Responses for Show #8994 - Thursday, December 14, 2023

2023 Champions Wildcard Hearts semifinal game 3.

Contestants

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Andrew Chaikin, a musician and teacher from San Francisco, California

Yungsheng Wang, a deputy public defender originally from Lafayette, Louisiana

Garrett Marcotte, a software engineer from Boulder, Colorado

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Jeopardy! Round responses

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY
TENNIS-Y WILLIAMS
LITERATURE
STATE OF THE COLLEGE
IT'S ALL RELATIVE
A PROVERBIAL MESS
(Ken: Please rearrange the mess we made in each of these clues into the correct proverb.)
    $200 28
Jerusalem

Garrett
    $200 29
L.A.

Andrew
    $200 22
the Iliad

Andrew
    $200 27
(Andrew: What is Michigan?)
...
(Ken: It's Great, but it's the Great Salt Lake; it's in [*].)

Utah

Andrew
Triple Stumper
    $200 30
a grandfather clock

Andrew
    $200 21
(Yungsheng 永勝: Not me.)

like father like son

Yungsheng 永勝
    $400 23
Jack the Ripper

Andrew
    $400 25
Wimbledon

Yungsheng 永勝
    $400 18
Interview with the Vampire

Garrett
    $400 26
Michigan

Triple Stumper
    $400 24
(Yungsheng 永勝: Who is Father Damien?)

Father Flanagan

GarrettYungsheng 永勝
    $400 20
actions speak louder than words

Yungsheng 永勝
    $1,800 3
(Garrett: What is the Minuteman Trail?)

the Freedom Trail

Garrett
    $600 19
The Simpsons

Andrew
    $600 8
An Enemy of the People

Triple Stumper
    $600 16
Indiana

Andrew
    $600 11
Mother Goose

Garrett
    $600 17
you can't get blood from a stone

Yungsheng 永勝
    $800 2
Mississippi

Garrett
    $800 13
the Australian Open

Yungsheng 永勝
    $800 5
Keats

Garrett
    $800 7
(Yungsheng 永勝: Thank God.)

Massachusetts

Yungsheng 永勝
    $800 10
Cousin Itt

Yungsheng 永勝
    $800 15
always look on the bright side

Yungsheng 永勝
    $1000 1
(Yungsheng 永勝: What is the... what is the Silk Road?)
(Ken: No.)
(Yungsheng 永勝: Oh! [Gestures in disgust])
...
(Ken: Yes, of Mao's Red Army.)

the Long March

GarrettYungsheng 永勝
    $1000 12
(King) Richard Williams

Garrett
    $1000 4
"The Lottery"

Yungsheng 永勝
    $1000 6
(Yungsheng 永勝: What is Maine?)
(Garrett: What is Florida?)
...
(Ken: Andrew?)
(Andrew: I'm good.)
[Laughter]
(Ken: Andrew's winning by doing nothing.)

North Carolina

GarrettYungsheng 永勝
Triple Stumper
    $1000 9
Sister Carrie

Yungsheng 永勝
    $1000 14
(Yungsheng 永勝: What is never... what is [*]?)

better late than never

Yungsheng 永勝

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

Garrett Yungsheng 永勝 Andrew
$1,400 $4,200 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Garrett Yungsheng 永勝 Andrew
$2,400 $5,400 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BROWNIAN NOTIONS
SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT
THE SEA'S BOUNTY
A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH"
HELL
HIGH WATER
    $400 12
James Brown

Garrett
    $400 23
Julia Roberts

Yungsheng 永勝
    $400 29
scallops

Garrett
    $400 28
(Yungsheng 永勝: Uh, what is the life m--[laughs]--life matter?)

the staff of life

Yungsheng 永勝
Triple Stumper
    $400 27
Loki

Yungsheng 永勝
    $400 30
Venice

Andrew
    $800 11
Jerry Brown

Andrew
    $800 18
Adrian

Garrett
    $800 24
crab

Andrew
    $800 21
a lifeline

Garrett
    $800 25
Virgil

Yungsheng 永勝
    $800 26
Amsterdam

Yungsheng 永勝
    $1200 2
John Brown

Yungsheng 永勝
    $1200 5
(Yungsheng 永勝: What is Moonlight?)

Moonstruck

Yungsheng 永勝Andrew
    $1200 4
anchovies

Andrew
    $1200 20
death-defying

Andrew
    $7,600 8
(Ken: And you got a little meditation in, very nice.)

Pandemonium

Andrew
    $1200 22
Yellow

Andrew
    $1600 1
Gordon Brown

Andrew
    $1600 3
Do the Right Thing

Yungsheng 永勝
    $1600 19
sole

Yungsheng 永勝
    $1600 6
the Life Guards

Triple Stumper
    $1600 7
Sartre

Andrew
    $1600 9
Pennsylvania

Triple Stumper
    $5,000 10
Tina Brown

Andrew
    $2000 17
Big Night

Andrew
    $2000 16
a mussel

Yungsheng 永勝
    $2000 15
the Angel of Death

Yungsheng 永勝
    $2000 14
Tartarus

Yungsheng 永勝
    $2000 13
(Yungsheng 永勝: What is El--what is [*]?)

La Niña

Yungsheng 永勝

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Garrett Yungsheng 永勝 Andrew
$4,800 $18,600 $26,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

BUSINESS
(Ken: [To Garrett] No, that's one of the older ones.)
...
(Ken: [To Yungsheng 永勝] That's correct--founded in 1967, that's almost 40 years younger than Delta or United or American.)
...
[Andrew fist bumps Yungsheng 永勝 and Yungsheng 永勝 hugs Andrew and Garrett.]
GarrettWhat is Delta?
$4,800
Yungsheng 永勝What is Southwest?
$18,600
AndrewWhat is Delta?
$10,601
Southwest

Final scores:

Garrett Yungsheng 永勝 Andrew
$0 $37,200 $15,999
3rd place: $10,000 Finalist 2nd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Garrett Yungsheng 永勝 Andrew
$6,600 $18,600 $17,200
12 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)
22 R,
5 W
18 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $42,400

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Game tape date: 2023-11-08
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