Responses for Show #6957 - Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Contestants

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Peter McGillicuddy, a human resources director from Holliston, Massachusetts

MaryBeth Chmielewski, a purchasing clerk from Westland, Michigan

Ann Conger, a healthcare analyst from New Orleans, Louisiana (whose 2-day cash winnings total $21,799)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

A EUROPEAN HOLIDAY
KIDDY LIT TITLE WORDS
A CATEGORICAL DENIAL
ON THE MENU
SEE HOW THEY RAN
WHAT'S KILLING YOU?
(Alex: We want you to name the lethal weapon.)
    $200 6
Mother's Day

MaryBeth
    $200 16
Wild

Ann
    $200 21
a rejection slip

Peter
    $200 2
Whopper

MaryBeth
    $200 30
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Peter
    $200 11
a car

Peter
    $400 7
Advent

Peter
    $400 17
Purple

Ann
    $400 22
withhold

Ann
    $400 1
Parmesan

Peter
    $400 26
(Thomas) Dewey

Peter
    $400 12
a doll

Ann
    $600 8
leeks

Ann
    $600 18
Incredible

Peter
    $600 23
obstruction

Ann
    $600 3
Down Under

Peter
    $600 27
(George) McGovern

Peter
    $600 13
(Ann: What is a robot?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
(Ann: A robot that turns into things that kill you?)
[Laughter]
(Alex: That--)
(Ann: An Autobot.)
(Alex: No.)
(Ann: What is an--)

a Decepticon

AnnMaryBeth
    $800 9
Walpurgis Night

Triple Stumper
    $800 19
[Ann gives the response without first being called on.]

Mixed-Up

Ann
    $800 24
prevent

Peter
    $800 4
gumbo

Ann
    $1,200 28
Geraldine Ferraro

Peter
    $800 14
a mirror

Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
(Ann: What are the Netherlands?)

the Czech Republic

Ann
Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
Stinky

Ann
    $1000 25
disown

Ann
    $1000 5
wraps

Ann
    $1000 29
McKinley

Peter
    $1000 15
a video

Triple Stumper

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

Ann MaryBeth Peter
$1,200 $1,000 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ann MaryBeth Peter
$5,600 $1,000 $6,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

FEMALE FIRSTS
E.T.'s ON TV
MEMORABLE METAPHORS
U.S. CITIES
PROOFREADING
CATCH OUR TYPE "O"s
    $400 7
(Alex: Famous for its covers, [*] magazine.)

Time

Triple Stumper
    $400 17
Mork

Peter
    $400 22
Tolstoy

Peter
    $400 3
Anaheim

Peter
    $400 1
the Pythagorean Theorem

Ann
    $400 26
ovulate

MaryBeth
    $800 8
Surgeon General

MaryBeth
    $800 18
Doctor Who

Ann
    $800 14
Benjamin Franklin

Peter
    $800 2
Pittsburgh

Peter
    $800 12
constructive

Ann
    $800 30
offal

Ann
    $1200 9
the North Pole

Triple Stumper
    $1200 19
3rd Rock from the Sun

Peter
    $1200 15
William Safire

Triple Stumper
    $1200 4
Arlington

Triple Stumper
    $1200 13
(Alex: What is [*]. A di-[*].)

lemma

Triple Stumper
    $1200 29
an opposable thumb

Peter
    $1600 10
the Citadel

Peter
    $1600 20
(Alex: Ray Walston as [*].)

My Favorite Martian

Triple Stumper
    $1600 16
(Alex: And that would be the infamous [*].)

Dorothy Parker

Triple Stumper
    $1600 5
Sedona

MaryBeth
    $1600 24
(Ann: Who is Isaac Newton?)

Pierre de Fermat

Ann
Triple Stumper
    $1600 28
(Alex: The word starting with the letter "o" is [*].)

occult

Triple Stumper
    $2,000 11
(Alex: Now U.S. senator.)

Dianne Feinstein

Peter
    $2000 21
(Alex: Series of not too many years ago called [*].)

V

Triple Stumper
    $2000 23
(Leon) Trotsky

Peter
    $2,600 6
(MaryBeth: What is Sur?)
(Alex: Oh, no. What is [*]? Big [*].)

Butte

MaryBeth
    $2000 25
Kurt Gödel

Triple Stumper
    $2000 27
odium

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ann MaryBeth Peter
$6,800 $1,200 $17,400
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

LITERARY INSPIRATIONS
(Alex: [To MaryBeth] Arthur Conan Doyle's [*]. Sherlock Holmes story.)
MaryBethWhat is The Hound of the Baskervilles?
$1,199
AnnWhat is Frankenstein
$4,000
PeterWhat is dracula?
$2,000
The Hound of the Baskervilles

Final scores:

Ann MaryBeth Peter
$2,800 $2,399 $15,400
2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $15,400

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ann MaryBeth Peter
$6,800 $3,800 $17,000
15 R,
3 W		 6 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 22 R
(including 2 DDs),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $27,600

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Game tape date: 2014-10-27
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