Responses for Show #5539 - Thursday, October 9, 2008

Contestants

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Amy Ballentine, a pastry chef from Memphis, Tennessee

Vibin Kundukulam, a mechanical engineering student from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Jim Davis, a college music and humanities instructor from Freeport, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $30,401)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

HALLS OF FAME
HISTORIC BINGO
NAME THE AUTOMAKER
BROTHERS & SISTERS
STUFF
DON'T SAY THE L-WORD
(Alex: Correct responses will not contain a word starting with the letter L. You'll be tempted, I know, but control yourself.)
    $200 1
Jerry Hall

Amy
    $200 16
(John Wilkes) Booth

Vibin
    $200 6
Cadillac

Amy
    $200 11
the Brothers Grimm

Jim
    $200 21
the Confederacy

Amy
    $200 26
Clark

Vibin
    $400 2
Arsenio Hall

Jim
    $400 17
Iraq

Amy
    $400 7
Buick

Jim
    $400 12
the Brontës

Jim
    $400 22
an antenna

Amy
    $400 27
Virgo

Amy
    $600 3
Monty Hall

Amy
    $600 18
Napoleon (Bonaparte)

Jim
    $600 8
Chrysler

Jim
    $600 13
Jeb & George (W.) Bush

Amy
    $600 23
the Chunnel

Vibin
    $600 28
(Alex: Not a lemon or a lime, but a [*].)

grapefruit

Triple Stumper
    $800 4
Anthony Michael Hall

Amy
    $800 19
(John) Glenn

Vibin
    $800 9
Hyundai

Jim
    $2,000 14
Chiang Kai-shek

Amy
    $800 24
jambs

Triple Stumper
    $800 29
(Alex: You were almost tempted to say "lightning", weren't you?)
(Vibin: I was.)

thunder

Vibin
    $1000 5
Fawn Hall

Amy
    $1000 20
Ovid

Vibin
    $1000 10
Plymouth

Jim
    $1000 15
Ned Kelly

Jim
    $1000 25
(Amy: What is steel?)

iron

Amy
Triple Stumper
    $1000 30
commander

Triple Stumper

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

Jim Vibin Amy
$4,800 $0 $5,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Vibin Amy
$5,400 $3,600 $5,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

HALLS OF FAME
CRUISE LINES
LET'S HAVE SOME "PH"UN!
ALL ABOARD FOR ALBANIA
HOW NOVEL!
MAKING MONEY
(Sarah: From the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. In 2007, they made $4 billion just in 1s.) (Alex: And Sarah brought back a lot of souvenirs for us.)
    $400 6
astronaut

Amy
    $400 26
A Few Good Men

Vibin
    $400 21
phobia

Jim
    $400 16
Islam

Jim
    $400 1
Holden Caulfield

Jim
    $400 11
the Treasury Department

Amy
    $800 7
robots

Jim
    $800 27
Mission: Impossible

Jim
    $800 22
philosophy

Amy
    $800 17
Kosovo

Amy
    $800 2
Truman Capote

Jim
    $800 12
greenback

Jim
    $1200 8
Abigail Adams

Amy
    $1200 28
"You had me at 'hello'"

Amy
    $1200 23
Phi Beta Kappa

Jim
    $1200 18
(Vibin: What is Germany?)

Italy

JimVibin
    $1200 3
(Vibin: What is... Dr. No?)

Casino Royale

Vibin
Triple Stumper
    $1,200 13
watermarks

Jim
    $1600 9
anagrams

Jim
    $1600 29
Lestat

Amy
    $1600 24
a pharmacist

Jim
    $1600 19
Tirana

Vibin
    $1600 4
(Alex: The family is [*], Lorna [*].)

the Doones

Triple Stumper
    $1600 14
offset

Jim
    $2,000 10
(Jim: What is mathematics?)
(Alex: No. What are [*]. [*] Hall of Fame. All well-known, of course.)

teachers

Jim
    $2000 30
Risky Business

Jim
    $2000 25
phylum

Jim
    $2000 20
the Byzantine

Amy
    $2000 5
the Black Stallion

Triple Stumper
    $2000 15
intaglio

Amy

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Vibin Amy
$20,200 $3,200 $16,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

1960s HIT SONGS
(Alex: Neil Diamond's song inspired by Caroline Kennedy. He revealed that this past year.)
VibinWhat is ???????
$0
AmyWhat is Brandy? [corrected from Mandy by overlapping Br over the M]
$16,000
JimWhat is Sweet Caroline
$12,201
"Sweet Caroline"

Final scores:

Jim Vibin Amy
$32,401 $3,200 $200
2-day champion: $62,802 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jim Vibin Amy
$22,200 $3,200 $15,000
24 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 8 R,
2 W		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $40,400

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Game tape date: 2008-08-20
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