Responses for Show #5820 - Friday, December 25, 2009

Stephen Weingarten game 2.

Contestants

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Susan Holmes-Garrity, an ESL high school teacher from Collingswood, New Jersey

Michael Boucher, a research analyst from Sacramento, California

Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,200)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

SHIRLEY MacLAINE
THE APARTMENT
TERMS OF ENGINEERMENT
COCOA CHANNEL
POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE
"SWEET" CHARITY
    $200 6
Shirley Temple

Michael
    $200 11
Allstate

Stephen
    $200 1
(Stephen: What is Progress Works?)
(Susan: What is Project Works?)

Public Works

StephenMichaelSusan
    $200 21
Pebbles

Michael
    $200 26
a dam

Michael
    $200 16
sweet-and-sour

Stephen
    $400 7
Warren Beatty

Susan
    $400 12
Raid

Stephen
    $400 2
oil (or lubricant)

Stephen
    $400 22
marshmallows

Susan
    $400 27
the Gateway Arch

Stephen
    $400 17
[Michael can be seen trying to ring in immediately after Alex finishes reading the clue but before being alerted that it is an audio clue with a music clip to accompany it.]

"Sweet Home Alabama"

Michael
    $600 8
Ocean's Eleven

Susan
    $600 13
DirecTV

Michael
    $600 3
Saudi Arabia

Michael
    $600 23
truffles

Michael
    $600 28
Morocco

Michael
    $600 18
the sweet spot

Stephen
    $800 9
The Exorcist

Stephen
    $800 14
(Susan: What is an elevator?)

a toilet

StephenSusan
    $800 4
electrical engineering

Michael
    $800 24
Ivory Coast

Susan
    $800 29
Angel Falls

Stephen
    $800 19
sweet sorrow

Susan
    $1000 10
Clint Eastwood

Michael
    $1000 15
Nissan

Stephen
    $1000 5
(Stephen: What is Aeronautical?)

Aerospace Engineering

Stephen
Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
cocoa butter

Susan
    $1000 30
Dubai

Susan
    $1,000 20
(Susan: What are ivy leaves?)
(Alex: No. Gregor Mendel was the man involved and his work on genetics with [*].)

sweet peas

Susan

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

Stephen Michael Susan
$2,400 $3,400 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Stephen Michael Susan
$4,400 $5,400 $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

PRESIDENTS AT REST
TV TITLE REFERENCES
XMAS NEWS & NOTES
LITERARY SEVENS
LET'S VISIT AN AQUARIUM
CROSSWORD CLUES "A"
    $400 26
Lincoln

Susan
    $400 16
Cold Case

Stephen
    $400 3
(Susan: What is cheer?)

health

MichaelSusan
    $400 1
Wisdom

Susan
    $400 6
Superior

Stephen
    $400 11
an abacus

Susan
    $800 27
Reagan

Susan
    $800 17
Medium

Stephen
    $800 4
Tiny Tim

Stephen
    $800 2
Thebes

Michael
    $800 7
clams

Stephen
    $800 12
ascend

Susan
    $1200 28
John Adams & John Quincy Adams

Michael
    $1200 18
Ghost Whisperer

Michael
    $1200 23
Miracle On 34th Street

Susan
    $1,500 5
(Stephen: Who is... Mary Shelley?)
(Alex: No. [*], Out of Africa, the author of that work.)

Karen Blixen (or Isak Dinesen)

Stephen
    $1200 8
Monterey

Michael
    $1200 13
aorta

Stephen
    $1600 29
Woodrow Wilson

Triple Stumper
    $1600 19
(Alex: And that series is called [*], a spinoff of Grey's Anatomy.)

Private Practice

Triple Stumper
    $1600 24
a goose

Susan
    $1600 21
May

Susan
    $1600 9
a hermit crab

Stephen
    $1600 14
alms

Stephen
    $2000 30
(Michael: Who is Zachary Taylor?)
...
(Alex: The second, of course, was JFK. The first was [*].)

William Howard Taft

Michael
Triple Stumper
    $2000 20
(Michael: What is Ed?)

Chuck

Michael
Triple Stumper
    $2,000 25
"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"

Susan
    $2000 22
Leon Uris

Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
Amazon

Stephen
    $2000 15
acute

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Stephen Michael Susan
$12,500 $6,200 $11,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

CLASSICAL MUSIC
(Alex: The chorus is very well-known, of course, and we are looking for this 1741 work.)
MichaelWhat is the Requiem?
$6,000
SusanWhat is Messiah?
$1,401
StephenWhat is Handel's Messiah?
$12,200
Handel's Messiah

Final scores:

Stephen Michael Susan
$24,700 $200 $13,201
2-day champion: $47,900 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Stephen Michael Susan
$14,000 $6,200 $12,800
19 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)
16 R,
2 W
16 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $33,000

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Game tape date: 2009-11-10
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