Responses for Show #8690 - Friday, July 22, 2022

Contestants

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Gunan Ganju, a radiation oncologist from Atlanta, Georgia

Karla Fossett, a content administrator from Saco, Maine

Emmie Trammell, an operations specialist from Jacksonville, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,200)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

A MONTH OF HISTORY
(Ken: We'll only need the month; you don't have to give us the year.)
BRITISH FOLKLORE & LEGENDS
WORDS WITH DOUBLE LETTERS
EXPENSIVE FOODS
AT CROSS PURPOSES
THE TV TITLE CHARACTER SPEAKS
    $200 17
(Ken: Yes, because it was the Valentine's Day Massacre.)

February

Karla
    $200 11
Sherwood Forest

Gunan
    $200 1
burro

Gunan
    $200 16
oysters

Gunan
    $200 30
chicken

Karla
    $200 5
Loki

Emmie
    $400 18
(Ken: Yes, Pearl Harbor.)

December

Emmie
    $400 12
Stonehenge

Gunan
    $400 2
udder

Gunan
    $400 22
beef

Emmie
    $400 29
cross section

Emmie
    $400 6
(Sterling) Archer

Gunan
    $600 19
(Ken: Yes, inauguration used to be in [*].)

March

Karla
    $600 13
(Ken: Yes, if all goes well he's about to be [**]).

the Giant Slayer (a giant killer)

Karla
    $600 3
creed

Emmie
    $600 23
(Gunan: What is caribou?)
(Karla: What is reindeer?)

a moose

KarlaGunan
Triple Stumper
    $600 28
cross the street

Emmie
    $600 7
Frasier

Gunan
    $800 20
(Ken: 5th of [*], you got it.)

November

Karla
    $1,000 14
Lady Godiva

Karla
    $800 4
to cobble

Karla
    $800 24
(Gunan: What are pumpkins?)

melons

Gunan
Triple Stumper
    $800 27
the Distinguished Flying Cross

Triple Stumper
    $800 8
Dexter

Karla
    $1000 21
(Ken: Tet is Vietnamese New Year, so this was [*].)

January

Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
Joseph of Arimathea

Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
vassals

Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
saffron

Gunan
    $1000 26
Worcester

Karla
    $1000 9
House (M.D.)

Karla

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

Emmie Karla Gunan
$800 $4,200 $2,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Emmie Karla Gunan
$2,600 $6,400 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BOOKS OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA
SPELLING THEIR EGOTS
METALLIC EXPRESSIONS
THE LIFE OF PABLO
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
PLACES FROM A TO A
    $400 22
Jules Verne

Gunan
    $400 7
Whoopi Goldberg

Karla
    $400 1
ironclad

Emmie
    $400 30
an Afghan Hound

Emmie
    $400 17
Sam Houston

Gunan
    $400 12
Argentina

Emmie
    $4,000 23
(Gunan: Who is Clara Barton?)
(Ken: Oh, no, I'm sorry, she wrote about her and her sisters in Little Women; it's [*].)

Louisa May Alcott

Gunan
    $800 8
Mel Brooks

Triple Stumper
    $800 2
silver bullet

Gunan
    $800 29
Chile

Gunan
    $800 18
Florida

Karla
    $800 13
Agra

Gunan
    $1200 24
Ireland

Karla
    $1200 9
Rita Moreno

Karla
    $1200 3
Copperheads

Triple Stumper
    $1200 6
Zapata

Karla
    $1200 19
Berklee

Karla
    $1200 14
Algeria

Karla
    $1600 25
(Horatio) Alger

Gunan
    $1600 10
The Way We Were

Triple Stumper
    $1600 4
(Ken: Yeah, do you wanna try it?)
[Gunan chuckles and poses.]
(Ken: I guess you kind of were right, though, it's good, it's good.)
[Laughter]

Blue Steel

Gunan
    $1600 28
(Pablo) Escobar

Gunan
    $2,000 20
Kent State

Karla
    $1600 15
the Atacama

Gunan
    $2000 26
William Makepeace Thackeray

Triple Stumper
    $2000 11
(Gunan: Who is Common?)
...
(Ken: Common's collaborator, yes, [*].)

John Legend

KarlaGunan
    $2000 5
Tinhorns

Triple Stumper
    $2000 27
Franco

Gunan
    $2000 21
(Ken: Named for Elizabeth Ann Seton, that's [*].)

Seton Hall

Triple Stumper
    $2000 16
Anatolia

Emmie

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Emmie Karla Gunan
$5,800 $17,600 $7,600
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

INAUGURAL BALLS
(Ken: [To Karla] No, that is a Paul Simon song and it's a banger, but in this case, this 1993 Tennessee ball was to honor Al Gore, who had just been inaugurated as vice president, so Paul Simon played his most recent Top 40 hit, [*].)
EmmieWhat is ?
$4,000
GunanWhat is Walking in Memphis
$4,001
KarlaWhat is Me and Julio Down by the School yard
$1,000
"You Can Call Me Al"

Final scores:

Emmie Karla Gunan
$1,800 $16,600 $3,599
3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $16,600 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Emmie Karla Gunan
$5,800 $17,000 $11,600
10 R,
0 W		 19 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W		 18 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $34,400

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Game tape date: 2022-05-16
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