Responses for Show #5415 - Friday, March 7, 2008

Contestants

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Jeff Harmon, a public defender from Dunlap, Tennessee

Sara Morrison, a graduate student from New York, New York

Jake Marini, a university administrator and event planner from Ardmore, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,300)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

MARCH!
COUNTRY TIME
TUNES ON TOONS
HISTORIC CONSTRUCTIONS
BRAZILIAN FOOD
STARTS & ENDS WITH "L"
    $200 21
the Boston Massacre

Jeff
    $200 26
England

Jeff
    $200 11
the Beatles

Jake
    $200 5
(Sara: What is the Empire States Building?)
[Originally ruled correct, reversed when Jeff hit the first Daily Double two clues later]

the Empire State Building

Sara
Triple Stumper
    $200 16
Romeo & Juliet

Jake
    $200 1
loyal

Sara
    $400 22
Charlie Brown

Sara
    $400 27
(Sara: What is Saudi Arabia?)

Russia

Sara
Triple Stumper
    $400 12
The Jackson 5

Jake
    $400 6
the Suez Canal

Jeff
    $400 17
beans

Sara
    $400 2
lethal

Jake
    $600 23
(Gloria) Steinem

Jeff
    $600 28
Belgium

Jake
    $600 13
the Osmonds

Jeff
    $1,000 7
the U.S. Capitol

Jeff
    $600 18
the dorado

Sara
    $600 3
legal

Sara
    $800 24
airplanes

Jeff
    $800 29
(Sara: What is China?)

South Korea

Sara
Triple Stumper
    $800 14
New Kids on the Block

Sara
    $800 8
a mausoleum

Jake
    $800 19
(Sara: What is yucca?)
[Initially ruled incorrect, reversed before Double Jeopardy! because yucca and [*] are almost synonymous.]

cassava

Sara
    $800 4
logical

Jake
    $1000 25
Edwards

Jeff
    $1000 30
the Netherlands

Sara
    $1000 15
Hammer

Triple Stumper
    $1000 9
the Chunnel

Sara
    $1000 20
(Sara: What is carne asada?)

churrasco

Sara
Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
lateral

Jake

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

Jake Sara Jeff
$3,600 $2,400 $2,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jake Sara Jeff
$4,400 $3,400 $4,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
MAN & SUPERMAN
MAJOR BARBARAS
SAINT JOAN
"AND"ROCLES
THE LION
    $400 1
Professor Higgins

Jake
    $400 14
Dean Cain

Jeff
    $400 6
Barbara Bush

Jake
    $400 11
as a male

Jeff
    $400 19
an android

Jeff
    $400 26
Richard the Lionhearted

Jeff
    $800 2
World War I

Jake
    $800 15
Perry White

Jeff
    $2,000 7
Barbara Walters

Jake
    $800 12
Orleans

Jake
    $800 20
Andorra

Jeff
    $800 27
Narnia

Jeff
    $1200 3
the Salvation Army

Sara
    $1200 16
Mickey Spillane

Jake
    $1200 8
(Barbara) Boxer

Jeff
    $1200 13
heresy

Sara
    $1200 21
Andropov

Jeff
    $1200 28
the lionfish

Sara
    $1600 4
Mark Anthony

Sara
    $1600 17
Lex Luthor

Jake
    $1600 9
(Jake: Who is Barbara Taylor Bradford?)

Barbara Cartland

Jake
Triple Stumper
    $2,000 24
(Alex: I wondered when we would get back to that category, because I knew where the Daily Double was.)
...
(Sara: What is Lyon?)

Rouen

Sara
    $1600 22
Andromeda

Sara
    $1600 29
Elsa

Jake
    $2000 5
the Sonnets

Jake
    $2000 18
George Reeves

Sara
    $2000 10
(Alex: Yes, thank you very much for putting it in the right spot.)

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Jake
    $2000 25
the Seine

Jeff
    $2000 23
Anderson

Sara
    $2000 30
the Nemean lion

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jake Sara Jeff
$15,600 $12,200 $13,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS
(Alex: The totality, of course, is 100%, but the ads didn't stress the .56%--they stressed the other part.)
...
(Alex: [To Sara] 99 44/100% pure, and it floats.)
SaraWhat is Ivory soap?
$3,000
JeffWhat is Ivory Soap?
$12,300
JakeWhat is are batterie
$10,801
Ivory soap

Final scores:

Jake Sara Jeff
$4,799 $15,200 $25,500
3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $25,500

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jake Sara Jeff
$14,400 $14,200 $12,800
18 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
16 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)
18 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $41,400

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Game tape date: 2007-11-14
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