Responses for Show #8921 - Monday, July 24, 2023

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Ian Foutz, a teacher from Camarillo, California

Simona Fine, a graduate student from Great Neck, New York

Taylor Clagett, a marketing director originally from Chesapeake Beach, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,800)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

STATES' HIGHEST POINTS
SPACE MEN & WOMEN
WELCOME TO OUR FRUIT STAND
ALPHABETICALLY FIRST
UNIFORM NUMBERS
THE "END" ZONE
    $200 28
Indiana

Taylor
    $200 26
Space Shuttle

Ian
    $200 24
dates

Taylor
    $200 27
the Milwaukee Bucks

Taylor
    $200 30
Kobe Bryant

Taylor
    $200 20
bookend

Taylor
    $400 22
Arizona

Triple Stumper
    $400 25
South Korea

Ian
    $400 23
passion fruit

Simona
    $400 21
(Ian: What is Huron?)

Erie

SimonaIan
    $400 29
Love

Taylor
    $400 19
endearment

Taylor
    $600 10
Denali

Simona
    $600 3
"Space Oddity"

Ian
    $600 2
pears

Ian
    $600 17
eighth

Triple Stumper
    $600 15
(Ken: I don't remember what number he wore on Jeopardy!)

Aaron Rodgers

Taylor
    $600 18
contend

Taylor
    $800 9
New Mexico

Triple Stumper
    $800 4
Apollo 13

Ian
    $800 8
cranberries

Taylor
    $2,300 16
Deuteronomy

Taylor
    $800 14
(Taylor: What is Cal Ripken?)
(Ken: No, I'm sorry.)
(Taylor: Junior.)
(Ian: What is 3?)
[ERRATUM: Uniform No. 0 is a single-digit number that was issued to a Yankees player at the time this game taped and aired.]

the Yankees

TaylorIan
Triple Stumper
    $800 7
dividend

Simona
    $1000 1
(Taylor: What is... Mauna Lea?)
(Ian: What is Mauna Loa?)

Mauna Kea

TaylorSimonaIan
    $1000 5
Mir

Taylor
    $1000 11
apple

Taylor
    $1000 12
Antietam

Taylor
    $1000 13
Mario Lemieux

Ian
    $1000 6
a spendthrift

Ian

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

Taylor Simona Ian
$2,600 $2,400 $2,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Taylor Simona Ian
$7,300 $3,200 $2,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

MUSICAL WORKS
MY WOULD-BE VP
(Ken: You'll name the presidential candidate.)
STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS
INTERNATIONAL BOOKS
HOSTEL
MAKEOVERS
    $400 26
Scotland

Triple Stumper
    $400 27
McCain

Taylor
    $400 22
scrubs

Ian
    $400 21
(Simona: Who is Gogol?)

Dostoevsky

Simona
Triple Stumper
    $400 20
Hasselhoff

Taylor
    $400 15
Pimp My Ride

Taylor
    $800 29
Handel

Triple Stumper
    $800 28
(Ian: Who is, uh... who's...)
...
(Ken: How soon we forget.)

Mitt Romney

Ian
Triple Stumper
    $800 23
(Ian: What is [**]?)
[Originally ruled incorrect; reversed before Final Jeopardy!]

shredding (thrashing)

SimonaIan
    $800 25
(Taylor: What's The Stranger?)

The Plague

TaylorSimona
    $800 19
surfing

Taylor
    $800 14
Brendan Fraser

Ian
    $1200 30
Grand Canyon Suite

Triple Stumper
    $1200 8
Dukakis

Triple Stumper
    $1200 6
a threshing machine

Triple Stumper
    $1200 16
Windsor

Taylor
    $1200 1
Castaway

Taylor
    $1200 13
She's All That

Ian
    $100 7
(Taylor: Who is Stradivarius?)

Paganini

Taylor
    $100 18
(Taylor: Uh, no idea.)
...
(Ken: It was [*]; he was [*]'s running mate...)
(Taylor: Perfect.)
(Ken: ...in 1960--the right wager again, I guess.)
(Taylor: Yeah.)

Nixon

Taylor
    $1600 5
a stretcher

Taylor
    $1600 24
Mao

Simona
    $1600 2
(Ken: In Morocco, right.)

the Atlas Mountains

Taylor
    $1600 11
Steve Carell

Taylor
    $2000 17
(Taylor: What is Pictures at the Exhibition?)

Pictures at an Exhibition

Taylor
Triple Stumper
    $2000 12
Thomas Dewey

Triple Stumper
    $2000 4
phrenology

Taylor
    $2000 9
(Simona: What is the Czech Republic?)
...
(Ken: It was still [*] at that time, Simona, I'm sorry.)

Czechoslovakia

Simona
Triple Stumper
    $2000 3
Tulum

Taylor
    $2000 10
Stefan Urquelle

Ian

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Taylor Simona Ian
$17,500 $4,000 $6,800
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY
(Ken: [To Taylor] Yes, it's right off the equator.)
[Taylor was going to write "Knibb High Football Rules!", an Adam Sandler line from Billy Madison.]
SimonaWhat is M Senegal?
$2,500
IanWhat is Sierra Leone?
$1,300
TaylorWhat is Knibb high Equatorial Guinea
$3,500
Equatorial Guinea

Final scores:

Taylor Simona Ian
$21,000 $1,500 $5,500
2-day champion: $31,800 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Taylor Simona Ian
$16,200 $4,000 $6,800
25 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W
(including 2 DDs)
8 R,
2 W
12 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $27,000

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Game tape date: 2023-05-19
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