Responses for Show #8529 - Thursday, December 9, 2021

2021 Professors Tournament quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

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Julia Williams, an English professor from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana

Ed Hashima, a history professor from American River College in Sacramento, California

Ramón Guerra, an associate professor of English, American literature, and Latino studies from University of Nebraska at Omaha

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Jeopardy! Round responses

PROF TALK
AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN
WHAT DOES IT PREVENT?
ALL ON YOUR HEAD NOW
COLLEGE SPORTS
LIT CHARACTERS' BAD CHOICES
    $200 7
peer review

Julia
    $200 15
Gibraltar

Ed
    $200 26
knocking

Ramón
    $200 17
earrings

Ramón
    $200 2
the 100 meter

Ramón
    $200 1
(Captain) Ahab

Ed
    $400 8
stipend

Julia
    $400 22
Monaco

Ed
    $400 27
static cling

Julia
    $400 18
a mortarboard

Ed
    $400 11
Connecticut (UConn)

Ramón
    $400 3
Bella Swan

Triple Stumper
    $600 9
all but dissertation

Julia
    $600 23
Alexandria

Ed
    $600 28
pregnancy

Ed
    $600 19
a tiara

Ramón
    $600 12
the Heisman Trophy

Ramón
    $600 4
Hester Prynne

Ed
    $800 10
faculty

Ramón
    $1,200 24
(Ed: [Exhales] What is Beirut?)

Tripoli

Ed
    $800 29
probate

Ed
    $800 20
liberty spikes

Ed
    $800 13
Wisconsin

Ed
    $800 5
(Julia: Aah, who is...)

Winston (Smith)

RamónJulia
    $1000 16
sabbatical

Julia
    $1000 25
Malta

Ed
    $1000 30
aphids

Ed
    $1000 21
a toque

Ed
    $1000 14
the University of North Carolina

Ed
    $1000 6
Mr. Charles Bingley

Triple Stumper

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

Ramón Ed Julia
$2,800 $2,800 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ramón Ed Julia
$3,800 $8,200 $1,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

YIDDISH THEATER
SCIENCE VOCABULARY
STATE SONGS
DESCRIBING THE TV DRAMA
IN RECENT YEARS
SHOW ME YOUR P-H-D
(Mayim: Each response contains those letters in that order.)
    $400 6
(Ed: Um... [*]. What is [*]?)

King Lear

Ed
    $400 26
entomology

Julia
    $400 1
(Julia: "Don't Take My Sunshine Away"? What is "Don't Take My Sunshine Away"? [*].)
[Laughter]

"You Are My Sunshine"

Julia
    $400 11
(Ramón: What is House?)

Hannibal

RamónEd
    $400 21
Rio

Ramón
    $400 16
(Ed: Um... shoot.)

a stepchild

RamónEd
    $2,400 7
"If I Were A Rich Man"

Ed
    $800 27
(Ramón: What is ionic?)

covalent

RamónEd
    $800 2
Hawaii

Ed
    $800 12
The Walking Dead

Ed
    $800 25
iPad

Ed
    $800 17
apprehend

Julia
    $1200 8
Purim

Ed
    $1,200 28
gravity

Ed
    $1200 3
New Hampshire

Ed
    $1200 13
(Julia: What is Frasier?)

Bridgerton

Julia
Triple Stumper
    $1200 24
Theresa May

Ed
    $1200 18
a (crewed) splashdown

Ed
    $1600 9
(Mayim: she wanted to [*])

drive

Triple Stumper
    $1600 29
equilibrium

Triple Stumper
    $1600 4
the Wabash

Julia
    $1600 14
The Great

Triple Stumper
    $1600 23
rubella

Ed
    $1600 19
cephalopods

Ed
    $2000 10
Stella Adler

Ed
    $2000 30
precession

Triple Stumper
    $2000 5
(Ramón: What are lilacs?)

the columbines

Ramón
Triple Stumper
    $2000 15
White Lotus

Julia
    $2000 22
Cambridge Analytica

Ed
    $2000 20
Upanishads

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ramón Ed Julia
$1,400 $27,400 $5,800
(lock game)

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

1950s PUBLIC WORKS
(Mayim: [To Ed] This was a joint project of the United States and Canada; it runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.)
RamónWhat is [one letter crossed out]?
$1,400
JuliaWhat is interstate highway? system?
$2,000
EdWhat is [one letter crossed out] the St. Lawrence Seaway?
$4,700
the St. Lawrence Seaway

Final scores:

Ramón Ed Julia
$0 $32,100 $3,800
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated Automatic semifinalist 2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ramón Ed Julia
$1,400 $27,000 $5,800
10 R,
3 W		 30 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 10 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $34,200

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Game tape date: 2021-10-25
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