Responses for Show #7172 - Tuesday, November 17, 2015

2015 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 2.

Contestants

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Vaughn Winchell, a graduate student in mathematics from Columbia, Maryland

Brennan Bushee, a software developer from Malden, Massachusetts

Alex Jacob, a currency trader from Chicago, Illinois

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Jeopardy! Round responses

BIBLE BOOKS
GREAT FOOTBALL PLAYS
AROUND THE WORLD
YOU'RE "DA" BOMB!
(Alex Trebek: ...and "D-A", those two letters, will begin each correct response.)
SAUCE
BEAR NAYS
    $200 17
Deuteronomy

Vaughn
    $200 9
Stanford

Vaughn
    $200 26
Trinidad and Tobago

Alex
    $200 28
dawdle

Alex
    $200 29
Tabasco

Vaughn
    $200 30
porridge

Vaughn
    $1,600 8
(Vaughn: I don't have it.)
...
(Vaughn: Oh, that kind of lofty position.)
(Alex Trebek: Yes.)
[Laughter]

judge & king

Vaughn
    $400 10
Auburn

Alex
    $400 25
Morocco

Vaughn
    $400 27
a daffodil

Vaughn
    $400 20
tzatziki

Alex
    $400 24
thunder

Alex
    $600 2
Psalms

Vaughn
    $600 19
the Saints

Alex
    $600 6
Tegucigalpa

Alex
    $600 11
Dauphin

Alex
    $600 3
sriracha

Alex
    $600 13
(Vaughn: What's the National Park Service?)

National Forest Service

AlexVaughn
    $800 1
Ruth and Esther

Alex
    $800 14
the (Tennessee) Titans

Alex
    $800 5
Elbrus

Alex
    $800 16
dashiki

Vaughn
    $800 15
béchamel

Alex
    $800 23
Yogi (Bear)

Alex
    $1000 4
Revelation

Alex
    $1000 22
(Odell) Beckham (Jr.)

Alex
    $1000 7
Pashto

Vaughn
    $1000 18
darning needle

Triple Stumper
    $1000 12
chimichurri

Alex
    $1000 21
the Care Bears

Vaughn

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

Alex Brennan Vaughn
$8,000 $0 -$400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Alex Brennan Vaughn
$11,600 $0 $2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

SCI. ABBREV.
HISTORY 101
HOMOPHONIC PAIRS
"A"UTHORS
(Alex Trebek: ...whose names will begin with the letter A.)
THE EX FILES
TOUGH BALLET
(Gillian Murphy: Jeopardy! asked us, the dancers of American Ballet Theatre) (James Whiteside: what we think are the toughest ballet moves.) (Both: And we're going to show you.)
    $400 26
alternating current

Alex
    $400 1
Plutarch

Alex
    $400 19
desert dessert

Alex
    $400 25
(Louisa May) Alcott

Alex
    $400 27
Juan Carlos

Alex
    $400 30
(Alex Trebek: And as we go into the commercial, I do want to thank those marvelous young dancers from the American Ballet Theatre. They presented those clues exactly as I trained them to do it.)
[Laughter]

pirouette

Alex
    $800 15
isotope

Brennan
    $800 8
Honshu

Vaughn
    $800 18
a faux foe

Brennan
    $800 13
Asimov

Vaughn
    $800 28
(Alex Jacob: What's Matchbox?)

Mattel

AlexVaughn
    $800 29
[Brennan did not include the leading article in his response.]

The Sleeping Beauty

Brennan
    $1200 9
the Human Genome Project

Vaughn
    $1200 5
Trajan

Alex
    $1200 14
a Whig wig

Brennan
    $1200 3
(Maya) Angelou

Alex
    $3,000 24
[Alex Jacob gives the correct response as Alex Trebek says "Hurry".]
(Alex Trebek: [*] is right! You have this strange behavior sometimes.)
[Laughter]
(Alex Trebek: But it works.)

Mondale

Alex
    $1200 12
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Brennan
    $1600 10
coronary artery

Alex
    $1600 6
(Vaughn: What is Chile?)

Peru

BrennanVaughn
    $1600 16
a vile vial

Triple Stumper
    $1600 2
Sholem Aleichem

Vaughn
    $1600 20
Genesis

Brennan
    $1600 22
Swan Lake

Vaughn
    $2000 11
grand unified theory

Alex
    $1,600 7
Ptolemy

Brennan
    $2000 17
a tach tack

Brennan
    $2000 4
(James) Agee

Alex
    $2000 21
(Kofi) Annan

Alex
    $2000 23
Rodeo

Alex

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Alex Brennan Vaughn
$28,200 $11,600 $8,000
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AFRICAN COUNTRIES
(Alex Trebek: [To Vaughn] Well, they kind of rhyme, but it's not the right response. They're not named for rivers or share the name of a river.)
...
[Audience laughter when Alex Jacob's response is revealed]
(Alex Trebek: Does he need Aleve? No. He played so beautifully. The two countries are [*].)
VaughnWhat are Rwanda and Uganda?
$8,000
BrennanWhat are Uganda & Rwanda?
$6,000
AlexWhat is Aleve
$0
Zambia & Gambia

Final scores:

Alex Brennan Vaughn
$28,200 $5,600 $0
Finalist 2nd place: $10,000 3rd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Alex Brennan Vaughn
$26,400 $12,000 $9,600
32 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 9 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 16 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $48,000

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Game tape date: 2015-10-14
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