Responses for Show #5751 - Monday, September 21, 2009

Contestants

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Austin Mercadante, a graduate student of ornithology from Auburn, Alabama

Diane Armstrong, a consultant and retired Navy officer from Alexandria, Virginia

Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota (whose 2-day cash winnings total $22,001)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ASTRONOMY
ROCK STARS' BACKSTAGE NEEDS
THE "UNITED" NATIONS
AWKWARD
FIX THE SPOONERISM
PRODUCE
    $200 2
the Hubble Telescope

Gary
    $200 1
(Ozzy) Osbourne

Austin
    $200 5
the United Arab Emirates

Austin
    $200 8
Sarah Palin

Austin
    $200 24
slips of the tongue

Austin
    $200 18
grapes

Austin
    $400 3
Saturn

Gary
    $400 14
M&M's

Gary
    $400 13
the United Arab Emirates

Triple Stumper
    $400 9
Roberts

Gary
    $400 25
a pack of lies

Gary
    $400 19
a pumpkin

Gary
    $600 4
Orion

Diane
    $600 15
Billy Idol

Gary
    $600 23
(Diane: What is the United States?)
…
(Alex: [To Austin] Ohhh, you sly devil, you're right. Minute to go, now.)

the United Arab Emirates

DianeAustin
    $600 10
China

Austin
    $600 26
"save the whales"

Gary
    $600 20
spinach

Gary
    $1,000 6
(Austin: Ooh. What is, uh, the Sun and Neptune?)
(Alex: No, [*].
(Austin: Oh.)
(Alex: You had to go for the obvious.)

the Sun and the Earth

Austin
    $800 16
Axl Rose

Gary
    $800 29
(Diane: What is the United Emirates?)
(Austin: What are the United Arab Emirates?)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

the United Kingdom

DianeAustin
Triple Stumper
    $800 11
Ahmadinejad

Gary
    $800 27
fall through the cracks

Gary
    $800 21
a pineapple

Gary
    $1000 7
Mt. Palomar

Diane
    $1000 17
Mariah Carey

Gary
    $1000 12
(Alan) Greenspan

Gary
    $1000 28
better late than never

Gary
    $1000 22
zucchini

Diane

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Gary Diane Austin
$3,200 $1,600 $200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Gary Diane Austin
$10,200 $1,200 $400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

A FEW OUNCES OF EZRA POUND
CROSSWORD CLUES "P"
1861 YEARBOOK: MOST LIKELY TO SECEDE
THE POPE-ARAZZI
TRANSPORTATION
PRODUCE
    $400 21
Italy

Diane
    $400 7
Pomp

Gary
    $400 1
Texas

Austin
    $400 12
(Diane: Who are the Medicis?)

the Borgias

Diane
Triple Stumper
    $400 6
private jets

Austin
    $400 22
(Orson) Welles

Gary
    $1,000 27
(Austin: Who is Geoffrey Hill?)
(Alex: No. Who is [*]?)
(Austin: Oops.)
(Alex: I have not heard of Geoffrey Hill.)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
(Austin: [Chuckles] He's my advisor.)
(Alex: Okay.)

Ernest Hemingway

Austin
    $800 8
primate

Austin
    $800 2
Louisiana

Gary
    $800 13
Galileo

Gary
    $800 17
a canoe

Triple Stumper
    $800 23
(George) Clooney

Gary
    $1200 9
platypus

Austin
    $1200 3
Florida

Triple Stumper
    $1200 14
(Gary: What are nuncio?)

States

GaryAustin
    $1200 18
a spoiler

Gary
    $1200 24
(Alex: [*], good, with a minute to go.)

Ron Howard

Austin
    $1600 10
plaintiff

Austin
    $3,000 4
Virginia

Gary
    $1600 15
Trent

Gary
    $1600 19
a Segway

Austin
    $1600 25
Jerry Bruckheimer

Triple Stumper
    $2000 11
plebeian

Austin
    $2000 5
Arizona

Triple Stumper
    $2000 16
Voltaire

Triple Stumper
    $2000 20
Indian

Gary
    $2000 26
Mike Todd

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Gary Diane Austin
$20,000 $1,200 $9,800
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE INTERNET
DianeWhat is a dash?
$700
AustinWhat is a slash
$42
GaryWhat is ?
$0
a dash

Final scores:

Gary Diane Austin
$20,000 $1,900 $9,758
3-day champion: $42,001 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Gary Diane Austin
$18,600 $1,200 $11,800
25 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 4 R,
3 W		 16 R,
3 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $31,600

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Game tape date: 2009-07-28
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