Responses for Show #5080 - Friday, October 13, 2006

Contestants

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Liddy Gerchman Barlow, a seminarian originally from Keene, New Hampshire

Jim McMurtry, a letter carrier from Tallahassee, Florida

Ruth Dammel, a customer service supervisor from Perry, Iowa (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,200)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

1945
ROCKIN' T-SHIRTS
WHAT'S FALLING?
CRAGS LIST
POLITICAL CARICATURES
ASK "Y"
    $200 1
Korea

Jim
    $200 6
(Alex: Yes, and wasn't that a terrible accent? Oh, gosh, I've got to stop trying.)

Bob Marley

Ruth
    $200 16
ticker tape (confetti accepted)

Jim
    $200 26
California

Jim
    $200 21
Theodore Roosevelt

Liddy
    $200 7
yield

Liddy
    $400 2
the Empire State Building

Liddy
    $400 12
Frank Zappa

Ruth
    $400 17
(Alex: That was [*]--something natural.)

hail

Triple Stumper
    $400 27
Wales

Liddy
    $400 22
Fidel Castro

Ruth
    $400 8
Yugo

Ruth
    $600 3
Juan Perón

Jim
    $600 13
Kurt Cobain

Liddy
    $600 18
ash

Jim
    $600 28
Capri

Ruth
    $600 23
Jesse Ventura

Ruth
    $600 9
Yale

Liddy
    $800 4
Meet the Press

Jim
    $800 14
Jimi Hendrix

Liddy
    $800 19
(Jim: What is a missile?)

a bomb

Jim
Triple Stumper
    $3,000 29
(Alex: Well, now, if you're going to get back into this, this might be the time.)
(Ruth: Uh, well, let's go for $3,000.)
...
(Ruth: What is an eagle?)

the condor

Ruth
    $800 24
Sandra Day O'Connor

Liddy
    $800 10
York

Liddy
    $1000 5
penicillin

Liddy
    $1000 15
Freddie Mercury

Liddy
    $1000 20
water (a waterfall accepted)

Liddy
    $1000 30
Tora Bora

Jim
    $1000 25
Boris Yeltsin

Ruth
    $1000 11
Yahoo!

Liddy

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

Ruth Jim Liddy
$1,000 $1,600 $6,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ruth Jim Liddy
$600 $2,800 $8,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

COMPOSERS
SPORTS STARS
DEM BONES
AUTHORS' RHYME TIME
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA?
WOLF
    $400 26
Mozart

Jim
    $400 1
(Liddy: What is the shot put?)
(Jim: What is the discus?)
(Ruth: What is the hammer?)
(Alex: No. Correct response--what is [*]? 300 feet for the shot put? Boy, I'd like to see that guy!)

the javelin

RuthJimLiddy
Triple Stumper
    $400 21
the femur

Liddy
    $400 11
Shaw's saws

Liddy
    $400 16
Dulles

Liddy
    $400 4
the gray wolf

Jim
    $800 27
Bizet

Liddy
    $800 2
Larry Bird

Ruth
    $800 22
(Jim: What is the radius?)

the ulna

JimLiddy
    $800 12
(Alex: Yes. You're in the lead again.)

Anne's pans

Liddy
    $800 17
Thomas Jefferson

Ruth
    $800 5
alpha

Jim
    $1200 28
Joseph Haydn

Triple Stumper
    $1200 3
(Liddy: Who is Derek Jeter?)

(Alex) Rodriguez

JimLiddy
    $1200 23
the hammer

Liddy
    $2,000 13
(Liddy: What are Dean's jeans?)
(Alex: No, the author was Graham Greene, so it's [*].)

Greene's jeans

Liddy
    $1200 18
the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Liddy
    $1200 6
Cub Scout

Jim
    $1600 29
Bach

Jim
    $1600 9
Chris Evert-Lloyd

Ruth
    $1600 24
(Alex: [*] is right, and was it my imagination, or was that skeleton smiling at Jimmy?)

the sternum

Jim
    $1600 14
Brown's clowns

Liddy
    $1600 19
Virginia Beach

Jim
    $1600 7
Odin

Jim
    $2000 30
(Liddy: Who is Beethoven?)

Felix Mendelssohn

Liddy
Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
the Sullivan Award

Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
(Alex: Yes, and I was right, it was smiling. Probably a Wheel of Fortune winner.)

phalanges

Jim
    $2000 15
Chandler's handlers

Ruth
    $2,000 20
(Jim: What is the Citadel?)
(Alex: No, but you're on the right track. What is [*]?)

V.M.I. (the Virginia Military Institute)

Jim
    $2000 8
The Sea Wolf

Ruth

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ruth Jim Liddy
$7,400 $12,000 $10,800

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Final Jeopardy! Round responses

TRANSPORTATION
(Alex: If you were lucky enough to try to connect the airline with the country, it is the country's national airline, and think about the year 1948. Which country was in the news at that time? It's also in the news today.)
...
(Alex: [Revealing Ruth's response] Sorry. Lufthansa was formed many, many years before 1948.)
RuthWhat is Lufthansa?
$7,000
LiddyWhat is Delta?
$5,000
JimWhat is El Al
$9,601
El Al

Final scores:

Ruth Jim Liddy
$400 $21,601 $5,800
3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $21,601 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ruth Jim Liddy
$10,400 $14,000 $12,800
12 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 22 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $37,200

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Game tape date: 2006-08-09
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