Responses for Show #8007 - Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Emma Boettcher game 2.

Contestants

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Liz Neal, a graphic designer from Astoria, New York

Matthew Swanson, a Ph.D student from Los Angeles, California

Emma Boettcher, a user experience librarian from Chicago, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $46,801)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
VWLLSS BBL BKS
(Alex: Vowelless Bible books; you're gonna love it.)
TURNING AROUND THE INSULT
COMMON BLONDES
WE BORDER GERMANY
THE PARKER HOUSE: A HOTEL IN HISTORY
(Sarah: From one of the USA's most iconic hotels, famous guests and employees of Boston's Omni Parker House rolls into history.)
    $200 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

mastodons

Matthew
    $200 5
[Applause for running the category]
(Alex: You know your VOWELLESS BIBLE BOOKS, young lady.)

Exodus

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

Yankees

Emma
    $200 26
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Emma
    $200 27
Switzerland

Emma
    $400 23
National Geographic Society

Triple Stumper
    $400 4
Acts

Emma
    $400 24
Canucks

Liz
    $400 14
Marley & Me

Emma
    $400 17
Luxembourg

Emma
    $400 28
JFK and Jackie Kennedy

Emma
    $600 22
guano

Matthew
    $600 3
Ecclesiastes

Emma
    $600 18
Kansas

Matthew
    $600 8
The Brady Bunch

Emma
    $600 16
the Netherlands

Matthew
    $600 21
Emerson

Emma
    $800 12
P. T. Barnum

Emma
    $800 2
Ephesians

Emma
    $800 15
Cockney

Emma
    $800 7
Big Little Lies

Liz
    $4,600 10
(Emma: I'll bet the farm--$4,600.)
(Alex: Oh, okay. Influenced by James, are we?)

Denmark

Emma
    $800 20
(Alex: That's a picture of a very young [*].)

Ho Chi Minh

Triple Stumper
    $1000 11
Magellan

Emma
    $1000 1
Obadiah

Emma
    $1000 13
(Liz: What is Cheddarhead? [*]?)
(Alex: [*]. That's it. You corrected it in time.)

Cheesehead

Liz
    $1000 6
How to Marry a Millionaire

Liz
    $1000 9
Poland

Emma
    $1000 19
Malcolm X

Matthew

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Emma Matthew Liz
$11,400 $0 $2,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Emma Matthew Liz
$14,200 $3,000 $3,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ALPHANUMERICS
OUR FOUNDING MOTHERS
(Alex: Not fathers.)
SMOOTH SAILING IN SONG
PARASITIC PLANTS
LITERARY GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES
INTERNAL RHYME VERBS
    $400 29
A1

Matthew
    $400 12
Martha Washington

Triple Stumper
    $400 24
(Emma: What is "Across The Sea"?)
...
(Alex: Yes. "Somewhere [*]".)

"Beyond The Sea"

EmmaMatthew
    $400 30
mistletoe

Liz
    $400 28
City

Matthew
    $400 3
chug-a-lug

Triple Stumper
    $800 26
V-8

Emma
    $800 7
the War of 1812

Matthew
    $800 23
Lonely Island

Liz
    $800 27
wasps

Emma
    $800 20
Jungle

Matthew
    $800 13
powwow

Liz
    $1200 11
401(k)

Liz
    $1200 4
Sally Hemmings

Emma
    $1200 22
Styx

Liz
    $1200 25
(Alex: With less than a minute now.)

(stinking) corpse flower

Emma
    $6,000 16
No Country for Old Men

Matthew
    $1200 14
maintain

Emma
    $1600 10
O2

Matthew
    $1600 5
Patrick Henry

Emma
    $1600 8
Christopher Cross

Triple Stumper
    $1600 21
Indian paint brushes

Emma
    $1600 1
(Emma: What is over the hill?)
...
(Alex: You left off the plural. It's [*], not "over the hill" singular.)

over the hills

Emma
Triple Stumper
    $1600 15
kowtow

Matthew
    $2000 17
C-4

Matthew
    $2000 6
Benjamin Rush

Emma
    $2000 9
(Alex: That's fellow Canadian [*].)

Gordon Lightfoot

Triple Stumper
    $6,000 18
(Matthew: What is barley?
(Alex: No. What is [*]? [*]. Trifolium.)

clover

Matthew
    $2000 2
Wide Sargasso Sea

Emma
    $2000 19
hobnob

Liz

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Emma Matthew Liz
$24,600 $11,000 $9,600
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD TIME ZONES
(Alex: Obviously, the leader of the country wanted to make nice with Hitler, and he did.)
...
(Alex: Francisco Franco is the man we're talking about.)
LizWhat is Austria
$2,400
MatthewWhat is Spain?
$8,201
EmmaWhat is Norway?
$0
Spain

Final scores:

Emma Matthew Liz
$24,600 $19,201 $7,200
2-day champion: $71,401 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Emma Matthew Liz
$20,800 $12,200 $9,600
27 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 14 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 10 R,
0 W

Combined Coryat: $42,600

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Game tape date: 2019-03-12
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