Responses for Show #6249 - Thursday, November 17, 2011

Contestants

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Glenn Sullivan, a psychology professor from Lexington, Virginia

Matt Andelman, a family law attorney from Silver Spring, Maryland

Ellen Lewis, a retired high school math teacher from Mount Vernon, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,000)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

AIRSHIPS
THEIR ONLY TOP 10 POP HIT
THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY!
EXTRAVAGANZA ELEGANZA
"FUN" IN
ACAPULCO
    $200 8
a gondola

Glenn
    $200 6
The Fugees

Matt
    $200 13
[ERRATUM: The Huns' campaign in the Balkans and Greece was circa 447-450 A.D., not B.C.]

the Huns</em>

Ellen
    $200 19
a purse

Matt
    $200 1
fundraiser

Ellen
    $200 26
Elvis

Glenn
    $400 9
Goodyear

Glenn
    $400 7
Johnny Cash

Glenn
    $400 14
the Statue of Zeus (at Olympia)

Glenn
    $400 22
foie gras

Ellen
    $400 2
Funyuns</em>

Glenn
    $400 27
(Glenn: Who is Nixon?)

(John F.) Kennedy

EllenGlenn
    $600 10
the Hindenburg

Glenn
    $600 17
The Grateful Dead

Glenn
    $600 15
Hammurabi

Ellen
    $600 23
Stradivarius

Ellen
    $600 3
fundamentalism

Glenn
    $600 28
cliff diving

Glenn
    $800 11
MetLife

Glenn
    $800 20
Kansas

Glenn
    $800 16
Ionic

Matt
    $800 24
the Bahamas

Ellen
    $800 4
a function

Matt
    $800 29
Howard Hughes

Ellen
    $1,700 12
(Count) Zeppelin

Glenn
    $1000 21
"Weird Al" Yankovic

Matt
    $1000 18
the Rosetta Stone

Ellen
    $1000 25
(Alex: ...with a minute to deal with the last category.)

(William Randolph) Hearst

Ellen
    $1000 5
a funicular

Matt
    $1000 30
(Ellen: Who is Miro?)
(Glenn: Who is Gris? Gris?)

(Diego) Rivera

EllenMattGlenn

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

Ellen Matt Glenn
$1,000 $2,000 $5,500

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ellen Matt Glenn
$5,000 $5,000 $6,300

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

IT'S ANDREW!
LETTER PERFECT
(Alex: We want you to name the play in...)
SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC MEN
"SCOPE" IT OUT
COLOR MOVIES
THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
(Janet Napolitano: We've evolved in many ways since our creation in the wake of 9/11.)
    $400 20
Evita

Ellen
    $400 13
K

Matt
    $400 1
[Ellen selected the first clue.]

Macbeth

Ellen
    $400 11
a stethoscope

Glenn
    $400 3
Black Swan

Glenn
    $400 26
Cyber Security

Glenn
    $800 21
Andrew Wyeth

Ellen
    $800 14
I

Ellen
    $800 2
Romeo and Juliet

Matt
    $800 12
telescopes

Matt
    $800 6
Green Lantern

Matt
    $800 27
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

imminent

Glenn
    $1200 22
(Andrew) Carnegie

Glenn
    $1200 15
Q

Matt
    $1200 4
King Lear

Ellen
    $1200 18
(Matt: What is a periscope?)

a radarscope

Matt
Triple Stumper
    $1200 7
The Pink Panther

Ellen
    $1600 23
(Alex: Good, with a minute to go.)

Lizzie Borden

Ellen
    $1600 16
(Matt: What is H?)
(Ellen: Uh, what is K?)
(Glenn: What is C?)
..
(Alex: Bore on, Mattie.)

B (for boron)

EllenMattGlenn
Triple Stumper
    $1600 5
Othello

Matt
    $1600 19
arthroscope

Matt
    $1600 9
Red Riding Hood

Glenn
    $2000 24
(Andrew) Sullivan

Matt
    $2000 17
(Glenn: What is VII?)

S

Glenn
Triple Stumper
    $2000 8
(Glenn: Uh... what is Julius Caesar?)
(Ellen: What is Troilus and Cressida?)

Antony and Cleopatra

EllenMattGlenn
    $2000 25
kinescopes

Triple Stumper
    $3,150 10
(Alex: I could almost see the wheels turning on that one as you went back...)
(Glenn: You didn't see the smoke coming out of my ear?)

Yellow Submarine

Glenn

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ellen Matt Glenn
$7,800 $13,400 $8,650

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

HISTORIC DOCUMENTS
(Alex: These were the famous documents that were released to the press about 40 years ago.)
EllenWhat is Sei
$2,200
GlennWhat are the Pentagon Papers?
$6,951
MattWhat is The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
$4,000
the Pentagon Papers

Final scores:

Ellen Matt Glenn
$5,600 $9,400 $15,601
3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $15,601

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ellen Matt Glenn
$7,800 $13,400 $6,800
17 R,
3 W		 16 R,
2 W		 20 R
(including 2 DDs),
5 W

Combined Coryat: $28,000

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Game tape date: 2011-09-21
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