Responses for Show #6245 - Friday, November 11, 2011

2011 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 3.

Contestants

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Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware

Mark Runsvold, a student and waiter from Moscow, Idaho

Joon Pahk, a college physics teacher from Somerville, Massachusetts

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE QUOTABLE CHURCHILL
ON THE MOVIE SOUNDTRACK
GAELIC PRIDE
WHAT'S THAT ON YOUR HEAD?
REAL LANDS
FICTIONAL LANDS
(Alex: And we want you to name the author who created those fictional lands.)
    $200 1
victory

Mark
    $200 24
Contagion

Mark
    $200 19
a bard

Roger
    $200 26
a tiara

Mark
    $200 14
El Salvador

Roger
    $200 3
(James) Barrie

Mark
    $400 2
Hitler

Roger
    $400 25
"Let's Go Crazy"

Mark
    $400 20
a clan

Mark
    $400 27
derby

Roger
    $400 15
Bangladesh

Roger
    $400 4
(George) Orwell

Roger
    $600 8
finest

Roger
    $600 11
(Roger: What is... Tron?)
(Alex: More?)
(Roger: Uhh...)
[Roger sighs; time expires.]
(Roger: 2.0?)
(Joon: What is... Return to Tron?)

Tron: Legacy

JoonRoger
Triple Stumper
    $600 21
(Roger: What is the... Irish Famine... [*]?)

the (Irish) Potato Famine

Roger
    $600 28
a top hat

Joon
    $600 16
(Roger: What... is...)
(Joon: What is the Uruguay?)

Paraguay

JoonMarkRoger
    $600 5
(Joon: Who is... Coleridge?)
(Roger: Who is... Milton?)
...
(Alex: You were thinking of [*].)
(Roger: That's right.)
(Alex: And you said Milton instead.)

James Hilton

JoonRoger
Triple Stumper
    $800 9
business

Roger
    $1,800 12
(Alex: You have $1,800. You can risk any or all of it.)
(Roger: You know, I'd like to bet it all. I'm gonna do that.)
(Alex: Okay.)
...
(Alex: [*], of course. You say Salieri, you have to come up with [*].)

Amadeus

Roger
    $800 22
a slogan

Joon
    $800 29
turban

Triple Stumper
    $800 17
(Roger: What is... Dalmatian?)

Pomerania

JoonRoger
    $800 6
(Kurt) Vonnegut

Roger
    $1000 10
the facts

Triple Stumper
    $1000 13
(Roger: What is... Rio?)

Rango

JoonRoger
    $1000 23
a claymore

Roger
    $1000 30
babushka

Joon
    $1000 18
Cape Verde

Roger
    $1000 7
(Anne) McCaffrey

Joon

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

Joon Mark Roger
$800 $400 $3,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Joon Mark Roger
$3,400 $2,200 $5,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ETHICS
FOOD SCIENCE
TERMS OF ART
SILENT-LETTERED WORDS
RUSSIA THEN & NOW
PUTTING CELEBRITIES ON THE MAP
(Alex: By just adding one letter, we'll be [*]. Let me give you an example of what might be a response in that category. "Who is Miley Cyprus?"--not Miley Cyrus.)
    $400 30
duty

Joon
    $400 12
eggs

Mark
    $400 19
sepia

Roger
    $400 6
a muscle

Mark
    $400 14
Truth

Mark
    $400 1
(Roger: Who is... Olivia Newton-John becomes Bolivia?)
(Alex: Yes, but--)
(Roger: Boliv--okay.)
(Alex: Say it first.)
(Roger: Okay.)
(Alex: You don't ha--you don't have to say "it becomes.")
(Roger: Yeah. Did you want Bolivia?)
(Alex: Yes.)
(Roger: Okay.)

Bolivia Newton-John

Roger
    $800 28
(Mark: What is... Fasting?)

Vegetarianism

MarkRoger
    $800 27
pectin

Mark
    $800 29
abstract

Joon
    $800 7
guilt

Mark
    $800 15
Chechnya

Mark
    $800 2
Cameroon Diaz

Mark
    $1200 21
bioethics

Joon
    $1200 10
vinegar

Mark
    $1200 24
the vanishing point

Joon
    $1200 8
a coup

Mark
    $1200 16
Rasputin

Mark
    $1200 3
Iran Gershwin

Joon
    $10,000 23
(Alex: Is this going to be a True Daily Double also?)
(Roger: Um... no.)
[Laughter]
(Alex: Hurry please.)
(Roger: Um... I'll wager... $10,000.)

hedonism

Roger
    $1600 13
(Roger: What... are... [The time expiry signal sounds.] [*]?)
(Alex: Oh, sorry, Roger, you took too much time. So that's an incorrect--your response is correct, but we can't give you a correct response.)

poppy seeds

Roger
Triple Stumper
    $7,400 20
(Roger: Uh, I have to do it. True Daily Double.)
(Alex: All right. For $14,800, this clue...)

Mannerism

Roger
    $1600 9
a mnemonic

Roger
    $1600 17
journalism

Roger
    $1600 4
Muhammad Mali

Joon
    $2000 25
(Joon: What is... idealism?)

perfectionism

JoonMark
    $2000 26
probiotic

Mark
    $2000 22
the rule of thirds

Roger
    $2000 11
apropos

Triple Stumper
    $2000 18
Mensheviks

Joon
    $2000 5
Patricia Nepal

Joon

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Joon Mark Roger
$11,800 $13,400 $27,600
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

BUSINESS
(Alex: To succeed on this Final, you have to think back to your math classes in high school.)
...
(Alex: I said you had to think back to math... [*] is 3.14159265, and that has to do with the number of shares.)
...
(Alex: Enjoy the weekend, because you come back on Monday to play against these two guys...)
(Tom: Tom Nissley, Seattle, Washington.)
(Buddy: Buddy Wright, Fort Worth, Texas.)
(Alex: It's gonna be a great final for one quarter of $1 million.)
JoonWhat is Apple pie?
$138
MarkWhat is Toronto search?
$12,345
RogerWhat is Yahoo???
$0
pi

Final scores:

Joon Mark Roger
$11,662 $1,055 $27,600
2nd place: $10,000 3rd place: $10,000 Finalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Joon Mark Roger
$11,800 $13,400 $12,400
14 R,
4 W		 19 R,
1 W		 21 R
(including 3 DDs),
6 W

Combined Coryat: $37,600

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Game tape date: 2011-09-27
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