Responses for Show #8535 - Friday, December 17, 2021

2021 Professors Tournament final game 2.

Contestants

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Alisa Hove, a botany professor from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina (subtotal of $3,800)

Ed Hashima, a history professor from American River College in Sacramento, California (subtotal of $4,600)

Sam Buttrey, an associate professor of operations research from Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California (subtotal of $20,000)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND
MATH, PROFESSORS
MISCELLANY
PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT
MOVIE TAGLINES
BEFORE & AFTER
    $200 1
the Great Plague

Ed
    $200 6
angles

Alisa
    $200 21
I shall not want

Sam
    $200 11
gong

Sam
    $200 16
Apollo 13

Alisa
    $200 22
fishing pole vault

Sam
    $400 2
Brexit

Ed
    $400 7
less than or equal to

Sam
    $400 27
flowers

Alisa
    $400 12
a tambourine

Ed
    $400 17
The Social Network

Ed
    $400 23
(Ed: What is Mitt Romney?)

oven Mitt Romney

SamEd
    $600 3
Horatio Nelson

Ed
    $600 8
36

Ed
    $600 28
Poland

Alisa
    $600 13
(Sam: What are congos?)

conga drums

SamEd
    $600 18
A League of Their Own

Ed
    $600 24
hot Dog Star

Sam
    $800 4
November 5th

Sam
    $800 9
braces

Alisa
    $800 29
Hank Aaron

Sam
    $800 14
steel drums

Alisa
    $800 19
Dumb and Dumber

Ed
    $800 25
Finnegans Wake-up call

Sam
    $1000 5
the Krays

Sam
    $1000 10
mode

Sam
    $1000 30
goiter

Sam
    $1000 15
(Alisa: What are [Chuckles]... timpani?)

a glockenspiel

EdAlisa
    $1000 20
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Alisa
    $1000 26
(Mayim: These are awesome.)

Iron Man of war

Triple Stumper

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

Sam Ed Alisa
$2,800 $3,800 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Sam Ed Alisa
$6,800 $5,200 $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

LAW
POETIC OBJECTS
HOME, SWEET HOME
REFUGEES
CELEBRITIES
LATIN MOTTOES & PHRASES
    $400 25
an affidavit

Alisa
    $400 2
cage

Sam
    $400 1
(Alisa: What is Bulgaria?)

Prussia

Alisa
Triple Stumper
    $400 6
Syria

Sam
    $400 11
Cedric

Triple Stumper
    $400 3
beware of the dog

Sam
    $800 26
the bankruptcy code

Sam
    $2,200 16
(Ed: [Sighs] What is a crown?)

Excalibur

Ed
    $800 8
Paisley Park

Ed
    $800 21
Little Kabul

Ed
    $800 12
Mary J. Blige

Ed
    $800 4
excelsior

Sam
    $1200 27
Miranda rights

Ed
    $1200 17
fences

Sam
    $1200 9
Disraeli

Sam
    $1200 22
Lesbos

Ed
    $1200 13
(Alisa: Who is Octavia Butler?)

Octavia Spencer

EdAlisa
    $1200 5
Cogito, ergo sum

Ed
    $1600 28
voir dire

Ed
    $1600 18
a Grecian urn

Ed
    $1600 10
Mount Vernon

Ed
    $1600 23
(Ed: What is...)

Burundi

SamEd
    $1600 14
(Alisa: Who is Solange Knowles?)

Megan Thee Stallion

Alisa
Triple Stumper
    $2,000 7
the truth will set you free

Sam
    $2000 29
the solicitor general

Sam
    $2000 19
(Ed: What are teaspoons?)
(Alisa: What are tablespoons?)
(Sam: What are spoons?)
[Laughter]

coffee spoons

SamEdAlisa
Triple Stumper
    $2000 20
Taliesin

Triple Stumper
    $2000 30
the Rohingya

Ed
    $2000 15
Michael K. Williams

Ed
    $2000 24
(Sam: What is "Civius, Altius, Fortibus"? "Fortius"?)
(Mayim: No... We have less than a minute.)

“Citius, Altius, Fortius"

Sam
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Sam Ed Alisa
$13,600 $15,400 -$1,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

FRENCH ARTISTS
(Mayim: [To Sam] The inventor of Pointillist painting.)
SamWho is Seurat?
$2,000
EdWho is Claude Mone
$13,700
(Georges) Seurat

Final scores:

Sam Ed Alisa
$15,600 $1,700 -$1,800

Cumulative scores:

Sam Ed Alisa
$35,600 $6,300 $3,800
Tournament champion: $100,000 1st runner-up: $50,000 2nd runner-up: $25,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Sam Ed Alisa
$13,200 $17,600 -$1,800
22 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 22 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 8 R,
5 W

Combined Coryat: $29,000

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Game tape date: 2021-10-26
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