Responses for Show #5534 - Thursday, October 2, 2008

Erik Nelson game 1.

Contestants

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Jenny Caplan, a Ph.D. student from Syracuse, New York

Erik Nelson, a graduate student from Boston, Massachusetts

Wes Pierce, a financial planner from Anaheim Hills, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $47,199)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

CLASSIC SITCOMS
THIRD ROCK FROM THE SUN
GOOD TIMES
FRIENDS
CHEERS
ALL IN THE "FAMILY"
    $200 1
Bewitched

Jenny
    $200 20
the equator

Wes
    $200 16
(Alex: [Hoping Wes would ring in first after just hearing his contestant interview] Oop! Erik is first!)

SeaWorld

Erik
    $200 25
(Erik: What is... Houston?)

Davy Crockett

Erik
Triple Stumper
    $200 11
vodka

Erik
    $200 6
the First Family

Wes
    $400 2
pond

Jenny
    $400 21
the greenhouse effect

Erik
    $1,500 17
Oktoberfest

Erik
    $400 26
Martin Luther

Erik
    $400 12
tequila

Erik
    $400 7
your family tree

Erik
    $600 3
Sanford and Son

Wes
    $600 22
1/4

Jenny
    $600 18
parasailing

Erik
    $600 27
Camus

Jenny
    $600 13
a Cuba Libre

Wes
    $600 8
the Family Stone

Erik
    $800 4
Milwaukee

Wes
    $800 24
geomagnetic field (electromagnetic field accepted)

Wes
    $800 19
the Orient Express

Wes
    $800 28
(Dian) Fossey

Jenny
    $800 14
a sidecar

Erik
    $800 9
Family Circle

Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
"Meathead"

Wes
    $1000 30
oblate

Jenny
    $1000 23
Medieval Times

Wes
    $1000 29
Grant & Sherman

Erik
    $1000 15
an old fashioned

Erik
    $1000 10
family values

Wes

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

Wes Erik Jenny
$4,200 $3,400 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Wes Erik Jenny
$7,000 $7,300 $3,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

MEDICAL MATTERS
FOLK MUSIC
STATES BY COUNTIES
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT GOES TO THE THEATRE
(Alex: We're dealing with actual comments from her column.)
CNN ON POLITICS
"PAR"TY TIME
    $400 20
malignant

Wes
    $400 1
John Denver

Erik
    $400 8
(Erik: What is Texas?)

Iowa

WesErik
    $400 21
FDR

Erik
    $400 11
exit polls

Wes
    $400 3
a pardon

Wes
    $800 23
a compound fracture

Erik
    $800 2
The Kingston Trio

Wes
    $800 9
Virginia

Wes
    $800 26
Hamlet

Erik
    $800 14
Super Tuesday

Erik
    $800 4
the Parthenon

Wes
    $1200 24
a defibrillator

Erik
    $1200 18
(Alex: That man still going strong, [*].)

Pete Seeger

Triple Stumper
    $1200 10
Indiana

Erik
    $1200 28
Tennessee Williams

Erik
    $1200 15
435

Erik
    $1200 5
a participle

Wes
    $1600 25
the humerus

Wes
    $1600 19
Woody Guthrie

Wes
    $1600 12
Minnesota

Wes
    $1600 29
Tyrone Power

Triple Stumper
    $1600 16
Texas

Jenny
    $1600 6
(Erik: What is paper?)

parchment

WesErik
    $2000 27
the Epstein-Barr virus

Triple Stumper
    $2000 22
(Wes: Um... [shakes head, then whispers] Sorry.)

Joan Baez

WesErik
    $1,000 13
(Wes: What is Oregon?)

Montana

Wes
    $2000 30
T.S. Eliot

Erik
    $2000 17
(Erik: What is $2,000?)
...
(Alex: Erik, you were so close. The correct response is [*], not $2,000. But our thanks to Wolf and all of our other friends at CNN for helping us out with all those clues.)

$2,300

Erik
Triple Stumper
    $3,000 7
(Wes: What is a parcep?)
(Alex: Say it again.)
(Wes: Parcep.)
(Alex: No. It's [*]--S-E-C--no P in it.)

parsec

Wes

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Wes Erik Jenny
$12,600 $15,300 $5,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MODERN MONARCHIES
(Alex: [*] is the furthest north of the monarchies. Lesotho and Swaziland much further to the south.)
JennyWhat is Ethiopia?
$5,199
WesWhat is Libya?
$2,000
ErikWhat is Morroco Morocco?
$9,901
Morocco

Final scores:

Wes Erik Jenny
$10,600 $25,201 $1
2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $25,201 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Wes Erik Jenny
$16,600 $14,200 $5,200
22 R,
3 W
(including 2 DDs)		 23 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 7 R,
0 W

Combined Coryat: $36,000

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Game tape date: 2008-08-19
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