Responses for Show #6769 - Thursday, February 6, 2014

Battle of the Decades: The 1980s game 4.

Contestants

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Frank Spangenberg, a police officer from New York City, New York

Mark Lowenthal, an intelligence educator from Reston, Virginia

Phoebe Juel, an attorney from Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania

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Jeopardy! Round responses

GRANDSON OF WOOD
(Alex: That should bring back some great memories.)
PRO SPORTS TEAMS
THE COUNTRY DUE SOUTH
(Alex: You identify it for us.)
BOOM "BOX"
J.S. BACH
GOLDBERG VARIATIONS
    $200 16
oak

Phoebe
    $200 1
the Raiders

Phoebe
    $200 3
China

Phoebe
    $200 26
shadowboxing

Frank
    $200 18
the organ

Mark
    $200 8
(William) Golding

Phoebe
    $400 17
teak

Frank
    $400 2
the Atlanta Braves

Mark
    $400 4
Tanzania

Mark
    $400 27
the icebox

Frank
    $400 20
Easter

Frank
    $400 9
(Marcus) Goldman

Frank
    $600 19
mahogany

Frank
    $600 13
(Alex: And that would be the NBA's [*].)

Toronto Raptors

Triple Stumper
    $1,000 5
Greece

Mark
    $600 28
letterbox

Phoebe
    $600 21
(Phoebe: What is the master of the Vienna Boys Choir?)
(Mark: What is a kapellemaster, a--a chapel master?)
(Alex: Nope. Oh, we'll accept that, our judge says. [*] is what we were going for. We were talking about Leipzig, not Vienna.)

choirmaster

PhoebeMark
    $600 10
Paul Goldschmidt

Triple Stumper
    $800 22
balsa

Frank
    $800 14
the Florida Panthers

Triple Stumper
    $800 6
Peru

Mark
    $800 29
Matchbox

Phoebe
    $800 23
(Frank: What is polyphony?)

counterpoint

Frank
Triple Stumper
    $800 11
(Barry) Goldwater

Phoebe
    $1000 25
[Alex read "S. album" in the clue as Santalum album.]

sandalwood

Phoebe
    $1000 15
the Boston Red Sox

Mark
    $1000 7
Namibia

Mark
    $1000 30
(Alex: They're both reporters.)

the press box

Triple Stumper
    $1000 24
inventions

Triple Stumper
    $1000 12
(Jerry) Goldsmith

Mark

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

Phoebe Mark Frank
$1,400 $5,600 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Phoebe Mark Frank
$3,400 $6,400 $2,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

CIVIL WAR GENERALS
2-LETTER SPELLING
(Alex: And yes, you have to spell it out.)
IN THE COURTROOM
RHYMING SONG TITLES
BRITISH POETS & POETRY
RARE BREEDS
    $400 3
Robert E. Lee

Frank
    $400 16
(Phoebe: What is the id? Uh, what is [*]?)

I-D

Phoebe
    $400 17
under God

Phoebe
    $400 26
"Back In Black"

Triple Stumper
    $400 2
Chaucer

Phoebe
    $400 10
a giraffe

Phoebe
    $800 6
(William Tecumseh) Sherman

Frank
    $800 22
Y-E

Mark
    $800 18
("Scooter") Libby

Phoebe
    $800 27
"Mellow Yellow"

Frank
    $800 4
World War I

Frank
    $800 11
a horse

Phoebe
    $1200 7
Lew Wallace

Phoebe
    $1200 23
O-I

Frank
    $1200 19
Anna Nicole Smith

Phoebe
    $1200 28
"Only The Lonely"

Triple Stumper
    $1200 1
Ted Hughes

Triple Stumper
    $1200 12
a fruit bat

Triple Stumper
    $2,000 8
(John B.) Hood

Phoebe
    $1600 24
A-I

Frank
    $2,500 20
Lenny Bruce

Phoebe
    $1600 29
(Alex: And now, the last one.)
(Mark: Yeah, the last one.)
[Laughter]

"The Name Game"

Mark
    $1600 5
Andrew Marvell

Mark
    $1600 13
the rhinoceros

Phoebe
    $2000 9
(Winfield Scott) Hancock

Phoebe
    $2000 25
A-A

Frank
    $2000 21
(Alex: They're going to love you back home for getting that one.)
(Frank: [Smiling] No.)

stop and frisk

Frank
    $2000 30
"Helter Skelter"

Triple Stumper
    $2000 15
(Mark: What is... Chinon?)
(Alex: Say it again.)
(Mark: Chinon.)
(Alex: No.)

Chillon

MarkFrank
    $2000 14
cetaceans

Mark

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Phoebe Mark Frank
$17,100 $10,400 $14,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
(Alex: Mark, we're gonna start with you, and you were...)
(Mark: You can't--you can't read that at all, I can assure you. I was trying to write U.A.E.)
(Alex: Ah. Let's take a look. You started with Singapore.)
(Mark: I took that out and I started to write U.A.E., United Arab Emirates.)
(Alex: Okay, let me see if I can make you feel better. Either one is incorrect.)
(Mark: Good.)
[Laughter]
MarkWhat is S Singapore? [indecipherable scribbles]
$1,400
FrankWhat is Bahrain?
$6,801
PhoebeWhat is Singapore
$15,000
Qatar

Final scores:

Phoebe Mark Frank
$2,100 $9,000 $7,199
3rd place: $5,000 Quarterfinalist 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Phoebe Mark Frank
$15,800 $10,000 $14,000
20 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W		 13 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 16 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $39,800

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Game tape date: 2013-12-17
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