Responses for Show #8952 - Tuesday, October 17, 2023

2023 Champions Wildcard Spades semifinal game 3.

Contestants

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Lucy Ricketts, a book designer and freelance illustrator from Atlanta, Georgia

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

Joe Feldmann, a technology professional from Bethesda, Maryland

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS
"B" GIRLS
DUST TO DUST
COUNTDOWN
SORT THROUGH THE WORD PROBLEM
ANIMALS IN ITALIAN
    $200 28
Penn

Daniel
    $200 26
Beyoncé

Daniel
    $200 29
the Dust Bowl

Joe
    $200 27
George II

Lucy
    $200 30
[Ken misreads the clue, saying "a train" rather than "train A".]
(Lucy: What is Auckland?)
...
(Ken: [To Joe] You must be better at math.)

Wellington

JoeLucy
    $200 13
a chicken

Daniel
    $400 24
Austin

Lucy
    $400 25
Björk

Lucy
    $400 23
dust devil

Daniel
    $400 22
Jefferson

Daniel
    $400 20
(Daniel: What's Mars?)

Hershey

JoeDaniel
    $400 12
a cat

Joe
    $600 16
(Lucy: Who are the Marines?)

Navy

DanielLucy
    $600 3
Britney Spears

Daniel
    $600 17
(Ken: That's [*] from the Garden of Eden.)

the serpent

Triple Stumper
    $600 21
helium

Joe
    $600 15
Rolls-Royce

Lucy
    $600 11
a whale

Lucy
    $800 5
Jane Seymour

Lucy
    $800 1
Billie Holiday

Lucy
    $2,400 7
(Lucy: Who is... Kim?)

Gunga Din

Lucy
    $800 4
(Joe: What are golden eggs?)
(Lucy: [*]?)
(Ken: Yes, remember you've got to phrase it in the form of a question.)

golden rings

JoeLucy
    $800 14
Emma Lazarus

Lucy
    $800 9
a horse

Joe
    $1000 6
St. Helena

Triple Stumper
    $1000 2
Bessie Smith

Triple Stumper
    $1000 8
(Ken: Oh, snap, he's talking to [*].)

Goneril

Triple Stumper
    $1000 18
(Ken: Order of joining the Union.)

New Mexico

Joe
    $1000 19
frostbite

Daniel
    $1000 10
(Ken: Yeah, the little pasta shaped like [*].)

butterflies

Lucy

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

Joe Daniel Lucy
$400 $800 $3,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Joe Daniel Lucy
$2,800 $3,200 $3,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE MOUNTAIN WEST
SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES
WORLD WRITERS
WEEDER'S DIGEST
ASTROLOGY TIME
3-LETTER WORDS
    $400 30
the Sierra Nevada

Lucy
    $400 23
Moscow

Lucy
    $400 29
chess

Daniel
    $400 27
dill

Lucy
    $400 24
horoscope

Daniel
    $400 21
a sty

Lucy
    $800 20
Kilimanjaro

Daniel
    $800 22
Tokyo

Lucy
    $800 28
(Daniel: What's Ukraine?)

Poland

Daniel
Triple Stumper
    $800 26
dents-de-lion (dandelion)

Triple Stumper
    $800 15
Aries

Joe
    $800 19
a nap

Lucy
    $1200 6
(Joe: What is... Mount Hood?)
(Daniel: What is Mount Olympia?)

Mount Rainier

JoeDanielLucy
    $1200 3
Paris

Daniel
    $1200 9
HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)

Daniel
    $1200 25
crabgrass

Daniel
    $1200 14
a cusp

Lucy
    $1200 18
Doe

Joe
    $1600 4
(Joe: What are the Adirondacks?)

the Catskills

JoeLucy
    $2,800 1
(Joe: Uh, what is... Berlin?)

Stockholm

Joe
    $1600 7
Balzac

Lucy
    $1600 10
Roundup

Joe
    $1600 12
(Daniel: What's Pisces?)

a Capricorn

DanielLucy
    $1600 17
a tot

Joe
    $2000 5
Morocco

Triple Stumper
    $2000 2
(Joe: What is... Buenos Aires?)

Melbourne

JoeLucy
    $2000 8
(Ken: That's the Bengali poet [*].)

Rabindranath Tagore

Triple Stumper
    $2000 11
paintbrush

Lucy
    $6,000 13
(Lucy: The cons--what are the constellations?)

asteroids

Lucy
    $2000 16
to tat

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Joe Daniel Lucy
$400 $4,800 $11,600
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MILITARY HISTORY
(Ken: [To Daniel] I'm not going to say that "Hi Mom" is wrong, but blimps is not correct.)
...
(Ken: They were using [*] for communication and you don't want people shooting at your [*].)
JoeWhat are d airplanes? Thanks!
$400
DanielWhat are blimps? Hi Mom!
$0
LucyWhat Hors pigeons
$0
(carrier or homing) pigeons

Final scores:

Joe Daniel Lucy
$0 $4,800 $11,600
3rd place: $10,000 2nd place: $10,000 Finalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Joe Daniel Lucy
$3,200 $4,800 $20,000
11 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 14 R,
4 W		 23 R,
4 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $28,000

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Game tape date: 2023-08-31
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