Responses for Show #6244 - Thursday, November 10, 2011

2011 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 2.

Contestants

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Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois

Jay Rhee, an oncologist from Annapolis, Maryland

Buddy Wright, an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas

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Jeopardy! Round responses

EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY
THE 2011 EMMYS
MILITARY WIVES
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
STORAGE
JEOPORTMANTEAU
    $200 26
(Kara: What is... Uzbekistan?)

Vatican City

Kara
Triple Stumper
    $200 8
(Jeff) Probst

Buddy
    $200 21
(Jay: Who is Lady Bird Johnson?)

Mamie Eisenhower

BuddyJay
    $200 2
Michael Jackson

Jay
    $200 1
Self Storage

Triple Stumper
    $200 12
(Kara: What is... president dentures?)
(Buddy: What are presudentures?... [*]?)
(Alex: [*], that's it, yes.)

presidentures

BuddyKara
    $400 27
(Jay: What is the United Kingdom?)
(Alex: United Kingdom? Be more specific.)
(Jay: Uh, what is... [*]?)
(Alex: [*], aye, that's it, lad.)

Scotland

Jay
    $400 9
Mildred Pierce

Kara
    $400 22
Robert E. Lee

Buddy
    $400 3
Dick Cheney

Kara
    $400 17
a piano bench

Jay
    $400 13
pumpkindergarten

Buddy
    $600 28
the Volga

Jay
    $600 4
Friday Night Lights

Jay
    $600 23
(Kara: What is... Newport News?)

Norfolk

JayKara
    $600 5
(Buddy: Who is Charlie Sheen?)

Errol Flynn

Buddy
Triple Stumper
    $600 18
(Buddy: What is a... safe?)
(Jay: What is a case?)
[Initially ruled incorrect; reversed before the Daily Double at clue 29]

rack

BuddyJay
    $600 14
(Buddy: PORTMANTEAU $600.)
(Alex: You've found your category, maybe.)
...
(Kara: What is... P.S. sacred?)

postscripture

BuddyKara
    $2,000 29
the Bay of Biscay

Jay
    $800 10
Mike & Molly

Buddy
    $800 24
(George Armstrong) Custer

Buddy
    $800 6
(Kara: Who is... Bruce Springsteen?)

Woody Guthrie

Kara
Triple Stumper
    $800 19
ponds (or pools)

Jay
    $800 15
(Buddy: What is a [*]?)
(Alex: With that, you get yourself out of the hole, on the plus side, in second place, and you breathe a big sigh of relief, I'm sure.)
[Applause]

stipendulum

Buddy
    $1000 30
the Faroe Islands

Buddy
    $1000 11
(Buddy: Who is De Niro?)
(Alex: No.)
(Buddy: Aw!)

(Martin) Scorsese

BuddyKara
    $1000 25
(General) George Patton

Triple Stumper
    $1000 7
(Buddy: Who is... Eichmann?)
...
[Alex corrects Jay's pronunciation of the last name to sound like "SHPEER".]

(Albert) Speer

BuddyJay
    $1000 20
(Kara: What is a... lock box?)
...
(Alex: Now's the time for that word, yes.)

a safe

BuddyKara
    $1000 16
breakfastidious

Jay

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

Buddy Jay Kara
$400 $1,800 $200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Buddy Jay Kara
$3,200 $8,000 -$1,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

LADS NAMED VLAD
GIVE THE ORDER
(Alex: Next, we'll deal with the classification of organisms in [*]--the taxonomic order.)
THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
(Alex: That's a British literary prize.)
POP CULTURE
2 Vs, PLEASE
(Alex: In this next category, there will be two "V"s coming up in each correct response.)
ECONOMIST DANCE PARTY
    $400 28
(Vladimir) Putin

Jay
    $400 30
primate

Triple Stumper
    $400 18
(Oskar) Schindler

Jay
    $400 9
Latifah

Buddy
    $400 12
a revival

Kara
    $400 26
Bernanke

Jay
    $800 27
Nabokov

Kara
    $800 29
rodent

Triple Stumper
    $800 16
The English Patient

Jay
    $800 4
Doritos

Jay
    $800 10
evolve

Buddy
    $800 25
the International Monetary Fund

Buddy
    $1200 17
Vlad the Impaler

Kara
    $1,200 21
(Jay: What is... Ursus?)

Carnivore

Jay
    $1200 8
Dublin

Kara
    $1200 3
(Cat) Deeley

Kara
    $1200 6
vindictive

Triple Stumper
    $1200 13
John Maynard Keynes

Jay
    $1600 19
(Vladimir) Horowitz

Jay
    $1600 22
Lepidoptera

Triple Stumper
    $1600 7
The Remains of the Day

Jay
    $1600 2
Roseanne

Buddy
    $1600 5
(Jay: What is... vivisection?)

invasive

Jay
Triple Stumper
    $1600 14
Paul Krugman

Triple Stumper
    $4,000 20
(Alex: Anything?)
(Jay: No, I'm sorry.)

Vladimir Zworykin

Jay
    $2000 23
(Jay: Uh, what is... "echidnee"?)
...
(Alex: What are [*]? You wanna stick with the category?)
(Jay: No, thank you.)
[Laughter]

monotremes

Jay
Triple Stumper
    $2000 15
Pi

Kara
    $2000 1
Foster the People

Triple Stumper
    $2000 11
Pavlov

Buddy
    $2000 24
(Arthur) Laffer

Buddy

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Buddy Jay Kara
$10,800 $6,400 $5,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

HOLLYWOOD HISTORY
(Alex: [To Kara] Your sisters?)
(Kara: My nieces.)
(Alex: Your nieces?)
...
[Laughter after Buddy's reveal]
(Alex: No, [*] and [**]. You had to go way back to 1942.)
KaraWho are [scribble] Anna + Miriam Spak?
$5,188
JayWho are Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave?
$6,400
BuddyWho are Eva + Zsa Zsa
$2,001
Joan Fontaine & Olivia de Havilland

Final scores:

Buddy Jay Kara
$8,799 $0 $12
Finalist 3rd place: $10,000 2nd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Buddy Jay Kara
$10,800 $10,400 $5,200
17 R,
4 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
(including 2 DDs)		 9 R,
6 W

Combined Coryat: $26,400

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Game tape date: 2011-09-27
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