Responses for Show #5353 - Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Contestants

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Martha Rothman, a retired stockbroker from Barnegat, New Jersey

Sean Smith, a law student from Austin, Texas

Leslie Rochlen, a professional organizer from Bridgeport, Connecticut (whose 1-day cash winnings total $29,750)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

KANSAS CITY, KANSAS HERE WE COME
WHEEL OF WOMEN
THIS IS YOUR LIFE, ABE LINCOLN!
TONY
THE TIGER
THEY'RE "GR"EAT!
    $200 13
General Motors

Sean
    $200 12
Monica Lewinsky

Sean
    $200 9
Mary Lincoln

Martha
    $200 3
(Alex And that would be [*], where we did some of our shows.)

Radio City Music Hall

Triple Stumper
    $200 11
Kellogg's

Martha
    $200 1
the Grim Reaper

Martha
    $400 14
NASCAR

Sean
    $400 16
Florence Nightingale

Leslie
    $400 10
(Ulysses) Grant

Leslie
    $400 4
Evita

Sean
    $400 23
the stripes

Sean
    $400 2
gruel

Sean
    $600 15
Mexico

Leslie
    $600 17
Lady Godiva

Martha
    $600 18
(Stephen) Douglas

Sean
    $600 5
Salieri

Martha
    $600 24
(Martha: What is the Boy Scouts?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)

the Cub Scouts

Martha
    $600 6
the griffin

Martha
    $800 21
a renaissance

Sean
    $800 25
Lizzie Borden

Sean
    $800 19
General George McClellan

Triple Stumper
    $1,800 28
comedy and tragedy

Martha
    $800 27
India

Martha
    $800 7
a grotto

Sean
    $1000 22
Wyandotte

Triple Stumper
    $1000 26
Peggy Guggenheim

Sean
    $1000 20
Jefferson Davis

Sean
    $1000 29
Antoinette Perry

Martha
    $1000 30
the Siberian Tiger

Sean
    $1000 8
(Alex:[*], yes. That's the former Pan Am building in New York City.)

(Walter) Gropius

Martha

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

Leslie Sean Martha
$1,000 $2,400 $2,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Leslie Sean Martha
$1,400 $8,000 $7,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BIOLOGY
FILMS OF THE '90s
OPERA
DEAR JOHN
CROSSWORD CLUES "F"
(Sarah: Where people with paralysis turn for day-to-day help with the tasks of living:...)
HELPING HANDS MONKEYS
    $400 26
(Sean: What is the X chromosome?)

the Y chromosome

LeslieSean
    $400 16
Dead Man Walking

Sean
    $400 2
(Leslie: What is Rigoletto?)
(Sean: What is Aida?)

La bohème

LeslieSeanMartha
    $400 3
John McCain

Sean
    $400 1
feather

Sean
    $400 20
an opposing thumb

Martha
    $800 27
taste

Martha
    $800 17
Forrest Gump

Leslie
    $800 4
(Alex: It was [*], way back in the 1700s.)

the 18th century

Triple Stumper
    $800 10
(Martha: Who is John Huston?)

John Ford

SeanMartha
    $800 8
Federalist

Sean
    $800 21
records

Leslie
    $1200 28
cones

Martha
    $1200 18
Quiz Show

Leslie
    $400 5
(Alex: ...and you seem to enjoy this category!)
(Sean: I'm trying to get it out of the way.)
[Laughter]
...
(Sean: What is cry?)

laugh

Sean
    $1200 11
John Alden

Martha
    $1200 9
(Alex: I'm sure our audience noticed both Leslie and Sean furiously trying to ring in, and locking themselves out. Martha got in there ahead of them.)

fauna

Martha
    $1200 22
quadriplegia

Sean
    $1600 29
(Martha: What is the adrenal gland?)
(Leslie: What is the thyroid gland?)

the pituitary gland

LeslieMartha
Triple Stumper
    $1600 19
Double Jeopardy

Martha
    $1600 6
The Barber of Seville

Leslie
    $1,400 12
John Milton

Martha
    $1600 14
Fauvism

Martha
    $1600 23
the Department of Veterans Affairs

Sean
    $2000 30
(Alex: It sounds like business. What is [*]?)

taxonomy

Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
(Alex: With a minute to go to deal with the last category up there, Sean.)

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Triple Stumper
    $2000 7
Opéra comique

Triple Stumper
    $2000 13
John Birch

Martha
    $2000 15
Fermium

Sean
    $2000 24
(B.F.) Skinner

Sean

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Leslie Sean Martha
$4,200 $16,400 $17,000

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Final Jeopardy! Round responses

20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES
(Alex: There are really only two possibilities for this, and you all started so quickly that I fear you may have written down the wrong name, but let's start with Leslie and find out.)
LeslieWho is Houdini?
$2,200
SeanWho is Jacques Cousteau?
$7,995
MarthaWho was Houdini?
$15,801
Harry Houdini

Final scores:

Leslie Sean Martha
$6,400 $8,405 $32,801
3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $32,801

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Leslie Sean Martha
$4,200 $16,800 $16,200
8 R,
2 W		 22 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 21 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $37,200

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Game tape date: 2007-08-29
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