Responses for Champions Wildcard play-in game #1 - Friday, January 12, 2024

2024 Champions Wildcard play-in game 1.
Hosted by Buzzy Cohen.
Game entered from TuneIn audio presentation.

Contestants

Nik Berry, a social studies teacher from Baltimore, Maryland

Julie Sisson, a library circulation assistant from Everett, Washington

Anji Nyquist, a hand model and podcast host from Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Jeopardy! Round responses

GRAND MARSHALS OF THE ROSE PARADE
LETTER PERFECT
THE COLORS OF MUSIC
BREAK-UPS
STOP!
HAMMER TIME
    $200 27
Disney

Julie
    $200 6
M

Julie
    $200 23
Brown

Nik
    $200 22
Napoleon & Josephine

Anji
    $200 26
Carrie Nation

Anji
    $200 30
a hammerhead shark

Anji
    $400 13
(Vin) Scully

Julie
    $400 9
X

Nik
    $400 4
Pink

Julie
    $400 21
Barbie & Ken

Nik
    $400 25
Francis Marion

Triple Stumper
    $400 29
Habitat for Humanity

Julie
    $3,000 8
(Julie: [No response])

Richard Nixon

Julie
    $600 10
Y

Julie
    $600 2
Red

Julie
    $600 19
High Fidelity

Nik
    $600 24
(Julie: Who is Mozart?)

Ludwig van Beethoven

Julie
Triple Stumper
    $600 28
Dracula

Anji
    $800 7
Shirley Temple

Julie
    $800 11
(Anji: What is P?)

L (for the lek)

Anji
Triple Stumper
    $800 1
Orange

Anji
    $800 18
Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera

Nik
    $800 17
Maginot Line

Anji
    $800 3
Tom DeLay

Triple Stumper
    $1000 14
Earl Warren

Nik
    $1000 12
P

Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
Gold

Julie
    $1000 15
Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton

Nik
    $1000 16
Guy Fawkes

Nik
    $1000 20
Henry V

Triple Stumper

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

Anji Julie Nik
$0 $1,000 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Anji Julie Nik
$2,000 $1,000 $5,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

A CITY ON THE WATER
WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS
GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES
OVER CASTE
IAMB WOMAN
HEAR ME ROAR
    $400 5
the Atlantic

Nik
    $400 29
(Nik: What is governor?)

gubernatorial

Nik
Triple Stumper
    $400 30
The Hunger Games

Nik
    $400 28
(Anji: What are bees?)
(Buzzy: More specific?)
(Anji: What are bumblebees?)

honeybees

AnjiJulie
    $400 27
(Nik: What are violins?)

Stradivarius

JulieNik
    $400 20
deer

Julie
    $800 1
the Chesapeake Bay

Nik
    $800 22
brouhaha

Triple Stumper
    $800 21
The Running Man

Triple Stumper
    $800 12
the Druids

Nik
    $800 26
wives

Julie
    $800 19
Victoria Falls

Nik
    $1200 2
the St. Lawrence River

Nik
    $1200 8
(Nik: What is defenestrate?)
[Buzzy does not rule.]
(Nik: Or [*]?)

defenestration

Nik
    $1200 11
Slumdog Millionaire

Julie
    $1200 13
the Brahmins

Nik
    $1200 23
Dickinson

Julie
    $1200 16
(Nik: What is "La Marseille"?)
(Anji: What is "La Marseille-ee"?)
...
(Buzzy: Yes. That is the way to pronounce it. I think we're all going to take French class after that clue.)

"La Marseillaise"

AnjiJulieNik
    $1600 3
the Missouri

Julie
    $1600 9
flibbertigibbet

Triple Stumper
    $1600 6
(Nik: Who is Ralph Fienne?)

Ralph Fiennes

Nik
Triple Stumper
    $1600 14
a mole-rat

Nik
    $8,600 24
(Julie: Who...)
[The time expiry signal sounds.]
(Julie: Who is Shelley?)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Julie
    $1600 17
Godzilla

Nik
    $2000 4
Lake Champlain

Triple Stumper
    $5,400 10
schadenfreude

Nik
    $2000 7
(Nik: What is Love Connection?)

The Dating Game

JulieNik
    $2000 15
the Yucatán Peninsula

Nik
    $2000 25
Emma Lazarus

Triple Stumper
    $2000 18
Amos

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Anji Julie Nik
$400 $1,600 $17,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

TOURIST SPOTS
[The rendering of the responses are guesses. Buzzy read Anji's response as "'What is...' diacritical mark?"; Julie's response as "'What is...' Churchill Downs is what you were going for?"; and Nik's response as "No idea."]
(Buzzy: It's in Midtown Manhattan. We're just a few days after New Year's here, so it was kind of in the news.)
AnjiWhat is ´
$400
JulieWhat is Churchill Downs
$1,598
NikWhat is No idea
$1
Times Square

Final scores:

Anji Julie Nik
$0 $2 $17,199
3rd place 2nd place Winner: advance to Champions Wildcard

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Anji Julie Nik
$400 $13,200 $13,800
6 R,
3 W		 18 R,
3 W
(including 2 DDs)		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W

Combined Coryat: $27,400

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Game tape date: 2024-01-03
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