Responses for Show #6831 - Monday, May 5, 2014

Battle of the Decades quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

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Roger Craig, a data scientist from Brooklyn, New York

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

Leszek Pawlowicz, a shovel bum from Flagstaff, Arizona

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Jeopardy! Round responses

A BRIEF TIME OF HISTORY
ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES
WE'RE A NORTH AMERICAN BAND!
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
BOOZE
A WORD TO THE "I"s
(Alex: Each correct response will end with the letter I.)
    $200 1
John Paul I

Leszek
    $200 7
Carrie

Robin
    $200 16
Van Halen

Roger
    $200 6
Ivan

Robin
    $200 21
(Leszek: What is Canadian Club?)

Crown Royal

LeszekRobin
    $200 26
confetti

Robin
    $400 5
[Applause for Leszek's run of the category]

Henry VIII

Leszek
    $400 8
Steppenwolf

Roger
    $400 17
Rush

Roger
    $400 11
Savannah

Roger
    $400 22
(Roger: What is... Courvoisier?)

Rémy Martin

Roger
Triple Stumper
    $400 27
khaki

Roger
    $2,000 4
the Six-Day War

Leszek
    $600 9
Cosmos

Robin
    $600 18
Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Roger
    $600 13
Maleficent

Leszek
    $600 23
Jägermeister

Leszek
    $600 28
a lanai

Leszek
    $800 3
Emperors

Leszek
    $800 10
Exodus

Leszek
    $800 19
Barenaked Ladies

Robin
    $800 14
Bridget

Robin
    $800 24
Patrón

Roger
    $800 29
(Roger: What is Af... Afghani?)

Farsi

Roger
Triple Stumper
    $1000 2
Biafra

Leszek
    $1000 12
Junkie

Roger
    $1000 20
the Violent Femmes

Roger
    $1000 15
(Robin: What is [*]?)

Abraham

Robin
    $1000 25
(Roger: What is... Smirnoff?)
...
(Alex: Smirnoff, of course, is Russian, not Polish.)

Belvedere

Roger
Triple Stumper
    $1000 30
a wapiti

Leszek

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

Leszek Robin Roger
$5,800 $2,800 $1,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Leszek Robin Roger
$7,800 $4,000 $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME
(Alex: ...Not TIME OF HISTORY.)
LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS
BALLET & OPERA
SLANG
AFRICAN CAPITALS
AN ODD CAST OF CHARACTERS
    $400 21
Newton

Roger
    $400 19
Tabasco

Robin
    $400 6
The Rite of Spring

Leszek
    $400 26
(Roger: What is... crazy? Uh, what is [*]? What is the letter [*]?)

Z

Roger
    $400 25
Tanzania

Leszek
    $400 14
The Big Lebowski

Roger
    $800 22
Kant

Roger
    $800 20
orthodontics

Roger
    $800 10
Spartacus

Leszek
    $800 27
money

Triple Stumper
    $800 24
Namibia

Leszek
    $800 15
(Leszek: What is... [Sighs]... Oz... the Magnificent?)
(Roger: What is... Oz the... Powerful?)

Oz the Great and Powerful

LeszekRoger
Triple Stumper
    $1200 23
Greenwich Observatory

Leszek
    $5,000 13
(Alex: You're giving these so much thought, you're scaring me. Go again, though.)
(Roger: Sorry. You're scaring me more.)
[Laughter]

high jump

Roger
    $1200 9
(Roger: Who is... Don Juan?)

Don Giovanni

RobinRoger
    $1200 28
[Laughter]

you only live once

Roger
    $1200 5
Mauritania

Leszek
    $1200 16
[Robin left out the leading article from her response.]

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Robin
    $3,400 4
space-time

Roger
    $1600 12
a pterodactyl

Roger
    $1600 8
(Robin: What is... La bohème?)

La traviata

LeszekRobin
    $1600 29
mook

Triple Stumper
    $1600 2
(Roger: What is... [the time expiry signal sounds] Republic of Congo?)

the Central African Republic

LeszekRoger
    $1600 17
Trainspotting

Roger
    $2000 3
dilation

Roger
    $2000 11
Rittenhouse

Roger
    $2000 7
Giselle

Leszek
    $2000 30
Humblebrag

Triple Stumper
    $2000 1
(Leszek: What is Praia?)

Dakar, Senegal

Leszek
Triple Stumper
    $2000 18
DodgeBall

Roger

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Leszek Robin Roger
$15,000 $5,200 $21,000

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

WORD ORIGINS
(Alex: His first name was Caspar.)
...
(Alex: [To Robin] You were thinking of Walter Mitty, and that's incorrect.)
RobinWhat is a Mitty?
$5,200
LeszekWhat is [a part of a letter scribbled out] ?
$0
RogerWhat is milquetoast?! [a small picture of a cat face]
$1,078
milquetoast

Final scores:

Leszek Robin Roger
$15,000 $0 $22,078
2nd place: $10,000 if eliminated 3rd place: $10,000 if eliminated Automatic semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Leszek Robin Roger
$13,600 $5,200 $15,400
19 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 11 R,
1 W		 22 R
(including 2 DDs),
6 W

Combined Coryat: $34,200

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Game tape date: 2014-04-16
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