Responses for Show #8401 - Monday, May 17, 2021

2021 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 1.
First game with Buzzy Cohen as guest host.

Contestants

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Sarah Jett Rayburn, a writer and stay-at-home mom from Hutto, Texas

Ryan Bilger, a graduate student from Macungie, Pennsylvania

Jason Zuffranieri, a math teacher from Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ACTUALLY, MONDAYS ARE PRETTY COOL
STOCK SYMBOLS
A PLACE IN THE BIBLE
QUOTABLE FILMS OF THE '80s & '90s
AMERICAN HISTORY
FOWL LANGUAGE
    $200 30
YouTube

Jason
    $200 26
CarMax

Jason
    $200 16
Mount Sinai

Ryan
    $200 5
[NOTE: Buzzy whispers the reading of the clue.]

Field of Dreams

Jason
    $200 29
the Boston Massacre

Ryan
    $200 28
cold turkey

Ryan
    $400 27
Walmart

Sarah
    $400 17
[NOTE: Ryan pronounces the last name as "LO-dair" and Buzzy corrects it.]

Estée Lauder

Ryan
    $400 11
Bethlehem

Jason
    $400 4
Groundhog Day

Ryan
    $400 23
McKinley

Jason
    $400 21
chicken feed (chicken scratch)

Triple Stumper
    $600 18
red beans & rice

Sarah
    $600 25
Morgan Stanley

Ryan
    $600 10
Babel

Sarah
    $600 3
Wall Street

Ryan
    $3,800 15
(Ryan: I'm an American historian; we're going True Daily Double. Not thinking about this for a second.)
...
[Ryan thumps chest with one hand while Buzzy reads the clue.]
(Ryan: Pennsylvania! What is [*]?)

oil

Ryan
    $600 19
"The Ugly Duckling"

Sarah
    $800 9
Berlin

Sarah
    $800 13
U.S. Steel

Jason
    $800 7
Galilee

Triple Stumper
    $800 2
Scarface

Ryan
    $800 24
South Carolina

Ryan
    $800 20
(Ryan: What is a dodo?)

hen's teeth

Ryan
Triple Stumper
    $1000 8
Easter Monday

Jason
    $1000 12
Dollar Tree

Sarah
    $1000 6
Egypt

Jason
    $1000 1
Sophie's Choice

Ryan
    $1000 14
Black Hills War

Ryan
    $1000 22
(Sarah: What is [*]? Stepping?)

goose step

Sarah

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

Jason Ryan Sarah
$3,400 $7,600 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jason Ryan Sarah
$4,200 $9,200 $5,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

CLASSICAL MUSIC
TIME MAGAZINE PERSON OF THE YEAR
TV ON PBS
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
ESSAYS
I GET SO EMOTIONAL!
    $400 25
Unfinished

Jason
    $400 28
(Ryan: What is Ford?)

General Motors

JasonRyan
    $400 29
Burns

Jason
    $400 27
Tahiti

Ryan
    $400 30
Uncle Tom's Cabin

Ryan
    $400 23
hostile

Ryan
    $800 19
"Clair de Lune"

Jason
    $6,000 7
(Ryan: $6,000, I'm gonna go for the kill.)
...
(Ryan: [Slams fist into hand] Let's go!)

Angela Merkel

Ryan
    $800 10
NOVA

Ryan
    $800 20
the Marne

Ryan
    $800 26
(Sigmund) Freud

Ryan
    $800 18
content

Ryan
    $1200 5
Dvořák

Ryan
    $1200 12
Intel

Jason
    $1200 2
Frontline

Jason
    $1200 8
(Jason: What is... uh, Charlottetown?)

Charlotte Amalie

JasonRyan
    $4,000 22
(Buzzy: Yes, of the Algonquin Round Table fame.)

Dorothy Parker

Sarah
    $1200 17
serene

Sarah
    $1600 4
Richard Strauss

Ryan
    $1600 24
(William) Westmoreland

Ryan
    $1600 21
Halifax

Sarah
    $1600 16
the Khyber Pass

Sarah
    $1600 6
(Sarah: Who is Ursula Le Guin?)

Rachel Carson

Sarah
Triple Stumper
    $1600 9
relieved

Ryan
    $2000 3
"Night On Bald Mountain"

Ryan
    $2000 11
(James) Lovell

Ryan
    $2000 15
(Henry Louis) Gates

Jason
    $2000 1
Skopje

Ryan
    $2000 13
(Jason: What is Boardwalk?)
(Sarah: What is Park Place?)

Marvin Gardens

JasonSarah
Triple Stumper
    $2000 14
dubious

Jason

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jason Ryan Sarah
$9,400 $32,400 $9,800
(lock game)

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ANCIENT GREEKS
(Buzzy: [To Jason] The adjective [*]nian comes from that Greek lawgiver who was known for his harsh penalties.)
...
(Sarah: No, I thought of [*] too late.)
JasonWho is Draco?
$9,400
SarahWho is Crito?
$9,800
RyanWho is Draco?
$5
Draco

Final scores:

Jason Ryan Sarah
$18,800 $32,405 $0
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated Automatic semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jason Ryan Sarah
$9,400 $24,000 $7,000
16 R,
2 W
28 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W
11 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $40,400

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Game tape date: 2021-04-13
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