Responses for Show #5535 - Friday, October 3, 2008

Erik Nelson game 2.

Contestants

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Melissa Noble, an attorney from Sacramento, California

Mengmeng Zhang, a systems manager from Fort Worth, Texas

Erik Nelson, a graduate student from Boston, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,201)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE OLD TESTAMENT
MILITARY MOVIES
THE HIGHEST-SCORING SCRABBLE WORD
FORMER NAMES ON THE MAP
FAMOUS QUESTIONS
YOU JUST HAVE TO "ASK"
    $200 13
Samson

Melissa
    $200 12
Atonement

Erik
    $200 6
zinc

Melissa
    $200 1
Iwo Jima

Erik
    $200 26
Cock Robin

Melissa
    $200 7
the Hound of the Baskervilles

Melissa
    $400 15
the Ark of the Covenant

Erik
    $400 14
All Quiet On The Western Front

Erik
    $400 22
fake

Melissa
    $400 2
(Mengmeng: What is Kampuchea?)

Burma

ErikMengmeng
    $400 27
What's your sign?

Melissa
    $400 8
frequently asked questions

Melissa
    $600 16
the Egyptians

Erik
    $600 19
Lawrence of Arabia

Melissa
    $600 23
pickle

Mengmeng
    $600 3
Colombia

Erik
    $600 28
Where's the beef?

Erik
    $600 9
my flask

Erik
    $800 17
Jezebel

Triple Stumper
    $800 20
Waterloo

Mengmeng
    $800 24
jaw

Melissa
    $1,200 4
(Erik: Just--just so I can say I said it, I'd like to make it a True Daily Double.)
...
(Erik: What is... uh...)
(Alex: Oh, sorry. The airline is [*] Pacific, and [*] is the response we were going for.)

Cathay

Erik
    $800 29
Dr. Livingstone, I presume?

Erik
    $800 10
(Melissa: Uh, what are Alaska and Arkansas?)

Alaska & Nebraska

ErikMelissa
    $1000 18
Amos

Erik
    $1000 21
Stripes

Mengmeng
    $1000 25
(Melissa: What is physics?)

chemistry

Melissa
Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
Zimbabwe & Zambia

Mengmeng
    $1000 30
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Melissa
    $1000 11
Saskatoon

Mengmeng

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

Erik Mengmeng Melissa
$2,400 $1,600 $200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Erik Mengmeng Melissa
$5,400 $4,000 $2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ARCHAEOLOGY
THAR HE BLOWS!
BIRTH OF A PRESIDENT
POPULATION-POURRI
AUTHORS ON AUTHORS
TELL ME "Y"
    $400 16
catacombs

Melissa
    $400 14
(Charlie) Parker

Mengmeng
    $400 2
JFK

Erik
    $400 8
Sydney

Mengmeng
    $400 1
(John) Milton

Erik
    $400 25
a yearbook

Erik
    $800 17
the Dead Sea Scrolls

Erik
    $800 15
(Melissa: Who is Doc Holliday?)
...
(Alex: Doc Holliday is way back in the Old West.)
(Melissa: Yes.)

Doc Severinsen

Melissa
Triple Stumper
    $800 3
Eisenhower

Mengmeng
    $800 9
100 million

Melissa
    $800 4
(James) Joyce

Mengmeng
    $800 30
the Yangtze

Erik
    $1200 18
(Howard) Carter

Erik
    $1200 29
Wynton Marsalis

Mengmeng
    $1200 11
Andrew Jackson

Erik
    $1200 10
the Potato Famine

Erik
    $1200 5
the Hawthorne

Triple Stumper
    $1200 21
yoga

Mengmeng
    $1600 19
carbon-14 dating

Erik
    $1600 26
Dizzy Gillespie

Erik
    $3,000 12
George Herbert Walker Bush

Erik
    $1600 24
Moscow

Erik
    $1600 6
(Henry) James

Mengmeng
    $1600 22
(Erik: What is a yawl?)
...
(Alex: A yawl is a vessel, a small sailing ship.)

the yardarm

Erik
Triple Stumper
    $2000 20
(Heinrich) Schliemann

Mengmeng
    $2000 27
Kenny G

Mengmeng
    $2000 13
(Melissa: Who is William Howard Taft?)

Warren G. Harding

Melissa
Triple Stumper
    $3,500 28
(Mengmeng: What is Verona?)

Athens

Mengmeng
    $2000 7
Ben Jonson

Triple Stumper
    $2000 23
Yerevan

Mengmeng

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Erik Mengmeng Melissa
$18,000 $12,900 $1,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AWARD NAMESAKES
(Alex: Each year, the American Library Association awards a medal named for this gentleman for the year's best book specifically for children.)
MelissaWho is Newberry?
$999
MengmengWho is Caldicott
$6,000
ErikWho was Newberry?
$7,801
John Newbery

Final scores:

Erik Mengmeng Melissa
$25,801 $6,900 $1,999
2-day champion: $51,002 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Erik Mengmeng Melissa
$17,800 $16,400 $1,000
24 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 15 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 12 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $35,200

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Game tape date: 2008-08-19
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