Responses for Show #5491 - Monday, June 23, 2008

Contestants

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Alyssa Hesse, a waitress originally from Hastings, Minnesota

Sven Sinclair, an economist and actuary from Burke, Virginia

Doris Nash, a costume shop supervisor from Ames, Iowa (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,801)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

STATE OF THE UNION
MOVIE SONGS
AFRICA'S OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
(Alex: Different countries, of course.)
WORDS IN CONTESTANT
(Alex: Each correct response will be a word that can be made up of the letters you find in "contestant".)
CORPORATE
RATS
    $200 9
California

Sven
    $200 1
The Lion King

Alyssa
    $200 4
(Sven: What is English?)

French

Sven
Triple Stumper
    $200 21
a sonnet

Alyssa
    $200 30
7-11

Alyssa
    $200 16
rodents

Alyssa
    $400 10
Tennessee

Sven
    $400 2
the Time Warp

Doris
    $400 5
French

Sven
    $400 22
ascent

Sven
    $400 29
Nike

Alyssa
    $400 17
(Doris: What is a white rat?)

a brown rat

DorisAlyssa
    $600 11
(Alyssa: What is Oregon?)

Washington

DorisAlyssa
    $600 3
Bruce Springsteen

Sven
    $600 6
French

Alyssa
    $600 23
a sect

Sven
    $100 26
Midas

Sven
    $600 18
pups

Doris
    $800 14
Virginia

Alyssa
    $800 12
"Dueling Banjoes"

Doris
    $800 7
French

Alyssa
    $800 24
neon

Sven
    $800 27
(Sven: What are mosquitoes?)
...
(Alex: Called them [*]. Nice guy, wasn't he?)

parasites

Sven
Triple Stumper
    $800 19
rats fleeing a sinking ship

Doris
    $1000 15
Pennsylvania

Sven
    $1000 13
Once

Doris
    $1000 8
English

Sven
    $1000 25
a canton

Sven
    $1000 28
Chevron

Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
a naked mole rat

Alyssa

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

Doris Sven Alyssa
$2,800 $3,400 $1,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Doris Sven Alyssa
$3,800 $5,500 $4,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE BODY HUMAN
SPORTS STUFF
AROUND EUROPE
MINDBENDING MISCELLANY
THE ARTS
COUNTRIES WITHOUT THEIR VOWELS
    $400 21
the tongue

Sven
    $400 30
Tiger Woods

Alyssa
    $400 11
Beethoven

Doris
    $400 22
the Statue of Liberty

Sven
    $400 6
(Alyssa: What's a statue?)

opera

DorisAlyssa
    $400 1
Iraq

Sven
    $800 20
the radius

Sven
    $800 28
the Red Sox

Doris
    $800 12
Warsaw

Alyssa
    $800 23
Rin Tin Tin

Sven
    $800 7
a ballerina

Doris
    $800 2
Cuba

Doris
    $5,000 17
the retina

Sven
    $1200 15
(Joe) Theismann

Doris
    $4,000 13
the Matterhorn

Alyssa
    $1200 24
identical twins

Alyssa
    $1200 8
Renoir

Sven
    $1200 3
(Doris: What is Ligeria?)

Algeria

DorisSven
    $1600 18
the knee

Sven
    $1600 29
Don King

Doris
    $1600 14
Henry the Navigator

Sven
    $1600 25
(Alex: The designer, Alice Davis, was referring to [*].

It's A Small World & Pirates of the Caribbean

Triple Stumper
    $1600 9
(Doris: What's the Sorbonne?)

the École des Beaux Arts

Doris
Triple Stumper
    $1600 4
Tunisia

Sven
    $2000 19
the quadriceps

Sven
    $2000 27
(Brian) Piccolo

Doris
    $2000 16
the Amstel River

Sven
    $2000 26
(Doris: What's a golden lion?)
...
(Alyssa: What's a white lion?)

red lion

DorisAlyssa
Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
(The Tale of) Genji

Alyssa
    $2000 5
[or Armenia]

Romania

Doris

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Doris Sven Alyssa
$9,000 $24,500 $10,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACES
(Alex: Let's go to Sven Sinclair, and he wrote down "What is--" he crossed out Virginia and then probably remembered Norfolk County, [*] and he is correct.)
DorisWhat is Ohio
$8,999
AlyssaWhat is Virginia?
$10,200
SvenWhat is Virginia Massachussetts
$4,099
Massachusetts

Final scores:

Doris Sven Alyssa
$1 $28,599 $0
2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $28,599 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Doris Sven Alyssa
$9,000 $21,200 $7,400
15 R,
4 W		 24 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $37,600

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Game tape date: 2008-03-19
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