Responses for Show #5515 - Friday, July 25, 2008

Mark Wales game 6.
Last game of Season 24.

Contestants

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Emily Thorsley, an administrative assistant from Seattle, Washington

Matt Heimer, a magazine editor from Brooklyn, New York

Mark Wales, a substitute teacher from Amherst, New York (whose 5-day cash winnings total $141,804)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

FRENCH ARTISTS
COLOR MY WORLD
DINOSAURS
THE NEW YORK TIMES 2008 NEWS
BREED 'EM
& W"EEP"
    $200 26
Toulouse-Lautrec

Emily
    $200 17
Vanna White

Mark
    $200 7
(Alex: Yes, I had a cousin who could do that also, by the way.)

the Tyrannosaurus rex

Matt
    $200 12
Tibet

Mark
    $200 6
a bloodhound

Mark
    $200 1
a steeple

Mark
    $400 27
Gauguin

Matt
    $400 18
"Blue Moon"

Mark
    $400 8
(Matt: What is the brontosaurus?)
...
(Alex: Yes, horned dinosaurs.)

the triceratops

MattEmily
    $400 13
Rudy Giuliani

Matt
    $400 22
Spain

Emily
    $400 2
sweepstakes

Matt
    $600 28
George Sand

Mark
    $600 19
(Emily: What is a red belt?)

brown

MarkEmily
    $600 9
the Velociraptor

Matt
    $600 14
Guantanamo Bay

Emily
    $600 23
penguins

Emily
    $600 3
a keepsake

Matt
    $800 29
Henri Matisse

Triple Stumper
    $800 20
the Pink Panther

Mark
    $1,400 10
Argentina

Matt
    $800 15
the Writers Guild strike

Matt
    $800 24
the beefalo

Matt
    $800 4
a weeping willow

Mark
    $1000 30
(Marcel) Duchamp

Emily
    $1000 21
Red Grange

Matt
    $1000 11
(Emily: What is a Brachiosaurus?)
...
(Alex: What is [*]--[*]--as in "barometer".)

a Barosaurus

Emily
Triple Stumper
    $1000 16
Kosovo

Mark
    $1000 25
(Alex: I'm sure you've heard of hackney ponies--they're [*].)

horses

Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
a minesweeper

Emily

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

Mark Matt Emily
$1,400 $4,000 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Matt Emily
$5,000 $6,200 $2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BRITISH PHYSICISTS
I WON AN OSCAR, EMMY, TONY & GRAMMY
CZAR POWER
"CH"ECK THE NAME
FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE
(Alex: We'll give you a lot of initials.)
GREEK ALPHABET SOUP
    $400 21
Newton

Matt
    $400 3
Rita Moreno

Mark
    $400 1
Nicholas II

Matt
    $400 16
Churchill

Emily
    $400 11
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Mark
    $400 26
beta blockers

Matt
    $800 22
sound

Emily
    $800 4
Whoopi Goldberg

Emily
    $800 2
Catherine the Great

Mark
    $800 17
Champlain

Emily
    $800 12
James and the Giant Peach

Emily
    $800 27
(Matt: What is alpha?)

delta formation

MarkMatt
    $1200 23
(Stephen) Hawking

Emily
    $1200 6
(John) Gielgud

Mark
    $1200 5
Theodore

Matt
    $1200 18
Chou En-Lai

Emily
    $1200 13
As I Lay Dying

Matt
    $1200 28
Omega Man

Matt
    $2,000 24
(Alex: You and Matt, seesawing back and forth. Interesting, I just noticed: your name is Emily, uh, the opponent who's closest to you in score is Matt. My children's names are Emily and Matt. Are you going to beat up on your brother now?)

the neutron

Emily
    $1600 7
Mike Nichols

Mark
    $2,000 9
(Alex: Right. After coming back from visiting Western Europe.)

Peter the Great

Matt
    $1600 19
Charles II

Emily
    $1600 14
Emma

Emily
    $1600 29
(Matt: What is Orion's belt?)

Alpha Centauri

Matt
Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
Kelvin

Emily
    $2000 8
Helen Hayes

Matt
    $2000 10
(Mark: Who is Ivan the Terrible?)

Boris Godunov

MarkEmily
    $2000 20
Whittaker Chambers

Matt
    $2000 15
The Kite Runner

Emily
    $2000 30
gamma globulins

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Matt Emily
$8,200 $14,600 $19,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ADJECTIVES
(Alex: So you have to ask yourselves, what does Jesus have in common with the followers of Spartacus? They all had the same end.)
...
(Alex: Yes, they were all crucified. Crux, Latin for "cross".)
...
(Alex: Emily, we will see you to start our 25th Jeopardy! season right here. So long, everybody.)
MarkWhat is dolorous?
$2,201
MattWhat is excruciating?
$8,000
EmilyWhat is excruciating?
$10,000
excruciating

Final scores:

Mark Matt Emily
$5,999 $22,600 $29,800
3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $29,800

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Mark Matt Emily
$8,200 $13,600 $19,400
16 R,
1 W		 19 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $41,200

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Game tape date: 2008-04-23
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