Responses for Show #9052 - Tuesday, March 5, 2024

2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 8.

Contestants

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Emmett Stanton, a freelance writer from Baltimore, Maryland

Justin Bolsen, a public policy economics student at Brown University from Canton, Georgia

Ben Chan, a philosophy professor from Green Bay, Wisconsin

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Jeopardy! Round responses

5 FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS
NAMES IN FASHION
TV IN THE AUGHTIES
GETTING TOGETHER
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH
(Ken: As you may recall, that's Jack Nicholson's character in the courtroom in A Few Good Men.)
    $200 13
[ERRATUM: David McCullough's surname was misspelled in the clue as shown.]

1776

Emmett
    $200 30
Ralph Lauren

Ben! 文瀚
    $200 29
The O.C.

Emmett
    $200 25
a baby shower

Ben! 文瀚
    $200 24
(Emmett: What are marsupials?)

big feet

Emmett
Triple Stumper
    $200 16
(Ken: As in "You can't handle the", yes.)

the truth

Emmett
    $400 12
radium

Justin
    $400 26
Stella McCartney

Emmett
    $400 27
Malcolm in the Middle

Ben! 文瀚
    $400 28
a confab

Triple Stumper
    $400 19
swordfish

Ben! 文瀚
    $400 23
backbone

Justin
    $600 4
H.G. Wells

Emmett
    $600 20
(Vera) Wang

Ben! 文瀚
    $600 18
(Hilary) Duff

Ben! 文瀚
    $600 15
(Ken: An [*] convention, yes. I can't imagine that goes over well.)

anarchists

Justin
    $3,600 8
the orangutan

Ben! 文瀚
    $600 22
(Justin: What are veins?)
...
(Ken: We live in a world that has [*].)

walls

Ben! 文瀚Justin
    $800 1
Ferguson

Emmett
    $800 2
(Christian) Louboutin

Ben! 文瀚
    $800 5
Burn Notice

Ben! 文瀚
    $800 11
(Ben! 文瀚: What is, uh, a shareholders meeting?)

a board (of directors) meeting

Ben! 文瀚Justin
    $800 6
the clouded leopard

Triple Stumper
    $800 21
a luxury

Triple Stumper
    $1000 3
the Third Reich

Ben! 文瀚
    $1000 14
Diane von Furstenberg

Emmett
    $1000 9
The Boondocks

Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
a colloquium (colloquy)

Ben! 文瀚
    $1000 7
Anopheles

Ben! 文瀚
    $1000 17
grotesque

Ben! 文瀚

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

Ben! 文瀚 Justin Emmett
$7,400 $1,800 $2,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ben! 文瀚 Justin Emmett
$11,400 $1,600 $3,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

JAZZ' GREAT DAY IN HARLEM
(Ken: These are facts about the musicians in one iconic 1958 photo.)
POETS & POETRY
HAVE FAITH
PEOPLE NAMED ALEX
MOUNTAINS
"O-U-R" SOMETHING
    $400 27
the (tenor) saxophone

Ben! 文瀚
    $400 24
master

Justin
    $400 25
a sermon

Emmett
    $400 30
(Ken: The author of Roots, yes.)

Alex Haley

Ben! 文瀚
    $400 29
the Rockies

Ben! 文瀚
    $400 28
nourish

Justin
    $800 26
Midnight

Ben! 文瀚
    $800 23
World War I

Justin
    $800 20
polytheism

Ben! 文瀚
    $800 22
(Emmett: What is Los Feliz?)
(Justin: What is Pasadena?)
...
(Ken: That's [*], like totally.)
[Laughter]

the San Fernando Valley

JustinEmmett
Triple Stumper
    $800 12
the Matterhorn

Ben! 文瀚
    $800 21
a tourniquet

Justin
    $1200 4
the bass

Ben! 文瀚
    $1200 7
a lynching

Emmett
    $1200 19
18

Justin
    $1200 18
Ovechkin

Ben! 文瀚
    $4,000 5
the Atlas

Ben! 文瀚
    $1200 17
the mourning cloak butterfly

Triple Stumper
    $1600 3
(Gene) Krupa

Ben! 文瀚
    $1600 6
Wordsworth

Ben! 文瀚
    $4,400 10
(Emmett: I'm here for a good time, not a long time, let's make it a True Daily Double.)
...
(Emmett: Ooh, who is... Isaiah?)

peace be upon him

Emmett
    $1600 14
(Emmett: What is Calais?)

Dunkirk

Ben! 文瀚Emmett
    $1600 2
Elbrus

Ben! 文瀚
    $1600 16
Tourette's

Justin
    $2000 13
(Ken: That would be [*] of Jazz Messengers fame.)

Art Blakey

Triple Stumper
    $2000 8
conceits

Triple Stumper
    $2000 9
prostrating themselves

Triple Stumper
    $2000 11
Princess of Wales

Justin
    $2000 1
Chimborazo

Justin
    $2000 15
Agincourt

Ben! 文瀚

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ben! 文瀚 Justin Emmett
$29,800 $10,000 -$2,000
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS
(Ken: [To Ben] Nuclear energy, like bringing down fire from the heavens.)
JustinWhat is thorium good luck j! godfather - Ben Chan!
$42
Ben! 文瀚What is thorium? Promethium??
$0
promethium

Final scores:

Ben! 文瀚 Justin Emmett
$29,800 $9,958 -$2,000
Winner: semifinalist 2nd place: $5,000 3rd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ben! 文瀚 Justin Emmett
$24,000 $10,000 $2,400
28 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W		 12 R,
2 W		 9 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $36,400

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Game tape date: 2024-02-07
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