Responses for Show #8909 - Thursday, July 6, 2023

Contestants

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Carol Oppenheim, a retired computer programmer from Owings Mills, Maryland

Alex Gordon, a medical student from Somers, New York

Anji Nyquist, a social media coordinator from Minneapolis, Minnesota (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,800)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

MYTH MISERY
A TV SERIES
SO I'M READING THIS BOOK
ANTIQUES
ROAD
"SHOW"
    $200 21
Medusa

Alex
    $200 1
Patrick Stewart

Carol
    $200 9
The Da Vinci Code

Anji
    $200 23
Stradivarius

Alex
    $200 10
the Las Vegas Strip (Las Vegas Boulevard)

Triple Stumper
    $200 11
a showdown

Carol
    $400 19
Hera

Alex
    $400 2
SVU

Alex
    $400 5
The Hobbit

Alex
    $400 24
(Alex: What are dresses?)

chairs

AlexCarol
    $400 13
the Appian Way

Alex
    $400 12
(Alex: What is a trick show?)

show jumping

Alex
Triple Stumper
    $600 17
Prometheus

Alex
    $600 3
Jay Leno

Anji
    $600 6
Bridget Jones's Diary

Triple Stumper
    $600 25
a tintype

Triple Stumper
    $600 28
(Alex: What is 66? Route 66?)

I-10

Alex
Triple Stumper
    $600 14
a gun show

Alex
    $800 18
Sisyphus

Anji
    $800 4
Archer

Alex
    $800 7
(Carol: What is How to Win Friends and Influence People?)

The Power of Positive Thinking

Carol
Triple Stumper
    $800 26
(Alex: What is emperor?)
(Ken: More specifically?)

emperor of China (the Chinese emperor)

Alex
    $2,600 29
(Carol: What is Havana?)

Barcelona

Carol
    $800 15
a dog & pony show

Carol
    $1000 20
Artemis

Alex
    $1000 8
The Mountain (Gregor Clegane)

Anji
    $1000 16
Leaves of Grass

Alex
    $1000 27
a carriage clock

Carol
    $1000 30
Singapore

Triple Stumper
    $1000 22
the Wild West Show

Carol

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

Anji Alex Carol
$1,800 $2,200 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Anji Alex Carol
$2,600 $5,400 $200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

GEOGRAPHIC ANAGRAMS
(Ken: One of the words in each clue will be an anagram of the response we're going for.)
THE MAIN INGREDIENT
SCIENCE
10-LETTER ADJECTIVES
NAMES IN HISTORY
SOME "HARD" SONGS
    $400 6
Athens (from hasten)

Triple Stumper
    $400 1
(Carol: What is tuna?)

green beans

AnjiCarol
    $400 11
the Moon

Alex
    $400 17
bottomless

Alex
    $400 27
James I

Alex
    $400 4
"A Hard Day's Night"

Alex
    $800 7
Tonga (from tango)

Carol
    $800 2
(Alex: What is ham?)

pork

AlexCarol
    $800 13
hyenas

Alex
    $800 25
granulated

Alex
    $800 26
(Carol: What is ben Maimon?)
...
(Ken: Less than a minute, Alex.)

Moses

Carol
Triple Stumper
    $800 19
"The Harder They Come"

Triple Stumper
    $1200 8
the Rhine (from Henri)

Carol
    $1200 3
(Carol: What is chicken?)

cheese

AnjiCarol
    $1200 12
plasma

Carol
    $2,500 15
tangential

Alex
    $1200 18
(Ken: Yeah, Louisa May [*]'s dad.)

Alcott

Anji
    $1200 20
"She Works Hard For The Money"

Carol
    $1600 5
Skye (from keys)

Carol
    $1600 28
the eggplant

Alex
    $1600 10
fiber optics

Carol
    $1600 16
hedonistic

Carol
    $5,000 23
Cicero

Alex
    $1600 21
"Hard Knock Life"

Anji
    $2000 9
Niger (from reign)

Alex
    $2000 30
(Carol: What are snails?)
(Alex: What is chicken?)

scallops

AlexCarol
Triple Stumper
    $2000 14
the mitochondria

Alex
    $2000 24
deadlocked

Alex
    $2000 29
Quisling

Carol
    $2000 22
"Harder To Breathe"

Alex

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Anji Alex Carol
$7,000 $22,900 $7,800
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round responses

20th CENTURY LIT
(Ken: [To Carol] Some have read [*] as an allegory about Communism and Christianity but Richard Adams's family said it's just about bunnies.)
AnjiWhat is?
$7,000
CarolWhat is Watership Down?
$6,201
AlexWhat is Watership Down?
$2,100
Watership Down

Final scores:

Anji Alex Carol
$0 $25,000 $14,001
3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $25,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Anji Alex Carol
$7,000 $18,200 $10,400
8 R,
0 W		 25 R
(including 2 DDs),
5 W		 15 R,
6 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $35,600

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Game tape date: 2023-05-16
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