Responses for Show #8788 - Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Contestants

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Alec Wang, a real estate analyst from Avon, Connecticut

Erin Portman, a high school English teacher from Naperville, Illinois

Vince Bacani, a risk manager from Montreal, Quebec, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,000)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 1890s
WOMEN OF SCIENCE
A COLLEGE / TOWN
SONGS OF THE 2010s
SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER
SIX PACK
    $200 29
St. Patrick's Day

Erin
    $200 15
a core

Vince
    $200 22
Athens

Vince
    $200 28
treble

Erin
    $200 13
a reaper

Vince
    $200 23
Rhode Island

Vince
    $400 19
the boll weevil

Vince
    $400 14
(Alec: What is global warming?)

the greenhouse effect

VinceAlec
    $400 21
Ithaca

Erin
    $400 25
Africa

Alec
    $400 8
a deed

Vince
    $400 12
Economics

Erin
    $600 16
Muir

Erin
    $600 1
machine learning

Erin
    $600 4
(Alec: What is Santa Fe University?)

Albuquerque

VinceAlec
    $600 24
"Old Town Road"

Erin
    $600 7
elite

Erin
    $600 11
Northern Ireland

Erin
    $800 17
Wilde

Erin
    $800 2
leprosy (Hansen's disease)

Triple Stumper
    $800 27
Baton Rouge

Alec
    $800 20
Nicki Minaj

Erin
    $800 5
a noggin

Erin
    $800 9
(Alec: What is Mexico?)
(Erin: What is the Republic of Texas?)
(Vince: What is Spain?)
(Ken: No, no harm, no foul; after Mexico and the Republic of Texas it was part of [*].)

the Confederacy

VinceErinAlec
Triple Stumper
    $3,600 18
the (Modern) Olympic Games

Erin
    $1000 3
a plesiosaur

Alec
    $1000 30
(Erin: What is Charlotteville?)

Charlottesville

Erin
Triple Stumper
    $1000 26
"Despacito"

Erin
    $1000 6
labial

Vince
    $1000 10
Anne of Cleves

Vince

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

Vince Erin Alec
$3,000 $2,200 -$800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Vince Erin Alec
$3,800 $9,400 $400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

KNOW YOUR BOUNDARIES
BLANK VERSE
LONG-SERVING POLITICIANS
NEWSPAPER NAMES
ELEMENTAL RESPONSES
(Ken: Each one beginning with an element.)
MOVIES THAT MATTER
    $400 15
the Rio Grande

Vince
    $400 20
(Vince: Boy, could I use some.)
[Laughter]

liquor

Vince
    $400 18
(Vince: Who is Kennedy?)
(Ken: More specifically?)

Ted Kennedy

Vince
    $400 23
Le Monde

Erin
    $400 3
silverware

Alec
    $400 1
Philadelphia

Alec
    $800 14
(Erin: What is the Volga?)

the Danube

Erin
Triple Stumper
    $800 21
beauty

Vince
    $800 27
Fort Worth

Alec
    $800 24
Hindi

Vince
    $800 5
the Argonauts

Vince
    $800 2
SeaWorld

Erin
    $1200 13
Cape Horn

Erin
    $1200 10
Mudville

Vince
    $1200 29
Governor Jerry Brown

Triple Stumper
    $1200 28
truth

Vince
    $1200 17
a tinderbox

Erin
    $1200 4
An Inconvenient Truth

Erin
    $1600 11
(Vince: What is Yugoslavia?)

Poland

Vince
Triple Stumper
    $1600 9
death

Triple Stumper
    $1600 30
(Vince: Who is Rockefeller?)
(Ken: More specifically?)

Nelson Rockefeller

Vince
    $6,399 26
the (Daily) Telegraph

Vince
    $1600 16
goldenseal

Triple Stumper
    $1600 22
Selma

Erin
    $2000 12
(Alec: What is Lake Victoria?)

Lake Tanganyika

ErinAlec
    $2000 8
Michelangelo

Erin
    $2000 19
(Alec: What is Columbus?)

Toledo

ErinAlec
    $2000 25
the Nikkei

Vince
    $4,600 6
(Vince: What is the Copper Age?)

the Carboniferous Period

Vince
    $2000 7
The Best Years of Our Lives

Vince

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Vince Erin Alec
$15,599 $21,000 -$2,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY
(Ken: [To Vince] Yes, Increase Mather was a minister.)
VinceWhat are witches?
$5,402
ErinWhat are witches?
$10,201
witches

Final scores:

Vince Erin Alec
$21,001 $31,201 -$2,000
2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $31,201 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Vince Erin Alec
$15,400 $18,400 -$2,000
22 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 23 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 6 R,
5 W

Combined Coryat: $31,800

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Game tape date: 2022-11-16
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