Responses for Show #8945 - Friday, October 6, 2023

2023 Champions Wildcard Spades quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

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Jamie Logan, a freelancer from Augusta, Maine

Matt Glassman, a bar owner from Los Angeles, California

Daniel Nguyen, a high school math teacher and doctoral student from San Jose, California

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Jeopardy! Round responses

CANADIAN CITIES
THE GENE POOL
DEAD SCIENTISTS SOCIETY
PICK A NUMBER BETWEEN 5 & 477
THE VIRTUES
(Ken: Each response here will be one of the cardinal or theological Virtues.)
2 WORDS IN ONE
    $200 10
Toronto

Matt
    $200 22
(Gene) Simmons

Matt
    $200 15
Pavlov

Matt
    $200 23
99

Daniel
    $200 30
(Ken: I could see you going through it in your head.)
[Laughter]
(Ken: You got to the end in time.)

justice

Jamie
    $200 28
asphalt (asp + halt)

Matt
    $400 6
Montreal

Matt
    $400 21
Wilder

Matt
    $400 14
the Curies (Pierre & Marie)

Triple Stumper
    $400 17
(Jamie: What is 5?)
...
(Ken: The second line's the long one.)

7

MattJamie
    $400 29
(Ken: [*], Arkansas is correct.)

hope

Daniel
    $400 27
beginning (beg + inning)

Matt
    $600 3
(Daniel: What's... Calgary?)

Edmonton

DanielMatt
    $600 20
Hackman

Matt
    $1,000 13
(Ken: [To Daniel prior to the wager] Now you're doing well in the category, I thought Lavoisier was tough.)

Avogadro

Daniel
    $600 2
12

Matt
    $600 26
faith

Matt
    $600 5
patriot (pat + riot)

Daniel
    $800 4
(Daniel: What's the Platte?)

the Red River of the North

Daniel
Triple Stumper
    $800 19
(Gene) Kelly

Matt
    $800 11
Goddard

Daniel
    $800 1
(Jamie: What is 60?)
...
(Ken: The show was [*] Sunset Strip.)

77

Jamie
Triple Stumper
    $800 25
Prudence

Jamie
    $800 7
a massacre (mass + acre)

Jamie
    $1000 9
(Daniel: What's Prince Edward Island?)

New Brunswick

Daniel
Triple Stumper
    $1000 18
(Gene) Roddenberry

Daniel
    $1000 12
(Ken: Wow, that is correct, yes.)

Lavoisier

Daniel
    $1000 16
435

Daniel
    $1000 24
(Ken: Women's Christian [*] Union, yes.)

Temperance

Jamie
    $1000 8
finale (fin + ale)

Daniel

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

Daniel Matt Jamie
$2,000 $2,000 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Daniel Matt Jamie
$4,600 $5,600 $1,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE CRIMEAN WAR
LITERARY POP
THIS OR THAT
SWORDS
IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SECEDE...
TRY "TRI" AGAIN
(Ken: ...with the prefix "tri" in each correct response.)
    $400 28
photography

Matt
    $400 1
Tom Jones

Matt
    $400 26
tackle

Matt
    $400 30
the samurai

Daniel
    $400 29
(Matt: SWORDS for $400.)
(Ken: Or "S" WORDS.)

the Keys

Matt
    $400 25
the tricep

Jamie
    $800 19
a balaclava

Jamie
    $800 3
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Daniel
    $800 2
Armstrong

Jamie
    $800 10
cutlass

Jamie
    $800 27
South Carolina

Daniel
    $800 24
a triathlon

Jamie
    $5,400 5
Tolstoy

Daniel
    $1200 11
Moby

Matt
    $1200 17
the brain

Daniel
    $1200 9
(Matt: I'll do "S" WORDS for $1200.)
(Ken: I think it's SWORDS.)
[Laughter]

pommel

Daniel
    $4,000 8
Singapore

Matt
    $1200 23
Triassic

Daniel
    $1600 4
Sevastopol

Triple Stumper
    $1600 12
(Ken: [*] of Perception was the book.)

The Doors

Matt
    $1600 7
George Clinton

Matt
    $1600 6
a rapier

Matt
    $1600 14
Sudan

Daniel
    $1600 22
tribunal

Daniel
    $2000 18
a Victoria Cross

Daniel
    $2000 16
Steppenwolf

Matt
    $2000 20
Liddy

Jamie
    $2000 13
(Daniel: What's an elephant?)
...
(Ken: But it is another animal with no opposable thumbs for sword fighting, it's [*].)

a lion

Daniel
Triple Stumper
    $2000 15
Eritrea

Jamie
    $2000 21
triumvirate

Daniel

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Daniel Matt Jamie
$20,800 $19,200 $9,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

COMPOSERS
(Ken: [To Jamie] His "Clair de lune" was based on a Verlaine poem.)
JamieWho is Debussy?
$9,200
MattWho Beethoven
$1,601
DanielWho is Radu Toma?
$0
(Claude) Debussy

Final scores:

Daniel Matt Jamie
$20,800 $17,599 $18,400
Winner: semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Daniel Matt Jamie
$16,200 $16,400 $9,200
20 R
(including 2 DDs),
4 W		 23 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 11 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $41,800

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Game tape date: 2023-08-29
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