Responses for Show #7231 - Monday, February 8, 2016

2016 College Championship semifinal game 1.

Contestants

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Emily Sun, a freshman at Columbia University from San Diego, California

Gus Woythaler, a senior at Stanford University from Encino, California

Niki Peters, a sophomore at the University of California, Berkeley originally from Boise, Idaho

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Jeopardy! Round responses

MAMA'S BOYS
COLLEGE TOWNS
DOUBLE THE VOWEL, DOUBLE THE FUN
AWARDS & HONORS
FICTION
HOME WATCHING TV
    $200 4
Ann Arbor

Gus
    $200 27
(Gus: What is a regatta?)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

the America's Cup

Gus
Triple Stumper
    $200 26
(Gus: What is Girl on Fire?)

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest

NikiGus
    $400 10
RFK (Robert Francis Kennedy)

Gus
    $400 5
Fort Worth

Gus
    $400 17
Voodoo

Niki
    $400 24
Mendeleev

Niki
    $400 1
Tom Clancy

Gus
    $400 25
(Alex: With less than a minute to go.)

Viola Davis

Niki
    $600 11
the Emanuels

Gus
    $600 6
(Niki: What is Pasadena?)

Princeton

Niki
Triple Stumper
    $600 20
a volunteer

Gus
    $600 21
a Purple Heart

Niki
    $600 2
The Kite Runner

Gus
    $600 16
Colombia

Gus
    $800 12
Hemingway

Emily
    $800 7
Eugene

Gus
    $800 19
a smoothie

Gus
    $800 23
(Gus: Who is Charles Schulz?)

Stan Lee

GusEmily
    $800 3
(Niki: What is a ship?)

chair

Niki
Triple Stumper
    $800 14
Cookie

Emily
    $1000 13
Newton

Emily
    $1000 8
Bozeman

Gus
    $1000 18
a vacuum

Gus
    $1,000 22
(Alan) Turing

Niki
    $1000 9
(Emily: What is Angels & Demons?)

The Lost Symbol

Emily
Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
Blindspot

Emily

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

Niki Gus Emily
-$1,400 $4,400 $2,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Niki Gus Emily
$1,600 $6,200 $3,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WORD ORIGINS
PENINSULAS
ANTHROPOLOGY
STAMPS
HISTORICAL NOVELS
OUT SEEING LIVE ENTERTAINMENT
    $400 26
a marinade

Niki
    $400 27
Asia

Emily
    $400 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

totem poles

Niki
    $400 5
(Gus: Who is Bell?)

(Doc) Holliday

GusEmily
    $800 25
a stool

Emily
    $800 21
the Iberian

Niki
    $800 22
(Alex: Less than a minute to go now.)

the Bedouins

Gus
    $800 23
a dreidel

Gus
    $800 4
Montezuma

Niki
    $800 24
Cirque du Soleil

Gus
    $1200 17
worm

Emily
    $5,000 20
Sinai

Emily
    $1200 18
parasites

Niki
    $1200 19
the Emancipation Proclamation

Emily
    $2,000 1
Sacagawea

Niki
    $1200 14
Pentatonix

Niki
    $1600 16
sirocco

Triple Stumper
    $1600 7
(Niki: What is York?)

Kent

Niki
Triple Stumper
    $1600 6
Java

Triple Stumper
    $1600 15
the spoonbill

Triple Stumper
    $1600 2
the Raj

Gus
    $1600 13
Neverland

Gus
    $2000 10
bodhisattva

Niki
    $2000 9
the Seward Peninsula

Triple Stumper
    $2000 8
Columbia

Niki
    $2000 11
(Ralph) Ellison

Niki
    $2000 3
(Christopher) Marlowe

Niki
    $2000 12
Chicago

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Niki Gus Emily
$14,800 $11,400 $12,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ROYALTY
(Alex: [*], who commissioned the King James Version of the Bible.)
GusWho is J Charles II
$1,001
EmilyWho William the Conqueror James I
$12,400
NikiWho is King James?
$10,100
James I

Final scores:

Niki Gus Emily
$24,900 $10,399 $24,800
Finalist 3rd place: $10,000 2nd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Niki Gus Emily
$14,000 $11,400 $8,600
17 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W
17 R,
4 W
11 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $34,000

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Game tape date: 2016-01-06
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