Responses for Show #5600 - Friday, January 2, 2009

Contestants

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Rebecca Drinnon, an English teacher from Morristown, Tennessee

Ben Reiter, a sports writer from New York, New York

Michael Portnoy, a teacher from Miami, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,000)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

HISTORIC SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
NOT-SO-UGLY BETTY
IT'S A CRIME!
CONTINENTAL EXTREMES
DUMB GUYS' GREATEST INVENTIONS
"F" I DO SAY SO
    $200 6
Dred Scott

Michael
    $200 8
(Betty) Boop

Ben
    $200 16
purse snatching

Rebecca
    $200 21
Panama

Ben
    $200 26
the popcorn button

Rebecca
    $200 1
a footprint

Michael
    $400 7
Brown vs. the Board of Education

Ben
    $400 9
Betty White

Triple Stumper
    $400 17
counterfeiting

Michael
    $400 22
Brazil

Ben
    $400 27
cup holders

Rebecca
    $400 2
fraulein

Ben
    $600 13
Standard Oil

Triple Stumper
    $600 10
Elizabeth Montgomery

Ben
    $600 18
treason

Michael
    $600 23
United States

Michael
    $600 28
salad

Rebecca
    $600 3
fertilizer

Ben
    $800 14
Miranda

Michael
    $800 11
(Alex: Yes, from the "Archie" comics.)

Riverdale

Michael
    $800 19
embezzlement

Rebecca
    $800 24
Portugal

Michael
    $800 29
swipe

Triple Stumper
    $800 4
a fluke

Michael
    $1000 15
Marbury

Rebecca
    $1000 12
(Alex: The Jerry in this case was Jerry Ford. Gerald Ford, president. [*], his wife.)

Betty Ford

Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
fratricide

Michael
    $1,000 25
Chile

Michael
    $1000 30
a mechanical pencil

Rebecca
    $1000 5
a firebase

Triple Stumper

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

Michael Ben Rebecca
$2,800 $2,200 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Michael Ben Rebecca
$7,200 $2,800 $4,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

IN THE BOOKSTORE
NAME THE MOVIE SPORT
OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT
GUYS & DUDES
GENIUS BY MUSE
IT'S OK TO SAY IT BACKWARDS
(Alex: Each correct response will be a palindrome--a word that's the same going or coming.)
    $400 1
Memoirs of a Geisha

Ben
    $400 6
golf

Michael
    $400 7
Beowulf

Michael
    $400 16
(Warren) Buffett

Ben
    $400 21
Dante Alighieri

Ben
    $400 26
a gig

Michael
    $800 2
Detective Agency

Ben
    $800 11
baseball

Michael
    $800 8
Richard the Lionhearted

Rebecca
    $800 17
(William) Pitt

Ben
    $800 22
(Ben: Who is Degas?)

George Balanchine

BenRebecca
    $800 27
a tot

Ben
    $1200 3
the Dalai Lama

Rebecca
    $1200 12
football

Ben
    $2,000 9
Othello

Rebecca
    $1200 18
Cornwallis

Rebecca
    $1200 23
Picasso

Michael
    $1200 28
hallah

Michael
    $1600 4
The Executioner's Song

Ben
    $1600 13
hockey

Ben
    $1600 10
(Rebecca: Who is E.M. Forster?)
...
(Alex: Yes, you are right, and Rebecca realized it, but after she gave us the other response.)

(Henry) James

BenRebecca
    $1600 19
Tito

Rebecca
    $1600 24
(Michael: Who is Brecht?)
...
(Alex: The other one. It was [*].)

Kurt Weill

Michael
Triple Stumper
    $1600 29
wow

Triple Stumper
    $2,000 5
Helter Skelter

Ben
    $2000 14
Ping-Pong

Michael
    $2000 15
(Rebecca: What is Die Meistersinger?)

Tannhäuser

Rebecca
Triple Stumper
    $2000 20
(Rebecca: Who is Ohm?)

Heinrich Hertz

Rebecca
Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
Gustav Mahler

Triple Stumper
    $2000 30
redder

Michael

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Michael Ben Rebecca
$14,000 $13,600 $6,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

EUROPEAN HISTORY
RebeccaWho was Papillon?
$2,800
BenWho is Napoleon
$13,000
MichaelWho was Dreyfuss
$7,000
Alfred Dreyfus

Final scores:

Michael Ben Rebecca
$21,000 $600 $3,400
2-day champion: $40,000 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Michael Ben Rebecca
$14,000 $13,600 $5,400
19 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 13 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $33,000

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Game tape date: 2008-11-04
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