Responses for Show #5640 - Friday, February 27, 2009

Ask Alex #15: Sport.
Champion Update #3: Dan Melia.

Contestants

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Charles Murphy, a health care and financial services advisor from Westmont, Illinois

Edie Chang, an engineer from Sacramento, California

Leland Graham III, a research specialist and project coordinator from Rock Hill, South Carolina (whose 2-day cash winnings total $48,400)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

DANCING STARS
BIBLICAL NAME'S THE SAME
MOO
CANNIBAL CUISINE
WE'RE ALL "WAITING"
EUROPE, AGES AGO
(Jimmy: How our ancestors lived back a few thousand years, from the Lejra Archaeological Research Center in Denmark.)
    $200 19
Jim Carrey

Leland G.
    $200 1
Peter

Leland G.
    $200 4
a hat

Leland G.
    $200 9
mushrooms

Leland G.
    $200 16
the waiting room

Edie
    $200 26
(Leland G.: What are temples?)

tombs

Leland G.
Triple Stumper
    $400 21
Fred Astaire

Charles
    $400 2
(Charles: Who is Tom?)

Naomi

Leland G.Charles
    $400 7
come home

Leland G.
    $400 12
arugula

Edie
    $400 17
call waiting

Leland G.
    $400 27
mead

Edie
    $600 22
Gene Kelly

Edie
    $600 3
Isaac

Charles
    $600 8
eyes

Charles
    $600 13
pâte

Edie
    $600 18
ladies-in-waiting

Charles
    $2,000 28
(Edie: What is...the Middle Stone Age?)
...
(Alex: You were on the right track, but we needed the word.)

the Mesolithic

Edie
    $800 24
Paula Abdul

Edie
    $800 5
Mary

Charles
    $800 10
India

Charles
    $800 14
filet mignon

Edie
    $800 20
Waiting for Godot

Charles
    $800 29
moss

Charles
    $1000 25
(Alex: And I'm grateful that you've forgotten.)

Rob Lowe

Triple Stumper
    $1000 6
Joel

Charles
    $1000 11
"Away In A Manger"

Edie
    $1000 15
sponge cake

Edie
    $1000 23
Waiting to Exhale

Edie
    $1000 30
a smithy (or blacksmith)

Charles

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

Leland G. Edie Charles
$1,400 $3,800 $3,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Leland G. Edie Charles
$1,800 $4,800 $7,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

SHAKESPEARE-POURRI
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
THE TEMPEST
HAMLET
MUCH "ADO" ABOUT NOTHING
    $400 1
Romeo & Juliet

Charles
    $400 26
Bruce Willis

Leland G.
    $400 13
wheat

Leland G.
    $400 11
hail

Leland G.
    $400 21
(Alex: [*]--Good series.)

Deadwood

Leland G.
    $400 3
Mikado

Charles
    $800 2
(Alex: It's the first time you saw [*] in print.)

alligator

Triple Stumper
    $800 27
Lee Majors

Leland G.
    $800 17
a quart

Edie
    $800 12
Niña

Edie
    $7,000 22
Key West

Leland G.
    $800 4
sábado

Charles
    $1200 8
(Leland G: Who are the [*]?)
(Alex: No... Say it again.)
(Leland G.: [*])
(Alex: Yes.)

groundlings

Leland G.
    $1200 28
(Alex: And that actress was [*].)

Gwyneth Paltrow

Triple Stumper
    $1200 18
motor oil

Edie
    $1200 14
the Indian

Leland G.
    $1200 23
Hot Springs

Edie
    $1200 5
Barbados

Charles
    $1600 9
(Charles: What is Twelfth Night?)

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Charles
Triple Stumper
    $1600 29
(Alex: His wife was [*].)

Amy Irving

Triple Stumper
    $1600 19
a link

Triple Stumper
    $1600 15
(Edie: What are hurricanes?)

tornadoes

Leland G.Edie
    $1600 24
the Dionne Quintuplets

Leland G.
    $2,000 6
radon

Charles
    $2000 10
As You Like It

Triple Stumper
    $2000 30
Linda Hamilton

Charles
    $2000 20
a foot

Charles
    $2000 16
the Coriolis effect

Edie
    $2000 25
Winesburg, Ohio

Triple Stumper
    $2000 7
Adonis

Charles

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Leland G. Edie Charles
$16,800 $9,200 $16,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ADVERTISING ICONS
EdieWho are Michelin and Marlboro?
$0
CharlesWho is the Marlboro Man?
$10,000
Leland G.Who is the Good Humor Man + the Michelin Man
$15,601
the Michelin Man & the Marlboro Man

Final scores:

Leland G. Edie Charles
$1,199 $9,200 $6,200
3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $9,200 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Leland G. Edie Charles
$10,600 $11,200 $15,800
17 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 15 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $37,600

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Game tape date: 2009-01-20
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