Responses for Show #5759 - Thursday, October 1, 2009

Andy Srinivasan game 5.

Contestants

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Jenifer Thomas, a teacher assistant from Jacksonville, North Carolina

Cheryl Williams, an infectious disease epidemiologist from Atlanta, Georgia

Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina (whose 4-day cash winnings total $69,600)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

AN OCTOBER FIRST FEST
ODE TO BILLY JOEL
STUPID ANSWERS: GERMAN EDITION
WHAT, ME HURRY?
I READ IT IN A BOOK ONCE
(Alex: You have to name the book.)
"T-H-E"
    $200 26
Gorbachev

Cheryl
    $200 6
"Piano Man"

Jenifer
    $200 1
milk

Jenifer
    $200 16
7:00 P.M.

Jenifer
    $200 11
Charlotte's Web

Jenifer
    $200 21
a feather

Andy
    $400 27
Pope John Paul II

Jenifer
    $400 7
"Uptown Girl"

Cheryl
    $400 2
reindeer

Jenifer
    $400 17
February 22

Jenifer
    $400 12
The Silence of the Lambs

Andy
    $400 22
a tithe

Andy
    $600 28
Nuremberg

Jenifer
    $600 8
Elton John

Andy
    $600 3
a Bar Mitzvah

Andy
    $1,000 18
October 15

Jenifer
    $600 13
To Kill a Mockingbird

Cheryl
    $600 23
Mother Superior

Triple Stumper
    $800 29
Turkey

Cheryl
    $800 9
"Only The Good Die Young"

Andy
    $800 4
a museum of modern art

Andy
    $800 19
4

Jenifer
    $800 14
(Alex: Great scene in the film with Sir Laurence Olivier--the [*]. "Is it safe?" Cheryl, is it?)
(Cheryl: Uh, let's hope it's safe to, uh, READ IT IN A BOOK for $1,000.)

Marathon Man

Triple Stumper
    $800 24
hypothermia

Andy
    $1000 30
Panama

Cheryl
    $1000 10
(Andy: What is Glass House?)

Glass Houses

AndyCheryl
    $1000 5
blood is thicker than water

Jenifer
    $1000 20
(Cheryl: What is fifteen?)
…
(Alex: Yes, Eastern time zone, 3 hour difference.)

75

CherylJenifer
    $1000 15
Heart of Darkness

Cheryl
    $1000 25
an apothecary

Jenifer

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

Andy Cheryl Jenifer
$2,200 $3,000 $2,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Andy Cheryl Jenifer
$3,600 $4,000 $7,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

PUNCTUATION
DASH
PERIOD
QUESTION, MARK
EXCLAMATION "POINT"!
COLIN POWELL
    $400 6
(Cheryl: What is ampersand?)

forward slash

CherylJenifer
    $400 26
Charles Barkley

Triple Stumper
    $400 21
coal

Andy
    $400 11
Mark Anthony

Jenifer
    $400 1
an appointment

Andy
    $400 16
Harlem

Triple Stumper
    $800 7
brackets

Cheryl
    $800 27
the combine

Andy
    $800 22
Quaternary

Andy
    $800 12
(Andy: Who is Milton?)
(Alex: No... Who is my favorite author, [*]?)

Mark Twain

Andy
Triple Stumper
    $800 2
needlepoint

Jenifer
    $800 17
John F. Kennedy

Jenifer
    $1200 8
a semicolon

Andy
    $1200 28
(Alex: And the Brit who broke the 4-minute mile, [*].)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Roger Bannister

Triple Stumper
    $1200 23
chalk

Triple Stumper
    $1200 13
(Mark) Russell

Andy
    $1200 3
a three-point turn

Andy
    $1200 18
(Andy: What is Reserve Officer Training Corps?)
[Originally accepted as correct; reversed before Daily Double at clue 24 because "Although some people refer to it as the Reserve Officer Training Corps, the Army has it pluralized, Reserve Officers, and so we deduct $2,400."]

Reserve Officers Training Corps

Andy
Triple Stumper
    $1600 9
a comma

Jenifer
    $3,000 24
Pangaea

Andy
    $1600 14
Rothko

Cheryl
    $1600 4
(Jenifer: What is focal point?)
(Cheryl: What is viewpoint?)

vantage point

CherylJenifer
Triple Stumper
    $1600 19
Grenada

Andy
    $1,400 10
(Jenifer: What is a colon?)

an ellipsis

Jenifer
    $2000 25
eon, era & epoch

Jenifer
    $2000 15
the Dog in the Night-time

Triple Stumper
    $2000 5
point-blank

Andy
    $2000 20
(Rush) Limbaugh

Andy

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Andy Cheryl Jenifer
$16,200 $4,400 $10,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

GEOGRAPHIC NAMES
CherylWhat is Australia
$202
JeniferWhat is Canada?
$3,000
AndyWhat is Germany?
$4,601
Canada

Final scores:

Andy Cheryl Jenifer
$11,599 $4,198 $13,400
2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $13,400

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Andy Cheryl Jenifer
$14,800 $4,400 $11,400
19 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 9 R,
3 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $30,600

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Game tape date: 2009-08-05
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