Responses for Show #5000 - Friday, May 12, 2006

2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

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Nico Martinez, a college junior from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Bill MacDonald, an attorney from Bonita Springs, Florida

Tom Kavanaugh, a kickball team captain from St. Louis, Missouri

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
ROAD TRIP USA
HISTORICAL TEXT MESSAGING
(Alex: You have to name the sender of each message.)
YOU SMELL DELICIOUS!
THE WGA's TOP 101 SCREENPLAYS
NOT ANOTHER BUGHUNT
(Alex: Each response will be the name of a bug that you will find--and the letters will be in the proper order--contained in the clue.)
    $200 21
Kurt Vonnegut

Tom
    $200 27
Motel 6

Tom
    $200 30
[Alex reads as: "Stuck at embassy. U.S. blasting Van Halen at me. Talk to you later."]

(Manuel) Noriega

Bill
    $200 8
cotton candy

Bill
    $200 1
Casablanca

Nico
    $200 5
roach (in encroaching)

Bill
    $400 23
Julia Child

Bill
    $400 28
the Grand Canyon

Bill
    $400 29
[Alex reads as: "Designed St. Bride's Church. England forever!"]

Christopher Wren

Bill
    $400 9
angel cake

Nico
    $400 2
Some Like It Hot (or Sunset Boulevard)

Tom
    $400 6
termite (in term itemize) (mite accepted)

Tom
    $600 24
Joan Didion

Bill
    $600 12
Branson

Tom
    $3,600 16
[Alex reads as: "Charged with impiety. Not letting them sin twice against philosophy. Off to Chalcis. Lyceum later."]
(Bill: Who is Socrates?)
(Alex: Oh, ya picked the wrong one. You were close, who is [*]? 323 B.C.)

Aristotle

Bill
    $600 13
a piña colada

Nico
    $600 3
Annie Hall

Nico
    $600 15
weevil (in interviewee vile)

Bill
    $800 25
(Nico: Who is Sean Connery?)

Marlon Brando

Nico
Triple Stumper
    $800 10
Cadillac Ranch

Triple Stumper
    $800 14
[Alex reads as: "Am Canada's prime minister. Don't know 'Zonker' or 'B.D.' you keep texting me about. Please stop."]

Pierre Trudeau

Bill
    $800 19
(Nico: Who is Dior?)
...
(Alex: The "Y" is a reference to [*].)

Yves Saint Laurent

Nico
Triple Stumper
    $800 4
The African Queen

Bill
    $800 17
aphid (in graph identified)

Bill
    $1000 26
Tom Wolfe

Nico
    $1000 11
Wisconsin

Nico
    $1000 20
[Alex reads as: "Wilhelm II making me quit chancellor gig. Off to estates at Friedrichsruh, which is impossible to abbreviate and be understood."]
(Nico: Who is, uh, [*]?)
(Alex: Yes. You were trying to abbreviate [*], I know!)

(Otto von) Bismarck

Nico
    $1000 22
a tangerine

Nico
    $1000 7
The Third Man

Bill
    $1000 18
earwig (in Dear Wiglaf)

Bill

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

Tom Bill Nico
$1,400 $3,600 $2,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Bill Nico
$1,800 $3,800 $4,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

CHINESE CULTURE
ROD SERLING'S TWILIGHT ZONE
20th CENTURY FOREIGNERS
BREAD
LITERARY LINEUPS
(Alex: You have to name the work.)
PRIME (MINISTER) RHYME
    $400 13
(Tom: What is Chinese New Year?)

a wedding

Tom
Triple Stumper
    $400 6
(William) Shatner

Bill
    $400 19
(Nico: Who is Rabin?)
(Bill: Who is Sharon?)

Moshe Dayan

BillNico
Triple Stumper
    $400 26
pita

Tom
    $400 18
Julius Caesar

Triple Stumper
    $400 1
(Nico: What is Blair's flair?)
(Alex: Say it again?)
(Nico: Blair flair?)
(Alex: Okay, we'll give you that. It was [*]. You were almost there the first time you spoke it.)

Blair's flairs (Blair flair accepted)

Nico
    $800 14
chopsticks

Tom
    $800 7
man

Bill
    $800 20
(Nico: What is a kidney?)

a heart

BillNico
    $800 27
baguette

Bill
    $800 21
Wuthering Heights

Bill
    $800 2
Ben-Gurion's Centurions

Nico
    $1200 15
Taoism

Tom
    $1200 8
his eyeglasses

Bill
    $1200 23
Kasparov

Nico
    $1200 28
rye

Tom
    $1200 22
Waiting for Godot

Tom
    $1200 3
Howard's cowards

Nico
    $1600 16
Han

Triple Stumper
    $1600 9
(Martin) Landau

Bill
    $3,000 24
(Alex: Nico?)
(Nico: Who is Carlos the Jackal?)
(Alex: No, who is [*]? Talkin' about 1959.)

Saddam Hussein

Nico
    $1600 29
challah

Tom
    $2,200 12
(Tom: [Sighs] What is Brave New World?)
(Alex: No, what is [*]? [*]--Jack Kerouac.)

On the Road

Tom
    $1600 4
(Tom: What are Ben's dens?)
(Nico: What are Ben's glens?)
[After Tom's and Nico's incorrect responses, Bill very slowly raises his signaling device into the air and waits until the last moment to ring in, then announces his response with savored flourish.]
...
(Alex: You look very smug. The other guys eliminated two, you know. They kind of made it a bit easier for you, Bill. Go again, you're right.)

Ben's fens

TomBillNico
    $2000 17
winds

Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
a mannequin

Tom
    $2000 25
René Lalique

Triple Stumper
    $2000 30
Zwieback

Bill
    $2000 11
(Alex: We need the work.)

David Copperfield

Triple Stumper
    $2000 5
(Nico: Who are Harper's sharpers?)

Harper's carpers

BillNico

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Bill Nico
$6,000 $15,400 $0
(lock game)

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ISLANDS
(Alex: [To Bill] You are going to be a semifinalist. $18,733. Congratulations to you. And now, let's meet the other semifinalists. First of all, the game winners this week.)
(Maria: Maria Wenglinsky, Brooklyn, New York.)
(Kevin: Kevin Marshall, Metairie, Louisiana.)
(Vik: Vik Vaz, Austin, Texas.)
(David: David Madden, Ridgewood, New Jersey.)
(Alex: And now, the four wildcard players, the high scorers among nonwinners.)
(Aaron: Aaron Thompson, Washington, D.C.)
(Bob: Bob Mesko, Denver, Colorado.)
(Michael: Michael Falk, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.)
(Jason: Jason Richards, Old Town, Maine.)
(Alex: Going to be exciting. The semifinals start next week on Jeopardy! See you then. So long, everybody!)
TomWhat are Greenland + Baffin
$4,000
BillWhat are Greenland and Baffin Island?
$3,333
Greenland & Baffin Island

Final scores:

Tom Bill Nico
$10,000 $18,733 $0
2nd place: $5,000 Automatic semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Tom Bill Nico
$8,200 $19,000 $3,000
12 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 23 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 12 R,
7 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $30,200

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Game tape date: 2006-04-10
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