Responses for Show #8959 - Thursday, October 26, 2023

2023 Champions Wildcard Diamonds quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

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Tony Freitas, a director of product engineering from Claremont, California

Mason Maggio, a songwriter from Los Angeles, California

Yoshie Hill, a program support specialist from Colma, California

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Jeopardy! Round responses

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
MOB HITS
TAKE THE "A" TRAINING
MAP HAPPY
THE CAMERA MAN
FASHION STATEMENTS
    $200 29
SpaceX

Tony
    $200 8
The Sopranos

Mason
    $200 9
accounting

Mason
    $200 2
South Africa

Mason
    $200 1
V-J Day

Mason
    $200 30
(Tony: What are... wraps?)

a hat

MasonTony
    $400 28
bivalves

Mason
    $400 22
The Godfather

Tony
    $400 10
(Tony: What's an anchorman?)

announcer

YoshieTony
    $400 3
Panama

Mason
    $400 7
the NEA

Tony
    $400 19
with his pants down

Tony
    $600 15
cloud seeding

Tony
    $600 24
[ERRATUM]: The character's surname is DeVito.]

Goodfellas

Mason
    $600 12
Acting

Mason
    $600 4
Sri Lanka

Tony
    $600 11
Kent State

Mason
    $600 20
the shoe is on the other foot

Mason
    $800 16
Bing

Tony
    $800 25
Analyze This

Mason
    $800 13
Architecture

Yoshie
    $800 5
Venezuela

Mason
    $800 14
National Geographic

Tony
    $800 21
on the button

Mason
    $2,800 17
(Tony: Who is... Margaret Mead?)
...
(Ken: [*], before Silent Spring.)

Rachel Carson

Tony
    $1000 26
Get Shorty

Tony
    $1000 27
anthropology

Mason
    $1000 6
Tunisia

Mason
    $1000 18
Brady

Tony
    $1000 23
a velvet glove

Mason

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

Yoshie Mason Tony
$1,200 $4,200 $2,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Yoshie Mason Tony
$1,200 $9,600 $2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BOOKS & AUTHORS
HALL OF FAMER BY POSITION
JACQUES OF ALL TRADES
LET'S GO LOBSTERING
"HOUSE"
OF REPRESENTATIVES
    $400 1
World War I

Triple Stumper
    $400 26
quarterback

Mason
    $400 2
Cousteau

Mason
    $400 17
the sex

Mason
    $400 5
house arrest

Mason
    $400 10
Blue Dogs

Mason
    $800 3
Margaret Mitchell

Yoshie
    $800 27
basketball centers

Triple Stumper
    $800 22
Jacques Chirac

Tony
    $800 18
(Yoshie: Uh, what's a tail?)

claws

YoshieTony
    $800 6
a house of cards

Mason
    $800 11
25

Yoshie
    $2,000 4
(Yoshie: I'm drawing a blank.)

Atonement

Yoshie
    $1200 28
(Ken: This might be a long category.)
[Laughter]
(Mason: Let's try HALL OF FAMER BY POSITION $1600.)
(Ken: Okay, sports fans, I believe in you.)

baseball pitchers

Triple Stumper
    $1200 23
Jacques Marquette

Triple Stumper
    $1200 19
(Mason: What's a dining room?)
[Laughter]
...
(Ken: It's in a hurry.)

the kitchen

Mason
Triple Stumper
    $1200 7
a housewarming

Mason
    $1200 12
Alaska

Mason
    $1600 15
Sir Walter Scott

Triple Stumper
    $1600 29
wide receiver

Triple Stumper
    $1600 24
(Tony: Who are "Montgoflier"?)
[Originally ruled correct; reversed before Final Jeopardy! due to changing the phonetics of the name]

Montgolfier

Tony
Triple Stumper
    $1600 20
a pound

Tony
    $1600 8
house calls

Yoshie
    $6,000 13
(Mason: Who is...)
(Ken: Hurry.)

James K. Polk

Mason
    $2000 16
Edna Ferber

Yoshie
    $2000 30
[Laughter from Yoshie and audience as names are read]
...
(Ken: It just sounds like I'm making people up.)

(ice) hockey goalies

Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
Jacques Brel

Yoshie
    $2000 21
(Ken: Well done.)

the carapace

Yoshie
    $2000 9
(Tony: What is a house sparrow?)
(Yoshie: What is a house swallow?)
...
(Ken: Perhaps you're thinking of barn swallows, but you're looking at [*].)

a house martin

YoshieTony
Triple Stumper
    $2000 14
the Ways & Means Committee

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Yoshie Mason Tony
$5,600 $7,600 $2,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

FAMOUS FAMILIES
(Ken: [To Tony] The death of Jean [*] Smith, JFK's last surviving sibling.)
TonyWhat is Kennedy
$2,400
YoshieWhat is Kennedy
$5,600
MasonWhat is Carnegie?
$3,601
Kennedy

Final scores:

Yoshie Mason Tony
$11,200 $3,999 $4,800
Winner: semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Yoshie Mason Tony
$7,600 $13,600 $5,200
8 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 25 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $26,400

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Game tape date: 2023-09-12
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