Responses for Show #6839 - Thursday, May 15, 2014

Battle of the Decades final game 1.

Contestants

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Roger Craig, a data scientist from Brooklyn, New York

Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington

Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Hollywood, California

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Jeopardy! Round responses

CHESS DRAMA
OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS
A BLANK EXPRESSION
PARENTING & CHILDREN
U.S. GEOGRAPHY
DOCUMENTARIES
    $200 6
the bathroom

Roger
    $200 16
sandpipers

Brad
    $200 21
hay

Roger
    $200 26
weaning

Ken
    $200 11
the Snake River

Roger
    $200 1
back-up singers

Brad
    $400 10
a grandmaster

Brad
    $400 17
a turtle dove

Brad
    $400 22
China

Ken
    $400 27
the apron strings

Brad
    $400 12
Lake Champlain

Roger
    $400 2
Bill Maher

Ken
    $600 9
(Brad: [In a sad voice] Who is [*]?)
(Alex: Yes.)
[Laughter]
(Brad: CHESS...)
(Alex: You remember.)

Kasparov

Brad
    $600 18
a cassowary

Ken
    $600 23
tempus fugit

Roger
    $600 28
a brood

Ken
    $600 15
the Continental Divide

Roger
    $600 3
Spellbound

Ken
    $800 8
a parapsychologist

Brad
    $800 19
an Adélie penguin

Ken
    $800 24
dead

Roger
    $800 29
swaddling clothes

Ken
    $3,200 14
(Brad: What is... Mount Hood?)

Mount Rainier

Brad
    $800 4
(Brad: Who... is... Pennebaker?)

Errol Morris

BradKen
    $1000 7
Magnus Carlsen

Roger
    $1000 20
a syrinx

Roger
    $1000 25
(Ken: What is reap the whirlwind?)

inherit the wind

Ken
Triple Stumper
    $1000 30
apply to college

Brad
    $1000 13
(Ken: What's Pensacola?)

Pascagoula

BradKen
    $1000 5
Kentucky

Brad

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

Brad Ken Roger
$0 $800 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Brad Ken Roger
$2,000 $3,200 $5,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ELIZABETHAN PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS
MEDICAL TERMS
MISHMASH
HISTORIC DAYS
(Alex: We'll give you a historic date. You tell us the most important event that occurred on that date.)
HATE SONGS
SOUNDS LIKE A NEW ELEMENT!
(Alex: Each correct response will end in the three letters "I-U-M". Trebekium. That's an example.)
    $400 19
a tragedy

Ken
    $400 22
earwax

Ken
    $400 25
Lenin

Ken
    $400 30
(Roger: What is... the... end of the U.S. Civil War?)
...
(Roger: Oop, oh.)
...
(Alex: Roger has no money to risk.)
(Roger: It's a two-day final, right?)
(Alex: It's a two-day--)
[Laughter]
(Alex: It's a two-day final--good attitude, Roger! Good attitude, indeed!)

the Lincoln assassination

KenRoger
    $400 29
The Pretenders

Ken
    $400 24
(Brad: What is [*]?)
(Alex: [In a sad voice] Yes.)

tedium

Brad
    $800 18
blank verse

Roger
    $10,200 16
(Ken: [Whispers] Do it.)
(Roger: Yeah, everything. Why not? Yeah.)
[Cheers and applause]
(Alex: Everything?)
(Roger: Sure.)
...
(Roger: What is... drop--)

edema

Roger
    $800 26
Magnum, P.I.

Ken
    $800 27
V-J Day

Ken
    $800 28
The Clash

Brad
    $800 23
the crematorium

Brad
    $1200 3
Pandora

Brad
    $1200 13
Down syndrome

Ken
    $1200 20
Kroger

Brad
    $1200 21
(Roger: What is... Richard III?)

the fall of Constantinople

BradRoger
    $1200 7
(Brad: What is... "Peel Potatoes"?)
(Alex: Oh, no.)
[Laughter]

"Get Up In The Morning"

BradKen
    $1200 4
premium

Ken
    $1600 1
(Brad: Who is Marlowe?)

Ben Jonson

BradRoger
    $1600 14
tinnitus

Ken
    $1600 12
Ralph Bunche

Ken
    $1600 10
(Ken: What is... Camp David... oh, no... [Shakes head] Camp David Accords...)
(Brad: What's the... evacuation of the Saigon embassy?)
(Alex: We'll accept that... yes... [*].)

the end of the Vietnam War

BradKen
    $1600 8
"I Hate Myself For Loving You"

Brad
    $1600 5
proscenium

Roger
    $2000 2
(Alex: And now is the time for [*].)

Christopher Marlowe

Triple Stumper
    $2000 15
stenosis

Roger
    $2000 17
"Beat! Beat! Drums!"

Triple Stumper
    $2,000 11
the ratification of the Bill of Rights

Brad
    $2000 9
"Haterade"

Brad
    $2000 6
symposium

Brad

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Brad Ken Roger
$14,000 $12,000 -$800

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE ACADEMY AWARDS
(Alex: Did we stump you with a tough ACADEMY AWARDS clue? Let's find out. Ken, we come to you first. You had $12,000, and you wrote down...)
(Ken: I got nothing.)
(Alex: Nothing. You got nothing and you lost $5,000.)
...
(Alex: The drama--[*]; the comedy--[**].)
[Alex did not include the leading article when giving the title of the drama.]
...
(Alex: We'll add those totals to whatever you earn tomorrow to determine our $1 million champion. Tune us in then, won't you? So long, everybody.)
KenWhat are is ?
$5,000
BradWhat is Terms of Endearment
$4,000
The Silence of the Lambs or As Good as It Gets

Final scores:

Brad Ken Roger
$10,000 $7,000 -$800

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Brad Ken Roger
$17,200 $12,000 $9,400
21 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 21 R,
3 W		 13 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $38,600

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Game tape date: 2014-04-17
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