Responses for Show #6962 - Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Contestants

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Josh Vittor, a law student from New York, New York

Jean Parker, a bartender from Montgomery, Alabama

Alysha Rooks, a writer originally from New Orleans, Louisiana (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,412)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

PICTURE THE POLITICAN
WHERE IS IT?
THE BODY OF EVIDENCE
NAME THE DECADE
ERNIE
"BERT"
    $200 1
Jeb Bush

Rooks
    $200 30
the Louvre

Jean
    $200 18
(Rooks: What is a hamstring?)

a calf muscle

RooksJean
    $200 16
the 1980s (1980 accepted)

Jean
    $200 8
the rubber ducky

Josh
    $200 6
Alberta

Jean
    $400 2
(Andrew) Jackson

Rooks
    $400 29
Sweden

Rooks
    $400 19
(Josh: What is the rostrum?)

the septum

RooksJosh
    $400 17
the 1920s

Rooks
    $400 9
the Little Rascals (or Our Gang)

Rooks
    $400 7
puberty

Josh
    $600 3
(Rooks: Who is Romney?)
...
(Rooks: Whoops.)

Paul Ryan

Rooks
Triple Stumper
    $600 27
Yankee Stadium

Josh
    $600 23
(Jean: What are the endocrine glands?)
(Josh: What are the renal glands?)

the adrenal glands

JeanJosh
Triple Stumper
    $1,000 20
(Rooks: Yeah, um, this could go a lot of ways, so I'll just do $1,000, please, Alex.)
(Alex: All right, let's hope it goes the positive way for you.)
...
(Alex: And it went the right way for you.)

the 1930s

Rooks
    $600 10
a cheesesteak

Rooks
    $600 13
libertarian

Rooks
    $800 4
(Jean: Who is Trent Lott?)
...
(Alex: Who is [*]. How quickly we forget. Rooks, back to you.)
(Rooks: I may not have been alive.)
[Laughter]

Tip O'Neill

Jean
Triple Stumper
    $800 26
HGTV

Jean
    $800 24
(Alex: That's correct, with less than a minute to go.)

the iris

Josh
    $800 21
(Josh: What are the 1970s?)

the 1960s

RooksJosh
    $800 11
the Heisman

Rooks
    $800 14
Robert's Rules of Order

Jean
    $1000 5
(Ray) Nagin

Rooks
    $1000 25
Orion

Triple Stumper
    $1000 28
a flexor

Jean
    $1000 22
(Josh: What are the 1990s?)

the 1950s

JeanJosh
    $1000 12
(Alex: Oh, "Who is [*]?" [*] and Sluggo.)

Nancy

Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
flibbertigibbet

Triple Stumper

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

Rooks Jean Josh
$3,400 $200 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Rooks Jean Josh
$6,200 $3,000 -$800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ELEMENT SYMBOL FUN?
HISTORICAL FICTION
GETTING LUCKY WORDS
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
ITALIAN ISLANDS
THE MOVIE MAN
    $400 1
(Alex: [*]. H-E.)

helium

Josh
    $400 16
Darwin

Jean
    $400 11
charmed

Rooks
    $400 21
a windshield wiper

Josh
    $400 26
Elba

Josh
    $400 6
The Elephant Man

Rooks
    $800 2
(Josh: What is nitrogen? Oh, what is [*]?)

Ni

Josh
    $800 17
World War I

Josh
    $800 12
(Josh: What is fortuitous?)

serendipitous

Josh
Triple Stumper
    $800 22
(Jean: What is lipstick?)

nail polish

Jean
Triple Stumper
    $800 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Sicily

Josh
    $800 7
The Running Man

Triple Stumper
    $1200 3
(Alex: N-E for Nebraska.)

neon

Josh
    $2,000 18
(Josh: What is The Other Anne?)
(Alex: Oh, no, but you're on the right track.)

The Other Boleyn Girl

Josh
    $1200 13
(Josh: What is bounty?)

fortune

RooksJosh
    $1200 23
Edison

Rooks
    $1200 27
Venice

Jean
    $1200 8
The Quiet Man

Triple Stumper
    $1600 4
(Alex: And that was Mo' Better Blues, for [*].)

molybdenum

Triple Stumper
    $1600 19
(Josh: Who is Sylvia Plath?)

Shelley

Josh
Triple Stumper
    $1600 14
auspicious

Triple Stumper
    $1600 24
(Alex: PhoneMate came up with an [*], with less than a minute to go.)

an answering machine

Triple Stumper
    $1600 9
The Stunt Man

Triple Stumper
    $2000 5
(Alex: will.i.am, [*].)

iodine & americium

Triple Stumper
    $2000 20
Outlander

Rooks
    $2000 15
blessed

Josh
    $2000 25
Felix Wankel

Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
(Rooks: [After four triple stumpers in a row] Every day's a school day, Alex.)

The Wolf Man

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Rooks Jean Josh
$11,400 $3,800 $400
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

SOUTH AMERICA
(Alex: The guilder was the currency of the Netherlands--Dutch.)
...
(Alex: [To Jean] You're in a closer part of South America, but you're incorrect.)
...
(Alex: [To Rooks] What's the significance of $12?)
(Rooks: It's my fiancé's birthday, 12/12).
JoshWhat is Ecuador
$325
JeanWhat is Peru Guyana
$0
RooksWhat is Suriname?
$12
Suriname

Final scores:

Rooks Jean Josh
$11,412 $3,800 $75
2-day champion: $29,824 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Rooks Jean Josh
$11,000 $3,800 $2,400
17 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 10 R,
3 W		 12 R,
8 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $17,200

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Game tape date: 2014-10-28
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