Responses for Show #8984 - Thursday, November 30, 2023

2023 Champions Wildcard Hearts quarterfinal game 2.

Contestants

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Alisa Hove, a botany professor from Asheville, North Carolina

Ciara Donegan, a post-bachelor research associate from Washington, D.C.

Tyler Vandenberg, a Marine officer currently serving in Stuttgart, Germany

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ECON 101
I MARRIED A BEATLE
WHO IS THEON OF SMYRNA?
THAT'S "CORN"Y
WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED
CHECK IT & SEE
    $200 8
an antitrust law

Tyler
    $200 27
John Lennon

Ciara
    $200 1
the Earth

Ciara
    $200 22
a corncob pipe

Tyler
    $200 23
bald eagle

Ciara
    $200 24
(Ciara: Ugh, I don't like any of these.)
(Ken: Gotta do 'em sometime.)

beehive

Ciara
    $400 9
the gold standard

Tyler
    $400 28
Paul McCartney

Tyler
    $400 11
Turkey

Ciara
    $400 20
an acorn

Alisa
    $400 5
a hedgehog

Ciara
    $400 16
palindrome

Ciara
    $1,600 10
the University of Chicago

Tyler
    $600 21
Ringo

Triple Stumper
    $600 12
Plato

Tyler
    $600 15
unicorn

Ciara
    $600 2
aardvark

Ciara
    $600 17
Lombard St.

Alisa
    $800 25
to short

Tyler
    $800 29
George Harrison

Triple Stumper
    $800 13
numbers

Ciara
    $800 6
(Ken: This metaphorical guy is [*].)

John Barleycorn

Triple Stumper
    $800 3
[Ken deliberately reads the second half of the clue in a slow manner.]

a sloth

Alisa
    $800 18
surface tension

Ciara
    $1000 26
amortization

Triple Stumper
    $1000 30
(Ken: [*]'s first wife, well done.)

John Lennon

Alisa
    $1000 14
Hadrian

Ciara
    $1000 7
Lord Cornwallis

Tyler
    $1000 4
a (common) sparrow

Alisa
    $1000 19
(Tyler: Who is Anthony Blinken? [*]?)
(Ken: No.)
...
(Ken: I'm sorry, Tyler, you said Anthony.)
[After the break it was determined that Tyler corrected himself in time.]

(Antony) Blinken

TylerCiara

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

Tyler Ciara Alisa
$3,800 $4,000 $1,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Tyler Ciara Alisa
$6,200 $6,800 $3,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ISLANDS & PENINSULAS
WE SELL FUN
IF IT AIN'T BAROQUE…
HATS
QUOTABLE QUOTES
Y_O_Y
(Ken: Each response will have those 3 letters in that order, though not necessarily together.)
    $400 29
Sinai

Ciara
    $400 1
DC Comics

Ciara
    $400 15
pastels

Tyler
    $400 28
a Sorting Hat

Ciara
    $400 23
Alexander Graham Bell

Tyler
    $400 30
birthday boy

Ciara
    $800 2
the Falkland Islands

Alisa
    $800 3
Zynga

Ciara
    $800 12
Pollock

Ciara
    $800 27
(Ciara: What is straw?)

bamboo

TylerCiara
    $800 18
Rodney King

Alisa
    $800 17
anonymously

Alisa
    $1200 9
Jutland

Ciara
    $1200 4
Wizards of the Coast

Ciara
    $3,000 6
(Tyler: Who is... Kandinsky?)

The Fiddler

Tyler
    $1200 26
(Ken: I thought this was tough, too--what is [*]?)

a cloche

Triple Stumper
    $1200 16
Steve Jobs

Alisa
    $1200 13
your alley

Tyler
    $1600 10
Corsica

Tyler
    $1600 5
["Pokemon" in the clue's wording did not have an accent mark.]

the Pokédex

Tyler
    $1600 7
La Grande Jatte

Tyler
    $1600 21
(Alisa: Who is... Maisie?)

Minnie Pearl

Alisa
Triple Stumper
    $1600 19
tear down this wall

Ciara
    $1600 14
a busybody

Triple Stumper
    $3,000 11
(Tyler: I really should have bet more on that one.)

the South China Sea

Tyler
    $2000 22
Activision

Tyler
    $2000 8
Basquiat

Alisa
    $2000 25
Brünhilde

Triple Stumper
    $2000 20
(Ken: That was [*] on Apollo 13.)

Jim Lovell

Triple Stumper
    $2000 24
dystrophy

Ciara

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Tyler Ciara Alisa
$15,800 $15,200 $7,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICAN HISTORY
(Ken: Tyler Vandenberg had the narrowest of leads and I can't really read anything from his expression.)
[Tyler stares emotionless eliciting audience laughter.]
...
(Ken: [To Tyler] On the Kennedy assassination, that is correct--1963.)
AlisaWhat is the...
$5,000
CiaraWhat is Watergate Commission oh no
$15,200
TylerWhat is the Warren Commission
$15,800
the Warren Commission

Final scores:

Tyler Ciara Alisa
$31,600 $0 $2,800
Winner: semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Tyler Ciara Alisa
$16,800 $15,200 $7,800
18 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 23 R,
1 W		 10 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $39,800

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Game tape date: 2023-11-06
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