Responses for Show #6068 - Wednesday, January 19, 2011

IBM Challenge mini-documentary: "Why Jeopardy!?"

Contestants

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Jeff Gorham, an accountant from Richmond, Virginia

Margaret Metcalf, a research librarian from Washington, D.C.

Anthony Fox, an account executive from Arlington Heights, Illinois (whose 4-day cash winnings total $51,998)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

BASIC SCIENCE
CELEBRITIES' MIDDLE NAMES
A NATION OF VODKA BRANDS
EVERYDAY HEROES
BOTH MY X's
(Alex: Each correct response will contain two "X"s.)
LIVE IN TEXAS
    $200 1
a gene

Anthony
    $200 3
Jessica

Anthony
    $200 7
Russia

Anthony
    $200 10
Hurricane Katrina

Anthony
    $200 11
Luxury Tax

Jeff
    $200 21
Houston

Anthony
    $400 2
heat

Margaret
    $400 16
Ivory

Jeff
    $400 8
the Netherlands

Anthony
    $400 27
Baltimore

Jeff
    $400 12
Xerox

Anthony
    $400 22
Dallas

Jeff
    $600 4
a prism

Anthony
    $600 17
Hyde

Anthony
    $600 9
(Anthony: What is Finland?)

Iceland

AnthonyJeff
    $600 28
Niagara Falls

Jeff
    $600 13
(Anthony: What is Exxon?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
(Anthony: What is Exxon Oil?)

Exxon Mobil

AnthonyJeff
    $600 23
Crawford

Margaret
    $1,000 5
(Anthony: What is dermis?)

liver

Anthony
    $800 20
Michelle

Anthony
    $800 18
(Anthony: What is Sweden?)
(Margaret: What is Finland?)

the United States

AnthonyMargaret
Triple Stumper
    $800 29
(John Philip) Sousa

Jeff
    $800 14
prix fixe

Anthony
    $800 24
San Antonio

Anthony
    $1000 6
the center of gravity

Anthony
    $1000 26
Seymour

Margaret
    $1000 19
France

Jeff
    $1000 30
Afghanistan

Anthony
    $1000 15
the x-axis

Jeff
    $1000 25
El Paso

Margaret

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

Anthony Margaret Jeff
$1,800 $400 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Anthony Margaret Jeff
$4,400 $2,200 $6,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

OPERA
SHE WAS IN THAT?
THE PARTING OF THE FCC
LET''S HAVE A TICKER-TAPE PARADE!
SATIRISTS
3-LETTER "W"ORDS
    $400 8
Hansel and Gretel

Jeff
    $400 3
Elizabeth Taylor

Anthony
    $400 26
Janet Jackson

Margaret
    $400 21
the Statue of Liberty

Anthony
    $400 1
(Jonathan) Swift

Margaret
    $400 13
woe

Margaret
    $2,000 9
(Jeff: Who is Catherine Parr?)

Jane Seymour

Jeff
    $800 4
[ERRATUM: The actress's name is Julia Louis-Dreyfus, but Margaret's response was accepted as indicated. Compare to Double Jeopardy! Round clue 17 in show #4820.]

Dreyfus

Margaret
    $800 27
cell phones

Margaret
    $800 22
Haile Selassie

Anthony
    $800 2
(Art) Buchwald

Anthony
    $800 17
web

Jeff
    $1200 10
Mimi

Jeff
    $1200 5
(Renée) Zellweger

Margaret
    $1200 28
George Carlin

Anthony
    $3,000 23
(Anthony: Who are Glenn, Armstrong and Grissom?)
(Alex: No, who are [*], who had just come back from the Moon.)

Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins

Anthony
    $1200 14
Christopher Guest

Margaret
    $1200 18
wad

Jeff
    $1600 11
Oberon

Jeff
    $1600 6
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Margaret
    $1600 29
analog

Anthony
    $1600 24
(Anthony: Who is Admiral... Nelson?)

Dewey

Anthony
Triple Stumper
    $1600 15
(Alex: And his name is [*].)

Evelyn Waugh

Triple Stumper
    $1600 19
wry

Margaret
    $2000 12
Bayreuth

Triple Stumper
    $2000 7
Liza Minnelli

Jeff
    $2000 30
[Alex sounded out "tech." as "technology" in his reading of the clue.]

Wi-Fi

Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
(Alex: Oh, Margaret, you're angry with yourself because you should have rung in--you knew that!)

David Lloyd George

Triple Stumper
    $2000 16
(Terry) Southern

Margaret
    $2000 20
wan

Anthony

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Anthony Margaret Jeff
$7,000 $12,600 $11,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

OCEAN LIFE
(Alex: [To Margaret] Oh, "leatherneck"!--you were thinking of the Marines!)
AnthonyWhat is leatherback
$3,201
JeffWhat is the leatherback turtle?
$2,801
MargaretWhat is a leatherneck turtle?
$1,400
the leatherback turtle

Final scores:

Anthony Margaret Jeff
$10,201 $11,200 $14,001
3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $14,001

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Anthony Margaret Jeff
$11,000 $12,600 $13,200
21 R,
6 W
(including 2 DDs)		 14 R,
1 W		 16 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $36,800

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Game tape date: 2010-10-12
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