Responses for Show #8532 - Tuesday, December 14, 2021

2021 Professors Tournament semifinal game 2.

Contestants

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Hester Blum, an English professor from Penn State University in University Park, Pennsylvania

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

Alisa Hove, a botany professor from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ALLITEROCKERS
SUCCULENTS
U.S. COUNTIES
AN INSTRUCTOR
A LECTURER
AN AD JUNKED
    $200 5
the Beastie Boys

Hester
    $200 1
aloe

Marti
    $200 2
King

Marti
    $200 30
driver's license instruction

Hester
    $200 16
(Alisa: What is physics?)

mathematics

Alisa
Triple Stumper
    $200 25
the Super Bowl

Marti
    $400 6
the Foo Fighters

Triple Stumper
    $400 11
agave

Alisa
    $400 3
Minnesota

Marti
    $400 12
(Alisa: What is mentor?)

tutor

AlisaMarti
    $400 17
time

Hester
    $400 22
Photoshop

Triple Stumper
    $600 7
the Go-Go's

Alisa
    $600 10
the prickly pear

Marti
    $600 4
Fulton

Hester
    $600 28
(Mayim: Yes, I wanted that so badly.)
[Laughter]

aerobics

Hester
    $800 18
(Hester: What is eugenics?)

evolution

Hester
    $600 20
(Johnny) Carson

Alisa
    $800 8
(Hester: Who is Sly Stallone?)
(Alisa: Who is Sly and the Family Stone?)

Sly Stone

AlisaMartiHester
    $800 15
Joshua tree

Hester
    $800 13
Suffolk & Norfolk

Triple Stumper
    $800 23
a sensei

Alisa
    $800 27
Tolkien

Alisa
    $800 21
bail bonds

Hester
    $1000 9
(Janis) Joplin

Alisa
    $1000 26
(Mayim: I'm so glad you got that right.)
[Laughter]
(Alisa: Me, too.)

ice plants

Alisa
    $1000 14
(Mayim: That play--August: [*].)

Osage County

Triple Stumper
    $1000 29
(Marti: What is Music Theory?)
(Hester: What is American Music Theory?)

Music Teacher

MartiHester
Triple Stumper
    $1000 19
Humphry Davy

Triple Stumper
    $1000 24
Jaguar

Triple Stumper

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

Alisa Marti Hester
$800 $2,600 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Alisa Marti Hester
$3,800 $1,800 $1,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

LET'S TALK REVOLUTION
WOMEN AUTHORS
16th CENTURY ARTS
TRANSPORTATION
POP CULTURE MR. OR MRS.
DIFFERS BY A LETTER
    $400 6
Iran

Hester
    $400 1
Alcott

Hester
    $400 20
the Model T

Hester
    $400 9
the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Alisa
    $400 12
ides & idea

Alisa
    $800 24
(Mayim: Less than a minute.)

Glorious

Triple Stumper
    $800 2
Donna Tartt

Hester
    $800 19
a recorder

Marti
    $800 15
(Hester: What is a cargo ship?)

a container ship

AlisaHester
    $800 8
Shark Tank

Marti
    $800 13
(Hester: What is...)

a preposition & a proposition

Hester
Triple Stumper
    $2,600 25
(Hester: [Sighs] What is the Great Proletarian... Workers Revolution?)

the Cultural Revolution

Hester
    $1200 3
Amy Tan

Hester
    $1200 21
the Mona Lisa

Marti
    $1200 16
oxygen masks

Hester
    $1200 7
Mr. Robot

Alisa
    $3,000 14
revenue & revenge

Alisa
    $1600 27
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Hungary

Marti
    $1600 4
Ursula Le Guin

Alisa
    $1600 22
a convex mirror

Triple Stumper
    $1600 17
a motorcycle

Triple Stumper
    $1600 10
Mrs. Robinson

Hester
    $2000 26
(Marti: Who is Zapatista?)

Emiliano Zapata

Marti
Triple Stumper
    $2000 5
Zadie Smith

Alisa
    $2000 23
Dürer

Hester
    $2000 18
Lime

Triple Stumper
    $2000 11
(Marti: Um, who is Tom Hanks?)

Henry Fonda

Marti
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Alisa Marti Hester
$13,200 $2,200 $4,800
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

20th CENTURY PHYSICS
(Mayim: These [*] particles are made up of what is still called [*] quarks.)
MartiWhat are quarks?
$2,200
HesterWhat are nano particles?
$1,200
AlisaWhat is subatomic?
$3,000
strange

Final scores:

Alisa Marti Hester
$10,200 $0 $3,600
Finalist 3rd place: $10,000 2nd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Alisa Marti Hester
$11,400 $2,200 $8,200
14 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 11 R,
3 W		 15 R,
6 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $21,800

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Game tape date: 2021-10-26
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