Responses for Show #5580 - Friday, December 5, 2008

Ben Bishop game 4.

Contestants

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Greg Morrison, a Foreign Service officer originally from Silver Spring, Maryland

Lauren Robb, a student originally from Franklin, Wisconsin

Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington (whose 3-day cash winnings total $88,800)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

STATE OF THE UNION
CELEBRITY RHYME TIME
NORM!
iPOD, YOUTUBE OR WII
ALL ASHORE FOR BIRD LORE
THE ENGLISH TOP 100
(Alex: These are the most common words in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.)
    $200 13
Tennessee

Ben
    $200 6
(Lauren: What is Bruce's juice?)
...
(Alex: You made the juice singular, Lauren. It's rhyme time, remember.)

Bruce's juices

BenLauren
    $200 18
(Norman) Schwarzkopf

Lauren
    $200 23
iPod

Ben
    $200 11
kick

Greg
    $200 1
the

Ben
    $400 14
New York

Ben
    $400 7
Kutcher's butchers

Ben
    $400 19
(Norman) Rockwell

Lauren
    $400 24
Wii

Ben
    $400 12
Larry Bird

Ben
    $400 2
(Greg: What is he?)
(Lauren: What is rule?)
(Ben: What is God?)

she

BenLaurenGreg
Triple Stumper
    $600 15
New Mexico

Greg
    $600 8
Kim's gyms

Ben
    $600 20
Norman Lear

Greg
    $600 25
YouTube

Greg
    $1,000 28
(Lauren: [No response])
...
(Alex: And you still hear that term today.)

hawks

Lauren
    $600 3
I

Ben
    $800 16
Rhode Island

Ben
    $800 9
Peet's streets

Lauren
    $800 21
(Norman Vincent) Peale

Greg
    $800 26
(Lauren: What is Wii?)

iPod

BenLauren
    $800 29
(Ben: What is red?)

purple

BenGreg
    $800 4
be

Ben
    $1000 17
Colorado

Ben
    $1000 10
(Lauren: ...What are Matt's...)
(Alex: Sorry, you rang in too quickly.)

Matt's bats

Lauren
Triple Stumper
    $1000 22
Norman Mailer

Ben
    $1000 27
Wii

Lauren
    $1000 30
the pheasant

Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
(Greg: What is "And There's No Time"?)
(Alex: No, no, no, no.)

"We Can Work It Out"

Greg
Triple Stumper

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

Ben Lauren Greg
$3,400 -$800 -$600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ben Lauren Greg
$6,800 -$1,000 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BRASS
STRINGS
WOOD & WIND
"PER"CUSSION
CONDUCTORS
SYMPHONIES ON FILM
    $400 16
(Colin) Powell

Ben
    $400 21
Silly String

Lauren
    $400 25
Tolkien

Lauren
    $400 1
perch

Lauren
    $400 6
silver

Ben
    $400 11
Fantasia

Lauren
    $800 17
(George) Patton

Ben
    $2,000 22
second string

Lauren
    $800 26
The Winds of War

Ben
    $800 2
peregrine

Ben
    $800 7
a circuit

Greg
    $800 12
(Greg: Who is Shostakovich?)

(Sergey) Eisenstein

BenGreg
    $1200 18
Doug MacArthur

Ben
    $1200 23
(Alex: And you'll wind up with [*].)

rock candy

Triple Stumper
    $1200 27
(Alex: Think of Welsh authors--[*].)

Dylan Thomas

Triple Stumper
    $1200 3
perestroika

Ben
    $1200 8
boron

Ben
    $1200 13
Tanzania

Ben
    $1600 19
(Omar) Bradley

Ben
    $1600 24
gut

Ben
    $1600 28
Percy Shelley

Ben
    $1600 4
Persephone

Ben
    $1600 9
(Alex: It is better known as [*].)

a semiconductor

Triple Stumper
    $1600 14
Nosferatu

Lauren
    $8,000 20
(Ben: Who is Sherman?)

George McClellan

Ben
    $2000 30
the theory of everything

Ben
    $2000 29
(Ben: What is "Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening"?)
(Greg: What is "The Road Less Traveled?")
...
(Alex: Ben added one word, the "the"...)
(Ben: Mm.)
(Alex: Which he responded correctly a little while ago.)

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

BenGreg
Triple Stumper
    $2000 5
pericardium

Ben
    $2000 10
(Alex: A conducting liquid is called [*].)

an electrolyte

Triple Stumper
    $2000 15
Schubert

Ben

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ben Lauren Greg
$18,000 $4,200 $200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

HISTORIC PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS
(Alex: [Revealing Greg's response] And one year later, Napoléon was born there, and for people who wonder, "Wait a minute! Napoléon--he's French and he was born on the island of [*]?"--it's because France had acquired the island.)
GregWhat is Corsica?
$100
LaurenWhat is Corsica
$3,000
BenWhat is Corsica?
$8,000
Corsica

Final scores:

Ben Lauren Greg
$26,000 $7,200 $300
4-day champion: $114,800 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ben Lauren Greg
$26,000 $4,000 $200
32 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 10 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 7 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $30,200

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Game tape date: 2008-10-14
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