Responses for Show #8920 - Friday, July 21, 2023

Contestants

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Taylor Clagett, a marketing director originally from Chesapeake Beach, Maryland

Ben Sasamoto, an environmental consultant from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Nik Berry, a social studies teacher from Baltimore, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,601)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

HAPPY 75th BIRTHDAY, ISRAEL!
SHAKESPEARE
THAT HOLLOW FEELING
THE ROMAINES OF THE DAY
TRACK & FIELD
HOMOPHONE CONNECTION
    $200 11
the menorah

Taylor
    $200 6
(Ken: As in Merchant of, yes.)

Venice

Ben
    $200 24
a cave

Nik
    $200 19
Caesar salad

Nik
    $200 1
the hammer

Ben
    $200 12
(Taylor: What is... to... nothing.)

loan/lone

Taylor
Triple Stumper
    $400 18
bonds

Triple Stumper
    $400 10
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Ben
    $400 25
the Trojan horse

Taylor
    $400 20
(Ben: What is, ahh, Portugal?)

Greece

Ben
Triple Stumper
    $400 2
pole vault

Taylor
    $400 13
dense/dents

Triple Stumper
    $600 17
(Ben: What is the Knesset?)

the Israeli Supreme Court

Ben
Triple Stumper
    $600 9
Iago

Ben
    $600 26
a jack-o'-lantern

Taylor
    $600 21
(Ken: Gonna keep going with the lettuce, Nik?)
(Nik: Why not, ROMAINES for $800.)
(Ken: Lettuce continue.)
[Laughter]

the heart

Triple Stumper
    $600 3
hurdles

Ben
    $600 29
rue/roux

Taylor
    $800 16
Yom Kippur

Nik
    $1,000 7
Falstaff

Ben
    $800 27
cask

Taylor
    $800 22
antipasto

Ben
    $800 4
Felix

Nik
    $800 30
cache/cash

Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
Sephardic

Nik
    $1000 8
Polonius

Triple Stumper
    $1000 28
the balalaika

Taylor
    $1000 23
a Cobb salad

Ben
    $1000 5
(Ken: The "Flying Finn", [*].)

Paavo Nurmi

Triple Stumper
    $1000 14
trussed/trust

Triple Stumper

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

Nik Ben Taylor
$1,800 $3,000 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Nik Ben Taylor
$3,000 $3,800 $3,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

EXPLORERS
INTERNALLY YOURS
OLD HOLLYWOOD SCRIBES
MOTLEY CLUES
STATELY DEMONYMS
ENDS IN "X"
    $400 10
Vitus Bering

Triple Stumper
    $400 28
(Taylor: What is the ventricle?)

the lung(s)

BenTaylor
    $400 29
Alfred Hitchcock

Triple Stumper
    $400 30
mustaches

Taylor
    $400 15
Hawaii

Taylor
    $400 7
(Taylor: What is annex?)

complex

BenTaylor
    $800 8
da Gama

Nik
    $800 27
the trachea

Taylor
    $800 26
Kubrick

Ben
    $800 23
Loch Lomond

Taylor
    $800 14
a wolverine

Ben
    $800 6
Spanx

Ben
    $1200 1
(Taylor: What is Mont Blanc?)

the Matterhorn

Taylor
Triple Stumper
    $1200 25
appendicitis

Ben
    $1200 21
(Joan) Didion

Nik
    $1200 22
fennel

Triple Stumper
    $1200 11
Volunteers

Nik
    $1200 5
deep six

Taylor
    $1600 2
St. Lawrence

Taylor
    $1,200 24
(Taylor: What is... duodenum?)

ileum

Taylor
    $1600 20
The Big Sleep

Ben
    $1600 16
enzymes

Ben
    $5,000 12
(Nik: Empire. What is Empire?)

Knickerbocker

Nik
    $1600 4
the coccyx

Taylor
    $2000 9
(Ben: Who is Peary?)
(Taylor: Who is Scott?)
(Ken: Nik?)
[Nik shakes head.]
(Ken: You gained on them just by sitting there.)

Admiral (Richard) Byrd

BenTaylor
Triple Stumper
    $2000 19
(Nik: What is Brachia?)
...
(Ken: You were close, Nik, it's called [*].)

Broca's area

Nik
Triple Stumper
    $2000 18
Kim Philby

Triple Stumper
    $2000 17
Greenbacks (Greenback Party)

Nik
    $2000 13
Nutmeggers

Triple Stumper
    $2000 3
phlox

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Nik Ben Taylor
$1,200 $9,400 $5,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

NUMBERS OLD & NEW
(Ken: [To Taylor] M plus D plus C plus L, X, V, I gets you to [*].)
...
(Ken: [To Ben] Oh, he missed 1,000; so close.)
NikWhat is 2166?
$17
TaylorWhat 1,666?
$5,400
BenWhat 666
$3,000
1,666

Final scores:

Nik Ben Taylor
$1,183 $6,400 $10,800
3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $10,800

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Nik Ben Taylor
$6,200 $9,200 $6,600
9 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 14 R,
6 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $22,000

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Game tape date: 2023-05-18
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