Responses for Show #8978 - Wednesday, November 22, 2023

2023 Champions Wildcard Clubs semifinal game 1.

Contestants

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Kit Sekelsky, a freelance graphic designer from Kent, Ohio

Deanna Bolio, a community outreach supervisor from Campbell, California

Nick Cascone, an orthopedic physician assistant originally from Queens, New York

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Jeopardy! Round responses

"B"OOKS
SPORTSTALK
THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH
PASTA SHAPES
BUILDING TERMS
ONOMATOPOEIA
    $200 29
Bambi

Triple Stumper
    $200 30
football

Nick
    $200 18
a knife

Nick
    $200 1
a corkscrew

Kit
    $200 19
a window (a skylight)

Kit
    $200 22
a sneeze

Nick
    $400 2
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Nick
    $400 4
golf

Kit
    $400 11
(Ken: He was shot, yes.)

a gun

Kit
    $400 3
a ribbon

Deanna
    $400 20
a turret

Kit
    $400 23
a hiccup

Nick
    $600 5
The Bell Jar

Nick
    $600 8
baseball

Deanna
    $600 12
(Kit: What is bushwhacking?)

hanging

Kit
Triple Stumper
    $600 14
tortellini

Kit
    $600 21
a balustrade

Nick
    $600 24
hiss

Nick
    $1,000 6
(Nick: [Not happy] Opera?)
[Laughter]
(Nick: What is... belting it out? I don't know.)
(Ken: Oh! You had the first syllable right.)

bel canto

Nick
    $800 9
soccer

Triple Stumper
    $800 13
poison (cyanide)

Triple Stumper
    $800 15
stars

Kit
    $800 27
a brownstone

Deanna
    $800 25
a boom

Nick
    $1000 7
(Ken: Correct, by Sartre.)

Being and Nothingness

Deanna
    $1000 10
hockey

Kit
    $1000 17
(Kit: What is scarlet?)

typhoid

Kit
Triple Stumper
    $1000 16
ears

Nick
    $1000 28
a flute (fluting)

Nick
    $1000 26
crunch

Deanna

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

Nick Deanna Kit
$0 $2,000 $2,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Nick Deanna Kit
$5,000 $3,800 $2,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BELGIUM
SORRY ABOUT THAT
TITLE ROLE ACTORS
18th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
COMPANY NAME ORIGINS
"TAG", YOU'RE IT
    $400 21
Brussels

Deanna
    $400 18
Ireland

Kit
    $400 24
(Deanna: Who is Edward Norton?)
...
(Ken: Correct, he's Larry.)

Woody Harrelson

NickDeanna
    $400 2
the spinning jenny

Kit
    $400 15
Amazon

Kit
    $400 7
a pentagram

Kit
    $800 27
the Netherlands

Nick
    $800 16
Greenpeace

Kit
    $800 25
Chris Hemsworth

Deanna
    $800 11
Ben Franklin

Nick
    $800 1
a caterpillar

Nick
    $800 6
Maytag

Nick
    $1200 28
(Ken: He was a cyclist--[*].)

bicycle racing

Triple Stumper
    $1200 17
Saturday Night Live

Nick
    $1200 26
Ernest Borgnine

Nick
    $1200 12
James Watt

Triple Stumper
    $1200 3
(Ken: Correct, it's an acronym.)

GEICO

Kit
    $1200 8
antagonize

Kit
    $1,000 29
the Walloons

Nick
    $1600 19
George Wallace

Nick
    $1600 22
(Deanna: Who is Helen Mirren?)
...
(Ken: It's a younger Elizabeth, [*].)

Cate Blanchett

Deanna
Triple Stumper
    $1600 13
a tuning fork

Nick
    $4,000 4
(Kit: What is Firestone?)

Arm & Hammer

Kit
    $1600 9
TAG Heuer

Triple Stumper
    $2000 30
[Nick says it three different ways.]
[Laughter]
(Ken: [Hesitates])
(Nick: I don't speak Belgian or Walloon.)
(Ken: The "S" is silent; the "R" is kind of silent--you got there eventually.)

Ypres

Nick
    $2000 20
the ANC (African National Congress)

Nick
    $2000 23
John Turturro

Nick
    $2000 14
a sextant

Nick
    $2000 5
(Kit: What's Queensland?)
[Ken does not rule.]
(Kit: Queensland? What's Queensland?)
(Nick: What is Queensland and the Northwest Territory?)
...
(Ken: Nick, you were close, but it's Canada that has Northwest Territories.)

Queensland & Northern Territory

NickKit
Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
the Bundestag

Nick

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Nick Deanna Kit
$23,200 $3,000 $1,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MUSICIANS
(Ken: [To Kit] Yes, from Gay Talese's famous profile, "[*] Has a Cold"--Ol' Blue Eyes himself.)
...
(Ken: [To Kit] You bet $21 exactly.)
(Kit: I'll go out on a palindrome.)
...
(Ken: One for three on your Italian-American categories, Nick.)
KitWho is Frank Sinatra?
$21
DeannaWho is David Bowie?
$3,000
NickWho was David Bowie?
$0
Frank Sinatra

Final scores:

Nick Deanna Kit
$23,200 $0 $1,221
Finalist 3rd place: $10,000 2nd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Nick Deanna Kit
$24,800 $3,000 $5,200
26 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)
7 R,
2 W
15 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $33,000

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Game tape date: 2023-10-19
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