Responses for Show #6246 - Monday, November 14, 2011

2011 Tournament of Champions final game 1.

Contestants

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Buddy Wright, an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas

Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington

Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware

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Jeopardy! Round responses

20 FOR DUMMIES
(Alex: The For Dummies books are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year, so we have a whole category about those books.)
SITCOMS BY MOM
MISSISSIPPI MISTERS
THE DOCTOR WILL "C" YOU NOW
FRENCH FIXINS
PETRA
(Alex: ...a city in Jordan that flourished 2,000 years ago and still fascinates us today.)
    $200 7
a top

Tom
    $200 1
Leave It to Beaver

Roger
    $200 21
(Jefferson) Davis

Roger
    $200 6
color blindness

Buddy
    $200 16
a croissant

Tom
    $200 26
Moses

Buddy
    $400 8
(Roger: What are... Autoimmune--)
(Alex: No.)
(Roger: Diseases?)
...
(Alex: [*], yes. Allergies & [*].)

Asthma

RogerTom
    $400 2
Happy Days

Buddy
    $400 22
James Earl Jones

Roger
    $400 12
calluses

Tom
    $400 17
escargot

Roger
    $400 27
Muhammad

Roger
    $600 9
DOS

Tom
    $600 3
(Alex: Ah, it's a current series--[*].)

Two and a Half Men

Triple Stumper
    $600 23
Jim Henson

Roger
    $600 13
cramps

Buddy
    $600 18
ratatouille

Buddy
    $600 28
the Macedonians

Buddy
    $800 10
"To bee or not to bee?"

Roger
    $800 4
Growing Pains

Roger
    $800 24
Tennessee Williams

Tom
    $1,200 14
a cochlear implant

Buddy
    $800 19
niçoise

Tom
    $800 29
a camel

Tom
    $1000 11
the Chrysler Building

Roger
    $1000 5
Up All Night

Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
Wolf

Tom
    $1000 15
a compression

Roger
    $1000 20
a madeleine

Tom
    $1000 30
silk

Triple Stumper

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

Roger Tom Buddy
$3,400 $1,600 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Roger Tom Buddy
$5,400 $6,200 $3,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

NOVELS
SOUNDS ALL AROUND
ANAGRAMMYS
(Alex: We want you to unscramble the [*] in order to come up with the Grammy category.)
WHO'S AT STAKE?
LANGUAGES
4 STRAIGHT VOWELS
    $400 22
Little Women

Roger
    $400 24
hiss

Tom
    $400 2
Rock

Buddy
    $400 26
Joan of Arc

Tom
    $400 13
New Guinea

Tom
    $400 1
sequoia

Roger
    $800 23
[Roger did not include the leading article in his response.]

The Count of Monte Cristo

Roger
    $800 25
a crack

Buddy
    $800 4
Spoken Word

Roger
    $800 27
witchcraft

Buddy
    $800 12
Malta

Roger
    $800 3
Kauai

Roger
    $9,000 8
(Roger: I'll bet it all.)
(Alex: Ooh, all right.)
...
(Alex: [*], the least-known of the three Brontë sisters.)

Anne Brontë

Roger
    $1200 19
acoustics

Buddy
    $1200 5
Zydeco

Tom
    $1200 28
(Roger: Who is Bruno?)
(Tom: Who is... Sav--Savonera? I...)
[Tom sighs.]
...
(Alex: You got it, yes. Thanks for helping, Tom!)
[Laughter]

Savonarola

RogerTomBuddy
    $1200 11
Berber

Roger
    $1200 14
a queue

Buddy
    $1600 17
Scott

Roger
    $1600 20
a rimshot

Roger
    $1600 6
Electronic

Roger
    $1600 29
Archbishop of Canterbury

Buddy
    $18,000 9
(Roger: I'll bet it all, yeah.)
[Silent reaction from the audience]
...
(Alex: [*] is right; $36,000. Oh, boy. Making it really tough for Tom and Buddy.)

Suriname

Roger
    $1600 15
(Alex: And that word is [*]. Buddy, you knew that.)
(Buddy: Yes.)
(Alex: All right.)
[Tom chuckles.]

obsequious

Triple Stumper
    $2000 18
The Idiot

Roger
    $2000 21
(Roger: [Guessing under his breath without ringing in as time expires] Wolves?)
(Alex: No, they're called [*], not wolves.)

growlers

Triple Stumper
    $2000 7
New Artist

Triple Stumper
    $2000 30
[Alex corrects Tom's pronunciation of the last name to sound like "HOOS".]
...
(Alex: You know, Roger, you could set a new one-day record.)
(Roger: What's the old one?)
[Tom laughs.]
(Alex: The old one is $70... $79,000? $79,000.)

(Jan) Hus

Tom
    $2000 10
the Ainu

Roger
    $2000 16
(Roger: What is...
"onomanopoeia"?)
[Initially ruled correct; reversed before Final Jeopardy!]

onomatopoeia

Roger
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Roger Tom Buddy
$43,200 $9,400 $11,000

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE PRESIDENTIAL CABINET
TomWhat is Labor?
$9,400
BuddyWhat is State?
$5,000
RogerWhat is Labor?
$6,800
Labor

Final scores:

Roger Tom Buddy
$50,000 $18,800 $6,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Roger Tom Buddy
$19,000 $9,400 $10,600
24 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W
15 R,
1 W
14 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $39,000

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Game tape date: 2011-09-27
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