Responses for Show #5769 - Thursday, October 15, 2009

2009-2010 Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational quarterfinal game 2.

Contestants

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Michael McKean, a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer from Hairspray and The Pajama Game

Soledad O'Brien, an anchor and special correspondent from CNN's Special Investigations Unit

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA

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Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICAN HISTORY
FAMOUS O'BRIENS
GOOD BOOKS
OTHER SPORTS LEGENDS
ON THE COVER OF PEOPLE
STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS
    $200 6
the draft

Kareem
    $200 13
the Mouseketeers

Michael
    $200 1
Catcher in the Rye

Michael
    $200 11
(Michael: Who is Billie Jean King?)
(Soledad: Who is Venus Williams?)

Martina Navratilova

SoledadMichael
Triple Stumper
    $200 21
Jennifer Aniston

Soledad
    $400 7
a machine

Michael
    $400 14
Ireland

Michael
    $400 2
The Hobbit

Kareem
    $400 12
Rickey Henderson

Michael
    $400 22
Jon & Kate

Michael
    $600 8
Attorney General

Soledad
    $600 15
potatoes

Michael
    $600 3
Arthur Conan Doyle

Michael
    $600 18
Oscar De La Hoya

Triple Stumper
    $600 23
Michael J. Fox

Michael
    $800 9
Gemini

Michael
    $800 16
(Soledad: The heptath--what is the heptathlon?)

the decathlon

KareemSoledad
    $800 4
The Great Gatsby

Michael
    $800 19
(Alex: With a minute to go.)

Walter Payton

Kareem
    $800 24
Jennifer Lopez

Michael
    $1000 10
(Robert) Fulton

Kareem
    $1000 17
(Michael: What is Chicago?)
...
(Alex: Oh, you have to visit--Pat O'Brien's in [*], [*].)
(Michael: That's right.)

New Orleans

Michael
Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
(Kareem: Who is the Other?)

Beloved

KareemMichael
    $1000 20
Gordie Howe

Kareem
    $1000 25
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Michael

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 12):

Kareem Soledad Michael
$600 $400 $4,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Kareem Soledad Michael
$3,200 -$200 $7,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

HEALTH & MEDICINE
TV SOLE DADS
I WENT TO UCLA
JAZZ ODYSSEY
LISTEN TO THE FLOWER PEOPLE
BIG BOTTOM
(Alex: Bit of an inside joke there, isn't there, Michael?)
    $400 14
diabetes

Soledad
    $400 9
Hannah Montana

Soledad
    $400 21
(Kareem: Who is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?)
(Alex: No!)
[Laughter]
(Alex: You're the one who delivered the line, but it was about [*].)
(Kareem: Oh!)
(Alex: Embarrassing moments on Jeopardy!)

Bill Walton

Kareem
Triple Stumper
    $400 4
Thelonious Monk

Michael
    $400 24
bulbs

Soledad
    $400 1
the Mediterranean Sea

Kareem
    $800 15
frostbite

Michael
    $800 10
Baywatch

Soledad
    $8,000 22
(Kareem: Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?)
...
(Alex: Minute to go now, Kareem.)

Hillary Clinton

Kareem
    $800 5
Benny Goodman

Michael
    $3,000 25
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

April

Soledad
    $800 2
the Atlantic Ocean

Kareem
    $1200 16
a spinal tap

Kareem
    $1200 11
Bonanza

Michael
    $1200 23
(Soledad: Who is Martin Scorsese?)

Francis Ford Coppola

SoledadMichael
    $1200 6
Louis Armstrong

Michael
    $1200 3
a bottom-feeder

Michael
    $1600 17
mumps

Soledad
    $1600 12
NYPD Blue

Michael
    $1600 7
the Village Vanguard

Kareem
    $1600 19
the Gulf of Mexico

Kareem
    $2000 18
Lou Gehrig

Kareem
    $2000 13
My Three Sons

Soledad
    $2000 8
"Take Five"

Michael
    $2000 20
the Indian Ocean

Kareem

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Kareem Soledad Michael
$4,400 $7,200 $17,400
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

BIBLICAL NAMES
KareemWho is Methuselah
$4,400
Soledadwho is moses?
$1,000
MichaelWho is Methusala?
$7,400
Methuselah

Final scores:

Kareem Soledad Michael
$8,800 $6,200 $24,800
2nd place: $25,000 to the Skyhook Foundation 3rd place: $25,000 to the Soledad O'Brien and Brad Raymond Family Foundation Winner: $50,000 to the International Myeloma Foundation

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Kareem Soledad Michael
$12,400 $5,000 $17,400
13 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 9 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 23 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $34,800

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Game tape date: 2009-08-05
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