Responses for Show #5012 - Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Contestants

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Ken Hinton, a teacher from Las Vegas, Nevada

Kristen Meinhold, a graphic designer originally from Monument, Colorado

Eric Dolansky, a Ph.D. student in marketing from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,601)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

(Alex: And in honor of Jeopardy! moving to a new time slot in the Mile High City, we start you off with...)
WELCOME TO DENVER
COLORFUL ROCK
"-ICIAN" EXPEDITION
WEAPONS
EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER
(Alex: ...but we're going to need more than just one name in each correct response.)
6-LETTER WORDS
    $200 3
(Eric: What is the Gila monster?)
...
(Alex: Yes, the Gila monster is here in the Southwest.)

the Komodo dragon

EricKristen
    $200 1
Bobby Brown

Eric
    $200 16
mortician

Eric
    $200 8
the hydrogen bomb

Ken
    $200 26
Arnold Palmer

Eric
    $200 15
hatred

Triple Stumper
    $1,000 4
Molly Brown

Kristen
    $400 2
Black Sabbath

Kristen
    $400 17
a politician

Ken
    $400 9
the tomahawk

Ken
    $400 27
Veronica Lake

Eric
    $400 22
bridle

Ken
    $600 5
arts & crafts

Triple Stumper
    $600 12
Purple Rain

Kristen
    $600 18
a physician

Ken
    $600 10
a musket

Ken
    $600 28
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eric
    $600 23
the lockup

Triple Stumper
    $800 6
the Rocky Mountain News

Kristen
    $800 13
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale"

Eric
    $800 19
a magician

Triple Stumper
    $800 11
(Ken: What's a battle-ax?)

a broadsword

EricKen
    $800 29
Laura Palmer

Eric
    $800 24
madcap

Eric
    $1000 7
[Applause for Kristen's run of the category]

(Mother) Cabrini

Kristen
    $1000 14
"Blue Monday"

Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
(Kristen: What is a statistician?)

mathematician

Kristen
Triple Stumper
    $1000 21
a rocket

Ken
    $1000 30
the Lady of the Lake

Ken
    $1000 25
a coward

Triple Stumper

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

Eric Kristen Ken
$1,600 $4,000 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Eric Kristen Ken
$4,600 $3,000 $3,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

MYTH ADVENTURES
THE MALE IS IN THE CZECH
(Alex: We want you to name the actor, we'll tell you about the...)
MEMORABLE ROLES
SHERMANS
MARCH
TO THE "C"
(Alex: It will end in "C".)
    $400 1
Hercules

Eric
    $400 26
(Alex: Yes, less than a minute.)

Havel

Eric
    $400 2
(Alex: Yes, in The Graduate.)

Dustin Hoffman

Eric
    $400 21
Peabody

Kristen
    $400 11
Milosevic

Eric
    $400 12
a clinic

Kristen
    $800 6
(Eric: What is Egyptian?)

the Aztecs

EricKristen
    $800 27
(Tom) Stoppard

Eric
    $800 3
(Alex: In The Godfather series.)

Diane Keaton

Eric
    $800 22
Truman

Eric
    $800 17
swear in the president

Eric
    $800 13
basic

Ken
    $1200 7
Pele

Kristen
    $1200 28
Franz Kafka

Triple Stumper
    $1200 4
(Alex: Yes, Escape from New York.)

Kurt Russell

Eric
    $1200 23
the Mexican-American War

Ken
    $1200 18
Julius Caesar

Eric
    $1200 14
a panic

Kristen
    $1600 8
Zeus

Eric
    $1,800 29
(Antonin) Dvorak

Eric
    $1600 5
Gary Sinise

Kristen
    $5,000 24
the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (or the Sherman Silver Purchase Act)

Ken
    $1600 19
Pisces (or Aries)

Eric
    $1600 15
cognac

Ken
    $2000 10
The Book of the Dead

Kristen
    $2000 30
(Kristen: Who is Isaac Asimov?)

Karel Capek

Kristen
Triple Stumper
    $2000 9
(Alex: The actor was [*]: Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon.)

Peter Lorre

Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
(Kristen: What is the San Fernando Valley?)

Sherman Oaks

Kristen
Triple Stumper
    $2000 20
the vernal equinox

Kristen
    $2000 16
cryptic

Eric

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Eric Kristen Ken
$18,000 $8,600 $12,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
(Alex: Napoleon's armies had invaded the nation's capital, so they moved the capital to one of their colonies in South America.)
KristenWhat is Portugal
$8,000
KenWhat is Mexico?
$7,600
EricWhat is Portugal?
$6,801
Portugal

Final scores:

Eric Kristen Ken
$24,801 $16,600 $4,800
2-day champion: $46,402 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Eric Kristen Ken
$17,800 $8,000 $9,000
23 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 14 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 12 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $34,800

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Game tape date: 2006-03-30
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