Responses for Show #7175 - Friday, November 20, 2015

2015 Tournament of Champions final game 2.

Contestants

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Kerry Greene, a volunteer CASA guardian ad litem from Manchester, New Hampshire (subtotal of $3,400)

Alex Jacob, a currency trader from Chicago, Illinois (subtotal of $29,600)

Matt Jackson, a paralegal from Washington, D.C. (subtotal of $3,000)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

WRITERS MAKE PRETTY GOOD FRIENDS
(Alex Trebek: Don't they?)
CABLE SHOWS
LESSER-KNOWN SUPERHEROES
(Alex Trebek: Keep in mind that each response will end in "I-Z-E-R", okay?)
BODIES OF WATER
FIT BITS
HOW MANY MILES?
    $200 30
James Joyce

Kerry
    $200 29
Sharknado

Alex
    $200 28
Baptizer

Alex
    $200 27
Lake Nicaragua

Kerry
    $200 26
aerobic

Alex
    $200 16
26

Alex
    $400 14
(Émile) Zola

Alex
    $400 4
Anderson Cooper

Matt
    $400 15
(Alex Trebek: [*], yeah, he's a superhero.)

Hypnotizer

Alex
    $400 25
Hormuz

Alex
    $400 23
metabolism

Kerry
    $400 17
1,000

Matt
    $600 11
Hemingway

Matt
    $600 1
(Bear) Grylls

Alex
    $600 10
Minimizer (or Trivializer)

Matt
    $600 6
the Gulf of Riga

Matt
    $600 12
calisthenics

Alex
    $600 18
3

Kerry
    $800 2
Thackeray

Alex
    $800 5
The Jinx

Alex
    $800 21
(Matt: Who is Itemizer?)

Economizer

Matt
Triple Stumper
    $800 3
the Mackenzie

Kerry
    $800 24
osteoporosis

Matt
    $2,800 13
(Alex Jacob: What is...)
(Alex Trebek: Say something.)
(Alex Jacob: [*]?)
...
(Alex Trebek: You keep doing it, Alex. You keep doing it. Go again.)

2 1/2

Alex
    $1000 9
Henry James

Kerry
    $1000 8
Penny Dreadful

Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
Oxidizer

Matt
    $1000 7
the Euphrates

Matt
    $1000 22
interval training

Alex
    $1000 19
8 Mile

Matt

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

Matt Alex Kerry
$3,200 $6,400 $1,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Alex Kerry
$5,600 $8,600 $3,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

HOW THE EAST WAS WON
13-LETTER WORDS
THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH
THE PERIODIC TABLE
MYTHOLO"G"
(Alex Trebek: Each correct response beginning with the letter "G".)
MOVIE LINES, MADE TV-SAFE
    $400 30
the Pacific Ocean

Kerry
    $400 29
monochromatic

Alex
    $400 28
Budget

Alex
    $400 27
sulfur

Alex
    $400 26
the Golden Fleece

Matt
    $400 20
Samuel L. Jackson

Matt
    $800 25
Siberia

Matt
    $800 24
questionnaire

Kerry
    $800 23
enforce it

Matt
    $800 22
Mendeleev

Matt
    $800 21
Ganesh

Matt
    $800 19
(Bruce) Willis

Alex
    $100 5
[Alex Jacob gave his response as the time's-up signal sounded.]
(Alex Trebek: Just in the nick of time, once again.)

Manchu

Alex
    $1200 12
vulcanization

Matt
    $1200 10
(Matt: What is the NSA?)
(Kerry: What is the CIA?)

Intelligence

MattKerry
Triple Stumper
    $1200 1
iron

Alex
    $1200 3
Gilgamesh

Matt
    $1200 18
Axel Foley (or Eddie Murphy)

Alex
    $1600 14
the Kamchatka Peninsula

Matt
    $1600 13
intergalactic

Matt
    $10,000 8
(Alex Trebek: You're bright enough to do the math.)
(Matt: Sorry, Mom, I'm betting it all.)
...
(Matt: What is the United States Department of Agriculture?)
(Alex Trebek: No, what is [*]. Sorry, Mom. Sorry, Matt.)

Health and Human Services

Matt
    $1600 6
the noble gases

Matt
    $1600 2
a girdle

Matt
    $1600 17
Tarantino

Alex
    $2000 15
(Alex Trebek: Hurry!)
(Kerry: No.)
(Alex Trebek: [Sounding the time's-up signal] Oh, darn.)

the Stroganoffs

Kerry
Triple Stumper
    $2000 11
terpsichorean

Kerry
    $2000 9
the Dreamers

Triple Stumper
    $2000 7
calcium

Triple Stumper
    $2000 4
Ganymede

Alex
    $2000 16
The Usual Suspects

Alex

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Alex Kerry
$7,200 $18,700 $3,200
(lock tournament)

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Final Jeopardy! Round responses

PHILOSOPHERS
(Alex Trebek: [To Kerry] In Danish, [the surname] means "churchyard". It also applies to graveyard.)
...
(Alex Trebek: And as we come to you, Alex, I just want to say that this was the most dominant performance by anyone in any of our tournaments.)
(Alex Jacob: Wow.)
KerryWho is Kierkegaard?
$1,500
MattWho is . . .
$0
AlexWho Thanks to everyone who works on the world's greatest game show!!
$0
Søren Kierkegaard

Final scores:

Matt Alex Kerry
$7,200 $18,700 $4,700

Cumulative scores:

Matt Alex Kerry
$10,200 $48,300 $8,100
1st runner-up: $100,000 Tournament champion: $250,000 2nd runner-up: $50,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Matt Alex Kerry
$17,200 $17,800 $3,200
21 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 23 R
(including 2 DDs),
0 W		 9 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $38,200

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Game tape date: 2015-10-14
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