Responses for Show #5878 - Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Contestants

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Jim Banks, a stockbroker and branch manager from Suffield, Connecticut

Jessica Shafer, a graduate student of English literature from Austin, Texas

Amanda Baber, a project assistant originally from Edmond, Oklahoma (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,200)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

PATRICK'S DAY
THE NATURE OF THINGS
IN THE STATE CAPITAL
ABBREV.
HARDWARE
SOFTWARE
    $200 7
Patrick Dempsey

Jessica
    $200 19
[Alex read the clue as "150 pounds" and then immediately corrected himself.]

a blue whale

Jim
    $200 2
Boston

Jim
    $200 12
rest in peace

Amanda
    $200 24
a washer

Amanda
    $200 1
a screensaver

Jessica
    $400 8
(Patrick the) Starfish

Jessica
    $400 20
a cockroach

Jessica
    $400 3
Austin, Texas

Jessica
    $400 13
the Grand Old Party

Jessica
    $400 26
a catch

Amanda
    $400 15
their taxes

Jessica
    $600 9
Danica Patrick

Jim
    $600 21
crab grass

Jessica
    $600 4
Atlanta

Jim
    $600 14
a monsignor

Jessica
    $600 27
a grinding wheel

Jim
    $600 16
(Jim: What is Foxfire?)

Firefox

JessicaJim
    $800 10
Dan Patrick

Jim
    $800 22
lemmings

Amanda
    $800 5
Hartford, Connecticut

Jim
    $800 17
Master of Fine Arts

Amanda
    $800 28
the trap

Jim
    $800 23
Norton

Jim
    $1000 11
Patrick McGoohan

Amanda
    $1000 30
quartz

Amanda
    $1,600 6
(Jim: What is Little Rock, Arkansas?)
(Alex: No, wrong one.
Brown v. Board of Education in [*].)

Topeka

Jim
    $1000 18
monosodium glutamate

Jim
    $1000 29
Vise-Grip

Jim
    $1000 25
Halo

Amanda

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

Amanda Jessica Jim
$1,200 $2,600 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Amanda Jessica Jim
$5,400 $4,200 $5,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

1900 EVENTS
SPORTS STARS
INTERNATIONAL SEAFOOD
COMPLETES THE QUOTATION
"LA" STORY
SAY THANK YOU!
    $400 12
Joseph Conrad

Jim
    $400 17
(Lance) Armstrong

Jessica
    $400 22
mahi mahi

Jessica
    $400 5
death

Jessica
    $400 2
Lady Chatterley's Lover

Jessica
    $400 1
gracias

Jessica
    $5,000 13
Hawaii

Jim
    $800 27
Brett Favre

Amanda
    $800 23
Chile

Jim
    $800 6
truth

Jim
    $800 3
(Jim: What is Land of the Lost?)

The Land that Time Forgot

Jim
Triple Stumper
    $800 18
danke

Amanda
    $1200 14
(Sigmund) Freud

Jim
    $1200 28
(Maria) Sharapova

Jessica
    $1200 24
cod

Jim
    $1200 7
liberty

Jim
    $1200 4
Lady of the Lake

Triple Stumper
    $1200 19
merci

Jessica
    $1600 15
(Jessica: What is Spain?)

Italy

AmandaJessica
    $1600 29
(Usain) Bolt

Amanda
    $1600 25
swordfish

Jessica
    $3,000 8
(Alex: The 2nd Amendment. You are right.)

militia

Jim
    $1600 10
The Last Days of Pompeii

Jim
    $1600 20
domo arigato

Amanda
    $2000 16
Max Planck

Jim
    $2000 30
Padraig Harrington

Jim
    $2000 26
sole

Jim
    $2000 9
(Jim: What is Invention?)
(Jessica: What is Success?)
...
(Alex: [*], yes, Edison's line.

Genius

AmandaJessicaJim
    $2000 11
Lair of the White Worm

Triple Stumper
    $2000 21
spasiba

Jessica

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Amanda Jessica Jim
$13,800 $8,600 $23,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

LEGENDARY WOMEN
JessicaWho is Guenevere?
$8,599
AmandaWho is Morgan [scribble]
$13,799
JimWho is Genivieve?
$4,001
Guinevere

Final scores:

Amanda Jessica Jim
$1 $17,199 $19,599
3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $19,599

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Amanda Jessica Jim
$13,800 $8,600 $19,600
14 R,
0 W		 19 R,
2 W		 23 R
(including 2 DDs),
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $42,000

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Game tape date: 2010-01-12
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