Responses for Show #5059 - Thursday, September 14, 2006

Contestants

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Mary Plews, a librarian from Toledo, Ohio

Robert Gomma, a physics research intern from Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Meighan Larbi, a publishing data manager from Cape Coral, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,600)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

COMPUTER HISTORY
MEDICAL ABBREV.
IT BORDERS ONLY ONE OTHER COUNTRY
YOU CAN TELL BY THE WAY I USE MY "WALK"
I'M A WOMAN'S MAN
NO TIME TO TALK
    $200 7
(Robert: What is a diskette?)
(Alex: Mmmf... be more specific.)
(Robert: What is a magnetic disk?)
(Alex: No. Mary?)
(Mary: What's [*]?)
(Alex: What's [*], yes.)
[Robert later received credit for this response after the first commercial break.]

floppy disk

RobertMary
    $200 26
health maintenance organization

Robert
    $200 18
South Korea

Robert
    $200 1
Boardwalk

Mary
    $200 12
Jack Nicholson

Robert
    $200 6
Julius Caesar

Robert
    $400 13
(Meighan: What's an Apple?)
(Alex: Apple, Macintosh, yes.)

Apple Macintosh

Meighan
    $400 27
pre-menstrual syndrome

Robert
    $400 19
(Alex: Good thing you got that one!)

Canada

Robert
    $400 2
Johnnie Walker

Meighan
    $400 14
Mick Jagger

Meighan
    $400 8
Rachel Carson

Meighan
    $600 16
Xerox

Robert
    $600 28
emergency medical technician

Meighan
    $600 20
Vatican City or San Marino

Robert
    $600 3
catwalk

Robert
    $600 15
Rod Stewart

Robert
    $600 9
Marcel Marceau

Mary
    $800 17
UNIVAC

Mary
    $800 29
low density lipoprotein

Triple Stumper
    $800 21
Ireland

Robert
    $800 4
walkabout

Meighan
    $800 24
Warren Beatty

Triple Stumper
    $800 10
film

Meighan
    $1000 23
Pentium

Mary
    $1000 30
conditioned response/reflex

Robert
    $2,600 22
Dominican Republic and Haiti

Robert
    $1000 5
Tennessee walking horse

Mary
    $1000 25
Dennis Hopper

Triple Stumper
    $1000 11
Robert Louis Stevenson

Meighan

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

Meighan Robert Mary
$4,200 $1,800 $2,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Meighan Robert Mary
$4,800 $8,600 $3,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN LIFE
TV THEMES THAT HIT THE CHARTS
BEASTLY LINES
IT'S JUST A FLESH WOUND
GOVERNORS
APRES "SKI"
(Alex: Each correct response will begin with those three letters.)
    $400 6
proteins

Triple Stumper
    $400 8
Cheers

Robert
    $400 13
sheep

Meighan
    $400 18
(Horatio) Nelson

Robert
    $400 23
(Meighan: What is Tennessee?)

Florida

Meighan
Triple Stumper
    $400 1
skirts

Robert
    $800 7
pueblos

Mary
    $800 9
Laverne & Shirley

Meighan
    $3,000 14
(Meighan: What is a moth?)

a bat

Meighan
    $800 19
Yeltsin

Robert
    $800 24
(Robert: Who is Huey Long?)
...
(Alex: Right family, wrong man. Who is [*]? Huey was governor only once.)

Earl Long

Robert
Triple Stumper
    $800 2
a skit

Robert
    $1200 26
(Alex: Don't overcomplicate it; it's [*].)

a gourd

Triple Stumper
    $1200 10
WKRP in Cincinnati

Robert
    $1200 15
(Robert: What is a horse?)
(Mary: What is a cat?)

lion

RobertMary
Triple Stumper
    $1200 20
Heather Mills McCartney

Meighan
    $1200 25
Haley Barbour

Triple Stumper
    $1200 3
skivvies

Meighan
    $1600 27
canals

Robert
    $1600 11
Hawaii Five-O

Meighan
    $1600 16
eagle

Triple Stumper
    $1600 21
Senator Daniel Inouye

Triple Stumper
    $1600 4
the skid

Meighan
    $2000 28
polychrome

Robert
    $2000 12
Welcome Back, Kotter

Mary
    $2000 17
a pig

Mary
    $2000 22
Sarah Bernhardt

Mary
    $2000 5
skill

Robert

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Meighan Robert Mary
$8,200 $16,200 $9,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

A 1950s POEM
(Alex: It's a beat poem, and it begins, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.")
MeighanWhat is Howl?
$8,199
MaryWhat is ?
$7,001
RobertWhat
$2,601
"Howl" (by Allen Ginsberg)

Final scores:

Meighan Robert Mary
$16,399 $13,599 $2,399
2-day champion: $27,999 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Meighan Robert Mary
$11,200 $14,600 $9,400
14 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 23 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 10 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $35,200

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Game tape date: 2006-08-02
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