Responses for Show #5774 - Thursday, October 22, 2009

Contestants

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Randie Kim, a medical student from Elk Grove, California

Paul Christiansen, a music professor from Portland, Maine

Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,410)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

TAOISM
CELEBS WHO TWITTER
A WORD ABOUT FOOD
I LEARNED IT FROM WORLD BOOK
RHYME TIME
ADS WITH VERBS
    $200 17
Confucius

Jen
    $200 22
John McCain

Triple Stumper
    $200 16
Neapolitan

Paul
    $200 1
Calvin Coolidge

Paul
    $200 6
(Randie: What is, uh...)

to throw dough

JenRandie
    $200 11
be

Jen
    $400 27
acupuncture

Jen
    $400 23
Ashton Kutcher & Demi Moore

Jen
    $400 18
baking soda

Randie
    $400 2
whooping cough

Paul
    $400 7
true blue

Jen
    $400 12
deserve

Paul
    $600 28
Heaven

Triple Stumper
    $600 24
Lance Armstrong

Randie
    $1,000 19
(Randie: What... are... sesame seeds?)

a tomato

Randie
    $600 3
Libya

Paul
    $600 8
Punch's lunches

Randie
    $600 13
try

Paul
    $800 29
yin & yang

Randie
    $800 25
Michael Phelps

Jen
    $800 20
(Randie: What is lettuce?)

a melon

JenRandie
    $800 4
(Randie: What is Mutiny on the Bounty?)

The Caine Mutiny

PaulRandie
    $800 9
a tick flick

Randie
    $800 14
think

Jen
    $1000 30
tai chi

Randie
    $1000 26
Diablo Cody

Randie
    $1000 21
cream of tartar

Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
Helmut Kohl

Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
a Shuttle rebuttal

Jen
    $1000 15
(Alex: Those were fun ads, but many, many years ago.)

see

Triple Stumper

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

Jen Paul Randie
$2,600 $3,000 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jen Paul Randie
$5,200 $3,200 $2,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

NAME THE AUTHOR
OTHER PLANETS IN MOVIES
PARTY LIKE IT'S 1499
SLIP-POURRI
O____O GEOGRAPHY
(Alex: Each correct response will begin and end with the letter O.)
ADVERBS
    $400 1
Anne Rice

Paul
    $400 26
Krypton

Jen
    $400 11
the Pietà

Paul
    $400 21
a Freudian slip

Paul
    $400 6
Ontario

Randie
    $400 16
topically

Triple Stumper
    $800 2
(Alexandre) Dumas

Randie
    $800 27
Tatooine

Randie
    $800 15
Ferdinand & Isabella

Paul
    $800 22
Slip 'N Slide

Randie
    $800 7
Orlando

Randie
    $800 17
deeply

Jen
    $2,800 3
(Alex: The author of Fahrenheit 451, correct.)

Ray Bradbury

Randie
    $1200 28
Cybertron

Triple Stumper
    $1200 14
(Paul: What is Tudor?)

Plantagenet (York accepted)

PaulRandie
    $1200 23
an eel

Triple Stumper
    $1200 8
the Orinoco

Randie
    $1200 18
formerly

Jen
    $1600 4
(Alex: Yes, Tuesdays with Morrie.)

Mitch Albom

Jen
    $1600 29
Remulak

Triple Stumper
    $1600 12
Switzerland

Paul
    $1600 24
an orchid

Randie
    $1600 9
Oslo

Paul
    $1600 19
(Jen: What is lightly?)

gently

Jen
Triple Stumper
    $2000 5
(Alex: Yes, The Maltese Falcon is the book.)

Dashiell Hammett

Randie
    $2000 30
(Paul: What's IBM?)
...
(Alex: You had to take a chance there, Paul.)
(Paul: I had to take a chance.)
(Alex: Yeah, you had no money. You wouldn't have been around to play in Final Jeopardy! anyway. And now you definitely will not be around, because you're at -$2,000.)

Altair

Paul
Triple Stumper
    $5,200 13
(Alex: And look at the scores. You have exactly half of Randie's total. She's in the lead with $10,400.)
(Paul: Make it a True Daily Double, Alex.)
(Alex: All right. You'll be tied with her if you are correct on this clue...)
...
(Paul: Who was Dias?)

Vasco da Gama

Paul
    $2000 25
[ERRATUM: Although it is a state school, the name of the school is Slippery Rock University of [*], not Slippery Rock State University.]

Pennsylvania

Jen
    $2000 10
(Paul: What is Ohio?)

the Oswego

Paul
Triple Stumper
    $2000 20
paternally

Jen

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jen Paul Randie
$11,600 -$2,000 $14,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. SCIENCE CITIES
(Alex: I don't know if it would have helped if I had told you it has the atomic number 97, but who knows?)
...
(Alex: Berkelium.)
JenWhat is Berkeley?
$5,000
RandieWhat is Berkeley?
$8,401
Berkeley

Final scores:

Jen Paul Randie
$16,600 -$2,000 $23,201
2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $23,201

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jen Paul Randie
$11,600 $3,200 $14,200
16 R,
1 W		 13 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $29,000

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Game tape date: 2009-09-23
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