Responses for Show #5653 - Wednesday, March 18, 2009

2009 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 1.
From Las Vegas.

Contestants

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Donna Vogel, a scientist from Bethesda, Maryland

Matt Kohlstedt, a grad student originally from La Grange, Illinois

Dan Pawson, a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts

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Jeopardy! Round responses

18th CENTURY LITERATURE
WORLD MUSIC
ALSO A VEGAS CASINO
CHALLENGING THE BARTENDER
EXPLORERS & EXPLORATION
"C-E-S"
    $200 21
Franklin

Dan
    $200 1
Coldplay

Dan
    $200 17
Venetian

Dan
    $200 11
vodka

Dan
    $200 6
the Nile

Dan
    $200 26
an ancestor

Matt
    $400 22
Moll Flanders

Dan
    $400 2
Rihanna

Triple Stumper
    $400 19
the flamingo

Triple Stumper
    $400 12
apple

Matt
    $400 7
(Matthew) Henson

Dan
    $400 27
Pisces

Donna
    $600 23
Pure Reason

Dan
    $600 3
Keith Urban

Triple Stumper
    $600 20
the golden nugget

Dan
    $600 13
gin

Dan
    $600 8
Jolliet

Dan
    $600 28
a diocese

Triple Stumper
    $800 24
(Jonathan) Swift

Matt
    $800 4
(Donna: Who is Norah Jones?)

Nelly Furtado

Donna
Triple Stumper
    $2,200 16
(Alex: And it's just down the road from us right now.)

the stratosphere

Matt
    $800 14
rum

Matt
    $800 9
(Bartholomeu) Dias

Dan
    $800 29
cesium

Dan
    $1000 25
epistolary

Dan
    $1000 5
(Carla) Bruni

Matt
    $1000 18
hooters

Matt
    $1000 15
(Donna: What's a blue Hawaiian?)

a blue lagoon

Donna
Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
Abel Tasman

Triple Stumper
    $1000 30
a cesta

Triple Stumper

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

Dan Matt Donna
$3,000 $2,200 -$1,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Dan Matt Donna
$6,800 $6,400 -$1,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

SOUTH AFRICA
GEEK TV
WHAT'S THAT NUMBER?
TOUGH POTPOURRI
SHAKESPEAREAN JEOPORTMANTEAU!
THE WORLD COURT
(Jimmy: Deciding international issues here in The Hague.)
    $400 22
apartheid

Dan
    $400 8
24

Matt
    $400 1
2

Dan
    $400 25
asteroids

Donna
    $400 9
Macbethanol

Donna
    $400 16
Nicholas II

Dan
    $800 21
Christiaan Barnard

Donna
    $800 4
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Dan
    $800 2
(Donna: What are 13?)

12

Donna
Triple Stumper
    $800 26
English

Triple Stumper
    $800 10
Hamlettuce

Dan
    $800 17
Milosevic

Dan
    $1200 23
Lesotho

Dan
    $1200 5
Star Trek: TNG (The Next Generation)

Dan
    $1200 3
(Donna: 13.)

12

Donna
Triple Stumper
    $1200 27
(Dan: What are bonds?)

pearls

DanDonna
    $1200 11
Othellobotomy

Dan
    $1200 18
camera

Dan
    $1600 24
Pretoria

Donna
    $1600 6
Dwight Schrute

Dan
    $2,600 14
(Matt: What is... 12?)
(Alex: You should have turned to your left and asked Donna, because she would have said [*], and she would have been right.)
[Laughter]

13

Matt
    $1600 28
Daniel Ellsberg

Donna
    $1600 12
Troilus and Cressidada

Matt
    $5,000 19
Rwanda

Dan
    $2000 30
the Orange River

Triple Stumper
    $2000 7
Comic Book Guy

Matt
    $2000 15
(Dan: What--is--6?)
(Matt: What is 5?)

7

DanMatt
Triple Stumper
    $2000 29
Thebes

Dan
    $2000 13
Titus Andronicuspidor

Triple Stumper
    $2000 20
the International Court of Justice

Dan

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Dan Matt Donna
$22,600 $5,800 $2,600
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ELVIS PRESLEY
(Alex: How appropriate since we're in Vegas.)
DonnaWhat is country music?
$0
MattWhat is country?
$200
DanWhat is Country?
$0
gospel music

Final scores:

Dan Matt Donna
$22,600 $5,600 $2,600
Finalist 2nd place: $10,000 3rd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Dan Matt Donna
$19,200 $7,000 $2,600
28 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
10 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)
7 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $28,800

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Game tape date: 2009-01-10
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