Responses for Show #4908 - Wednesday, January 4, 2006

Tom Kavanaugh game 5.

Contestants

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Andy Gefen, a financial consultant from Bethesda, Maryland

Jim Burkhard, an automotive engineer from Chili, New York

Tom Kavanaugh, a writer from St. Louis, Missouri (whose 4-day cash winnings total $85,201)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

MYTHING IN ACTION
A SHORT HISTORY OF VEGAS
YOU CAN QUOTE ME
WHERE'S THE "FIRE"?
SEXY STUFF
PRAWNOGRAPHY
    $200 7
beautiful

Tom
    $200 17
rodeo

Tom
    $200 5
last

Jim
    $200 1
fireflies

Andy
    $200 2
(Jim: What are the anthills?)
(Tom: What is a nest?)

the eggs

TomJim
Triple Stumper
    $200 23
a shrimp

Jim
    $400 13
Linus

Jim
    $400 21
(Jim: Who is Penn & Teller?)

Siegfried & Roy

Jim
Triple Stumper
    $400 6
fear itself

Jim
    $400 8
a fireplace

Jim
    $400 3
heat

Andy
    $400 24
Long John Silver

Tom
    $600 14
Apollo

Jim
    $600 22
Elvis Presley

Andy
    $600 9
(Salvador) Dalí

Andy
    $600 10
(Jim: What is brimstone?)

fire & brimstone

TomJim
    $600 4
Grant

Jim
    $600 28
antennae

Andy
    $800 15
Memphis

Andy
    $800 25
Circus Circus

Tom
    $800 19
(Alex: Those words spoken by the [*]. That's where we get [*]isms--mangling and twisting things around.)

Reverend Spooner

Triple Stumper
    $800 11
Fire Island

Tom
    $800 16
pair bonds

Triple Stumper
    $800 29
the larval stage

Triple Stumper
    $1000 18
Cyclops

Tom
    $1000 26
(Andy: What is the Bellagio?)
(Jim: What is the MGM Grand?)

Caesars Palace

JimAndy
Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
1963

Jim
    $1000 12
The Firebird

Tom
    $1000 27
Tantric

Tom
    $1,500 30
(Andy: What is, uh, mollusk?)

crustacean

Andy

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

Tom Jim Andy
$2,400 $1,800 $2,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Jim Andy
$5,800 $1,600 $700

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

EARLY AMERICA
ONE-WOMAN SHOWS
"U" HAD TO BE THERE
ABBOTS & COSTELLOS
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
HOMOPHONES
    $400 2
Jamestown

Jim
    $400 23
Lily Tomlin

Triple Stumper
    $400 7
Utah

Tom
    $400 1
Elvis Costello

Tom
    $400 12
the First World War

Jim
    $400 13
nein (nine)

Tom
    $800 3
the Quakers

Jim
    $800 24
(Alex: Her mom, yeah.)

Judy Garland

Jim
    $800 8
the United Kingdom

Jim
    $800 16
Paris

Tom
    $800 20
Key West

Andy
    $800 14
el (L)

Triple Stumper
    $1200 4
Marquette & Joliet

Tom
    $1200 25
Bea Arthur

Triple Stumper
    $1200 9
Uganda

Tom
    $1200 17
Frank Costello

Triple Stumper
    $1200 28
(Alex: Remember [*]?)

Islands in the Stream

Triple Stumper
    $3,400 15
(Tom: What is... a...)
(Alex: Say something.)
(Tom: I--I can't think.)

Gael (gale)

Tom
    $1600 5
(Jim: Who is Stuyvesant?)

Peter Minuit

TomJim
    $1600 26
The Belle of Amherst

Tom
    $1600 10
Utrecht

Tom
    $3,000 18
(Alex: You can see your lead, and I think I know what you're about to say.)
(Tom: I don't think you do. Uh, $3,000.)
(Alex: Thank you very much.)

Bernard

Tom
    $1600 29
(Tom: Who is Ezra Pound?)

Sherwood Anderson

Tom
Triple Stumper
    $1600 21
whit (wit)

Triple Stumper
    $2000 6
John Rolfe

Tom
    $2000 27
Suzanne Somers

Andy
    $2000 11
Uzbekistan

Tom
    $2000 19
Panchen Lama

Triple Stumper
    $2000 30
(Alex: The reference to the Fiesta Brava, the bullfights in Spain, and [*] was the published title of that novel.)

The Sun Also Rises

Triple Stumper
    $2000 22
(Alex: [Hums] [*].)

the bassline (baseline)

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Jim Andy
$17,000 $3,200 $3,500
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

NEWER WORDS & PHRASES
JimWhat is "Work of Ages
$3,100
AndyWhat is World ?
$2,901
TomWhat is I have no freaking clue
$8,000
world wide web

Final scores:

Tom Jim Andy
$9,000 $100 $599
5-day champion: $94,201 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Tom Jim Andy
$19,000 $3,200 $5,000
21 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
5 W		 8 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $27,200

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Game tape date: 2005-10-25
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