Responses for Show #4439 - Thursday, December 18, 2003

Featuring blind contestant Dave Oberhart.

Contestants

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Dave Oberhart, a computer consultant from Durham, North Carolina

Erika Rogers, a bartender from Indianapolis, Indiana

Michele Bassett, a stay-at-home mom from McLean, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,300)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. CITY NICKNAMES
YULETIDE FAVORITES
FEMALE FIRSTS
OOOH...CHESS
ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED?
(Alex: You have to identify the play from the clue we give you.)
ABBREV.
    $200 1
Tuscaloosa

Triple Stumper
    $200 18
(Alex: Perhaps I should have sang the song!)

good cheer

Triple Stumper
    $200 12
doctorate (of philosophy)

Dave
    $200 3
(Dave: Who was Caesar?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)

Julius Caesar

Dave
    $200 4
Thomas

Michele
    $400 2
"Surf City"

Erika
    $400 19
Gene Autry

Dave
    $400 13
Mount Rainier

Michele
    $400 8
(Michele: What is Macbeth?)

Hamlet

MicheleErika
    $400 5
cathode ray tube

Dave
    $600 23
Montpelier, Vermont

Michele
    $600 20
Wenceslas

Dave
    $600 14
the Bolshoi

Michele
    $600 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

knight

Erika
    $600 9
Antony and Cleopatra

Erika
    $600 6
theology

Michele
    $800 24
(Alex: With a minute to go.)

"The Crescent City"

Michele
    $800 21
(Erika: What is his head?)

the hay

Erika
Triple Stumper
    $800 15
Golda Meir

Michele
    $800 27
(Dave: What is a knight?)

bishop

Dave
Triple Stumper
    $800 10
The Merchant of Venice

Erika
    $800 7
do it yourself

Dave
    $1000 25
Iowa

Michele
    $1000 22
(Dave: Top clue in U.S. CITY NICKNAMES.)
(Alex: It'll be for $600.)

Meredith Willson

Dave
    $1000 16
Energy

Triple Stumper
    $1000 26
castling

Triple Stumper
    $1,000 11
The Taming of the Shrew

Erika
    $1000 17
undersecretary

Dave

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Michele Erika Dave
$1,400 $3,200 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Michele Erika Dave
$4,600 $3,000 $3,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
SCREEN PLAYS
AFTER THE FOX
LEAVING SO SOON?
WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG
ENDS IN "OLD"
    $400 22
the Pyramids

Erika
    $400 1
(Dave: What is Ohio?)

Pennsylvania

MicheleDave
    $400 21
vixen

Erika
    $400 16
(Michele: What is Great Britain?)

Canada

MicheleDave
    $400 11
lifeguard

Erika
    $400 6
sold

Erika
    $800 23
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Michele
    $800 2
Equus

Dave
    $800 27
insects

Erika
    $800 17
Speaker of the House

Michele
    $800 12
Jack Benny

Dave
    $800 7
Gold

Michele
    $1200 24
(Alex: With a minute to go now.)

Colossus of Rhodes

Dave
    $1200 3
Cyrano de Bergerac

Michele
    $1200 18
consecration

Michele
    $1200 13
Harry Houdini (Erik Weisz)

Erika
    $1200 8
cargo hold

Michele
    $2,000 25
(Dave: What is the Oracle at Delphi?)

the Lighthouse at Alexandria

Dave
    $1600 4
Tennessee Williams

Triple Stumper
    $1600 19
Howell Raines

Triple Stumper
    $2,000 14
The Vienna Boys' Choir

Erika
    $1600 9
fold

Michele
    $2000 26
Statue of Zeus at Olympia

Erika
    $2000 5
A Few Good Men

Michele
    $2000 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Arctic fox

Erika
    $2000 20
(Michele: Who was Andropov?)

Konstantin Chernenko

Michele
Triple Stumper
    $2000 15
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
Told

Michele

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Michele Erika Dave
$14,200 $12,600 $4,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

SCIENCE
[Alex repeats the clue during the "Think!" music.]
(Alex: No, the refractive index is a measurement of how a medium will bend light.)
[Alex brings Dave's guide dog (who was shown in the audience earlier) up on stage during the closing credits.]
DaveWHAT HELILIUM
$4,599
ErikaWhat is Helium?
$2,600
MicheleWhat is light?
$11,100
a vacuum

Final scores:

Michele Erika Dave
$3,100 $10,000 $1
2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $10,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Michele Erika Dave
$14,200 $12,200 $6,600
18 R,
3 W		 15 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W		 12 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $33,000

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Game tape date: 2003-10-21
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