Responses for Show #6788 - Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Battle of the Decades: The 1990s game 3.

Contestants

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Shane Whitlock, a radiologist from Little Rock, Arkansas

Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California

Robin Carroll, an instructional designer and curriculum developer from Atlanta, Georgia

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Jeopardy! Round responses

BILL CLINTON
HOLIDAYS
"HANG" FIVE
LOGOS
THE FIRST INSTRUMENT HEARD
(Alex: And finally, careful on this one...)
CARSON, DAILY
    $200 11
Hope, Arkansas

Robin
    $200 1
Hanukkah

Bob
    $200 16
hanger-on

Shane
    $200 6
Amazon

Robin
    $200 21
a guitar

Bob
    $200 26
(Robin: Who are Elizabeth... Taylor and Richard Burton?)

Diana & Charles

RobinShane
    $400 12
Oxford

Robin
    $1,000 2
(Bob: What's, uh...)
(Alex: Say something.)
(Bob: Thanksgiving Day?)
...
(Alex: All right, you're at -$800. Go again, Bob.)
(Bob: I've been there before.)
[Laughter]

St. Patrick's Day (March 17)

Bob
    $400 17
the "Hanging Judge"

Shane
    $400 7
a borzoi

Robin
    $400 22
a clarinet

Bob
    $400 27
Joan Rivers

Robin
    $600 13
(Bob: Uh, what's governor of Arkansas?)

attorney general

RobinBob
    $600 3
Texas

Shane
    $600 18
hanging chads

Bob
    $600 8
Milton Bradley

Bob
    $600 23
(Bob: What's an oboe?)
(Robin: What is violin?)

the flute

RobinBob
Triple Stumper
    $600 28
Joan Crawford

Bob
    $800 14
(Kenneth) Starr

Robin
    $800 4
(Robin: [Laughs] What is [*]?)

Whitsunday

Robin
    $800 19
(Alex: Right. You're on the plus side.)
(Bob: Yay!)

hang time

Bob
    $800 9
a cup of coffee

Robin
    $800 24
(Robin: What is... the organ?)

the drums

Robin
Triple Stumper
    $800 29
Eddie Murphy

Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
(Shane: What's the Family Leave Act?)

the Family and Medical Leave Act

Shane
Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
(Robin: W-what is the, um... Babylonian calendar?)
(Shane: What is the... Egyptian calendar?... Ancient Egyptian calendar?)
...
(Alex: Well, this is unusual.)
[Laughter]
(Alex: All three of you at a negative amount.)

the Coptic calendar

RobinShane
Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
a paper hanger

Robin
    $1000 10
Dropbox

Shane
    $1000 25
the trumpet

Triple Stumper
    $1000 30
(Robin: What is NBC?)

G.E.

Robin
Triple Stumper

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

Robin Bob Shane
$3,200 -$800 -$400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Robin Bob Shane
$2,000 $1,200 $400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

IN A FRENCH KITCHEN
THAT MOVIE'S GENIUS
AT "LAS" OF THE WORLD
NATURE
BRITISH AUTHORS
(Alex: And finally, we want you to...)
MAKE A FAMOUS PHRASE
    $400 20
flambé

Shane
    $400 21
Back to the Future

Shane
    $400 26
Las Vegas

Bob
    $400 1
spiral

Bob
    $400 9
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Shane
    $400 14
Curiosity killed the cat

Bob
    $800 2
ratatouille

Bob
    $800 22
Gravity

Shane
    $800 27
Dallas

Robin
    $800 5
anaconda

Shane
    $800 10
Jane Austen

Robin
    $800 15
ace in the hole

Shane
    $1200 3
Crêpe Day

Triple Stumper
    $1200 23
Searching for Bobby Fischer

Shane
    $1200 28
Lassen Peak

Bob
    $1200 6
(Robin: What is... yak?)
(Bob: What's a water buffalo?)
...
(Alex: What is my favorite animal, [*]? I had to get in a plug.)
[Laughter]

the muskox

RobinBob
Triple Stumper
    $1200 11
Rudyard Kipling

Robin
    $1200 16
give up the ghost

Bob
    $1600 4
calvados

Shane
    $1600 24
Swordfish

Triple Stumper
    $1600 29
Las Palmas

Triple Stumper
    $2,800 7
(Shane: What is an osprey?)

a frigate

Shane
    $2,000 12
Joseph Conrad

Robin
    $1600 17
(Bob: What's [*]?)
[Robin laughs]
(Alex: We'll accept that. Yes.)

a Rolling Stone will gather no Moss

Bob
    $2000 19
mirepoix

Shane
    $2000 25
October Sky

Shane
    $2000 30
(Alex: And that takes you up to $10,000. You have the lead.)
[Bob turns to Shane and applauds.]

Douglas

Shane
    $2000 8
coelenterates

Triple Stumper
    $2000 13
Ian McEwan

Triple Stumper
    $2000 18
(Alex: Gonna love it--what is [*]?)
[Laughter]
(Bob: [Clapping in the direction of the judges] Give it up to the writers.)
(Alex: Oh, Bob's applauding our writers. Go again.)
(Bob: Nice. Nice.)

there's a chicken in every pot

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Robin Bob Shane
$5,600 $6,000 $10,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

4-LETTER WORDS
(Alex: [To Robin] "Yankee Doodle" got shortened to "doodle", got shortened to "[*]". Way to go.)
...
(Alex: [To Bob] You stared and stared and stared and you're still staring.)
(Bob: It's happened before.)
(Alex: Uh--oh!)
[Laughter]
(Alex: Wishful thinking, are we?)
(Bob: It's a kind of [*].)
RobinWhat is dude?
$5,600
BobWhat is stud?
$6,000
ShaneWhat is
$2,001
dude

Final scores:

Robin Bob Shane
$11,200 $0 $7,999
Quarterfinalist 3rd place: $5,000 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Robin Bob Shane
$5,200 $7,000 $12,800
14 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W		 14 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $25,000

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Game tape date: 2014-01-21
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