Responses for Show #8993 - Wednesday, December 13, 2023

2023 Champions Wildcard Hearts semifinal game 2.

Contestants

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Ed Coulson, an economics and real estate professor from Dana Point, California

Emma Saltzberg, a campaigns director from Brooklyn, New York

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

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Jeopardy! Round responses

SCIENCE
WESTERN TV SHOWS
HOLMES, SHERLOCK HOLMES
NAME THAT CARMAKER
SLANG FOR LIQUOR
LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! IT'S...
    $200 21
potatoes

Ed
    $200 20
Yellowstone

Emma
    $200 11
a harpoon

Ed
    $200 1
Toyota

Tyler
    $200 7
sauce

Ed
    $200 30
aurora borealis (the northern lights)

Ed
    $400 22
(Emma: What are plankton?)
(Ken: Can you be more specific?)
(Emma: Oh, no.)
(Ken: No, I can't, Ken.)
(Tyler: What are phytoplankton?)
(Ken: Can you be even more specific than that?)
(Tyler: No.)
[Laughter]
(Ken: 0 for 2. Ed?)
(Ed: Not a chance.)
(Ken: Ed's scared off.)

algae

TylerEmma
Triple Stumper
    $400 15
(Ronald) Reagan

Emma
    $400 8
Scotland Yard

Ed
    $400 2
Subaru

Ed
    $400 16
snort

Triple Stumper
    $400 29
a meteor

Tyler
    $1,000 23
(Ed: What is cholera?)

smallpox

Ed
    $600 12
Timothy Olyphant

Tyler
    $600 3
a snake

Emma
    $600 4
Volvo

Tyler
    $600 17
Hooch

Tyler
    $600 28
starlings

Ed
    $800 24
Cambridge

Ed
    $800 13
Bonanza

Ed
    $800 9
Charles I

Ed
    $800 5
Porsche

Tyler
    $800 18
belt

Emma
    $800 27
Andromeda

Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
(Ed: What is... potential?)

latent

Ed
Triple Stumper
    $1000 14
(Ken: Sometimes said to be the real-life model for the Lone Ranger, that's [*].)

Bass Reeves

Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
(Ken: Correct, you're a Sherlock Holmes fan.)

Mrs. Hudson

Ed
    $1000 6
Infiniti

Tyler
    $1000 19
juice

Emma
    $1000 26
Airbus

Tyler

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

Tyler Emma Ed
$3,200 $1,000 $3,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Tyler Emma Ed
$4,800 $2,600 $3,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

FRENCH CONNECTIONS
WHO'S THE MRS.?
YOUR DAY IN "C"OURT
IT WAS AN OLYMPIC YEAR!
OSCAR, MEYER, WIENER
(Ken: We'll need a first and a last name for all these responses.)
AD-JECTIVES
    $400 6
an airport

Ed
    $400 25
Barbra Streisand

Ed
    $400 1
a claim

Ed
    $400 15
(Ken: Yeah, they moved the bell for the Bicentennial.)

1976

Tyler
    $400 2
Oscar Isaac

Emma
    $400 30
new & improved

Emma
    $800 16
the Pyrenees

Tyler
    $800 7
(Emma: Who is Faith Hill?)
...
(Ken: Emma's causing some scandals in the country music scene; it's Tim McGraw and Faith Hill and [*] and Garth Brooks.)

Trisha Yearwood

Emma
Triple Stumper
    $800 21
collateral

Ed
    $800 11
(Tyler: What is 2004?)

2000

TylerEmma
    $800 3
Oscar Hammerstein

Ed
    $800 29
ultimate

Triple Stumper
    $1200 17
Italy

Ed
    $1200 8
(Ed: Oh, God, um... oh! Emma Stone! Who is Emma Stone?)

Emily Blunt

TylerEd
    $6,000 22
(Ken: Ed?)
(Ed: [No response])

a challenge

Ed
    $1,200 12
(Ken: Yes, the first Modern Games.)

1896

Emma
    $1200 4
Meyer Lansky

Emma
    $1200 28
spine

Emma
    $1600 18
Lake Geneva

Tyler
    $1600 9
Kristen Bell

Emma
    $1600 23
a circuit judge

Tyler
    $1600 13
1948

Tyler
    $1600 5
(Ed: Who is Oscar Guggenheim?)
...
(Ken: [After Tyler's correct response] Well, it's not Wiener Guggenheim, I'll tell you that.)
[Laughter]

Meyer Guggenheim

TylerEd
    $1600 27
hearty

Tyler
    $2000 19
the Pont Neuf

Tyler
    $2000 10
Mary Steenburgen

Ed
    $2000 24
commutation

Emma
    $2000 14
1960

Tyler
    $2000 20
Norbert Wiener

Ed
    $2000 26
succulent

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Tyler Emma Ed
$18,400 $10,600 $2,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MOVIE MUSICALS
(Ken: [To Ed] What is [*]? Yes, based on a novella by Colette.)
...
(Ken: I can never read Tyler; does he look like a fan of musicals? I can't tell.)
EdWhat is Gigi?
$2,800
EmmaWhat is Oliver!?
$10,600
TylerWhat is Oliver!
$18,400
(1 of) Gigi or Oliver!

Final scores:

Tyler Emma Ed
$36,800 $21,200 $5,600
Finalist 2nd place: $10,000 3rd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Tyler Emma Ed
$18,400 $10,600 $9,800
18 R,
2 W		 13 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 19 R,
5 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $38,800

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Game tape date: 2023-11-08
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