Responses for Show #9229 - Thursday, December 19, 2024

Laura Faddah game 1.

Contestants

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Laura Faddah, a manager from Memphis, Tennessee

Neal Bowling, a journeyman lineman from Mackinaw, Illinois

Eric Weldon-Schilling, a bar manager and sommelier from Houston, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,000)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. HISTORY
500 QUESTIONS
3-LETTER, 3-LETTER
(Ken: Each response, two words of that length.)
"B" MOVIES
POETIC WOMEN
POTENT POTABLE RHYME TIME
    $200 10
Springfield

Eric
    $200 16
grand larcency & petty larcency

Laura
    $200 15
(Eric: What is set?)
...
(Ken: We needed two three-letters words here--it's [*].)

get set

Eric
Triple Stumper
    $200 21
The Birds

Neal
    $200 26
Emily Dickinson

Laura
    $200 1
(Eric: Um, POTENT POTABLE RHYME TIME for $200, please.)
(Ken: Good for a sommelier.)
...
(Ken: All aboard the [*].)

a champagne train

Eric
    $400 11
Lame Duck

Neal
    $400 17
Standard & Poor's

Laura
    $400 22
big man

Eric
    $400 6
Billy Elliot

Laura
    $400 27
let me count the ways

Laura
    $400 2
a Scotch watch

Eric
    $600 12
(Eric: What is... Yellowstone?)
(Neal: What is Old Faithful?)

Devils Tower

EricNeal
Triple Stumper
    $600 18
(Ken: Those are The 500 Hats of [*]. Deep cut there for Dr. Seuss.)
[Laura laughs.]

Bartholomew Cubbins

Triple Stumper
    $600 23
Top Hat

Eric
    $600 7
Bullet Train

Neal
    $600 28
Sylvia Plath

Eric
    $600 3
(Ken: I saw Eric get it too late.)

bury the sherry

Triple Stumper
    $1,000 13
(Neal: [Sighs] Who is... John Jay?)
(Ken: Sorry, no; after Jay, [*].)

John Marshall

Neal
    $800 19
(Neal: What is (500) Days?... [*]?)

(500) Days of Summer

Neal
    $800 24
(Ken: Ask the kids, he [*] wants to go out with you.)

low-key

Triple Stumper
    $800 8
Bumblebee

Laura
    $800 29
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Triple Stumper
    $800 4
(Ken: Yeah, the best kind of party.)

a Bacardi party

Eric
    $1000 14
Spiro Agnew

Eric
    $1000 20
(Eric: Who is Dickens?)

Horatio Alger

EricLaura
    $1000 25
a dry run

Laura
    $1000 9
Bride of Frankenstein

Eric
    $1000 30
Emma Lazarus

Laura
    $1000 5
a Corona Verona (Verona Corona)

Laura

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

Eric Neal Laura
$2,800 -$600 $2,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Eric Neal Laura
$3,400 $400 $6,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

A WORD IN A SHAKESPEARE PLAY TITLE
(Ken: Just the one word, please.)
BOOMERS
THE SCIENCE FARE
WRITE FOR TV
GO JUMP IN THE OCEAN
INITIALS FROM GREEK GOD TO ROMAN GOD
(Ken: And here we'll need both names.)
    $400 20
(Eric: What is... Twelfth Night?)
...
(Ken: What is [*], as in [*] Night's Dream?)

Midsummer

Eric
Triple Stumper
    $400 8
Al Sharpton

Laura
    $400 13
Los Alamos

Eric
    $400 3
The Wire

Eric
    $400 2
the Arctic Ocean

Triple Stumper
    $400 1
Eros & Cupid

Triple Stumper
    $800 21
(Ken: Yes, "Taming of".)

a shrew

Neal
    $800 9
Rolling Stone

Neal
    $800 14
Chicago

Neal
    $800 4
(Ken: You beat Eric, that's correct.)

Game of Thrones

Neal
    $800 18
trenches

Triple Stumper
    $800 27
Hermes & Mercury

Neal
    $3,000 22
(Ken: [*], as in "of Venice"...)

merchant

Neal
    $1200 10
the "Shot Heard 'Round the World"

Triple Stumper
    $1200 15
AZT

Laura
    $1200 5
ER

Neal
    $1200 19
the Bay of Bengal

Triple Stumper
    $1200 28
Dionysus & Bacchus

Eric
    $1600 23
(Ken: It was a real Comedy of [*] for Tommy John.)

errors

Triple Stumper
    $1600 11
(Frank) Miller

Neal
    $1600 16
the Human Genome Project

Laura
    $1600 6
David Mamet

Neal
    $1600 25
(Eric: What is the jet current?)

the Gulf Stream

Eric
Triple Stumper
    $4,600 29
Hera & Juno

Eric
    $2000 24
nothing

Neal
    $2000 12
Jeff Koons

Triple Stumper
    $2000 17
the James Webb (Space) Telescope

Eric
    $2000 7
(Neal: What is... Snowball?)
[Neal appears to realize his mistake.]
...
(Ken: Neal, I think you know what you did; one letter off; "What is [*]?")

Snowfall

Neal
Triple Stumper
    $2000 26
(Laura: What is the Drake Pass?)
[Ken does not rule.]
(Laura: [*].)

the Drake Passage

Laura
    $2000 30
(Neal: Ooh... uh... what is Ares & Mars?)

Athena to Minerva

NealLaura

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Eric Neal Laura
$10,000 $9,800 $13,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

SUPER BOWL HISTORY
(Ken: [To Neal] And I'm afraid that's not one of the teams that played in an early Super Bowl.)
...
(Ken: [To Laura] No; the Packers, the Colts, the Raiders and the Chiefs have all been back, but the winners of Super Bowl III, [*], are having a pretty rough 55-year streak, I think.)
NealWhat is The Cleveland Browns?
$7,000
EricWhat is giants?
$10,000
LauraWhat is Houston?
$2,400
the Jets

Final scores:

Eric Neal Laura
$0 $2,800 $11,200
3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $11,200

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Eric Neal Laura
$7,000 $9,000 $13,600
14 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W		 14 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 15 R,
0 W

Combined Coryat: $29,600

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Game tape date: 2024-10-29
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