Responses for Show #6789 - Thursday, March 6, 2014

Battle of the Decades: The 1990s game 4.

Contestants

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Claudia Perry, a worker for an e-learning company from Evanston, Illinois

Mark Dawson, a writer and editor for the Honda Campus All-Star Challenge from Chamblee, Georgia

Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky

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Jeopardy! Round responses

NEBRASKA
WHOSE SONG?
INTERNAL FLUIDITY
ON THE BOOKSHELF
IT WAS THE '90s
ODDS & END"Z"
(Alex: Each correct response will end with a "Z".)
    $200 9
Omaha

Claudia
    $200 4
Jessie

Mark
    $200 12
saliva

Dave
    $200 1
(Dave: What's... The Sun Also Rises?)

For Whom the Bell Tolls

DaveMark
    $200 25
a pager

Mark
    $200 18
chez

Mark
    $400 14
the Platte

Dave
    $400 5
Cathy

Claudia
    $400 13
the chest cavity

Mark
    $400 2
a cricket

Dave
    $400 26
Reebok

Mark
    $400 19
a waltz

Claudia
    $600 15
saloons

Dave
    $600 6
Tom

Mark
    $600 22
humor

Mark
    $600 3
The Bonfire of the Vanities

Mark
    $600 20
(Alex: Yep, hasn't done me a world of good.)
[Laughter]

the Thighmaster

Mark
    $600 21
oyez

Dave
    $800 16
barbed wire

Mark
    $800 7
Stacy

Claudia
    $3,000 23
(Mark: What is lymph?)

serum

Mark
    $800 10
(Umberto) Eco

Dave
    $800 29
Where's Waldo?

Claudia
    $800 27
a spitz

Dave
    $1000 17
Carhenge

Mark
    $1000 8
Annie

Mark
    $1000 24
bile

Mark
    $1000 11
Reynard

Dave
    $1000 30
Tae Bo

Mark
    $1000 28
an adz

Mark

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

Dave Mark Claudia
$3,200 $3,000 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Dave Mark Claudia
$4,600 $6,800 $2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WELCOME TO THE JUTE MILL
1990s TV SHOWS
BIBLICAL LETTERS
CONSIDER THAT A DIVORCE
IN THE DICTIONARY
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM
(Alex: You have to identify the stream. Actually, you have to identify the river.)
    $400 3
lint

Claudia
    $400 1
(Claudia: Um... Ah, what is...)
(Alex: Oh, sorry. Dave.)
(Claudia: [*]?)
...
(Alex: Sorry, you ran out of time there, Claudia.)
(Claudia: It's okay.)

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

DaveClaudia
    $400 17
Methuselah

Mark
    $400 12
[Claudia pronounces the first name with a soft "G".]
(Alex: [With a hard "G"] [*], yes.)

Angela Merkel

Claudia
    $400 18
a catbird seat

Dave
    $400 2
the Niagara River

Mark
    $800 5
trench (warfare)

Claudia
    $800 4
Twin Peaks

Mark
    $800 27
(Claudia: Who are the Philistines?)

Pharisees

MarkClaudia
    $800 13
(Nelson) Rockefeller

Mark
    $800 23
(Dave: What's the perigee?)
(Claudia: What's the apogee?)

perihelion

DaveClaudia
Triple Stumper
    $800 19
the Mississippi

Dave
    $1200 9
whale oil

Claudia
    $1200 6
Dharma & Greg

Claudia
    $1200 28
Jacob

Mark
    $800 14
(Mark: Um... who are, um, Princess Grace of Monaco and Prince Albert?)

Prince Andrew & Sarah Ferguson

Mark
    $1200 24
folie à deux

Claudia
    $1200 20
(Alex: Think of Buda... Pest. [*].)

the Danube River

Triple Stumper
    $1600 10
gunny

Dave
    $1600 7
Spin City

Claudia
    $1600 29
Endor

Dave
    $1600 15
Rachel

Mark
    $1600 25
Sri

Dave
    $1600 21
(Claudia: What's the English Channel?)

the Thames

MarkClaudia
    $2000 11
Calcutta

Mark
    $2000 8
The Larry Sanders Show

Triple Stumper
    $2000 30
Caiaphas

Dave
    $2000 16
(Charles) Parnell

Dave
    $2000 26
etui

Dave
    $2,000 22
(Mark: This is a tough category. I think I'll bet, um, $2,000.)
...
(Mark: What is... the Ganges River?)
(Alex: No, you're on the wrong continent. What is [*]?)
(Mark: Oh, of course. Kitchener, sure.)
(Alex: You had to go to Africa. Kitchener, Lord Kitchener.)

the Nile

Mark

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Dave Mark Claudia
$16,200 $13,600 $5,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS
[Claudia pumps her fist into the air after her correct response is revealed]
(Alex: You're gonna need some, uh, help.)
(Claudia: Yeah.)
ClaudiaWho is John Updike?
$5,800
MarkWho is Updike?
$1,999
DaveWho is John la Carre?
$11,001
John Updike

Final scores:

Dave Mark Claudia
$5,199 $15,599 $11,600
3rd place: $5,000 Quarterfinalist 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Dave Mark Claudia
$16,200 $19,400 $5,800
17 R,
2 W		 25 R,
3 W
(including 3 DDs)		 12 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $41,400

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Game tape date: 2014-01-21
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