Responses for Show #5001 - Monday, May 15, 2006

2006 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 1.

Contestants

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Bob Mesko, an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado

Aaron Thompson, a special assistant from Washington, D.C.

Vik Vaz, a medical student from Austin, Texas

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Jeopardy! Round responses

NONFICTION
AN ENGLISH-SPORTS DICTIONARY
OK COMPUTER
CHANGE THE WORLD
BODIES OF WATER
(Alex: And finally, a little bit of everything...)
A CATEGORY OF CATEGORIES
    $200 1
Elie Wiesel

Vik
    $200 6
icing

Vik
    $200 30
Acrobat

Vik
    $200 29
Alexander the Great

Aaron
    $200 28
Lake Victoria

Aaron
    $200 27
Wonka's Tonkas

Aaron
    $400 2
(Vik: What is writing a novel?)
...
(Alex: Sorry, Aaron, not quickly enough.)

a Happy Life

Vik
Triple Stumper
    $400 10
clipping

Bob
    $400 26
streaming

Aaron
    $400 24
Canada

Aaron
    $400 14
the Indian Ocean

Vik
    $400 25
Thank God it's Friday the 13th

Aaron
    $600 4
the Campaign Trail

Bob
    $600 7
man-to-man

Vik
    $600 21
AOL (America Online)

Aaron
    $600 22
Virginia

Bob
    $600 11
the Tasman Sea

Vik
    $600 16
circumstantial

Aaron
    $800 3
Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Aaron
    $800 8
a grab

Aaron
    $800 19
a clipboard

Bob
    $800 15
King Farouk

Aaron
    $800 12
the Shannon

Bob
    $800 17
Aramis

Bob
    $1000 5
Scissors

Aaron
    $1000 9
(Alex: You take [*].)

a drop

Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
a cache

Bob
    $1,000 23
(Alex: [*] is right, yes--noticing the two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates coming down.)

Iraq

Bob
    $1000 13
(Aaron: What is the Gulf of Bothnia?)

the Gulf of Finland

VikAaron
    $1000 18
asymptomatic

Aaron

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

Vik Aaron Bob
$2,600 $2,400 $1,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Vik Aaron Bob
$2,800 $6,400 $6,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
CAMEO CAMERA
HISTORIC AMOURS
GONE TOO SOON
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODIES
THE "GOOD", THE "BAD" & THE "UGLY"
    $400 25
a panda

Vik
    $400 16
Alfred Hitchcock

Bob
    $400 1
Louis XV

Aaron
    $400 29
Ritchie Valens

Aaron
    $400 24
Puccini (or Leoncavallo)

Vik
    $400 6
"The Ugly Duckling"

Aaron
    $800 30
(Bob: What is a cobra?)
(Aaron: What is a, um... anaconda?)

the mongoose

VikAaronBob
    $800 11
Roman Polanski

Aaron
    $800 2
Denmark

Vik
    $3,000 13
Florence Griffith Joyner ("Flo-Jo")

Aaron
    $800 23
Dvorák

Vik
    $800 7
the Good Neighbor Policy

Bob
    $1200 28
the gnu

Aaron
    $1200 9
Apollo 13

Vik
    $1200 3
Charles II

Vik
    $1200 14
K2

Bob
    $1200 20
(Alex: That's an acceptable pronunciation, and I bet you're happy you spent time in that part of the world. Select again, please.)
(Bob: I am.)

Wenceslas ("Wen'slas" accepted)

Bob
    $1200 8
Badlands

Bob
    $1600 27
the dormouse

Triple Stumper
    $1600 10
Shirley MacLaine

Aaron
    $1600 4
Sarah Bernhardt

Vik
    $1600 15
Ryan White

Aaron
    $1600 21
The Bartered Bride

Vik
    $4,600 18
(Alex: Say something, Vik.)
(Vik: What is... Pan?)

Robin Goodfellow

Vik
    $2000 26
(Bob: What is the polar bear?)
(Vik: What is the moose?)
(Aaron: What is the caribou?)
(Alex: No. It's my favorite animal. [*]. We're talkin' about bovine, here.)

the musk ox

VikAaronBob
Triple Stumper
    $2000 12
Bob Hope

Aaron
    $2000 5
Essex

Vik
    $2000 17
(Patrice) Lumumba

Vik
    $2000 22
Taras Bulba

Bob
    $2000 19
Baden-Baden

Aaron

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Vik Aaron Bob
$9,000 $17,000 $10,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MYTHOLOGY
(Alex: Strange lookin' monster--a goat's body, a lion's head, and a dragon's tail.)
[ZergCam]
VikWhat is chimera?
$9,000
BobWhat is Scylla
$8,001
AaronWhat is Medusa?
$3,001
the Chimera

Final scores:

Vik Aaron Bob
$18,000 $13,999 $1,999
Finalist 2nd place: $10,000 3rd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Vik Aaron Bob
$13,600 $14,800 $10,000
18 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 23 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 14 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $38,400

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Game tape date: 2006-04-11
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