Responses for Show #8628 - Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Mattea Roach game 17.

Contestants

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Christina Clark, an elementary music teacher from De Pere, Wisconsin

Ben Hsia, a R&D engineer from Fremont, California

Mattea Roach, a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 16-day cash winnings total $368,981)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

A NOVEL LOOK AT THE NOVEL
FINISH THE OLD PROVERB
THE LEAGUE MVP's TEAM
GETTING A "BA" IN BOTANY
(Ken: All correct responses will begin with the letters "B-A".)
WHICH COMES FIRST
THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG
    $200 11
Moby-Dick

Christina
    $200 16
the judge

Christina
    $200 1
(Mattea: Let's get sports out the way, THE LEAGUE MVP for $200.)
(Ken: [Laughing] That's one way to look at it.)
...
(Mattea: What is the... oh, God, [*]?)
(Ken: That's correct, yes, somehow.)
[Laughter]

the Detroit Lions

Mattea
    $200 6
baby's breath

Mattea
    $200 26
robots

Mattea
    $200 22
(Ben: What is an omelet?)

quiche

MatteaBen
    $400 12
The Wizard of Oz

Christina
    $400 17
hunger

Ben
    $400 2
the Cleveland Cavaliers

Christina
    $400 7
basil

Mattea
    $400 27
Mediterranean

Ben
    $400 23
(Mattea: What are Egg McMuffins?)
...
(Ken: I think egg did come before chicken in this case.)

chicken nuggets

MatteaBen
    $600 13
The Last of the Mohicans

Christina
    $600 19
(Ken: Yes, I'm always saying this.)
[Laughter]

flour

Christina
    $600 3
the Cubs

Ben
    $600 8
balsa

Mattea
    $600 29
(Mattea: What is, I think, [*]?)
(Ken: I think you're correct.)

Delaware

Mattea
    $600 24
ham

Mattea
    $800 14
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Ben
    $800 20
(Ken: Helpful for the animal lover to get that, yes.)

a lion

Christina
    $800 4
the Washington Capitals

Mattea
    $800 9
bamboo

Mattea
    $800 28
the Beatitudes

Christina
    $800 18
frittata

Mattea
    $1000 15
Tropic of Cancer

Mattea
    $1000 21
a change

Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
(Ken: Mattea, no more sports, I promise.)
[Mattea laughs]

the Dodgers

Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
[No applause for Mattea's run of the category]

banyan trees

Mattea
    $2,000 30
(Mattea: [Sighs] What is the... [Sighs] Law of the Conservation of Mass? I don't know.)
...
(Ken: I bet our laser engineer was chomping at the bit to get that clue.)

the first law of thermodynamics

Mattea
    $1000 25
shakshuka

Mattea

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

Mattea Ben Christina
$5,000 $1,400 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mattea Ben Christina
$6,000 $2,400 $4,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ARCHITECTS
MOUNTAINS & HILLS
MISCELLANY
CELEBRITY MEMOIRS
THE ANCIENT WORLD
AN ANATOMY OF WORDS
(Ken: Each response will be a part of the body.)
    $400 11
department stores

Mattea
    $400 8
Bunker Hill

Mattea
    $400 26
the cerebrum

Mattea
    $400 9
Bryan Cranston

Mattea
    $400 17
the Amazons

Mattea
    $400 21
the nose

Christina
    $800 12
Rodeo Drive

Mattea
    $800 7
Florida

Mattea
    $800 27
(Ben: What is the Secretary of Homeland Security?)

the Secretary of State

MatteaBen
    $800 10
(Ken: That's the great, [*].)
(Mattea: Of course.)

Neil Young

Triple Stumper
    $800 16
lead

Christina
    $800 22
tongue

Mattea
    $1200 13
Yad Vashem

Mattea
    $4,000 5
the Sierra Nevada

Ben
    $1200 28
(Mattea: What is cedar?)

an oak

MatteaChristina
    $1200 18
(Mattea: Who is it looks like [*]?)
(Ken: Who is it is [*], yes.)

Lena Dunham

Mattea
    $1200 2
the Colosseum

Ben
    $1200 23
hip

Mattea
    $1600 14
the British Museum

Ben
    $1600 4
the Atlas Mountains

Ben
    $1600 29
Aphrodite

Mattea
    $1600 19
Andrew McCarthy

Triple Stumper
    $1600 1
steel

Ben
    $8,000 24
(Mattea: Okay, um, you know what? If I wager a lot and lose today, like, whatever, I had such a good run, so let's try and do, like, um, honestly, $8,000.)
(Ken: Wow, okay, a big wager.)
...
(Mattea: Okay, well, I should have wagered more. What is [*]?)

rib

Mattea
    $2000 15
Antoni Gaudí

Triple Stumper
    $2000 6
Mount Elbrus

Christina
    $2000 30
(Ken: It takes you to $27,200...)
(Mattea: Oh, my God!)
(Ken: Exactly twice Ben's score.)
(Mattea: I knew I should have wagered more.)

New Guinea

Mattea
    $2000 20
Stephen Fry

Mattea
    $2000 3
an obelisk

Ben
    $2000 25
the shin

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mattea Ben Christina
$27,200 $13,600 $8,400
(lock-tie game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

POETS
(Ken: [To Ben] Yes, longtime Galway resident--the great Irish poet, [*].)
...
(Ken: [To Mattea] You wrote down your response at the very end of the music.)
ChristinaWho is Keats?
$5,300
BenWho is Yeats?
$13,600
MatteaWho is Yeats?
$1
William Butler Yeats

Final scores:

Mattea Ben Christina
$27,201 $27,200 $3,100
17-day champion: $396,182 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Mattea Ben Christina
$22,800 $10,800 $8,400
30 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 11 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 12 R,
0 W

Combined Coryat: $42,000

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Game tape date: 2022-02-14
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