Responses for Show #8003 - Wednesday, May 29, 2019

James Holzhauer game 30.

Contestants

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Lisa Clark, a freelance designer from Atlanta, Georgia

Faizan Kothari, an investment banking analyst from New York, New York

James Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada (whose 29-day cash winnings total $2,254,938)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

1919
ROBOTS
YOUR TV GOVERNMENT AT WORK
CLOTHES MINDED
I'M READING YOU
(Alex: You identify the author.)
LOUD & CLEAR
    $200 30
the (Chicago) White Sox

Faizan
    $200 28
the Roomba

Faizan
    $200 27
Parks and Recreation

James
    $200 24
a kangaroo

Lisa
    $200 29
James Joyce

Lisa
    $200 18
deafening

James
    $400 21
KLM

Faizan
    $400 25
coding

James
    $400 26
(Alex: We're not talking about Charlie Sheen here.)

The West Wing

James
    $400 23
Cardigan

Lisa
    $400 20
(Victor) Hugo

Faizan
    $400 17
11

Lisa
    $2,800 9
the Algonquin Round Table

James
    $600 22
surveillance

Faizan
    $600 15
The Good Wife

James
    $600 14
bolero

James
    $600 19
John Green

James
    $600 16
din

Faizan
    $800 3
18th

Faizan
    $800 5
Fukushima

James
    $800 11
Scandal

James
    $800 13
bias

Lisa
    $800 4
Alice Walker

James
    $800 8
(James: What is... raising the dead?)
...
(Alex: I thought you were on the right track. "What is [*]?" Talking about Genesis.)

raising Cain

James
Triple Stumper
    $1000 1
Bauhaus

James
    $1000 6
hitchhiking

Faizan
    $1000 10
(Alex: Popular show called [*]. Obviously not popular enough.)
[Laughter]

Madam Secretary

Triple Stumper
    $1000 12
jodhpurs

James
    $1000 2
Hesse

Faizan
    $1000 7
fortissimo

James

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

James Faizan Lisa
$8,600 $2,800 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

James Faizan Lisa
$10,400 $5,200 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ONE BIG SWAMP
(Alex: Sounds like my backyard.)
1980s POP LYRICS
DIFFERS BY A VOWEL
AWARDS & PRIZES
SPACE "EX"
(Alex: "E-X" is gonna come up in each correct response.)
A LITTLE TROUBLE WITH NAMES
(Alex: The correct response will be based on the last line of the clue.)
    $400 30
the Nile

Faizan
    $400 29
"Wind Beneath My Wings"

James
    $400 26
batter and butter

Faizan
    $400 24
the NFL

James
    $400 20
extraterrestrial

James
    $400 22
Sarah Palin

James
    $800 27
the Everglades

James
    $800 28
"Time After Time"

James
    $800 25
(Alex: Less than a minute.)

park and perk

James
    $800 23
Hugo (Awards)

James
    $800 19
extinction

James
    $800 21
Silver

James
    $1200 14
Trinidad and Tobago

James
    $1200 13
(Lisa: What is "Smooth Criminal"?)

"Bad"

Lisa
Triple Stumper
    $1200 16
parched and perched

James
    $1200 17
spoon

James
    $1200 18
extravehicular

James
    $1200 3
Billy Bob Thornton

James
    $11,914 2
dismal

James
    $1600 11
"Livin' On A Prayer"

Faizan
    $1600 12
preposition and proposition

James
    $1600 9
the Palme d'Or

James
    $4,000 5
(Faizan: What is... excape?)
[Faizan, perhaps deliberately to fit the category, mispronounced "escape".]
...
(Alex: It had to be "E-X".)

exhaust

Faizan
    $1600 4
Ham

Faizan
    $2000 10
Okefenokee

Lisa
    $2000 1
"Another One Bites The Dust"

James
    $2000 15
mute and mote

James
    $2000 7
Sakharov

James
    $2000 6
exoplanets

Faizan
    $2000 8
Nancy

Faizan

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

James Faizan Lisa
$43,914 $9,200 $2,800
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

19th CENTURY NOVELS
(Alex: [To Faizan] Written by Mary Shelley.)
...
(Alex: [To Faizan about his wager] You should start talking to James.)
...
(Alex: [To James] Wrote down [*] and even drew!)
[Laughter]
(James: I don't--I don't have the artistic skills we got over there. [Points towards Lisa])
LisaWhat is ☺ ?
$2,799
FaizanWhat is Frankenstein?
$23
JamesWhat is Frankenstein? [picture of Frankenstein's monster]
$25,119
Frankenstein

Final scores:

James Faizan Lisa
$69,033 $9,223 $1
30-day champion: $2,323,971 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

James Faizan Lisa
$31,400 $13,200 $2,800
35 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W		 15 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 6 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $47,400

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