Responses for Show #6247 - Tuesday, November 15, 2011

2011 Tournament of Champions final game 2.

Contestants

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Buddy Wright, an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas (subtotal of $6,000)

Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington (subtotal of $18,800)

Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware (subtotal of $50,000)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

USDA FOREST SERVICE
YOU MUST REMEMBER CASABLANCA
ANCIENT WISDOM
NAME THE CITY
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
MELTING POTPOURRI
    $200 1
bald eagle

Roger
    $200 25
"Here's looking at you, kid"

Buddy
    $200 19
Aesop

Tom
    $200 14
Providence

Roger
    $200 6
kibbutz

Buddy
    $200 26
air

Roger
    $400 2
pollute

Roger
    $400 24
Rick

Roger
    $400 20
the yolk

Buddy
    $400 15
New Orleans

Buddy
    $400 7
circa

Buddy
    $400 27
Dalí

Roger
    $600 3
(Roger: What is... ponderosa?)

fir

Roger
Triple Stumper
    $3,200 11
(Alex: Tom and Buddy are smiling even more broadly than you are at the moment, Roger. You have $3,200.)
(Roger: I'll risk it all.)
(Alex: I thought you might. Here is the clue...)

usual suspects

Roger
    $600 21
Plato

Buddy
    $600 16
Austin

Roger
    $600 8
a loofah

Roger
    $600 28
(Buddy: What is... queso dip?)

nachos

TomBuddy
    $800 4
Interior

Roger
    $800 12
(Roger: What is... mark?)
(Tom: What are passage?)

transit

RogerTom
Triple Stumper
    $800 22
Athenian

Roger
    $800 17
San Francisco

Tom
    $800 9
a cappella

Roger
    $800 29
Three Mile Island

Roger
    $1000 5
the Civilian Conservation Corps (the CCC)

Tom
    $1000 13
Louis (Renault)

Roger
    $1000 23
Aristophanes

Tom
    $1000 18
Minneapolis

Roger
    $1000 10
Gestalt

Roger
    $1000 30
(Roger: What is bronze?)

brass

RogerTom

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

Roger Tom Buddy
$6,800 $200 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Roger Tom Buddy
$10,000 $3,800 $1,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

TOUGH BODIES OF WATER
I MARRIED THIS SPORTS STAR
GOOD MIGRATIONS
20th CENTURY AMERICANS
HAVE YOU HEARD THE "NEWS"?
17-LETTER WORDS
    $400 30
New Zealand

Roger
    $400 1
Tom Brady

Buddy
    $400 28
a whale

Tom
    $400 6
Kinsey

Roger
    $400 26
Cable News Network

Buddy
    $400 20
industrialization

Tom
    $800 29
(Buddy: [Shakes head] Oh... no.)
(Alex: No?)

Walden Pond

RogerBuddy
    $800 2
Kris Humphries

Tom
    $800 27
bison

Buddy
    $800 21
(Betty) Friedan

Tom
    $800 25
U.S. News & World Report

Roger
    $800 19
constitutionality

Tom
    $1200 9
Niger

Roger
    $1200 3
Mia Hamm

Tom
    $1200 15
Serengeti

Roger
    $1200 11
Sam Walton

Buddy
    $1200 22
The Sporting News

Tom
    $4,800 17
(Alex: Well there are 2 bits of good news for this because 1, you get to deal with the clue all by yourself, and 2, you have prevented Roger from coming up with the Daily Double and risking it all. What are you going to do?)
(Buddy: I'm not sure I have a lot to lose, let's bet it all.)
...
(Buddy: I got nothing.)
(Alex: What is counter-)
(Alex and Buddy in unison: -productive.)

counterproductive

Buddy
    $1600 7
(Roger: What is... Tennessee?)

Iowa

Roger
Triple Stumper
    $1600 4
[Tom mimes driving a racecar while mouthing the words "the driver, yeah".]
...
(Alex: The driver, yeah--[*].)

Dario Franchitti

Triple Stumper
    $1600 13
hibernate

Tom
    $1600 10
Wilma Rudolph

Tom
    $1600 23
News of the World

Buddy
    $1600 16
(Roger: What is... dermabrasion?)
...
(Alex: Yes, 17 letters.)
[Tom chuckles.]
(Alex: Roger was, uh, 5 letters short.)

microdermabrasion

RogerBuddy
    $2000 8
the Gulf of Bothnia

Tom
    $2000 5
(Roger: Who is... Romo?)
...
(Alex: Who was NHL star [*]?)

Mike Fisher

Roger
Triple Stumper
    $2000 14
tanager

Roger
    $2000 12
(Andrew) Mellon

Roger
    $600 24
(Buddy: I'd like to stick around for Final Jeopardy!, so I'm only going to bet $600.)

The Dallas Morning News

Buddy
    $2000 18
(Roger: What is paleoconservative?)
[Originally ruled incorrect; reversed before the Daily Double at clue 24]

ultraconservative

RogerBuddy

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Roger Tom Buddy
$15,600 $14,600 $4,600
(lock tournament)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

19th CENTURY POETRY
(Alex: "Each man kills the thing he loves".)
...
(Alex: [To Roger] Let's go through the formalities. What did you write down as your response?... No, it was [*], The Ballad of Reading Gaol.)
(Tom: Oh.)
(Alex: So what did it cost you today? $14,400. That leaves you with $1,200 and a two-day total of $51,200, which is enough. That makes you a quarter-million dollar winner.
Congratulations, Roger Craig!)
[Roger pumps his fist in the air.]
(Roger: Yes, thank you.)
(Alex: Way to go.)
(Roger: Thank you.)
(Alex: You were just fantastic, fantastic. We've got to go. We'll see you with regular Jeopardy! tomorrow. So long, everybody.)
BuddyWho is Shelley?
$0
TomWho is Coleridge?
$14,600
RogerWho is P. Shelley?
$14,400
Oscar Wilde

Final scores:

Roger Tom Buddy
$1,200 $0 $4,600

Cumulative scores:

Roger Tom Buddy
$51,200 $18,800 $10,600
Tournament champion: $250,000 1st runner-up: $100,000 2nd runner-up: $50,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Roger Tom Buddy
$13,000 $14,600 $10,800
25 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W		 16 R,
1 W		 14 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $38,400

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Game tape date: 2011-09-27
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