Responses for Show #5286 - Monday, September 10, 2007

First game of Season 24.
New title graphics.

Contestants

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Dorothy Gilmartin, a teacher from Weehawken, New Jersey

Keli Jackson, a software testing manager originally from Fort Washington, Maryland

Ben Taylor, a student from Rockford, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,599)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 20th CENTURY
THE TALES OF DUSTIN HOFFMAN
ALSO A SOAP BRAND
IN THE BOOKSTORE
SCOTT FREE
"P"LEASE
    $200 1
Mussolini

Dorothy
    $200 26
Kramer vs. Kramer

Keli
    $200 6
Ivory

Ben
    $200 16
the Boston Red Sox

Keli
    $200 21
Dred Scott

Keli
    $200 11
punctual

Ben
    $400 2
George VI

Dorothy
    $400 27
Tootsie

Keli
    $400 7
Dial

Keli
    $400 17
Christmas

Ben
    $400 22
Francis Scott Key

Keli
    $400 12
permission

Dorothy
    $600 3
(Keli: What is China?)

Russia

BenKeli
    $600 28
(Keli: What is... uh... Weekend with the Fockers?)

Meet the Fockers

BenKeli
    $600 8
Lava

Keli
    $600 18
Chicago

Dorothy
    $600 23
Scott Carpenter

Dorothy
    $600 13
a prairie dog

Dorothy
    $800 4
a maple leaf

Ben
    $800 29
(Keli: What is The Graduate?)

Midnight Cowboy

KeliDorothy
    $800 9
Dove

Ben
    $800 19
(Alex: He got tired of [*], [*] Chastain. Got him into trouble.)

Misery

Triple Stumper
    $800 24
Winfield Scott

Dorothy
    $800 14
a pyre

Dorothy
    $1000 5
(Salman) Rushdie

Keli
    $1000 30
(Dorothy: What is The [*]?)

Marathon Man

Dorothy
    $1000 10
Irish Spring

Keli
    $2,000 20
(Dorothy: What is... Tyger, Tyger?)
(Alex: Oh, no. What is [*]? About the burning of books.)

Fahrenheit 451

Dorothy
    $1000 25
Scott McClellan

Keli
    $1000 15
a plane

Dorothy

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

Ben Keli Dorothy
$2,600 $2,400 $3,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ben Keli Dorothy
$3,600 $3,400 $5,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

FLOWERS
CABLE CHANNELS
RHYME HOLE
(Alex: All the responses will rhyme with the word "hole".)
THE HONEY
MOON "R"s
HOW SWEDE IT IS!
    $400 26
Scotland

Ben
    $400 1
Turner

Keli
    $400 21
a role

Keli
    $400 6
Smacks

Keli
    $400 16
rotation

Ben
    $400 9
IKEA

Dorothy
    $800 27
(Dorothy: Who is Queen Elizabeth?)
...
(Keli: Who is Clinton?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)

Hillary Clinton

KeliDorothy
    $800 2
(Dorothy: What is A&E?)

Bravo

KeliDorothy
    $800 22
a knoll

Keli
    $800 7
honeycomb

Dorothy
    $800 17
Rosalind

Ben
    $800 10
(Alfred) Nobel

Keli
    $1200 28
a bachelor button

Dorothy
    $1200 3
(Ben: Uh, what is A&E?)

Court TV

BenKeli
    $1200 23
the Seminole

Dorothy
    $1200 8
a honeydew

Ben
    $3,400 18
Rhea

Ben
    $1200 13
(Dorothy: What is Olaf?)

Gustav

Dorothy
Triple Stumper
    $1600 29
(Ben: What is a snow bell?)

a snowdrop

BenKeli
    $1600 4
The Weather Channel

Keli
    $1600 24
cajole

Keli
    $1600 11
honey bunch

Keli
    $1600 19
(Dorothy: What are radii?)

(crater) rays

Dorothy
Triple Stumper
    $1600 14
Dag Hammarskjöld

Dorothy
    $1,000 30
(Alex: You could put this game out of reach for both Dorothy and Ben, depending on the size of your wager. It's all up to you; the category is FLOWERS. What do you say?)
(Keli: I'll wager $1,000, Alex.)
(Alex: Okay, not too confident on the subject of FLOWERS?)
...
(Keli: What is a mum? [*]?)

chrysanthemum

Keli
    $2000 5
Showtime

Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
droll

Ben
    $2000 12
honeysuckle

Dorothy
    $2000 20
rilles

Triple Stumper
    $2000 15
Linnaeus

Ben

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ben Keli Dorothy
$11,000 $16,400 $8,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AUTHORS
(Alex: [To Ben] George [*]; the book was 1984, you are correct.)
...

(Alex: [To Keli] She crossed out--who did you cross out?)
(Keli: Huxley.)
DorothyWho is [something crossed out]? Asimov?
$8,000
BenWho is Orwell?
$11,000
KeliWho is Huxley Orwell
$5,601
(George) Orwell

Final scores:

Ben Keli Dorothy
$22,000 $22,001 $0
2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $22,001 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ben Keli Dorothy
$8,800 $17,400 $10,000
14 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 23 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 17 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $36,200

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Game tape date: 2007-07-17
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