Responses for Show #5812 - Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Contestants

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Naomi Schwer Bricker, a librarian from New York, New York

Saif Rathore, an M.D.-Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut

Jennifer Montgomery, a jazz radio station development director from Encinitas, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,000)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

STATE FACTS
MUSICAL NAME ORIGINS
MIX-OLOGISTS
(Alex: You'll be presented with anagrams of various -ologies.)
FILL IN THE PLAY TITLE
IN BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY
TRANSLATE THE PORTUGUESE
    $200 1
Colorado

Naomi
    $200 22
ABBA

Naomi
    $200 17
urologist

Naomi
    $200 9
Our Town

Jennifer
    $200 4
arson

Jennifer
    $200 2
hello

Jennifer
    $1,000 5
Maine

Jennifer
    $400 23
Dire Straits

Triple Stumper
    $400 18
psychologist

Saif
    $400 13
Brighton Beach Memoirs

Naomi
    $400 27
possession

Naomi
    $400 3
good-bye

Saif
    $600 6
Utah

Jennifer
    $600 24
David Bowie

Jennifer
    $600 19
radiologist

Saif
    $600 14
Glengarry Glen Ross

Naomi
    $600 28
act of God

Naomi
    $600 10
please

Saif
    $800 7
New Hampshire

Jennifer
    $800 25
(Saif: What is Tesla?)

AC/DC

Saif
Triple Stumper
    $800 20
cardiologist

Jennifer
    $800 15
Uncle Vanya

Naomi
    $800 29
a plea

Naomi
    $800 11
thank you

Jennifer
    $1000 8
Hawaii

Naomi
    $1000 26
(Saif: What is Tin Lizzy?)
(Naomi: What is Tin Lizzy?)
(Alex: No. I thought that's what Saif said.)
[NOTE: Saif's "N" at the end of "Tin" sounded a little like a "D".]

Thin Lizzy

SaifNaomi
Triple Stumper
    $1000 21
neurologist

Jennifer
    $1000 16
(Alex: Yes, great play.)

Look Back in Anger

Naomi
    $1000 30
(Naomi: What is an indictment?)

an arraignment

JenniferNaomi
    $1000 12
yes

Triple Stumper

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

Jennifer Saif Naomi
$3,800 $1,000 $3,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jennifer Saif Naomi
$7,200 $200 $4,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

STATE FACTS
FLOWER GIRLS
NOTABLE AMERICANS
IT'S A GAS
BIBLE "R"OSTER
DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS
    $400 14
Daylight Savings Time

Jennifer
    $400 7
Daisy Duke

Jennifer
    $400 21
Physics

Saif
    $400 26
oxygen

Naomi
    $400 2
(Jennifer: Who is Rachel?)

Rhoda

JenniferNaomi
    $400 1
football

Naomi
    $800 17
Bulgaria

Saif
    $800 8
Rose Nylund

Naomi
    $800 22
Walt Whitman

Naomi
    $800 27
helium

Saif
    $800 3
Reuben

Jennifer
    $800 9
embarrassed

Naomi
    $1200 18
April

Triple Stumper
    $1200 13
Heather Graham

Naomi
    $1200 23
(Harvey) Milk

Jennifer
    $1200 30
the bends

Jennifer
    $1200 4
(Saif: Who is Rachel?)

Rebekah

SaifNaomi
    $1200 10
mozzarella

Jennifer
    $1600 19
the Sphinx

Saif
    $1600 15
Lily

Jennifer
    $3,000 24
(Alex: [*] Commission.)

(Earl) Warren

Jennifer
    $1600 29
(Saif: What are swamps?)
(Alex: No.)
(Saif: Bog?)
...
(Alex: It's a decomposition of coal, so it's found in [*].)

coal mines

Saif
Triple Stumper
    $1600 5
Ruth

Naomi
    $1600 11
kookaburra

Jennifer
    $2000 20
a secant

Triple Stumper
    $2000 16
Pansy

Jennifer
    $2000 25
(Alan Jay) Lerner

Naomi
    $2000 28
chlorine

Saif
    $2000 6
Raphael

Jennifer
    $4,000 12
(Jennifer: Who are... the Flemish?)
(Alex: No, you have the Flems and the [*].)

Walloons

Jennifer

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jennifer Saif Naomi
$18,200 $3,000 $13,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS
(Alex: This is probably too many years ago for you guys to remember, but there was a big, big controversy about [*]. And they were down, very few in number. They migrate, of course, from Canada, south.)
SaifWhat is a Heron? condor?
$2,900
NaomiWhat is The California Condor?
$7,500
JenniferWhat is a California Condor?
$9,401
the whooping crane

Final scores:

Jennifer Saif Naomi
$8,799 $100 $6,300
2-day champion: $28,799 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jennifer Saif Naomi
$20,200 $3,000 $13,800
22 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 9 R,
4 W		 21 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $37,000

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Game tape date: 2009-11-04
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