Responses for Show #8527 - Tuesday, December 7, 2021

2021 Professors Tournament quarterfinal game 2.

Contestants

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Katie Reed, an associate professor of musicology from Cal State Fullerton

John Harkless, an associate professor of chemistry from Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Marti Canipe, an elementary science education professor from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona

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Jeopardy! Round responses

BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT
NONFICTION
OFFICE, OURS
POP CULTURE
MOUNTAINS
IN THE CURRICULUM
(Mayim: Responses are made up of letters "in the curriculum".)
    $200 26
Truman

Katie
    $200 15
(Katie: Who is Newton?)

(Steve) Jobs

MartiKatie
    $200 10
a Greyhound

John
    $200 3
Aidy Bryant

Katie
    $200 23
yellow

Marti
    $200 9
chum

John
    $400 29
Bill Clinton

Marti
    $1,000 16
Eat, Pray, Love

Marti
    $400 11
Sweden

Marti
    $400 2
Black Widow

John
    $400 24
the Himalayas

Marti
    $400 8
relic

Katie
    $600 28
Zachary Taylor

Triple Stumper
    $600 17
Roman Empire

Katie
    $600 12
Heels

Triple Stumper
    $600 1
[Katie picked the first clue as the winner of the random draw.]

Lil Nas X

John
    $600 20
the Highlands

Marti
    $600 6
lurch

Katie
    $800 27
Andrew Jackson

Triple Stumper
    $800 18
Henrietta Lacks

Katie
    $800 13
Powerball

Marti
    $800 4
[Laughter]

Sexy Beasts

Katie
    $800 21
Mount Kilimanjaro

Marti
    $800 7
culture

Triple Stumper
    $1000 30
(Katie: Who is McKinley?)

Grover Cleveland

Katie
Triple Stumper
    $1000 19
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Katie
    $1000 14
a Moscow Mule

John
    $1000 5
Henry Golding

Katie
    $1000 22
(Marti: What is Mount Erebus?)
...
(Mayim: Antarctica is the right continent, but that peak is [*].)

Vinson Massif

Marti
Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
an ulcer

Marti

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

Marti John Katie
$1,400 $2,400 $2,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Marti John Katie
$4,800 $2,400 $4,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

I'VE GOT A THEORY
NAME THE MUSICAL
MYTHOLOGY
THEY EARNED A PhD
RUSSIAN HISTORY & CULTURE
10-LETTER WORDS
    $400 1
the theory of relativity

John
    $400 17
Hamilton

Katie
    $400 6
Gorgons

John
    $400 11
anthropology

Marti
    $400 23
(Boris) Yeltsin

Katie
    $400 19
a pedestrian

Marti
    $800 2
Mendel

Marti
    $800 16
Annie Get Your Gun

Triple Stumper
    $800 7
a phoenix

John
    $800 12
the Sorbonne

Katie
    $800 27
Mir

John
    $800 18
(Mayim: Yes, you either love it or you hate it.)
[Laughter]

a protractor

Marti
    $1200 3
(Mayim: I'm very glad you got that right, John.)
[Laughter]

a base

John
    $1200 13
My Fair Lady

Katie
    $1200 8
Artemis

Marti
    $1200 24
Greenspan

John
    $1200 28
Anastasia

Katie
    $1200 20
physiology

Triple Stumper
    $1600 4
Galileo

John
    $1600 14
Dear Evan Hansen

Katie
    $1600 9
Hephaestus

John
    $1600 25
Brian May

Katie
    $1,600 29
(Katie: Who are Bolsheviks?)
(Mayim: I'm sorry, who are [*], who opposed the Bolsheviks.)

the Mensheviks

Katie
    $1600 21
maleficent

John
    $2,000 5
string theory

John
    $2000 15
Come From Away

Katie
    $2000 10
Niobe

Triple Stumper
    $2000 26
Temple Grandin

Marti
    $2000 30
Solzhenitsyn

Katie
    $2000 22
(John: What is gossamer?)

diaphanous

John
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Marti John Katie
$10,400 $12,000 $14,000

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

OLD GEOGRAPHIC NAMES
(Mayim: [To Marti] The [*] ape or macaque.)
MartiWhat is Barbary?
$3,000
JohnWhat is bor rhesus?
$8,000
KatieWhat is Bonobo?
$2,000
Barbary

Final scores:

Marti John Katie
$13,400 $4,000 $12,000
Automatic semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated 2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Marti John Katie
$9,800 $12,000 $15,600
16 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 18 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $37,400

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Game tape date: 2021-10-25
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