Responses for Show #5096 - Monday, November 6, 2006

Jeff Spoeri game 1.

Contestants

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Jeff Spoeri, a university administrator from Boynton Beach, Florida

Shane McCune, an editor and journalist from Pender Harbour, British Columbia, Canada

Dave Meddish, an alternative print coordinator from Moscow, Idaho (whose 2-day cash winnings total $36,201)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES
THE SNL ALUMNUS WHO...
THE LENGTHS YOU'LL GO
EDISON'S PATENTS
THE U.S. SENATE: AFTER HOURS
P TIMES 3
(Alex: There will be 3 "P"s in each correct response.)
    $200 6
Buenos Aires

Dave
    $200 1
John Belushi

Jeff
    $200 19
a mile

Dave
    $200 26
a vacuum

Dave
    $200 11
New Hampshire

Dave
    $200 13
pepper

Dave
    $2,200 7
(Dave: What is La Paz?)

Lima, Peru

Dave
    $400 2
Rob Schneider

Dave
    $400 20
a foot

Jeff
    $400 27
rubber

Jeff
    $400 12
John Kerry

Shane
    $400 17
picker-upper

Dave
    $600 8
Ipanema

Dave
    $600 3
(Phil) Hartman

Dave
    $600 23
9 yards

Shane
    $600 28
a phonograph

Jeff
    $600 14
Alaska

Dave
    $600 18
(Alex: Oh, you're going to hate yourselves for this one. What is [*]?)

pippin

Triple Stumper
    $800 9
the Strait of Magellan

Dave
    $800 4
Dennis Miller

Jeff
    $800 24
(Jeff: What is pentameter?)
(Shane: What is a foot?)

meter

ShaneJeff
Triple Stumper
    $800 29
the telegraph

Shane
    $800 15
(John) McCain

Jeff
    $800 21
a pop-up

Shane
    $1000 10
Colombia

Jeff
    $1000 5
(Jeff: Who is Eddie Murphy?)

(Chris) Farley

DaveJeff
    $1000 25
fathom

Jeff
    $1000 30
(Shane: What is a kinescope?)

a kinetoscope

Shane
Triple Stumper
    $1000 16
Orrin Hatch

Jeff
    $1000 22
poppycock

Dave

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

Dave Shane Jeff
$2,400 $400 $1,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Dave Shane Jeff
$4,200 $800 $4,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE "GENERAL"
THE DIRTY DOZEN
MISTER ROBERTs
TORAH! TORAH! TORAH!
ACROPOLIS NOW
WAR MOVIES
    $400 2
a general practitioner

Jeff
    $400 16
a gross

Dave
    $400 7
(Shane: Who is Elizabeth Barrett Browning?)

Robert Browning

ShaneJeff
    $400 21
his coat of many colors

Jeff
    $400 26
Athena

Shane
    $400 1
Gettysburg

Dave
    $800 3
(Jeff: What is General Foods?)

General Mills

ShaneJeff
    $800 17
Twelve Monkeys

Dave
    $800 8
Robert Reich

Dave
    $800 22
the Sabbath

Jeff
    $800 28
(Shane: What is Rome?)
(Dave: What is Florence?)
(Jeff: What is Naples?)

Venice

DaveShaneJeff
Triple Stumper
    $800 12
Full Metal Jacket

Jeff
    $1200 4
General Accounting Office

Jeff
    $1200 18
Rickenbacker

Jeff
    $1200 9
Joffrey

Shane
    $1200 23
(Jeff: What is a finger?)
(Shane: What is a rod?)

a hand

ShaneJeff
Triple Stumper
    $1200 29
the Ottoman Empire

Jeff
    $1200 13
Black Hawk Down

Jeff
    $1600 5
(Dave: What is General Electric?)

General Dynamics

DaveJeff
    $3,000 19
bankruptcy

Jeff
    $1600 10
(Shane: Who is Robert Mankowitz?)

Robert Wise

DaveShane
    $1600 24
"Am I my brother's keeper?"

Shane
    $1600 27
(Dave: What is Ionic?)

Doric

DaveShane
    $1600 14
Glory

Jeff
    $2000 6
(Shane: What is the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs?)
(Jeff: What is the General Agreement on Trades and Tariffs?)

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

ShaneJeff
Triple Stumper
    $2000 20
Arthur

Shane
    $2000 11
Robert Morgenthau

Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
Cohen

Triple Stumper
    $5,000 30
(Jeff: Hm! Hmm... Uh... No idea. Who is, uh...)
(Alex: Pick a name!)
(Jeff: James Smithson?)

Lord Elgin

Jeff
    $2000 15
Hamburger Hill

Jeff

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Dave Shane Jeff
$4,200 $2,400 $10,400
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AUTHORS
(Alex: Homer is incorrect.)
(Shane: D'oh!)
[Laughter]
...
(Alex: Over to you, Dave. You came up with Herodotus. Incorrect also, he was a historian.)
...
(Alex: Let's go to Jeff. $10,400. He wrote down, "Socrates". No, he was a philosopher, but [*] wrote Parallel Lives--Greeks, Romans.)
ShaneWho was Homer?
$2,400
DaveWho was Herodotus?
$601
JeffWho was Socrates
$1,999
Plutarch

Final scores:

Dave Shane Jeff
$3,599 $0 $8,401
2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $8,401

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Dave Shane Jeff
$6,400 $2,400 $14,000
18 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 10 R,
7 W		 22 R
(including 1 DD),
7 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $22,800

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Game tape date: 2006-09-19
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