Responses for Show #5079 - Thursday, October 12, 2006

Contestants

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Ruth Dammel, a customer service supervisor from Perry, Iowa

Oz Vazquez, a law student from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Steve Jenkins, a video game tester originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,785)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

A LITERARY TOUR
COLORFUL GROUPS
UNFORESEEN FINDS
THE TITANIC
WHAT'S THAT SOUND?
"B" PREPARED
    $200 3
(Hans Christian) Andersen

Oz
    $200 8
Pink

Ruth
    $200 22
saccharin

Oz
    $200 13
(Ruth: What is Ireland?)
...
(Alex: It anchored at Cherbourg, in [*].)

France

Ruth
Triple Stumper
    $200 16
Puget Sound

Ruth
    $200 2
blimp

Ruth
    $400 4
the Victoria and Albert Museum (Victoria & Albert accepted)

Ruth
    $400 9
Black

Ruth
    $400 23
Silly Putty

Oz
    $400 14
(Oz: What are smokestacks?)
(Steve: What are antennae?)

masts

SteveOz
Triple Stumper
    $400 17
Rhode Island

Oz
    $400 15
Brigadoon

Steve
    $600 5
John Steinbeck

Steve
    $600 10
White

Ruth
    $600 24
potato chips

Oz
    $600 19
it broke in half

Ruth
    $600 18
North Carolina

Ruth
    $600 28
the Bronze Age

Steve
    $800 6
D.H. Lawrence

Ruth
    $800 11
Red Hot

Ruth
    $800 25
Scotchgard

Ruth
    $800 20
the crow's nest

Ruth
    $800 26
iron

Oz
    $800 30
(Steve: What is the Bureau of Internal Affairs?)

the Bureau of Indian Affairs

Steve
Triple Stumper
    $1000 7
Faulkner

Oz
    $1000 12
[Applause for Ruth's run of the category]
(Alex: Hey, well done in that category! You got 'em all! You've spent a lot of time listening to groups!)

Blue Öyster

Ruth
    $1,000 29
the microwave

Steve
    $1000 21
third class

Ruth
    $1000 27
(Sir James Clark) Ross

Ruth
    $1000 1
(Steve: What is--what is ballyhoo?)

brouhaha

Steve
Triple Stumper

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

Steve Oz Ruth
-$400 $800 $4,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Steve Oz Ruth
$400 $3,200 $9,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

CAESAR
NEWMAN'S OWN
CATALINA
CRAFT
ITALIAN
DRESSING
    $400 1
Jerusalem

Ruth
    $400 11
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Ruth
    $400 26
(William) Wrigley

Ruth
    $400 10
(Oz: What is iron?)

leather

OzRuth
    $400 6
eat

Oz
    $400 20
a kilt

Steve
    $800 2
Augustus

Oz
    $800 12
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Ruth
    $800 27
Mutiny on the Bounty

Steve
    $800 16
hemming

Oz
    $800 7
buon giorno

Steve
    $800 22
(Steve: What is happy hour?)

cocktail

SteveOz
    $4,000 3
the Colosseum

Oz
    $1200 13
The Hustler & The Color of Money

Steve
    $1200 28
(Zane) Grey

Steve
    $1200 17
appliqué

Ruth
    $1200 8
your hand

Steve
    $7,000 23
(Oz: What is nylon?)

polyester

Oz
    $1600 4
(Steve: Who is Nero?)

Caligula

SteveOz
    $1600 14
The Verdict

Ruth
    $1600 29
(Steve: Who is Sneed?)

Bobby Jones

SteveRuth
    $1600 18
(Steve: What is a flowerpot?)

a birdhouse

SteveRuth
    $1600 9
grappa

Ruth
    $1600 30
business casual

Steve
    $2000 5
(Alex: I, [*], yes.)

Claudius

Ruth
    $2000 15
(Alex: With Tom Hanks, yes.)

Road to Perdition

Ruth
    $2000 25
Avalon

Ruth
    $2000 19
[Ruth signals in just as time expires for the clue.]

painting

Ruth
    $2000 21
always straight

Oz
    $2000 24
(Oz: What is a corset?)
(Steve: What is a collar?)

the bodice

SteveOz
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Steve Oz Ruth
$0 $4,200 $27,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD CAPITALS
(Alex: Three very important words in the clue: Springtime, September, and Commonwealth, which should lead you south of the equator to a country associated with Great Britain.)
OzWhat is Brasilia?
$800
RuthWhat is Canberra?
$1,000
Canberra, Australia

Final scores:

Steve Oz Ruth
$0 $3,400 $28,200
3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $28,200

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Steve Oz Ruth
$0 $8,400 $27,200
11 R
(including 1 DD),
8 W		 14 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 29 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $35,600

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Game tape date: 2006-08-09
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