Responses for Show #5654 - Thursday, March 19, 2009

2009 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 2.
From Las Vegas.

Contestants

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Dave Simpson, a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland

Cora Peck, a high school teacher and grad student from Aliso Viejo, California

Larissa Kelly, a grad student from El Cerrito, California

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Jeopardy! Round responses

FIRST LADIES
A STORIED HISTORY
NATIONAL MEMORIALS
OTHER PLACES TO GAMBLE
WRITERS ON FILM
WORDS IN TOURNAMENT
(Alex: Each correct response will be a word that can be made up of the letters in the word "tournament".)
    $200 21
(Rosalynn) Carter

Cora
    $200 16
(James) Michener

Larissa
    $200 11
the Vietnam War memorial

Dave
    $200 6
the Yukon

Larissa
    $200 1
Hans Christian Andersen

Cora
    $200 26
mater

Dave
    $400 22
Mary Lincoln

Dave
    $400 17
Ireland

Dave
    $400 12
the Arizona

Larissa
    $400 7
Monte Carlo

Dave
    $400 2
Virginia Woolf

Larissa
    $400 27
a rut

Dave
    $600 23
Bess Truman

Dave
    $600 18
Sir Walter Scott

Larissa
    $600 13
United 93

Larissa
    $600 8
Laughlin

Larissa
    $1,000 3
Ernest Hemingway

Larissa
    $600 28
mane

Larissa
    $800 24
(Letitia) Tyler

Larissa
    $800 19
James Clavell

Cora
    $800 14
Huguenots

Larissa
    $800 9
Metropolis

Triple Stumper
    $800 4
Ted Hughes

Larissa
    $800 29
rote

Dave
    $1000 25
Lucy Hayes ("Lemonade Lucy")

Larissa
    $1000 20
Gore Vidal

Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
(Cora: Who is Ponce de León?)

(Hernando) de Soto

LarissaCora
    $1000 10
Foxwoods

Larissa
    $1000 5
Edna Ferber

Larissa
    $1000 30
tern

Larissa

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

Larissa Cora Dave
$7,800 -$800 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Larissa Cora Dave
$12,000 $200 $3,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE RIVER RHINE
COMEDY TONIGHT
PAINTINGS
THE CRUSADES
HARD STUFF
ADD AN ELEMENTAL SYMBOL
(Alex: We want you to give us the element's name in each response.)
    $400 25
Germany

Dave
    $400 1
Woody Allen

Dave
    $400 27
cardinals

Cora
    $400 30
Constantinople

Larissa
    $400 15
the electric chair

Larissa
    $400 7
potassium

Dave
    $800 26
the Netherlands

Dave
    $800 9
(Bernard) Madoff

Larissa
    $800 28
a cat

Larissa
    $800 29
God wills it

Triple Stumper
    $800 16
UCLA

Cora
    $800 10
(Dave: What is... [whispering to himself] S-N, S-N, S-N...)
...
(Alex: You had the right thought--S-N would give you "snow"; Sn is [*]. Stannous.)

tin

Dave
Triple Stumper
    $1200 24
(Cora: What is Paris?)

Vienna

CoraDave
    $1200 13
(Stephen) Colbert

Larissa
    $1200 2
(Larissa: Who is Goya?)

El Greco

LarissaDave
    $7,000 5
Eleanor of Aquitaine

Dave
    $1200 17
The Planets

Larissa
    $1200 11
bismuth

Larissa
    $4,000 22
(Larissa: What is Zurich?)
(Alex: No, Zurich and Geneva are the two largest but [*] is the third-largest.)

Basel

Larissa
    $1600 6
(Richard) Pryor

Larissa
    $1600 3
the Sabine Women

Cora
    $1600 20
(Dave: What are the Knights Templar?)

the Knights Hospitallers

Dave
Triple Stumper
    $1600 18
Nimitz

Larissa
    $1600 12
(Alex: [*], correct, for fife.)

iron

Cora
    $2000 23
Lorelei

Larissa
    $2000 8
Steven Wright

Cora
    $2000 4
(Alex: Yes, [*], Domine?)

Quo vadis?

Dave
    $2000 21
Barbarossa (Frederick I)

Triple Stumper
    $2000 19
the Congo

Larissa
    $2000 14
(Larissa: What is plutonium?)
...
(Alex: The word you're going for is "inept", and it would be [*].)

platinum

Larissa
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Larissa Cora Dave
$18,000 $5,400 $14,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

GODS OF ANCIENT EGYPT
(Alex: The jackal-headed god.)
CoraWho is No Idea?
$0
DaveWho is Sirius?
$3,600
LarissaWho is Anubis?
$12,000
Anubis

Final scores:

Larissa Cora Dave
$30,000 $5,400 $10,800
Finalist 3rd place: $10,000 2nd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Larissa Cora Dave
$21,600 $5,400 $8,600
28 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 8 R,
2 W		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $35,600

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Game tape date: 2009-01-10
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