Responses for Show #5809 - Thursday, December 10, 2009

Contestants

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Seyi Fayanju, an environmental advocate from New York, New York

Leigh Rosenecker, a stay-at-home mom from Morgantown, West Virginia

Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $34,401)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

HISTORICAL OPERAS
CELEBRITY CARDS
ANAGRAMMED SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS
STOP!
HAMMER TIME
U CAN'T TOUCH THIS
    $200 1
Russia

Seyi
    $200 11
Ace Ventura

Seyi
    $200 16
Hamlet

Leigh
    $200 6
antitrust

Seyi
    $200 21
John Henry

Jove
    $200 26
the sun

Jove
    $400 2
the Inca Empire

Seyi
    $400 12
Deuce Bigalow

Jove
    $400 17
Othello

Jove
    $400 7
(Seyi: Who is... Calamity Jane?)

Carrie Nation

Seyi
Triple Stumper
    $400 22
a hammerhead shark

Seyi
    $400 27
a leprechaun

Jove
    $600 3
(Jove: Who is Rigoletto?)

Attila (the Hun)

JoveSeyi
    $600 13
Queen Latifah

Leigh
    $600 18
Prospero

Leigh
    $600 8
Beethoven

Leigh
    $3,800 23
Habitat for Humanity

Seyi
    $600 28
the Eagle

Jove
    $800 4
Harriet Tubman

Jove
    $800 14
Trey Parker

Leigh
    $800 19
King Lear

Seyi
    $800 9
Maginot

Seyi
    $800 24
(Alex: Good dancer, too, huh?)
(Jove: Yeah.)

Tom DeLay

Jove
    $800 29
the Mariana Trench

Jove
    $1000 5
El Cid

Seyi
    $1000 15
Jaime King

Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
Portia

Leigh
    $1000 10
Guy Fawkes

Jove
    $1000 25
Mike Hammer

Jove
    $1000 30
plutonium

Jove

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

Jove Leigh Seyi
$1,600 $2,000 $3,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jove Leigh Seyi
$7,000 $3,800 $8,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ORGANIZATIONS
PITCHING THE PERFECT GAME
STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES
FRUIT BOWL
URBAN DICTIONARY
INSIDE A B-17
(Kelly: From the Museum of Flight, the world's only flyable F-model of this World War II workhorse.)
    $400 12
the AMA (the American Medical Association)

Seyi
    $400 17
Cy Young

Jove
    $400 2
Boston

Seyi
    $400 1
apples

Jove
    $400 7
a beard

Seyi
    $400 26
Fortress

Seyi
    $800 13
the ASPCA

Jove
    $800 22
Randy Johnson

Jove
    $800 3
Austin

Leigh
    $800 18
grapes

Seyi
    $800 8
regifting

Leigh
    $800 27
ball bearings

Leigh
    $1200 14
the Lutheran Church

Leigh
    $1200 23
the Oakland A's

Triple Stumper
    $1200 4
Montpelier

Seyi
    $1200 19
cherries

Leigh
    $1200 9
a bromance

Seyi
    $1200 28
the navigator

Jove
    $1600 15
NATO

Jove
    $1600 24
Kenny Rogers

Leigh
    $1600 5
Sacramento

Seyi
    $1600 20
plums

Triple Stumper
    $1600 10
good times

Jove
    $1600 29
the ball turret

Triple Stumper
    $2000 16
the Federalist Society

Seyi
    $2000 25
Mark Buehrle

Triple Stumper
    $10,000 6
(Seyi: I'll wager $10,000.)
(Alex: Whew! $10,000. Okay. Remember, he's a Geography Bee champion. Will that help on this clue?)

Frankfort

Seyi
    $4,800 21
pineapples

Leigh
    $2000 11
dooced

Triple Stumper
    $2000 30
(Alex: Oh, you're all too young to remember [*].)

the Norden bombsight

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jove Leigh Seyi
$13,800 $15,000 $26,400

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Final Jeopardy! Round responses

1989 NO. 1 HITS
(Alex: And he is still performing today.)
JoveWhat is Istanbul?
$12,799
LeighWhat is We Didn't Start the Fire?
$11,398
SeyiWhat is Born In The USA
$3,601
"We Didn't Start The Fire" (by Billy Joel)

Final scores:

Jove Leigh Seyi
$1,001 $26,398 $22,799
3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $26,398 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jove Leigh Seyi
$13,800 $12,200 $15,200
19 R,
1 W		 13 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 20 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $41,200

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Game tape date: 2009-11-03
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