Responses for Show #8949 - Thursday, October 12, 2023

2023 Champions Wildcard Spades quarterfinal game 9.

Contestants

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Josh Saak, a traffic engineer from Boise, Idaho

Valerie Castelo, a legal training and development manager from San Leandro, California

Steve Clarke, a lawyer from Chesapeake, Virginia

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Jeopardy! Round responses

SPOOKY LITERATURE
(Ken: With clues presented by actor Justin Long of Goosebumps.)
LET'S PLAY SPORTSBALL
WORDS FROM 2 LETTERS
(Ken: Each correct response will sound like a 2-letter combination, like the word "easy".)
AARON BURR
GOT MILK?
THE JEOPARDY! WORLD ORCHESTRA
    $200 18
(Josh: [Pretending mouth is full of peanut butter] AARON BURR for $400, please.)
[Laughter]

(Mary) Shelley

Josh
    $200 1
a tennis ball

Steve
    $200 30
Emmy (M-E)

Steve
    $200 23
Jefferson

Steve
    $200 14
a gallon

Josh
    $200 11
a xylophone

Valerie
    $400 17
the Headless Horseman

Valerie
    $400 2
dodgeball

Josh
    $400 15
a tepee (T-P)

Valerie
    $400 19
[Josh selects the clue while speaking as if his mouth is stuck together with peanut butter, referencing the original Got Milk? ad.]

Princeton

Steve
    $400 9
pasteurization

Valerie
    $400 7
maracas

Josh
    $600 10
(R.L.) Stine

Steve
    $1,000 4
(Steve: What is badminton?)

volleyball

Steve
    $600 26
Empty (M-T)

Josh
    $600 24
Hamilton

Valerie
    $600 20
(Valerie: Oh, what is... D and... calcium.)

A & D

SteveValerie
    $600 3
Australia

Steve
    $800 12
Pet Sematary

Josh
    $800 5
cricket

Triple Stumper
    $800 28
ivy (I-V)

Steve
    $800 25
(Valerie: Who was Lincoln?)

Madison

ValerieJosh
    $800 21
lactose

Steve
    $800 8
a shofar

Josh
    $1000 16
(Henry) James

Steve
    $1000 6
St. Andrews

Josh
    $1000 27
seedy (C-D)

Triple Stumper
    $1000 29
John Marshall

Steve
    $1000 22
(Valerie: What's homogenize?)
(Steve: What is skim?)

condense

SteveValerie
Triple Stumper
    $1000 13
a washboard

Steve

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

Steve Valerie Josh
$1,400 $1,000 $3,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Steve Valerie Josh
$5,400 -$400 $5,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

PRESIDENTS' EXECUTIVE ORDERS
(Ken: You'll have to name the president who issued each order.)
HAPPIER MOVIE ENDINGS
"L" ON EARTH
GEOMETRY
RANK-LY SPEAKING
YOU NEED TO CLEAR THAT UP
    $400 16
(Ken: That's [*] leading up to World War II.)

FDR

Triple Stumper
    $400 9
Titanic

Valerie
    $400 22
Louisiana

Valerie
    $400 3
parallel lines

Josh
    $400 24
major

Steve
    $400 30
Hazy

Josh
    $800 15
(Valerie: Who is Johnson?)
(Ken: More specifically?)

Lyndon B. Johnson

Valerie
    $800 8
The Sixth Sense

Steve
    $800 10
Lesotho

Josh
    $800 5
a cone

Valerie
    $800 12
Surgeon General

Steve
    $800 18
ambiguous

Josh
    $1200 14
(Ken: During the Civil War, right.)

Lincoln

Steve
    $1200 1
Chinatown

Triple Stumper
    $1200 4
Liechtenstein

Steve
    $2,000 6
(Valerie: Uh, what is... 350?)
...
(Ken: Each ten minutes is 60 degrees.)

300

Valerie
    $1200 25
private

Triple Stumper
    $1200 17
vague

Valerie
    $1600 20
(Ken: Yeah, 2014.)

Obama

Steve
    $1600 2
The Green Mile

Steve
    $1600 13
the Loire

Josh
    $1600 19
a (scalene) triangle

Josh
    $1600 26
a captain's chair

Josh
    $1600 23
Foggy

Steve
    $2,500 21
(Ken: Desegregating Little Rock high schools.)

Eisenhower

Steve
    $2000 7
Logan

Valerie
    $2000 11
Leiden

Josh
    $2000 27
eccentric

Josh
    $2000 29
Sergeant at Arms

Steve
    $2000 28
an indefinite article

Valerie

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Steve Valerie Josh
$19,100 $5,200 $16,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

WORD ORIGINS
(Ken: [To Valerie] It's the same root you see in words like "nautical", meaning ships.)
...
(Ken: Oh, no, "What is malaise?" He [Steve] might be coming up with [*] right now.)
[Laughter]
ValerieWhat is nausea?
$0
JoshWhat is nausea?
$2,705
SteveWhat mer malaise?
$13,701
nausea

Final scores:

Steve Valerie Josh
$5,399 $5,200 $19,105
2nd place: $5,000 3rd place: $5,000 Winner: semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Steve Valerie Josh
$19,600 $7,200 $16,400
22 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 12 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 18 R,
0 W

Combined Coryat: $43,200

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Game tape date: 2023-08-30
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