Responses for Show #6961 - Monday, December 15, 2014

Contestants

[<< previous game]

Rex Marzke, a user interface designer from Houston, Texas

Alysha Rooks, a writer originally from New Orleans, Louisiana

Ryan Pensyl, an Army officer originally from Shamokin, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $32,000)

 [next game >>]

Jeopardy! Round responses

THE END OF THE BOOK
____ & ____
(Alex: Each correct response joined by an ampersand.)
WEBSITES
THE ART OF RELIGION
NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES
I'LL BE "BACK"
    $200 7
The Scarlet Letter

Rooks
    $200 16
ball & chain

Ryan
    $200 21
National Geographic

Rooks
    $200 22
Adam

Rooks
    $200 1
(Rooks: What is... oh, Sleepless in Seattle?)

When Harry Met Sally...

RooksRex
    $200 6
a quarterback

Rooks
    $400 8
(Alex: And that book is [*].)
(Rooks: Of course it is.)
(Alex: Rooks, back to--oh, of course, yes.)

Crime and Punishment

Triple Stumper
    $400 17
null & void

Ryan
    $400 27
(Alex: Yes, with less than a minute to go.)

bitcoin

Rex
    $400 23
a rabbi

Rooks
    $400 2
(Alex: You're out of the hole just like that.)

Annie

Rooks
    $400 12
bareback

Ryan
    $600 9
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Rooks
    $600 18
"X"s & "O"s

Triple Stumper
    $600 28
a hug

Rooks
    $600 24
[Alex may have omitted the word "of" before "two right hands" when delivering the clue.]

a cathedral

Rooks
    $600 3
the Empire State Building

Rooks
    $600 13
a humpback whale

Rex
    $800 10
Treasure Island

Rooks
    $800 19
nuts & bolts

Ryan
    $800 29
LinkedIn

Rooks
    $800 25
Kali

Rooks
    $800 4
Wall Street

Ryan
    $800 14
the Outback

Rex
    $1000 11
(Rooks: What is Exodus?)
...
(Alex: You're still in the lead, Rooks.)
(Rooks: I'll take it.)

East of Eden

Rooks
Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
bait & switch

Ryan
    $2,000 30
(Rooks: What is Scribd?)

Bartleby

Rooks
    $1000 26
(Ryan: What is the Assuntion? What is the Ascension?)
...
(Alex: It's not the Ascension. It's [*].)

the Assumption

Ryan
Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
Dog Day Afternoon

Rex
    $1000 15
Zwieback

Rex

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

Ryan Rooks Rex
$1,200 $1,600 $3,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ryan Rooks Rex
$2,600 $3,200 $4,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

GO FOURTH BY NAME
PARKS
THE WALLABY
POP CULTURE RELATIVES?
ANCIENT SCIENCE
THE AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY PAGE 1,001
    $400 26
Ivan the Terrible

Rex
    $400 21
(Alex: Rex is upset now because you got in ahead of him.)

Houston

Ryan
    $400 12
marsupials

Rex
    $400 1
(Ryan: Who is Jessica Simpson?)
(Alex: Need more than that.)
(Ryan: Who is Jessica Simpson-Lachey?)
...
(Rooks: Let's go with "the writers were bored"--PAGE 1,001 OF THE DICTIONARY for $400.)

Lisa & Jessica Simpson

RyanRooks
    $400 7
an abacus

Rooks
    $400 2
leaven

Rooks
    $800 22
Audubon

Rooks
    $800 13
New Guinea

Ryan
    $800 8
Norman & Kathy Bates

Rooks
    $800 16
the sun

Ryan
    $800 3
a lectern

Rooks
    $1200 23
St. Augustine

Rooks
    $1200 14
(Rooks: What is, uh, Australian football?)

rugby

RooksRex
    $1200 9
Patrick & Martha Stewart

Triple Stumper
    $1200 18
steam

Rooks
    $1200 4
(Rooks: What is LCD?)

LED

RooksRex
    $1600 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Spain

Triple Stumper
    $2,000 24
(Alex: All right, with less than a minute to go now.)

Cleopatra's Needle (the obelisk accepted)

Rooks
    $1600 15
Rocko

Rooks
    $1600 10
Diane Keaton & Michael Keaton

Ryan
    $1600 19
Archimedes

Ryan
    $1600 5
[Rex stumbles over the pronunciation of the correct response, trying several variants.]
(Alex: That's close enough for us.)

Le Corbusier

Rex
    $2000 27
Akhenaten

Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
(Ryan: What is Seattle?)

Spokane

Ryan
Triple Stumper
    $2000 17
a dingo

Rex
    $2000 11
Kanye West & Adam West

Ryan
    $2000 20
Pliny the Elder

Triple Stumper
    $2000 6
lecithin

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ryan Rooks Rex
$7,400 $10,400 $10,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

POETRY
(Alex: [To Rooks] By Edgar Allan Poe. "'Tis the wind and nothing more!")
RyanWhat is an albatross
$7,400
RooksWhat is the raven?
$8,012
RexWhat is the Dragon
$13
the raven

Final scores:

Ryan Rooks Rex
$0 $18,412 $10,787
3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $18,412 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ryan Rooks Rex
$7,400 $12,000 $10,800
12 R,
3 W		 23 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 12 R,
0 W

Combined Coryat: $30,200

[game clues] [game scores] [suggest correction]

Game tape date: 2014-10-28
The J! Archive is created by fans, for fans. Scraping, republication, monetization, and malicious use prohibited; this site may use cookies and collect identifying information. See terms. The Jeopardy! game show and all elements thereof, including but not limited to copyright and trademark thereto, are the property of Jeopardy Productions, Inc. and are protected under law. This website is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or operated by Jeopardy Productions, Inc. Join the discussion at JBoard.tv.