Responses for Show #6914 - Thursday, October 9, 2014

Contestants

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Rena Morse, a director of semantic technology from Charlottesville, Virginia

Venkat Krishnan, an I.T. manager from Sharon, Massachusetts

Emily Herndon, a bakery owner from Knoxville, Tennessee (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,100)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

MUTT
JEFF
THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR DIDN'T GO TO...
"DEL" AWARE
DYNASTY
(Alex: From the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts...)
NORMAN ROCKWELL'S SATURDAY EVENING POST COVERS
    $200 10
mashup

Emily
    $200 9
San Francisco

Rena
    $200 6
in the fountain

Emily
    $200 1
delicate

Emily
    $200 13
Bourbon

Rena
    $200 18
a barbershop quartet

Rena
    $1,000 19
(Alex: [*], It's called Neapolitan ice cream.)

Naples

Rena
    $400 25
Jeff Bezos

Emily
    $400 7
Fiddler on the Roof

Emily
    $400 2
deluge

Rena
    $400 14
Elizabeth I

Venkat
    $400 23
Steven Spielberg

Triple Stumper
    $600 20
spork

Rena
    $600 29
Jeff Gordon

Emily
    $600 8
Avatar

Emily
    $600 3
delegate

Emily
    $600 15
Manchu

Rena
    $600 24
Rosie the Riveter

Emily
    $800 21
mountain bikes

Rena
    $800 28
Jeffrey Katzenberg

Venkat
    $800 11
(Emily: What is Nuremberg?)

Judgment at Nuremberg

EmilyVenkat
    $800 4
delinquent

Venkat
    $800 16
Hapsburg

Venkat
    $800 30
an apothecary

Rena
    $1000 22
tragicomedy

Triple Stumper
    $1000 26
New Mexico

Triple Stumper
    $1000 12
a chain gang

Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
delve

Venkat
    $1000 17
Kuwait

Triple Stumper
    $1000 27
Grandma Moses

Triple Stumper

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

Emily Venkat Rena
$1,400 $3,000 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Emily Venkat Rena
$3,000 $4,600 $4,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

EARS TO CLASSICAL MUSIC
LINGUISTICS
EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION
THAT PLACE IS "GRAND"!
WORLD WAR I SLANG
(Alex: You're all too young to remember.)
WRITERS ON THE PERIODIC TABLE
(Alex: You have to name the element represented by the initials that are missing in the names of writers that we will give you as clues.)
    $400 7
Mozart

Emily
    $400 6
passive

Emily
    $400 12
Grand Rapids

Venkat
    $400 23
cooties

Emily
    $400 1
mercury (Hg)

Venkat
    $800 8
(Johann Sebastian) Bach

Rena
    $800 19
(Emily: What are consonants?)

vowels

EmilyRena
    $800 17
Lea Michele

Emily
    $800 13
Grand Teton

Venkat
    $1,000 24
(Emily: What is a Gatling gun?)

Big Bertha

Emily
    $800 2
(Rena: What is chlorine?)
[Initially ruled incorrect; reversed before the first Daily Double at clue 10 when the judges determined that there was an author named C.L. Lewis]

cesium (Cs) (or chlorine (Cl))

EmilyRena
    $1200 9
(Edvard) Grieg

Rena
    $1200 20
agent

Emily
    $1200 18
The Wonder Years

Rena
    $1200 14
Grand Cayman

Emily
    $1200 3
lead (Pb)

Venkat
    $1,000 10
The Valkyries

Rena
    $1600 21
neologism

Rena
    $1600 27
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Veronica Mars

Emily
    $1600 15
Grand Coulee

Triple Stumper
    $1600 4
selenium (Se)

Emily
    $2000 11
(Joseph) Haydn

Rena
    $2000 22
semantics

Rena
    $2000 26
Connie Britton

Emily
    $2000 16
Grand Forks

Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
strafe

Triple Stumper
    $2000 5
(Alex: You guys did well in that category. I'm pleasantly surprised.)

palladium (Pd)

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Emily Venkat Rena
$11,600 $7,400 $16,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

HISTORICAL FIGURES
(Alex: If you fell into a trap, you would have picked a man and made him much older than he really was. Venkat, we start with you. You were in third place, and you wrote down... the name I feared.)
...
(Alex: [To Rena] No, you had to go for the father of our country--[*] was voted number one as Britain's enemy.)
VenkatWho was Napoleon
$6,400
EmilyWho is Napoleon?
$4,601
RenaWho is Napoleon?
$7,001
George Washington

Final scores:

Emily Venkat Rena
$6,999 $1,000 $9,199
2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $9,199

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Emily Venkat Rena
$12,600 $7,400 $16,200
19 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 10 R,
0 W		 18 R
(including 2 DDs),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $36,200

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Game tape date: 2014-07-30
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