Responses for Show #8956 - Monday, October 23, 2023

2023 Champions Wildcard Diamonds quarterfinal game 2.

Contestants

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Leah Wiegand, a stay-at-home mom from Austin, Texas

Pasquale Palumbo, a financial advisor from Hawthorne, New York

Isaac Applebaum, a corporate development analyst from Mountain View, California

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE REALLY OLD COLLEGE TRY
JUST KIDDING
A WOMAN OF THE WORLD
THE NAME OF THE GAME
ALWAYS SAY NEVER
STUPID PROVERBS
    $200 30
Harvard

Isaac
    $200 29
rice

Pasquale
    $200 7
Queen Elizabeth II

Isaac
    $200 12
poker

Leah
    $200 28
(Pasquale: Who is [*] and Hobbes?)
(Ken: It is [*], yes.)

Calvin

Pasquale
    $200 16
fire

Isaac
    $400 1
Cambridge University

Isaac
    $400 3
(Drew) Carey

Leah
    $400 8
Indira Gandhi

Isaac
    $400 13
battleship

Leah
    $400 27
(Pasquale: What is old soldiers don't die?)

old soldiers never die

Pasquale
Triple Stumper
    $400 17
(Leah: What is wealth?)
(Pasquale: What are problems?)
(Ken: True, but not right, so no.)
[Laughter]
...
(Ken: It's even stupider than wealth or more problems; [*] begets [*].)

money

PasqualeLeah
Triple Stumper
    $600 2
Paris

Leah
    $600 4
(Pasquale: What is a... carnivore?)

a vegetarian

PasqualeLeah
    $600 9
Catherine the Great

Isaac
    $600 14
blackjack

Pasquale
    $600 26
[Ken misreads "runs" as "run".]

live to fight another day

Pasquale
    $600 20
place for everything

Isaac
    $800 18
the University of Vienna

Isaac
    $800 5
Mickey Mouse

Pasquale
    $1,600 10
(Isaac: What is... Indonesia?)

Turkey

Isaac
    $800 15
to boggle

Triple Stumper
    $800 25
Rudyard Kipling

Triple Stumper
    $800 21
(Pasquale: What is breed success?)
...
(Ken: I think you three are not stupid enough for this category--nothing [*] like success.)

succeeds

Pasquale
Triple Stumper
    $1000 19
(Leah: What is... Windsor?)
...
(Ken: It's a Shakespeare reference, the University of [*].)

Padua

Leah
Triple Stumper
    $1000 6
Galifianakis

Pasquale
    $1000 11
Mata Hari

Pasquale
    $1000 23
diplomacy

Isaac
    $1000 24
(Ken: That's from "To a [*]".)

skylark

Triple Stumper
    $1000 22
(Isaac: What is give credit where credit is [*]?)

due

Isaac

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

Isaac Pasquale Leah
$0 $2,800 $2,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Isaac Pasquale Leah
$3,800 $2,200 $800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

A RIVER RUNS TO IT
"BABY" MOVIES
THE HISTORY CHANNEL
PEOPLE WITH MUPPET NAMES
NO, I DON'T NEED A DOCTOR
SMART ANSWERS
    $400 11
the Columbia

Triple Stumper
    $400 18
Rosemary's Baby

Pasquale
    $400 6
Genghis Khan

Pasquale
    $400 13
Oscar Hammerstein

Pasquale
    $400 1
a tin ear

Pasquale
    $400 23
the wise

Pasquale
    $800 12
(Leah: What is the Snake River?)
(Pasquale: What is the Colorado River?)

the Missouri

PasqualeLeah
Triple Stumper
    $800 19
Million Dollar Baby

Leah
    $800 7
Erik the Red

Isaac
    $800 14
Grover Cleveland

Isaac
    $800 2
hot-headed

Pasquale
    $800 24
Intelligence

Pasquale
    $1200 30
the Arabian Sea

Isaac
    $1200 20
Bringing Up Baby

Triple Stumper
    $1200 8
(Pasquale: What is the English Channel?)

Ellis Island

IsaacPasquale
    $1200 15
Ernie Banks

Pasquale
    $1200 3
chopped liver

Pasquale
    $1200 25
Bright Lights

Pasquale
    $1600 28
(Ken: Pasquale's looking up in confusion, [*].)

Upper New York Bay

Triple Stumper
    $1600 21
Baby Driver

Leah
    $1600 9
(Isaac: What is the Babylonian Empire?)

the Assyrians

Isaac
Triple Stumper
    $2,500 16
(Ken: Pasquale?)
(Pasquale: Who is Kermit?)
(Ken: [Chuckling] St. Kermit, patron saint of being green--no, this is [*]; it's [*]'s fire that sailors see during a storm.)

St. Elmo

Pasquale
    $1600 4
soft shoulder

Leah
    $1600 26
a brilliant cut

Leah
    $1,500 29
(Ken: Isaac?)
(Isaac: Hmm.)
[The time expiry signal sounds.]
(Isaac: What is the...)
(Ken: You're out of time; it's the major river of Poland, so [*].)

the Baltic Sea

Isaac
    $2000 22
Gone Baby Gone

Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
(Isaac: Who is Constantine?)
...
(Ken: It was a little after Constantine this time--this is [*].)

Justinian (I)

Isaac
Triple Stumper
    $2000 17
Scooter

Isaac
    $2000 5
a claw foot

Leah
    $2000 27
(Ken: From the shrew, that's it.)

shrewd

Isaac

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Isaac Pasquale Leah
$6,700 $4,900 $7,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MUSIC MEN
(Ken: [To Pasquale] You got the right city; maybe not the right era, though.)
...
(Ken: [To Isaac] Short for "Motor Town" because Berry Gordy was from Detroit.)
PasqualeWhat is 8 Mile?
$0
IsaacWhat is Motown
$3,101
LeahWhat is Motown?
$5,000
Motown

Final scores:

Isaac Pasquale Leah
$9,801 $4,900 $12,600
2nd place: $5,000 3rd place: $5,000 Winner: semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Isaac Pasquale Leah
$9,800 $7,400 $7,600
16 R,
4 W
(including 2 DDs)		 17 R,
7 W
(including 1 DD)		 10 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $24,800

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Game tape date: 2023-09-12
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