Responses for Show #5977 - Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Roger Craig game 2.
Roger sets a new single-day cash winnings record of $77,000.

Contestants

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Mandy Strine, a DMV administrator for a used car retailer from Hendersonville, Tennessee

Tony Fan, a law student from Marietta, Georgia

Roger Craig, a graduate student of computer science from Newark, Delaware (whose 1-day cash winnings total $37,000)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

(Alex: First, we honor those who illustrate children's books with...)
CALDECOTT MEDAL & HONOR BOOKS
ROCK 'N OLD
EQUALS ONE
SORT THROUGH THE WORD PROBLEM
THE "A" LIST
KATIE COURIC, WITNESS TO HISTORY
(Katie Couric: I'm Katie Couric, and I'll take you through some of the history I've seen and reported.)
    $200 16
Rapunzel

Roger
    $200 1
(Roger: Who is McCartney?)
(Mandy: Who is George Harrison?)

Ringo Starr

RogerTonyMandy
    $200 11
one inch

Tony
    $200 22
Wellington

Roger
    $200 2
anarchy

Roger
    $200 27
the Taliban

Tony
    $400 17
Where the Wild Things Are

Roger
    $400 3
Chuck Berry

Roger
    $400 12
(Roger: What is a pint?)

a quart

RogerTony
    $400 23
(Roger: What is Mars?)

Hershey

RogerMandy
    $400 5
archipelago (atoll accepted)

Mandy
    $400 9
Sullenberger

Tony
    $4,000 18
Harriet Tubman

Roger
    $600 4
Yoko Ono

Tony
    $600 13
a gigabyte

Roger
    $600 24
(Tony: What is Aston Martin?)

Rolls-Royce

RogerTony
    $600 6
astigmatism

Roger
    $600 28
(Sarah) Palin

Roger
    $800 19
Olivia

Roger
    $800 7
Ravi Shankar

Roger
    $800 14
(Mandy: What is an acre?)

a hectare

Mandy
Triple Stumper
    $800 25
(Emma) Lazarus

Roger
    $800 10
an alpaca

Roger
    $800 30
the Pentagon

Tony
    $1000 20
Madeline

Tony
    $1000 8
Buddy Holly

Roger
    $1000 15
a pound

Roger
    $1000 26
frostbite

Mandy
    $1000 21
the aperture

Tony
    $1000 29
Abdullah

Roger

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

Roger Tony Mandy
$4,800 $1,800 -$600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Roger Tony Mandy
$13,000 $4,200 $800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THEY'RE IN HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
LIVING IN NYC
SUIT UP!
IT'S GONNA "BE"...
WAIT FOR IT...
LEGENDARY!
    $400 20
(Tony: [No response])

Family Guy

RogerTony
    $400 3
21

Roger
    $400 2
(Mandy: What is tall?)

heavy

Mandy
Triple Stumper
    $400 19
Halley's comet

Roger
    $400 1
Odysseus

Roger
    $800 21
(Alex: [*] is right, with less than a minute to go now.)

Smallville

Roger
    $800 4
the MoMA

Roger
    $800 25
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

a Beefeater

Tony
    $800 12
Heinz

Roger
    $800 8
(Mandy: Who is Mars?)

Ares

RogerMandy
    $1200 22
(Tony: Who is Eric Bana?)

(Lou) Ferrigno

RogerTony
    $1200 5
the Staten Island ferry

Roger
    $1200 9
betwixt

Roger
    $7,000 13
Waiting for Godot

Roger
    $1200 16
wind

Roger
    $1600 23
Six Feet Under

Roger
    $1600 6
the Chrysler Building

Roger
    $1600 10
a beachhead

Roger
    $1600 14
(Edgar) Degas

Roger
    $5,000 17
(Alex: I don't want to frighten you, but if you made this a True Daily Double and responded correctly, you would have $67,200.)
(Roger: I'm not going to wager that much.)
(Alex: $67,200, I say!)

Hermes

Roger
    $2000 24
American Pie

Roger
    $2000 7
Gracie Mansion

Roger
    $2000 11
beatification

Roger
    $2000 15
(Roger: Who is Catherine Parr?)

Jane Seymour

RogerTony
    $2000 18
Perseus

Roger

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Roger Tony Mandy
$47,000 $5,400 -$400
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

LITERARY & MOVIE TITLE OBJECTS
(Alex: And after the film, the river was renamed to match the title of the movie.)
...
(Alex: [To Tony] And you are cor... We're going to accept that, yeah. It's [*].)
...
(Alex: It's up to Roger Craig; could set a new one-day record here if he came up with [*]... He did. I hope he wagered a lot... He did. New record! $77,000!)
[Applause]
TonyWhat is the Bridge over the River Kwai?
$4,600
RogerWhat is Bridge on the River Kwai?
$30,000
"The Bridge on the River Kwai"

Final scores:

Roger Tony Mandy
$77,000 $10,000 -$400
2-day champion: $114,000 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Roger Tony Mandy
$34,400 $5,400 -$400
39 R
(including 3 DDs),
4 W		 11 R,
3 W		 3 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $39,400

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Game tape date: 2010-07-27
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