Responses for Show #8832 - Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Melissa Klapper game 2.

Contestants

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Charlotte Diffendale, a letter carrier from Albany, New York

Brandon Anderson, a communications director from Columbus, Ohio

Melissa Klapper, a professor from Merion Station, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,801)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

MADE IN PENNSYLVANIA
TO THE MOUNTAINTOP!
THE 1980s
A.K.A.
IT'S A JOKE
4-LETTER "V"ERBS
    $200 15
Peeps

Charlotte
    $200 11
Mount Rainier

Charlotte
    $200 10
Sarah Ferguson

Charlotte
    $200 2
a marionette

Melissa
    $200 21
a paper route

Melissa
    $200 26
vent

Melissa
    $400 16
Crayola

Charlotte
    $400 20
Mount Fuji

Charlotte
    $400 5
human immunodeficiency virus

Charlotte
    $400 6
Neo

Charlotte
    $400 30
(Brandon: Who are [*]?)
(Ken: What or who are [*] is correct.)
[Brandon chuckles]

dogs

Brandon
    $400 25
veer

Brandon
    $600 17
guitars

Brandon
    $600 12
(Brandon: What's the continental shelf?)
...
(Ken: The Seven Summits are the highest points on each continent--this is [*].)

Denali

Brandon
Triple Stumper
    $600 1
East Germany

Brandon
    $600 7
(Charlotte: [Sighs] Sorry.)
(Brandon: What's... nah.)

a thumbtack

BrandonCharlotte
Triple Stumper
    $600 29
Ricky Gervais

Brandon
    $600 22
void

Brandon
    $800 18
Zippo

Brandon
    $1,000 13
Mont Blanc

Charlotte
    $800 3
Libya

Brandon
    $800 8
whalebone

Triple Stumper
    $800 28
Yom Kippur

Brandon
    $800 23
vend

Brandon
    $1000 19
Pyrex

Charlotte
    $1000 14
Ararat

Charlotte
    $1000 4
(Brandon: What's Big Bell? Or Bell Industry?)

Ma Bell

MelissaBrandon
    $1000 9
belladonna

Melissa
    $1000 27
(Ken: A little bit mean, he suggested Zach might stick to egg [*].)

yellows

Triple Stumper
    $1000 24
veil

Melissa

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

Melissa Brandon Charlotte
$2,200 -$800 $2,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Melissa Brandon Charlotte
$3,600 $4,200 $4,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

TV & MOVIE CITIES
BOOKS: THE FUTURE IS NOW
2-WORD TERMS
THE LIFE SCIENCES
ETYMOLOGY
I LOVE A MAN IN CUNEIFORM
    $400 6
Rome

Melissa
    $400 5
(Ken: Yes, we're already late to [*].)

Mars

Brandon
    $400 21
minimum wage

Charlotte
    $400 15
blood

Melissa
    $400 29
guerilla

Charlotte
    $400 30
Hammurabi

Melissa
    $800 7
Seattle

Melissa
    $800 4
Metropolis

Melissa
    $5,800 14
a Triple Crown

Charlotte
    $800 22
fungi

Brandon
    $800 20
a disaster

Triple Stumper
    $800 28
Mesopotamia

Charlotte
    $1200 8
London

Melissa
    $1200 3
Richard Bachman

Triple Stumper
    $1200 13
zero gravity

Charlotte
    $1200 23
entomology

Melissa
    $1200 16
(Charlotte: What's semper fi?)

gung ho

Charlotte
Triple Stumper
    $1200 19
a stele (or obelisk)

Melissa
    $1600 9
Philadelphia

Melissa
    $1600 2
(Philip K.) Dick

Melissa
    $1600 12
lactose intolerance

Melissa
    $1600 26
spontaneous generation

Brandon
    $4,000 17
dilettante

Melissa
    $1600 27
Darius the Great

Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
(Ken: He keeps Melissa from the sweep.)

Bangkok

Brandon
    $2000 1
Harlan Ellison

Triple Stumper
    $2000 11
carpe diem

Melissa
    $2000 25
nucleotides

Triple Stumper
    $2000 18
egregious

Charlotte
    $2000 24
Gilgamesh

Melissa

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Melissa Brandon Charlotte
$22,800 $9,000 $14,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MEDIEVAL PLACES
(Ken: [To Brandon] Thinking of the Crusades, I assume?)
[Brandon nods.]
...
(Ken: Our letter carrier, Charlotte Diffendale, was in second place. Did she deliver? Let's see her response. "What is..." Looks like it didn't quite get finished, there.)
(Charlotte: No.)
...
(Ken: This is the murder of Thomas à Becket in 1170, the famous murder in the cathedral, so this took place in [*]. We actually have eyewitness testimony with dialogue even though it was 850 years ago, which is nuts.)
BrandonWhat is The Holy Sepulchre
$9,000
CharlotteWhat is Hasting
$8,801
MelissaWhat is Paris?
$5,201
Canterbury Cathedral

Final scores:

Melissa Brandon Charlotte
$17,599 $0 $5,199
2-day champion: $42,400 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Melissa Brandon Charlotte
$20,400 $9,000 $8,800
20 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 14 R,
3 W		 16 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $38,200

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Game tape date: 2023-01-10
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