Responses for Show #5389 - Thursday, January 31, 2008

Contestants

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Stephen Fineman, a science teacher from Morristown, New Jersey

Chris Dixon, a sales associate from Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Melissa Prusi, a marketing writer originally from Negaunee, Michigan (whose 3-day cash winnings total $80,796)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

MR. X'S OBITUARY
PRO SPORTS HALL OF FAME CITIES
NOVELS' FIRST LINES
NEW IDEAS IN BUSINESS
GO OLD WEST, YOUNG MAN
BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS
    $200 1
Tennessee

Melissa
    $200 4
baseball

Melissa
    $200 9
Animal Farm

Chris
    $200 20
(Chris: Who is Dolby?)
(Melissa: What is beta?)

8-track

MelissaChris
Triple Stumper
    $200 26
Wyoming

Stephen
    $200 13
an eager beaver

Stephen
    $400 2
the Marines

Chris
    $400 7
basketball

Stephen
    $400 10
The Great Gatsby

Stephen
    $400 21
QWERTY

Stephen
    $400 27
San Francisco

Chris
    $400 14
a bee

Stephen
    $600 3
Chicago

Stephen
    $600 8
hockey

Melissa
    $600 16
War and Peace

Chris
    $3,000 22
(Stephen: Who is Kingsford?)
(Alex: No. Who is [*]? The auto plant. It later became Kingsford.)

Henry Ford

Stephen
    $600 28
a Bible puncher

Triple Stumper
    $600 15
when the cat's away

Chris
    $800 5
Parkinson's Disease

Stephen
    $800 11
football

Stephen
    $800 17
Lord of the Flies

Stephen
    $800 23
rice

Chris
    $800 29
(Chris: What is Yosemite?)

Yellowstone

ChrisStephen
    $800 18
change horses

Stephen
    $1000 6
an accounting firm

Stephen
    $1000 12
(Stephen: What is jai alai?)
(Chris: What is swimming?)

professional golf

ChrisStephen
Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
(Chris: What is Wuthering Heights?)
...
(Alex: You picked the wrong Bronte.)

Jane Eyre

Chris
Triple Stumper
    $1000 24
dishwasher

Triple Stumper
    $1000 30
(Stephen: What is died?)
(Melissa: What is killed him?)
...
(Alex: You cut the dust [smacks lips] by [*]--usually liquor.)

taking a drink

MelissaStephen
Triple Stumper
    $1000 19
take the bull by the horns

Stephen

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

Melissa Chris Stephen
$1,000 $200 $3,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Melissa Chris Stephen
-$200 $0 $3,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BIT PARTS
20th CENTURY SCIENCE
CANALS
(Alex: You're gonna love this next one...)
GROUCHY MARXISTS
TAKE THE FIFTH
CROSSWORD CLUES "P"
    $400 13
The Blues Brothers

Stephen
    $400 4
the orangutan

Chris
    $400 23
the Panama Canal

Stephen
    $400 7
Castro

Stephen
    $400 18
Teddy Roosevelt and FDR

Chris
    $400 1
plunder

Stephen
    $2,000 14
(Stephen: Who is... Who is... George McGovern?)
(Alex: Oh, no. A far cry from George McGovern. [*]. [*].)

Timothy Leary

Stephen
    $800 5
hormones

Triple Stumper
    $800 24
Indira Gandhi

Chris
    $800 8
the Bolsheviks

Stephen
    $800 19
Jupiter

Stephen
    $800 9
pedestrian

Chris
    $1200 15
(Chris: Who is James Garner?)

Danny Glover

MelissaChris
    $1200 6
the periodic table

Melissa
    $1200 25
the Bay of Biscay

Stephen
    $3,000 28
(Chris: Who are the Khmer Rouge?)
(Alex: No, who are the [*]. You were in the wrong part of the world.)

the Sandinistas

Chris
    $1200 20
Fifth Avenue

Chris
    $1200 10
poultry

Melissa
    $1600 16
Extras

Chris
    $1600 3
(Chris: What is the X enzyme?)

the pepsin generation

Chris
Triple Stumper
    $1600 26
Loch Ness

Chris
    $1600 29
Akihito, emperor of Japan

Triple Stumper
    $1600 21
Crete

Triple Stumper
    $1600 11
particle

Stephen
    $2000 17
Cabin Boy

Stephen
    $2000 2
dark energy

Triple Stumper
    $2000 27
(Melissa: What is Prague?)

Amsterdam

MelissaChris
    $2000 22
(Stephen: What is due process?)

just compensation

Stephen
Triple Stumper
    $2000 12
pasha

Stephen

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Melissa Chris Stephen
$1,400 $3,000 $9,600
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD CAPITALS
(Alex: During the commercial break, I was talking to some people who are visiting the United States. They are from Finland.)
...
(Alex: [Revealing Melissa's response] Interesting. And I brought that up because at our roundtable meeting this morning we thought that someone might say Helsinki, and it's incorrect, unfortunately.)
MelissaWhat is Helsinki?
$1,399
ChrisWhat is Rekyavik?
$3,000
StephenWhat is Oslo?
$3,599
Reykjavík

Final scores:

Melissa Chris Stephen
$1 $6,000 $6,001
3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $6,001

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Melissa Chris Stephen
$1,400 $6,000 $14,600
6 R,
3 W		 14 R,
7 W
(including 1 DD)		 24 R,
5 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $22,000

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Game tape date: 2007-10-29
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