Responses for Show #5872 - Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Vijay Balse game 4.

Contestants

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Shelby Sadler, an editor and writer from Rockville, Maryland

Becki Norris, a science and math teacher from Quincy, Massachusetts

Vijay Balse, a chemical engineer originally from Bombay, India (whose 3-day cash winnings total $70,801)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

GOVERNORS
SONG STANDARDS
ALSO AN AIRLINE
WHERE'S RALPH WALDO?
DANCE, I SAY!
ON THE ____
    $200 11
(Shelby: Who is Gerry?)
...
(Alex: "Signed on"--famous signer--[*].)

John Hancock

Shelby
Triple Stumper
    $200 26
"If I Were A Rich Man"

Shelby
    $200 6
American

Vijay
    $200 16
the Alamo

Becki
    $200 21
tango

Becki
    $200 1
on the wagon

Becki
    $400 12
Ohio

Shelby
    $400 27
the church

Shelby
    $400 7
[Alex added an "&" to his reading of the clue.]

KLM

Vijay
    $400 17
the Great Wall of China

Shelby
    $400 22
the Charleston

Becki
    $400 2
on the fence

Becki
    $600 13
(David) Paterson

Shelby
    $600 28
[Alex sang the scatting during the game but the producers had him re-record it in meterless monotone as aired.]

"Strangers In The Night"

Becki
    $600 8
(Becki: ...What is Atlantic?)

Virgin Atlantic

BeckiShelby
    $600 18
Walden Pond

Vijay
    $600 23
the waltz

Shelby
    $600 3
on the lam

Becki
    $800 14
Huey Long

Shelby
    $800 29
(Alex: "I'm goin' to Lou'siana with a banjo on my knee." All right, Shelby--[*] was the song...)

"Oh! Susanna"

Triple Stumper
    $1,400 9
Continental

Shelby
    $800 19
Pamplona

Becki
    $800 24
the jitterbug

Triple Stumper
    $800 4
on the dole

Shelby
    $1000 15
Illinois

Vijay
    $1000 30
"For Me And My Gal"

Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
JetBlue

Shelby
    $1000 20
Four Corners

Becki
    $1000 25
a cotillion

Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
(Becki: What is on the [*]?)

mend

Becki

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

Vijay Becki Shelby
$1,600 $1,600 $5,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Vijay Becki Shelby
$2,200 $4,800 $7,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BOND, ATOMIC BOND
BIG ACTORS, SMALL ROLES
THE BRITISH NOBILITY LADDER
LITERARY LETTER DROP
(Alex: I'll give you an example of a clue in that one. If we said, "A poem praising Leonardo", the correct response would be "What is the Da Vinci ode?" All right, I hope that puts you on the right track.)
HE WHO LIVES BY THE SWORD...
...DIES BY THE "S" WORD
    $400 1
one

Vijay
    $400 22
Kung Fu Panda

Becki
    $400 16
duke

Becki
    $400 5
(Vijay: What is 2,000 Leagues Under the Sea?)
(Becki: [Shakes head])
(Alex: Ohhh, you're not going to get it either.)

Around the World in Eight Days

VijayBecki
Triple Stumper
    $400 17
Mars

Shelby
    $400 6
(Becki: What is suicide-murder?)
...
(Alex: We need an "S"; "What is [*]?")

second-degree murder

Becki
Triple Stumper
    $800 2
covalent

Vijay
    $800 23
a frog

Triple Stumper
    $800 18
a marquess

Vijay
    $800 12
An Ale of Two Cities

Vijay
    $800 30
Charlemagne

Vijay
    $800 7
scorpions

Becki
    $1200 3
pi

Vijay
    $1200 24
(Becki: Who was the spider-woman?)

The Incredible Shrinking Woman

Becki
Triple Stumper
    $1200 19
(Shelby: [*]--what is [*]?)

earl

Shelby
    $1200 13
Lord of the Rigs

Vijay
    $1,000 27
(Alex: And we have less than a minute to finish the round.)

Beowulf

Vijay
    $1200 8
(Becki: What is strangle?)

suffocate

VijayBecki
    $1600 4
an ionic bond

Shelby
    $1600 25
Mothra

Shelby
    $1600 20
viscount

Shelby
    $1600 14
Madame Ovary

Shelby
    $1600 29
a claymore

Shelby
    $1600 9
strychnine

Shelby
    $2000 11
aromatic

Vijay
    $2000 26
(Shelby: What is Fantastic Voyage?)

Innerspace

VijayShelby
    $2,000 21
(Alex: And you have amassed a considerable amount of money, $13,000. You said, uh, a True Daily Double earlier.)
(Shelby: Ohhh, not gonna do that this time, Alex. Uh, let me bet $2,000.)
...
(Shelby: [Exhales] What is... earl?)
(Alex: Nope; the letter "B"--"What is [*]?")

baron

Shelby
    $2000 15
The Urn of the Screw

Vijay
    $2000 28
Edward the Confessor

Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
(Shelby: Um... what is sayonara?)
(Alex: No.)
[Shelby and Becki laugh.]
(Alex: But it's a way of saying sayonara!)
...
(Alex: [*], yes. If you commit [*], you're saying sayonara!)

seppuku

VijayShelby

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Vijay Becki Shelby
$18,000 $3,200 $12,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE INTERNET
(Alex: You will not very often see this word on Chinese blogs.)
...
(Alex: [To Vijay] No; you might see that word, but [*], no.)
...
(Alex: See, you made up the $10,000 I gave you at the beginning of the show.)
(Vijay: Yeah.)
BeckiWhat is democracy?
$3,200
ShelbyWhat is politics?
$7,000
VijayWhat is POPULAR?
$6,401
democracy

Final scores:

Vijay Becki Shelby
$11,599 $6,400 $5,200
4-day champion: $82,400 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Vijay Becki Shelby
$18,200 $3,200 $13,600
17 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 13 R,
5 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $35,000

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Game tape date: 2009-12-15
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