Responses for Show #6803 - Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Contestants

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Deborah Ellis, a retired middle school teacher from Rogue River, Oregon

Clay Walls, a university honors program manager from Birmingham, Alabama

Nancy Akerman, a science policy fellow from Arlington, Virginia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $14,000)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS IN POETRY
OLYMPIC TRACK & FIELD RECORDS
(Alex: You have to name the event for us.)
PENINSULAS
"MICRO" OR "MACRO"
ARTS
CRAFTS
    $200 1
silver

Deborah!
    $200 21
the decathlon

Deborah!
    $200 6
Florida

Clay
    $200 24
Microsoft

Clay
    $200 11
(Alex: They were called
the [*] Messengers.)

jazz

Triple Stumper
    $200 16
paper

Deborah!
    $400 2
gold

Clay
    $400 22
(Clay: What is the 100-meter dash?)
(Nancy: What is the 400-meter dash?)
(Deborah: I don't know. [Laughs])
(Alex: You had to go to the race right in between--[*].)

the 200 meters

NancyClay
Triple Stumper
    $400 7
the Iberian

Clay
    $400 25
macroeconomics

Clay
    $400 12
The Fed (the Federal Reserve)

Nancy
    $400 17
whittling

Clay
    $600 3
[NOTE: The three-hyphen em dash was in the clue as shown.]

iron

Deborah!
    $600 23
(Alex: Correct.)
(Deborah: Okay. Let's--it's getting too hard. Let's go to "MICRO" OR "MACRO", please, $200.)

the shot put

Deborah!
    $600 8
the heel

Clay
    $600 26
micromanagement

Clay
    $600 13
Arthur Ashe

Clay
    $600 18
a loom

Nancy
    $800 4
oxygen

Clay
    $1,000 30
the pole vault

Nancy
    $800 9
Qatar

Deborah!
    $800 27
macrobiotics

Deborah!
    $800 14
Arthur Murray

Deborah!
    $800 19
fans

Clay
    $1000 5
sulphur

Clay
    $1000 29
(Deborah: Oh. I was gonna say, what is the mile?)
...
(Alex: Yes. The equivalent. The Olympic mile.)

the 1,500 meters

NancyDeborah!
    $1000 10
(Deborah: What is the Italian Peninsula?)

the Balkan

ClayDeborah!
    $1000 28
Micronesia

Clay
    $1000 15
Being

Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
(Clay: What are canoes?)

a surfboard

ClayDeborah!

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

Nancy Clay Deborah!
$400 $5,000 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Nancy Clay Deborah!
$2,600 $7,000 $3,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD LEADERS IN 1914
PARENTHETICAL SONGS
(Alex: Each correct response will contain a...)
SILENT CONSONANT
MANAGEMENT
LET'S GO "C" A PLAY
MOUNT RUSHMORE
(Sarah: Mount Rushmore National Memorial--American history alive in stone.)
    $400 23
Japan

Nancy
    $400 10
"Pride"

Nancy
    $400 6
depot

Nancy
    $400 18
the mission statement

Deborah!
    $400 1
Coriolanus

Deborah!
    $400 16
the Louisiana Purchase

Nancy
    $800 24
the United Kingdom

Nancy
    $800 11
"Rocket Man"

Clay
    $800 7
catacombs

Deborah!
    $800 19
[Deborah gave both listed responses.]

termination (or to terminate)

Deborah!
    $3,000 2
(Alex: And you have enough money to take away first place from Clay.)
(Deborah: Oh, I'm chicken. Uh, I'll go $3,000, please.)

The Cherry Orchard

Deborah!
    $800 17
Gutzon Borglum

Triple Stumper
    $1200 25
South Africa

Triple Stumper
    $1200 12
"Bang A Gong"

Triple Stumper
    $1200 8
rhubarb

Deborah!
    $1200 20
corner

Clay
    $1200 3
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Deborah!
    $1200 26
(Alex: Less than a minute to go now.)

TNT (or dynamite)

Nancy
    $2,000 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

the Ottoman Empire

Deborah!
    $1600 13
[NOTE: The correct song title is "I Can't Help Myself".]

"Can't Help Myself"

Clay
    $1600 9
(Deborah: De--what is denigrate?)
...
(Alex: Back to you, Deborah.)
(Deborah: Okay. Let's go to--I have no idea what it means--PARENTHETICAL SONGS, $400.)

malign

Deborah!
Triple Stumper
    $1600 21
direct reports

Clay
    $1600 4
The Crucible

Clay
    $1600 27
honeycombing

Deborah!
    $2000 14
(Clay: What is "Losing My Religion"?)
(Alex: No. Deborah or Nancy?)
(Deborah: No.)

"Rockville"

Clay
Triple Stumper
    $2000 15
(Nancy: What is the, um--oh, the puffin?)

the ptarmigan

NancyDeborah!
    $2000 22
(Deborah: What is IBM?)

General Motors

Deborah!
Triple Stumper
    $2000 5
Children of a Lesser God

Nancy
    $2000 28
(Deborah: What's a trapeze chair?)
(Clay: What is a high chair?)
(Alex: No.)
[Deborah laughs]
...
(Alex: And I would like to point out right now that with that category, ladies and gentlemen, our Clue Crew members have now done clues in all 50 states.)

boatswain chairs

ClayDeborah!
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Nancy Clay Deborah!
$6,200 $9,800 $11,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AGRICULTURE
(Alex: [To Deborah] No, that, too, is incorrect. The correct response, with about $4.5 billion in sales, almost as much as grapes--[*]. [*].)
(Deborah: My second guess.)
(Alex: What did it cost you?)
(Deborah: Too much.)
(Alex: Ohh.)
(Deborah: I know.)
NancyWhat are olives?
$3,800
ClayWhat are plums?
$2,601
Deborah!What are dates?
$8,601
almonds

Final scores:

Nancy Clay Deborah!
$2,400 $7,199 $2,399
2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $7,199 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Nancy Clay Deborah!
$6,000 $9,800 $8,400
11 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 19 R,
4 W		 19 R
(including 2 DDs),
5 W

Combined Coryat: $24,200

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Game tape date: 2013-12-04
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