Responses for Show #5893 - Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Contestants

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Conor Collins, a student and volunteer from Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Karla Ruksys, an administrative assistant from Mount Ephraim, New Jersey

Brandon Hathaway, a mechanical engineer from Augusta, Georgia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $25,400)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

2-WORD SCIENCE RESPONSES
DO TELL THE HOTEL
RUPERT MURDOCH, OWNER OF A LOT OF STUFF
POLITICAL LINGO
MYTHTER & MYTHUS
(Alex: You have to give us the mythical figure who completes the pairing we will give you as the clue.)
BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS
    $200 11
(Conor: What is the sonic speed?)
(Brandon: What is Mach speed?)

Mach 1

BrandonKarlaConor
    $200 26
"Heartbreak Hotel"

Karla
    $200 6
Fox

Conor
    $200 1
a dark horse

Brandon
    $200 16
Helen

Conor
    $200 21
a clam

Conor
    $400 12
absolute zero

Conor
    $400 27
[Conor groans a little after giving his response, prompting laughter.]

The Suite Life of Zack & Cody

Conor
    $400 7
The Wall Street Journal

Conor
    $400 2
a dove

Brandon
    $400 17
Odysseus

Conor
    $400 22
the lion's share

Conor
    $600 13
magnetic north

Brandon
    $600 28
Grand Hotel

Karla
    $600 8
The Sun

Brandon
    $600 3
a New Deal

Brandon
    $600 18
(Karla: Who is, um... ugh.)
(Alex: Ah, you're drawing a blank.)
(Brandon: Who is Eurydice?)

Psyche

BrandonKarla
Triple Stumper
    $600 23
a sow's ear

Karla
    $800 14
natural gas

Conor
    $800 29
The Hotel New Hampshire

Karla
    $800 9
the National Geographic Channel

Conor
    $800 4
a carpetbagger

Karla
    $800 19
Thisbe

Karla
    $1,000 24
the dog days

Karla
    $1000 15
the dew point

Karla
    $1000 30
Fawlty Towers

Brandon
    $1000 10
Myspace

Brandon
    $1000 5
"nabobs"

Brandon
    $1000 20
Pygmalion

Karla
    $1000 25
"Leapin' lizards"

Brandon

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

Brandon Karla Conor
$4,200 $2,000 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Brandon Karla Conor
$5,600 $6,400 $4,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

DRAWN-OUT DRAMAS
LETTERS IN TOMATOES
(Alex: Now I know you all think there are seeds in tomatoes, but there are [*] and each correct response will be a word that can be formed from the eight letters in "tomatoes".)
SPY VS. SPY
WHAT, ME WORRY?
THE USUAL GANG OF IDIOTS
MAD MAGAZINE
    $400 11
a passion play

Brandon
    $400 16
a moat

Conor
    $400 3
Nathan Hale

Conor
    $400 25
frostbite

Brandon
    $400 26
(Conor: What is a computer?)
[Initially ruled as incorrect; reversed after a check of urbandictionary.com showed a definition for "idiot box" as a computer]

a television

BrandonConor
    $400 1
Alfred E. Neuman

Conor
    $800 12
Eugene O'Neill

Karla
    $800 17
the motto

Conor
    $800 4
(Conor: What is the CIA?)

the FBI

KarlaConor
    $800 24
scratching

Karla
    $800 30
Ebenezer Scrooge

Karla
    $800 2
DC

Brandon
    $1200 13
The Mousetrap

Karla
    $1200 18
soot

Brandon
    $1200 5
Somerset Maugham

Karla
    $1200 23
the pituitary

Karla
    $1200 29
2012

Brandon
    $1200 8
Irving Berlin

Triple Stumper
    $1600 14
(Conor: What is Virginia?)

North Carolina

KarlaConor
    $1600 19
a toast

Conor
    $1600 6
(Francis Gary) Powers

Karla
    $1600 22
(Brandon: What is arthritis?)

gout

BrandonConor
    $1600 28
village idiots

Triple Stumper
    $1600 9
the fold-in

Karla
    $2000 15
Angels in America

Karla
    $5,200 20
(Conor: Well, Alex...)
(Alex: Yeah?)
(Conor: I've always wanted to say this. I'd like to buy a vowel. I mean, True Daily Double. Uh, no offense.)
[Laughter]
[Alex glares at Conor.]
(Alex: Vanna! All right, True Daily Double it is. Here is the clue...)
...
(Alex: Conor?)
(Conor: What is... smat?)
...
(Alex: See? You make--you make fun, God gets you.)

smote

Conor
    $4,000 7
Christopher Marlowe

Karla
    $2000 21
[Karla gave both listed responses.]

hair loss (or baldness)

Karla
    $2000 27
Dostoyevsky

Conor
    $2000 10
Cracked

Brandon

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Brandon Karla Conor
$10,400 $26,000 $4,000
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

CELEBRITY NAMES
ConorWho is Jamie Foxx
$4,000
BrandonWho is Damon Wayn[s]
$0
KarlaWho is Jamie Foxx?
$4,000
Jamie Foxx

Final scores:

Brandon Karla Conor
$10,400 $30,000 $8,000
2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $30,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Brandon Karla Conor
$10,400 $23,800 $9,200
16 R,
3 W		 23 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W		 18 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $43,400

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Game tape date: 2010-01-19
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