Responses for Show #5332 - Tuesday, November 13, 2007

2007 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 2.

Contestants

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Jeff Spoeri, a university administrator from Boynton Beach, Florida

Celeste DiNucci, a recent graduate student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Christian Haines, a college student originally from Newport News, Virginia

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Jeopardy! Round responses

BOOKS OF THE APOCRYPHA
ESPN ENTERTAINMENT
JAPANESE THEATRE
I WANT CANDY
IT'S ALL BLACK & WHITE TO ME
FROM THE GREEK
    $200 11
the Dragon

Christian
    $200 1
Dale Earnhardt

Christian
    $200 14
dance

Celeste
    $200 13
Peeps

Celeste
    $200 20
a panda bear

Christian
    $200 5
5

Christian
    $400 12
Solomon

Jeff
    $400 2
poker

Christian
    $400 15
a (spinning) top

Jeff
    $400 16
fudge

Jeff
    $400 21
Sister Wendy

Celeste
    $400 7
ozone

Celeste
    $600 28
the Maccabees

Christian
    $600 3
Billy Martin

Christian
    $600 25
(Alex: [*], yes!)

noh

Jeff
    $600 17
nonpareils

Jeff
    $2,000 22
(Alex: You were silent for a few moments, but now, guess what, you could take the lead.)
(Celeste: I'm going to make it a True Daily Double.)

(Hermann) Rorschach

Celeste
    $600 8
(Christian: What are fatty acids?)

lipids

Christian
Triple Stumper
    $800 29
Esther

Christian
    $800 4
(Alex: Yes, who broke the four-minute mile.)

Roger Bannister

Celeste
    $800 26
puppets

Celeste
    $800 18
Ghirardelli

Jeff
    $800 23
Checkers

Jeff
    $800 9
economics

Triple Stumper
    $1000 30
Judith

Celeste
    $1000 6
the Cosmos

Jeff
    $1000 27
the Edo era

Christian
    $1000 19
Whatchamacallit

Christian
    $1000 24
(Celeste: What is a macaque?)

the colobus

Celeste
Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
Theodore

Christian

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

Christian Celeste Jeff
$2,000 $1,600 $1,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Christian Celeste Jeff
$5,600 $4,800 $5,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

OPERA
FUNNY OR DIE
A SLICE OF LETTISH
UNDER THE VOLCANO
YOGA TIME
EPONYM DROPPER
(Alex: It'll help you if you know what that word means.)
    $400 5
The Marriage of Figaro

Celeste
    $400 13
Groucho Marx

Celeste
    $400 21
Riga

Celeste
    $400 22
the Big Island of Hawaii

Christian
    $400 11
dog

Celeste
    $400 6
Man Friday

Jeff
    $800 4
La Traviata

Celeste
    $800 20
Yogi Berra

Christian
    $800 27
the League of Nations

Jeff
    $800 23
water

Jeff
    $800 12
Tantric

Jeff
    $800 7
a sousaphone

Christian
    $1200 1
(Christian: What is The Mikado?)

Turandot

ChristianCeleste
    $1200 17
(Christian: Who is Mel Brooks?)

Woody Allen

ChristianCeleste
    $1200 28
Russian

Jeff
    $1200 24
the mantle

Jeff
    $1200 14
om

Christian
    $1200 8
Nottingham

Jeff
    $4,000 2
(Alex: Say something.)
(Celeste: What is... um... ah... the--The Bartered Bride?)

Pagliacci

Celeste
    $1600 18
(Maurice) Chevalier

Jeff
    $1600 29
the Baltic

Christian
    $1600 26
Iceland

Celeste
    $1600 15
the Vedas

Christian
    $1600 9
(Jeff: What is a Gatling gun?)

a Thompson (submachine) gun

CelesteJeff
    $2000 3
The Taming of the Shrew

Triple Stumper
    $2000 19
Ambrose Bierce

Triple Stumper
    $2000 30
A

Jeff
    $2000 25
a pyroclastic flow

Jeff
    $1,500 16
the chakras

Christian
    $2000 10
Ponzi

Christian

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Christian Celeste Jeff
$13,100 $8,800 $15,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE MOVIES
(Alex: Federico Fellini's film.)
...
(Alex: [After revealing Christian's wager] Ooh, interesting. $2,301, taking you to $15,401. Co-inky-dince, but a $1 lead over Jeff.)
...
(Alex: And with a tie, we are going to go to a tiebreaker. Now we haven't had a tiebreaker in a tournament in about 20 years. The category for this tiebreaker is...)
CelesteWhat is 8½?
$6,601
ChristianWhat is 8 and ½
$2,301
JeffWhat is Ocean's Eleven?
$10,801

Tiebreaker Round responses

CHILD'S PLAY
(Alex: Once we reveal the clue and I read it in its entirety, the first player to ring in with a correct response will be a finalist in this Tournament of Champions. You can't win by default; you must give us a correct response. Here is the clue...)
...
(Alex: You're right, and you are a finalist! Way to go! All right, what an exciting finish, and we hope tomorrow's will be the same. We'll see you then, folks.)

The Children's Hour

Celeste

Final scores:

Christian Celeste Jeff
$15,401 $15,401 $4,599
2nd place: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home Game System Finalist 3rd place: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home Game System

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Christian Celeste Jeff
$13,600 $11,400 $15,400
19 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
17 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)
18 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $40,400

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Game tape date: 2007-10-10
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