Responses for Show #6780 - Friday, February 21, 2014

2014 College Championship final game 2.

Contestants

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Terry O'Shea, a sophomore at Princeton University from Bridgewater, New Jersey (subtotal of $19,800)

Tucker Pope, a junior from Texas A&M University from Lubbock, Texas (subtotal of $14,800)

Kevin Shen, a junior from the University of California, Berkeley from Cupertino, California (subtotal of $8,765)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

NO COOKING REQUIRED
GLOBAL STUDIES
"H"OMONYMS
MONEY TALKS
NOTABLE NAMES
JOHNNY GILBERT PERFORMS TODAY'S HITS
(Alex: You have to name the performer more closely associated with the tune.)
    $200 24
sauerkraut

Kevin
    $200 9
the Ganges

Terry
    $200 19
hack

Tucker
    $200 6
pluribus unum

Tucker
    $200 14
(Milton) Hershey

Kevin
    $200 1
Robin Thicke

Terry
    $400 25
tuna

Terry
    $400 10
(Alex: Yes, that's the country.)

Indonesia

Terry
    $400 20
hide

Tucker
    $400 7
(Tucker: What is the Jefferson Monument?)
...
(Alex: It does have to do with Jefferson, but it's [*].)

Monticello

Tucker
Triple Stumper
    $400 15
Cromwell

Tucker
    $400 2
Beyoncé

Kevin
    $600 26
apples

Terry
    $600 11
Arabic

Terry
    $1,200 21
(Tucker: What is stall?)

hamper

Tucker
    $600 8
(Alex: It's got it in English and French: Dix [*] dollars.)

ten

Triple Stumper
    $600 16
Rasputin

Terry
    $600 3
Katy Perry

Tucker
    $800 27
mozzarella

Terry
    $800 12
Heathrow

Tucker
    $800 22
heel

Kevin
    $800 29
(Ulysses) Grant

Tucker
    $800 17
Ramses the Great

Terry
    $800 4
Ylvis

Kevin
    $1000 28
gazpacho

Kevin
    $1000 13
(Tucker: What is Nashville?)
(Terry: What is Moscow?)
...
(Alex: Terry, you were in the right country, but the wrong city. It is [*].)

St. Petersburg

TuckerTerry
Triple Stumper
    $1000 23
hip

Terry
    $1000 30
legal tender

Tucker
    $1000 18
Jane Grey

Terry
    $1000 5
(Terry: Who is Kanye West?)
...
(Alex: I'm willing to make a prediction right now that by this time tomorrow, there will be hundreds of thousands of tweets out there about Johnny.)
[Audience applause]

Eminem

TuckerTerry

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

Kevin Tucker Terry
$1,200 $1,200 -$600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Kevin Tucker Terry
$3,400 $2,800 $4,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

FICTIONAL COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
PUT IT THERE
WHAT'S YOUR MAJOR?
COUPLING ON TV
(Alex: You have to identify the show that features each romance we tell you about.)
"ONY" BALONEY
FIGURING OUT THE UNIVERSE
(Sarah: The Sanford Underground Research Facility In South Dakota is doing cutting-edge experiments almost a mile down.)
    $400 1
Merlin the magician

Triple Stumper
    $400 4
the Louvre

Terry
    $400 2
(Kevin: What is World War I?)

the Civil War

Kevin
Triple Stumper
    $400 3
Grey's Anatomy

Kevin
    $400 26
testimony

Terry
    $400 21
dark matter

Kevin
    $800 5
Douglas Adams

Triple Stumper
    $800 7
Nashville

Tucker
    $800 11
a majorette (or a drum major)

Triple Stumper
    $800 12
(Terry: I'm not much of a singer.)

Glee

Terry
    $800 27
ceremony

Terry
    $800 22
copper

Tucker
    $1200 6
(Alex: We're stumping you guys all of a sudden.)
(Terry: Yeah.)
(Alex: Terry, go again.)
(Terry: I'm sorry.)

Bret Easton Ellis

Triple Stumper
    $1200 8
Jupiter

Kevin
    $1200 16
Canis Major

Kevin
    $1200 13
Bones

Terry
    $1200 28
pony

Terry
    $1200 23
micrometer

Kevin
    $1600 19
(H. P.) Lovecraft

Tucker
    $2,000 9
(Kevin: Um... what is the Department of Defense?)

Treasury

Kevin
    $1600 17
Tories (or Conservatives)

Tucker
    $1600 14
Burn Notice

Tucker
    $1600 29
cronyism

Terry
    $1600 24
xenon

Kevin
    $2000 20
the Royal Society

Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
the brain

Tucker
    $2000 18
(Terry: What is a key?)
[Initially ruled incorrect; reversed before the Daily Double at clue 25 due to "the way we wrote that... clue".]

scale

TuckerTerry
    $2000 15
Girls

Triple Stumper
    $2000 30
hegemony

Triple Stumper
    $7,000 25
(Kevin: What is gamma?)
...
(Alex: Okay, we have one category left, and little less--less than a minute to go.)

cosmic

Kevin

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Kevin Tucker Terry
$0 $13,200 $13,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE BRITISH EMPIRE
(Alex: Kevin, uh, you had no money, so you couldn't participate in the Final today. But yesterday you earned $8,765. And looks like that's gonna get bumped up to a third-place $25,000.)
TerryWhat is Gibraltar?
$5,000
TuckerWhat is Hong Kong?
$13,200
Gibraltar

Final scores:

Kevin Tucker Terry
$0 $0 $18,000

Cumulative scores:

Kevin Tucker Terry
$8,765 $14,800 $37,800
2nd runner-up: $25,000 1st runner-up: $50,000 Tournament champion: $100,000 + a trophy

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Kevin Tucker Terry
$9,000 $14,400 $13,000
12 R,
3 W
(including 2 DDs)		 16 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 19 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $36,400

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Game tape date: 2014-01-08
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