Responses for Show #9050 - Friday, March 1, 2024

2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 6.

Contestants

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Josh Saak, a traffic engineer from Boise, Idaho

Brian Henegar, a guest services agent from LaFollette, Tennessee

Stephen Webb, a data scientist from Longmont, Colorado

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Jeopardy! Round responses

PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES
GETTING SEAL-Y
FOOD, FAST
POP CULTURE PRINCESSES
DECADES
RHYMES WITH RHYME
    $200 26
Bethlehem

Brian
    $200 29
(Brian: Bring it!)

seal the deal

Brian
    $200 23
(Brian: What are crumpets?)
...
(Ken: Crumpet adjacent--they're [*].)

scones

Brian
Triple Stumper
    $200 30
(Ken: Brian must be an Xbox guy; he didn't know his Mario characters.)
[Laughter]
(Josh: Sorry, Brian.)

Princess Peach

Josh
    $200 25
the aughts (the aughties)

Josh
    $200 28
a crime

Josh
    $400 24
(Ken: Yeah, detroit means "strait".)

Detroit

Josh
    $400 27
Albany

Josh
    $400 22
(Ken: That's how you make [*], but no one got it "right-a".)
[Laughter]

raita

Triple Stumper
    $400 21
Princess Leia

Brian
    $400 14
the Swinging Sixties

Brian
    $400 13
thyme

Josh
    $1,000 10
(Ken: Stephen?)
(Stephen: What's... Paraguay?)

Nicaragua

Stephen
    $600 20
"Kiss From A Rose"

Josh
    $600 6
chard

Josh
    $600 3
Diaz

Josh
    $600 7
Roaring Twenties

Stephen
    $600 15
slime

Brian
    $800 8
Nairobi

Brian
    $800 19
SEAL Team Six

Stephen
    $800 9
(Brian: What is... an enchilada?)

a chimichanga

StephenBrian
    $800 5
(Ken: Been too long since those movies?)
...
(Brian: It has been too long.)

Genovia

Triple Stumper
    $800 4
the Dirty Thirties

Brian
    $800 16
chime

Brian
    $1000 1
(Stephen: What's, uh, Incheon?)

Pusan

Stephen
Triple Stumper
    $1000 2
elephant seals

Brian
    $1000 11
kalua

Josh
    $1000 18
(Stephen: Who is Taylor?)

Audrey Hepburn

StephenBrian
    $1000 12
the Nineties

Josh
    $1000 17
MIME

Triple Stumper

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

Stephen Brian Josh
-$600 $2,800 $3,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Stephen Brian Josh
-$800 $5,200 $5,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THAT'S A LONG STORY
ARCHITECTURE
COVER ME
"N"OWLEDGE
CHEMISTRY CLASS
GENDERED LANGUAGE
    $400 26
Vampire

Josh
    $400 27
the Capitol building

Brian
    $400 20
"Respect"

Brian
    $400 28
the Negev

Josh
    $400 29
(Brian: Bring it!)

a molecule

Brian
    $400 30
manpower

Brian
    $800 25
Juneteenth

Stephen
    $800 22
concrete

Stephen
    $800 11
(Stephen: Uh... what's "Bohemian Rhapsody"?)

"We Are The Champions"

StephenJosh
    $800 23
NAFTA

Brian
    $800 4
rust

Stephen
    $800 24
a girlboss

Brian
    $1200 14
Infinite Jest

Brian
    $1200 21
I.M. Pei

Brian
    $1200 10
"Landslide"

Brian
    $1200 3
Nahuatl

Josh
    $1200 13
gallium

Brian
    $1200 16
(Brian: What is... She-Ra?)

a shero

Brian
Triple Stumper
    $3,200 15
(Brian: What is... Les Misérables?)
(Ken: No, I'm sorry, [*].)
(Brian: [Slams his hand on the podium] Oh!)
(Ken: James Joyce, that's why it's a run-on sentence.)

Ulysses

Brian
    $1600 2
Sullivan

Josh
    $1600 9
"Twist And Shout"

Brian
    $1600 12
the Nemean lion

Stephen
    $1600 6
(Stephen: What is pH?)
(Brian: What is saturation?)
(Josh: What is density?)

temperature

StephenBrianJosh
Triple Stumper
    $1600 17
(Stephen: What's manscara?)

guyliner

Stephen
Triple Stumper
    $2000 19
Doris Lessing

Triple Stumper
    $2000 1
Richard Neutra

Triple Stumper
    $2000 8
"Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon"

Brian
    $2,000 7
Nimitz

Stephen
    $2000 5
(Stephen: What is... spontaneous generation?)

abiogenesis

Stephen
Triple Stumper
    $2000 18
a fembot

Brian

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Stephen Brian Josh
-$800 $12,800 $8,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
(Ken: [To Josh] I believe Alex would sometimes say, "Oh, you're not even in the right part of the world." But I would never do that; I thought that was always a little rough on the contestants.)
[Laughter]
...
(Ken: What is Belgium? No, you had to think about the New World; in South America Dutch Guiana gained independence in 1975 and is now [*].)
...
(Brian [Celebrates with multiple double fist pumps]: Yes! Yes! Yes! Whoooo!)
JoshWhat is Papua New Guinea?
$4,405
BrianWhat is Belgium?
$4,001
Suriname

Final scores:

Stephen Brian Josh
-$800 $8,799 $3,995
3rd place: $5,000 Winner: semifinalist 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Stephen Brian Josh
$200 $16,000 $8,400
8 R
(including 1 DD),
7 W
(including 1 DD)		 23 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $24,600

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Game tape date: 2024-02-07
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