Responses for Show #5005 - Friday, May 19, 2006

2006 Tournament of Champions final game 2.

Contestants

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Vik Vaz, a medical student from Austin, Texas (subtotal of $30,800)

Michael Falk, a meteorologist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin (subtotal of $17,400)

Bill MacDonald, an attorney from Bonita Springs, Florida (subtotal of $0)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

CIVIL WAR GENERALS
SUPPORTING ACTOR EMMY WINNERS
(Alex: You have to identify the show.)
GOVT. ABBR.
ALMA MATER MATTERS
MY HEAVENS!
NOVEL PICTURE PUZZLES
    $200 9
Bull Run

Vik
    $200 8
Everybody Loves Raymond

Michael
    $200 3
the National Science Foundation

Michael
    $200 29
Colorado

Michael
    $200 16
Venus

Michael
    $200 1
Washington Square

Bill
    $400 13
Grant & Sherman

Vik
    $400 22
Taxi

Bill
    $400 7
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Bill
    $400 28
(George Washington) Carver

Michael
    $400 17
blue

Bill
    $400 2
(Bill: Augh!)
(Alex: [*]! He vas my boyfriend! No, that's...)

Frankenstein (frank in stein)

Triple Stumper
    $600 10
(George) McClellan

Michael
    $600 23
L.A. Law

Bill
    $600 14
the Agency for International Development

Vik
    $600 25
(Michael: What is William & Mary?)

Princeton

MichaelVik
    $600 19
the North Star (or Polaris)

Bill
    $600 4
The Scarlet Letter

Vik
    $800 11
(Vik: Who is Lee?)

(George) Pickett

MichaelVik
    $800 24
The West Wing

Vik
    $800 15
(Vik: What is the Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission?)
...
(Alex: Vik, you put an "and" in there, and that cost you.)

the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

BillVik
    $2,000 26
(Alex: Remember your parents, but--but make up your own mind.)
(Vik: I'll... I'm gonna compromise.)
...
(Alex: Now's the time for [*], yes, indeed.)

William & Mary

Vik
    $800 20
(Vik: What is comet--what is a comet?)
...
(Alex: That's it, yes. Comets were discovered before that.)

an asteroid

BillVik
    $800 5
The Fountainhead

Vik
    $1000 12
(Joe) Hooker

Michael
    $1000 30
Night Court

Bill
    $1000 18
the United States International Trade Commission

Vik
    $1000 27
(Hubert) Humphrey

Vik
    $1000 21
(Charles) Messier

Michael
    $1000 6
A Farewell to Arms

Michael

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

Bill Michael Vik
$1,400 $3,800 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Bill Michael Vik
$5,200 $5,000 $5,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

AFRICAN CAPITALS
THE DA VINCI CODE
(Alex: The movie version is just opening but these clues have to do with the novel.)
1966
TUTU MUCH!
ARCHITECTURE
SHORT CLUES ABOUT LONG WORDS
    $400 5
Nairobi

Michael
    $400 14
the Louvre

Michael
    $400 6
Vietnam

Vik
    $400 17
romantic

Michael
    $400 24
Jefferson

Vik
    $400 8
expeditionary

Michael
    $800 4
(Bill: What is Ethiopia?)
...
(Alex: Yes, we're going for the capital.)

Addis Ababa

BillMichael
    $800 29
Harvard

Vik
    $800 9
Martin Luther King

Bill
    $800 18
[Alex flubs the name "Youbetyabootskaya" while reading the clue.]
(Vik: What is Cannes?)
(Alex: No. The Ballets Trockadero of [*]. Tatiana Youbetyabootskaya. I can get it.)

Monte Carlo

Vik
Triple Stumper
    $800 26
Atlas

Vik
    $800 10
circumference

Bill
    $5,000 1
(Alex: How confident are you on the subject of AFRICAN CAPITALS, my son?)
(Michael: Well, no guts, no glory, always wanted to say, True Daily Double.)
...
(Alex: Big move, paid off, and it was needed.)

Cairo & Khartoum

Michael
    $1200 30
(Vik: Who is Delilah?)
...
(Alex: She figures prominently in The Da Vinci Code. [*]. [*].)

Mary Magdalene

Vik
Triple Stumper
    $1200 7
Mississippi

Bill
    $1200 19
Fanny Brice

Bill
    $1200 22
Gothic

Michael
    $1200 11
memorabilia

Michael
    $1600 2
Rabat

Vik
    $1600 28
Opus Dei

Michael
    $1600 15
Paul VI

Michael
    $1600 20
(Edgar) Degas

Vik
    $2,000 23
(Alex: Oh-ho! Ho-ho! Now the pressure has shifted from Vik who was leading to you!)
(Michael: Uh, let's go with $2,000.)
...
(Michael: Who is Mies Van Der Rohe?)
(Alex: No, who is [*], Switzerland's most famous architect. You're at $20,000, still in the lead.)

Le Corbusier

Michael
    $1600 12
punctuality

Michael
    $2000 3
Burundi

Michael
    $2000 27
a cryptex

Triple Stumper
    $2000 16
a U-2

Michael
    $2000 21
(Alex: That would be [*]. [*] and Odette.)

Odile

Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
(I.M.) Pei

Michael
    $2000 13
braggadocio

Bill

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Bill Michael Vik
$10,400 $23,600 $9,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD LITERATURE
(Michael: [Looking heavenward] Thank you!)
...
(Alex: Congratulations! Well done! Great to finish on a high note, and you came from behind.)
VikWhat Pilgrim's Progress?
$9,200
BillWhat is Paradise Lost?
$10,001
MichaelWhat is the Divine Comedy?
$8,201
Dante's Inferno

Final scores:

Bill Michael Vik
$399 $31,801 $0

Cumulative scores:

Bill Michael Vik
$399 $49,201 $30,800
2nd runner-up: $50,000 Tournament champion: $250,000 1st runner-up: $100,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Bill Michael Vik
$10,400 $21,800 $8,000
14 R,
1 W		 24 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W

Combined Coryat: $40,200

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Game tape date: 2006-04-11
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