Responses for Show #6766 - Monday, February 3, 2014

Battle of the Decades: The 1980s game 1.

Contestants

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Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia

Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy

India Cooper, a copy editor from Madison, Indiana

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Jeopardy! Round responses

PRE-'80s HISTORY
NAME THE BIBLE BOOK
ON THE "M"ENU
(Alex: Each correct response beginning with the letter M.)
BORN IN THE USA
PERSONAL SPACE INVADERS
(Alex: And finally, you're gonna love it...)
VALLEY GIRL SPEAK
    $200 16
George III

Jim
    $200 11
Revelation

Chuck
    $200 1
mint

Jim
    $200 8
Gary Cooper

India
    $200 19
a bear hug

Triple Stumper
    $200 25
tubular

India
    $400 17
the Rubicon

Jim
    $400 12
(India: What is... I Corinthians?)

Proverbs

IndiaChuck
    $400 2
a Monte Cristo

Jim
    $400 9
Mathew Brady

Chuck
    $400 20
sexual harassment

Chuck
    $400 26
stoked

Chuck
    $600 14
the Basques

Chuck
    $1,500 13
Jonah

Chuck
    $600 3
masala

Jim
    $600 6
Kate Upton

Chuck
    $600 22
Humphrey

Jim
    $600 27
gnarly

Chuck
    $800 18
shogun

India
    $800 15
Esther

India
    $800 4
(Jim: What is molecular?)
(Alex: We need more than that.)
(Jim: What is... molecular... cuisine?)
(Alex: No. Chuck?)
(Chuck: Uh, what is [**]?)
[Initially ruled incorrect, reversed before Daily Double at clue 13; the judges stood by their ruling against Jim because he didn't give a 2-word term at first.]

molecular gastronomy (or molecular cooking)

ChuckJim
    $800 7
(Carly) Fiorina

India
    $800 23
pickpocketing

India
    $800 28
lame

Chuck
    $1000 21
Petrograd

Jim
    $1000 29
(Jim: What is... Matthew?)

I Corinthians

Jim
Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
melanzane

Chuck
    $1000 10
(India: Who is Hoagy Carmichael?)

Jerome Kern

India
Triple Stumper
    $1000 24
infringement

Chuck
    $1000 30
rad

India

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 13):

India Chuck Jim
-$400 $4,900 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

India Chuck Jim
$3,200 $8,700 $1,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD LITERATURE
ALSO A TYPE OF FOOTWEAR
PHYSIOLOGY
BROADWAY MUSICALS
"S"ITIES
LATIN
    $400 17
Sanskrit

Chuck
    $400 5
a loafer

India
    $400 4
hemoglobin

India
    $400 23
West Side Story

India
    $400 2
Stockholm

Chuck
    $400 10
law

India
    $800 19
Ovid

Chuck
    $800 6
flats

India
    $1,500 16
(India: What is the uvula?)

the epiglottis

India
    $800 24
Janis Joplin

India
    $800 3
Seville

India
    $800 12
bursar

India
    $1200 20
Ivan Ilyich

India
    $1200 7
a pump

India
    $1200 28
the thymus

Chuck
    $1200 25
(Alex: It's okay for puppets.)

Avenue Q

Triple Stumper
    $1200 1
Sarajevo

Chuck
    $4,000 13
ad nauseam

India
    $1600 21
(Chuck: Who is Sartre?)

(Albert) Camus

IndiaChuck
    $1600 8
a wedge

Jim
    $1600 29
(Jim: What is... the pituitary?)

melatonin

Jim
Triple Stumper
    $1600 26
Dreamgirls

Triple Stumper
    $1600 9
Suva

Chuck
    $1600 14
in excelsis deo

Jim
    $2000 22
Things Fall Apart

Chuck
    $2000 11
(Alex: And that's [*]; that's a shoe.)

Oxford

Triple Stumper
    $2000 30
the vagus

Triple Stumper
    $2000 27
(Alex: That's right. You got trouble in River City.)

The Music Man

India
    $2000 18
Sharm el-Sheikh

Chuck
    $2000 15
casus belli

India

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

India Chuck Jim
$18,500 $16,700 $3,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES
(Alex: Her name was Louisa, and she was born in London.)
JimWho was John Quincy Adams?
$3,000
ChuckWho is John Q. Adams?
$16,700
IndiaWho is Madison?
$16,500
John Quincy Adams

Final scores:

India Chuck Jim
$2,000 $33,400 $6,200
3rd place: $5,000 Quarterfinalist 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

India Chuck Jim
$17,200 $15,800 $3,200
21 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)
21 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
9 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $36,200

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Game tape date: 2013-12-17
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