Responses for Show #8951 - Monday, October 16, 2023

2023 Champions Wildcard Spades semifinal game 2.

Contestants

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Dane Reighard, a writer and editor from Los Angeles, California

Kendra Blanchette, a registered dietitian from Elk Grove, California

Josh Saak, a traffic engineer from Boise, Idaho

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THIS GLAND IS YOUR GLAND
A PREQUEL TO WHICH MOVIE?
BRITISH SPELLING BEE
(Ken: You'll need to give us the British spelling of the response we're going for.)
I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS
KICKIN' AZTEC
& TAKIN' NAMES
    $200 2
(Kendra: What is [*]?)
(Ken: If you have to ask, I don't know what to tell you.)
[Laughter]

the prostate

Kendra
    $200 13
Saturday Night Fever

Dane
    $200 16
T-H-E-A-T-R-E

Dane
    $200 29
Trotsky

Dane
    $200 30
rain

Dane
    $200 19
Bono

Kendra
    $400 6
the adrenal glands

Josh
    $400 14
The Magnificent Seven

Dane
    $400 1
C-O-L-O-U-R

Kendra
    $400 11
joust

Dane
    $400 28
(Ken: Yeah, it's great.)

your heart

Kendra
    $400 9
Jack Ruby

Josh
    $600 5
(Ken: Now Josh, this time it's [*]; you've been one gland behind, but you're gonna catch up.)

the thyroid gland

Triple Stumper
    $600 18
Born on the Fourth of July

Dane
    $600 7
M-E-T-R-E

Dane
    $600 27
a hostile takeover

Josh
    $600 10
barter

Josh
    $2,600 20
Pocahontas

Kendra
    $800 4
(Josh: What's a thyroid?)
...
(Ken: Should've stuck with the [*], Josh.)

a pituitary

JoshKendra
    $800 17
Paint Your Wagon

Dane
    $800 8
C-H-E-Q-U-E

Josh
    $800 24
(Dane: Who is Nietzsche?)
...
(Ken: It's a fellow Irish playwright, it's [*].)

George Bernard Shaw

Dane
Triple Stumper
    $800 25
a calendar

Dane
    $800 21
Stephen King (Richard Bachman)

Dane
    $1000 3
(Josh: What's the pituitary gland?)

the pineal gland

Josh
Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
(Ken: The Marx Brothers' [*] is correct.)

Duck Soup

Josh
    $1000 12
A-L-U-M-I-N-I-U-M

Kendra
    $1000 23
(Ken: We would accept either [*] or [**]; we're just very forgiving that way.)
[Laughter]

an ox (an ass)

Triple Stumper
    $1000 26
(Kendra: What is Tenochitlan?)
(Josh: What is "Techno-cheech-lan"?)
(Ken: Um, I'm gonna say no.)
[Laughter]

Tenochtitlan

JoshKendra
Triple Stumper
    $1000 22
Jonathan Swift

Triple Stumper

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

Josh Kendra Dane
$1,400 $2,400 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Josh Kendra Dane
$1,000 $4,600 $4,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?
IN THE BASEBALL TEAM'S LINEUP
THE LITERARY CHARACTER WHO SAID...
YOU DO THE MATH
WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF IT?
CHANGE A LETTER
(Ken: Each correct response will move from one vowel to another, like, "What is dilly-dally?")
    $400 12
Rio

Dane
    $400 6
the (Miracle) Mets

Kendra
    $400 7
Holmes

Dane
    $400 28
[No acknowledgment for Josh running the category though not consecutively]

5

Josh
    $400 30
platinum

Kendra
    $400 25
TikTok

Josh
    $800 13
(Josh: What is Scotland?)

the UK

JoshKendra
    $800 5
the Boston Red Sox

Kendra
    $800 8
Scout Finch

Dane
    $800 4
0

Josh
    $800 29
Rubik

Dane
    $800 16
hip-hop

Josh
    $1200 14
Canada

Josh
    $1200 1
the Atlanta Braves

Kendra
    $1200 9
Jay Gatsby

Kendra
    $1200 15
(Ken: Wow, you did that fast.)

140

Josh
    $1200 20
contact lenses

Kendra
    $1200 19
(Ken: Yeah, The [*] Man.)

flim-flam

Kendra
    $1600 17
Austria

Dane
    $1600 2
the Detroit Tigers

Josh
    $3,200 10
(Ken: Kendra?
(Kendra: Who is Sam Spade?)
(Ken: Oh, you're so close, it is from The Big Sleep but the detective there is [*]... wrong Bogart movie.)

Philip Marlowe

Kendra
    $1600 27
2

Josh
    $1600 23
tin

Triple Stumper
    $1600 22
Fiddle Faddle

Kendra
    $2,000 18
Colombia

Dane
    $2000 3
Philadelphia Phillies

Josh
    $2000 11
(Ken: That's [*] from the very funny A Confederacy of Dunces.)

Ignatius J. Reilly

Triple Stumper
    $2000 26
4k3

Josh
    $2000 21
rubber

Dane
    $2000 24
wishy-washy

Dane

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Josh Kendra Dane
$12,200 $10,200 $14,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS
(Ken: [To Josh] [*] predicted, but could not prove the existence of gravity waves.)
KendraWho is Newton?
$5,000
JoshWho is Einstein?
$2,205
DaneWho is Newton?
$7,000
(Albert) Einstein

Final scores:

Josh Kendra Dane
$14,405 $5,200 $7,400
Finalist 3rd place: $10,000 2nd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Josh Kendra Dane
$12,200 $11,400 $14,400
16 R,
4 W		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $38,000

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Game tape date: 2023-08-31
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