Responses for Show #5578 - Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Ben Bishop game 2.

Contestants

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Zac Showers, a college English professor from Geneva County, Alabama

Josie Dickson, a college counselor from Austin, Texas

Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,000)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

A CLOSER LOOK AT ART
THEIR FIRST TOP 40 POP HIT
BRAND NAMES
WHICH CAME FIRST?
(Alex: ...in the list we give you.)
PHOTOGRAPHY
LET ME MIX YOU A METAPHOR
    $200 6
(Edgar) Degas

Zac
    $200 26
Britney Spears

Ben
    $200 16
Vaseline

Josie
    $200 11
The Price Is Right

Josie
    $200 21
Iran

Ben
    $200 1
tea

Ben
    $400 7
Toulouse-Lautrec

Josie
    $400 27
The Go-Go's

Triple Stumper
    $400 17
Pampers

Zac
    $400 12
Pennsylvania

Ben
    $400 22
Yellowstone

Zac
    $400 2
(Ben: What is foot?)

glove

BenJosie
    $600 8
Rembrandt

Zac
    $600 28
Santana

Triple Stumper
    $600 18
a reebok

Zac
    $600 13
Sense and Sensibility

Josie
    $600 23
the Kodak

Zac
    $600 3
came home to roost

Ben
    $800 9
Van Gogh

Ben
    $800 29
Lenny Kravitz

Triple Stumper
    $800 19
Price Pfister

Josie
    $800 14
Charles I of France

Ben
    $800 24
Stieglitz

Josie
    $800 4
his coattails

Zac
    $2,200 10
(Paul) Cezanne

Ben
    $1000 30
(Ben: [Before the time expires] We're not musical people.)
[Laughter]

Fleetwood Mac

Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
Rolex

Josie
    $1000 15
the Embargo Act

Ben
    $1000 25
(Josie: Who is Cecil Beaton?)

Richard Avedon

Josie
Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
the wall

Ben

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

Ben Josie Zac
$6,600 $1,600 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ben Josie Zac
$7,000 $3,400 $3,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

LITERATURE IN OTHER WORDS
SHATNER HAPPENS
AVIATION
AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION
KING JAMES BIBLE QUOTATIONS
AN I FOR AN A
(Alex: Each correct response will be two words. The words are exactly the same, except that there's an "A" in one as opposed to an "I" in the other.)
    $400 11
Ulysses

Ben
    $400 16
Howdy Doody

Josie
    $400 19
JetBlue

Ben
    $400 6
Drake

Ben
    $400 1
tooth for tooth

Zac
    $400 26
firm & farm

Ben
    $800 12
The Scarlet Letter

Ben
    $800 17
Halloween

Zac
    $800 20
Stapleton Airport

Triple Stumper
    $800 7
New Jersey

Ben
    $800 2
truth

Zac
    $800 27
(Zac: What is... [sigh])

bitter batter

BenZac
    $1200 13
Bleak House

Zac
    $1200 18
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"

Ben
    $1200 21
Grumman

Ben
    $1200 8
Quartering

Ben
    $4,800 3
Proverbs

Zac
    $1200 28
ice & ace

Josie
    $10,800 14
(Zac: What is North by Northwest?)
(Alex: No, what is [*]? It was Henry Miller, the reference in the clue.)

Tropic of Cancer

Zac
    $1600 24
(Zac: Who is Lieutenant Uhuru?)
[Initially ruled correct, Zac's response was ruled unacceptable after clue 25.]

Lieutenant Uhura

Zac
Triple Stumper
    $1600 22
(Zac: What's the Blackbird?)

X-15

Zac
Triple Stumper
    $1600 9
Boston

Josie
    $1600 4
fools

Josie
    $1600 29
gripes & grapes

Josie
    $2000 15
"The Man Who Would Be King"

Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
Denny Crane

Triple Stumper
    $2000 23
(Josie: Who is Chuck Yeager?)

(Dick) Rutan

JosieZac
    $2000 10
Jonathan Edwards

Ben
    $2000 5
worms

Josie
    $2000 30
switch & swatch

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ben Josie Zac
$16,600 $9,800 -$1,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

FAMOUS SCIENTISTS
(Alex: And Alexander Pope wrote that epitaph after this man's death in 1727.)
JosieWho was Newton?
$9,800
BenWho was Newton?
$6,400
Isaac Newton

Final scores:

Ben Josie Zac
$23,000 $19,600 -$1,200
2-day champion: $48,000 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ben Josie Zac
$15,400 $9,800 $6,000
21 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
14 R,
2 W
13 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $31,200

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Game tape date: 2008-10-14
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