Responses for Show #6768 - Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Battle of the Decades: The 1980s game 3.

Contestants

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Leslie Shannon, a strategic market analyst from Espoo, Finland

Tom Nosek, an aerospace consultant from Torrance, California

Richard Cordray, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from Grove City, Ohio and Washington, D.C.

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Jeopardy! Round responses

WE LOVE PLANET EARTH
(Alex: Of course we do.)
(Alex: We want you to name the city as we deal with...)
IN THE CITY'S NEWSPAPER
SAINTS PRESERVE US!
"F"IVE-LETTER WORDS
2 FIRST NAMES
LIKE HENRY JAMES?
    $200 4
the Tropics

Tom
    $200 30
(Richard: What is... Boston?)

Memphis

RichardLeslie
    $200 16
(Alex: Yes, agnus dei, "[*] of God".)

a lamb

Tom
    $200 10
a fount

Leslie
    $200 11
Michael Douglas

Leslie
    $200 24
London

Richard
    $400 5
(Tom: What is... corn?)

wheat

TomLeslie
    $400 29
Omaha

Richard
    $400 17
Jerome

Richard
    $400 9
a farce

Leslie
    $400 12
Lea Michele

Triple Stumper
    $2,000 28
The Golden Bowl

Leslie
    $600 6
(Tom: What is bituminous?)
(Richard: What is... anthracite?)

lignite

RichardTom
Triple Stumper
    $600 19
(Richard: What is The [*] Dispatch?)

Columbus

Richard
    $600 23
the San Gennaro Festival

Triple Stumper
    $600 1
a frock

Leslie
    $600 13
Ray Charles

Triple Stumper
    $600 27
Maisie

Leslie
    $800 7
(Richard: What is the Pleistocene?)
(Leslie: What is the Cumbrian?)
...
(Leslie: Cumbria's not very far south.)

the Devonian period

RichardLeslie
Triple Stumper
    $800 18
Des Moines

Richard
    $800 22
Tours

Leslie
    $800 2
fetid

Richard
    $800 14
Tina Louise

Leslie
    $800 26
The Bostonians

Richard
    $1000 8
the neap tide

Richard
    $1000 21
(Leslie: What's... Muncie?)

Indianapolis

RichardLeslie
    $1000 20
(Alex: Oh, Leslie, you knew that?)
(Leslie: Too late!)

Saint Benedict

Triple Stumper
    $1000 3
feral

Tom
    $1000 15
Lee Marvin

Leslie
    $1000 25
(Alex: [*]--we'll accept that.)

(Isabel) Archer

Richard

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

Richard Tom Leslie
$400 $200 $2,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Richard Tom Leslie
$5,400 $400 $5,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

19th CENTURY OPERA
BACK IN THE USSR
STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL
'80s BABIES
CINEMA OF MY YOUTH
I'M HEADING TO...
    $400 6
Sweden

Leslie
    $400 1
(Boris) Yeltsin

Tom
    $400 11
an eyesore

Leslie
    $400 27
(Leslie: What is Jessica?)

"M"

Leslie
Triple Stumper
    $400 21
On the Waterfront

Tom
    $400 16
(Richard: What is Huron?)
...
(Alex: Thunder Bay in Ontario. The one on Lake Huron is in the United States.)

Superior

RichardTom
    $800 7
(Richard: What is... Tannhäuser?)
(Leslie: What is The Meistersinger of Nürnberg?)

Tristan und Isolde

RichardLeslie
Triple Stumper
    $800 2
Afghanistan

Tom
    $800 12
alfalfa

Tom
    $800 28
Baby Doe

Triple Stumper
    $800 22
Stalag 17

Richard
    $800 17
(Tom: What is New Hampshire?)

Maine

TomLeslie
    $1200 8
Manon

Tom
    $1200 3
Molotov

Leslie
    $1200 13
Otto

Triple Stumper
    $1200 23
baby fur seals

Leslie
    $1200 24
The Blob

Tom
    $1200 18
(Richard: What is Limoges?)
...
(Alex: Just outside of Paris.)

Sèvres

Richard
Triple Stumper
    $1600 9
(Richard: Who is... Berlioz?)

Gounod

Richard
Triple Stumper
    $1600 4
(Richard: What is... Pravda?)

TASS

RichardTom
    $1600 14
illiterati

Triple Stumper
    $1600 29
(Leslie: Now, that's Baby Jessica. What is Baby Jessica?)
(Alex: No.)
(Leslie: Oh, my God!)
[Laughter]

Baby Fae

Leslie
Triple Stumper
    $1600 25
(Alex: That is the beautiful [*].)

Maureen O'Hara

Triple Stumper
    $3,000 19
(Leslie: What is the Limpopo?)
(Alex: No, the "Z"s might have helped you there; it's [*].)
[Leslie groans.]

the Zambezi River

Leslie
    $2000 10
Rossini

Tom
    $2000 5
Rockwell Kent

Triple Stumper
    $2000 15
(Tom: What is angina?)

agita

Tom
Triple Stumper
    $2000 30
a test-tube baby

Richard
    $400 26
(Alex: How much are you risking?)
(Tom: $400.)
(Alex: Okay.)
[Laughter]
...
(Tom: Don't know.)

Notorious

Tom
    $2000 20
Iran

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Richard Tom Leslie
$2,600 $6,000 $3,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE PERIODIC TABLE
(Alex: Leslie is not looking too happy about this one.)
(Leslie: [Imitates crying])
(Alex: Why? I hope it's not Jessica.)
(Leslie: [Laughs])
...
(Alex: [To Tom] And that is the chemical symbol for [*].)
RichardWhat is silver?
$2,600
LeslieWhat is iron?
$3,600
TomWhat is AG
$1,201
silver

Final scores:

Richard Tom Leslie
$5,200 $7,201 $0
2nd place: $5,000 (prize declined as a federal employee) Quarterfinalist 3rd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Richard Tom Leslie
$2,600 $6,400 $5,000
12 R,
8 W		 12 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $14,000

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Game tape date: 2013-12-17
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