Responses for Show #6380 - Friday, May 18, 2012

2012 Power Players Week game 5.
From DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.

Contestants

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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times

Kelly O'Donnell, a political reporter from NBC News

Anderson Cooper, a news anchor and correspondent from CNN

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Jeopardy! Round responses

INSIDE THE BELTWAY
HERE'S TO THE IRISH
THE STOCK TICKER
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS
21st CENTURY LINGO
LITERARY MENAGERIE
    $200 10
cotton

Anderson
    $200 3
Eliot Spitzer

Anderson
    $400 11
(Kelly: What is yellow?)

white

AndersonKelly O
    $400 4
Thomas Jefferson

Anderson
    $400 1
a hot spot

Anderson
    $400 15
Mosquito

Anderson
    $600 12
(Kelly: What is Saab?)

Volvo

AndersonKelly O
    $600 21
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Johnson & Johnson

Tom
    $600 5
Lord Horatio Nelson

Triple Stumper
    $600 2
(Tom: Subprime?)

toxic

Kelly OTom
    $600 16
(Alex: With a minute to go.)

Fox

Anderson
    $800 13
asteroids

Triple Stumper
    $800 20
(Anderson: Wh--what is... IBM?)

Halliburton

AndersonTom
    $800 6
(Anderson: Why I'm so good in this category, I don't know.)
[Laughter]

the Mayflower Madam

Anderson
    $800 8
(Tom: A tweeter--what is a tweeter?)

a microblogger

Tom
Triple Stumper
    $800 18
Rabbit

Tom
    $1000 14
a chastity belt

Anderson
    $1000 19
Anheuser-Busch

Tom
    $1000 7
(Anderson: I thought it was Madame Beehive for a moment.)

Madame de Pompadour

Triple Stumper
    $1000 9
an exit strategy

Tom
    $1000 17
Stallion

Triple Stumper

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 12):

Anderson Kelly O Tom
$3,000 -$400 -$400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Anderson Kelly O Tom
$4,200 -$400 $2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

"A.C."
(Alex: [*] in quotation marks--two words in each correct response, the first word beginning with an "A", the second word beginning with the letter "C".)
PREPARE THE PREFIX
(Alex: Tom, you're gonna love this. Not HOT, FLAT, & CROWDED but...)
COLD, HILLY & EMPTY
TV GUIDE MOVIE SYNOPSES
I'M GROVER CLEVELAND
I APPROVED THIS MESSAGE
    $400 16
(Alex: The lady who is associated with mysteries--[*]--"A.C.")

Agatha Christie

Triple Stumper
    $400 17
(Anderson: What is pre-?)

extra-

AndersonKelly O
    $400 7
a ghost town

Anderson
    $400 14
Speed

Anderson
    $400 26
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)

Hawaii

Kelly O
    $400 1
A Bottle

Anderson
    $800 9
Arthur C. Clarke

Tom
    $800 18
counter-

Kelly O
    $800 10
Capitol Hill

Anderson
    $800 2
(Kelly: Who is Seabiscuit?)
...
(Alex: Seabiscuit did not win the Triple Crown but [*] did.)

Secretariat

Kelly O
Triple Stumper
    $800 27
the Secret Service

Anderson
    $800 22
(Alex: And the BBS is [*].)

bulletin board system

Triple Stumper
    $1200 6
Alexander Calder

Tom
    $1200 19
auto-

Triple Stumper
    $1200 11
the Yukon Territory

Triple Stumper
    $1,000 3
(Alex: Anderson?)
(Anderson: I--I don't even know what it means. I--)
(Alex: The book is... or the TV movie is [*].)

From Here to Eternity

Anderson
    $1200 23
the Bible

Triple Stumper
    $1600 8
Albert Camus

Triple Stumper
    $1600 20
bio-

Kelly O
    $1600 12
August

Tom
    $1600 4
Black Swan

Anderson
    $800 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

the mail

Anderson
    $1600 24
Easter

Anderson
    $2000 15
Alistair Cooke

Anderson
    $2000 21
radio-

Tom
    $2000 13
Suribachi

Anderson
    $2000 5
(Alex: One of my favorites--[*].)

The Wild Bunch

Triple Stumper
    $2000 28
serve in the Civil War

Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
the medium

Anderson

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Anderson Kelly O Tom
$15,600 $2,000 $8,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

INVENTORS
(Alex: What was king in the South? That's what you had to figure out.)
...
(Anderson: I was more writing, "Who invented the cotton gin?" But I--)
Kelly OWho is Carver
$500
TomWho
$7,400
AndersonWho invented cot
$1,201
Eli Whitney

Final scores:

Anderson Kelly O Tom
$14,399 $1,500 $1,000
Winner: $50,000 to The Trevor Project 2nd place: $10,000 to the Lost Dog & Cat Rescue Foundation 3rd place: $10,000 to Conservation International

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Anderson Kelly O Tom
$17,400 $2,000 $8,400
21 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 5 R,
3 W		 9 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $27,800

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Game tape date: 2012-04-21
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