Responses for Show #5779 - Thursday, October 29, 2009

Christine Valada game 4.

Contestants

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Sara Kniffen, a graduate student from Vermillion, South Dakota

Ed Perez-Giz, a tutor from New York, New York

Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York (whose 3-day cash winnings total $54,403)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

METAFICTION
MOBISODES
TEA 'N T
WHICH CAME FIRST?
I FEEL LIKE SUCH AN IDIOM
THE E.U.
    $200 9
Gone with the Wind

Sara
    $200 25
The Sopranos

Sara
    $200 17
China

Christine
    $200 12
an abacus

Christine
    $200 6
throw caution to the wind

Ed
    $200 1
Brussels

Ed
    $400 21
Robinson Crusoe

Ed
    $400 26
(Christine: What is [*], the original?)

Law & Order

Christine
    $400 18
(Ed: What is a T-bond?)

a T-bill

Ed
Triple Stumper
    $400 13
a yo-yo

Sara
    $400 7
strike a happy medium

Sara
    $400 2
mad cow disease

Christine
    $600 22
Ulysses

Ed
    $600 27
(Christine: What is Starsky & Hutch?)
(Ed: What is Starsky?)

Hutch

ChristineEdSara
    $600 19
a flush

Ed
    $600 14
a phonograph

Christine
    $600 8
hiding your light under a bushel (keeping your light underneath a bushel accepted)

Christine
    $600 3
(Sara: What is Luxembourg?)

the Netherlands

EdSara
    $800 23
Grendel

Christine
    $800 28
Las Vegas

Ed
    $800 20
tonsillectomy

Sara
    $800 15
a safety pin

Christine
    $800 10
to pinch pennies

Sara
    $800 4
the European Economic Community

Ed
    $1000 24
Jane Eyre

Ed
    $1000 29
Wiseguy

Triple Stumper
    $1000 30
a T square

Christine
    $1000 16
the typewriter

Christine
    $1000 11
to be muscle-bound

Ed
    $1,600 5
(Ed: Uh, I've waited over 20 years to say this, so let's make it a True Daily Double.)
(Alex: All right. I hope you don't regret it. Here is the clue...)
...
(Ed: What is Albania?)
(Alex: No, Albania's not in there yet.)

Austria

Ed

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

Christine Ed Sara
$2,600 $1,200 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Christine Ed Sara
$5,400 $3,600 $2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

CLASSICAL MUSIC
MOVIES BY THE NUMBERS
MOST POPULOUS CITY IN THE STATE
A DATE
SEMITIC LANGUAGES
THE "EU"
    $400 17
(Sara: What is a concerto?)

a serenade

Sara
Triple Stumper
    $400 1
The Four Musketeers

Christine
    $400 6
Seattle

Ed
    $400 11
a buttonhole

Sara
    $400 12
Aramaic

Ed
    $400 19
a euphemism

Ed
    $800 18
the London Symphony Orchestra

Ed
    $800 2
The Seven Year Itch

Sara
    $800 7
Minneapolis

Sara
    $800 13
[Christine gave both listed responses.]

paper (or parchment)

Christine
    $800 25
Ethiopia & Eritrea

Sara
    $800 20
eureka

Ed
    $1200 22
Wagner

Triple Stumper
    $1200 3
Sixteen Candles

Sara
    $1200 8
(Christine: Um, what is Montpelier?)

Burlington

Christine
Triple Stumper
    $1200 14
blush

Triple Stumper
    $2,000 26
(Sara: Who are the Arabs?)

the Phoenicians

Sara
    $1200 21
eugenics

Christine
    $1600 23
Johann Sebastian Bach

Triple Stumper
    $1600 4
Five Easy Pieces

Christine
    $1600 9
(Sara: What is St. Louis?)

Kansas City

EdSara
    $1600 15
(Ed: What is golf?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
[Ed gave both listed responses.]

mini-golf (or putt-putt)

Ed
    $1600 27
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

a glottal stop

Sara
    $600 24
[During Alex's read of the clue, Christine laughs and pumps her fist, as if she knows the correct response and regrets not betting more.]
(Christine: What is Night on Bald Mountain?)
(Alex: No. Sorry.)
(Christine: Oh, good.)
(Alex: That's Mussorgsky, I believe.)
(Christine: Oh.)
(Alex: [*] is Camille Saint-Saens. Less than a minute now.)

the Danse macabre

Christine
    $2000 5
The 39 Steps

Christine
    $2000 10
(Christine: What is Cleveland?)
(Sara: What is Cincinnati?)

Columbus

ChristineSara
Triple Stumper
    $2000 16
[Christine delivers the response come-hitherly and garners a laugh from the audience.]
(Alex: Those are the ones you did not lose in the fire.)
(Christine: That's right.)

my etchings

Christine

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Christine Ed Sara
$9,600 $9,600 $2,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA
[As soon as Christine's response is revealed, applause from one person erupts and then abruptly stops.]
(Alex: And one person in the audience says, "Hey, you're right.")
SaraWhat is Doubt?
$0
EdWhat is Time
$9,600
ChristineWhat is Proof?
$4,700
(1 of) Proof & Doubt

Final scores:

Christine Ed Sara
$14,300 $0 $2,400
4-day champion: $68,703 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Christine Ed Sara
$10,200 $11,200 $4,400
16 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $25,800

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Game tape date: 2009-09-29
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