Responses for Show #5537 - Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Erik Nelson game 4.

Contestants

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Kitty O'Rourke, a nurse from Fort Walton Beach, Florida

Darren Munk, a web application developer from Camarillo, California

Erik Nelson, a graduate student from Boston, Massachusetts (whose 3-day cash winnings total $70,203)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

IT BORDERS JUST ONE OTHER COUNTRY
(Alex: You have to identify the country.)
IN THE BALLPARK
SOFT "C"
JOIN THE CLUB
A MOTHER GOOSE PICTORIAL
NOW THAT'S SAUCY!
    $200 1
Spain

Erik
    $200 6
Dodger Stadium

Darren
    $200 4
center

Darren
    $200 11
archery

Erik
    $200 26
Little Miss Muffet

Erik
    $200 13
(Darren: What is Pomodoro?)

pesto

DarrenKitty
    $400 2
France

Erik
    $400 7
Fenway

Erik
    $400 5
Cigars

Darren
    $400 12
ducks

Kitty
    $400 27
Humpty Dumpty

Erik
    $400 14
roux

Darren
    $600 3
(Darren: What is Bahrain?)
(Erik: What is...?)

Saudi Arabia

ErikDarrenKitty
    $600 10
Coors Field

Erik
    $600 19
cider

Kitty
    $600 17
Jimmy Buffett

Darren
    $600 28
Little Jack Horner

Darren
    $600 20
fish

Erik
    $800 8
South Africa

Erik
    $800 15
Camden Yards

Erik
    $800 22
censorship

Kitty
    $800 18
the American Kennel Club

Erik
    $800 29
Jack & Jill

Kitty
    $800 24
tartar

Erik
    $1000 9
Indonesia

Darren
    $1000 16
the Cincinnati Reds

Darren
    $1000 23
a cease-fire

Darren
    $1,200 21
the Kiwanis Club

Erik
    $1000 30
(Alex: Yes. A merry old soul was he.)

Old King Cole

Kitty
    $1000 25
colbert

Erik

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

Erik Darren Kitty
$2,800 $1,400 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Erik Darren Kitty
$7,800 $4,600 $4,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

HYDRO LOGICAL
JOHNNY GILBERT RAPS & ROCKS ON
(Alex: ...and you have to come up with the performer who made the song famous.)
NAME THE VEEP
ROGER THAT!
KILLER OPERAS
HIDDEN BIRDPLAY
(Alex: In each clue, there will be a bird's name, and the letters will come up in order.)
    $400 26
evaporation

Erik
    $400 2
The Village People

Darren
    $400 9
(Darren: Who is FDR?)
(Erik: Who is... uh, TR?)
(Alex: No. We gave you three names. All you had to do was name the veep in that group of three, and [*] was the correct response--)
(All contestants: Oh.)
(Alex: --in that first one. Darren, we come back to you. You guys were confused by the category, obviously.)

John Nance Garner

ErikDarren
Triple Stumper
    $400 17
Roger Bannister

Kitty
    $400 1
burning at the stake

Darren
    $400 14
a stork (in most Orkney)

Kitty
    $800 27
(Erik: What is condensation?)

precipitation

ErikDarren
    $800 3
Gwen Stefani

Kitty
    $800 10
Elbridge Gerry

Erik
    $800 18
Roger Vadim

Kitty
    $800 4
Jack the Ripper

Kitty
    $800 22
an egret (in keg returns)

Darren
    $1200 28
the water table

Darren
    $1200 6
Vanilla Ice

Erik
    $1200 11
William Rufus DeVane King

Erik
    $1200 19
the Crimean War

Darren
    $1200 5
a statue

Erik
    $1200 23
a swan (in his wandering)

Kitty
    $1600 29
a coolant

Kitty
    $1600 7
Def Leppard

Darren
    $1600 12
George Clinton

Erik
    $2,000 20
Roger Williams

Darren
    $1600 15
(Erik: What's a necklace?)

a ring

ErikKitty
    $1600 24
an ibis (in bib is)

Darren
    $2000 30
salinity

Erik
    $2000 8
(Alex: I want to thank Johnny Gilbert for doing all of that for us. And frankly, I'm ashamed that all three of you got everything right in that category.)

Right Said Fred

Darren
    $2000 13
(Levi) Morton

Darren
    $2000 21
a black hole

Darren
    $2000 16
Eugene Onegin

Erik
    $4,000 25
a thrush (in with rushing)

Darren

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Erik Darren Kitty
$15,400 $24,200 $12,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

EUROPEAN LITERATURE
(Alex: [To Kitty] Were you thinking of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea?)
(Kitty: Mm-hmm.)
KittyWho is Jules Verne?
$12,000
ErikWho is Jules Verne?
$8,801
DarrenWho is Swift
$6,601
Jules Verne

Final scores:

Erik Darren Kitty
$24,201 $17,599 $24,000
4-day champion: $94,404 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Erik Darren Kitty
$15,200 $21,800 $12,000
22 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 22 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W		 15 R,
0 W

Combined Coryat: $49,000

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Game tape date: 2008-08-20
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