Responses for Champions Wildcard play-in game #2 - Friday, January 12, 2024

2024 Champions Wildcard play-in game 2.
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Contestants

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Rachel Clark, a director of client strategy from Washington, D.C.

Matthew Ott, an accountant from La Crescenta, California

Daniel Ciarrocchi, a writer from Baltimore, Maryland

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Jeopardy! Round responses

JUST DESERTS
NBA HISTORY
KIDDY LIT
NICKNAMES
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
MINING FOR "ORE"
(Buzzy: "O-R-E" will be in each correct response.)
    $200 25
Exodus

Matthew
    $200 26
Jordan

Rachel
    $200 27
Huckleberry Finn

Daniel
    $200 28
(Daniel: What is Vermont?)

New Hampshire

DanielMatthew
    $200 29
UCLA

Rachel
    $200 30
snore

Rachel
    $400 24
(Daniel: What's a sandstorm?)

a sand dune

DanielRachel
    $400 5
Phil Jackson

Daniel
    $400 23
Wendy

Rachel
    $400 22
Sun King

Matthew
    $400 12
South Dakota

Rachel
    $400 19
yore

Rachel
    $2,500 18
the Rio Grande

Rachel
    $600 2
Memphis

Rachel
    $600 13
Tigger

Rachel
    $600 8
"The Wolf of Wall Street"

Rachel
    $600 10
[Buzzy reads "N.E." as "New England".]
(Matthew: What is Smith? College?)

MIT

Matthew
Triple Stumper
    $600 20
a spore

Rachel
    $800 15
[ERRATUM: The Namib Desert is in southwestern Africa, not in the region of West Africa.]

the zebra

Matthew
    $800 3
Hakeem Olajuwon

Daniel
    $800 14
Sendak

Daniel
    $800 7
Lacoste

Rachel
    $800 9
Marshall

Rachel
    $800 21
Commodore

Daniel
    $1000 17
(Buzzy: Barranquilla, a big city in [*].)

Colombia

Triple Stumper
    $1000 4
Auerbach

Matthew
    $1000 16
a bat

Rachel
    $1000 6
New Orleans

Triple Stumper
    $1000 11
Arizona

Matthew
    $1000 1
encores

Triple Stumper

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

Daniel Matthew Rachel
$2,000 $2,200 $3,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Daniel Matthew Rachel
$2,400 $3,000 $9,700

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

A GENRE CATEGORY
MY "SON", THE PRESIDENT
OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT
3 LITTLE LETTERS
(Buzzy: Each response must be three letters only.)
MARINE LIFE
SPRECHEN SIE DEUTSCH?
    $400 25
situational comedy

Daniel
    $400 24
Jefferson

Matthew
    $400 29
Beowulf

Rachel
    $400 30
AOL

Daniel
    $400 23
baleen

Triple Stumper
    $400 27
Gesundheit

Daniel
    $800 21
robots

Triple Stumper
    $800 13
Benjamin Harrison

Matthew
    $800 28
(Matthew: Who's Richard III?)

Richard I

MatthewRachel
    $800 12
the PLO

Daniel
    $800 22
octopus

Rachel
    $800 26
guten Morgen

Matthew
    $1200 6
(Daniel: What is... act?)

handkerchief

DanielRachel
    $1200 4
Madison

Rachel
    $1200 1
(Daniel: What's Madame Butterfly?)

Otello

Daniel
Triple Stumper
    $1200 9
(Matthew: What's a MiG?)

an SST

Matthew
Triple Stumper
    $1200 16
a seahorse

Daniel
    $1200 20
(Matthew: What's jein ["YINE"]?)

dein

Matthew
Triple Stumper
    $1600 7
Gladiator

Matthew
    $1600 3
Jackson

Rachel
    $1600 2
La Scala

Triple Stumper
    $3,400 10
the CDC

Matthew
    $1600 15
turtle

Rachel
    $1600 19
Lederhosen

Daniel
    $2000 8
a sandbox

Triple Stumper
    $5,000 5
Wilson

Rachel
    $2000 18
Tannhäuser

Triple Stumper
    $2000 11
an ATV

Matthew
    $2000 14
periwinkle

Triple Stumper
    $2000 17
Bildungsroman

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Daniel Matthew Rachel
$4,800 $8,800 $22,300
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

LITERARY INSPIRATION
[The rendering of the responses are guesses.]
(Buzzy: This was actually [*], which Dickens, of course, wrote about in A Tale of Two Cities.)
DanielWhat is architecture?
$3,199
MatthewWhat is poverty?
$8,800
RachelWhat is
$0
the French Revolution

Final scores:

Daniel Matthew Rachel
$1,601 $0 $22,300
2nd place 3rd place Winner: advance to Champions Wildcard

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Daniel Matthew Rachel
$4,800 $7,000 $17,400
11 R,
4 W		 12 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 23 R
(including 2 DDs),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $29,200

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Game tape date: 2024-01-03
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