Responses for Show #3332 - Tuesday, February 16, 1999

1999 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 2.

Contestants

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Dave Abbott, a musician and contract manager from Cincinnati, Ohio

Dan Girard, an artist from Altadena, California

Pat Healy, an index editor from Vallejo, California

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
THEY ALSO RAN
INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL PARKS
IT'S A DISASTER!... MOVIE
"A" & "E"
(Alex: Each correct response will begin with either an "A" or an "E", but if we said "A" OR "E", we couldn't have tied in the BIOGRAPHY category and gotten in a plug for that network.)
BIOGRAPHY
    $100 16
Greek

Dave
    $100 21
(Henry) Ford

Dan
    $100 26
the Philippines

Dave
    $100 1
Earthquake

Pat
    $100 7
Ecstasy

Dave
    $100 6
(Dan: Who is McEnroe?)
(Alex: Which one?)

John McEnroe

Dan
    $200 17
a (ceramic) pot

Dan
    $200 22
Howard Stern

Pat
    $200 27
(Dan: What is [*]?)
(Alex: Pardon?)
(Dan: What--what is [*]?)

South Africa

Dan
    $200 2
The Poseidon Adventure

Dave
    $200 12
the electron

Dan
    $200 8
[ERRATUM: [*]'s birth name is Garik Weinstein, not "Garri".]

Kasparov

Dave
    $300 18
The Wall Street Journal

Pat
    $300 23
Sinclair

Dan
    $300 28
(Pat: What is... Australia?)

Turkey

PatDan
    $300 3
Dante's Peak

Dave
    $300 13
antelope

Pat
    $300 9
George Harrison

Pat
    $400 19
(Dave: Uh... what is the, um, uh, the Great Synagogue of, uh, Jerusalem?)

the Second Temple

DanDave
    $400 24
Jimmy Breslin

Dave
    $700 29
Panama

Dan
    $400 4
Outbreak

Dave
    $400 14
the Arctic

Dan
    $400 10
Montessori

Dan
    $500 20
Qumran

Triple Stumper
    $500 25
(Dave: Who is Bill Murray?)
...
(Alex: The comedian was [*].)
(Dave: Oh.)
(Alex: Remember his great diet? "Wait, loss"?)

Dick Gregory

Dave
Triple Stumper
    $500 30
the Bahamas

Triple Stumper
    $500 5
Pompeii

Dave
    $500 15
(Dave: What's Alexandria?)
(Alex: We need city and country.)
(Dave: Uh, [*]?)
(Alex: That's the "A" and that's the "E", and that is correct.)

Alexandria, Egypt

Dave
    $500 11
Mikhail Gorbachev

Triple Stumper

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

Pat Dan Dave
$700 $1,100 $2,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Pat Dan Dave
$900 $3,300 $1,900

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BOTANY
KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES
20th CENTURY POETS
MUSICALS
FAMOUS HOMES
(Alex: We've had a lot of fun with this category...)
BEFORE & AFTER
    $200 7
skunk cabbage

Dan
    $200 16
Tom Jones

Dave
    $200 6
(Sylvia) Plath

Dan
    $200 15
The Music Man

Dan
    $200 10
Elvis Presley

Dave
    $200 5
(Alex: All right! Well done, gentlemen!)

Driving Miss Daisy Duck

Dave
    $400 8
the pink family

Triple Stumper
    $400 25
Davy Jones (of The Monkees)

Pat
    $400 11
Dylan Thomas

Pat
    $400 17
Can-Can

Pat
    $400 21
Buffalo Bill

Dan
    $400 4
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Wax

Dave
    $600 9
(Dave: What are daffodils?)

the crocus

Dave
Triple Stumper
    $600 26
Shirley Jones

Pat
    $1,000 12
(William Butler) Yeats

Pat
    $600 20
Guys and Dolls

Dan
    $600 22
Hemingway

Dave
    $600 3
Ugly American Bandstand

Pat
    $800 30
(Pat: What is classification?)
(Dave: What is taxonomy?)
[On being ruled wrong and thus falling into second place, Dave shakes his head and looks and points his left index finger into the audience.

binomial nomenclature

PatDave
Triple Stumper
    $800 27
Ed "Too Tall" Jones

Dave
    $800 13
Jewel

Pat
    $800 18
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Pat
    $1,500 23
(Alex: That's right, at Arlington National Cemetery, and you are in second place all by yourself.)

Robert E. Lee

Dave
    $800 2
Edward G. Robinson Crusoe

Pat
    $1000 29
(Dan: What is the pistil?)

the anther

DanDave
    $1000 28
Mother Jones

Dan
    $1000 14
William Carlos Williams

Triple Stumper
    $1000 19
Barnum

Dave
    $1000 24
The Breakers

Triple Stumper
    $1000 1
(Dan: Who is Kathryn Battle of the Bulge?)

Kathleen Battle of the Bulge

PatDan

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Pat Dan Dave
$6,900 $3,900 $6,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MYTHOLOGICAL HEROES
(Alex: [To Dave] Who slew the Medusa--)
(Dave: Right.)
(Alex: --held up her head, and turned his enemies into stone that way.)
DanWho was Prometheus
$0
DaveWho was Perseus?
$6,400
PatWho is Hercules
$5,901
Perseus

Final scores:

Pat Dan Dave
$999 $3,900 $12,800
3rd place: $5,000 2nd place: $5,000 Finalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Pat Dan Dave
$6,500 $3,600 $5,700
15 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
17 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
19 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $15,800

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Game tape date: 1999-01-06
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