Responses for Show #7985 - Friday, May 3, 2019

James Holzhauer game 22.

Contestants

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Carol Hansen, a retired database administrator from San Francisco, California

Pete Vanderhyden, an airline pilot from Murrieta, California

James Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada (whose 21-day cash winnings total $1,608,627)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

TV SHOWS BY COUPLE
BEGINS & ENDS WITH "W"
CLASSIC LITERATURE
(Alex: And then in honor of tomorrow's date, "May the 4th be with you"...)
SCI-FI STUFF
NOBODY EXPECTS
THE SPINACH ACQUISITION
    $200 30
Friends

James
    $200 29
withdraw

Pete
    $200 25
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)

Heart of Darkness

James
    $200 28
(James: [Giving the Vulcan salute] Who is [*]?)

Leonard Nimoy

James
    $200 24
a jack-in-the-box

Pete
    $200 27
Popeye

James
    $400 22
Sex and the City

James
    $400 21
a window

James
    $400 20
The Three Musketeers

James
    $400 19
kryptonite

James
    $400 23
a suicide squeeze

James
    $400 26
V8

James
    $600 17
The Office

James
    $600 7
weeping willow

James
    $600 16
Henry James

James
    $600 18
Planet of the Apes

James
    $600 15
(James: What is [*]?)
(Alex: [*], yes.)
[James runs out from behind his lectern, then returns; the audience laughs.]
(Alex: Oh, don't go out of our shot, because we have to take a break right now. We want you to be there when we come back.)

a streaker

James
    $600 13
A

James
    $800 8
Gilmore Girls

James
    $800 3
worldview

James
    $800 9
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

James
    $800 14
(Ellen) Ripley

Pete
    $800 12
dormant

Carol
    $800 11
(Pete: What is...)
(Alex: Ohh.)
(Pete: Yeah, sorry.)
...
(Alex: They make [*]. Great, great dish.)

creamed spinach

Pete
Triple Stumper
    $1000 4
Boy Meets World

James
    $1000 2
workflow

Pete
    $1,000 1
(James: House limit, please.)
(Alex: [Chuckles] The house limit, even though he has no money. It's $1,000 and here is the clue...)

Cosette

James
    $1000 5
Battlestar Galactica

James
    $1000 6
Merkel

Carol
    $1000 10
Florentine

James

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

James Pete Carol
$8,200 $1,000 $1,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

James Pete Carol
$13,200 $1,400 $1,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

CLASSICAL DANCE MIX
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
WORLD CITIES
A BUNCH OF HOOEY!
THINGS THAT HAPPENED
GETTING ALL SCIENCE "E"
(Alex: Each correct response will begin with that letter of the alphabet.)
    $400 30
The Nutcracker

James
    $400 29
polls

James
    $400 6
Madrid

James
    $400 28
mumbo-jumbo

James
    $400 27
(Pete: What are elephants?)
(Carol: What are zebras?)
...
(Alex: They brought in a lot of [*] to work in the American Southwest.)

camels

PeteCarol
Triple Stumper
    $400 1
evergreen

James
    $800 16
Grieg

James
    $800 20
foot-in-mouth disease

Pete
    $800 5
Siberia

Carol
    $800 25
rot

Pete
    $800 10
Anne Boleyn

James
    $800 26
entomology

James
    $1200 15
polka

Carol
    $2,000 19
(Alex: And Carol, I'm shocked--shocked!--that somebody besides James managed to find a Daily Double.)
[Laughter]
(Carol: Who knew?)

(William) Barr

Carol
    $1200 4
Venice

James
    $1200 22
tripe

James
    $1200 8
(Carol: What's Gregorian?)

the Julian

JamesCarol
    $11,381 12
equilibrium

James
    $1600 14
Chopin

James
    $1600 18
a referendum

Carol
    $1600 2
Johannesburg

Triple Stumper
    $1600 21
stuff and nonsense

Triple Stumper
    $1600 7
nitroglycerin

James
    $1600 11
erythrocyte

James
    $2000 13
tarantella

James
    $2000 17
a government shutdown

James
    $2000 3
San Salvador

James
    $2000 24
claptrap

James
    $2000 9
Tamerlane (or Timur the Lame)

James
    $2000 23
a echocardiogram

Pete

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

James Pete Carol
$47,381 $4,600 $5,800
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

WORDS OF THE 2000s
(Alex: Ah, vocabulary.)
(Alex: Ladies and gentlemen, he's gonna get the next two weeks off. He's very tired from winning all of these games.)
[Laughter]
(Alex: But next week on Monday, please join us for the Teachers Tournament. That's always a great source of enjoyment for all of us here at Jeopardy! Have a good, safe weekend. So long.)
PeteWhat online banking
$4,600
CarolWhat is cyber
$3,401
JamesWhat is Crowdfunding?
$35,000
crowdfunding

Final scores:

James Pete Carol
$82,381 $0 $2,399
22-day champion: $1,691,008 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

James Pete Carol
$37,200 $4,600 $5,000
43 R
(including 2 DDs),
0 W		 7 R,
2 W		 6 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $46,800

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Game tape date: 2019-02-27
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