Responses for Show #5895 - Friday, April 9, 2010

Contestants

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Jack Aponte, a non-profit technology consultant from Brooklyn, New York

Sarah Sumadi, a director of volunteers at a community center from Chicago, Illinois

Morgan Saxby, a research associate from Charlottesville, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $32,401)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 1920s
SPORTS TALK
A SEAFOOD GUIDE
BIBLICAL BAD STUFF
KNIT IT
IT'S A "BUST"!
    $200 1
Alaska

Jack
    $200 16
the designated hitter

Jack
    $200 21
tuna

Morgan
    $200 2
murder

Jack
    $200 26
babushka

Morgan
    $200 11
a bronco buster

Morgan
    $400 7
(Alex: Prohibition. Right you are.)

the 18th Amendment

Morgan
    $400 17
Wimbledon

Morgan
    $400 22
roughy

Morgan
    $400 3
hail

Jack
    $400 27
ties

Morgan
    $400 12
a filibuster

Jack
    $600 8
Harding

Morgan
    $600 18
the Lakers and the Clippers

Sarah
    $600 23
a sea bass

Morgan
    $600 4
(Sarah: What is the sea?)
(Jack: What is the River Jordan?)

the earth

SarahJack
Triple Stumper
    $600 28
a yarmulke

Morgan
    $600 13
a bustier

Sarah
    $800 9
mah-jongg

Morgan
    $800 19
curling

Morgan
    $800 24
a monkfish

Morgan
    $800 5
Babylon

Jack
    $800 29
tassels

Triple Stumper
    $800 14
a DustBuster

Morgan
    $2,800 10
Wyoming

Morgan
    $1000 20
(Jack: Who are the Houston Texans?)

the Tennessee Titans

Jack
Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
(Sarah: What is trout?)

tilapia

Sarah
Triple Stumper
    $1000 6
gods

Morgan
    $1000 30
cable-knit

Jack
    $1000 15
gangbusters

Triple Stumper

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

Morgan Sarah Jack
$6,600 $0 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Morgan Sarah Jack
$11,000 -$400 $1,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

"C" IN SCIENCE
CELEBRITY MEMOIRS
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
LITERARY MATH
LOOK OUT BELOW!
WINNING WORDS
    $400 2
(Morgan: What is cumulus?)

cirrus

MorganSarah
    $400 1
Serena Williams

Morgan
    $400 14
Des Moines

Morgan
    $400 9
(Alex: Yes, 5 times 20,000.)

100,000

Morgan
    $400 25
Moscow

Sarah
    $400 21
Triumph

Jack
    $800 5
a cuspid

Morgan
    $800 3
Patrick Swayze

Sarah
    $800 15
(Jack: What is USC?)

(University of) Oregon

MorganJack
    $800 10
8

Morgan
    $800 26
the Sydney Opera House

Jack
    $800 22
the victor

Sarah
    $1200 6
(Sarah: What is centrifugal force?)
(Alex: Say it again.)
(Sarah: Centrifugal?)

centripetal force

MorganSarah
    $1200 4
(Kathy) Griffin

Morgan
    $1200 16
(Morgan: What is Santa Barbara?)

Santa Cruz

Morgan
Triple Stumper
    $1200 11
351

Morgan
    $1200 28
Crater Lake

Morgan
    $1200 23
a sweep

Morgan
    $1600 7
(Jack: What is the cenazoic?)

Cambrian

Jack
Triple Stumper
    $1600 19
Mackenzie Phillips

Triple Stumper
    $1600 17
Chicago

Morgan
    $1600 12
(Alex: 84 Charing Cross Road, Catch-22, [*] is what we're going for.)

106

Triple Stumper
    $1600 29
the Cape of Good Hope

Morgan
    $2,000 24
(Morgan: What is... what is... what is put?)

prevail

Morgan
    $4,000 8
(Morgan: What is conjunction?)

cohesion

Morgan
    $2000 20
LeBron James

Morgan
    $2000 18
Maine

Sarah
    $2000 13
7

Morgan
    $2000 27
Angkor Wat

Morgan
    $2000 30
(Alex: The word we're going for is [*]--[*] kings--he said "kinkering congs", but he made it up.)

conquering

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Morgan Sarah Jack
$22,200 $2,800 $400
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

19th CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE
(Alex: If we're talking about 19th century English literature, there's certainly one novelist's name who comes to mind that seems to dominate the category.)
...
(Alex: [Revealing Sarah's response] The other work by Charles Dickens qualifying here.)
JackWho is David Copperfield
$62
SarahWho is Oliver Twist
$1,999
MorganWho is Peter Pan
$14,200
Oliver Twist

Final scores:

Morgan Sarah Jack
$8,000 $4,799 $338
2-day champion: $40,401 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Morgan Sarah Jack
$26,400 $2,800 $400
32 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 2 DDs)		 7 R,
3 W		 9 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $29,600

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Game tape date: 2010-01-20
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