Responses for Show #8616 - Monday, April 11, 2022

Mattea Roach game 5.
Ken Jennings hosts.

Contestants

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Michael Wolman, a marketing manager from Austin, Texas

Vanessa McCombs, a college instructor from Manassas, Virginia

Mattea Roach, a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 4-day cash winnings total $104,600)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR
PURPLE REIGN
IT'S A FACT
IN MOM'S FREE TIME
2-WORD ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS
SYMPHON"E"s
(Ken: Each correct response beginning with the letter E.)
    $200 1
Prague

Vanessa
    $200 21
Barney

Mattea
    $200 30
a selfie

Mattea
    $200 9
a soccer mom

Mattea
    $200 7
a sitting duck

Michael
    $200 6
the Echo symphony

Mattea
    $400 2
(Michael: What is London?)

Oslo

MatteaMichael
    $400 22
a grape

Mattea
    $400 25
Usain Bolt

Mattea
    $400 17
cheesecake

Mattea
    $400 10
Cat's Cradle

Michael
    $400 11
Exile

Michael
    $600 3
(Ken: [*], Switzerland, right.)

Bern

Mattea
    $600 23
the Vikings

Michael
    $600 27
the septum

Mattea
    $600 18
(Mattea: What's a nap pillow?)
...
(Ken: I didn't know this either; my kids might be too old, this is [*].)

the Boppy

Mattea
Triple Stumper
    $600 16
a bull market

Mattea
    $600 8
Enlightenment

Vanessa
    $800 4
Kyiv

Michael
    $800 26
(Ken: Correct, with less than a minute to go.)

The Color Purple

Vanessa
    $800 28
Athena

Mattea
    $800 19
Katharine Hepburn

Mattea
    $800 14
a red herring

Mattea
    $800 12
Elgar

Michael
    $400 5
(Ken: That's correct, capital of Romania.)

Bucharest

Michael
    $1000 24
(Vanessa: What is the robin?)

a purple finch

Vanessa
Triple Stumper
    $1000 29
a banana slug

Michael
    $1000 20
in this house we believe

Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
a white elephant

Mattea
    $1000 13
Eroica

Michael

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

Mattea Vanessa Michael
$3,200 $800 $3,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mattea Vanessa Michael
$7,000 $600 $5,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY
THE ORIGIN TRAIL
CHEMICAL ELEMENTS
METAPHORS
LITERATURE
DOUBLE PRESIDENTIAL NAMERS
(Ken: You'll respond with a celebrity who has the first name of one president and the last name of another.)
    $400 12
(Ken: From puddles, we get [*].)

Poodles

Triple Stumper
    $400 14
helium

Michael
    $400 1
a roller coaster

Vanessa
    $400 6
Robinson Crusoe

Vanessa
    $400 11
Andrew Garfield

Mattea
    $800 25
[The end-of-round signal sounds without airing Ken giving a prior warning.]

the French Quarter

Michael
    $800 13
Chapel Hill

Michael
    $800 21
blue

Triple Stumper
    $800 2
cross that bridge

Mattea
    $2,000 7
(Vanessa: Oh... who is Dickens?)

Sir Walter Scott

Vanessa
    $800 16
(Mattea: Who is Bush Kennedy?)

George Kennedy

Mattea
Triple Stumper
    $1200 19
Samhain

Vanessa
    $1200 22
(Michael: What is cadmium?)

lithium

MatteaMichael
    $1200 3
a melting pot

Mattea
    $1200 8
Sookie Stackhouse

Vanessa
    $1200 15
(Vanessa: Who is Ted E. Grant?)

Richard E. Grant

Vanessa
Triple Stumper
    $1600 20
Mount Fuji

Michael
    $1600 23
(Mattea: What's zinc?)
(Vanessa: What's, uh, zircon?)

zirconium

MatteaVanessaMichael
    $1600 4
(Michael: What is the air in the balloon?)

the punch bowl

Michael
Triple Stumper
    $1600 9
(Vanessa: What is "The Daniel". Sorry, what is [*]?)

"The Devil and Daniel Webster"

Vanessa
    $1600 18
(Ken: And I have great news for you; no more DOUBLE PRESIDENTIAL NAMERS.)
[Laughter]

Grover Washington Jr.

Triple Stumper
    $5,000 24
(Ken: For Enrico Fermi; you now have the lead.)
[Applause]

fermium

Michael
    $2000 5
shoot the Messenger

Vanessa
    $2000 10
This Side of Paradise

Triple Stumper
    $2000 17
(Ken: From Bill Clinton and James Monroe.)

Bill Monroe

Mattea

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mattea Vanessa Michael
$10,200 $2,600 $12,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

WORDS OF THE YEAR
(Ken: [To Mattea] Vaccine comes from the Latin vacca; originally, the first vaccine was derived from cowpox.)
VanessaWhat is B bov?
$2,600
MatteaWhat is vax? if I lose, I had fun! thanks all
$2,400
MichaelWhat is Bov?
$8,000
vax

Final scores:

Mattea Vanessa Michael
$12,600 $0 $4,600
5-day champion: $117,200 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Mattea Vanessa Michael
$10,200 $4,600 $10,200
20 R,
3 W		 9 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 15 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $25,000

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Game tape date: 2022-02-08
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