Responses for Show #5003 - Wednesday, May 17, 2006

2006 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 3.

Contestants

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Maria Wenglinsky, a teacher from Brooklyn, New York

Jason Richards, a pharmacy technician from Old Town, Maine

Michael Falk, a meteorologist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Jeopardy! Round responses

21st CENTURY HISTORY
HORSE RACING
ART & ARTISTS
AMERICANA
INSIDE THE BRAIN
TECHWORD MASH-UP
    $200 7
the Concorde

Maria
    $200 21
Churchill Downs

Michael
    $200 3
Gauguin

Michael
    $200 16
the state bird

Maria
    $200 26
concussions

Maria
    $200 1
a bit

Michael
    $400 8
Alan Greenspan

Jason
    $400 22
a trifecta

Maria
    $400 12
Toledo

Jason
    $400 17
(Alex: [*] for St. Pat's Day, yes.)

green

Maria
    $400 27
(Michael: What is human?)

killer whale

MichaelMaria
    $400 2
podcast

Maria
    $600 9
Jesse Helms

Jason
    $600 23
Seabiscuit

Maria
    $600 13
the Nighthawks

Michael
    $600 18
Hatfield

Michael
    $600 28
cortex

Michael
    $600 4
(Alex: And, hence, we come up with [*].)

transistor

Triple Stumper
    $800 10
Pinochet

Jason
    $800 24
Seattle Slew

Jason
    $800 14
Pablo Picasso

Triple Stumper
    $800 19
Andersonville

Jason
    $800 29
epilepsy

Jason
    $800 5
spyware

Michael
    $1000 11
(Hosni) Mubarak

Maria
    $600 25
(Alex: Jason, this is not croquet. You can't get hurt here.)
(Jason: Yeah... I could get hurt. I'm just going to go $600.)

Ascot

Jason
    $1000 15
(Piet) Mondrian

Michael
    $1000 20
New Mexico

Michael
    $1000 30
synapses

Michael
    $1000 6
alphanumeric

Michael

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

Michael Jason Maria
$3,800 $2,200 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Michael Jason Maria
$6,800 $5,200 $3,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

SIR WALTER SCOTT'S PERSONALITY PARADE
MEMORABLE MOVIES
DEAD GUYS WITH 3 NAMES
BY THE NUMBERS
THE EARLY EARTH
ENDS IN "TH"
    $400 6
Jane Austen

Maria
    $400 11
(Maria: What is The Godfather II?)

The Godfather

JasonMaria
    $400 1
Ho Chi Minh

Jason
    $400 16
the Hundred Years' War

Michael
    $400 21
amino acids

Maria
    $400 26
Heath

Jason
    $800 7
Byron

Michael
    $800 12
The Elephant Man

Jason
    $800 2
John Philip Sousa

Maria
    $800 17
sonnets

Michael
    $800 22
the sea (or the ocean)

Jason
    $800 27
vermouth

Michael
    $1,000 8
(Michael: Sure, as soon as I bet small. Uh, who is [*]?)
...
(Alex: But you never know. It could have come back to hurt you.)
(Michael: That's true.)
(Alex: But as a result of your correct response, you're in the lead and in command of the board.)

(Jonathan) Swift

Michael
    $1200 13
Junebug

Triple Stumper
    $1200 3
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Maria
    $1200 18
the cornets

Michael
    $1200 23
(Maria: What is helium?)

a solar nebula

Maria
Triple Stumper
    $1200 28
Duluth

Maria
    $1600 9
Goethe

Maria
    $1600 14
(Maria: Who is Susie Wong?)
...
(Alex: That was Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles in [*].)

The Lady from Shanghai

Maria
Triple Stumper
    $2,000 4
William Jennings Bryan

Maria
    $1600 19
(Alex: That's right; she won 8 of them.)

Edith Head

Maria
    $1600 24
the Pleistocene

Maria
    $1600 29
(Alex: The Iceman [*].)

Cometh

Maria
    $2000 10
(David) Hume

Jason
    $2000 15
(Maria: What is Fargo?)

Miller's Crossing

Maria
Triple Stumper
    $2000 5
(Maria: Who is Henry Ward Beecher?)

William Lloyd Garrison

Maria
Triple Stumper
    $2000 20
-40

Michael
    $2000 25
the Burgess Shale

Triple Stumper
    $2000 30
coelacanth

Maria

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Michael Jason Maria
$13,800 $10,000 $11,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

BRITISH MONARCHS
(Alex: If you didn't get it right away, you could start with the present queen, go back to her father George VI, Edward VIII, keep going back, and would 30 seconds be enough time?)
...
(Alex: [*] was the niece of King William IV. You are right.)
...
(Alex: And Michael Falk will move on and play for a quarter-million dollars. Congratulations to you. And you two will each go home with $10,000. And Michael, here are your two opponents who will be joining you on the program tomorrow to play for $250,000.)
(Vik: Vik Vaz, Austin Texas.)
(Bill: Bill MacDonald, Bonita Springs, Florida.)
(Alex: Michael, you seem more nervous now than you did during the game. We'll say goodbye. Join us tomorrow, everybody! So long. [Shaking Michael's hand] Well done.)
(Michael: Thank you.)
JasonWho is George I?
$4,000
MariaWho was Victoria?
$11,000
MichaelWho was Victoria?
$8,201
Queen Victoria

Final scores:

Michael Jason Maria
$22,001 $6,000 $22,000
Finalist 3rd place: $10,000 2nd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Michael Jason Maria
$14,000 $10,400 $10,600
18 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
14 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W
20 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W

Combined Coryat: $35,000

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Game tape date: 2006-04-11
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