Responses for Show #8090 - Friday, November 8, 2019

2019 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

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Francois Barcomb, an 11th grade physics teacher from New Paltz, New York

Steven Grade, a sports industry consultant from Atlanta, Georgia

Ryan Fenster, a graduate student from SeaTac, Washington

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ORGANIZATIONS
NEWER WORDS & PHRASES
(Alex: We're not dealing with old stuff.)
MISCELLANY
SETTING THE SCENE IN SHAKESPEARE
(Alex: So you can identify the play.)
NOVEMBER DATEBOOK
SINGLE-NAMED CELEBS
    $200 30
the American Bar Association

Ryan
    $200 23
a bromance

Francois
    $200 29
humans

Ryan
    $200 7
(Alex: Hey, well done in the category.)
[Applause for Steven's run of the category]

Macbeth

Steven
    $200 11
Tehran

Francois
    $200 12
Zendaya

Steven
    $400 15
(Ryan: What's the College Boards?)
[Ryan's response was accepted as correct and the ruling was reversed after the break.]

College Board

Ryan
Triple Stumper
    $400 22
blue states

Steven
    $400 25
karats

Steven
    $400 6
Julius Caesar

Steven
    $400 28
Cutty Sark

Francois
    $400 27
Kesha

Francois
    $600 9
(Ryan: Who are airline stewards?)

pilots

RyanFrancois
    $600 21
zucchini

Steven
    $600 24
chickpeas

Ryan
    $600 3
The Tempest

Steven
    $600 19
Elizabeth I

Steven
    $600 26
Flea

Steven
    $800 8
[Alex reads "org." as "organization".]

JA (Junior Achievement)

Triple Stumper
    $800 16
a trigger warning

Steven
    $800 1
stretchers

Ryan
    $800 4
(Ryan: What are The Merry Wives of Windsor?)

The Merchant of Venice

RyanSteven
    $800 13
Lech Wałęsa

Francois
    $800 17
Twiggy

Steven
    $1000 10
the March of Dimes

Francois
    $1000 20
confirmation bias

Ryan
    $1000 2
earthquakes

Steven
    $1000 5
(Alex: You know your Shakespeare.)

King Lear

Steven
    $2,500 14
Gideon Bibles

Francois
    $1000 18
Iman

Francois

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

Ryan Steven Francois
-$600 $4,200 $5,100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ryan Steven Francois
$1,000 $8,400 $7,100

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

CLASSIC ROCK GUITARISTS
BODIES OF WATER
STAMPS
TOUGH CROSSWORD CLUES
BLACK HOLES
REVELATIONS
    $400 29
Jimi Hendrix

Steven
    $400 27
the Indian

Ryan
    $400 28
"America the Beautiful"

Steven
    $400 30
(Ryan: What is lionine? [*]? What is [*]?)
(Alex: Uh... we'll give you that one, our judges say.)

leonine

Ryan
    $400 25
(Ryan: What's a nebula?)

a galaxy

RyanFrancois
    $400 24
paintings

Steven
    $800 18
The Doors

Francois
    $8,000 20
the Adriatic Sea

Francois
    $800 26
Woodstock

Ryan
    $800 22
amie

Francois
    $800 21
(Steven: What is singularity?)

radius

RyanSteven
    $800 23
(Steven: Who is Kennedy?)

Lee Harvey Oswald

StevenFrancois
    $1200 13
(Brian) May

Steven
    $1200 7
the Dead Sea

Francois
    $1200 19
Pinot Noir

Francois
    $1200 3
(Steven: Uh, who is Sappho?)

Erato

StevenFrancois
    $1200 17
(Stephen) Hawking

Steven
    $1200 8
Volkswagen

Ryan
    $1600 2
Stevie Ray Vaughan

Francois
    $1600 6
the Dnieper

Ryan
    $1600 5
(Ryan: [Sings] That's amore. Oh, what is that's [*]?)
(Alex: Thank you.)
[Laughter]

a moray

Ryan
    $1600 15
a tenon

Francois
    $1600 4
our Sun

Francois
    $5,400 9
(Ryan: Who is... who is Jim Bridger?)
(Alex: Oh, no. Who is [*]? I thought you were gonna start singing again.)
[Laughter]

Davy Crockett

Ryan
    $2000 14
David Gilmour

Francois
    $2000 1
the Bay of Biscay

Francois
    $2000 12
Diwali

Francois
    $2000 11
(Ryan: What is... [Sighs])

Erse

RyanFrancois
    $2000 16
the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Ryan
    $2000 10
Dilma Rousseff

Ryan

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ryan Steven Francois
$4,000 $9,200 $34,300
(lock game)

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

LITERARY CHARACTERS
(Alex: Francois had $34,300 and came up with the correct response and didn't have to risk anything and did not, so he is a semifinalist. Come on over here, Francois. Well-played game, well-played.)
(Francois: Thank you.)
(Alex: All right, let's meet the other winners of the quarterfinal games this week...)
(Gilbert: Gilbert Collins, Princeton, New Jersey.)
(Dhruv: Dhruv Gaur, Gainesville, Georgia.)
(James: James Holzhauer, Las Vegas, Nevada.)
(Emma: Emma Boettcher, Chicago, Illinois.)
(Alex: And now the names of the four players, non-winners, but the highest scorers...)
(Kyle: Kyle Jones, Aurora, Colorado.)
(Lindsey: Lindsey Shultz, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.)
(Rachel: Rachel Lindgren, Bend, Oregon.)
(Alex: Wait a minute--that's only three. That must mean that this young man is a semifinalist also--Steven Grade. Congratulations to you.)
(Steven: Thank you so much.)
(Alex: Relax this weekend. We start the semifinals on Monday. Please join us then.)
RyanWho is Shere Kahn?
$4,000
StevenWho is Shere Khan?
$9,200
FrancoisWho is Shere Khan?
$0
Shere Khan

Final scores:

Ryan Steven Francois
$8,000 $18,400 $34,300
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated 2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated Automatic semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ryan Steven Francois
$9,400 $9,200 $25,600
14 R,
6 W
(including 1 DD)		 19 R,
3 W		 24 R
(including 2 DDs),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $44,200

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Game tape date: 2019-09-17
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