Responses for Show #6345 - Friday, March 30, 2012

Contestants

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Ruth Robbins, a stay-at-home mom from Jacksonville, North Carolina

Sarah Curtis, a mechanical and electrical drafter from Oceanside, California

Beau Henson, a test prep teacher and actor originally from Mt. Carmel, Illinois (whose 3-day cash winnings total $51,203)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

WILD CATS
HERBS & SPICES
NOTEABLE NAMES
SOLVE FOR "EX"
IT'S ALL RELATIVE
RECORD BREAKERS
    $200 5
the leopard

Sarah
    $200 18
cumin

Beau
    $200 15
(Alex: [*]--yes, I knew you wouldn't miss that one.)

(Rabbie) Burns

Beau
    $200 1
expecting

Beau
    $200 11
a grandfather clock

Ruth
    $200 25
a hole-in-one

Beau
    $400 6
India

Beau
    $400 19
basil

Sarah
    $400 16
Susan B. Anthony

Beau
    $400 4
(Alex: The "EX" this time refers to [*].)

an exemption

Triple Stumper
    $400 12
Father Flanagan

Triple Stumper
    $400 26
the fastest fastball

Sarah
    $600 7
a cheetah

Beau
    $600 20
(Alex: It's called the [*] State.)

nutmeg

Triple Stumper
    $600 17
Malcolm X

Sarah
    $600 2
(Alex: Who do we [*]? That's the "EX".)

expropriate

Triple Stumper
    $600 13
(Beau: What is Auntie Mame?)

Sister Carrie

Beau
Triple Stumper
    $600 27
(Alex: Broke the record for [*].)

the mile

Triple Stumper
    $800 8
a bobcat

Beau
    $800 21
cilantro

Ruth
    $800 23
(Beau: Who is Edie Piaf?)
(Alex: Ooh, no. Sorry. It's not like Eydie Gorme. It's [*]. So you lose money, and we go back to Ruth to make the next selection.)

Edith Piaf

Beau
Triple Stumper
    $800 3
exquisite

Beau
    $800 14
(Alex: And those were the--believe it or not--[*] stories. Pretty violent stuff!)

Mother Goose

Triple Stumper
    $800 28
(Beau: Who is Byrd?)

(Karl) Malone

BeauRuth
    $1,000 9
puma

Beau
    $1000 22
rosemary

Triple Stumper
    $1000 24
(Sarah: Who is Chiang Kai-shek?)

Dr. Sun Yat-sen

Sarah
Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
(Sarah: What is [**]?)
[Originally ruled incorrect; reversed before Double Jeopardy! when the show's "researchers discovered that in some of the newer legal textbooks, [**] is a word that would satisfy the clue"]

exculpatory (exclusionary also accepted)

SarahRuth
    $1000 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

LaDainian Tomlinson

Sarah

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Beau Sarah Ruth
$3,200 $1,200 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Beau Sarah Ruth
$2,600 $2,600 $2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

POE'S PROSE
(Alex: Edgar Allan Poe, of course.)
17th CENTURY SCIENCE
KROSSWORD KLUES "K"
MICHAEL AT THE MIKE
LANGUAGES OF SOUTH AMERICA
RECORD DESTROYERS
    $400 8
"The Tell-Tale Heart"

Ruth
    $400 16
veins

Sarah
    $400 9
kindling

Sarah
    $400 21
(Beau: Who is Michael Ball?)

Michael Crawford

BeauRuth
    $400 11
(Sarah: What is Portuguese?)

French

Sarah
Triple Stumper
    $400 26
(Ruth: What is the Revolutionary War?)

the War of 1812

BeauRuth
    $800 7
Burial

Beau
    $800 17
quinine

Beau
    $800 10
kielbasa

Beau
    $800 22
Michael McDonald

Beau
    $800 12
(Alex: Sarah's smiling because she realizes, this was the time for it.)

Portuguese

Beau
    $800 27
[Alex read "FOIA" as "Freedom of Information Act".]
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

the FBI

Sarah
    $1200 1
[Beau selected the first clue. Alex had promised Sarah control at the end of the Jeopardy! Round, but a score correction in her favor put her into a tie with Beau and sent control to Beau for the start of the Double Jeopardy! Round.]

"The Masque of the Red Death"

Beau
    $1200 18
ellipses

Beau
    $1200 4
killjoy

Triple Stumper
    $2,000 23
(Alex: Lead singer of R.E.M. Less than a minute to go now.)

Michael Stipe

Beau
    $2,500 13
(Beau: What is... Chile?)

Argentina

Beau
    $1600 2
"The Gold Bug"

Beau
    $1600 19
a vacuum

Beau
    $1600 5
kestrel

Beau
    $1600 24
Michael Bublé

Sarah
    $1600 14
Easter Island

Sarah
    $2000 3
"The Pit and the Pendulum"

Triple Stumper
    $2000 20
Fermat

Beau
    $2000 6
(Beau: What is a keen?)
...
(Alex: With names like Sarah and Ruth, you would think you would come up with [*]. [*].)

kaddish

Beau
Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
(Michael) Bolton

Ruth
    $2000 15
(Beau: What is Nawat?)

Quechua

Beau
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Beau Sarah Ruth
$11,300 $7,000 $5,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. VICE PRESIDENTS
(Alex: There haven't been that many, have there? So it might be easy.)
RuthWhat is Texas?
$5,199
SarahWhat is New York
$7,000
BeauWhat is TN?
$2,701
New York

Final scores:

Beau Sarah Ruth
$8,599 $14,000 $1
2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $14,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Beau Sarah Ruth
$13,000 $7,000 $5,200
23 R
(including 2 DDs),
7 W
(including 1 DD)		 11 R,
2 W		 7 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $25,200

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Game tape date: 2011-12-07
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