Responses for Show #5631 - Monday, February 16, 2009

Contestants

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Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois

Bing Luke, a tax lawyer from Harlem, New York

Diane Trap, a librarian and graphics specialist from Athens, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,400)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

1909: 100 YEARS AGO
SEINFELD
GOVERNMENT ACRONYMS
AMERICANA
"CU"
LATER
    $200 26
NAACP

Dan
    $200 2
George Costanza

Dan
    $200 21
emergency

Dan
    $200 1
Mount Rushmore

Dan
    $200 7
the cuckoo

Dan
    $200 11
Madame Tussaud

Dan
    $400 27
(Dan: What is Canada?)

Australia

DianeDan
    $400 3
Newman

Dan
    $400 22
officer

Diane
    $400 16
brotherhood

Dan
    $400 8
a cummerbund

Dan
    $400 12
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"

Dan
    $600 28
Walter Reed

Bing
    $600 4
Elaine

Dan
    $600 23
deposit

Bing
    $600 17
a sharpener

Diane
    $600 9
(Diane: What is a cube?)

a cube root

DianeDan
    $600 13
Father of the Country

Diane
    $2,000 29
Taft

Bing
    $800 5
Larry David

Dan
    $800 24
aviation administration

Dan
    $800 18
In God We Trust

Dan
    $800 10
cultivate

Bing
    $800 14
Dean Rusk

Bing
    $1000 30
the English Channel

Diane
    $1000 6
[Applause for Dan's run of the category]
(Alex: You miss Seinfeld, don't you?)
(Dan: Yes! [Laughs])
(Alex: Be honest! Fess up! Go again.)

Cosmo

Dan
    $1000 25
zone improvement plan

Triple Stumper
    $1000 19
Emma Lazarus

Bing
    $1000 20
cumulonimbus

Bing
    $1000 15
flint

Bing

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

Diane Bing Dan
$0 $2,600 $5,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Diane Bing Dan
$2,400 $7,800 $7,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS
TCM WITH ROBERT OSBORNE
(Alex: And all of the clues in this category will be about films showing this week, in this pre-Oscar week, on TCM.)
GAMES IN OTHER WORDS
I PROBABLY COULDN'T PAINT THAT
LET'S VISIT CYPRUS
CONTRONYMS
(Alex: That's a word that I'm sure you're not too familiar with. These are words that can be the opposite of themselves, in terms of meaning.)
    $400 7
Shakespeare

Dan
    $400 21
Gone with the Wind

Diane
    $400 12
a bridge

Diane
    $400 1
Van Gogh

Bing
    $400 26
(Diane: What are Greek & Macedonian?)

Greek & Turkish

DianeBing
    $400 6
first-degree

Dan
    $800 8
Ibsen

Dan
    $800 22
A River Runs Through It

Dan
    $800 13
Uno

Dan
    $800 2
Frida Kahlo

Diane
    $800 27
(Diane: What is Italy?)
...
(Alex: What is [*]? Hence English as one of the languages.)

Great Britain

Diane
Triple Stumper
    $800 17
clip

Dan
    $1200 9
(Bing: Who is Shaw?)

Noel Coward

DianeBing
    $1200 23
Daniel Day-Lewis

Dan
    $1200 14
Operation

Bing
    $1200 3
Monet

Bing
    $1200 28
Nicosia

Bing
    $1200 18
garnish

Bing
    $1600 10
Bertolt Brecht

Dan
    $1600 24
(Bing: What is All About Eve?)

Born Yesterday

Bing
Triple Stumper
    $1600 15
Twister

Bing
    $3,000 4
(Norman) Rockwell

Bing
    $1600 29
Richard the Lion-hearted

Bing
    $1600 19
fast

Triple Stumper
    $2000 11
Athol Fugard

Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
(Alex: And we thank Robert Osborne for helping us out with that category. He always comes up with such great information about films.)

Rashomon

Dan
    $2000 16
Hungry Hungry Hippos

Dan
    $2000 5
(Bing: Who is Ruben?)

Rubens

Bing
Triple Stumper
    $2000 30
Archbishop Makarios

Triple Stumper
    $2,000 20
weather

Bing

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Diane Bing Dan
$4,000 $16,800 $17,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

POP CULTURE
(Alex: [To Dan] You were thinking about the 1973 album by Pink Floyd? And you were right.)
DianeWhat is Sputnik?
$3,999
BingWhat is Sputnik?
$8,000
DanWhat is the Dark Side of the Moon?
$15,801
the dark side of the Moon

Final scores:

Diane Bing Dan
$1 $8,800 $33,601
3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $33,601

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Diane Bing Dan
$4,000 $14,200 $17,800
9 R,
3 W		 18 R
(including 3 DDs),
3 W		 26 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $36,000

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Game tape date: 2008-12-03
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