Responses for Show #9024 - Thursday, January 25, 2024

2024 Champions Wildcard Group 1 quarterfinal game 8.

Contestants

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Alec Chao, a management and program analyst originally from Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Connor Sears, a copy editor from Queens, New York

Johanna Stoberock, an adjunct professor and fiction writer from Walla Walla, Washington

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Jeopardy! Round responses

START TALKING, SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER
DRINKING VESSELS
BACKWORDS & FOREWORDS
(Ken: Each response will be two words like "plug" and "gulp", but spell each other backwards.)
HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS
ON MY HISTORIC CV
QUESTIONABLE SCIENCE IN POP SONGS
    $200 8
Desdemona

Johanna
    $200 26
flute

Johanna
    $200 13
wolf & flow

Connor
    $200 27
Game of Thrones

Connor
    $200 28
(Connor: Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

JohannaConnor
    $200 30
thorn

Johanna
    $400 25
The Merry Wives of Windsor

Johanna
    $400 12
sake

Alec
    $400 22
brag & garb

Connor
    $400 24
(Connor: What is Fleet Street?)

Soho

JohannaConnor
    $400 7
(Alec: Who is George H.W. Bush?)
...
(Ken: That's [*], Secretary of Defense.)

Dick Cheney

Alec
Triple Stumper
    $400 29
Earth

Connor
    $600 2
Titania

Alec
    $600 10
a tumbler

Connor
    $600 21
sleek & keels

Triple Stumper
    $600 23
Beale Street

Connor
    $600 6
(Connor: Who is Vercingetorix?)

Attila the Hun

Connor
Triple Stumper
    $600 4
Fleetwood Mac

Alec
    $800 1
(Connor: What's As You Like It?)

Twelfth Night

JohannaConnor
    $800 3
a snifter

Alec
    $800 15
(Alec: What is a wing and a... oh, gosh.)

draw & ward (ward & draw)

ConnorAlec
    $800 18
the Autobahn

Alec
    $800 17
Rasputin

Connor
    $800 20
Coldplay

Triple Stumper
    $1000 9
The Merchant of Venice

Alec
    $1000 11
(Connor: What's a stein?)

tankards

Connor
Triple Stumper
    $1000 14
(Alec: No good.)

tort & trot

Alec
Triple Stumper
    $2,000 5
the Oregon Trail

Alec
    $1000 16
(Alec: Who is Tutankhamun?)

Nefertiti

ConnorAlec
    $1000 19
(Connor: What is "I [*]"?)

"Set Fire To The Rain"

Connor

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

Johanna Connor Alec
$1,000 -$800 $3,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Johanna Connor Alec
$2,400 $3,000 $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

MOMENTS OF INSPIRATION
WHIRLED CAPITALS
FEAST DAYS OF CHRISTIANITY
NICKNAMES
PEOPLE WHO ARE PLACES
WHAT DO "U" STAND FOR?
    $400 23
the Red Cross

Connor
    $400 24
Brussels

Connor
    $400 8
(Alec: Who are angels?)
(Ken: Can you be more specific?)

guardian angels

Alec
    $400 29
Prince Edward Island

Connor
    $400 30
(Lauryn) Hill

Connor
    $400 25
uranium

Connor
    $800 16
lasers

Connor
    $800 7
Athens

Triple Stumper
    $800 28
Epiphany

Alec
    $800 27
the "Moonlight Sonata"

Johanna
    $800 26
(Alec: [*]. Who's [*]?)

Plaza

Alec
    $800 20
ultra

Connor
    $1200 6
"What's Going On"

Triple Stumper
    $1200 12
Helsinki

Alec
    $1200 10
John the Baptist

Johanna
    $2,400 9
Ethelred

Alec
    $1200 4
a (Robert) Parish

Connor
    $1200 5
a universal product code

Alec
    $1600 1
Nikola Tesla

Alec
    $1600 14
(Ken: On the Horn of Africa, right.)

Addis Ababa

Johanna
    $1600 11
Saul (Saint Paul)

Connor
    $1600 17
Tin Pan Alley

Johanna
    $1600 13
(Pauly) Shore

Connor
    $1600 2
the United Arab Emirates

Connor
    $2000 22
a chain reaction

Connor
    $2000 15
(Ken: In Belize, very nice.)

Belmopan

Alec
    $2,000 21
(Connor: What is a migrating feast?)

a movable feast

Connor
    $2000 18
Department of Interior

Connor
    $2000 19
a firth (Colin Firth)

Triple Stumper
    $2000 3
unidentified aerial (anomalous) phenomena

Alec

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Johanna Connor Alec
$7,600 $14,600 $15,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

CLASSIC LITERATURE
(Ken: The Decembrists were Russian war veterans.)
JohannaWhat is A Tale of Two Cities
$6,201
ConnorWhat is Les Miserables?
$801
AlecWhat is War & Peace?
$13,801
War and Peace

Final scores:

Johanna Connor Alec
$1,399 $13,799 $29,201
3rd place: $5,000 2nd place: $5,000 Winner: semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Johanna Connor Alec
$7,600 $16,600 $13,200
11 R,
0 W		 23 R,
6 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R
(including 2 DDs),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $37,400

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Game tape date: 2024-01-04
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