Responses for Show #6436 - Monday, September 17, 2012

First game of Season 29.
New title graphics.
Alex announces special online contestant tests for viewers in Cleveland and Cincinnati markets.

Contestants

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Vamsi Adusumilli, a marketing director originally from Columbia, Missouri

Diane Samuelson, a ballroom dance instructor from Annandale, Virginia

Alison Parakh, a personal trainer from Santa Barbara, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,201)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

GREAT & OTHER LAKES
OSCAR WINNERS ON TV
MY SO. CAL. LIFE
"A" IN LITERATURE
LATIN PHRASES
YOUR BEST TEXAS HOLD 'EM CALL
    $200 9
(Diane: What is Lake Erie?)

Lake Michigan

DianeVamsi
    $200 1
(Timothy) Hutton

Alison
    $200 4
the Hollywood Sign

Alison
    $200 12
angels

Vamsi
    $200 20
(Vamsi: What is "cat got your tongue"?)

slip of the tongue

AlisonVamsi
    $400 10
Lake Superior

Alison
    $400 2
(Alison: Who is LaLanne?)

Jack Palance

Alison
Triple Stumper
    $400 5
Vin Scully

Alison
    $400 16
Ahab

Diane
    $400 21
(Alex: Yes, with a minute to go.)

rest in peace

Alison
    $600 13
(Diane: What is Lake Ontario?)
(Vamsi: What is Great Bear Lake?)

Great Slave Lake

DianeVamsi
Triple Stumper
    $1,000 3
(Alex: Hurry.)
(Alison: Uh....)

Anjelica Huston

Alison
    $600 6
a martini

Alison
    $600 17
Anna Karenina

Diane
    $600 22
a lamb

Diane
    $600 24
four of a kind

Vamsi
    $800 14
Crater Lake

Vamsi
    $800 11
Jessica Lange

Triple Stumper
    $800 7
San Fernando Valley

Alison
    $800 18
Athos

Diane
    $800 23
(Alison: What is... in vitreo?)

in vitro

AlisonVamsi
    $800 26
[Alex did not actually say "What's this?" for this clue.]

a flush

Diane
    $1000 15
(Vamsi: What is Lake Bellagio?)

Lake Como

AlisonVamsi
    $1000 8
Route 66

Vamsi
    $1000 19
(Alex: That great novel was [*].)

An American Tragedy

Triple Stumper
    $1000 27
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

id est

Diane
    $1000 25
a full house

Vamsi

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 11):

Alison Diane Vamsi
$1,200 -$200 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Alison Diane Vamsi
$2,000 $3,400 $2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

1990s NO. 1 ALBUMS
NAME THAT WAR
WE MAKE FURNITURE
GIVING A PUP TALK
MATH WORDS
"SEP"-TEMBER
    $400 20
Alanis Morissette

Alison
    $400 25
World War I

Diane
    $400 16
chairs

Alison
    $400 1
"your little dog, too!"

Diane
    $400 5
(Alison: What is a trapezoid?)
(Vamsi: What is a rectangle?)
(Diane: What is a quadrangle?)

a quadrilateral

AlisonDianeVamsi
Triple Stumper
    $400 11
antiseptic

Alison
    $800 21
The Lion King

Alison
    $800 29
the Korean War

Triple Stumper
    $800 17
the Netherlands

Alison
    $800 2
fleas

Diane
    $800 6
a minute

Alison
    $800 12
Giuseppe

Alison
    $1200 22
Nirvana

Alison
    $1200 28
the Civil War

Vamsi
    $1200 18
Thomas Chippendale

Triple Stumper
    $600 3
Julius Caesar

Diane
    $1200 8
obtuse

Alison
    $1200 13
sepulcher

Diane
    $1600 23
Meat Loaf

Alison
    $1600 27
the Hundred Years' War

Triple Stumper
    $1600 19
Duncan Phyfe

Triple Stumper
    $1600 4
(Mario) Cuomo

Vamsi
    $1600 9
a slope

Vamsi
    $1,000 14
(Diane: [*]--What is [*]?)

transept

Diane
    $2000 24
(Alex: One minute to go now, Alison.)

R.E.M.

Triple Stumper
    $2000 26
World War II

Triple Stumper
    $2000 30
(Alison: What is veneer?)
...
(Alex: [To Diane] We'll accept that, the judge says...)

laminate

AlisonDiane
    $2000 7
"man bites dog"

Vamsi
    $2000 10
(Alison: What is... proof?)

a theorem

AlisonDiane
    $2000 15
the Septuagint

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Alison Diane Vamsi
$6,000 $11,400 $8,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ISLANDS
(Alex: [To Vamsi] Yes, Indonesia and Papua [*].)
AlisonWhat is Australia
$5,500
VamsiWhat is New Guinea?
$4,000
DianeWhat is Hispaniola?
$7,000
New Guinea

Final scores:

Alison Diane Vamsi
$500 $4,400 $12,800
3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $12,800

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Alison Diane Vamsi
$7,000 $12,600 $8,800
19 R,
6 W
(including 1 DD)		 14 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W		 11 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $28,400

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Game tape date: 2012-07-24
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