Responses for Show #8120 - Friday, December 20, 2019

Contestants

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Claire Marinello-Fisher, an ESL professor from Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey

Lucy Yuan, a lawyer from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Eric Smith, a bartender from Tucson, Arizona (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,000)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ALTERNATIVE SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN
TAKE MY RHYME
(Alex: Each correct response will rhyme with the word "take".)
WORLD STAMP NEWS
STUFF
WRITERS GO WAY BACK
ON A FIRST NAME BASIS WITH THAT SHOW
    $200 21
Amsterdam

Claire
    $200 3
stake

Lucy
    $200 26
fondue

Eric
    $200 1
"Hail To The Chief"

Eric
    $2,000 14
Julius Caesar

Claire
    $200 11
Joey

Claire
    $400 22
Saint Nicholas

Claire
    $400 4
snake

Lucy
    $400 27
(Eric: Who is Shakespeare?)

da Vinci

EricLucy
    $400 2
density

Lucy
    $400 15
(Eric: What is The Three Musketeers?)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

EricClaire
    $400 12
(Eric: Uh, who is Rene?)

Blossom

EricClaire
    $600 23
the rod

Lucy
    $600 5
wake

Claire
    $600 28
a Yeti

Eric
    $600 8
Ariana Grande

Lucy
    $600 16
Agatha Christie

Eric
    $600 13
Rhoda

Triple Stumper
    $800 24
cigarettes

Claire
    $800 6
forsake

Lucy
    $800 29
(Leonard) Cohen

Claire
    $800 9
a wig

Lucy
    $800 17
Beowulf

Eric
    $800 19
Chuck

Lucy
    $1000 25
Baum

Lucy
    $1000 7
slake

Claire
    $1000 30
Liechtenstein

Eric
    $1000 10
the Firth of Forth

Eric
    $1000 18
Ben-Hur

Claire
    $1000 20
Felicity

Claire

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

Eric Lucy Claire
$800 $3,200 $4,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Eric Lucy Claire
$3,200 $6,000 $8,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

AROUND THE USA
COMPOSERS & THEIR WORKS
BOOKS FILMED WITH DIFFERENT TITLES
AGRICULTURE
THE MARSHALL PLAN
THAT'S OXYMORONIC
    $400 15
New Orleans

Eric
    $400 23
a funeral march

Claire
    $400 3
Field of Dreams

Claire
    $400 13
corn

Eric
    $400 1
Secretary of State

Eric
    $400 11
the Living Dead

Eric
    $800 16
adobe

Eric
    $800 20
Chopin

Eric
    $800 4
Die Hard

Lucy
    $800 24
(Claire: What is a pesticide?)

an herbicide

EricClaire
    $800 2
Harvard

Claire
    $800 12
the AirTrain

Claire
    $1200 17
(Claire: Uh, what is Portland?)

Seattle

LucyClaire
    $1200 28
Sergei Rachmaninoff

Triple Stumper
    $1200 5
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Eric
    $1200 25
onions

Eric
    $1200 6
Stalin

Eric
    $1200 14
a paid volunteer

Claire
    $1600 21
Cape Cod

Eric
    $1600 29
a clarinet

Eric
    $1600 9
Full Metal Jacket

Claire
    $1600 26
(Eric: What is "agrinomy"?)

agronomy

Eric
    $5,000 7
West Germany

Eric
    $1600 18
(Claire: What is featherweight?)
(Lucy: What is lightweight?)
(Eric: What is middleweight?)

light heavyweight

EricLucyClaire
Triple Stumper
    $2000 22
Yellowstone

Claire
    $5,500 30
(Eric: Uh, who is... Tchaikovsky?)

Antonin Dvořák

Eric
    $2000 10
Once Upon a Time in America

Lucy
    $2000 27
[NOTE: Alex did not say the other common name, Mediterranean fruit fly.]

the medfly

Triple Stumper
    $2000 8
containment

Claire
    $2000 19
(Claire: What is low petroleum gas?)

liquid propane gas (liquified petroleum gas)

Claire
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Eric Lucy Claire
$13,500 $8,400 $12,400

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Final Jeopardy! Round responses

CLASSIC FICTION
(Alex: [Revealing Lucy's response] By Joseph Conrad.)
LucyWhat is the Heart of Darkness?
$3,000
ClaireWhat is Heart of Darkness?
$4,401
EricWhat is The Heart of Darkness
$11,500
Heart of Darkness

Final scores:

Eric Lucy Claire
$25,000 $11,400 $16,801
2-day champion: $42,000 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Eric Lucy Claire
$15,600 $8,400 $10,600
21 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
1 W		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $34,600

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Game tape date: 2019-10-15
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