Responses for Show #5889 - Thursday, April 1, 2010

April Fool's show with cameo appearances by Will Ferrell (as his Alex Trebek character from Saturday Night Live), Neil Patrick Harris, Jeff Probst, and Pat Sajak.

Contestants

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Jessica Trudeau, a graduate student and swim coach from Barrington, Illinois

Ken Burke, a real estate appraiser from Anaheim, California

Matt Drury, a government analyst from New York, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,799)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

FAMOUS AMERICANS
MERYL STREEP MOVIE ROLES
NASCAR SPONSORS
CITY & STATUE
APRIL FOOL!
(Neil Patrick Harris: Wait for it...)
WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS
    $200 6
(Abner) Doubleday

Jessica
    $200 1
It's Complicated

Matt
    $200 26
(Alex: With less than a minute.)

M&M's

Matt
    $200 17
London

Jessica
    $200 11
a marathon

Matt
    $200 16
the Ivy League

Matt
    $400 7
Mrs. Nixon

Ken
    $400 2
(Jessica: What is... oh?)

Mamma Mia!

MattJessica
    $400 27
UPS

Ken
    $400 18
San Francisco

Ken
    $400 12
the ZIP code

Ken
    $400 22
(Ken: What is a floe?)

a glacier

KenJessica
    $600 8
Amelia Earhart

Matt
    $600 3
The Bridges of Madison County

Jessica
    $600 28
McDonald's

Jessica
    $600 19
Manila

Jessica
    $600 13
metric

Jessica
    $600 23
a lariat

Jessica
    $800 9
(Matt: Who is George Washington Carver?)
(Jessica: Who is Du Bois?)

Booker T. Washington

MattJessica
Triple Stumper
    $800 4
Out of Africa

Jessica
    $800 29
Red Bull

Jessica
    $1,600 20
Baghdad

Jessica
    $800 14
Lenin

Matt
    $800 24
the cobra

Ken
    $1000 10
(Daniel) Moynihan

Matt
    $1000 5
The Devil Wears Prada

Matt
    $1000 30
Lowe's

Matt
    $1000 21
(Neil Patrick Harris: And the city is [*]. Jessica, pick again.)

Boston

Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
a teddy bear

Ken
    $1000 25
(Willa) Cather

Jessica

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

Matt Ken Jessica
$3,400 $1,800 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Ken Jessica
$4,800 $3,000 $6,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

'50s FICTION
CHAMPAGNE
CLASSICAL MUSIC
"W"ORDS
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WATER
(Jeff Probst: ...based on the current issue of that magazine.)
WHO PLAYED 'EM ON TV?
    $400 2
Atlas Shrugged

Jessica
    $400 21
the bubbles

Matt
    $400 14
Bolero

Jessica
    $400 1
wavelength

Matt
    $400 26
the Ganges

Matt
    $400 4
Don Knotts

Matt
    $800 9
the Lincolns

Ken
    $800 22
christen a ship ('break it across a ship' accepted)

Jessica
    $800 15
(Jeff Probst: And the Sibelius work is [*]. Back to you, Jessica.)

Finlandia

Triple Stumper
    $800 3
a windfall

Matt
    $800 27
the Dead Sea

Matt
    $800 5
DeForest Kelley

Matt
    $2,000 10
Dr. No

Ken
    $1200 23
sugar

Jessica
    $3,000 16
(Felix) Mendelssohn

Jessica
    $1200 13
wherefore

Matt
    $1200 28
[ERRATUM: Lake Shasta is in the Cascade Range, which is near in proximity to, but formed by different geological processes from, the Sierra Nevada Range.]

the Sierra Nevada

Jessica
    $1200 6
Art Carney

Ken
    $1600 11
Peyton Place

Ken
    $1600 24
pinot noir

Matt
    $1600 17
Bayreuth

Jessica
    $1600 19
a wraith

Triple Stumper
    $1600 29
China

Jessica
    $1600 7
Gary Burghoff

Matt
    $2000 12
(Kurt) Vonnegut

Ken
    $2000 25
Chandon

Matt
    $2000 18
I Pagliacci

Jessica
    $2000 20
the weft

Matt
    $2000 30
the Yucatan

Jessica
    $2000 8
(Jeff Probst: That was [*], on The Practice. Back to you, Matt.)

Dylan McDermott

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Ken Jessica
$17,200 $10,600 $21,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

LITERARY INFLUENCES
(Will Ferrell [As Alex Trebek from Saturday Night Live]: All right, let's move onto Final Jeopardy!; that should be a lot of fun.)
KenWho is Tolstoy?
$10,599
MattWho was Pushkin?
$17,000
JessicaWho is Chekhov?
$13,401
Anton Chekhov

Final scores:

Matt Ken Jessica
$200 $1 $34,401
2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $34,401

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Matt Ken Jessica
$17,200 $9,800 $18,400
22 R,
1 W		 11 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 22 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $45,400

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Game tape date: 2010-01-19
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