8
Hoop Dreams

Mark
    $500 10
italium

Mark
    $500 17
(Mark: What is the Treaty of [*]?)

Versailles

Mark
    $500 4
(Emily: What is chicken satay?)
(Utkarsh: What is teriyaki?) [Originally ruled incorrect; reversed before clue #16]
...
(Ken: Mark might win just by doing nothing.
That's how you make [*]. Cooking tips.)
(Utkarsh: Sorry, Japan!)

yakitori

emilYUtkarsh
    $500 5
the trumpet

Mark

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

Mark emilY Utkarsh
$1,700 -$800 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mark emilY Utkarsh
$2,500 -$1,400 $400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

RANDOM U.S. STATE FACTS
POST-APOCALYPTIC POP CULTURE
OUT OF BREATH
(Ken: Here, each correct response will be made entirely out of letters in the word "breath".)
BOOK DEDICATIONS
MEDITATION
FROM Z TO A
(Ken: This one's a little easier. All the correct responses will begin with "Z", end with "A".)
    $200 16
Georgia

Mark
    $200 2
I Am Legend

Utkarsh
    $200 15
heart

emilY
    $200 28
A Series of Unfortunate Events

Utkarsh
    $200 13
the brain

Utkarsh
    $200 1
a zebra

Utkarsh
    $400 29
Cesar Chavez

Mark
    $400 3
(Emily: What is Bleak House?)

The Road

emilYUtkarsh
    $400 22
Earth

Utkarsh
    $400 24
[Ken pronounced the six dots as "blankin'".]

Joan Rivers

Triple Stumper
    $400 14
(Emily: Oh, wow. What is Headspace? But it's not. It's 4 letters.)

Calm

emilY
Triple Stumper
    $400 12
zeta

Utkarsh
    $600 30
(Emily: What is aloha?)

cowboys

emilY
Triple Stumper
    $600 4
zombie

Mark
    $600 23
"Rehab"

Mark
    $2,000 25
(Ken: You add money, you get to name-check your favorite author, everybody wins.)

Ayn Rand

Mark
    $600 19
a mantra

Utkarsh
    $600 11
Zelda

Utkarsh
    $800 6
Commonwealth

Utkarsh
    $800 7
A Quiet Place

Utkarsh
    $800 18
Bertha

Utkarsh
    $800 26
Agatha Christie

Mark
    $800 20
(Utkarsh: I had an audition to play his son so many times.)
[Laughter]
(Utkarsh: I've never gotten it.)

Deepak Chopra

Utkarsh
    $800 10
Zappa

Mark
    $1000 5
(Utkarsh: Where is Ohio?)

Michigan

MarkUtkarsh
    $1000 8
(Mark: Love that movie.)
(Ken: Really?)
(Mark: It was a little short at 3 1/2 hours, though.)

The Postman

Mark
    $2,500 17
(Mark: I'm just very grateful I got that right because I could not go home to my two daughters if I missed this.)
(Ken: Daddy loves you but he missed the Taylor Swift clue.)
(Mark: I'm glad to be alive even though I peed my pants a little bit.)

hater

Mark
    $1000 27
Beloved

Mark
    $1000 21
(Ken: You did very well in that category.)
...
(Utkarsh: Of course I did. You're welcome for meditation, by the way, all of you.)

mindfulness

Utkarsh
    $1000 9
Zumba

Mark

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

Mark emilY Utkarsh
$6,900 -$2,000 $3,000

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mark emilY Utkarsh
$14,400 -$2,600 $6,800

Triple Jeopardy! Round

ISLANDS' COUNTRIES
THE DNA OF MUSIC
ALASKA
AIRPORT STORES
OH, THE IRONY!
IT "IS" WHAT IT "IS"
(Ken: Those quotation marks mean that the letters "I-S" will appear twice in each correct response.)
    $300 23
Australia

Mark
    $300 19
Miley Cyrus

Mark
    $300 15
(Emily: What are owls?)
(Utkarsh: What are eagles?)
(Ken: More specifically...?)

bald eagles

emilYUtkarsh
    $300 11
[ERRATUM: The clue was displayed as "the" on-screen, even though Ken said "this".]

Guinness

Utkarsh
    $300 10
Starbucks

Utkarsh
    $300 1
Ellis Island

Utkarsh
    $600 27
Thailand

Utkarsh
    $600 21
Lizzo

Utkarsh
    $600 16
Anchorage

Mark
    $600 12
(Utkarsh: What is bulgogi?) [Originally ruled incorrect; reversed before Final Jeopardy!]

kimchi

Utkarsh
    $600 9
Roosevelt

Utkarsh
    $600 2
crisis

Utkarsh
    $900 26
Greece

emilY
    $900 18
(Utkarsh: Take that, NSYNC!)

the Backstreet Boys

Utkarsh
    $900 28
Russia

Mark
    $900 13
Vancouver

emilY
    $2,000 8
(Utkarsh: Um. Vogue.)

Rolling Stone

Utkarsh
    $7,000 3
Mississippi

Utkarsh
    $1200 24
Spain

Mark
    $1200 17
BTS

Mark
    $5,000 29
(Mark: [No response])

William McKinley

Mark
    $1200 14
(Ken: It's a toughie. Made in SA, made in South Africa. This is [*].)

Johannesburg

Triple Stumper
    $1200 5
nickel

Utkarsh
    $1200 4
narcissism

Mark
    $1500 25
Indonesia

Triple Stumper
    $1500 20
Kendrick Lamar

Utkarsh
    $1500 30
Michener

Mark
    $1500 22
(Mark: What is the Kentucky Derby?)
...
(Ken: Mark, you're on the right track, but the racetrack for the Kentucky Derby is [*].)

Churchill Downs

Mark
Triple Stumper
    $1500 7
(Emily: I'm doing the rap. I'm doing the rap.)
(Ken: I don't know. Do you have a rap for the Presidents of Egypt?)
(Emily: No.)
(Ken: You'd be rapping for a while. This is [*].)

Anwar Sadat

Triple Stumper
    $1500 6
vis-à-vis

Utkarsh

Scores at the end of the Triple Jeopardy! Round:

Mark emilY Utkarsh
$15,100 -$1,100 $21,100

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ASTRONOMY
[Emily was given $500 with which to play Final Jeopardy!]
emilYWhat is stars?
$500
MarkWhat is a black hole? Hi Ora & Molly
$15,097
UtkarshWhat is a black hole?
$9,101
black holes

Final scores:

Mark emilY Utkarsh
$30,197 $0 $30,201
2nd place: $30,000 to Blink Now 3rd place: $30,000 to GLAAD Winner: semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Mark emilY Utkarsh
$17,200 -$1,100 $18,000
31 R
(including 2 DDs),
6 W
(including 1 DD)		 5 R,
10 W		 36 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $34,100

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Game tape date: 2023-08-21
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