Responses for Show #8760 - Friday, December 9, 2022

Contestants

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Matthew Ott, an accountant originally from Boston, Massachusetts

Ellen LaBerge, a lawyer from Syracuse, New York

Sriram Krishnan, a consultant from Falls Church, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,800)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

PLACES NAMED FOR PEOPLE
PUT IN A GOOD WORD
TABLE TALK
SONG TITLE TITLES
SHE BLINDED ME
SCIENCE!
    $200 28
Raleigh

Sriram
    $200 29
marvelous

Ellen
    $200 30
a bargaining table

Sriram
    $200 5
King

Sriram
    $200 25
Sandra Bullock

Ellen
    $200 23
a light year

Sriram
    $400 27
India

Ellen
    $400 15
Excel

Ellen
    $400 26
(Gloria) Estefan

Sriram
    $400 1
Presidents

Triple Stumper
    $400 24
Athena

Ellen
    $400 22
the stratosphere

Matthew
    $600 6
(Matthew: Who is George?)
(Ken: More specifically?)

George III

Matthew
    $600 9
precious

Matthew
    $600 10
the Round Table

Ellen
    $600 2
Duke

Sriram
    $600 11
The Walking Dead

Matthew
    $600 16
metamorphic

Ellen
    $800 7
Edison

Sriram
    $2,600 19
(Sriram: What is...)
[Time's up]
(Sriram: Mother?)

Superior

Sriram
    $800 17
Mensa

Ellen
    $800 3
Princes

Matthew
    $800 12
a Philistine

Triple Stumper
    $800 21
spleen

Triple Stumper
    $1000 8
(Sriram: Oh...)
(Ellen: [*]? Oh, who is [*]?)

Khomeini

SriramEllen
    $1000 14
sterling

Sriram
    $1000 18
a periodic table

Sriram
    $1000 4
Queen

Matthew
    $1000 13
the Earl of Gloucester

Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
Archimedes

Matthew

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

Sriram Ellen Matthew
$1,600 $2,000 $3,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Sriram Ellen Matthew
$1,000 $4,600 $5,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

HISTORY
RUSSIAN WRITERS
"P"OTPOURRI
COMPANY NAME ORIGINS
TV FINAL EPISODES
STATE POSTAL ABBREVIATION WORDS
(Ken: Our clue will lead you to a 4-letter word but you'll have to give us the two states whose postal codes combine to form that 4-letter word.)
    $400 20
Ferdinand & Isabella

Matthew
    $400 26
Lolita

Sriram
    $400 25
a piranha

Ellen
    $400 15
(Ken: Very good, I didn't know that one.)
[Laughter]

H&R Block

Ellen
    $400 10
Friday Night Lights

Sriram
    $400 5
(Ken: Yes, "wand", that wasn't hard at all.)

Washington & North Dakota

Sriram
    $800 21
(Matthew: Who are the Avignon popes?)
(Sriram: Who are the Avignon popes?)

the antipopes

SriramMatthew
Triple Stumper
    $800 27
(Ellen: What is The Cherry Orchard?)
...
(Ken: Uncle George became [*].)

Uncle Vanya

Ellen
Triple Stumper
    $800 19
(Ellen: What is Pantagonia?)

Patagonia

EllenMatthew
    $800 14
(Ken: Yeah, it's an acronym.)

Qantas

Matthew
    $800 9
Silicon Valley

Sriram
    $800 3
(Ken: Spelling "Cain", yes.)

California & Indiana

Sriram
    $1200 22
(Ken: That was George [*] of [*]'s Charge fame.)

(George) Pickett

Triple Stumper
    $1200 28
nihilism

Ellen
    $1200 11
(Matthew: Who is Pagliacci?)

Pierrot

Matthew
Triple Stumper
    $2,000 12
(Ken: From veritas, yes.)

Verizon

Sriram
    $1200 6
Mandy Moore

Matthew
    $1200 1
(Ken: For "scar", right.)

South Carolina & Arkansas

Ellen
    $1600 23
Constantine the Great

Triple Stumper
    $1600 29
Tolstoy

Ellen
    $1600 16
pandemonium

Sriram
    $1600 13
(Ken: Founded in San Francisco, that's [*].)

Cisco Systems

Triple Stumper
    $1600 7
Pose

Matthew
    $1600 2
(Ken: Lava, you got it.)

Louisiana & Virginia

Sriram
    $2000 24
Mother Jones

Sriram
    $2000 30
(Ellen: Oh... who is...)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Ellen
Triple Stumper
    $2000 17
(Harold) Pinter

Sriram
    $2000 18
government employees

Sriram
    $3,800 8
(Ken: We have spoiled the ending of [*] for those who didn't see it.)

Killing Eve

Matthew
    $2000 4
(Ken: "Pane", you got it.)

Pennsylvania & Nebraska

Ellen

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Sriram Ellen Matthew
$14,200 $7,800 $11,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

1970s MOVIES
(Ken: [To Ellen] Yes, the clip-clop of horse's hooves in the movies are coconuts striking on each other.)
...
(Ken: [To Sriram] Hey, you thought of a fruit-themed '70s comedy.)
EllenWhat is "Monty Python & the Holy Grail"?
$7,000
MatthewWhat is Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
$11,597
SriramWhat is Bananas?
$10,000
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Final scores:

Sriram Ellen Matthew
$4,200 $14,800 $23,197
3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $23,197

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Sriram Ellen Matthew
$16,000 $7,800 $9,800
20 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 15 R,
3 W		 13 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $33,600

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Game tape date: 2022-10-12
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