Responses for Show #8854 - Thursday, April 20, 2023

Contestants

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Emma Hill Kepron, a librarian from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Sam Claussen, a history professor from Santa Clarita, California

Devin Lohman, an architectural designer and masters student from Peachtree City, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $1,200)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

HISTORY
LITERARY FRUIT STAND
FLYING COLORS
MISSING U
(Ken: Your response will include the "U"s that we've left out of the clue.)
'80s & '90s R&B SONGS
MY PREROGATIVE
    $200 6
Grant

Devin
    $200 25
Woodstock

Sam
    $200 23
jet blue

Triple Stumper
    $200 11
tutu

Sam
    $200 30
(Ken: R.I.P. [*].)

Prince

Emma
    $200 13
the Secret Service

Devin
    $400 4
paper

Emma
    $400 24
bananas

Emma
    $400 18
Southwest

Emma
    $400 10
Uranus

Sam
    $400 29
(Ken: That is correct and the final clue...)
(Emma: Bring it.)

Destiny's Child

Emma
    $400 16
Miranda

Sam
    $600 3
(Ken: Correct, from the history professor.)

hemophilia

Sam
    $600 22
A Clockwork Orange

Sam
    $600 19
Aer Lingus

Devin
    $600 9
a eunuch

Sam
    $600 28
Bobby Brown

Triple Stumper
    $600 14
eminent domain

Devin
    $800 1
Mussolini

Devin
    $800 5
Dr. Seuss

Sam
    $2,400 20
(Devin: What is... Polynesian Air?)

Hawaiian Airlines

Devin
    $800 7
Urdu

Sam
    $800 27
TLC

Emma
    $800 15
a patient

Sam
    $1000 2
the Franks

Sam
    $1000 21
(Devin: What is If Beale Street Could Talk?)
...
(Ken: Her book The House on [*].)

Mango Street

Devin
Triple Stumper
    $1000 17
El Al

Emma
    $1000 8
uvula

Emma
    $1000 26
Lionel Richie

Emma
    $1000 12
a bishop

Emma

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

Devin Sam Emma
$1,800 $5,200 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Devin Sam Emma
-$1,000 $6,400 $6,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

FACE THE POLITICIAN
GLOBETROTTING
REPTILES
"P"OTPOURRI
TRIPLE HOMOPHONES
REMEMBERING BARBARA WALTERS
    $400 22
McConnell

Sam
    $400 29
(Ken: Yes, from Jame Joyce's Ulysses.)

Dublin

Emma
    $400 30
(Devin: What is a boa constrictor?)

an anaconda

DevinSam
    $400 19
Pythagoras

Devin
    $400 18
[Laughter from Ken and audience since Sam is bald]

bald/bawled/balled

Sam
    $400 28
The View

Sam
    $800 21
Schumer

Sam
    $800 23
Nigeria

Devin
    $800 20
a gecko

Sam
    $800 12
plutonium

Devin
    $800 14
pair/pare/pear

Emma
    $800 27
Christopher Reeve

Emma
    $1200 8
Susan Collins

Sam
    $1200 1
the Pyrenees

Devin
    $1200 5
a horned toad

Sam
    $1200 11
Pietà

Sam
    $1200 15
need/knead/kneed

Devin
    $1200 24
Castro

Emma
    $1600 6
(Chris) Sununu

Sam
    $2,000 2
(Ken: He fled to [*], that is correct.)

Medina

Devin
    $3,200 4
(Ken: The Cayman Islands, yes.)

a caiman

Devin
    $1600 10
petard

Sam
    $1600 16
pique/peek/peak

Emma
    $1600 25
Sarah Lawrence

Triple Stumper
    $2000 7
Hochul

Sam
    $2000 3
Bolivia

Devin
    $2000 13
a Draco lizard

Triple Stumper
    $2000 9
puce

Emma
    $2000 17
farrow/farro/pharaoh

Triple Stumper
    $2000 26
20/20

Emma

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Devin Sam Emma
$10,200 $18,400 $15,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MODERN WORDS
(Ken: In Neal Stephenson's novel--it's a cyberpunk work; he coined the word [*] and Facebook, of course, is now Meta.)
DevinWhat is powder?
$8,300
EmmaWhat is uber?
$4,000
SamWhat is avalanche?
$12,401
metaverse

Final scores:

Devin Sam Emma
$1,900 $5,999 $11,400
3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $11,400

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Devin Sam Emma
$10,600 $18,400 $15,400
13 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 23 R,
0 W		 17 R,
0 W

Combined Coryat: $44,400

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Game tape date: 2023-02-07
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