Responses for Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! game #21 - Wednesday, November 29, 2023

2023-2024 Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! quarterfinal game 8.

Contestants

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Heather McMahan, an actor and comedienne originally from Atlanta, Georgia

Cedric the Entertainer, a comedian, actor, and producer originally from St. Louis, Missouri

Cynthia Nixon, an actor and director originally from New York City

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY
FAIRY TALE ELEVATOR PITCHES
CANDLE CULTURE
FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH
(Ken: Turning 40 this year.)
RULES OF THE GAME
(Ken: I'll give you the rule. You tell me which game it applies to.)
HUMAN BODY CLASSIFIED ADS
(Ken: Which part of your body would place these ads, if the classifieds still existed?)
    $100 2
the Tube

Heather
    $100 1
"Little Red Riding Hood" ("Red Riding Hood" accepted)

Cedric
    $100 3
a birthday cake

Cynthia
    $100 20
(Cedric: Is that 40 years old?)
(Ken: Man. It's a good category to make us feel old, right?)
(Heather: I'm not even 40, so...)
(Ken: [Laughs] Heather has an alibi for not seeing [*].)

Scarface

Cedric
    $100 13
(Heather: What is--uh--doctor--the doctor game?)
(Ken: Yeah, no. That's... that's not what it's called, Heather.)
[Laughter]
(Heather: [*]! What is [*]?! Oh, I just--)
...
(Ken: With an assist from Heather, that's right.)
(Cedric: [Chuckling] What is the doctor game?)
(Heather: I'm sorr--you're welcome. You're welcome on that one.)
(Ken: I think the doctor game is usually something else.)
[Laughter]

Operation

CynthiaHeather
    $100 5
lungs

Heather
    $200 16
Sputnik

Cynthia
    $200 4
"Jack and the Beanstalk"

Cedric
    $200 24
Chandler (Bing)

Triple Stumper
    $200 15
Cujo

Cedric
    $200 11
hopscotch

Cynthia
    $200 6
the femur

Cynthia
    $300 28
(Cynthia: Who is Dolly?)
(Ken: More specific?)

Dolly Parton

Cynthia
    $300 7
"Hansel and Gretel"

Cynthia
    $300 25
smoke

Heather
    $300 10
(Ken: I'm glad none of you guessed wildly. That could've been awkward.)
(Heather: Yeah, yeah.)
(Cedric: Yeah, I couldn't think of one clean word for the "F" word.)

fudge

Triple Stumper
    $300 17
(Ken: Or, as Heather calls it, the blocks game.)
[Laughter]
(Heather: Wha--why you gotta be so--play so dirty on me? Okay. All right.)

Jenga

Cedric
    $300 23
appendix

Heather
    $400 29
(Heather: What is Panama?)
(Ken: No.)
(Heather: Who is--oh, God.)
(Cynthia: Who is--what is England?)
(Ken: I'm sorry, no.)
(Cynthia: [*].)

Egypt

CynthiaHeather
Triple Stumper
    $400 8
"The Emperor's New Clothes"

Cynthia
    $400 26
(Ken: [**] canceled candles.)

the light bulb (the electric light)

Triple Stumper
    $400 12
(Cedric: T-whah. Uh. What i--what is... uh...)
(Ken: You're out of time, I'm afraid.)

a station wagon

CedricHeather
    $400 19
cornhole

Cedric
    $400 22
(Ken: Yes, this is your category.)
(Heather: Thank you.)

the thyroid

Heather
    $500 30
the Red Baron

Cynthia
    $500 9
"Puss in Boots"

Cedric
    $500 27
Yankee Candle

Cynthia
    $500 14
Silkwood

Cynthia
    $500 18
(Ken: I guess nobody plays [*] anymore.)
(All contestants: No, no.)

jacks

Triple Stumper
    $500 21
bile

Heather

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

Cynthia Cedric Heather
$1,800 $600 $500

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Cynthia Cedric Heather
$2,900 $1,400 $1,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THIS IS JEO-PURR-DY!
SHE PLAYED YOU
(Ken: I'll give you a movie character, you name the actress who played her.)
WHAT THE "EFF"?!
(Ken: "E-F-F" in all correct responses.)
POEMS ABOUT POETRY
SKIN CARE
"SESAME STREET" SONG PARODIES
    $200 16
whiskers

Cynthia
    $200 2
(Ken: That's Ellen Ripley from the Alien movies. [*]. We need the actress.)

Sigourney Weaver

Triple Stumper
    $200 1
(Cedric: Def?)
(Ken: [Chuckles] No. They don't make hi-def washing machines.)

efficiency

CynthiaCedric
    $200 26
a sonnet

Cynthia
    $200 7
Botox

Heather
    $200 24
a triangle

Heather
    $400 17
catnip

Heather
    $1,000 3
(Ken: In Fargo, that's correct.)

Frances McDormand

Cynthia
    $400 11
effervescent

Heather
    $400 27
Lincoln

Cynthia
    $400 8
(Heather: What is melasma?)

a sunburn

Heather
Triple Stumper
    $400 10
Bruce Springsteen

Cynthia
    $600 18
(Ken: How soon we forget [*]. Play 'em off, [*].)

Keyboard Cat

Triple Stumper
    $600 4
Whoopi Goldberg

Cedric
    $600 12
E for effort (or A for effort)

Heather
    $600 28
(Ken: That's correct. You did play Dickinson, you're doing great here!)

Kipling

Cynthia
    $600 9
Korea

Cedric
    $600 21
(Cynthia: What is "Fly Me To The Moon"?)

Oscar the Grouch

Cynthia
Triple Stumper
    $800 19
a Siamese

Cynthia
    $800 5
Gwyneth Paltrow

Heather
    $800 13
the domino effect

Triple Stumper
    $800 29
Maya Angelou

Cedric
    $1,000 14
exfoliation

Heather
    $800 22
"Shiny Happy People"

Heather
    $1000 20
Downing Street

Cynthia
    $1000 6
(Ken: From Sixteen Candles--I think Cedric just thought of it--who is [*]?)

Molly Ringwald

Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
(Ken: They said "Schlemiel! Schlimazel! [*]..." [*] is the stew.)
(Heather: Of course!)
(Cynthia: I never knew what they were saying.)

Hasenpfeffer

Triple Stumper
    $1000 30
(Ken: It was [*] who spoke at the Kennedy inauguration.)

Robert Frost

Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
Retinol

Heather
    $1000 23
(Ken: I think Heather just got there.)

Norah Jones

Triple Stumper

Scores at the Double Jeopardy! Round commercial break (after clue 15):

Cynthia Cedric Heather
$4,500 $2,400 $5,200

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Cynthia Cedric Heather
$7,100 $3,200 $6,600

Triple Jeopardy! Round

FAR OUT
COLLEGE PRESS
ALONG FOR THE RIDE
WOMEN & SPORTS
SLOVENIA, BABY, SLOVENIA!
WHISTLING HALL OF FAME
    $300 27
(Cynthia: What is [*]? Oh, sorry, did you call me?)
(Ken: Nobody's rung in.)
(Cynthia: Oh! Oh, I was--[rings in])
(Ken: Cynthia!)
(Cynthia: What is [*]?)
(Ken: Still correct! Yes.)
(Cynthia: I'm sorry.)
(Heather: Could've stolen that one.)
(Cedric: Damn it.)

Mars

Cynthia
    $300 6
New Jersey

Cynthia
    $300 13
an ostrich

Heather
    $300 2
Serena Williams

Cedric
    $300 17
Melania Trump

Heather
    $300 15
"Don't Worry, Be Happy"

Cedric
    $600 10
a unicorn

Heather
    $600 7
Oxford University

Heather
    $600 14
an elephant

Cedric
    $600 1
baseball

Heather
    $600 18
(Ken: You can't spell "Slovenia" without "[*]", yes.)

love

Cynthia
    $600 16
"Moves Like Jagger"

Heather
    $900 11
Saturn

Cynthia
    $900 8
(Heather: Yeah! Love that show.)

Baltimore

Heather
    $900 23
a camel

Cynthia
    $900 4
(The Sports) Bra

Cynthia
    $900 26
a dragon

Heather
    $2,000 28
(Cynthia: [*]. "On The Dock"--oh!--oh!--what is "On The Dock Of A Bay"? "Of The Day"?--What is [*]?)
(Ken: That is correct.)
(Cynthia: Geez.)
(Ken: At various times, you had it all, and it all came together. You're in the lead, with two clues left.)

"On The Dock Of The Bay"

Cynthia
    $2,500 19
(Cynthia: I--I really almost said Dos Equis, I really did. I thought, "That can't be right.")
(Ken: The Sun has a Tecate, it has a Dos Equis...)

corona

Cynthia
    $1200 9
Howard

Cedric
    $1200 24
a dolphin

Cynthia
    $1200 3
the LPGA

Heather
    $1200 22
(Cynthia: What is this Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?)

Yugoslavia

Cynthia
Triple Stumper
    $1200 29
Monty Python

Cynthia
    $1500 20
Comet Hale–Bopp

Triple Stumper
    $1500 12
(Ken: That's correct--U.B.C.)

British Columbia

Cynthia
    $1500 25
Vietnam

Heather
    $1500 5
(Ken: You're looking at [*], who finished the season with a new record 88 wins.)
(Heather: Good for her.)

Mikaela Shiffrin

Triple Stumper
    $1500 21
(Heather: Yeah! All right! I love [*]. Tenders are my favorite.)

a chicken

Heather
    $1500 30
(Cedric: What is Happy Days?)
...
(Ken: Yeah, it's a much earlier Ron Howard work.)

The Andy Griffith Show

CynthiaCedric

Scores at the end of the Triple Jeopardy! Round:

Cynthia Cedric Heather
$19,700 $4,100 $15,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

UNIQUE BUILDINGS
(Ken: It has 6,500,000 square feet of office space.)
CedricWhat The Pentagon
$4,100
HeatherWhat is the Pentagon
$5,000
CynthiaWhat VA hospital
$11,501
the Pentagon

Final scores:

Cynthia Cedric Heather
$8,199 $8,200 $20,600
3rd place: $30,000 to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation 2nd place: $30,000 to the SSM Health Foundation Winner: semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Cynthia Cedric Heather
$16,700 $4,100 $15,400
32 R
(including 4 DDs),
3 W		 14 R,
3 W		 27 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $36,200

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Game tape date: 2023-10-11
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