Responses for Show #5961 - Monday, July 12, 2010

Contestants

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Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee

Barbara Gayle, a credit underwriter from San Diego, California

Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,001)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

1920s LIT
THE OLYMPIC GAMES
I PITY DA FOOD!
WAGES
OF "SIN"
UH-OH, DEATH
    $200 5
Sherlock Holmes

Aaron
    $200 3
the Olympic torch

Aaron
    $200 12
lobster

Aaron
    $200 21
(Barbara: What are postal carriers? ...[*] people?)

mail

Barbara
    $200 26
(Saad: What are--RBIs?)
...
(Alex: [*], yes, "S-I-N" has to come up in each correct response.)

singles

AaronSaad
    $200 1
the soul

Aaron
    $400 17
(Barbara: Oh, who is--Nelson?)

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Barbara
Triple Stumper
    $400 8
(Aaron: What is... Japan?)

South Korea

AaronSaad
    $400 13
(Saad: What is turkey?)

chicken

BarbaraSaad
    $400 22
(Alex: Correct, with less than a minute to go.)

bartenders

Saad
    $400 27
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

singe

Aaron
    $400 2
breathing

Barbara
    $600 18
Ulysses

Saad
    $600 9
the marathon

Aaron
    $600 14
tuna

Barbara
    $600 23
a private investigator

Aaron
    $600 4
the heart

Saad
    $1,000 19
(Saad: Who is Booth Tarkington?)
(Alex: No. Who is [*]? Creator of the Wizard of Oz.)

L. Frank Baum

Saad
    $800 10
Apolo Ohno

Barbara
    $800 15
partridge

Saad
    $800 24
a barber

Saad
    $800 6
(Saad: What is the medulla oblongata?)

the stem

Saad
Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
(Barbara: What is The Jungle?)

Arrowsmith

BarbaraSaad
    $1000 11
the discus throw

Triple Stumper
    $1000 16
veal

Saad
    $1000 25
[Alex specifies BLS as "Bureau of Labor Statistics" when reading the clue.]
(Alex: [*], yes. Those words, by the way, were Shakespeare's, not mine.)

lawyers

Barbara
    $1000 7
cells

Barbara

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

Aaron Barbara Saad
$1,000 $3,200 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Aaron Barbara Saad
$2,200 $3,000 $3,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

JUST A BILL ON CAPITOL HILL
TV ADJECTIVES
YOUR BUMMER TO BUMMER TRAFFIC REPORT
ABBREV.
ADD A TREE
THE DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM
(Kelly: Over 40 years of great classical ballet from Uptown.)
    $400 1
Massachusetts

Aaron
    $400 16
Big

Barbara
    $400 21
Brooklyn

Saad
    $400 6
the Justice League of America

Saad
    $400 11
dash

Barbara
    $400 26
the assassination of Martin Luther King

Aaron
    $800 2
the Space Shuttle

Aaron
    $800 17
Biggest

Barbara
    $800 22
California

Saad
    $800 7
mixed martial arts

Saad
    $400 12
(Alex: Barbara?)
(Barbara: What is a hatch?)

helm

Barbara
    $800 27
pointe

Barbara
    $3,400 3
Bill Bradley

Aaron
    $1200 18
Darndest

Barbara
    $1200 23
(Alex: [*], Montana, yes)

Helena

Saad
    $1200 8
the Central African Republic

Aaron
    $1200 13
a spear

Aaron
    $1200 28
Mandela

Barbara
    $1600 4
the Appropriations Committee

Aaron
    $1600 19
Modern

Aaron
    $1600 24
Louisiana

Aaron
    $1600 9
assault with a deadly weapon

Aaron
    $1600 14
a spine

Aaron
    $1600 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

da Vinci

Saad
    $2000 5
(Barbara: Uh, what is the General Attorneys--the Attorneys corps?)

the Judge Advocate General

BarbaraSaad
    $2000 20
So-Called

Barbara
    $2000 25
(Alex: Minute to go, now.)

Nebraska

Saad
    $2000 10
(Aaron: What are composers and producers?)

(2 of) composers, authors & publishers

AaronSaad
    $2000 15
(Alex: We'll accept that! Soak is the one we were really going for - "S" and an oak tree, but lime and "S" works also)

soak (slime accepted)

Barbara

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Aaron Barbara Saad
$15,600 $9,400 $14,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ACTORS
BarbaraWho are Sidney Poitier & Denzel Washington
$6,201
SaadWho are Morgan Freeman & Denzel Washington?
$8,300
AaronWho are Denzel Washington and ?
$13,201
Morgan Freeman & Denzel Washington

Final scores:

Aaron Barbara Saad
$2,399 $3,199 $22,700
3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $22,700

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Aaron Barbara Saad
$13,400 $9,800 $15,400
19 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 15 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $38,600

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Game tape date: 2010-03-03
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