Responses for Show #5326 - Monday, November 5, 2007

2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

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Chris Mazurek, an assistant professor from Columbia, Missouri

Cathy Lanctot, a law professor from Wilmington, Delaware

Mehrun Etebari, a graduate student of international relations from Durham, New Hampshire

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Jeopardy! Round responses

EUROPE
CINEMA CAFE
(Alex: You have to identify the character who's instant messaging in...)
SHAKESPEAREAN I.M.s
LET'S SPEAK ESKIMO
FISSION
CHIPS
    $200 1
cents

Mehrun
    $200 6
Super Size Me

Chris
    $200 7
[Alex reads "GTG" as "got to go".]
(Chris: What is Merchant of Venice?)
...
(Alex: We're going for the character.)

Shylock

MehrunChris
    $200 15
igloo

Chris
    $200 20
uranium

Mehrun
    $200 12
blue chip

Cathy
    $400 2
have children

Chris
    $400 13
No Reservations

Triple Stumper
    $400 8
[Alex reads "BEG" as "big evil grin".]

Iago

Mehrun
    $400 21
Inuit

Chris
    $400 22
Little Boy

Mehrun
    $400 16
let the chips fall where they may

Mehrun
    $600 3
Turin

Chris
    $600 14
Spanglish

Mehrun
    $600 9
[Alex reads "EM" as "e-mail".]
(Mehrun: Who is Macbeth?)

Macduff

Mehrun
Triple Stumper
    $600 28
kayak

Mehrun
    $600 23
energy

Mehrun
    $600 17
a teacup

Cathy
    $800 4
Granada

Mehrun
    $800 26
Like Water for Chocolate

Mehrun
    $800 10
[Alex reads "GGOH" as "gotta get outta here".]

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern

Chris
    $800 29
snow

Chris
    $800 24
chain reaction

Triple Stumper
    $800 18
Carter

Chris
    $1000 5
arrondissements

Cathy
    $1000 27
Big Night

Cathy
    $1,000 11
[Alex reads "OBTW" as "Oh, by the way" and "TYVM" as "thank you very much".]

Bottom

Chris
    $1000 30
Canada goose

Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
(Enrico) Fermi

Chris
    $1000 19
Chippewa

Chris

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

Mehrun Cathy Chris
$1,600 $1,200 $3,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mehrun Cathy Chris
$4,600 $2,800 $7,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ANATOMY
MUST FLEE TV
CRIME TIME
THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED
FORMER PLACE NAMES
"THINK" ABOUT IT
    $400 10
the tibia

Cathy
    $400 13
24

Cathy
    $400 29
hate crimes

Mehrun
    $400 1
Ted Koppel

Mehrun
    $400 7
(Alex: Hey, well done in the category. You have the lead as the result.)
[Applause]

Toronto

Mehrun
    $400 19
a think tank

Chris
    $800 12
the adrenal glands

Cathy
    $800 14
Battlestar Galactica

Chris
    $800 25
identity theft

Chris
    $800 3
the Catholic Church

Mehrun
    $800 6
Bangladesh

Mehrun
    $800 20
(Alex: Yes.)
[Laughter]
(Mehrun: I know you do, Alex.)

"Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?"

Mehrun
    $1200 18
a ball and socket

Mehrun
    $1200 15
Heroes

Chris
    $1200 26
tax evasion

Cathy
    $1200 8
(Mehrun: What is Law & Order?)

60 Minutes

MehrunCathy
    $1200 5
Ethiopia

Mehrun
    $1200 21
"I think I can"

Chris
    $800 24
(Chris: What is a mitre?)

the mitral valve

Chris
    $1600 16
The A-Team

Chris
    $1600 28
Sirhan Sirhan

Chris
    $1600 9
Gorbachev

Chris
    $1600 2
Ho Chi Minh City

Cathy
    $1600 22
"think big"

Triple Stumper
    $2000 30
(Mehrun: What is the pelvis?)

the sacrum

Mehrun
Triple Stumper
    $2000 17
Big Love

Chris
    $4,000 27
Ethel Rosenberg

Cathy
    $2000 11
(Milton) Friedman

Chris
    $2000 4
Kinshasa

Mehrun
    $2000 23
(Cathy: What is "Evil thinks as evil does"?)

"Evil to him who thinks evil"

Cathy
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mehrun Cathy Chris
$9,400 $10,400 $19,400

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
(Alex: You've all heard of Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, Latin for bear, but what is Greek for bear? If you knew that, you would have done very well on this.)
...
(Alex: The Greek for "bear" is arktos. The correct response--what is [*]?)
MehrunWhat is Australia? Ant
$8,700
CathyWhat is ursa minor?
$6,000
ChrisWhat is ?
$1,401
Antarctica

Final scores:

Mehrun Cathy Chris
$700 $4,400 $17,999
3rd place: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home Game System if eliminated 2nd place: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home Game System if eliminated Automatic semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Mehrun Cathy Chris
$9,400 $8,400 $20,200
20 R,
3 W
11 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
21 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $38,000

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Game tape date: 2007-10-09
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