Responses for Show #8990 - Friday, December 8, 2023

2023 Champions Wildcard Hearts quarterfinal game 8.

Contestants

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Jon Spurney, a writer and musician from Los Angeles, California

Carmela Chan, a researcher from San Diego, California

Gary Hollis, a chemistry professor from Roanoke, Virginia

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ORGAN RECITAL
WE'RE TALKING BASEBALL
OLIVE ME
THE IVY LEAGUE
GEOGRAPHIC TITLES
AS EASY AS A-B-C
(Ken: Each response will have those three letters, in that order.)
    $200 22
the stomach

Jon
    $200 30
(Ken: [*], I'm betting you're right.)

(Pete) Rose

Carmela
    $200 28
the Olive Garden

Jon
    $200 23
Brown

Carmela
    $200 12
Venice

Jon
    $200 26
bareback

Carmela
    $400 21
(Gary: What is the kidney?)

the bladder

GaryJon
    $400 29
Hank Aaron

Jon
    $400 27
acidity

Triple Stumper
    $400 15
(Ken: In New York City, that's correct.)

Columbia

Gary
    $400 11
Japan

Gary
    $400 25
(Gary: What is blank?)

iambic

GaryCarmela
    $600 1
the brain

Carmela
    $600 16
(Rickey) Henderson

Carmela
    $600 19
Kalamata

Carmela
    $600 3
Yale

Carmela
    $2,000 10
(Jon: Uh... [Sighs] What is Moscow?)

England

Jon
    $600 14
(Carmela: Uh, what is... sorry?)

fabricate

GaryCarmela
    $800 5
the heart

Gary
    $800 20
(Gary: Who is Nolan Ryan?)

Roger Clemens

GaryJon
    $800 17
(Carmela: What is saturated?)
(Gary: What is unsaturated?)
(Ken: More specifically, though?)
(Gary: Polyunsaturated?)

monounsaturated

GaryCarmelaJon
    $800 2
Harvard

Jon
    $800 8
India

Jon
    $800 4
"Jabberwocky"

Gary
    $1000 6
the lungs

Carmela
    $1000 24
(Jon: Who is Yogi Berra?)

Leo Durocher

Jon
Triple Stumper
    $1000 18
tapenade

Jon
    $1000 13
Dartmouth

Gary
    $1000 9
Hawaii

Jon
    $1000 7
diamondback

Triple Stumper

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

Gary Carmela Jon
$4,000 $1,600 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Gary Carmela Jon
$1,600 $3,000 $3,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ORGAN RECITAL
CLASSIC MOVIE ORIGINAL DIALOGUE?
(Ken: You'll name the movie.)
WORKING ON A BUILDING
CAR"EER" OPPORTUNITIES
A MUSE ME
WORDS FROM ARABIC
    $400 13
the Mormon Tabernacle

Jon
    $400 14
The Graduate

Carmela
    $400 24
the Colosseum

Gary
    $400 25
musketeer

Jon
    $400 30
astronomy

Jon
    $400 29
Swahili

Carmela
    $800 12
West Point

Gary
    $800 7
It's a Wonderful Life

Carmela
    $800 22
Notre Dame

Gary
    $800 4
auctioneer

Jon
    $800 16
history

Gary
    $800 28
Jasmine

Carmela
    $1200 8
quadraphonic

Jon
    $1200 3
Casablanca

Gary
    $1200 15
the Pentagon

Gary
    $1200 1
engineer

Gary
    $1200 10
flutes

Jon
    $1200 19
an almanac

Carmela
    $1600 9
pipes

Carmela
    $1600 5
On the Waterfront

Carmela
    $4,000 23
the Flatiron Building

Gary
    $1600 2
a buccaneer

Carmela
    $1600 17
Erato

Gary
    $1600 20
coffee

Gary
    $2000 11
(Ken: That's [*] on Riverside Drive.)

Riverside Church

Triple Stumper
    $2000 6
Spartacus

Jon
    $2000 26
(Ken: In Granada, you're right.)

the Alhambra

Gary
    $2000 27
a charioteer

Carmela
    $2000 18
Terpsichore

Gary
    $2,000 21
nadir

Gary

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Gary Carmela Jon
$21,200 $13,400 $10,000

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Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ANCIENT HISTORY
(Ken: [To Jon] That's correct, leading the Macedonian army into their conquest of Asia. I didn't know you could do that, just call dibsies on a whole continent by throwing a spear on the ground, but apparently it worked for [*].)
JonWho is Alexander the Great?
$9,999
CarmelaWho is Genghis Khan?
$13,400
GaryWho is Alexander the Great?
$5,601
Alexander the Great

Final scores:

Gary Carmela Jon
$26,801 $0 $19,999
Winner: semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Gary Carmela Jon
$18,800 $13,400 $12,000
19 R
(including 2 DDs),
4 W		 18 R,
2 W		 18 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $44,200

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Game tape date: 2023-11-07
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