Responses for Show #5864 - Thursday, February 25, 2010

Contestants

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Ben Auer, a law clerk from Savannah, Georgia

Rhonda Scarborough, an arts administrator from Cincinnati, Ohio

Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $39,200)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ELEPHANTS IN LITERATURE
OSCAR WINNERS RHYME TIME
BREAKFAST AT EPIPHANY'S
VEAL OR NO VEAL
MIND THE "GAP"
THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
(Jimmy: The Boy Scouts of America--celebrating 100 years of building character.)
    $200 6
Tarzan (of the apes)

Rhonda
    $200 3
Al's gals

Ben
    $200 16
the Magi

Tom
    $200 21
Wiener schnitzel

Tom
    $200 10
stopgap

Tom
    $200 26
(Irving) Berlin

Tom
    $400 7
its trunk

Ben
    $400 4
Sean's fawns

Tom
    $400 17
(Ben: What is circumcision?)
[ERRATUM: Jesus was baptized as an adult, not a baby.]

baptism

RhondaBen
    $400 22
potatoes

Rhonda
    $400 11
(Rhonda: What is Gallipolli?)

Singapore

Rhonda
Triple Stumper
    $400 27
(Rhonda: What is north?)

east

TomRhonda
    $600 8
Horton

Rhonda
    $600 1
Swank's banks

Rhonda
    $600 18
(Tom: What is Cana?)
(Alex: Well, that's the location, but was...)
(Tom: What is the loaves and the fishes?)
(Alex: No.)

the wedding at Cana (turning water into wine accepted)

TomBen
    $600 23
(Rhonda: What is souvlaki?)

moussaka

TomRhonda
    $600 12
(Rhonda: What is the age gap?)
[Initially ruled incorrect; reversed during the interview segment]

a generation gap

TomRhonda
    $600 28
a tomahawk

Tom
    $800 9
Babar

Ben
    $800 2
Faye's nays

Ben
    $800 19
Easter

Ben
    $800 24
carnitas

Ben
    $800 13
mega-pixels

Ben
    $800 29
a tepee

Ben
    $1000 15
heffalumps

Ben
    $1000 5
Emma's dilemmas

Ben
    $2,000 20
(Alex: Ben?)
(Ben: I--I don't know.)

Twelfth Night

Ben
    $1000 25
osso buco

Tom
    $1000 14
agápe

Ben
    $1000 30
Kennedy (JFK)

Tom

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

Tom Rhonda Ben
$1,200 $1,600 $6,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Rhonda Ben
$4,800 $1,400 $6,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE BEATLES
A DAY IN THE LIFE
BLACK BIRD
BABY, YOU CAN DRIVE MY CAR
HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE
HELLO GOODBYE
    $400 3
"I Want To Hold Your Hand"

Tom
    $400 16
Robert E. Lee

Ben
    $400 21
a condor

Tom
    $400 11
Subaru

Ben
    $400 6
Venice

Ben
    $800 2
"Help!"

Tom
    $800 17
Harry Reid

Ben
    $800 12
a Prius

Ben
    $800 7
Stonehenge

Rhonda
    $1200 1
"Can't Buy Me Love" & "Love Me Do"

Triple Stumper
    $1200 18
(Tom: Who is Kodak?)
(Rhonda: Who is Polaroid?)

Edwin Land

TomRhonda
Triple Stumper
    $1200 24
(Alex: The Thieving [*].)

the magpie

Triple Stumper
    $1200 13
(Alex: [*]. Long trip.)

an Odyssey

Ben
    $1200 8
(Alex: The "jar" in the clue, a reference to the [*] jar.)

Leiden

Triple Stumper
    $1600 4
"All You Need Is Love"

Rhonda
    $1600 19
Vespucci

Ben
    $1600 23
(Tom: What is a penguin?)

the auk

Tom
Triple Stumper
    $1600 14
Cadillac

Rhonda
    $1600 9
Papeete

Triple Stumper
    $1600 26
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Esperanto

Tom
    $2000 5
"Norwegian Wood"

Tom
    $500 20
(Albert) Schweitzer

Ben
    $2000 22
(Ben: What is a loon?)
(Tom: What is a duck?)

a coot

TomBen
Triple Stumper
    $1,400 15
Jaguar

Rhonda
    $2000 10
Nuremberg

Ben
    $2000 25
nihao

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Rhonda Ben
$5,200 $5,600 $12,700
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

SCIENTIFIC MNEMONICS
(Alex: [Before revealing the responses] It's the taxonomy system: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family...)
TomWho is Copernicus?
$401
RhondaWho is Leevenhuek?
$4,400
BenWho is Charles Darwin?
$1,498
Carolus Linnaeus

Final scores:

Tom Rhonda Ben
$4,799 $1,200 $11,202
2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $11,202

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Tom Rhonda Ben
$5,200 $6,200 $16,200
16 R,
4 W		 10 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 21 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $27,600

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Game tape date: 2009-12-08
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