Responses for Show #8943 - Wednesday, October 4, 2023

2023 Champions Wildcard Spades quarterfinal game 3.

Contestants

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John Bussard, a Marine aviator originally from Ringoes, New Jersey

Kendra Blanchette, a registered dietitian from Elk Grove, California

Evan Roberts, a chemistry teacher from Louisville, Kentucky

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Jeopardy! Round responses

EARTH SCIENCE
PLEASE BEAR WITH ME
WE TRY TO STAY NEUTRAL
ART, FOR ART'S SAKE
STATE OF THE ESTATE
(Ken: You'll give us the U.S. state.)
MIRROR WORDS
(Ken: These responses are two words that are reverses of each other, like "flog" and "golf".)
    $200 11
ore

Kendra
    $200 3
Cocaine Bear

Evan
    $200 12
Taylor

Evan
    $200 6
Beethoven

John
    $200 30
(Ken: [To Kendra] You stopped John from sweeping that category.)

Washington

Kendra
    $200 21
gab & bag

Evan
    $400 17
El Niño

John
    $400 4
(Ken: The dark side of [*], right.)

Fozzie Bear

John
    $400 13
arbitration

Kendra
    $400 7
Gauguin

Kendra
    $400 29
Virginia

John
    $400 22
spam & maps

Evan
    $600 18
natural gas

John
    $600 1
Paddington

Evan
    $1,600 14
Switzerland

Kendra
    $600 8
watches (clocks)

Kendra
    $600 28
Michigan

John
    $600 23
pals & slap

Evan
    $800 19
the epicenter (of an earthquake)

John
    $800 2
Will Ferrell

John
    $800 15
7

Kendra
    $800 9
(Mary) Cassatt

John
    $800 27
North Carolina

John
    $800 24
pots & stop

Evan
    $1000 20
little skeletons (shells)

Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
Baloo

Kendra
    $1000 16
(John: Who is Joe Louis?)

Jack Dempsey

EvanJohn
    $1000 10
(Ken: You would know it if you saw it; who is [*]?)

Mondrian

Triple Stumper
    $1000 26
Pennsylvania

John
    $1000 25
(Ken: You stole the last one from Evan.)

reward & drawer

Kendra

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Evan Kendra John
$1,000 $4,200 $2,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Evan Kendra John
$4,000 $6,200 $5,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WHERE'S THE PROBLEM?
(Ken: You'll name the body part mainly affected in each clue.)
HOW'S THE KING TAKING IT?
WAXING PHILOSOPHICAL
ANIMAL VERBS
LOONEY TUNES
MERRY MELODIES
    $400 3
the liver

John
    $400 9
(Ken: Correct, he had a bad hunting day, apparently.)

Louis XVI

Kendra
    $400 26
Marx

John
    $400 25
hog

John
    $400 14
Elmer Fudd

Evan
    $400 19
(Ken: Yes, [*] wrote the music.)

Sullivan

John
    $800 5
the nose

Kendra
    $5,000 10
(Ken: [*] Tea Party, you got it.)

Boston

Kendra
    $800 27
Socrates

Kendra
    $800 24
leech (to sponge)

Evan
    $800 15
(Ken: That is a very [*] thing to say, yeah.)

Yosemite Sam

Kendra
    $800 20
Monty Python

John
    $1200 6
(John: What is the eye?)

the lungs

John
Triple Stumper
    $1200 11
(Evan: Who is Ozymandias?)
...
(Ken: Alan Rickman told us it was [*].)

Alexander the Great

Evan
Triple Stumper
    $1200 28
Descartes

Kendra
    $1200 4
ram

Kendra
    $1200 16
Acme

Kendra
    $1200 21
"Ode To Joy"

John
    $1600 7
the tongue

Kendra
    $1600 12
(Evan: Who is Agamemnon?)

King Priam

Evan
Triple Stumper
    $1600 29
(John: Who is Nietzsche?)
...
(Ken: The sentiment sounds Nietzschean, but that's actually [*].)

Immanuel Kant

John
Triple Stumper
    $1600 1
outfox (to fox)

Evan
    $1600 17
Foghorn Leghorn

John
    $1600 22
Tchaikovsky

Triple Stumper
    $2000 8
the ear

Evan
    $2000 13
his March on Rome

Triple Stumper
    $2000 30
(Ken: Not just a philosopher but a noted peace activist, that was [*].)

Bertrand Russell

Triple Stumper
    $2000 2
drone

Kendra
    $2000 18
Marvin the Martian

Kendra
    $6,000 23
(Ken: The mazurka is a Polish dance.)

Chopin

John

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Evan Kendra John
$6,000 $23,200 $14,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS
(Ken: [To John] Yes, the Hungarian-born [*] immigrated to the U.S. to fight in the Civil War, in fact.)
EvanWho is Nobel
$6,000
JohnWho is Pulitzer?
$0
KendraWho is Nobel?
$5,201
Joseph Pulitzer

Final scores:

Evan Kendra John
$0 $17,999 $14,200
3rd place: $5,000 Winner: semifinalist 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Evan Kendra John
$6,000 $18,000 $10,200
12 R,
2 W		 20 R
(including 2 DDs),
0 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $34,200

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Game tape date: 2023-08-29
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