Responses for show #5610 - Friday, January 16, 2009

Contestants

Priscilla Ball, a federal contractor from Montgomery Village, Maryland

Fayaz Kabani, a grad student from Columbia, South Carolina

Meagan Grote, a bookseller from Lakeland, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,900)

Jeopardy! Round responses

THE LAST SUPPER
FILMS OF THE 1980s
DEATH BY...
(Alex: We'll tell you how.)
LET'S LEARN SOME SEMAPHORE
HISTORIC FIGURES' MADE-UP NICKNAMES
COMPOUND WORDS
    $200 12
(Priscilla: What is Friday?)

Thursday

Priscilla
Triple Stumper
    $200 11
Fatal Attraction

Priscilla
    $200 1
Thomas Becket

Meagan
    $200 22
Alex

Fayaz
    $200 13
(Fidel) Castro

Fayaz
    $200 6
the Scarecrow

Priscilla
    $400 23
Passover

Meagan
    $400 18
Look Who's Talking

Meagan
    $400 2
Wiley Post (or Will Rogers)

Priscilla
    $400 27
SOS

Fayaz
    $400 14
Marie Antoinette

Priscilla
    $400 7
a trapdoor

Meagan
    $600 24
(Meagan: Who is Judas?)

Peter

MeaganFayaz
    $600 19
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Meagan
    $600 3
Ernest Hemingway

Fayaz
    $600 28
bark

Fayaz
    $600 15
Mao Zedong

Priscilla
    $600 8
landlocked

Fayaz
    $800 25
the Holy Grail

Priscilla
    $800 20
Bette Midler

Priscilla
    $1,000 4
(Alex: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, [*]'s disease.)

Lou Gehrig

Fayaz
    $800 29
ear

Meagan
    $800 16
Lech Walesa

Fayaz
    $800 9
a flashback

Meagan
    $1000 26
(Meagan: What is Florence?)

Milan

MeaganPriscilla
    $1000 21
(Priscilla: What is Stripes?)

Police Academy

Priscilla
Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
Isadora Duncan

Priscilla
    $1000 30
sign

Triple Stumper
    $1000 17
Hannibal Hamlin

Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
keyboard

Triple Stumper

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

Meagan Fayaz Priscilla
$1,400 $2,400 $2,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Meagan Fayaz Priscilla
$2,000 $5,000 $4,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

DESCRIBING THE LANDMARK
COLLEGE SPORTS TEAM NICKNAMES
GA$
(Alex: Something that's on everybody's mind these days.)
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
POETRY IN MOTION
(Alex: In the POETRY category, you have to identify the author.)
WE BLINDED YOU WITH SCIENCE
    $400 1
the Empire State Building

Priscilla
    $400 6
the Trojans

Priscilla
    $400 11
[Alex specifies "EIA" as "Energy Information Administration" while reading the clue.]

1929

Fayaz
    $400 26
a poltergeist

Meagan
    $400 12
Longfellow

Meagan
    $400 17
(Benjamin) Franklin

Fayaz
    $800 2
the Great Pyramid of Egypt

Priscilla
    $800 7
the Spartans

Priscilla
    $800 22
Truman

Fayaz
    $800 27
feng shui

Priscilla
    $2,000 13
(Meagan: [no response])
(Alex: [*]--Stopping By Woods, Snowy Evening.)

Robert Frost

Meagan
    $800 18
coal

Meagan
    $2,000 3
the Liberty Bell

Priscilla
    $1200 8
(Fayaz: Who are the Cadets?)

the Falcons

FayazPriscilla
    $1200 23
1979

Fayaz
    $1200 28
a fiasco

Priscilla
    $1200 14
(Samuel Taylor) Coleridge

Fayaz
    $1200 19
the sun

Fayaz
    $1600 4
the Alamo

Meagan
    $1600 9
the Red Raiders

Priscilla
    $1600 24
1999

Priscilla
    $1600 29
Harajuku girls

Meagan
    $1600 15
Tennyson

Fayaz
    $1600 20
potassium

Meagan
    $2000 5
the Taj Mahal

Priscilla
    $2000 10
(Alex: [*]. You know your college teams!)

Tigers

Priscilla
    $2000 25
(Fayaz: What is 2002?)
...
(Alex: That was the leap year.)

2004

MeaganFayaz
    $2000 30
a toccata

Meagan
    $2000 16
Shelley

Fayaz
    $2000 21
Oppenheimer

Fayaz

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Meagan Fayaz Priscilla
$10,400 $12,600 $19,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

CULINARY HISTORY
(Alex: And I'll bet that none of you has had this dessert in quite some time, if ever.)
MeaganWhat is ?
$10,400
FayazWhat is berries jubilee?
$6,401
PriscillaWhat is trifle?
$6,201
cherries jubilee

Final scores:

Meagan Fayaz Priscilla
$0 $6,199 $12,799
3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $12,799

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Meagan Fayaz Priscilla
$12,400 $12,400 $18,200
15 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 21 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $43,000

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