Responses for Show #8950 - Friday, October 13, 2023

2023 Champions Wildcard Spades semifinal game 1.

Contestants

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Joe Velasco, a director of customer care originally from La Mirada, California

Lawrence Long, a nursing student and stay-at-home uncle from East Bend, North Carolina

Sam Stapleton, a college consultant from Los Gatos, California

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Jeopardy! Round responses

WE WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK
BACK TO SCHOOL, SPORTS STAR
LET'S GET MEDICAL
WHO SAID THIS?
AWARDS & HONORS
LIKE A ROCK
    $200 30
a slide whistle

Joe
    $200 11
Michael Jordan

Lawrence
    $200 29
leeches

Joe
    $200 27
McCain

Sam
    $200 13
Gracie Allen

Sam
    $200 28
a slate

Lawrence
    $400 24
"O Canada"

Joe
    $400 10
Venus Williams

Sam
    $400 22
Lou Gehrig

Lawrence
    $400 26
MacArthur

Lawrence
    $400 12
(Joe: What is Poland?)

Finland

LawrenceJoe
    $400 25
a quarry

Triple Stumper
    $600 23
(Ken: [*]'s 5th, yeah.)

Beethoven

Sam
    $600 3
Michigan

Sam
    $600 21
(Sam: What's [**]?)
[Originally ruled incorrect; reversed before Double Jeopardy!]

beta carotene (carotin)

SamJoe
    $2,200 9
(Gerald) Ford

Lawrence
    $600 6
(Joe: What is Children in the Eyes of a Lesser God?)
(Sam: What's The Miracle Worker?)

Children of a Lesser God

SamJoe
Triple Stumper
    $600 18
(Sam: What's the AT&T?)
(Ken: No.)
(Sam: [Spinning around] Oh.)
...
(Ken: It's [*], as I think Sam now knows.)

Pebble Beach

Sam
Triple Stumper
    $800 14
"Greensleeves" ("What Child Is This?")

Joe
    $800 1
(Ken: You're good on the figure skating.)

Michelle Kwan

Joe
    $800 20
quadriceps

Joe
    $800 7
Edward VIII

Sam
    $800 4
(Lawrence: Who is Arthur Miller?)
...
(Ken: Streetcar and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.)

Tennessee Williams

SamLawrence
    $800 17
gravelly

Joe
    $1000 15
(Ken: That's the beginning of Vivaldi's [*]. All right, we'll take a break from all the whistling; I'm getting a little lightheaded anyway.)

Four Seasons

Triple Stumper
    $1000 2
Cam Newton

Lawrence
    $1000 19
(Sam: What's Legionnaires?)
(Ken: More specifically?)
...
(Ken: That's the organization, [**].)

American Legionnaires (American Legion)

Sam
    $1000 8
(Ken: Yeah, "Give me liberty or give me death".)

Patrick Henry

Lawrence
    $1000 5
Harvard

Lawrence
    $1000 16
(Joe: Ken, will you rock me out for $1,000?)
(Ken: I would love to.)
[Laughter]

marble

Joe

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

Sam Lawrence Joe
$2,200 $5,000 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Sam Lawrence Joe
$4,000 $6,000 $4,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES
PRE-FAME CELEBS IN ADS
CRAFTSMANSHIP
VOCABULARY
'ROUND MIDNIGHT
FELONIOUS MONKS
(Ken: That's the worst kind of monk.)
    $400 8
Afghanistan

Sam
    $400 23
Keanu Reeves

Sam
    $400 30
embroidery

Joe
    $400 20
in my honest opinion (or in my humble opinion)

Joe
    $400 24
Longfellow

Lawrence
    $400 29
France

Lawrence
    $800 7
Vatican City & San Marino

Lawrence
    $800 22
Tina Fey

Lawrence
    $800 21
macramé

Lawrence
    $800 19
loiter

Sam
    $800 14
India

Sam
    $800 28
Martyrs

Lawrence
    $1200 6
Mongolia

Lawrence
    $1200 4
Leonardo DiCaprio

Sam
    $1200 12
(Lawrence: What is scrimshaw?)

a ship in a bottle

LawrenceJoe
    $1200 18
a chrysanthemum

Sam
    $1200 11
(Joe: Who is Dickinson?)

Dorothy Parker

Joe
Triple Stumper
    $1200 27
Pol Pot

Joe
    $4,000 1
Burkina Faso

Sam
    $1600 3
Jack Black

Joe
    $1600 15
leather

Joe
    $1600 17
incense

Joe
    $1600 9
(Lawrence: What is American Gigolo?)

Midnight Cowboy

SamLawrence
    $1600 26
(Joe: What is the Aztec?)

the Incan

LawrenceJoe
    $2000 5
Malawi

Triple Stumper
    $2000 2
Aaron Paul

Sam
    $2000 13
a deckle edge

Triple Stumper
    $2,500 16
(Ken: Joe?)
(Joe: [No response])

facetious

Joe
    $2000 10
Sidney Sheldon

Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
Torquemada

Sam

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Sam Lawrence Joe
$18,400 $10,000 $7,300

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ROYALTY
(Ken: [To Joe] It's not a bad guess, King of Jordan.)
...
(Ken: Lawrence, I think you're thinking of the right guy--[*]; unfortunately, Monaco does not have kings.)
JoeWho is King Hussein?
$0
LawrenceWho is King Rainier? [The i's in Rainier were dotted with hearts]
$10,000
SamWho is Juan Carlos I
$1,601
Prince Rainier (III of Monaco)

Final scores:

Sam Lawrence Joe
$16,799 $0 $7,300
Finalist 3rd place: $10,000 2nd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Sam Lawrence Joe
$16,000 $8,400 $9,800
19 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 16 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $34,200

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Game tape date: 2023-08-31
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