Responses for Show #5599 - Thursday, January 1, 2009

Contestants

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Edith Roberts, an attorney and part-time traffic court judge from Washington, D.C.

Michael Portnoy, a teacher from Miami, Florida

Shyra Latiolais, a legal secretary from New Orleans, Louisiana (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,000)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICAN GRADUATORS
VERY ANIMATED ACTORS
OCCUPATIONAL WEAR
DAM THAT RIVER
(Alex: We'll give you the dam, you identify the river for us.)
WRONG ACCENTS FOR LITERARY CHARACTERS
A LITTLE "B" BOP
    $200 16
Harvard

Edith
    $200 1
Ann-Margret

Michael
    $200 22
cowboy

Edith
    $200 17
the Nile

Edith
    $200 6
[Alex reads the clue in an Eastern European accent.]

Scarlett O'Hara

Michael
    $200 11
bough

Michael
    $400 27
Vassar

Michael
    $400 2
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Michael
    $400 23
(Shyra: What are wayfarers?)

aviators

ShyraEdith
    $400 18
(Alex: The Hoover Dam, yes.)

the Colorado River

Edith
    $400 7
[Alex reads the clue in a Southern belle accent.]

Count Dracula

Shyra
    $400 12
Boeing

Shyra
    $600 28
Michigan

Edith
    $600 3
Zeus

Michael
    $600 24
gladiators

Edith
    $600 19
the Yangtze

Edith
    $600 8
[Alex reads the clue in an elderly-prospector accent.]

Huckleberry Finn

Michael
    $600 13
brut

Shyra
    $800 29
the California Institute of Technology

Edith
    $800 4
Horton Hears A Who

Michael
    $800 25
fishermen

Shyra
    $800 20
(Edith: The Mississippi?)

the Columbia

Edith
Triple Stumper
    $800 9
[Alex reads the clue in a deep, vaguely Scottish voice.]

Captain Ahab

Michael
    $800 14
Butte

Michael
    $1000 30
Vanderbilt

Edith
    $1000 5
The Jungle Book

Shyra
    $1000 26
a trucker's hat

Edith
    $1000 21
the Danube

Edith
    $1000 10
[Alex reads the clue with a lisp.]

Hester Prynne

Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
Banff

Michael

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

Shyra Michael Edith
$2,400 $5,600 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Shyra Michael Edith
$2,800 $6,000 $6,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

HAPPY NEW YEAR
MUSICAL STATES
AN ELEMENT-AL CATEGORY
POTENT POTABLES IN OTHER WORDS
GET SOME CULTURE
NATIONAL PARKS
    $400 16
the Emancipation Proclamation

Michael
    $400 1
Texas

Michael
    $400 26
(Michael: What is salt?)

sodium

MichaelEdith
    $400 6
a screwdriver

Michael
    $400 11
a sculpture garden

Edith
    $400 21
the Grand Canyon

Shyra
    $800 17
Rio de Janeiro

Triple Stumper
    $800 2
Kansas

Michael
    $800 27
(Alex: And you can tell. It makes you very happy, doesn't it?)

oxygen

Michael
    $800 7
a Manhattan

Michael
    $800 12
(Edith: What are museum walks?)

art walks

ShyraEdith
    $800 22
Old Faithful

Michael
    $1200 18
(Edith: Who is G. Gordon Liddy?)

(1 of) John Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, or Robert Mardian

Edith
Triple Stumper
    $1200 3
(Michael: What is Mississippi?)

Kentucky

ShyraMichael
    $1200 28
barium

Michael
    $1200 8
a White Russian

Edith
    $1200 13
Ingmar Bergman

Shyra
    $1200 23
Grand Teton

Edith
    $1,000 19
the European Union

Michael
    $1600 4
Alabama

Shyra
    $1,000 29
(Michael: What is xenon?)

zirconium

Michael
    $1600 9
a Boilermaker

Michael
    $1600 14
(Edith: What's cello?)

piano

Edith
Triple Stumper
    $1600 24
Big Bend

Edith
    $2000 20
(Alex: How did you know this?)
(Shyra: For a friend!)

Bass Ale

Shyra
    $2000 5
Nebraska

Edith
    $2000 30
(Shyra: What are carbons?)

isotopes

ShyraEdith
    $2000 10
Margarita

Triple Stumper
    $2000 15
(Michael: What is at night?)

the ballet

MichaelEdith
    $2000 25
Isle Royale

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Shyra Michael Edith
$8,000 $9,600 $13,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

GAMES
(Alex: And it is very much an appropriate name.)
ShyraWhat is a bishop?
$6,600
MichaelWhat is the knight
$9,400
EdithWhat is the bishop?
$5,801
the knight

Final scores:

Shyra Michael Edith
$1,400 $19,000 $7,599
3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $19,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Shyra Michael Edith
$8,000 $11,200 $13,400
11 R,
2 W		 21 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $32,600

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Game tape date: 2008-11-04
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