Responses for Show #8731 - Monday, October 31, 2022

2022 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

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Maureen O'Neil, an executive assistant from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Megan Wachspress, an environmental attorney from Berkeley, California

Ryan Long, a rideshare driver from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Jeopardy! Round responses

YOU'RE THE BEST AROUND
STREETS OF AMERICA
HOBBY SUPPLIES
CONDUCTING THE HISTORIC JOB INTERVIEW
'90s FILMS
FROM EAR TO FRATERNITY
(Ken: Responses will come between those two words in the dictionary.)
    $200 19
George W. Bush

Maureen
    $200 17
(Ryan: YOU'RE THE BEST AROUND for $1000.)
(Ken: Thank you.)
[Laughter]

New Orleans

Ryan
    $200 26
sleeves

Maureen
    $200 30
Charlemagne

Megan
    $200 29
Judgment Day

Ryan
    $200 10
an easel

Ryan
    $400 1
Rushmore

Ryan
    $400 23
Boston

Maureen
    $400 8
a nib

Maureen
    $400 4
Wild Bill Hickok

Triple Stumper
    $400 28
Ghost

Maureen
    $400 11
franchise

Maureen
    $600 2
(Ryan: What is, uh, Starbucks?)

Seattle's Best Coffee

Ryan
Triple Stumper
    $600 22
San Diego

Maureen
    $600 16
a photographer

Megan
    $600 5
(Ryan: Who is Havel?)

Gorbachev

Ryan
Triple Stumper
    $600 27
Friday

Ryan
    $600 13
a frappé

Triple Stumper
    $800 3
(Ryan: What is a... Bolshoi?)
(Ken: No.)
(Ryan: Old--bodoli--)
(Maureen: What is a husky?)

a Samoyed

RyanMaureen
Triple Stumper
    $1,000 21
Brigham Young

Megan
    $800 25
glaze

Megan
    $800 6
Frederick Douglass

Triple Stumper
    $800 12
The Iron Giant

Ryan
    $800 14
echelon

Triple Stumper
    $1000 18
(Megan: Who is Voltaire?)
(Ryan: Uh, who is Kant?)
...
(Ken: Voltaire did use the phrase in Candide, but he based it on [*].)

Gottfried Leibniz

RyanMegan
Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
Pittsburgh

Megan
    $1000 24
macramé

Maureen
    $1000 7
(Mary Baker) Eddy

Ryan
    $1000 9
The Blair Witch Project

Megan
    $1000 15
effusive

Ryan

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

Ryan Megan Maureen
$1,400 $1,000 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ryan Megan Maureen
$1,400 $3,600 $2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BOOK SEQUELS
FIVE CHANCES
TELEVISION
THIS CATEGORY IS CONFUSING
HEAVENLY BODIES
A PARLIAMENT OF VOWELS
    $400 9
Tom Sawyer

Ryan
    $400 24
Deuteronomy

Megan
    $400 25
black-ish

Maureen
    $400 20
shook up

Maureen
    $400 14
Moon

Megan
    $400 4
the Diet

Triple Stumper
    $800 10
Chariots

Maureen
    $800 5
the pentathlon

Triple Stumper
    $800 28
Smallville

Ryan
    $800 1
an enigma

Maureen
    $800 15
a pulsar

Megan
    $800 19
the Bundestag

Triple Stumper
    $1200 13
Jo's Boys

Megan
    $1200 6
a magpie

Megan
    $1200 26
Days of Our Lives

Maureen
    $1200 23
stump

Megan
    $1200 16
a dwarf planet

Megan
    $1200 30
(Ken: That would be the world's first parliament, [*] of Iceland.)

the Althing

Triple Stumper
    $1600 12
Tracy Flick

Ryan
    $1600 7
(Megan: Who is Grandmaster Funk?)

Grandmaster Flash

RyanMegan
    $1600 27
Flipper

Megan
    $1600 22
(Ryan: Uh, what is... oh... foggy?)
...
(Ken: We needed the superlative, yes.)

foggiest

RyanMegan
    $2,000 17
(Megan: What is the... illumination?)

the photosphere

Megan
    $2,000 29
(Ryan: Ooh, uh... mm... I don't know; couldn't begin to guess.)

the Knesset

Ryan
    $2000 11
The Eagle Has Landed

Maureen
    $2000 8
(Megan: What is quatrefoil?)

a cinquefoil

Megan
Triple Stumper
    $2000 3
(Ken: Yes, she's fantastic.)

Natasha Lyonne

Ryan
    $2000 21
nonplussed

Triple Stumper
    $2000 18
Cassiopeia

Megan
    $2000 2
Duma

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ryan Megan Maureen
$4,200 $9,600 $8,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

PLACES IN AMERICAN HISTORY
(Ken: [To Ryan] Later the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux by U.S. Army troops.)
RyanWhat is Wounded Knee?
$4,200
MaureenWhat is Wounded Knee?
$8,399
MeganWhat is Dakota?
$7,201
Wounded Knee

Final scores:

Ryan Megan Maureen
$8,400 $2,399 $16,799
2nd place: $5,000 3rd place: $5,000 Winner: semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ryan Megan Maureen
$6,200 $11,400 $8,400
13 R,
6 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 14 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $26,000

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Game tape date: 2022-09-20
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