Responses for Show #5053 - Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Celeste DiNucci game 5.

Contestants

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Theresa Kenny, a musician from Stony Point, New York

Matthew Mitchell, a literacy tutor from Richland, Washington

Celeste DiNucci, a grad student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (whose 4-day cash winnings total $60,402)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

INSECTS
I'VE ZINE THE MOVIE
TREE POTPOURRI
MAKE $$$ IN YOUR SPARE TIME!
LANDING ZONES OF NORMANDY
EDIBLE HOMOPHONES
    $200 12
a beetle

Matthew
    $200 1
The Killing Fields

Matthew
    $200 20
trunk rings

Matthew
    $200 26
America's Funniest Home Videos

Celeste
    $200 2
Omaha

Theresa
    $200 3
stakes (steaks)

Matthew
    $400 13
a firefly

Celeste
    $1,000 8
(Matthew: I don't know.)
(Alex: Al Pacino wound up playing the role on film in [*].)

Dog Day Afternoon

Matthew
    $400 21
a pine tree

Theresa
    $400 30
(Matthew: What is a coin?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
(Matthew: What is a silver dollar?)
(Alex: No. Theresa or Celeste? Both of you doing the math very quickly to come up with...[buzzer sounds]... [*]. [*]. 43.7 million times.)

a penny

Matthew
Triple Stumper
    $400 4
Utah

Theresa
    $400 17
(Celeste: What is the cold shoulder?)

chilly (chili)

Celeste
Triple Stumper
    $600 14
laying eggs

Matthew
    $600 9
Brokeback Mountain

Celeste
    $600 22
the maple

Matthew
    $600 29
the Nobel Prize

Celeste
    $600 5
Gold

Matthew
    $600 18
the lam (lamb)

Theresa
    $800 15
a crop

Triple Stumper
    $800 10
Almost Famous

Matthew
    $800 23
the tupelo

Triple Stumper
    $800 28
Pennsylvania

Matthew
    $800 6
Juno

Matthew
    $800 19
[Celeste groans and chuckles.]
(Alex: Are you doing comments on our writing, Celeste?)
(Celeste: Nonono, no, no.)

bred (bread)

Triple Stumper
    $1000 16
the katydid

Triple Stumper
    $1000 11
Coyote Ugly

Matthew
    $1000 24
"Waltzing Matilda"

Celeste
    $1000 27
the FBI

Matthew
    $1000 7
Sword

Matthew
    $1000 25
moose (mousse)

Celeste

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

Celeste Matthew Theresa
$1,000 $4,400 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Celeste Matthew Theresa
$3,400 $6,600 $1,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

PHYSICS
THE GRAMMYS 2006
EXTREMELY BAD HISTORICAL POETRY
WORLD LEADERS
THEY PICKED UP THE CHEKHOV
OLD, ODD & OBSCURE WORDS
    $400 1
photons

Matthew
    $400 26
Aretha Franklin

Celeste
    $400 19
(Celeste: Who is Monroe?)
(Matthew: Who is Coolidge?)

Madison

CelesteMatthew
Triple Stumper
    $400 6
Fidel Castro

Matthew
    $400 16
Neil Simon

Celeste
    $400 11
a bagpipe

Celeste
    $800 2
interference

Matthew
    $800 20
(Celeste: Who is Welty?)

Edith Wharton

Celeste
Triple Stumper
    $800 7
Charles de Gaulle

Matthew
    $7,000 17
Three Sisters

Celeste
    $800 12
a frog

Celeste
    $1200 3
black

Celeste
    $1200 21
Sir Walter Raleigh

Matthew
    $1200 8
(Celeste: Who is "Baby Doc"?)

"Papa Doc" (Duvalier)

CelesteMatthew
    $1200 18
Vivien Leigh

Theresa
    $1200 13
(Theresa: What's a bigfoot?)

a footprint

CelesteTheresa
    $1600 4
equilibrium

Matthew
    $3,000 22
Vasco da Gama

Matthew
    $1600 9
(Celeste: Who is Gustaf?)
[Initially ruled correct; at the next Daily Double at clue 17, the judges ruled that the response was insufficient, and the clue was voided.]

King Carl Gustaf

Triple Stumper
    $1600 24
Uncle Vanya

Celeste
    $1600 14
a platen

Celeste
    $2000 5
entropy

Matthew
    $2000 27
Keith Urban

Matthew
    $2000 23
Neville Chamberlain

Theresa
    $2000 10
Park Chung Hee

Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
The Cherry Orchard

Theresa
    $2000 15
a rubric

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Celeste Matthew Theresa
$15,600 $19,600 $5,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AFRICAN CAPITALS
TheresaWhat is Namib?
$5,599
CelesteWhat is Tunis?
$7,599
MatthewWhat is Algiers
$11,601
Tunis

Final scores:

Celeste Matthew Theresa
$23,199 $7,999 $1
5-day champion: $83,601 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Celeste Matthew Theresa
$9,400 $19,200 $5,600
15 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
23 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)
7 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $34,200

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