Responses for Show #8528 - Wednesday, December 8, 2021

2021 Professors Tournament quarterfinal game 3.

Contestants

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Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders, an assistant professor of U.S. and African-American history from University of Colorado

Lisa Dresner, an associate professor of writing studies from Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York

Sam Buttrey, an associate professor of operations research from Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California

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Jeopardy! Round responses

FOUND IN KING TUT'S TOMB
THE RULES OF THE GAME
COMPANY COLORS
MORE THAN 100
DEALING WITH THE ENVIRONMENT
PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES
    $200 26
chariots

Ashleigh
    $200 5
soccer

Sam
    $200 15
Orange

Sam
    $200 1
Methuselah

Sam
    $200 12
ozone

Ashleigh
    $200 23
the (clear) blue

Sam
    $400 27
ivory

Ashleigh
    $400 6
golf

Sam
    $400 17
root beer

Ashleigh
    $400 2
(Mayim: Yes, each door wide enough for 800 warriors.)

Valhalla

Sam
    $400 13
Kyoto

Ashleigh
    $400 24
under your hat

Sam
    $600 28
boomerangs

Sam
    $600 7
water polo

Ashleigh
    $600 18
Lyft

Ashleigh
    $600 3
118

Sam
    $600 14
(Lisa: What is acid rain?)

air pollution

Lisa
Triple Stumper
    $600 25
with a vengeance

Sam
    $800 29
scarab

Sam
    $800 8
luge

Sam
    $800 19
Shopify

Triple Stumper
    $800 4
(Ashleigh: What is the House of Representatives?)
(Sam: What is the British Parliament? Uh, [*]?)
(Mayim: No. Oh, yes, you corrected yourself in time.)

the House of Commons

SamAshleigh
    $800 21
the Tropics of Cancer & Capricorn

Triple Stumper
    $800 11
over-the-counter

Sam
    $1000 30
Anubis

Ashleigh
    $1000 9
(Lisa: What is wrestling?)
(Mayim: More specific?)

Greco-Roman wrestling

Lisa
    $1000 20
the Peacock

Triple Stumper
    $1000 16
February 14th (Valentine's Day)

Sam
    $1,000 22
(Ashleigh: What is...)
[Time's up signal sounds]
(Ashleigh: [*]?)
...
(Mayim: At the last second.)

Green New Deal

Ashleigh
    $1000 10
against the grain

Lisa

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

Sam Lisa Ashleigh
$4,400 $1,400 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Sam Lisa Ashleigh
$8,000 $1,400 $4,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

LITERARY PROFESSORS
TRIPLE RHYME TIME
ISLANDS IN THE CHAIN
NAMES & PLACES OF 2021
A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE
"ENNIAL" RESPONSE WILL DO
    $400 5
Candide

Sam
    $400 12
a chic Greek geek

Sam
    $400 14
the Virgin Islands

Ashleigh
    $400 20
Branson

Lisa
    $400 6
Pi

Ashleigh
    $400 11
millennial

Sam
    $800 4
(George Bernard) Shaw

Sam
    $800 13
the middle fiddle riddle

Sam
    $800 15
Rhodes

Sam
    $2,000 30
(Ashleigh: What is... the Black Sea?)

the Baltic Sea

Ashleigh
    $800 7
(Mayim: And we are in it right now, Sam.)
[Laughter]

The Matrix

Sam
    $800 24
perennial

Sam
    $1200 1
Michael Chabon

Triple Stumper
    $1200 19
a hot cot plot

Sam
    $1200 16
(Ashleigh: What is Key West?)

Key Largo

SamAshleigh
    $1200 29
Tom Daley

Triple Stumper
    $1200 8
Dividend

Lisa
    $1200 25
biennial

Sam
    $1,400 2
(Mayim: Described by Sherlock Holmes.)

Professor Moriarty

Lisa
    $1600 23
a pocket rocket socket

Sam
    $1600 17
Borneo

Triple Stumper
    $1600 22
Huawei

Triple Stumper
    $1600 9
The Sum of All Fears

Triple Stumper
    $1600 27
(Mayim: Yes, I'm glad you got that one.)
[Ashleigh giggles]

Centennial

Ashleigh
    $2000 3
Willa Cather

Lisa
    $2000 26
(Mayim: Yes, you like those, Sam.)

a thin gin grin

Sam
    $2000 18
Antilles

Sam
    $2000 21
Tigray

Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
Multiplicity

Triple Stumper
    $2000 28
Semiquincentennial

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Sam Lisa Ashleigh
$22,400 $6,400 $3,200
(lock game)

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

20th CENTURY PEOPLE
(Mayim: The correct response, [*], a famous proponent of nonviolence.)
AshleighWho is John F. Kennedy?
$3,200
LisaWho is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr?
$6,400
SamWho is J.F. Kennedy?
$0
"Mahatma" Gandhi

Final scores:

Sam Lisa Ashleigh
$22,400 $0 $0
Automatic semifinalist 2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated 3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Sam Lisa Ashleigh
$22,400 $6,600 $5,200
29 R,
0 W		 6 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 12 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $34,200

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Game tape date: 2021-10-25
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